A Perilous Friendship
By: ladyaranella
Prologue
She was always all alone. Sure she always had Harry and Ron with her, but they usually didn't pay attention to her feelings. She was just plain and simple alone. In the six years that Hermione Granger had been at Hogwarts, she never really fit in. Everybody loathed her and shot insults at her constantly. One person in particular.
Draco Malfoy was the Slytherin god. He walked around Hogwarts liked he owned it. Shoving first and second years around and ridiculing all the Muggle-borns. He always thought that he was better than any one else. Of course, this is how he was brought up to be. Ever since he was a small child, his father Lucius Malfoy had told him that he was a pureblood wizard, and that he should look down upon those who are not. His mother Narcissa Malfoy implanted the same things into little Draco's mind, saying that he was above all others, teaching him the ways of the Dark Side.
Draco's parents were big supporters of You-Know-Who, the most feared wizard of their age. He killed muggles and muggle borns, which the purebloods named Mudbloods. This implied that they had bad blood. So Draco went to school with his "holier than thou" attitude and became the most desired by the girls and the most hated by the muggle borns. He nagged at them, called them foul names, and even got into fights with them, but he made one girls life hell.
Draco tortured Hermione Granger endlessly. He never relented on his ridicule. At the end of Draco and Hermione's fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, things changed immensely. When Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville, Ginny, and Luna came back from the Ministry of Magic, everyone realized something. The Dark Lord was back. He and his fellow Death Eaters almost killed Harry and his friends. Hermione realized that that night could have been her last, but she still survived.
Draco realized that the Dark Lord did not want to rid the wizarding world of all its impurities, for there were none. He wanted complete control so he could have his world of havoc. Draco realized that blood didn't matter and that he should not have hurt all those people in the past years. Draco blamed his parents and their friends for saying what they did and making him believe all those horrible things.
In their sixth year at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger go on a journey together that will bring them closer and could possibly take their lives.