Hermione Granger smiled brightly as she entered the arms of her best friend, Harry Potter.

"How was your summer?" She asked him politely as she sat across from him in the train on the way to their Seventh year of Hogwarts.

Harry grimaced, "Same as usual".

"At least your back" She grinned at him, he just nodded. "Where is Ron?"

"He went to go find Lavender, supposedly they are still going out" Harry snorted, "I suppose the guy doesn't know when to bloody give up".

She frowned a bit at Harry's words, she has always like Ron a bit more than a friend. When she had the courage to finally try to ask him to take her to the yule ball last year, he had rejected her. The last guy that had ever showed any interest in her was Victor Krum, and their relationship had ended terribly; she felt embarrassed thinking about the whole situation.

"Yeah." She had mumbled, thankfully Ginny had walked in with Neville to avoid anymore conversations about Ron Weasley.

"Congratulations Hermione." Ginny smiled knowingly looking at the letter that poked out of Hermione's jacket.

"Oh!" Hermione smiled trying to push aside all thoughts of Ron Weasley of her head, "Yes, I got Head girl."

"That's great Hermione, I knew you'll get it." Harry grinned encouragingly, as always. Ginny nodded in agreement before grabbing the seat next to Harry and giving him a peck on the cheek.

"Congratulations Hermione" Neville nervously smiled as he sat next to Hermione.

"I wonder who is Head Boy," Ginny smiled, "Imagine if it ended up to be Malfoy, I heard he gets the second best grades."

"I doubt that, Dumbledore wouldn't let Malfoy be head boy" Harry scoffed at the thought, "It'll give Voldemort a welcome sign to come to Hogwarts and bloody kill us all."

"Please Harry, don't be so sadistic." Hermione smiled, "Dumbledore is fair, and if Malfoy was really a death eater he wouldn't even consider Malfoy as Head Boy".

"Yeah, I agree" Ginny nodded while leaning her head on Harry's shoulder. Hermione smiled at the couple before taking out a book intending to read for the rest of the ride.

Hermione felt her heart beat increase with every step she took toward Hogwarts, they entered the main hall into the great hall. She felt absolutely ecstatic to return, and she missed school. She sat across from Harry and Ginny as Ron sat next to Hermione.

"I heard the Heads have their own common room, it's no fair" Ron whined, "You get this fancy common room and we share ours."

"Maybe if you weren't lacking intelligence maybe you would of been picked as Head boy." Ginny smiled sarcastically.

"Shut it." Ron glared then Lavender came up and sat next to Ron. Ron immediately turned all his attention towards her, Hermione just rolled her eyes looking away. She has been excited about everything, being Head girl, returning to her schoolwork, being with her friends. But it wasn't much fun anymore, with Ginny and Harry ogling each other then Ron obsessing over Lavender.

It just ruined everything, she felt completely alone. She dissuaded her thoughts as Dumblore started his welcoming speech, then they went on to sorting the new first years.

As they finished the sorting, Dumblore continued. "I will like to announce our two new Heads for this year, Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy!" the clapping started but only the first years and the house Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff clapped. Gryfindors and Slytherin stared, shocked.

Hermione's eyes widened as she looked toward Draco Malfoy who seemed as if he didn't care. Draco had stared at no one in particular then suddenly looked up and caught her eyes, she then looked away.

"Bloody hell, Malfoy!" Harry seemed almost lost for words.

"Yes. Malfoy." Hermione was very disturbed.

Hermione grimaced as Dinner ended. She stood and as all the students got to leave she headed towards Dumbledore, as did Malfoy.

"Well!" Dumbledore smiled happily, well at least he is happy as Draco and Hermione just stared back at him, and "This is going to be a very exciting year!"

"So, this wasn't a mistake." She asked hopefully. Dumbledore smiled, and said, "Of course not."

"Your common room is at the top stairwell, the password is Harmony." Dumbledore paused, thinking, "Very suitable word, don't you think? Let us try to keep the peace between houses this year, yes?" Malfoy hadn't made a sound, hadn't looked at neither of us he just stood patiently waiting to be excused.

"Well, you two must be exhausted! I shall allow you to head up to your dorms." Hermione nodded and turned to leave as fast as she could to get away from Malfoy but couldn't help but noticed his steps heading the same direction as her, slowly.

As Hermione entered the head common room, it resembled her regular Gryffindor common room except the colors were more neutral colors like dark brown and tan. Malfoy stepped into the common room not really sparing it a second glance as he stepped into the door that labeled 'Head Boy' and shut the door. Hermione stood fascinated and oddly horrified at Malfoy's strange behavior, normally she guessed he'd be whining and complaining about become head boy along side with the head girl, the 'mudblood' as he always so bluntly put it.

It made her worry, what if he'd planned to do something? She cleared her thoughts of Draco Malfoy as soon as she realized she'd been staring at the door he'd step through about five minutes ago and headed toward her own.

She smiled completely happy about her new room. It was about the size of the girl's dorm except with one large bed stationed in the middle, a private bathroom. There was a mirror that stood near what seemed to be the closet door, and a stand for her personal items near the bed. She sighed as she locked her room door and headed towards the bathroom for a bath.

"So, Hermione how was the head's dorm." Ron muttered, she couldn't help just smile at his jealously.

"It's fine." She answered shortly before grabbing some toast.

"Did Malfoy cause you any problems?" Surprisingly, Harry had taken a small break from obsessing over Ginny to ask this question, this made Hermione wonder where Lavender was.

"I was completely horrified when he has just walked passed me into his room." She expressed as Harry smiled, "Honestly, he had so much spoken a word"

"He's probably just thinking of a way to bloody kill us all, Hermione, be careful around him." Ron mentioned seriously, "The git is probably a maniac".

"Please Ron, what is wrong with Harry and you, thinking as if the whole world is out to get you." Ginny complained before laughing at the whole situation.

"Well, I am the boy-who-lived." Harry joked mockingly.

"Actually, its more like the-boy-who-won't-die."

"Hermione, I'm hurt."

"Why is it that my life sucks so much as to have Potions the first thing in the morning, I've witnessed Snape in the afternoon and I really don't want to witness him in the morning." Hermione muttered to Ginny who just chuckled.

"Well lucky me, I have him in the afternoon." She boasted as Hermione glared. I'll see you Hermione, I'm going to be late for Divination" Ginny waved before going the opposite way. Hermione sighed before making her way into the dungeons and when she arrived took a seat next to Harry.

After the uneventful day, she headed toward the Head's common room and sat on the couch in front of the fireplace and took out potion's homework.

Sadly, Snape thought it was proper to give homework out and a test in the first day of classes.

"Granger." Malfoy's voice called out, scaring her half to death which lead her to scream loudly, "Bloody hell, I was just going to tell you that Dumbledore wanted me to inform you of our bloody head meetings starting the beginning of next week. What the hell do you think I was going to do? Avada you when your bloody back was turned."

Once Hermione composed herself, she looked at Malfoy who seemed annoyed just being in the same room as her. "Well a ferret like you sneaking up behind me is bound to scare anyone." She scowled not having happy thoughts about sharing common room with this tyrant.

Malfoy scoffed, "That's a nice comeback, Grang-" Suddenly Draco dropped to his knees and his face twisted in pain "Damn it." He whispered. Hermione stood from where she sat and just stared at him concerned. She couldn't believe she was concerned for the ferret.

After a few moments, he looked better but he stayed on his knees just looking at the floor. "Are you alright?" Hermione whispered and she stepped closer to him.

"I don't think my health isn't any of your busy, but I am fine." He replied monotone as calmly stood from the floor then stepped away into his room. Hermione took note of his features, he seemed more pale that usual if that were possible. His hair had grown a bit longer, hanging right to his shoulders and he no longer gel's it, just let it loose free. But he looked like he had been dealing with hell this summer.

"Merlin, He is under the imperius curse." Ron concluded, when Hermione finished explaining his unusual attitude.

"Hermione, I think Malfoy is really up to something." Ginny frowned.

"So do I! the lack of sleep shows he's either bothered by something or planning something remotely evil and destroy us all."

"Please Ronald." Hermione made a mental note to figure out what is going on with Draco Malfoy.