"What do you think Hermione? 2%, 1%, calcium fortified?? How do muggles keep track of all these different kinds of milk?" Ginny asked impatiently to her friend at the local muggle grocery store. Ginny was visiting Hermione at her home on a lazy summer day, just a week before school was about to begin again. "Whatever Gin, just leave the milk to me..I'll meet you by the bread."

Ginny shrugged and walked away, leaving Hermione to her thoughts.

"Ah…it's a beautiful day to prank on some unsuspecting muggles, isn't it Blaise?" Draco Malfoy said, as he scanned the produce section, giving seemingly invisible wedgies to the muggles he passed.

"You seem upbeat this morning. What's wrong with you Draco?" he said suspiciously. "I just feel like today I'm going to get very lucky…"

"Right, well I—Whoa! Take a look at her!" Blaise Zambini said, pointing towards a beautiful muggle girl leaning over the chocolate milk.

Blaise took a step forward, but Draco held him back.

"Don't even think about it Blaise, I saw her first." Draco said with as smile as Blaise leaned against the bananas angrily.

"Hello Gorgeous!" Draco exclaimed, standing over her. The girl seemed not to notice. "What do you want?" she said.

"Well, if your not too busy, I'd like to explain to you a very pressing matter that could affect the very grocery store you are shopping in! You see, I'm the king of this grocery store, and quite unfortunately, my queen left me for another just last week. So here I am, in the dairy section, waiting for a beautiful girl like you to

take the throne," he said with a smile, exposing his clean white teeth.

"Oh really?" the girl said, turning to face him.

"Hermione!!?!?!?!?" Draco said, taken aback by Hermione's change in appearance since he last saw her. "What are you doing here?!"

"Shouldn't the king of the grocery store know that?" she said very cooly as she plucked a vanilla yogurt into her basket.

Draco turned a bright shade of red.

"Sorry…it's just..I…you look..different," he said, half whispering the last part. And it was true. Her once bushy hair was now spiraled into soft, bouncy curls and her eyes were like oceans of chocolate.

"Was that supposed to be a compliment? Look Malfoy, I know who you are. You're the same cruel, evil, pureblood pretty-boy whose pushed me around since the day we met." she said, walking away towards the cheese.

Draco ran after her in protest.

"But I'm not that guy anymore! I've changed, dairy queen!" he said with a look of vindication.

"Your right. You have changed—into a smooth talking wise guy. Not a big improvement! And I'm not your dairy queen!" she said, storming to checkout.

And as she did, all she could think about was one thing…

He called me Hermione..

Draco walked back to Blaise, who was now laughing hysterically. "Nice one, king of the grocery store! You just hit on mudblood!"

"Don't call her that!" he shouted.

"Protecting your little dairy queen?" he said, still laughing.

"Shut up! I can't believe it didn't work! Girls love it when I turn on the charm!" he said arrogantly.

"Sorry to break it to you mate, but you did taunt her and her closest friends for the last 6 years." he said matter of factly.

"Good point."

I'll get dairy queen someday. If it's the last thing I do..

"He called you his dairy queen!?!" Ginny exclaimed as Hermione told the story at her kitchen table.

"Yeah..bottom line, worst pickup line I've ever heard," she said rolling her eyes.

"And this is Draco Malfoy? Since when did he turn into bachelor of the month?" Ginny said, still as utterly confused as you probably are.

"I don't know what's gotten into him..but let me tell you right now, I'm not falling for it," Hermione lied.

"I dunno…if it was anyone but Malfoy…" Ginny admitted.

"Ginny! Don't tell me your buying into this!"

"I'm not! I'm just saying…it was kind of sweet."

"Yeah..well..whatever. Just pass me the milk."