Hermione, now in her sixth year at Hogwarts, was standing next to the steaming Hogwarts express, waiting for her friends. She thought that they would be here by now, as the train was going to leave in five minutes. She heard a patter of feet behind her, and turned around to find Ginny Weasly and Lavender Brown running towards her.

"Gin! Lavender!" She cried, looking over Ginny's shoulder to try and find Harry and Ron. She noticed her two girlfriends looking at her closely. Yeah, she had changed a bit, for one, she had straightened her hair (using a muggle straightener, of course, since she couldn't use magic at home). And although she had to wear the school uniform, she had obviously taken more of an interest in how she wore it, for instance, she was wearing a delicate silver necklace, and her skirt looked distinctly shorter.

"Her-Hermione, you look great!" Panted Parvati, as she ran up to them, clutching Ron's wrist, and was closely followed by Harry.

"Yeah, I sort of ... Umm . Changed a bit?" Said Hermione, blushing, "Uhh, well, now we're all here, shouldn't we get on the train?"

Everyone made sounds of agreement, picked up their trunks, and managed to get seated in the train just as it started to move. Dean, Seamus, and Neville soon joined them. Parvati and Lavender politely excused themselves from the conversation (about magical ways to enhance beauty) that they were having with Hermione and Ginny, adjusted their uniforms, and went over to Dean and Seamus, who were already in a heated discussion about Quidditch with the rest of the guys. The compartment they were in seemed to be getting louder by the minute. However, everything went silent, as Ginny let out a shriek, because the curling spell her and Hermione had been attempting had gone dreadfully wrong, Ginny's hair now stuck out like a bush. The compartment door slid open, and a tall blonde guy walked in.

"Is Granger here?" Malfoy looked around and caught sight of her, "Right, well, I came to tell you that I'm the head boy, and check if you ." He shifted from one foot to the other uncomfortably "Are the uhh, head girl . Right, well, I'll be off then"

"Stupid git" muttered Ron, and everyone else agreed.

"So Ron, how was your holiday?" Asked Hermione.

"Great." Answered Ron distractedly, trying to look into the next compartment, which was full of Slytherins. "Eh, Right, well, I'll be back in a minute, I have to . Do something." Hermione looked questioningly at Ginny, who muttered something about telling Hermione later.

******** Later that night, after the sorting, Hermione and Draco were shown to the heads common room and bedrooms. After Professor McGonigal had left, Draco pulled some spellotape out of his robes, and made a line down the middle of the common room.

"My half, and your half." He explained, "I won't cross the line as long as you don't"

"My pleasure." Replied Hermione, running out of the door and down to the Gryffindor common room, where Lavender was waiting outside for her, "Come on, Mione, I made you a new mini skirt I want you to try on" Hermione happily went with her, and returned to the heads common room at about 11:00, wearing the new mini that Lavender had made, and a pink off the shoulder top. She checked to make sure no one was listening, muttered the password, and stepped into the common room, sat on the rug in front of the fire, pulled out some parchment and a quill, and started doodling and daydreaming. She didn't even notice Malfoy come into the room, until he said, "Mind your arm, Granger, you're in danger of crossing the line."

Hermione jumped a mile, and tried to think of something to say back, but she couldn't.

"Eh, right, well I think I'll go off to bed."

"Night Mion- Uh I mean, yeah, whatever Granger"

The fact that Malfoy had almost been nice to her didn't really cross her mind, and she fell asleep, worrying only about if she should wear her hair straight or curly tomorrow.

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She woke up at 9:00 the next morning, with the sun streaming through her window. Before she fell asleep last night, she had decided to wear her hair straight again, so she got up, showered, pointed her wand at her hair, muttered a few words, then got dressed. She wore the same mini skirt, and a white spaghetti-strap top. She checked her watch, which said that it was only 10:05, so her friends would still be asleep. She left the heads common room, and went down to the old hall, where there were some other students also eating breakfast. On her way back to her room, she stopped in at the Gryffindor common room, and left the others a note, saying where she was, and ran into the heads area, happy to be properly back at school again. She saw a piece of parchment with Ron's name on it over on Draco's side of the room. She knew she couldn't go over there, so she ran into her bedroom, grabbed her wand off the dressing table, ran back into the other room, checking to see that Draco wasn't anywhere, then muttered, "Accio", pointing her wand at the parchment. She heard footsteps and voices outside, and hurriedly stuffed the parchment into her pocket, sat down in a chair, and grabbed a copy of Witch Weekly, to try and look like she had been sitting there all along. Draco entered, with Pansy Parkinson, and for some reason, Hermione's stomach flipped over, luckily though, they didn't see her, because they both came in from the other side of the room.

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