Draco Malfoy was a curious boy to me. He was a fourth year Slytherin and I was a fourth year Gryffindor. Every Gryffindor I know hates any Slytherin around. I don't really understand that. They hate each other and no one ever told me why. I know that most Slytherins are in alliance with the You-Know-Who, and that they have something against half-bloods and muggle-borns, but I felt that was all stupid. I made it my goal for my fourth year at Hogwarts to befriend Draco Malfoy.

I was called Summer. I have straight blonde hair and light blue eyes. I'm skinny, but not too tall. I'm sort of average height, but all my friends are taller than me. I'm usually very happy and I like to have fun. I'm not too sure I follow most of the rules at Hogwarts, but I've never been approached for the things I do for fun.

My Best friends are Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood. I like them because they are both a lot like me. Ginny likes to have fun and Luna comes up with funny things and conspiracies that I usually think about and am too shy to actually voice. Ginny is a Gryffindor and Luna is a Ravenclaw. They usually invite me along to meals with them or to go to hogsmeade with them, but right now as we ate our breakfast before we went to Hogsmeade, I couldn't stop looking at Draco.

He was sitting by himself and eating quietly. I put my spoon down and looked over at my friends who were talking to each other. I contemplated getting up and going to talk to him, but when I looked back over to him, he was gone. I scrunched up my nose and thought perhaps I'd see him in Hogsmeade.

It was still early in the school year and it was only the first trip to Hogsmeade of the year. This was also the year of the Triwizard tournament and Harry Potter managed to get his name in even though Dumbledore said no one under 17 was to enter. I wasn't a big fan of Harry Potter, unlike Ginny and pretty much every other person in the school. He was nice and all, but he seemed to modest and he was incredibly stupid sometimes. I'm not saying I hated him, I'm just saying he's overrated in certain ways.

"You ready to go Summer?" Ginny asked, dragging me out of my thoughts. I took in a deep breath and stood up with them.

"Yep," I said. We walked out of the great hall and we went to go get ready.

"I just don't understand," Luna said. She was talking about some weird made up creature that I happened to find funny. Ginny shook her head and put her hand on the blonde girl's shoulder.

"Neither do we Luna," she said gently as she tried her hardest not to laugh, "Neither do we."

I giggled and Ginny bit her lip to stop herself from laughing. Luna suddenly laughed and then we all were laughing hard in the middle of honeydukes. I stopped laughing suddenly when I saw Draco walking into the Three Broomsticks.

"Summer are you alright?" Luna asked in her usual soft voice. I looked away from Draco and at her. She looked genuinely worried.

"Yeah I'm alright," I said smiling, "I'm just gonna go do something. I'll be back."

I ran out of the sweet shop and into the Three broomsticks. I saw Draco sitting alone again. I started to walk over to him, but my name was called.

"Hey, Summer!" I turned around and saw Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger sitting in a corner. I smiled and waved at them. Hermione was the one to call my name. I walked over to them and smiled.

"Hi," I said looking at each of them.

"Where's Ginny and Luna?" Ron asked, knowing I was usually with his sister and the crazy blonde.

"They're back in Honeydukes." I said sitting down next to Harry.

"How come you left them?" Harry asked taking a drink of his butterbeer. I shrugged.

"I came in here to talk to someone." I said.

"Oh well don't let us distract you," Hermione said, "Go on." I got up and walked back over to Draco's table. I knew the three were watching, which didn't help how nervous I was, as I sat down. Draco looked at me and scowled.

"What do you want?" he snapped.

"Um, I just wanted to say hi," I said timidly. I felt my face getting warm and I tried my hardest to make it stop.

"Hi," he said back quickly, "Now go away. I know Potter sent you over here." I frowned and looked back at the three friends who were gaping at me.

"No they didn't," I said gently. I was being surprisingly calm. I knew he could hurt some one pretty bad if he wanted to, "I can in here to talk to you. Hermione just caught my attention before I could come over."

"You're friends with Granger?" he spat. I nodded.

"What's wrong with that?" I asked frowning more at him.

"You really shouldn't frown," Draco said changing the subject. Was he actually being nice to me? I was a bit confused. He started to stand up, "You're too pretty for it."

And with that he put some money on the table for his drink before he walked away.

Did Draco malfoy just compliment me? A Muggle born Witch from Gryffindor house?

I didn't have much time to think about it because Ginny and Luna came in and sat down then.

"Who was it you wanted to talk to Summer?" Ginny asked leaning on her elbows against the table. I cleared my throat nervously.

"No-Nobody," I said, still very confused. I expected him to yell and scream at me to go away. I expected name calling and curses flying at me. I never expected him to actually talk to me. To actually compliment me. To be nice to me. He probably didn't know about me, otherwise I'd either be in the hospital wing by now or sobbing outside trying to find Luna and Ginny again.