A.N - Thanks for the positive reviews! Another short chapter, sorry. Will work on making them longer. Please review!

DISCLAIMER: If anything sounds familiar, it is JKR's words, not mine!

Hermione dug around in her trunk and pulled out her new Hogwarts robes and Hogwarts: A History. Her parents had bought it for her when Professor McGonagall took them to Diagon Alley to get her wand, robes and books for school a couple of weeks ago. As soon as she found out she was a witch, she had learned as much as she possibly could. She read extensively about the school, the houses and famous witches and wizards like Professor Dumbledore and Harry Potter. She was pleased to have Dumbledore be her headmaster, he seemed like a great wizard, even if slightly eccentric.

She quickly changed into her robes and settled down into a seat to read. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. She looked up to see the blond boy from the platform. She stood up and opened the door, inviting him in. He took the seat opposite her in the window.

"Hi" she said.

"Hello" he replied. "I'm Draco Malfoy."

"Hermione Granger."

"Thats a nice name." he looked very uncomfortable, he was shifting about in his seat. "Are your parents muggles?" he blurted out. Having come across the term while reading, she knew what it meant.

"Yes, they're dentists." she replied tentatively.

"What's a dentist?" he asked eagerly.

"They look after people's teeth" she responded, slightly confused as to how someone could not know what a dentist was.

They sat in silence for a bit before they started talking about houses. "I want to be in Slytherin, like my parents" Draco said.

"Well, from what I've read, Gryffindor looks by far the best, so I think I would want to be in that."

Before he could reply, there was another knock on the door. A round faced boy stood there, almost in tears before asking "Have you two seen a toad? I've lost mine"

Draco sneered at the boy, but Hermione quickly replied "No, we haven't, but I can help you look for him if you would like?"

"Thank you so much!"

She followed him out of the compartment. "I'm Neville by the way."
"Hermione" she answered.

"Thanks for your help, Hermione! See you later!"
"Bye"

Hermione started walking down the train, asking people in various compartments if anybody had seen a toad. She continued like this for a while, until she came to a compartment where a red headed, freckled boy was talking excitedly with another boy with untidy, black hair, broken glasses and a lightning bolt scar.

Hermione knocked and entered the compartment. "Have you seen a toad? A boy named Neville lost one."

The redhead glanced at her before replying quickly "No"

It was then that she saw a battered wand raised, pointing at a fat, old rat snoozing on his lap. "Are you doing magic?" she asked, excited to see how the spells she had practiced at home compared to other people's. "Let's see it then"

The spell he used was much longer than any spells she had learned, and she wondered if anything would happen. There was a flash of light, but the rat still looked the same to her. "Are you sure that's a real spell? Well, it's not very good, is it?"

She couldn't resist showing off her skills, she had always been very competitive growing up. Before she knew what she was doing, she had fixed Harry Potter's glasses, and mentioned something about learning the set books by heart, and the dirt on the red head's nose, whose name, she had learned, was Ron Weasley, and had walked out of the compartment and back to her own. Draco was no longer there. Slightly disappointed, Hermione sat down and continued to read Hogwarts: A History.