Summary: Pre-HBP, Draco and Hermione decide that if there's anyone they can love to hate, it's each other. Not a Draco/Hermione.
From Draco:
There's always that
one person you can't help but hate. You also can't help that you
love that you hate them. I suppose that the person I love to hate is
Hermione Granger. She's the inferior mudblood, and I've been
taught to hate her for it.
From Hermione:
That person you'll
always love to hate? It might have more to do with envy than real
hatred. We all might be witches and wizards, but we're still
envious of what other people have that we don't have or can't
have. Except Draco Malfoy, he's the one I love to hate, but it has
nothing to do with envy. He's the spoiled, rich brat who thinks
everyone else is beneath him, and I've learned to hate him for it.
From Draco:
I hate her for having
real friends. She doesn't deserve them as much as I do, but all I
have is a group of lackeys, minions, followers. They don't have two
brain cells to rub together and I can't laugh with them. I have no
secret jokes, no confidante. I have a master and I have my own
underlings. None of them count as real friends.
From Hermione:
I hate him for having
devoted followers and treating them like dirt. No one looks up to me
like that; they all just take it for granted that I know all the
answers and get all the top scores. No one followed me when I tried
launching S.P.E.W. no matter how much enthusiasm and energy I put
into it. He just sits there with that smug expression of his between
his two enormous bodyguards and tells them to go fetch him things. I
wouldn't trade my friends for lackeys any day of the week, but I
wish someone would le me be their role model.
From Draco:
I hate her for always
getting the top scores in class. She's annoying and she doesn't
even look good doing it. She's a mudblood. I'm a pureblood! I
should be the one getting the top scores!
From Hermione:
I hate him for being
such a sore loser. If he wants to do well in class, then maybe he
should spend more time studying and less time answering to the Dark
Lord.
From Draco:
I hate her for my
inability to show my hatred of her when she's around. I have no
problem talking about her behind her back, but whenever she's
standing right there I just can't bring myself to do anything. I
have no problem insulting Potty and Weasel, but I can't come up
with any new insults for her. I hate that.
From Hermione:
I hate that he's
always insulting my best friends. Harry's done so much and Ron is
brilliant in his own way, but he always finds some new way to bring
them down or get a rise out of them. Why can't he spend him time
doing anything but trying to make Harry and Ron look bad? I hate it!
From Draco:
I hate that she's
there.
From Hermione:
I hate that he won't
go away.
From Draco:
But
most of all, I think it's just that she's the one I love to hate.
From Hermione:
But
most of all, I think it's just that he's the one I love to hate.
From Hermione and
Draco:
That's the way it'll
always be.
-FIN-
