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This is a Ron bashing fanfic do not continue to read if you do not agree with Ron bashing. YOU have been warned.
This is my second fanfic and I hope you enjoy, don't forget to review once you have read it.
"Hey Head boy, I hope you are not going to forget about me with all your extra duties." She wrapped her arms around his waist and kissed his neck.
"I would never be able to forget about you Ginny." He turned around and faced her green eyes met smouldering brown ones.
"Harry, Ginny we need to leave for the train in half an hour. Same goes for you Ron and Hermione." Mr Weasley shouted up the stair case. Smiling Harry gave the red head a kiss and then shrunk his school luggage so he could pocket it, taking one last look around Fred & George's room for any items he might have forgotten he left to find Hermione in Percy's room.
"It's brilliant that both you and Harry are the head's this year, I can't wait to see the rooms you will be staying in." Ron said lying on her bed watching Hermione finish to pack "Think of all the privileges you will get with the head status..."
"You keep implying that Ronald, I am sure Headmistress McGonagall will not be treating us any differently. If anything this year is going to be hard with all the extra duties that we will need to carry out. Now you need to finish packing." She waved her wand and a disgruntled Ron was sent back to his room, unwillingly of course. 'If he carries on I might have to curse him, of course we will have our own rooms and sleeping quarters. That is no reason for him to keep on about it and suggest we are going to receive any privileges from the staff, it really is starting to annoy me how petty and jealous he gets.' She slammed the lid of her trunk shut, closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"You ready to go 'Mione?" Harry stuck his head around her door and disturbed her from her thoughts. Shining a bright smile at him she shrunk her own luggage and placed it in her robe pocket.
"Let's go home Harry."
The journey to the Hogwarts Express took no time at all as they could all apperate, even if Harry was doing it illegally as his test wasn't due until October. The group all gathered on the station platform and bid goodbye to Mr and Mrs Weasley before boarding the train. "Right Ron and Ginny we need to go find the Head's compartment, we will catch up with you in a bit." Harry gave Ginny a smile and headed off towards the front of the train followed by Hermione who waved at the pair. Looking frustrated Ron noticed Neville a few compartments up, took hold of Ginny's trunk and entered the compartment. Neville was already accompanied by Luna who instantly struck up a conversation with Ginny leaving himself and Neville to talk about Quidditch and summer holidays.
"Where are Harry and Hermione?" Neville looked at the pair of red heads with confusion.
"They have been selected to be Head Boy and Girl Nev so are currently up in the Head's compartment." Ginny told him while looking proud; however Neville didn't miss the flash of jealousy that passed over Ron's face. "How is your grandmother?"
"Oh a lot more bearable since I sleighed Voldermorts pet snake in June, she has finally come to see me for me and not what my parents used to be. If you listened to her rabble away though she is adamant that Harry, Hermione and you Ron are the best thing since sliced bread, it is highly amusing she would have anyone believing that she was there that night." He smiled at the group and pulled out a chess board "Fancy a quick game?" Ron's face lit up immediately and he quickly sat opposite Neville, Ginny rolled her eyes and continued her conversation with Luna.
"Have you noticed that there are no new fifth year prefects Granger?" The blonde haired Slytherin said as he entered the heads compartment.
"I was just addressing that issue Malfoy and Harry has already owled the Headmistress. What do we owe this pleasure?" Draco casually sat down opposite the boy wonder and glanced out of the window, Harry cocked an eyebrow at Hermione but she shook her head and buried her face back into her Potions book. Harry looked back at the list of students trying to ignore the extra person in the room, the only reason he hadn't hexed him was because he address Hermione by her surname and not Mudblood. Twenty minutes later a sigh was released from the teen sat beside her and Hermione placed her book down to look at him while Harry glanced up from his DADA book.
"I just want to thank the pair of you for what you did for me and my family during the war. I would like to propose a truce between us, which I hope you will consider. I now know I made a grave mistake in the first year and it was my own fault not yours; I should never have followed my Father. Good day to you both." And with that Draco left the compartment as quickly as he entered, leaving behind a room filled with stunned silence. Without thinking about what he was doing Harry jumped out of his seat and followed the blonde, he finally tracked the Slytherin down outside of Ginny's compartment.
"Malfoy, I would like to accept your proposal." He held his hand out and grey eyes burned a hole into his own. After thirty seconds Draco took his hand, shook it, turned around and walked back to his compartment.
"Harry would you like to explain?" He turned to face a pair of red heads he shrugged his shoulders and walked off, in his opinion there was nothing to explain Draco had, sort of in his own way, helped them and even saved their lives in the Manor. It was time to put their differences aside but he really was not in the mood for two angry red headed responses to his actions.
"Did you accept Malfoy's offer or did you hex him?" Hermione asked as he walked back into their compartment.
"I accepted his offer 'Mione. Although I am not sure Ron and Ginny will be fond of me ignoring their questioning." She smiled at him as he ran his hand through his hair.
"Wise decision Harry I have decided to do the same. I wouldn't worry about Ron and Ginny's opinions they will come around. Can I borrow your new owl when we get to Hogwarts." He replied with a nod. Over the summer he had decided to get himself a new Owl. He missed Hedwig immensely and admitted defeat after realising he could not reply to letters from friends without borrowing public owls. He originally had been against the idea, due to missing his oldest and dearest friend but on July 30th he found himself entering the Owl Emporium and purchasing a very smart looking barn owl, which he named Cato, and a short eared owl that he named Athena. He had already decided he was going to buy Hermione an owl for her birthday and this way he could introduce her to Cato slowly.
"What are you chuckling at Harry?" Her chocolate eyes shone with amusement.
"Well Hermione I was just thinking about the fact that you are not fond of owl's but you rather face mine than see Malfoy yourself." She blushed and returned to the prefect list they had been supplied. "You can use Cato when we get to school. I suppose I should head down and see Ron and Ginny, do you fancy coming for a walk?" He turned around and saw her putting away the books before leading the way out of the compartment.
"It would be nice to see Luna and Neville too, I did not see them much over the holidays"
Hermione glanced around the Great Hall marveling at the repair work done since the war. If she was honest she never thought she would walk through the doors as a student again, the robes she wore gave her a warm fuzzy feeling of home. How she had never noticed the detail in the block work around the hall, each house crest was located in various locations around the room. The fire places had the Hogwarts crest carved into it, this was normally hidden by flames during the winter, and the floor was made by hundreds of different sized slabs which were hidden below the four house tables. Pulling her eyes away from the enchanted ceiling, how naive she was to take it for granted, Hermione smiled warmly at Harry and Ron. Harry smiled back at her, while Ron just glared at the wall. As expected he had not responded well to the decision they had made about Malfoy, Ginny was more accepting of the idea while Ron did his usual trick and became angry. Fortunately Neville, Luna and Ginny managed to keep the situation calm and eventually the majority of the compartment agreed it was a good idea. The three of them snapped their heads around to the front of the hall when they heard the Headmistress's voice. "Welcome to Hogwarts, now before we start the sorting I have a very important announcement to make." Headmistress McGonagall was stood in front of a very confused hall of students. "On the table in front of you is a goblet" As soon as she mentioned the word goblet hundreds of small golden goblets appeared on the house tables, each was filled with a neon blue coloured drink. Harry shot a confused look at his two friends "with a potion that the sorting hat and Professor Snape have produced. I have decided that a new era has come to Hogwarts and that the whole student body should be resorted after the previous year." Everyone looked at her in shock and disbelief "I would appreciate it if the Head Boy and Girl could start the process off." She smiled over to the Gryffindor table where everyone was watching Harry and Hermione. The pair locked eyes and smiled at each other, picked up their goblets and drank the contents, knowing no matter the outcome they could handle it together.
There we have it the first chapter, I know it is short but I promise they will get longer. I hope you enjoyed the brief introduction and continue to read the rest of this story. Do not forget to review with both positive and negative points.