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The train, once again finally came to a halt, the rush to get off of the train was as excitable as ever, I once again almost lost my friends on the way out, I only just managed to stay with them, thanks to Ron who was pulling me along, after saying a short hello to Hagrid, he led the first years off towards the boats, like them I looked up at Hogwarts in awe, the lit up windows standing out against its silhouette like the stars in the night sky, it was beautiful, you'd of thought that you couldn't see this again and again, and still be hit with the same impact as the first time, but that so wasn't true with Hogwarts, it was truly a magical place. We followed the other crowds towards the carriages that were as always it seemed being pulled by the thestrals that most people could now see, having witnessed death in the battle of Hogwarts. It was sad seeing everyone's normally excitable faces sink with sadness.

I pushed this thought aside pulling myself into one of the carriages, after Luna and Ginny; the boys were finally being gentlemen and letting us in first. The wind had picked up a bit by the time we reached the castle and ambled into the great hall, I sat down at the Gryffindor table beside Ron and Neville, opposite Harry and Ginny, before looking up at the professors that overlooked us. Again I was filled with sadness, and my eyes began to fill with tears, even though he died at the end of my sixth year, this was the first time I had been here, at the start of a year, without professor Dumbledore standing at the front with his glittery blue eyes. And another face was missing too, Snape, who after everything was a truly amazing wizard and I couldn't help but miss him.

I looked around the hall, trying to take my mind off of everything, and yet I remembered the last time I'd been in here, surrounded by the dead bodies of people I had loved, Tonks, Lupin, Fred, Colin, Lavender, well of course I didn't exactly love lavender, but she didn't deserve to die. And then the pale face of Draco Malfoy came into view, he was looking full of guilt and sadness, taking in the walls, that weren't quite fully repaired to their previous glory. I stared at him in shock. Draco Malfoy could feel guilt? And then he caught me looking, and glowered at me. Okay maybe not. I then realised that I had to take the passwords and patrol rotas to him to hand out half of them. I decided to wait until after the feast.

Professor McGonagall then ushered the first years into the hall, the sorting hat was sitting on the 3 legged stool that I had once sat on, at the front of the hall, the first years took in the enchanted ceiling and the candles, they looked nervous and excited, and I remembered when I had done it. The sorting hat began to sing its song, and then sorted each student into its correct house, once my hands were tired of clapping and my voice was sore from cheering the sorting ceremony was complete and once again glorious food began to fill up the plates on the table, pumpkin juice filled our goblets and smiles filled our faces, although we didn't talk much, our mouths were too full.

Ron was still eating long after I'd finished so I took this time to take the papers over to Draco, he didn't look happy to see me approach his table, which actually looked very bare, due to losses from the battle of Hogwarts.

"What do you want Granger?"

"Malfoy, I just needed to give you these papers." I thrust them into his unexpecting hands "you need to tell the Hufflepuff and other Slytherin prefect their common room passwords, I'll do the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws, and then you need to give them their patrol rotas."

"What? Why can't you do it?" he said, clearly annoyed by the fact that I was bothering him, at his house table, in front of all of his friends, they were all looking at me with the same expression, I blushed when I realised this, but pretended to ignore them.

"Because, Malfoy, I am not going to do everything, I have to prepare for my N.E. and I have other things to do, so you are going to do your fair share of the work, or so help me I will make sure that no Slytherin will ever be head boy again!" I said into his sneering face, he was clearly laughing at me in his head, but I couldn't have cared less, how dare he, I wasn't going to do everything for him, Draco Malfoy had been a good student, he was smart, he could be hardworking if he wanted to, so he was perfectly capable of giving some prefects their passwords. Instead of approaching my own table on the far side of the room, I approached Luna at her table and handed her a three slips of paper, two of which were patrol rotas for her and her fellow Hufflepuff prefect and the other had the password. Then I took my seat back at the Gryffindor table, where my friends all looked at me with the same eyes, pity, they had clearly heard my little moan at Draco. Had I really been that loud?

"I'm sorry Hermione; it's so unfair how you have to share a room with him." Said Ginny, she squeezed my hand affectionately.

"Hang on, this isn't such a bad thing, if Malfoy's up to something, then it's not going to slip past you Hermione, this is brilliant!" said Harry, and it did make sense. And yet Ginny was hitting him with a book, not hard but in an irritated way. Ron was gawping at her.

"Harry, why the hell would you think that? We've just had one war, we don't want another!" she said whilst doing it.

"No Ginny! I didn't mean it like that! It's to prevent another war. If the death eaters are up to something then we'll know about it and we can report it to McGonagall!"

"That's actually good thinking!" muttered Ron; he'd finally finished his food. I laughed at him, he had cream on his nose, I wiped it off affectionately and he grinned at me.

Then McGonagall gave a classic welcoming speech, announcing the regular rules about the forbidden forest and such and introducing our new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher, who turned out to be Bill Weasley. It was a shock to everyone but more so us. We didn't know anything about it and we'd pretty much seen him every day over the summer! He stood there proudly at the front smiling at everyone then grinning at us. And then we were able to leave for the common rooms.

"Gryffindor, follow us!" I called with Ron and they actually listened to us! I loved having the power of a Hogwarts Prefect. I grinned at Ron who laughed at me as we led them across the moving staircases to the Gryffindor common room. I had to leave once I got there, so I quickly told Ron the password which was snitch and kissed him lightly on the cheek before going to the heads dorm. I got there before Draco, even though we had to be in our rooms in a few minutes. The room was beautiful, the tapestry round the room was a navy blue set, glittering with starts and moons, the room was oval shaped, there was a roaring fire along one wall with patchwork armchairs set around it. The shelves and walls were decorated with portraits of past head's and silver candlesticks. There was a long bookshelf on the other side of the room, it was high up and a grand piano and a desk were situated alongside eachother below it. It was perfect. The only problem being was that I had to share it with Malfoy, who had now entered the room, he took it in, in a similar was to how I did, although with less expression, and then he saw me and said "Why the hell are you just standing there Granger?"

"Okay we're going to sort this out now. If you can't be civil to me, then you can stop talking to me, we have to share a dorm for Merlin's sake, although I don't want to as much as you do, we are going to get through this year without having so much as a duel, so can you please either be civil or ignore me completely!"

He looked shocked at my little outburst, and then composed himself and said "okay Granger, fine!"

"Well which one is it?" I said, irritated now.

"Havent decided!" he said before ambling off up the staircase and approaching a door which was labelled 'Draco Malfoy'.

"Well you better work it out!" I called after him before doing exactly what he'd just done.

Once inside my room, I was happy to see that it was decorated with my familiar Gryffindor colours, the bed had a thick patchwork quilt on it, I put my possessions away, changed into my pyjamas and crashed into the bed, exhausted from the number of outbursts I'd had today.

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