For the 100 Prompt Challenges challenge. Each chapter will get a hundred words longer for 100 chapters that all have one word prompts (their titles). Enjoy.
Ship: Dramione.
1. Beginnings
The fine line. The moment it crosses is at the crack of dawn on a fresh winter morning. Where a stroll around the Quidditch pitch finds them together; for the first time they are away from enemies, away from friends.
Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy, and this may sound strange, but what they do is talk. No snide remarks or seething hatred. There are simply words exchanged, even beyond pleasantries.
"Now what?" one asks.
"I don't know, how about you tell me."
The silence grows with the sun and they part on voiceless terms. Things are changing. Things have changed.