Hello everyone, I'd just like to thank you all for all the great reviews, it's really great that you all like it! I'm not going to be writing this chapter as Hermione and Draco, it will just be in Hermione perspective but you will still get Draco's thoughts.

So here's the third chapter!

HERMIONE

Her and Draco had been following McGonagall for what must have been 10 minutes, Hermione didn't mind though, she just hoped they could get to it soon so she could explore. She looked around herself, the walls were covered in paintings she'd never seen before, she recognised most of the people in them, or could at least guess whom they were, and the walls were lined with candles, 4 on each stand, one red, one blue, one green and one yellow, the red ones flame burned a passionate gold, whereas the yellow candle flamed black, the blue and green candles burned silver. Eventually they came too a stop in front of a portrait of a slug and a snail hurling abuse at each other

"I'm onnnn get chu!" the snail cried, it was wearing a helmet, comically slung over its antenna

"Come get me!" the slug retorted

At that, the snail began sliding at the speed of a dead sloth towards the slug, McGonagall coughed lightly, the battling creatures looked around in terror, but then they let a gasp out

"Minerva! What a pleasant surprise!" the snail chirped

"Indeed… Helga, Arnold" McGonagall nodded at the creatures as a greeting at which they looked very proud

"Mr Malfoy, Ms Granger you must choose a password, and it will be unable to change unless both of you are there to confirm it, okay?" She said in a thick Scottish accent as she turned to face the teenagers. They grunted there replies and she took off briskly down the corridor.

"Password?" the slug, newly identified as Arnold asked

"How about…" Hermione bit her bottom lip in concentration

Draco felt his shoulders untense as he watched her, as soon as he realised what he was doing he hunched over in an attempt to look natural

"Are you okay?" Hermione asked raising an eyebrow

"Uh yeah…" he replied

"You looked like you were gonna hurl…" she said flatly

A little taken aback he didn't reply

"Password!!" Arnold cried obviously annoyed

"Oh yeah… umm toasties!?" Hermione suggested

"What's a toastie?" Draco asked

"No time for chit chat! Your password is toastie!" Arnold voiced over the pair, Hermione shrugged and the portrait swung open and she entered gracefully.

The room had a fireplace, the flame burned in green and silver; around it were lots of little red and gold candles. Just outside the fireplace was a plush sofa, black with red cushions, and then there were two chairs, one black and green, and the other in different shades of red. Behind the chairs was a desk, with one chair inside it; next too it was a bookshelf full of different sized texts and books. A small kitchenette was also attached; it had a large table with 6 chairs, a mini fridge and a few cupboards and counters. It looked cosy. All around the room was a pale fluffy carpet, and the walls were bricked, two of the walls were coloured a pale shade of green; it looked pleasant against the furniture.

Leading off that room were three doors, on one door, the furthest to the right, were the initials D.M and on the door furthest to the left were the initials H.G, the door in the centre was bare.

Hermione looked around and smiled, the fire looked warm and she instantly felt this room was a third home, she carried on walking to the door with her own initials on it, she opened the door.

As she walked in a huge rush of lavender hit her, she smiled it was her favourite flower. Two walls were cream, and the other two were red. The carpet was also red and plush, beneath her feet it tickled slightly as she walked over to the bed. Her bed was big and wooden, it was king sized and she has silk red sheets on it, her pillows were fluffed and patterned, next to her bed was a vase of lavenders, along with a book. Hermione picked it up and chuckled lightly

"Hogwarts, A History"

She placed it back down and looked at the rest of her room. There was a big wardrobe with her clothes already in it, and a desk with a chair and a mirror. She liked it here, closing her eyes she lay on her bed and gently drifted off to sleep.

The young women awoke and rubbed her eyes, she yawned and stretched

How cliché she thought and smiled too herself, she stood and realised she was still in her clothes from yesterday. She looked at her reflection, taking her wand from her bedside table she tamed her hair into a messy pony tail and concealed a small spot right on the end of her nose. Hermione opened her wardrobe and took out a regular shirt, a grey V-neck jumper with a red line following the V and a black skirt. Wanting to get a bite to eat before class she undressed quickly and put her shirt on, then her jumper, pulled her skirt up, put her tights on then realised she hadn't got her tie on, she quickly did it round her neck and smiled at her reflection, happy enough she slipped her shoes on and left the room.

She closed her door silently, hoping not to disturb the sleeping Malfoy on the sofa, but she tripped over his polished shoe

"AHH-SHI" She scrunched her face up in my pain and hopped around, Draco sat up and blinked a few times.

"Granger… why the fuck did you wake me… Is that your mudblood tribal dance or something?" he grumbled

Hermiones heart pulled when he called her that, it was nothing new, whenever anyone called her that she'd feel awful, she just looked at him then left the room silently.

God I'm an idiot!

Why are you an idiot?

Now she'll never like me!

Ooh, Look its 'I don't even like her' Malfoy admitting he wants her to like him, Ahhh young love!

I don't care if she doesn't like me, she's mudblood granger

Whatever you have to tell yourself.

I'm not telling myself I already know!

Well why do you keep saying you like her.

I don't!

Malfoy just blinked, then went back to sleep.

"God, Gin I don't think I can stand him, he had his stupid black shoe on the floor and I tripped over it and then he-"

"HERMIONE!" Ginny shouted over her friends' rambles

"I don't care – can you just shut up for two minutes!" She cried

Hermione looked at her friend, the confusion evident on her face

"Uh-I'm sorry Ginny, I didn't realise I was uh – upsetting you"

"Yeah… whatever"

"Ginny! Talk to me, are you okay!?"

"Yes Hermione, just don't talk to me!" and with that the fiery red head stormed out the main hall, leaving a confused and upset Hermione in her tracks.

Draco was about to enter the main hall when Ginny bumped into him, he was about to yell to her about her orange hair but she began talking quickly

"I'm sorry Mal-Draco," she said sweetly

Taken a-back by her random act of civilisation he just smiled and carried on.

What the- he thought, but he just kept on walking, his eyes drifted over to a rather flustered looking Hermione Granger, wiping her eyes and staring at the door. He couldn't really think why, and it wasn't that he cared either.

The rest of the day went by until Transfiguration, it was the first Transfiguration lesson of the year, so Hermione was there early, not that she wasn't early all the time, but she was extra early today. She took her usual seat by Ron, he pecked her cheek and she gave a smile so false a blind person would've known she was acting, unfortunately Ron wasn't blind, so he just grinned and looked towards the front. McGonagall turned from the board, at which she had been writing, no one could see what was on the board, as she had cast a covering charm over it.

"Welcome back class, Now every other year you have been able to pick your partners in my lesson, but this year I feel it best that I pick." Groans could be heard through out the class.

"Now Now! Now, listen when your name is called sit next to your partner, I will begin

"Elizabeth Benson – Neville Longbottom

Millicent Bullstrone – Harry Potter

Blaise Zabini – Padma Patil

Seamus Finnigan – Vincent Crabbe

Dean Thomas – Greggory Goyle

Ronald Weasley - Pansy Parkinson

And Finally

Hermione Granger – Draco Malfoy"

People whined but knew better than to start on McGonagall so just trudged over to their partner

"Why you…." Hermione whispered

"Not my fucking fault Granger" he retorted

He heard me?

Hermione sat next to Draco, on the furthest away part of her chair from him a scowl on her face. Eventually the lesson came to an end, and McGonagall set them homework, turning 4 beetles into 4 rats, one white, one ginger, one black, and one all three colours, too be eventually fed too a COMC subject Hagrid was working on. Hermione put the beetles into the plastic case and left the room silently as soon as they were dismissed.

So that's your third chapter up, now here's the important bit, I need to know if people want the Romance quickly, or for it to blossom, because in this chapter I've based it on my personal experience, so I just want to know if you guys would like it too keep coming as what happened to me and let the romance blossom, or would you prefer if in the next chapter Hermione begins to like Draco and possibly Draco take tease Hermione a bit on the subject. Just need to know. Thanks and please review to tell me which you'd prefer.