Argh! Hermione groaned for the tenth time.
What? Draco muttered under his breath, trying hard not to hex her. Now that Voldemort has been defeated, he had promised Dumbledore that he would try to be nice to Potter and his friends and would also eat with them in the Great Hall. So far, Harry was the only one to whom he had been able to cope with, Weasley was as always insufferable and Granger had been quite nice but most of the time ignored him.
He cursed her under his breath for putting him on his nerves by groaning and moaning all the time.
WHAT DO YOU WANT? He almost yelled at her.
She frowned at him for a moment and then pointed her finger towards Harry and Ginny. Harry was holding her hand and talking endlessly about his future career and Quidditch while Ginny was smiling dreamily at him and kept kissing him from time to time.
Eurk! Draco mouthed and smirked at her. " Oh, so you're getting jealous of Weaslette and Scarhead, eh? But you have to admit, "hinny" make a good couple", he said with a thoughtful look on his face, wanting to disturb her some more.
Hermione frowned at him again, " Seriously, don't you have anything better to do"?
"Nope, this, you see is my best hobby and since I have to listen to you groaning all the time, I won't mind to help you. I am pretty good matchmaker, you know".
"And why, in your right mind, would you want to help me?
"Well, if you want to do something for me, then you do my homework for let's say..., one week."
"Hmph, give me one good reason why I should accept your...uh, help?"
"Well I am very influential, a good brainwasher, I have a lot of skills in matchmaking and most importantly, I am a very good friend of Harry and I don't like Weaslette and her big mouth."
"Fine, since it couldn't be better anyway, so what do we do?"
Draco started saying something when the head boy came in the classroom and told us that Dumbledore wanted to speak to the seventh years about something very important. All the Slytherins and Gryffindors rushed to the Great Hall at once, knowing that Dumbledore's announcements were always very exciting. When finally, everybody was gathered, Dumbledore started his speech.
"This year, we won't be having Defence against the dark arts class and instead you will be having a house unity class and you will be working together in pairs from different houses and for further information, you may ask Miss Bones, your new teacher. I expect you to behave yourself and make this class a success, you may now return to your common room, prefects lead the way ", he said in a serious tone.
A few cheers and groans were heard from the pupils as they departed for their common room.
"What do you think of the class?" Hermione asked Ron in an amused tone knowing that he didn't like D.A.D.A much.
"Well, it sounds interesting, I hope that I get Ernie", he said with a sheepish smile.
In the common room, Hermione started doing her homework for the week; she always likes to finish her homework very early so that she gets time afterwards to revise a bit and read the extremely interesting new books, the library had to offer. She was in the middle of her muggle studies essay about muggles' various technologies when she noticed a small note on her book.
It said: " Meet me on Saturday in the Room of Requirement at eight o'clock to discuss our plan of you know what, don't be late. Our first step should be making Harry jealous, you and I will pretend to be together and he will get so jealous that he will forget all about the Weaslette. What do you think ? Don't forget to answer, I will be waiting for you.
Your beloved,
Draco. M
A small smile crept on her face as she reread the letter, it was surprisingly polite with no harsh words although she knew that the last parts were overreacted and contained hidden sarcasm. She wrote a quick letter and sent it to Draco by a public owl and started reading a book before going to sleep.
Hermione had a strange feeling that everything was going to be okay and that she will be united to her life partner very soon and with a content sigh, she slept.
Little did she know that she would be united to her life partner, who wasn't the Boy Who Lived but non other than the Slytherin Prince, Draco Malfoy...
Author's notes: please read and review, Tell me what you think and feel free to share your ideas, I'll update quickly and will try to make it a bit longer if you say I continue, I hope it's not too bad, :):):):):)