Things Change (for Good Reasons)
Chapter 2: The Hogwarts Express
Just then, a mysterious-witch that resembled Malfoy walked up to them with a smug smile on her face and said, "Why it is Harry Potter and his friends! And look! There is Sirius Black! Would you two like a free ice cream sample?" (lol, Steffi wrote that "Thank you, thank you very much! I love this award!" she says taking a bow.)
They let out their breaths and each took one little sample cup.
"Mmm! This ice cream is great!" everyone mumbled in unison.
"What a moment!" Ron cried, just as he scooped a scoop of ice cream and observed it carefully. "How do we know that you did not put anything poisonous in it?"
Everyone spit out their bite of ice cream and stared at the witch inevitably. Ginny dropped her cup in the process.
"Well……um……here is a license for making ice cream!" The woman made a little card appear out of nowhere and showed it to every one of them.
Name: Jennifer Malfoi
Age: 43
License for: Ice Cream Making
Signed: Mr. Cornelius Fudge.
"Well…" Harry said, " I guess it is okay!"
They went on munching, like little duckies! (We know they do not munch, they quack.) Somehow, Ron read this story and he started quacking. Harry and Sirius realized what he was doing and followed suit. The girls just stared at them like they were carrying "crazy" diseases.
"Hermione! We best be going! Your father is waiting for us!" her mum called. She was covered with Hermione's school supplies.
"Be there in a moment mum!" Hermione called back. "Well, like my mum said. I best be going. I will see you all tomorrow at the Hogwarts Express! Cheerio! (lol)"
She ran over to her mum and waved goodbye to the quartet. As she and her mum walked to the portkey, some teenaged guys stopped and stared.
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*whoo* The Hogwarts Express was about to leave about to leave Platform 9 and three-fourths.
"Mum! Dad! I am going to miss the Hogwarts Express! I should have been on there thirty minutes ago!" Hermione exclaimed as her parents embraced her for the hundredth time.
"But sweetheart! This is your last year! Do you not want to make it memorable?" her father asked.
"For you, you mean!" Hermione cried dodging her mom. "I best be going now! I promise to owl every week, at least once! Cheerio Mum and Dad!" Hermione hurried onto the train right before it left.
She sighed with relief and found the compartment where Harry and Ron where sitting.
"Hullo guys," said Hermione as Ron and Harry gawked at her again.
"Uh…" Ron stuttered. "H-h-h-hi!!" he squeaked as Harry nudged him.
"Where's Ginny?" Hermione asked, noticing her missing friend.
"She found…some other friends to sit with," replied Harry.
Ron tried his best to not stare at Hermione, so, he stared out of the transparent window.
Suddenly someone approached their compartment and opened the screen door. It was no other than snotty, conceited Draco Malfoy *gasp!* and his trusty sidekicks Goyle and Crabbe *cough, cough*.
"So Potter, what happened to Mudblood Granger?" Malfoy sneered at the trio, "where is she?"
Hermione giggled. Malfoy suspiciously looked at her.
"Is this a new girl, Potter? Aren't you going to introduce us? Where are your manners?" Malfoy said with a horrible attempt to flirt.
"I am Hermione, dumbo," retorted Hermione between giggles.
"What?" asked Malfoy, bewildered.
"I am Hermione, dumbo," repeated Hermione.
"Wow!!!!!!" breathed Malfoy, "what happened to you?"
"I grew a couple of inches?" Hermione said, unsure of what to say.
Suddenly Malfoy remembered that he was supposed to be mean to "Mudbloods" so he said, "Have you had a complete magical makeover?"
Her cheeks burned as she struggled to find a reason to leave (A/N 2: Good one, Kat).
"I best be going. I must be in the Head Boy/Girl compartment at once," Hermione stammered, immediately standing up. She tried to get past Malfoy, but he wouldn't move.
"What a coincidence!!" Malfoy exclaimed with a hint of happiness in his voice.
"What?" Hermione stopped dead in her tracks.
Malfoy sneered and said, "I am Head Boy!"
Hermione looked at him strangely, wondering why he wasn't giving her an insult.
Draco noticed, so he spat, "Oh gawd, I have to be with a Mudblood!!"
Hermione glared at him. She was filled with anger, but she was pleased with herself that she knew that Draco was going to offend her.
Ron and Harry got splashed with his despicable spit and said in unison, "Give me an umbrella!!" (A/N 1: Good one, Steffi!)
Draco gave them "The Look" while Hermione confidently strolled away laughing with Draco trailing her like a lost puppy.
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McGonagall gave her "speech" about the hat, and the ceremony began. After the ceremony ended, Dumbledore made his "speech" about Filch and the Forbidden Forest and everything else, but this year, it was a bit different.
"And I would like to congratulate our new Head Boy and Girl. Ms. Hermione Granger? Mr. Draco Malfoy? Will you two kindly please stand up for the school to see?" he said.
Hermione stood up blushing like crazy. But then the "new" her took over.
"Stop blushing! You are supposed to be poised!" she told herself.
Draco, who was the total opposite of Hermione, stood up with a feeling of power (not the good kind) and bowed down really low.
Parvati and Lavender giggled to themselves as they whispered what a "cute" couple they would make.
"And I would like to acknowledge the school about Madame Hooch. We are very sorry to say that over the summer she has fallen her broom and she is in critical condition. She will not be teaching this year, but she will be back next year. Here, in her place this year is…
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Woopee! Another cliffy! And it is only our second chapter! Well, how did you like it? Please review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
beyond infinity – there! We just told you what she did! No, she is not Malfoy's lost sister, because she spells her name Malfoi. (A/N 1: I seriously thought it was funny when I made it up)
kickedoutofthegoblet – sorry about the cliffys, they are just so much fun. We know this chapter has a cliffy to, so we are extremely sorry, lol.
min.min.ah - look! We continued real soon!