It been a long and upsetting day for Draco already and it isn't even 10 o'clock yet. First he almost forgot to pack his robes in his luggage. Next, the house elves burnet his breakfast and because they had to recook it, he was almost late to the train station. And to top it all off, his parents told him they are too busy and can't take him to the train station to see him off for his first year at Hogwarts. He tries not let on how much it bothers him that he doesn't have any parents to watch him leave so the moment he steps through the wall and gets on the train platform, he sends the house elves away that his mother sent to escort him. Once they are gone he watches what everyone else is doing and follows their lead by placing his luggage with everyone else's and because he doesn't want to see everyone saying goodbye to their parents, he gets on the train and goes looking for a seat.
Draco finds a seat in the back of the train where the nicer seats are and he is soon joined by 2 boys he recognizes from parties he has attended with his parents, he remembers them being called Crabbe and Golye. They sit with Draco and the three boys exchange summer stories. Another boy comes in a little later, he has darker skin and Draco feels like he has met him before but he can't quite remember his name. Following the darker boy is a girl who slightly resembles a pug. They both join the group that Draco has started and they contribute to the conversation.
Draco quickly finds the girl, Pansy Parkinson he finds out, annoying, notices that Crabbe & Goyle aren't quite the brightest wizards of their age, and that the dark skinned wizard, Blaise Zabini he was told, is the one out of everyone in their group that seems the closest to Draco's level. They all make Draco's day a little better though because he gets to easy manipulate Crabbe and Goyle and Pansy is practically drooling all over him. The only one who doesn't seem effected by the power of his last name is Blaise which Draco is secretly grateful for.
The 5 new companions are waiting for the train to start moving when the door to their nice compartment is opened. A girl with brown hair bigger than she is walks a little into the compartment. Everyone looks at the girl but Draco seems to be the only one who looks entranced. The girl has eyes that shine like stars in the sky, looks as smooth as melted chocolate, and seems to hold the answer to any question. Her hair may be bushy but it looks as soft as a kitten, is wild as a fire, and is as exotic as a rainforest. Draco is mesmerized by her. She looks at all of them with a bit of caution.
"Have any of you seen a toad? Someone lost one." Her voice is like an angels. Draco wants to tell her that he hasn't seen anything but no words came out. Blaise speaks instead.
"No toad back here." He tells her. The girl nods and Draco watches her hair bounce up and down.
"Alright. Thank you." And with that, she sweeps out the door to continue on her search. Once she's out of sight, the spell breaks and Draco is snapped back into reality. His day suddenly got much better.
"Who was that?" He asks. Everyone around him shrugs. In that moment, Draco vows to find out who she is.
Draco is watching the girl at the Gryffindor table from across the Great Hall during dinner. Professor McGonagall had called her Hermione Granger. Draco had secretly hoped that they would have been put in the same house. But now that she's in Gryffindor and seems to be all buddy buddy with Potter, he should hate her. But he doesn't. She mesmerizes him too much. He vows to himself that he'll talk to her by the end of the week.
She is in every one of his classes and it would seem like it would be easy to talk to her but she doesn't ever pay attention to him. She is always paying attention to Potter and Weasley. This frustrates Draco more than he would like to admit. So he works harder to get better grades and to stand out from everyone in class to try and get her attention, but nothing works. By the second week of being completely ignored, Draco is absolutely livid but he doesn't know what else to do to make her notice him except get a really good grade on the potions paper due soon. So, he skips dinner in the Great Hall and heads to the library.
He is looking at the potion books on the shelves when he hears someone muttering under their breath. He peeks around the bookshelf and sees Hermione sitting at a desk. She is looking intently at a book and Draco glances at the cover. It's the book he needs. And idea sparks in his head and he heads over.
"Hey Granger." He says. "If you glare any harder at this book you might burn some holes in it. Which I wouldn't appreciate because I need that book." She turns her glare to him and he has to admit to himself that she mesmerizes him even more when she's mad.
"Sod off Malfoy." She snaps. He sits down across from her.
"What's got your panties in a bunch?" He asks her, a slight smirk forming on his face. Her face flushes a deep red.
"N-nothing you need to worry about." She stammers, scrambling to gather her things to leave. Draco grabs her arm to stop her from leaving.
"No really." He says, the smirk gone. "What's wrong?" She looks at him skeptically but flops back down in her seat.
"I can't seem to find the chapter I need to write my paper." She tells him, crossing her arms over her chest. Draco takes the book laying in front of the girl and flips through it. She watches him curiously. Once Draco finds the page he wants, he places the book and turns it around so she can look at it. She takes a few moments to scan over the page and then a huge grin appears on her face.
"You found exactly what I was looking for!" In a moment of pure happiness and relief, Hermione lunges over the desk and hugs Draco. Draco sits there stunned. His heart feels like it's going to beat out of his chest and it doesn't help that there is this weird fluttering feeling to accompany his over working heart. Her scent takes over in his nose. She smells like sunshine and violets. Hermione lets go of him before he can return the hug. She goes back to her side of the table and scopes up all her things.
"Thanks so much for this Malfoy!" And with a happy smile on her face, she waltzes right out of the library. Leaving Draco in his library wondering if he's having a heart attack or if a swarm of butterflies have taken residence in his heart.