hello people. this is my second FanFic and i don't know if it's any good really. my first Fic i don't really know where i'm going with it and it hasn't had much of a response so. eh. but i kinda like this story it's easier to write so please please please review if you read and tell me what you think. give me any tweaks i need to fix and give me any ideas. i've already written the second and third chapters because i was bored and had no internet but i wont put them up if i don't get a responce from this story. anyway i really hope you like it. remember REVIEW! it's really nice to know what i'm doing wrong so i can fix it. or even what i'm doing right lol. there was something else i wanted to say but i don't remember what it was so. eh. enjoy! :)
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ATTENTION: all seventh years returning to Hogwarts MUST attend an interhouse unity camp. If any problems do occur, promptly see to your head of house.
~Professor McGonagall

As I, Hermione Granger read this notice, my face fell into an unmoveable scowl and this is how I entered the Great Hall that morning for breakfast.

"Was' wif 'ermione?" Ron asked while shovelling scrambled eggs and bacon into his mouth. Harry looked up and gave me a concerned look to which I only said "I'm too angry to tell you yet." At that Seamus came running down the great hall to where we sat and yelled in our faces "WE GET A WHOLE WEEK OFF SCHOOL FOR CAMP! I didn't know we'd get to go on camp at Hogwarts."

Honestly I did not see what was so good about it; Harry, Ron, Seamus and any other seventh year that heard us were all cheering. "Comon 'ermione it'll be fun, why're you so down about all this?" Harry asked me with a huge grin on his face. "What am I so down about?" I hissed "maybe I'm down because we have newts in a few moths and we miss a whole week of studying and learning for what? A stupid camp." At that I crossed my arms over my chest and slouched down, too angry to even eat.

Draco Malfoy must have heard me because he pipped off from across that hall, "Really Mud-Blood I'd have though you'd have done anything to get a peek at me showering or something like that." Him and his entire crony's, which had depleted immensely since the war but still ever present. "Oh shut your mouth Ferret, you've got shit coming out of it." I smartly said then got up to leave, when Professor McGonagall strode into the hall with a chorus of "GRANGER, MALFOY! 20 point from Slytherin and Gryfindor and detention for you both tonight" And merely walked up to the teachers table as though she hadn't uttered a word. I moved my stare to Malfoy and glared at him, which he answered with his disgusting sneer with that I finally left the Great hall fuming.

The rest of that day seemed to go by in a blur; I simple couldn't hold my attention in class because I was just so angry. And my anger did not even deplete over the course of the day. By the time I had to leave for my detention, Harry and Ron were nowhere in sight, not wanting to get on my nerves any more than they already had this morning by accident. I guess it's not Harry's fault that Professor Slughorn puts him up on a little pedestal of his own.

Malfoy obviously felt the same way, because when we met outside McGonagall's office he was also fuming and mumbling something about Saint Potter. I had to laugh at that, which made him look up and sneer at me. Honestly that is the most unattractive thing I have ever seen on a person, but it seems to be that it was permanently plastered on his face. "What you looking at Granger? Searching for a snogging that's never gonna come?" he finally said, at which I blushed at the thought of even doing that with Malfoy. Luckily I needn't reply as McGonagall came down the hall with a flabbergasted look on her face, "why on earth are you two here? You should be serving your detentions in my office." That confused both Malfoy and I as we both looked at each other with the same look of confusion. "But professor isn't this your-" I was cut off; she was obviously in a rush. "Office? No Miss Granger I am now located in the Headmaster's office of course. Now I am in a bit of a hurry so would you two please go to my office and wait for me." She said in haste, "the password is Dragon Cake. There is some marking for you two to commence for your detention." After a curt not she stalked off, she was obviously on a mission.

I was still looking at her as she left the hall way, only to be pulled out of my confused stare by Malfoy's drawling voice. "The longer you stand here looking like an idiot, the longer it will take to finish this blasted detention Granger." Of course, I began to walk towards what used to be Professor Dumbledore's office with Malfoy in step beside me. I hated detentions, which is why I usually didn't get them. But today Malfoy had to open his mouth. Once we reached the headmaster's office Malfoy said the password and we made our way up. McGonagall was right when she had papers to be marked. There were at least four pilled as tall as I was. We both looked at each other huffed and got to work. Malfoy moved a table so that we were sitting facing each other while marking. Every now and then I would feel him looking at me but when I looked up he wouldn't be. It made me feel uncomfortable. We kept working for what felt like two hours, but when I looked at the clock it only said we had been here for half an hour, great another hour and a half marking my brains out with Malfoy. At the thought of him I glanced up to see him looking at me.

"Can I help you Malfoy?" I said no really expecting him to utter anything, but he did and it surprised me. "Why don't you want to go on this camp thing coming up?" he looked genuinely interested in my answer, his eyes searching mine as if they would give him all the answers he was looking for. In fact the intensity of which he was looking at me it made me take a sharp breath, but I soon forgot that when he continued to ask me something else. "All I meant was that aren't you all for this inter house unity and all, so I just thought. Well that you'd be really into all this camp stuff." This made me think. "Well yes I do believe in inter house unity but I don't think that we should be taken out of school for this stupid camp. Beside I did enough camping last year, so I'm not too fond on it." and of course he had something else to add, "well why not try have a good time, it's not like we're under constant threat anymore we can just go and have fun and forget our worries for that week." He gave me a small smile, Draco Malfoy actually smiled.

I laughed at that thought, and he gave me a weird look. "Sorry I was just thinking about how you just smiled, I never thought I'd live to see the day" I said while still giggling. His smile increased into a fleeting grin which stunned me into silence. He looked beautiful when he smiled; it made all his features soften. "Enjoying the view there are we Granger?" he said while still smiling at me, which made me blush and turn back to my paper, but I still smiled. "I was in fact, not such a bad view if you take away all of that harsh sneering and smirking." I said before I even realised I'd said it and I made myself blush even more. I was sure I was the colour of a beetroot by now. But Malfoy didn't say anything else he just went back to his marking but he was still smiling to himself. We stayed like this for another 5 minutes until I had finished marking my papers. He still had about a quarter of his pile left to finish so I sat there watching him mark. His smile had gone but it wasn't replaced with his hard features, he merely sat there calmly looking intent on finishing this, so he could go I assumed.

Once he had finished he leant back in his chair and looked at me, with the hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth. We didn't talk again, just simply sat there looking at each other. It was almost as if we were talking to each other through thought. We stayed like this until McGonagall came in and dismissed us. We still didn't talk just walked down the hall until it was time to go our separate ways. He went down to the dungeons and I made my way up to Gryfindor tower. Detention didn't go as bad as I thought it would.

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