Hermione's POV
"Aaah", I think as I wander down the halls of Hogwarts. "They really did a great job of repairing the school!"
After the war, only a few students had come back to finish 7th year. Along with me, there were about a handful of Griffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws. Draco Malfoy had also for some reason come back. He was the only Slytherin. Both Ron and Harry had both been offered jobs in the Auror department and had sprung upon the opportunity to help track down the remaining Death Eaters. My "relationship" with Ron hadn't been confirmed and the only sign of acknowledging the kiss during the war- well there weren't any.
I had been so absorbed in my own thoughts that I hadn't noticed a certain blond until we collided with each other, each sending the other tumbling to the ground.
"Oh, gosh. I am so s- Malfoy?" I was shocked. I hadn't realized the ferret would be wandering these towers.
"Oh, I'm sorry Granger. Didn't see you there." Before I could register what had happened I was hauled to my feet, a quick sorry was muttered and then the student in question had fled towards the Slytherin dungeons leaving me fixated to the spot wondering about his peculiar behaviour.
Draco's POV
"God, how could I be so carless?" was running through my head repeatedly. Bumping into a war heroine. It didn't matter that my mother and I had been acquitted, she could probably still thow us in Azkaban just out of annoyance. All because she was a war heroine.
As I made my way to the common room I wondered... Granger; mudblood, know-it-all, best friend to Potter and Weasley. Yet she was also brave, beautiful, someone who had the chance to kill me but didn't.
Flashback
"What have I done? Did I really help orchestrate this war? How foolish was I, to believe that the Dark Lord would completely spare my family?" Images of gore and death ran through my mind as I was hurtling down the corridor, blinded and deafened to my surroundings by fright.
I didn't notice her or her companion, the Weasel. We literally ran right into each other and I had two wands pointed at my face before I could figure out who it was. When I looked up, I was hit in the face with a stunner, but before I lost consciousness, I saw her face. After all, who could mistake that bushy brown hair.
End of Flashback
She had had a chance to kill me but didn't. Even though I had tormented her for 7 years, watched her tortured in my own home, fought on the other side in a war that had killed countless of her friends, she still didn't kill me. And after the war…. Without my prejudices, I saw that she was a remarkable person whom without, The Golden Trio would have been killed long ago. But, she would never have me. A Death Eater that tried to kill her and had tormented her in childhood for her whole school career. It was laughable, my situation. The Beast had fallen for the princess.