Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series, and I make no money from this.
Betas: none at this time.
Pairings: Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione

'Come on Harry it's a great idea!' Hermione pleaded which was not like her at all. 'You said yourself that you wanted to start seeing someone.'

Since it had become obvious to Harry at least that Hermione liked Ron. She had been talking about dating and dropping hints everywhere for him to ask her out. Harry figured that she thought if he started to date someone it would push Ron to ask her out. Harry thought it was ridiculous, but sadly agreed that it might actually work. If Harry was off dating someone else it would leave him alone with Hermione a lot more. In fact he could actually see him offering to date her to be 'friendly' as if it was the right thing to do. Since he was too stubborn to admit that he liked her.

'You know why I'm not…'

She interrupted him obviously not interested in his excuses any longer. He knew she was not being purely selfish with this, despite what it might do for her in the end. He had said that he wanted to date someone, but he found that he was horrible at it. After the situation with Cho he was way to nervous to even think about asking another girl out. Plus even though many girls flirted with him. He knew why they wanted him and he did not want to have to read all about their relationship in 'The Prophet' after it had ended.

'Well it's too late anyway I've already sent them out.'

Harry groaned and fell back against the couch. Ron looked stricken but managed to choke out.

'What'd you do that for?'

Harry was thankful to always have Ron on his side in situations like that.

'Who all did you send them to?'

He switched to curiosity way to fast for Harry's liking though.

'Honestly!' She huffed. 'Weren't you listening?' She scowled at him. 'They went to everyone that finds Harry sexually attractive.'

Harry rolled his eye at this. So it probably went to two people, one was snogging one of his dorm mates on the other side of the room. The other was probably pissed off at him for basically ditching her. Not that he really blamed her for that. Neither of them was he interested in dating.

'I hoped that it would weed out at least some of the witches that are just after your fame.' She explained after she turned to Harry. 'At least this way you know they were attracted to you.'

'And how are going to know if these people are lying?'

Harry looked at Ron confused, why would they need to lie?

'Like they all know that Harry loves to play Quidditch, so what makes them stop from writing they love it too even if they don't.'

'Merlin, Hermione they don't know their filling out these surveys to win a date with me do they?' Harry jumped forward in his seat.

'Of course not! It is a double blind date.'

Harry breathed and then leaned back against the couch.

'There are two set of questions, it looks just like that one. Who ever has the most the same I set you up on a blind date with.'

'How is this suppose to help again? What if I don't want to date someone just like me?' Harry wondered honestly who would want to date someone just like themselves. How boring would that be?

'Would you at least read the questions before you ask pointless questions.'

When he made no attempt to look at the parchment in front of him she gave in and explained it.

'Fine. The first set of questions are about you. Your likes, dislikes and interests.'

'I gathered that myself thanks.'

'The second set are what you are looking for…' She said her words slowly but not condescendingly. 'So if you love Quidditch, but don't want your significant other up there playing with you…' She rolled her eyes at that knowing perfectly well he would like someone who played or at least enjoyed Quidditch enough to watch him play. 'Then you would just write that under their dislike column.'

'And if I don't know what I want?' He said meekly a lot of the questions he was not sure about the answers himself. He had no idea what he would want someone he was interested in to like.

'We'll help you figure it out.' She reassured him. He was going to voice that he doubt that would be much better, but Ron spoke up again.

'Still though. How will you know they aren't lying. Even if they don't know it is for Harry, they might describe him just because they hope he might be one of the potentials…' Really how did she plan on explaining to all those who did not get picked that there was just no one for them.

'There's a simple charm for that.' She pulled it out a book she had been reading the previous week. 'I was reading about how spy's used to communicate with their side behind enemy lines. I found this one was rather common once a spy had been found out.'

That caught the boys attention much like she hoped it would.

'They'd offer to write a letter the side they were spying for and fill it with lies that way the next attack would be victorious to the opposing side.' It was simple, which are the type of plans that work the best. 'The charm is easy enough to perform wordlessly for any advance wizard, so they would not notice. When the others opened it they would see all the lies, but once they said the counter charm the truth would be there.'

'That's brilliant.' Ron nodded his head in agreement.

'I know, too bad it became useless after it was used too much.' Then smiled wickedly. 'But that was 500 years ago, I doubt very many Hogwarts students know of it. Nor would they be looking for it in this case.'

'Okay so they can't lie… but..'

'Ronald shut it… that's all you need to know.' She turned back to Harry. 'So what do you need help with?'

He sighed and started to spell in his answers and realized what Ron had been talking about. Everything was so obvious. The only thing that might throw people for a loop was that he favorite color was green. He wondered why that even matter for that type of survey. He vaguely described what he looked like, though that was silly also since it was only going to people attracted to him. He realized why it was there once he got to the questions about the other person. They were exactly the same.

'I just don't know what I really like about other people…' He explained.

'Well, let's start with the physical that should be the easiest part.' Hermione suggested so he looked down at the first physical trait and read it out loud.

'Sexual preference.' He really wished right after he said it that he had read it, marked female, and moved on just from the look he got from his friends. Before he could though, Hermione started asking questions and being all supportive.

'Well, Harry do you find the thought of kissing boys disgusting?'

He was a shit liar and he knew it, plus he also knew that Hermione would just use the charm on the paper and it wouldn't matter either way. Really he wondered why he was putting himself through this. Could he just not write whatever and let her use the charm? Maybe it wouldn't work if he did not know that he was lying, then again it was magic. His silence seemed to answer the question for them.

'Just put both… you don't prefer one over the other…' She explained. 'Okay, next?'

'Height?' How was he suppose to know these things.

'Would you feel uncomfortable dating someone that's tall than you?'

He shrugged and explained that he would like them about the same height not too much taller nor shorter than himself. It went on like that through the all the physical traits when they finished Ron laughed at the information that they had gathered. He had not been really specific in any which direction of what he liked.

'So you basically find humans attracted.' Ron joked then paled. 'You are only attracted to humans right?'

Harry just glared in response.

'Of course, what was I thinking.'

Though he seemed to not really know the answer to that. They moved on to personality traits and once again after various questions he still pretty much described someone average, except he did say that he would like them to be intelligence. Which somehow translated into 'enjoyed reading' as a hobby among other things that Ron had to comment on.

'Merlin, Hermione you're having him describe a Ravenclaw…' He paused as he thought about it, but still decided to add. 'Or you!'

She glared at him. 'Well, maybe Ravenclaws are his type since apparently he doesn't have a physical type. Besides Cho was a Ravenclaw.' Hermione pointed out. 'And what's wrong with dating someone like me?'

'Actually if I didn't look at you and think 'sister' you'd be perfect for me.' Harry hoped that would settle their argument and maybe give Ron a hit at the same time.

Hermione smiled at him. 'Don't worry I won't be getting one anyway.' She shrugged.

'Why? Can you stop it from going to certain people?' Ron inquired.

'No, it's just…' then she began to blush and look away. She did not have to finish what she was going to say Harry caught it even if Ron had not.

'Thanks, Hermione.' He said sarcastically. 'That really helped boost my self esteem for the day.'

Then Ron gathered that Hermione did not find Harry attractive, or at least not in a sexual way which was actually a relief to both the boys. Even if it was a blow to Harry's self esteem. As they continued, he realized that it did sound rather like a Ravenclaw with some traits from every house really. Though everyone had traits that belong in more than one house. So in the end it really just described someone, which really had not taught Harry anything about himself. He knew that he wanted 'someone.' That was how the whole thing had started and his friends wondered why he never talked to them about any of his problems. It was because he feared things like they would try to 'help' him. By doing insane things like send anonymous questionnaires to everyone that found him attractive.

Two weeks went by and Hermione had not mentioned anything about the surveys and Harry had begun to worry. At first he had hoped that she had forgotten all about them, then he just was concerned no one sent them back or got them to begin with. What if she was just afraid to tell him she had no luck. He did not want to ask her, because he was still pretending that he thought it was stupid. She might be waiting for him to cave in and ask which he refused to do. Lucky for him Ron's curiosity saved him.

'Have you got the surveys back yet?' Ron asked late one Friday night when they were all in the common room alone. 'I've been waiting forever. You promised I got to help you pick.'

She had made no such promise, but she did say she would let them both read all the answers. Whilst looking at the parchment in her hands she answered their questions.

'Actually that is what I'm reading now, and I have a spell to show me the one that matches up who is the most compatible with Harry.' She pulled one out and left it in her lap. Then separated the rest into what looked like two even piles and hand one each to Ron and Harry.

'But, we can read them.'

Harry looked down at the first one and started to read it as Hermione re read the one in her lap for at least the tenth time that week.

'Is that the one?' Harry asked.

'Yes.' She looked smug, but made no indication that she was going to let either of them see it. 'Read through all of those first.' She said sternly. 'Then I'll tell you about this one.'

Ron was already vastly enjoying himself laughing at some of the answers. 'This one described you perfectly mate.' Ron laughed. 'I love green eyes and messy black hair.'

'A lot of them say that.' Harry mumble he was not aware that he had caused such a fad. He rolled his eyes. He did want someone who thought he was attractive, but when they are being that specific it is obvious they are just thinking about him. He didn't want to be with anyone that was just interested in him. He was still in the same position that he was before. Everyone wanted the famous Harry Potter, and none of them wanted a ordinary guy that just happened to wear glasses. They only liked glasses, because Harry wore them.

'Use the truth spell.' Hermione suggested. 'They don't change much, but the physical attributes do.' She seemed confused by the one in front of her and Harry really wanted to read that one. Since that was the person that he was going to be going on the double-blind date with.

'Okay, I've had enough of this.' He sighed after reading a couple more girl's surveys and one of the boys that pathetically described him. Or at least what everyone knew of him. Then using the truth spell to see that he was nothing like who they wanted or they were nothing like what he wanted. He got hopeful a couple of times they actually sounded good. But then he found they were lying about 'loving quittage' or having 'I love to read' change to 'gossiping with friends.' Or they would say their favorite subject was 'DADA' and have to turn to any number of things. He had not even put that as a thing he wanted in someone else. He just did not like the fact that they were lying to fit themselves into a mold that they thought he would want. 'What does that one say?'

'Well, this one changed the most under the truth spell.' Harry rolled his eyes. She wanted him to date the person that lied the most. 'What's so interesting on about this one is they didn't lie about themselves at all.' Okay well at least that was promising. They were honest about themselves, but that means that they are not interested in Harry. Would that not be pointless? 'I actually feel sorry for him.' She changed it back to the original answers and handed it to Harry. 'He is either lying to himself about being bent or lying to the world.' Sure enough first question was preference and he had written girl with any color hair, slightly shorter and smaller than him.

She had to be educated and submissive. Harry thought that was odd to request in someone. That she would always agree with him. How boring would that be? He wanted her attractive, but not gorgeous. Dependent, but not clingy. Harry was not so sure a person like what he was describing even existed. He certainly did not fit in any of those except maybe the not clingy, but he was not even sure about that since he had never dated anyone previously.

He scanned over how he described himself and of Hermione said it matched almost perfectly to what he had said. He enjoyed reading and studying in his free time and liked to spend time alone. He said he had light skin, hair and eyes, not that Harry had been very specific on that. He was six feet tall and skinny which was rather average for most boys. Harry was only five foot nine which was shorter, but not too much shorter. He enjoyed playing Quidditch, but he liked the practice more than the games. At first he thought that odd, but really the only difference it the competition aspect of it Harry had to agree there. He loved playing and winning, since he hardly ever lost. But it was better with out the competition making people fight about it. It was more fun with just friend then with enemies.

When he used the true spell on the parchment as Hermione had said nothing about himself had changed. He was actually self-assured and sometimes arrogant. He had a short temper and got offended easily. But he was honest about all of it, which gave Harry more respect for him. No one else had written down any real faults. He at least would own up to them.

Harry had half expected it to say he was both interested in boys and girls, like Harry was. It didn't. He was not really attracted to girls at all only boys. The slightly shorter part had not changed, but he did like boys that were tone. Not so big that he felt threaten by them, but not scrawny either. He liked them to be independent, but loving which was completely opposite of what he had said. The more he read the more it really did sound like himself. Though not in the way the others had when it was obvious they were describing him. It was more generalized as if it could be anyone, but described Harry perfectly.

'Well?' Hermione asked after impatiently watching him read over it.

'It's a boy.'

She huffed and crossed her arms, but did not say anything about it.

'He seems promising…'

Ron looked away and started to play with his shoe.

'I'll do it… when?'

'This Friday!' She said excitably.