Chapter 1 (redraft)

Draco's POV

I looked up slowly careful not to meet her eyes. I never thought that she would have had it in her to say something like that to me, but to be fair I never expected her to rip me a new one either. I moved my hand to feel the side of my face which was already swollen and throbbing with pain, if my father saw this... No I didn't have time to dwell on that now I had a week before the train would come for the winter break. A week could be a lot more time than I was seeing it as right now he wouldn't even have to know what the stupid mudblood had done to me. It would all be fine.

I looked to my right to see if Pansy was still by my side and was more than relieved when I found her... Wait was she sniggering? Was Granger being her hilarious self or... No... I glanced around panic and fear gripping my gut in a death hold. Everyone was staring at me. No. Not just staring at me. Laughing... they were all laughing at me Draco Malfoy prince of Slytherin house. How dare they! This is one of those moments in life that you think of exactly what you want to say way too late in my case I was off my a matter of seconds.

'So the Mudblooded Harlot thinks that she can take it out on me just because she can't hold down a boyfriend for more than an hour? That's funny love but it doesn't make me any more likely to date you.'

Her hazel eyes lit up with a fire of determination and anger, and not the 'my glass of chardonnay got knocked over and now I have to pay some guy to clean the carpets and he's not even hot' kind of anger. I could see her pure and absolute hatred maintained by only her soul itself. Many poets compare love and hate as though they are not so polar opposite but I never knew what they meant until I saw the way her eyes passed over me. At first it was hard to tell whether she was trying to plot ways to kill me or undress me with her eyes, unlike in previous years I was no longer as repulsed as I should have been that the second of those was even an option.

'Going to run away Granger? Where you going to go we share a dorm now remember?'

That second hit was enough to knock me fully unconscious and the next time I opened my eyes the sterile white made me squint in pain. I quickly closed my eyes again to stop the world spinning in front of me, was anyone with me? Reluctantly I forced my eyes open again and looked around before forcing myself to sit up.

'Pansy?'

'Depends who you're asking for Dray.'

'I'm asking for me dumbass.'

'Well then fine it's me.' Pansy had changed a lot since we had started at Hogwarts together; she had grown from an ugly annoying little brat into a beautiful model. Her dark hair lay comfortably around her shoulders and stopped at her lower back, her features had developed so that her once round face had instead become slightly pointed her skin gently tinted to give her an air of elfishness. That wasn't all that had changed. Long gone were the days that she would chase after me like a little puppy always at my heels, now she was her own person she had matured hugely since the war and now she spent most of her time with her girlfriend or studying for her NEWTS. 'They aren't here if that's what you were wondering. The train leaves tomorrow.'

I felt my heart slow down as I let out the breath I didn't know I had been holding. My parents didn't know. They didn't have to know.

AN: Reviews are like marshmallows and flames will be used to make smores for the reviewers. I hope I was able to give you a better chapter this time by harnessing my original idea and making it into a slightly more interesting experience rather than it just being a simple story. There will be more of Hermione next chapter!