"Hermione Granger stepped onto the Hogwarts express for her last year in school.
The war was over and Harry had won, but Harry and Ron were not going to be attending school. They were both to stay with the Weasley's, because they didn't want to go back to school. Hermione did though, she wanted to go back to finish her education. She wasn't alone though, she had her close friends, Ginny and Luna, so she had people she could talk to. She was also after been given the privilege of being Head girl, which she obviously took. Hermione, as much as people would be surprised of, had changed over the summer. Not particularly appearance wise, but personality wise. She was still very smart and sometimes quite cocky, but now she was different in the way she acted. She was more laid back, confident and didn't really care about some things anymore, not important things, but minor things.
Hermione walked past a few compartments until she came to one where she saw two familiar faces. She knocked on the door before walking in and greeting them with a hello.
"Hey, Hermione. Welcome back!" Ginny exclaimed before getting up and giving her friend a hug.
"Hey, Ginny." Hermione greeted then hugged Luna.
"Welcome back, Hermione." Luna said, returning the hug.
"Glad to be back, Luna." Hermione said smiling. They all sat together then the train started to move away from the station. While they were talking there was a knock on the door. The new headmistress Professor McGonagall walked in and the three girls greeted her happily.
"Hello, girls. I'm sorry, but I must take Ms. Granger for a Head girl and boy meeting." McGonagall said and Hermione nodded and stood up. She smiled and waved goodbye to Luna and Ginny before leaving out the compartment door and following McGonagall. They made their way down a few compartments until they stopped at one. McGonagall opened the door and told Hermione to wait until she found the head boy. As Hermione sat alone, she thought.
"No doubt Head boy will be Zabini, or someone along the Slytherin lines. I bet if Malfoy was still in school he'd be head boy, but I guess poor precious Malfoy wasn't allowed back. I'm glad of it too." She thought until she was interrupted, she looked over and saw McGonagall standing at the door.
"This is our new head boy." McGonagall said, but too Hermione's horror, the boy who walked into the compartment was indeed, the one and only. Draco Malfoy.
"I thought you weren't coming back here!" Hermione snapped at him, but was stopped by a warning glare from McGonagall.
"Now, Ms. Granger, Mr. Malfoy here will be attending Hogwarts this year. We at Hogwarts never turn our back on those who need help. What would you have done in that situation, Ms. Granger?" McGonagall challenged. Hermione wondered if she should answer that question, but went along anyways.
"I would have told someone, I would have made an effort to-." Hermione was stopped midway by McGonagall who was beginning to grow impatient.
"Enough! Now, I have called this meeting because there are some things you must know before we arrive." McGonagall started, Draco took a seat, across from Hermione. "As you both know, you will be sharing a common room, it will be on the far east of the castle, and I will guide you there. When you arrive, the portrait will show a Lion and Snake. You will both choose a password together and say it to the portrait, as normal, and then that will be your new password. Do you understand?" They both nodded and she smiled. "Good, now, you can stay here for the duration of the travel. Have a good day." McGonagall then walked out of the compartment. Hermione glared at Draco, who was looking out the window, avoiding her as much as possible.
"Why did you come back?" Hermione asked pure annoyance in her voice. Draco looked at her and glared.
"Because, my mother told me I had to go back and finish my education. I didn't have much a choice either. I didn't want to leave her alone." He answered, hating the fact that he just told her he wanted to stay home with his mother.
"What about your father?" Hermione asked curiously, earning a huge glare from Draco.
"He's currently having a great and wonderful time in a really nice place, hmm, what's it called again, oh yeah, Azkaban." Draco answered, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Hermione felt a singe of guilt, but realized this was Malfoy, someone who tortured her for years, her worst enemy.
"Why did you come back?" Draco snapped and she shrugged slightly.
"I wanted to finish my education, so I can get a good job after graduation." Hermione answered and he scoffed.
"Like you would be hired, filthy little Mudblood." He spat at her and she glared at him, but he just looked out the window again. Even though he called her that all the time, she couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat every time he did say it to her. It wasn't as if he couldn't pick on her about something she could change, but she couldn't just change her blood. What was so special about a pure-blood anyways, even though they aren't all stuck up like him.
"You know, just because you're a pure-blood doesn't mean you're so amazing." Hermione said and he raised an eyebrow at her.
"I never said that, Mudblood. I've many pure-blood and half-blood peers, but I would never associate myself with some filth like you." He sneered while smirking and she looked at him with a straight face.
"You really haven't changed a bit, Malfoy. You're still a stupid git." She growled before crossing her arms.
"Whatever, let's just think of a stupid password so we can stop talking." Draco suggested, Hermione agreed, they both thought for a moment.
"How about Collaboration?" Hermione suggested and Draco thought then sighed.
"Yeah, let's go with that," He rolled his eyes, "Oh and don't think this means you can now associate yourself with me at all in school."
"As if I'd want to associate myself with you, don't make me laugh, Malfoy." Hermione scoffed before taking out a device from her bag, Draco gave her an odd look and she plugged a pair of plugs into the device and put one of the plugs into her ear. She noticed him give her an odd look and attempted to suppress a giggle.
"What? Never seen an iPod before, Malfoy?" She joked, he glared at her sarcasm, he now knew what the device was by the name.
"You aren't allowed muggle devices in school you know?" He pointed out and she raised an eyebrow and looked around.
"Interesting school we're in right now, eh?" She said sarcastically and he glared at her once more, the girl really knew how to infuriate him.
"If you get caught, don't start wining in the middle of the night in the common room." He said and she scoffed.
"As if I would, night time will be the only time I'll be in that room with you." She spoke in a sharp tone, then she put her earphone back in and listened to her 'Travel' play list.
After a while they finally arrived, Hermione put her iPod back into her bag, not to be seen until she was alone in her room. Draco grabbed his things and walked out as quickly as he could, as did Hermione. When they got out of the train they both shot one last glare at each other before walking to their friends.
"So, how was it?" Ginny asked and Hermione chuckled.
"I survived right?" Hermione answered and the three laughed.
"So, was it that bad?" Blaise asked Draco, Draco also chuckled.
"I'm still alive aren't I?" Draco answered with a smirk, they both laughed.