This is my first fic so I am prepared to be open minded about all review I would honestly like to know what you think whether it is bad or good =D

Obviously I don't own Harry Potter if I did Hermione would be with Draco and not Ron and I would be rich!!


I am sat here on the couch in the head's common room with a book in my hands, but my mind was elsewhere and I knew I wasn't going to be able to read, Yeah that's right bookworm and know-it-all Hermione Jean Granger couldn't concentrate on her book.

Nobody had been surprised when Hermione got an acceptance letter to Hogwarts to finish her magical education along with Harry and Ron when she was staying with them in the summer after the war. But at the bottom of her letter was a simple sentence that caused her nearly faint when Ginny had taken her letter to see why she had frozen she read it aloud

"You have also been selected to be head girl! Merlin, Hermione Well done"

I had then got congratulations from Mr and Mrs Weasley, Harry, Ron, Percy, Charlie, Bill and George well I say I got congratulations from George he had really said that he hoped I wouldn't be as pompous as Percy to which Percy started to say he wasn't pompous before Mrs Weasley shut them up with a look at each of them.

"Hey I'm a prefect" Harry stated finally getting to the end of his letter and holding up his Prefect badge with a shy grin

"Merlin so am I" Ron stated "who was mad enough to put me as a prefect?"

"Don't be stupid Ron you were a Prefect in 5th and 6th year" I replied laughing as he comprehended what I had said

"Hey Ron your not the only prefect in the family this year!" Ginny said in an amazed voice as she too pulled out a prefect badge. This had obviously been enough for Mrs Weasley because she burst out crying and pulled the four of us into a huge hug that had us all gasping for air.

When we had got onto the train we had all walked to the front of the train to find out who the other prefects were and who the head boy was. There were 6 prefect compartments this year because they had people re-attending most had missed a year because of the war. The last prefect for Gryffindor was Parvati Patil. The Ravenclaw prefects were Padma Patil, Michael Corner (Harry had made sure Ginny was not sitting next to him) Luna Lovegood and Anthony Goldstein. The Hufflepuff Prefects were Ernie Macmillan, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Susan Bones and Hannah Abbot. The Slytherin prefects had a compartment to themselves but when I looked in the window as we walked past I had seen Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott and Daphne Greengrass, I suppose looking back on it now I was stupid to think that Draco Malfoy had not come back to school, He of all people would want a proper education I knew he was nothing like his father. After Ron and Harry had gone off when the battle of Hogwarts was over I had been walking around the school and met him I was preparing to hex him when I realised he was crying over a body I moved closer and realised it was his mother. When he realised I was there he had said

"I suppose you think I deserve this, Granger" I hadn't known what to say he hadn't called me mudblood like I was expecting that, but he had called me Granger

"No one deserves to lose a parent" I had said and I had comforted him we had talked about what we were planning on doing and forgot where we were and what had just happened.

When I walked into the head boy and girl compartment I had been shocked to see Draco sitting staring out of the window he had looked up at me and his eyes had a haunted look like he had just left Azkaban Prison.

"I'm glad your head girl, Granger" He'd said surprising me again when I saw the sincerity in his eyes "I don't know how many people in the school will be as forgiving as you were after the battle of Hogwarts, and I didn't want to share a Common Room with someone who hated me"

"I know you didn't want to be on the dark side, Malfoy, if you did you would have killed Harry and Ron every time you were face to face with them in the battle it happened enough times" I replied softly and going to sit opposite him. I knew I shouldn't have felt so comfortable sitting alone in a compartment with Draco alone I mean what would Harry or Ron thought if they had come wandering in to see us in deep conversation about what had happened since the end of the war I knew they had forgiven Draco for being branded with the Dark Mark and trying to kill Dumbledore we all knew he had, had no choice when his father and Voldemort had been pressuring him but they still hadn't forgiven him for calling me Mudblood and trying to get Hagrid sacked amongst other things but I knew those were all done before he had grown up and understood his actions. It wasn't about pureblood anymore it was whether you fought for what was right or wrong, Draco had lost both his parents this year one died looking for him the other dragged away to Azkaban along with the rest of his death eater cronies and I could tell that Draco wished that his father had died instead of his mother Narcissa.

And now just half way through the first term at school and Draco and me had an unexpected friendship I mean nobody would have believed the Slytherin Prince and the Gryffindor Princess would be able to be friends but it happened. Harry and Ron had finally accepted that Draco had changed and were comfortable around him now.

There had been one Hogsmeade weekend already and Harry, Ginny, Ron, Parvati, Lavender, Seamus, Neville and Luna were going as a big group Hermione wanted to go with them but she knew they would all pair off when the got there seeing as they were all with there girlfriend or boyfriend. She had then persuaded Draco to go along with her group of friends because she knew he wasn't planning on going because Pansy had turned most Slytherin's against him because he didn't taunt people anymore only Blaise Zabini still talked to him but he had said he would go with Pansy and her friends. Draco had been reluctant to go with Hermione as he wasn't sure what the rest of the group of Gryffindor's thought of him but she had managed to persuade him and was glad she had because as soon they had got into Hogsmeade her group did exactly what she thought they would and said they would meet up at one o'clock in the Three Broomsticks and so Hermione and Draco had been left to wander the streets together talking and shopping.

None of this was what had stopped Hermione from reading it was the fact that she was getting more and more confused with her feelings for the Young Man that had tormented her childhood that was now one of her closest friends. Why was it everytime she saw him her stomach gave a little back flip? Why was it everytime he said her name she couldn't help but smile? Why was it she was drawn to the tall Blonde haired man? Ginny her closest female friend was the only one who knew about her conflicting emotions and she didn't seem to want to speak what she thought they meant which made Hermione a little nervous. Surely she, Gryffindor Princess, wasn't falling for him, the Slytherin prince?