Summary: Hermione had a hard summer. She's back in school and a certain someone promised to do a mission for a friend. Easy he thought. He was wrong. It just turned in to Mission Impossible.

Disclaimer: It would be the greatest honour to own these characters but that honour belongs to the Mistress of Stories that is JK Rowling. The only character which is mine (at the moment) is Stephen.

On with the story-

The Start of the Journey

Hermione Granger was sitting on her bed crying into a pillow. Now, most people would think why is this girl crying when she has achieved her life long ambition to become head girl. She had got the letter yesterday from the headmaster of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Well, let's put it this way, receiving a small joy doesn't make a massive sorrow any better.

Hermione should have been packing her cases because she was going down to Diagon Alley to meet her friends the next day. Her friends knew nothing about what she was going through. She put on a brave face for them. There was nothing Hermione liked better than her books and school. Even these could do little to relive her.

Hermione left at 8:00 to go to Diagon Alley as she was to meet her friends at 9:30. It took her a while to get there because of all the early morning traffic. Hermione was standing outside Madam Malkin's shop waiting for her three friends.

"Mione! How are you?" A voice shouted from behind her

"Ginny! Oh I'm fine. How about you?" Hermione said throwing her arms around the younger, red headed Weasley.

"Hi Mia. How you feeling?" A tall brown haired boy asked her

"Harry!" Hermione cried putting her arms around him in a big hug. "I'm on top of the world!"

"Ron!" Hermione shrieked running over to him. "Wow, you've grown a lot or I've shrunken. Probably the former but…"

"Yeah, shall we go then?" Ron asked

And with that the four friends set off down the street. They bought all their supplies and then went to get Ice-cream. Everybody was talking nineteen to the dozen until Hermione realised that she didn't know who head boy was.

"Are either of you two Head boy 'cause I'm Head girl but my letter never told me who Head boy was." Hermione asked

"Well done Mione. We knew you would." Harry said

"Neither of us got head boy though." Ron continued

"What? Who is then?" Hermione asked

"No idea Mia. Sorry" Ron said

"Guess it's a surprise then." Hermione said

On the 31st of August the Scarlet train that was the Hogwarts Express pulled out of platform 9 ¾. Hermione left her friends and went to the Head's compartment. There was nobody in it so she sat down and took out her purse. A piece of paper fell out of the middle of her purse and she picked it up. It was a photograph taken in July of her and her boyfriend, a muggle named Stephen. He was the reason she had been crying. She looked at the photograph and silent tears began to fall down her face. She crumpled up the photograph and threw it into her bag.

"Well, well, well. What have we got here?" a voice said from the door

Hermione looked up to find Draco Malfoy at the door, smirking down at her. "Go away Malfoy"

"No, it just so happens that I'm Head boy so this is as much my compartment as yours" Malfoy said

"Great. This is just brilliant. One more stupid prick to put up with. Why, why, why?" Hermione murmured to herself.

"So why is the poor little mudblood upset?" Malfoy said

"Listen ferret, Keep your abnormally large nose out of other peoples business, namely mine!" Hermione said angrily.

"Oh, touchy aren't we today?" Malfoy said and he went to sit at the opposite end of the compartment.

Professor McGonagall came in followed by Professor Dumbledore about 10 minutes after that. She wasn't surprised to see the two students at opposite ends of the compartment. This showed her that some work would need to be done to promote inter house unity.

"Well I see you've made a fine start to the year considering that you're supposed to be leading the students in unity between the houses. Now for a start I would like you to sit together while I'm talking to you. Come on now, Mr Malfoy come sit here by Miss Granger. Now Professor Dumbledore"

"Good Morning children. As you probably know you will this year have to share living quarters and you will have to share your head duties. Of course you will also be in charge of school events such as Hogsmeade trips and any additional celebrations you would like but you must give Minerva the basic plans at least a month before the event is due to take place. That is all" Dumbledore said

"Also you will wait behind after the feast and I will take you to your quarters. The whereabouts of these are to remain secret to all but your closest friends. Thank you" McGonagall said and then both she and Dumbledore left the compartment"

"Well Granger, you heard McGonagall. None but your closest friends, not that you have any anymore." Malfoy said

"What on earth are you talking about?" Hermione asked

"Don't think I didn't hear you and your weird 'One more stupid prick to put up with' mutterings. As far as I know, your friends are the only stupid pricks you know" Malfoy said

"I was not talking about my friends and you want to know a prick, look in a mirror" Hermione said angrily and picked up her bag and stormed out.

She walked into her friends compartment and they were all waiting for her.

"Who's Head boy?" Ginny asked

"Need you ask?" Hermione said pointing to her face which she was sure was red with anger.

"Ferret" Ron said

"You got it in one. Well done" Hermione said sarcastically

"Oh, poor Mia." Ginny said leaning over to give her a hug. As she was doing so Ginny whispered in her ear "You get to live with a sex god for the year"

Hermione started to laugh, "Ginny you're impossible"

"Yeah, I know. It's a gift" Ginny replied and both girls dissolved into fits of giggles

Harry and Ron were watching this confusedly.

"Would either of you care to share the joke?" Harry asked

"Never mind. It's nothing important" Ginny said with a straight face.

Meanwhile Malfoy was in his compartment talking to a transfer student. He had already been told that he was in Slytherin so he had decided to get to know some of the better Slytherin's. He was thinking about a girl he'd met over the summer. Actually two girls but people always say two heads are better than one so he was thinking it's the same basic principle. Oh yeah, this year was going to be interesting.

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