[a.n :: I don't own any of these character (besides Sarah Perry because I made her up) but the other are not mine.. *cries* *dies* too bad though, I'll live.. The belong to J.R. Rowling]

// CHAPTER 1 :: Harry's new suprising friendship



Hermione looked deeply into Harry's sparkling green eyes. "Oh Harry!" She sighed as she flung her arms tightly around Harry's neck. "Er-" Was all Harry could get out as he was trying to breathe. "KISS ME!" Hermione yelled as she pressed her face against Harry's. Harry flung back. "NO! I've got a girlfriend, Hermione. You're with Ron. Don't. No. You can't" Harry said messaging his neck and trying to push Hermione back. "But-- I love you. I've loved you since the train. Reading about you. Finally seeing you, we were brought together for a reason, you know." Hermione said tears filling her eyes.

[editors note :: Ouch.. Rejected]

Ron walked into the common room, seeing Harry and Hermione alone he walked towards them. "What's up?" He asked Hermione putting his hand on her shoulder. She looked into his eyes, tears silently pouring down her face. "Er- What just happened" Ron asked with a startled look. "HERMIONE WANTS ME!" Harry jumped. Ron looked mortified. "WHAT?" Harry stood beside his best friend for 5 years, "Your..Girlfriend..Wanted..To..SNOG ME!" He exclaimed. Hermione and Ron looked at each other and burst out laughing. "WHAT?" Harry asked in a panicked voice. "SEPTEMBER FOOLS!" Hermione and Ron fell to the ground laughing. Harry glared at them and said "That wasn't funny!" and stormed off out of the common room. "You should've seen him Ron!" Hermione said as she finally stopped laughing. "Oy, you reckon we apologize?" Ron asked a bit tense. "No, he'll get over it, honestly, you guys get mad at me and play enough jokes on me, he should like a bit of his own medicine" She smiled as she sat very closely to Ron. "Well..." Ron began. "In the meantime, if he doesn't want to make out with you... I suppose someone has to do it," He grinned. Hermione started laughing, Then she said with a smirk on her face, "I wonder who that could be Ron?" Then Ron's smile grew larger "No Idea!" He leaned over and.. I'm sure you don't want to know the details.. Harry was walking down the corridor and whom happened to he come across was Draco Malfoy, Whom was walking with his new 4th year girlfriend Sarah Perry.

[editors note :: I made up a girl because Pansy Parkinson is so MEAN lol sorry, Sarah's not me though because my name is Jamie]

"Hi Potter." Draco said half-smiling to Harry. "Look, just leave me alone Draco." Harry said still angered by his friend's joke. He knew they meant well, with all the stress that had been going on in his life lately, Voldemort rising back again, security had been upped and Quidditch hadn't started yet. Life wasn't going as well as Harry thought it would, but he knew it wouldn't be easy. "Look, er-Harry," Draco fought to think of the words. "I- I've been thinking, and I think we have gotten off on the wrong foot. I didn't mean to insult Weas--Ron, when we met on the train... and I don't see why we should be fighting." Harry looked at Draco thinking it had been a joke. "You know what, Malfoy? Just leave me alone. Okay, I'm not in the mood!" Harry said walking away. "LOOK POTTER, I WAS TRYING TO BE NICE! BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE STUPID GIT YOU ALWAYS ARE! THEN FINE!" Draco called back. "Be nice." Sarah said quietly. "Please Draco" Harry stopped. "You--you mean you were serious? You mean, you actually want to stop all this rubbish and be friends?" Draco put his arm around Sarah. "Well, you see, Sarah told me, to be nice, and she told me a lot about you, saying how you are going through a rough time, and she likes you, and, er- I don't know, yes it is rubbish." Draco said thoughtfully. Harry smiled, for the first time since the beginning of his life at Hogwarts. Him and Draco were friends, who would have thought?

"Ron I'm about to pass out here.." Hermione said. Ron and Hermione were in Rons Four-poster bed in each other's arms. They had started dating over the summer when Hermione went to visit Ron. "It's so hot in here, and we need to leave and find Harry anyways." Hermione yelled. "Bu- but Harry'll be fine! Plus Hot is Good." Ron said adjuringly. Hermione got up anyways and walked around the room. Ron got up from the bed and walked to the window. While he was opening the window to let some air in Hermione came up from behind him and hugged him. And kissed his cheek.

Harry and Draco shook hands. "So, when did you two get together?" Harry asked, smiling. Draco smiled back. "Well actually we started dating over the summer.. She was traveling to her friend's house by floo powder and ended up at my house. Neither of us had floo powder and I was hole alone for two weeks of the summer so I let her stay until we could buy more powder." Harry thought. "Oh. Umm.. I hope you don't mind me asking, but I don't think we've ever met Sarah." He turned to Sarah. Sarah blushed. "Yeah, kinda, kept quiet." Harry looked puzzled though. "But, no offence, but all of Slytherin hates me, why d'you like me?" "Well" Sarah began, thinking hard, as if she didn't even know the answer herself. "I don't know, just something about you, you don't seem bad at all, and I honestly think you're awesome, next to Draco, of course." She replied. Harry smiled and remembered, his girlfriend. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I need to find my girlfriend, her name's Ginny, d'you know her? 4th year in Gryffindor. "She's my best friend's sister." "Yeah" Draco and Sarah replied in unison. "Mind if we come?" Draco asked. "Sure!" Harry said, happily as he'd just made up with an enemy. "But, if you don't mind me asking, why were you so mad before?" Draco asked puzzled. "OH, well, you see, it's kind of a long/stupid story. Hermione and Ron thought it'd be funny to play a September Fools prank on me, making me believe that Hermione wanted to snog me... and what not." Harry scrunched up his nose. "Er- wait, Is this a prank, too?" Draco looked slightly red. "No, honestly it's not." They followed Harry down the hall to the Great Hall where many of the Hogwarts students were.

There sitting beside her brothers, Fred and George Weasley, was Ginny. Harry smiled and waved to Ginny. She wiped her face and walked to her and gave him a kiss on the cheek. She stared at Draco and Sarah and kind of gave a what's-he-doing-here look at Harry. Harry shook out of his trance of seeing her beautiful and said "OH! I'm sorry, er- Ginny, I suppose you know who this is, and this is Draco's girlfriend, Sarah." Ginny looked and Harry and blinked. "Harry why are you talking to this stupid git and his girlfriend?" Ginny asked dully. "I'm sorry, I guess she's used to us not being friends, I really am sorry." Harry apologized. "Friends? Friends with HIM? Harry honestly. Do you think I am actually going to fall for this trick? Or is this not a trick?" Ginny said with a mixed up look on her face. "We're friends. He apologized, I apologized and we both think it's for the best, Sarah persuaded him, and I think it's great. Don't you? He's really nice, you know? And I think it's about time we finish with this rubbish!" Harry said. Ginny looked at him blankly for a moment and smiled. "GREAT HARRY! Honestly this is great. I-- I never would've thought." She grinned. "I'm very sorry about that, I just, I don't know, I'm used to not being friends with you. I'm sorry Draco and Sarah" She smiled weakly. "It's all right, I thought this might happen, and Goyle and Crabbe both agreed it would be a rather good idea, too." Draco said. "Well, I suppose we should go eat breakfast, I'm very hungry. I'll see you in a bit." Draco called as he walked away. Harry and Ginny waved back and went to go sit beside George and Fred. "Why're you talking to Malfoy, Harry?" Fred looked at Harry as if he swallowed a toad. "We're friends." Harry replied and smiled. George stood up unbelievingly. "FRIENDS? WITH MALFOY?" Now the whole table could see George's disbelief. "Yes. They are, and I think this is Great, he shouldn't be fighting with him anymore." Ginny said as she gave George a sit-down-its-not-a-big-deal look. "Friends." George mumbled and poked at his scrambled eggs. After breakfast it was time for their first lesson, which would be Care of Magical Creatures, now, Harry not only looked forward to talking and seeing Hagrid, but now didn't really mind the Slytherins being there. Harry hurried outside to tell Hagrid about him and Draco's new found friendship before Hagrid did anything first day. Then Harry thought, what if Draco is still rude to Hagrid? He walked outside and sat everyone around Hagrid's hut. "'Arry! Yeh'll never guess what! Malfoy an' his lot ar' bein' pleasant! Really! The whole lot of 'em!" Hagrid smiled as he approached Harry. "That's great Hagrid!" Harry smiled at Hagrid. "Because we've become friends." Hagrid was not shocked at this, like Ginny, George and Fred were. Hagrid seemed very pleased.

"Are yeh serious Harry? THAS GREAT!" Hagrid boomed. Harry smiled and walked over to where the rest of his house and the Slytherins were. Trying to avoid Hermione and Ron because of their last incident; he asked Ginny to come with him to go talk to Draco. "Harry! We were just talking about how this year is going to be great!" Crabbe said. This was the first time Harry had ever heard Crabbe speak. He had a very low voice seeming as if he was low on breath. Harry nodded and agreed it would be quite a year. Then he saw Ron and Hermione approaching him, "Why're you with him?" Ron asked in a grossed-out voice. "Are you feeling okay? We're sorry about the whole joke thing, we thought it'd be quite funny." Ron stated looking a bit worried. Harry sighed. Not another person to explain his new friendship with Draco. Draco stepped into the conversation, seeing Harry a bit relieved he began to speak. "Harry and I have decided we should be friends. To put it into short." Draco stuck out his hand. "Shall we end this rubbish too, Ron?" Ron couldn't help but notice Draco's kindness and he couldn't help himself to smile and shake Draco's hand. But Hermione thought different. After all the things that her and Draco had been through she didn't think that her and him would ever get along. She turned away and stared at the clouds in the sky. Draco sensed her rejection and sighed. "Hermione, I know it won't be easy for me and you to get along, and I know I've done many things that were definitely not called for, but, if we can, just starting slowly, and not be cruel to each other, one day we can become friends." He said and walked away. Harry and Ron both knew that Draco's sincerity would mean a lot to Hermione and it was obvious that he was being truthful. The rest of Care of Magical Creatures was the best class Harry thought. Not only was there no foul remarks on anyone or anything everyone got along so well that Harry looked like a goof grinning so happily. Ginny hugged him as they split to go to different classes. Harry made his way alone to his Herbology lesson. Professor Sprout came out of the greenhouse looking a bit tired and sleepy. "Sorry!" She yawned quietly. She lead the way through and they could see large plants in the back. "Do we have to use those today, Professor?" Hermione asked tensely. "Yes, Miss Granger, today we are going to be using Gallyfreas. A small plant at first, very common in South-East Asia and can be found in large groups. They cure most illnesses such as Maxling Bumps, Groundhog Frights and countless other serious conditions. Can anyone else tell me what the Gallyfreas are used for?" Professor Sprout asked pointing to the large orange-yellow plants at the back of the small greenhouse. Hermione raised her hand not surprisingly, but as did Ron. "Yes, Mr. Weasly?" Professor Sprout smiled at Ron, who never participated in Herbology, or any other class really. Ron took a breath in and began to talk "Commonly Gallyfreas can cure the worst of Jumping Jives, one of the more indistinct versions of Fitness Imps." Ron smiled. Hermione, as did Harry looked stunned. Professor Sprout grinned. "I see someone has been reading his books. 10 points to Gryffindor!" She smiled. The rest of Herbology went quite well. Between Hermione and Ron they earned 30 points for Gryffindor. Each feeling as it was a success to win the first points of Gryffindor for the beginning of term.



[a.n :: I hope you like it so far!! I'll be adding the next chapter in like and hour. ^__^ It's another long one -heh-]