The wall was getting closer and closer, I again felt the whipping sensation of the wind as I ran towards it, and then I was through, and standing once again in the midst of the other Hogwarts students on platform 9 ¾. I was already dressed in my robes, after all I was Hermione Granger, and my head girl badge gleamed proudly on the front of my robes, I was so excited about the fact that I was head girl, except for the fact that the head boy wasn't harry or Ron, and I didn't know who. Ron came out of the wall followed by Ginny and harry, he put his arm around my shoulders after I refused his offer to take my trunk. After the war, and after we finally admitted our feelings for eachother, me and Ron had become a couple, this was just before it was announced through letters that we were retaking our final year of Hogwarts, due to the lack of 'appropriate learning' of last year, not that me harry or Ron knew anyway, we weren't even at Hogwarts in our final year. We were a good ten minutes early, which gave us a chance to walk up and down the train to find good seats, we eventually found an empty compartment and sat down in it, me and Ron on one side and harry and Ginny the other. They had been reunited as a couple after the war. I turned to look through my bag of books after sitting down, only to see Draco Malfoy walking past our carriage. I wasn't the only one who'd noticed.

"What's he doing back here?" harry asked.

"He's got a cheek!" Ginny added.

And then I spotted something as he hovered outside the door to our compartment, debating what to get from the trolley.

"He's wearing a head boy's badge! Are you kidding? I have to share a dorm with that jerk for the year? For merlin's sake!"

Ron squeezed my hand "Hermione, you've just survived a war, I'm sure you can survive a year with Malfoy, and then you never have to see him again."

"I guess so!"

"Yeah Mione it'll be okay!" Ginny said reassuringly. Just then we were joined in our compartment by Luna and Neville, as they entered through the door, Malfoy looked in, he looked at me twice and noticed the badge on my robes, he glowered at me, I waved back smiling, which made everyone laugh, seemed Ron's traits were rubbing off on me. The journey was long; I spent most of it reading the daily prophet and the other books we had to read this year. And then one of the younger year Hufflepuffs came and got me, quite nervously she had round glasses like harries and curly blonde hair, I didn't know who she was.

"Urm, are you Hermione granger?

"Yes, yes I am. Are you okay?"

"Fine... I'm fine… I just… I've been told to come and get you, there's a prefect meeting, and since you're head girl…"

"I need to be there!" I finished "thank you!"

The Hufflepuff left as soon as she could, I got up off of the comfy seat pulling Ron with me, and he kept held of my hand as I left the compartment and wandered down the train to the front. We were the first ones there, I sat down in the nearest seat to the door, Ron sat beside me, on the table in front of us was a list of criteria that needed to be completed in this meeting, I skimmed through it, listed were the basic things such as patrol times and passwords. It was quite simple.

"Are you okay Mione? I'm sure it'll be fine, I mean I don't even understand why Malfoy's returned, his reputation is trashed, he's got nothing, everybody hates him, why is he even here?"

"I don't know Ron. I honestly don't know, do people like him change?"

"I doubt it, but I mean, all you have to do is sleep there, you can avoid him as much as possible and then you only have to see him at these prefect meetings."

"Yeah, I guess! It'll be okay!"

"Course it will!" he said smiling. I smiled back at him. The room filled up gradually, and soon everyone was there, except Malfoy.

"Is he even coming?" I said to Ron.

"Yes granger, I'm here, but don't act like you havent noticed!"

I just glowered at him, Ron's eyes echoed mine.

"Wow I guess it's true what they say, couples really do start to look alike!"

"Shut up Malfoy, can you just start being mature, so we can get on with this?"

"Whoa calm down granger!"

"Merlin's beard!" I muttered, then addressed the others "welcome to this new year at Hogwarts, now we don't really have much to go over today, except, you're patrol times will be given out by tomorrow, and if you have any issues with the times you can enquire with me or Mr Malfoy, also your passwords to your common rooms will be given to you during the feast by me or Mr Malfoy. And yeah I guess that's pretty much it!"

"Whoop de doo!" muttered Malfoy, I felt my cheeks burn, how dare he! He couldn't do any better!

The others got up to leave Ron placed a kiss on my head as he left, understanding that I had to stay here with the head boy, unfortunately said head boy was being a complete idiot, walking out of the carriage.

"Malfoy, what're you doing?"

"Well I'm going back to my compartment!"

"No way Malfoy, no you're not, you're going to stay here and get on with the patrol times like me!"

"Oh for merlin's sake! Fine!" he walked back towards me and to my surprise actually got on with the job, completing it after about ten minutes. Then he sauntered off calling "later granger!" after him. I left carrying the papers with me back to my train compartment, I settled down next to Ron again sighing.

"You okay?" Harry asked, his green eyes full of concern.

"im fine, just wondering how the hell im going to get through this year!"

"you'll be okay, you've got us and everythings okay again!" he replied while the others agreed enthusiastically, I smiled back at them, suddenly enough myself again to realise the dust and smudges on harry's glasses.

"oh harry!" I sighed and then pointed my wand at him "oculus reparo!"

He grinned at me and I grinned back, once again looking forward to my final year at Hogwarts.