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HPOV

"Thank God" I thought. Finally I escaped Cormac. Harry was right, what was I thinking when I said 'Yes' to Cormac? Apparently nothing. I just wanted to make Ron jealous by using Cormac. Merlin! I never thought I would stoop that low by playing with people's hearts.

I rounded a corner and there I saw Draco Malfoy blasting away the tapestries. He looked furious. 'Wow what could have made him this angry?' I thought

DPOV

'I hate this. How am I supposed to do it? What's wrong with the Dark Lord? He's making me do this because of the failure of my father.' I put all my anger into blasting the tapestries. But then I heard footsteps, I turned around and saw Granger standing there.

"What do you want mudblood?" I shouted at her.

Her expression changed immediately. "Nothing Malfoy" she said with equal rage. "You seemed to be angry about something and I thought maybe you could need some help, but I don't know what I was thinking in helping a ferret!" she screamed the last word and walked away.

"He…Help" I stammered. She thought of helping me. "Wait Granger" I called after her. "Granger stop"

She stopped and turned around, "What?"

"Wow fierce Granger" I smirked

"Just leave me alone Malfoy", she started to walk away.

"Hold on, you wanted to help me?"

She seemed shocked at mu question "Err…Yes…"

"Why" I asked moving towards her.

She backed away a few steps from me apparently scared. That kind of made me feels like my old self again. I smirked.

"Err_ I don't know. You seemed really angry about something and everyone needs help"

I was taken aback with her gesture. No one ever offered me help. They were always scared of me because I'm a Malfoy, but I would never expect Granger of all people to help me. She hated me, but she seems to have put that aside and asked to help. That was __ nice of her.

"Thanks" I said breaking the long silence and sat against the wall. I thought she would just walk away but she surprised me by sitting beside me.

"You're welcome" she said "so why are you so angry?"

I just shrugged

"Ok then, how can I help you?"

I didn't answer at first and she just stared at me. "There is nothing you can do to help. It's very complicated"

"Oh ok so you're not supposed to tell. Leave it"

And we just sat there in silence starting outside the window at the night.

"It's a beautiful night" she said suddenly

"What?" I stared at her. It was really random of her to make a statement like that.

"Sorry, I was just trying to distract your mind". I just stared at her and she blushed

Turning back towards the window I said "Well__ yes it is a beautiful night"

She smiled. And we sat like this for merlin knows how long. This just turned out to be a weird day.

HPOV

This just turned out to be a weird day. I Hermione Granger was sitting peacefully with the Draco Malfoy without throwing any hexes at him. This was very strange; maybe I ate something rotten at Slughorn's party. That might be the cause of my behavior.

"So Ganger, what are you worried about?" he asked breaking me away from my train of thoughts

"W__What?" I asked apparently shocked. How did he know that something was bothering me? "Nothing," I answered a little too quickly.

He just smirked "Come on Granger, I know something is bothering you. I can see it on your face"

What is it that visible? I just stared at him debating whether I should answer. He was starting at me with those silver eyes and I gave in

"It's Ron"

"Weasley?" he asked confused "What has he done?"

I remained quiet.

"Come on Granger! Even if you can't help me I can at least try to help you," he said

"He's dating Lavender," I replied quickly. Merlin! What am I doing blurting out a confession like that and not just to anyone but Malfoy- a sworn enemy? What's wrong with me?

"Ahh!" he smirked "You like Weasley but he's dating someone else"

I kept silence.

Understand my silence Malfoy said "And what did you do about it?"

"I wanted to make him jealous so I asked out Cormac," I replied

"Cormac?" he asked slightly confused

"Cormac McLaggen" I answered

"McLaggen! You asked out Cormac McLaggen" he said in disbelief

I just shrugged

"Wow, you know Granger McLaggen is lower than Weasel"

I didn't even shout at him for insulting Ron. I was too angry at Ron

"And how did that work out for you?" he asked

I didn't reply

"Not well I suppose" he said seeing my vacant expression

DPOV

"You know Granger, if you really want to make Weasley jealous, you shouldn't use other people to do so. It never works"

She eyeballed me

"Really! Trust me I know. You just get into a bigger mess by breaking everyone's heart"

She sighed "Maybe you're right Malfoy. It wouldn't be nice to know that you have been used"

"I'm always right" I smirked as I said it.

She rolled her eyes and then smiled.

"Listen, what you have to do is show Weasley that you don't care who he dates because we all know that he's just trying to make you jealous too"

"How do you__"

"Oh come on Granger. The whole school knows that Weasley has a big crush on you and he just doesn't have the guts to tell you"

Her face turned jubilant at what I said.

"So are you going to try out my advice?"

"I might," she said. And we returned to stare outside the window.

After a few minutes, she said "I better go. It's getting late and I don't want to run into Cormac in the common room"

I laughed "Really? I bet you 10 galleons that McLaggen will be on the couch shouting out quidditch fouls"

"You know a lot," she teased

"Come on! I just tend to keep an eye on my quidditch opponents"

She laughed "Bye Malfoy"

"Good night Granger"

This just turned out to be the strangest day ever. I can't believe it but I actually enjoyed my conversation with Granger. I haven't felt this relaxed in a long time.

"Thanks for your advice Malfoy, sorry I couldn't help you," she said

"Don't worry about it. You actually helped me a lot"

She looked perplexed and then walked away.

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