Disclaimer: I own nothing that you recognize from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. It all belongs to her wonderful mind! The few lyrics that Hermione sings belong to the band Taking Back Sunday.

Chapter 1-Potions

Hermione Granger sat in her Double Potions class mid way through her 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, curling her honey colored hair with her fingers. Professor Snape stood in the front of his class and was droning on about a project that he seemed strangely excited about.

"Now for this project you will need a partner." The Class lit up when he said that but soon their smiles faded, " I will be the one who will decided your partners. This project will be a large amount of your grade for this class. It is very difficult and will take about two weeks to complete, so it is very wise that you get along with your partner. Once you are done with the potion you will take it and you will not be able to leave your partners side for the whole day." The classed looked at their professor with a look horror as he continued. "Some of you will be paired with a person from a different house, but you will deal with that yourself. Now if you all will settle down I will start to pair you up."

Hermione sifted uneasy in her seat between Ron and Harry. Snape started pairing off people and finally he got to Ron.

"Wesley, Parkinson. Potter, Goyle. Granger, Malfoy. Brown, Crabbe"

Hermione cringed at the thought of having to work with Draco Malfoy. She looked back towards him and he was sitting in his chair with his legs on the desk. He had a smug grin on his pale face and his blue/grey eyes watched her intently. She glared at him and then looked at Harry and Ron for support.

"I simply cannot understand why he is doing this."

"I don't know Hermione." Harry cringed, "Goyle. Yuck."

Ron sat on the other side of Hermione just shaking his head; "I can't work with Pansy! She such a Malfoy lover. That git, I'm sorry Hermione. If he does anything to you, just tell me and Harry and we'll take care of him."

"I know thanks Ron. I'll talk to you at dinner." Hermione started to get her things together and she heard a voice from the back of the room.

"Well come on Granger. I'm not coming to you."

Hermione glared at Draco for a moment and then walked over to his desk. She sat down her things and went off to get the ingredients. Draco lit the caldron and waited for Hermione to return. He shook his head at her as she walked back with her arms overflowing with ingredients.

"We'll come on Malfoy. Help me out here."

Draco took one thing from her arms and began to cut it into parts. Hermione glared and him and laid out the rest of the ingredients on the table. She began cutting the second ingredient they needed. She looked up to see what Professor Snape was writing on the board and she cried out.

"OUCH!"

"What's the matter Granger? Drop a book on your toe?"

"No you git," She showed him her finger, "I cut myself."

"Well hold still, hold still." He picked up her arm and laid her finger on the table. He muttered a spell under his breathe, "There, all better. Do you want me to kiss it too?"

She looked at him shocked, "Good be careful next time Granger, I don't want to fail because you can't pay attention."

Hermione nodded at him and stared for a while. She finally snapped out of her trance and began cutting more ingredients. 'Maybe Malfoy really isn't that bad.' she thought. She shook her head and started concentrating on her project. 'Okay two weeks with Malfoy. I can deal with that. Yeah, I'll just keep quiet and me and him won't have to talk at all.'

Malfoy and her started adding ingredients to the pot. They didn't talk the whole rest of the class with the exceptions of, "Put this in" or "put that in." Professor Snape dismissed the class and Hermione rushed to the Great Hall for dinner.

"Was it painful to work with Malfoy?" Ron growled.

"He didn't try and rape me if that's what you mean."

"Good, because if he ever touches you Hermione.."

"I know Ron, I know."

Ron looked over at the Slytherin table in the Great Hall and saw Draco flirting with Pansy, 'At least he'll leave Hermione alone.'

Hermione, Harry, and Ron all sat through dinner quiet. After dinner she walked out with them to the Quidditch Pitch. She sat in the Gryffindor stands and watched them play. A while later the Slytherin Quidditch team came out and sat in the stands. As they had last year, they started singing Draco's song "Weasley is our King." Hermione shook her head at them and walked over to the lake beside the Quidditch Pitch.

She sat with her knees hugged up to her chest and stared out into the water. The sun was setting and it reflected on the water beautifully. She reached into her robes and pulled out a MP3 player that she had bewitched so it would work at school. She put the earphones in her and listened to the song that was playing, "You're so Last Summer," by Taking Back Sunday. She soon began to sing without even realizing it. Hermione had always had a talent for singing, but she didn't want anyone to know that.

"She said...'You're a touch over-rated.

You're a lush, and I hate it.'

But these grass stains on my knees,

They won't mean a thing

And all I need to know

is that I'm something you'll be missin'

Well, maybe I should hate you for this

Never really did ever quite get that far..."

Hermione kept singing for a while and didn't even notice a certain blond come and sit beside her.

"What are you listening to?"

Hermione jumped, "Oh, nothing. Just an American band. Their called Taking Back Sunday."

"There not a religious group are they?"

"What? No. Why would you ever think that?"

"I don't know. I guess the name."

"Oh, you can borrow this if you want." She pointed to the MP3 player; "it has some other bands like them. It's really good music."

"Yeah, maybe I'll take you up on that offer some day. See you later."

Draco walked away and Hermione watched him leave with his groupies, as her and Ron called them. Hermione was beginning to see a different side of him, but of course he was still the same Draco Malfoy, the pureblood Muggle hating soon to be death eater, that had always hounded her.

A/N: Well, that is the first chapter of Family Matters. I hope you liked it! ahh! Okay leave me some reviews guys..Tell me what you think good or bad. I'll have the second chapter up very soon! I hope you keep reading if you do enjoy this story. Thanks.

Missez Malfoy