A/N: I do not own any of the Harry Potter Characters; I just like to try out new things with them.

After the second war things had changed at Hogwarts, most of the students were not returning to school this year. There were to be new professors as well, most of the professor were killed during the war. But of those students returning to school were the Golden Trio, they had received letters of the summer holiday's informing them of their new positions at school. Harry Potter was now the Gryffindor Quidditch captain, Ron Weasley was made Gryffindor Perfect and Hermione Granger was Head Girl. The whole Weasley clan had thrown a party in honor of the three students. Ginny Weasley had also made perfect with her brother Ron, Luna Lovegood was perfect for Ravenclaw and was currently dating Neville Longbottom. The train ride was uneventful, Harry, Ron, Hermione with Ginny, Luna and Neville all sat in a compartment together and discussed their summer holidays. It was not until they got to the school and were sitting down to the welcoming Feast that things got interesting.

Before the feast began the headmistress (Professor McGonagall, who replaced Professor Dumbledore after his death, as headmistress.) Made the same speech as Professor Dumbledore made the previous year about the forbidden forest and the other rules that they were not to break, but that was not the interesting part. It was during this speech that Hermione looked away from McGonagall to look at the other Professor and she spotted a familiar face but could not place it, he was tall, well built, had dark hair and a nice smile. It was bugging her that she did not know who he was, just as she was about to ask Harry if he knew who it was McGonagall was introducing the new professors. There was Professor Slughorn (Potions), Professor Trelawney (Divination), Professor Jones (Transfiguration), Professor Weasley (Defense Against the Dark Arts), Professor Flitwick (Charms), Professor Sinistra (Astronomy), Professor Sprout (Herbology), Professor Hagrid (Care of Magical Creatures) and the last professor at the table was Professor Flint (Flying). The last one was the cause of an uproar among the students, as he was a former Slytherin and former Captain for them.

Most of the Gryffindor's we upset at this, as they assumed that he would be just as bad as Snape was to them, the Ravenclaw's and Hufflepuff's really did not care and the Slytherin's were ecstatic about the new professor. But even so, most of the girls could be seen fluttering their eyes in his direction and trying to catch his eye to flirt with him. Over the years since his time at Hogwarts Flint had become what some might call handsome, his teeth got fixed, he grew a couple more inches he was now 6'2" and he had more muscle then he did when he attended Hogwarts as a student.

Hermione was probably the only girl who did not fawn over the new flying instructor, as she had checked him out well Professor McGonagall had given her speech, and now that the speech, introductions and sorting were finished the Feast began. Hermione was still disgusted by the way Ron ate and Harry was still no better, Ginny was busy talking with Lavender, so Hermione got her book out and proceeded to read. The book was Hogwarts A History, she had read it many times before, but it never hurt to read it again. As she was reading and paying attention to what was going on, she missed her name being called to follow McGonagall so she could show her and the Head Boy their new living quarters, but was rudely shoved as Draco Malfoy shoved her to get her attention.

"We are to follow McGonagall to our living quarters or do you not care?" Malfoy said with a sneer on his face.

"What do you mean our living quarters?" Hermione replied with disdain in her voice.

"Just that, I am Head Boy after all." Malfoy replied.

"This day keeps getting better." Hermione told him.

So, they followed McGonagall out of the Great Hall and up to the Heads Dormitory.

The next morning Hermione awoke to a wondrous site, her room was decorated in Gryffindor colors, her bed spread was garnet with gold threads weaved in it so it shimmered in the light, her bed was a four poster king size, with a canopy over the top. She had a garnet rug on the floor with a gold lion in the middle, her curtains were garnet and gold intertwined. She had end tables on either side of her bed with lamps and the lamp shades were both gold, she a dresser on one wall, one wall had a window, the other two had doors on them. One of the doors led out into the shared Common room and the other led to the shared bathroom.

Hermione had now been sitting in bed for a good fifteen minutes without realizing it. So know she hurried up and got out of bed, grabbed some clothes and headed to the bathroom to take a shower, thankfully Malfoy was either still asleep or he took his shower already. After a quick shower, she said a drying spell and muttered a quick "DEGRUMOR" and her hair became straight as a pin. She dressed in her uniform, but it was a little different from her previous years at school, this year the top was fitted and she left the top three buttons undone, her skirt was four inches above her knees and she wore her tie loose around her neck. As for her school robes they no longer swallowed her, they were fitted to her body very nicely. But as Hermione was used to dressing this way over the summer holiday, she did not see anything wrong with it. The only other change to her appearance would be she wore some make-up!

As she walked down to the Great Hall, heads turned to look a little closer and a little longer at the Head Girl just to make sure that it was Hermione and not some treat of the light. No one could believe that it was the Head Girl who looked that good, the boys all stared a little too long for their girlfriends liking (those who had one) and the girls all were giving her dirty looks. They believed that she should just stay the bushy haired bookworm. But with everything, things change and so had Hermione. Before the school term started she had made a promise to herself that this year was the year she came out of her shell and was not known as the brains of the Golden Trio. So over the summer she had adopted the new look and found that she quiet liked it. Now that she was back, it was time to concur her fear of flying, but the bad thing was that the new flying instructor just happened to be an ex-Slytherin. But, that was something else that was on the list of changes; befriend at least a couple of the Slytherin's.

In the Great Hall, noise stopped as she walked to the Gryffindor table and sat down.

"Hermione, what have you done to yourself?" Ron asked through a mouth full of food.

"Nothing, I just changed a few things, but it has been this way all summer. Ginny and Harry noticed when I came to the Burrow a few weeks ago." Hermione stated matter of Factly. She was tired of Ron not noticing her, she thought that after the kiss during the battle, things would change, but they did not.

"Hermione, you were not this beau… I mean you uh…. Did not look this at the house" Ron stuttered. 'Did she really come to the Burrow looking like this' Ron thought to himself.

"Yes, Ron, she looked just like….well not just like this as she had on muggle clothes and not the uniform, but yes she looked like this. Prat!" Ginny informed her brother, with a smile on her face. She loved when she got the better of Ron and lately that was a lot of the time when it can to Hermione. Ron was just so clueless.

"Hermione, you look very nice today! How did you sleep in a room next to Malfoy?" Harry had come in while they were talking and sat down next to Ginny. He leaned over and gave Ginny a kiss on the head.

"It was ok; we pretty much just went to our own rooms and fell asleep. But you will have to come up and see it. It is beautiful. The common room is filled with books; my room is done in Gryffindor colors. But that was pretty much all I noticed." Hermione replied to Harry's question with a smile in his direction.

At this point Headmistress McGonagall started to hand out the Gryffindor timetables to the students in her house. Ron, Harry and Ginny all had Charms first, Ginny was in her Seventh year and Harry, Ron and Hermione were as well, due to the war taking place during what would have been their Seventh year. As they all looked over their timetables they noticed that most of their classes were with what Slytherin's had come back to school.

"Hermione, what do you have? Why do you not have Charms with us?" Ginny the ever observant one asked her.

"Well… uh… you see… the thing is… well…. I am taking flying this year. I figured I would finally get over my fear, since I can take on Death Eaters and fight in a war, I figure I can fly." Hermione let them know. She knew it would come out sooner or later and now that it was out there she felt better.

"But Flint is teaching that!" Ron informed her of this although she already knew this. He was read in the face and food was dropping out of his open mouth.

"Yes, Ronald, I am well aware of that fact now. When I requested flying this year as a class, I was not aware that he would be teaching it." Hermione told him and with that she left for the Quidditch pitch.

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