Disclaimer: Since I'm not really a witch (believe me I waited for the bloody owl) I can't Avada JKR and Polyjuice my way into her life so since I wasn't born into the world as her and can't make myself be her, I do not own the Harry Potter world. I only own a few characters and the plot for this humble fic.
A/N: Ok well get this for some reason when I upload my fic whenever there's either an ! or ? after just before a " it deletes it so I'm going to use ' in place of ". Just letting you all know, enjoy the fic!
A/N: I'm going to try to update at least once every other week, I have three other stories that I'm working on and I work five days a week and get this am still expected to get my homework done! I hope I can handle it all. Thanks for reading, please review!
A Love to Last Through the Ages: Chapter One
Hermione smiled as she sent her Peregrine Falcon, Helen, off with a letter to the Head Boy, informing him of the Prefect meeting they had this evening. She'd been deliriously happy that she'd been chosen for Head Girl of course she had been working towards this since she first arrived at Hogwarts. And now she was able to reap the benefits of her hard work, she'd long since dealt with the fact that she had to share her Head duties with none other then Draco Malfoy, the boy who had been the bane of her life for a majority of her Hogwarts schooling, always discriminating against her because she was a muggleborn. But something had changed in him over the last two years he grew up and it would seem as if he was facing reality, he came back from the summer holidays in their 6th year almost a different person. He stopped calling her a 'mudblood' and started treating everyone with respect, he severed any and all friendships with his Slytherin Housemates, and most of his friends now resided in Ravenclaw. Hermione found herself struggling to keep her place as the top of her class.
Then
one November day in they're sixth year...
Hermione sat at one of
the tables in the library working on the seven foot essay that Snape
had assigned on the Polyjuice potion, she smirked as she wrote, since
she'd made the potion in her second year she wouldn't have any
problem with this assignments not that she ever had trouble with any
of her assignments. She'd only been there fifteen minutes and already
had one foot of parchment filled with her minute handwriting, 'You
know Miss Granger, one would think that you've actually made that
potion before you describe the procedure so well.'
Hermione turned in her chair and smiled politely at her fellow Prefect, Draco Malfoy, everyone had gotten used to his peculiar behavior by now; he winked and returned the smile, 'How could I have made it before Mr. Malfoy? The Polyjuice potion takes a month to brew and Professor Snape only just gave us permission to use the book today. So unless I have the ability to control time,' her smile widened, 'One would conclude that I have not made the potion before.'
Draco lifted his hands in defeat, 'Touché Granger, I was merely making conversation, or rather trying to start one. I have somewhat of a favor to ask of you. I was wondering if you'd be interested in studying together, as in with me.'
Hermione stared at him as if he'd grown another head, 'Oh come now it's not that farfetched, I thought it was a reasonable proposition. I mean really Granger how many of your mates challenge you intellectually? No offense intended of course.'
He had been right of course, Harry and Ron always preferred to talk about Quidditch or girls and Ginny was always good for girl talk, but she really wasn't an intellectual match for her. "Why the sudden interest if you don't mind me asking?"
Draco shook his head, 'Of course not, is this seat taken?' Hermione pulled the chair next to her out further and moved her books, 'Now it is.' He sat down and placed his school bag in the chair next to him, 'Thank you, well I've been hanging out with a lot of Ravenclaws these days and I find that when I study with others that share my love of knowledge it improves my work, it's just my opinion but it seems to be working for me.'
Hermione set her favorite eagle feather quill back down in her ink, 'If you already have a study group why do you want to study with me?' Draco leaned forward slightly, 'Well I'm afraid that we have an odd number, our study partners were chosen randomly and I was left without a partner. I don't feel like being a ninth wheel.' Hermione sighed and leaned back in her chair contemplating her choices in the matter.
You could just tell him to shove it and that you would never even consider studying with him because he's probably just doing it to cheat off of you!
But why would he do that? He's already second best in the class and it would only take more dedication to his work for him to be my equal.
Why are you rationalizing his intentions? He's Draco-I-like-to-kill-innocent-muggles-in-they're-sleep-Malfoy!
He's not like that anymore, he apologized for everything and it was heartfelt and honest, that's why I'm rationalizing.
So he comes back to school and acts like a decent person for not even three months and your just going to ignore the last five years of torture from him?
He's not the same, I'm telling you he's not.
'I don't see why not, how often would you like to meet?'
Draco nearly fell out of his chair, 'Really, thank you. I was thinking we could meet everyday after classes for two hours, and then we'd meet with the group on Sundays just to meet really and discuss the week.'
Hermione smiled, 'It's really no problem, Harry insists on training everyday so Ginny and the others are usually out there with him. So I come here anyway it should be interesting studying with someone else and not having to correct everything they say or write.'
'Believe me it's a completely different experience. So, well I have the whole afternoon free.'
'You don't have any assignments for today?'
'No, I do it's just that I thought I'd have to bribe you or something I cleared out my entire schedule this afternoon so that I could persuade you.'
'So when were you going to do your homework?'
'Well I was going to do it tonight and skip dinner, but since I have all this free time, would you mind if we start today?'
Hermione picked up her quill and returned to her assignment, 'Fine by me, I've only just started on this essay.'
Draco laughed, 'Oh yes I can tell, 'only just'? Granger you have to have the quickest hands in the world to be able to fill up a foot of parchment in fifteen minutes.'
She turned to him her cheeks slightly tinted pink, 'You were watching me?'
He looked like a kid with his hand caught in the cooking jar, 'I-uh was kind of waiting for you actually.'
So they met five days a week Monday through Friday after classes to study and work on assignments. Hermione smiled at the memory then stepped away from her desk and glanced around her room and wondered if she'd ever get used to having such a large and comfortable room all to herself. The walls of her room were painted crimson and all the trimmings were done in gold, her desk, armoire, and bed were made of mahogany. Her bed was covered in a deep crimson silk and down comforter; her sheets were gold and of course to top it off there were several crimson and gold throw pillows. Her thick carpet was crimson as well, decorated for the Gryffindor Head Girl, she'd always liked her room but she was beginning to tire of the color crimson.
Hermione walked into her personal bathroom, it was decorated in a similar fashion everything being either crimson or gold the one of the many things that she loved about her bathroom was her marble floor and counters, and they were black with veins of gold.
Her bath wasn't quite as large as the Prefect's but it was close instead of having dozens of faucets it only had Hermione's three favorite scents, vanilla, strawberry, and apple. She took a quick shower then put on her silk dressing robe and went to her room to get her wand.
She quickly charmed the water off her and straightened her hair; she turned to her armoire and flung the doors open. Today was Saturday and on the weekends the upper-classmen were allowed to wear other clothes Hermione grabbed a mauve turtle neck sweater and a pair of light colored hip-huggers and quickly got dressed.
Hermione checked her reflection in the full length gold mirror; it was really a very beautiful work of art at the top of the mirror was the Gryffindor crest made from rubies. This was the mirror that Goddric Gryffindor had given his bride on they're wedding day, and Hermione was pleased to have it. She quickly applied some light pink lip-gloss and eye shadow then pulled her hair back into a loose bun, pocketed her wand and went to breakfast.
AN: Ok so that's the first chapter, If you don't understand anything feel free to tell me so that I can change it. This is going to be a very long fic so sit tight!
