Chapter 2:
"It's Snape now…"
"You look so grown up!" Narcissa ran over and hugged me. Malfoy stepped forward with some flowers and two bottles of beer behind his back.
"Would you like to go and talk?" I nodded and we walked to my room. He chucked me a bottle and I took a swig.
"So why do you want to talk to me Malfoy?"
"I wanted to apologise, for everything… I have been a right arse for seven years and I hope I can prove to you that I never believed all of that muggle-born's are below me shit."
"I forgive you, and your mother. I know what she did. I know what you did, you could have told him it was Harry, you knew it was him. Your mum could have told him he was alive but she found out you were alive and that is all she cared about."
He looked as if he was going to say something but instead he just ran up and hugged me. His eyes then moved to my arm, where it had 'Mudblood' written upon it.
"Why don't you cover it up?"
"I'm not ashamed, it is just a word, it is what I am. I am a Mudblood!"
"Don't call yourself that. Plus in case you haven't noticed you're not…"
"Oh, yeah, I am a half blood though. My dad was a half-blood and my mum was a muggle."
"I will be seeing you at school then? I have been back for a little while this summer, helping to rebuild the place, a lot of us Slytherins have, and I found the room of requirement, I need a little help fixing it up though, I have got it to the stage where it is clean and ready to be transformed but it won't do it. Do you think you could help me. I am planning to host a lot of parties there and I was thinking maybe we could use it together. Use it to throw parties for everyone to enjoy. Even h-h-h-Hufflepuffs!" He did a mock shiver as if disgusted by the word.
"Yeah that would be fun. I have an idea. I'm going back a few weeks early we leave the day after tomorrow, you could come back with us and we could get it fixed and throw a party on the first night back. We'll need to make a secret passage from each dorm/ common room for 3rd years and above. That way they can all get to the parties but no one who is too young will be there. We should also tell people to bring ID, we could bring alcohol and then when we are not using it for parties we could just lock it to the others and we could just use it as a second common room for us and our friends!"
"WOW! You sound like you have been thinking like a Slytherin!"
"Yeah, well what can I say, I have been in close proximity to them for quite a while!"
"Hermione, Draco, Dinner is ready!" The twins shouted.
The day after tomorrow:
"Draco are you packed yet?!"
"Just!"
"How much have you packed! You pack more than most girls I know!"
"I got my Hogwarts letter yesterday, you're looking at your new headboy!"
"Congratulations! You're looking at your new headgirl!"
"This is going to be a great year!"
The next day:
"Ok, so what are we going to try first?" Draco asked me.
"It may sound stupid but I was thinking, start with the basics. REPARO!"
"I'll try it!" He concentrated and to my utter amazement and surprise I found that we were in an amazing room, it was like the great hall but there was a bar, a stage, tables on balconies, lights and music. There were even balconies that went outside. Then I remembered we needed the passageways so I thought about it and suddenly a group of rainbow coloured doors appeared.
"We need one to the kitchens so we can get food! I can get my hands on some drink from my house elf, before you ask, yes we pay them, and yes they are not enslaved!" We both laughed.
"I think we need to put our names up somewhere to just remind everyone who fixed this place! I think we should call it 'The Palace'" I concentrated and two plaques appeared. One with 'Draco Malfoy and Hermione Snape (Granger) on it, but there was one above that one said 'The Palace' on it massive grand writing.
"Yes, what a good idea!"
"Let's start planning this party!"
First Day Back:
I had felt a bit lonely sat without Harry and Ron but I still had Ginny and her friends. I had told them about the party and they had said they would come and Draco said that his friends were coming. So we stood and waited for these few people to come. We heard one of the doors open and saw Ginny and her friends coming out and then I saw Draco's friends come in. Ginny hurried over to me, her friends still at the door.
"We brought some extra people, by extra I mean everyone in Gryffindor who isn't a first or second year, we have our ID's so lead me to the bar! Who is DJing tonight?"
"It's a surprise!" It was in fact me, Draco was serving drinks and I was going to use his Quidditch jumper to hide my face until the very end of the night when I would reveal myself. Everyone was having bets on who it would be.
"Draco!" He hurried over to me.
"My friends have brought most of Slytherin and I have just seen most of Ravenclaw coming out of their door, Hufflepuff are on their way too! Put this on, we are going to turn off all of the lights when everyone gets in here then run to the front and I'll be at the bar. Then start playing and I'll turn the lights back on. I am only serving 5th years and above right?" I nodded and once everyone was in the lights went out and I ran towards the DJ station. I put my hood up and stuck it in place so no one could take it off until the end of the night.
I picked my first song off my laptop and then I put it on. It was 'Do the creep'. Suddenly the lights came on, I put mist on the bottom of the floor so no one could see their knees or under. The lights were going crazy, there were 4 colours, the colours of the houses.
"Welcome, to the Palace!" I shouted into my microphone and then I let everyone just dance. I noticed a that everyone 5th year and above was taking advantage of the alcohol. I saw Draco at the bar and I caught his eye from under my hood and he winked at me, I couldn't help but be thankful for his jumper and it's hood which kept him from seeing my blush.
It was nearly midnight and we had all been there since seven we had decided that, like in Cinderella, the party would stop at midnight. I played my last song and then I turned on the mic.
"So everyone has been betting on who I am tonight. I will tell you all once I have your honest opinion of it." Suddenly there were shouts of approval from the crowd and I couldn't help but smile. "OK, OK, thank you! I need to tell you something I am called Hermione Snape, I used to be called Granger but I made a certain discovery this summer." I pulled down my hood and a there was silence. Then there was a massive applause, wolf whistles and even a few winks.
"Thank you! Off to bed now, you need to get some sleep or else it will be pretty obvious that we didn't go to sleep at eight!" Everyone laughed and started to pack through their doors. I looked at Draco and we started to clean up. It took a little more than an hour to actually clean up so it was one when we were finished. I fell asleep on the stage so Draco picked me up and he carried me through our secret passageway to our heads quarters and then he put me down on my bed. He took my cardigan off and he put his jumper over me and put a blanket on top of me too.
I think I was dreaming but I think he said
"You don't know how much I love you Hermione Granger…"