Hello everyone! I'm writing this as I sit on my balcony in Florida! Since my condo has wi-fi I decided to post a chapter! There's going to be a longer A/N at the bottom.
The next few days passed uneventfully, Hermione easily slid into the routines at Hogwarts and she was growing to love all of her fellow housemates.
The Gryffindor towers were also very nice. She LOVED sleeping in her dorm and all of the girls with her were some of the nicest people that she'd ever met.
And she hadn't had any interaction with Draco since their argument, but she also hadn't received any angry letters and/or howlers from her parents either... strange.
And now she shuffled slowly beside Harry and Ron into the Great Hall for breakfast. The three of them had become closer and closer, and they always sat together at the Gryffindor table.
"What did we do in Potions yesterday? I forgot..." Ron's voice drew Hermione out of her thoughts. Even after 5 days of school, and first year nonetheless, their classes were extremely hard.
"Ron! Of course you did..." Hermione left out an over exaggerated sigh.
"So? What was it?"
"I suppose you'll find out when it's time for Potions."
"...Ugh."
This made Hermione smirk in pleasure. Oh no, maybe she did have some Slytherin in her after all...
She tuned out the conversation unintentionally as she snuck a glance at the Slytherin table, more specifically a certain blond at the Slytherin table. He was speaking enthusiastically at whatever it was they were talking about.
She looked over towards Pansy who sat next to him, she was also involved in the discussion but it appeared that she mostly listened and gave input every once in a while.
For a second she thought she made out one of them say her name, but she overlooked it, assuming she was wrong.
"... Listening?"
Hermione only caught the last of what Harry was saying to her, "Huh?"
He shook his head, "I asked if you were even listening."
"Obviously she wasn't!" Ron added.
I threw him a quick glare, "Sorry, I was just-"
"What were you looking at?" Ron interrupted.
He is being awfully annoying. Hermione couldn't stop herself from thinking, "Nothing! I was just, um, lost in thought..."
"Right." Ron once again stated.
This time she chose to ignore him and instead looked to Harry, "So what were you trying to say before?"
"Oh, I was just going to ask if you were going to finish that..." Harry confessed, gesturing to her full plate.
Of course...
It was time for Flying. Hermione's absolute least favorite part of the day. The whole hopping on a broomstick and gliding through the air thing just wasn't for her. And she wasn't too good at it either.
Madame Hooch sent out instructions as they practiced flying through enchanted rings before the exam tomorrow.
"Ugh, I just cannot do this!" Hermione exclaimed, to no one in particular.
Harry, already proving to be excellent at this, looked over his shoulder at her.
"You've almost got it!" He replied back to her, "Just keep your knees up, elbows in, and lean in more."
She did as told and it improved her movement, but she still found it hard.
Harry gave her one last meaningful glance and then turned back around and continued flying.
...
After around another torturous hour of flying, the class was over and Hermione began to catch up to Harry and Ron as they walked back inside. Until a voice beside her caught her off guard.
"I won't tell your parents."
Surprised, Hermione jumped a bit and turned her head to see the speaker. None other than Draco Malfoy.
"What?"
"They'll find out eventually but it won't be from me."
And with that, the blonde walked past her and left a very confused bushy-haired bookworm behind.
That night in the girl's dormitories, Hermione, Lavender, and Parvati sat cross-legged on Lavender's bed and talked for hours.
The began discussing the other students, and Lavender burst out...
"I think Ron is cute!" And then she jumped back and covered her face as if she'd just told them she was in love with Voldemort himself.
Hermione smiled and let out a girlish gasp. Parvati nodded in agreement.
"So... What do you guys think of the Slytherin's?" Parvati questioned, but her face gave away that she already had formulated a very clear, negative opinion of them.
"There all so mean!" Lavender exclaimed, "They say the word 'Mudblood' more than we say hello!"
"I heard a couple of them cornered Neville and hexed him!"
"And one of them pushed Seamus into the lake!"
"And a couple of the older ones have been setting Gryffindor's up in Potions and making their potions explode!"
Lavender and Parvati went back and forth for a while until they realized Hermione hadn't said anything since the Slytherin topic came up and they looked at her expectantly.
"Well, um... Maybe not all of them are that bad..."
That was answered with a screecy "WHAT?" from the both of them.
Lavender looked shocked, "Of course they're all bad! They're Slytherin's!"
"I'm with Lav on this one..." Parvati agreed.
"Well do you know every single Slytherin?" Hermione argued.
"No, but I know what most of them are like. Do you personally know a Slytherin that isn't bad?"
Hermione didn't think Pansy or Blaise was bad, once you knew them, and even though Draco had his moments he wasn't all bad either. But she wasn't going to tell them that.
"Uh, well... Um. No..." Hermione stuttered.
"Then in my mind they are, and always will be, evil." Lavender decided, crossing her arms as if to say 'this discussions over'.
So Hermione let it go and instead walked back to her back, "It's getting late, we should sleep."
And with that, the lights went out and three girls layed back in their beds and drifted off into a well needed sleep.
The next day Hermione gathered her stuff and walked out of the Charm's room as soon as the class was over.
"Hermione!" Harry called as he caught up with her, "Guess what!"
She gave him a smile and then answered with a "What?"
"Professor McGonagall made me the Gryffindor Seeker on the Quidditch team!"
"Oh Harry that's great! I'm sure you'll do amazing." Hermione encouraged.
"Hi guys!" Ron grinned as he fell into step with the duo.
Harry took a deep breath before saying, "I was thinking and, how would you both feel about exploring the castle. Tonight."
He sent them both hopeful looks but Hermione looked appaulled.
"Are you crazy? That's breaking like, ten school rules! We'll get into so much trouble! We'll probably be kicked out of Hogwart's!" She exclaimed.
"Well we won't get caught then." Harry stated assuringly.
"Sounds good to me!" Ron smiled, ever-so optimistically.
"No. Absolutely not. I won't go and I definitely won't let the two of you go!" Hermione refused.
"Come on Hermione, think of it as an adventure! And I'm going no matter what, and you don't want me to go alone and get hurt do you?"
Hermione hated the sympathy card Harry was playing. "Fine." She said and began walking away.
But she stopped before she was out of ear shot, and turned around. "But if we get expelled it's on your head."
Harry and Ron shared a grin and chased after her.
Well, I thought that was satisfactory, did you?
I started planning out each chapter, which will make it easier to write since I will already know what will happen. I think I've got 10 chapters done so far?
So, I just wanted to say that since I have to cover around 7 years in my story, since I started at the beginning, I'm not going to put everything that happened in the books and movies in my story. And also, It won't necessarily go in order. I had to change things and mix them around to fit the plot.
Another thing is, everything isn't going to be the most accurate account of what really happened, since I don't have the books/movies memorized. But I am trying to look things up if I'm not sure about something or if I don't know what happened.
Next, I recieved a review saying something along the lines of 'J.K. Rowling doesn't make mistakes. We recommend an AU label on this story.'
I wasn't sure how serious the review was but nonetheless, I am well aware that it wasn't a 'mistake' that was just how I chose to word it in my summary. And any Draco and Hermione story is AU.
And finally, I want to thank the first ten people to review this story!
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~~~~Elise~~~~