Ch 3 "Amazement And Many Questions"

When they got to the portrait in front of the Common Room, Dumbledore said the password,

which was "Chocolate Frogs". After said, the portrait door opened, and Hermione and Draco walked in

their new Common Room as Dumbledore said goodnight to them.

As they both got into the common room, both of them were amazed. There were two couches

on the far side of the room by the fireplace, where there was a fire burning right then. Then at the left of

the room, there was a huge bookshelf with a large supply of books. Hermione smiled when she saw all

those books.

Draco looked over at Hermione when she smiled about the books. And he just had to smirk at

her.

At that same instant, Hermione looked over at Malfoy when she saw him smirk at her.

"What are you smirking at, Malfoy? It's nothing new that I'm "Bookworm Granger", now is it?

"Well no. But everyone already knows you're the smartest witch in the school. Why are you

always reading when you already know pretty much everything we need to know? I mean my father

was always disappointed to know that …."Mudblood" got the highest grades. "

"Well Malfoy, its just before I started here, I didn't want to be unprepared. Since I never grew

up in this world until I came here to Hogwarts, I didn't know anything about this world at all. But when

I found out, I was extremely excited to learn about this new world I was about to enter. I was fascinated

about everything I read. And now its just a habit.

Why do you care so much anyway Malfoy? Its not like you're any different than your father

was. But now I think about it, you do seem different. But you insist nothing has changed, so I'll leave

it at that. I don't feel like arguing with you."

And with that she walked up the staircase that led to her room.

As she got into her room, she noticed how nice of a room it was. The walls were painted red

with a gold border. The floor was wooden. She also had a queen sized bed that had golden colored

sheets and a comforter that had a red rose print all over it.

"Wow! I love this room!"

Then Hermione could tell she was getting sleepy. So she put her purple nightgown on,

brushed her teeth, and washed her face in the bathroom. The bathroom was huge. It had two separate

sinks, a shower, a bath tub like in the prefect's bathroom, and a toilet. The floor was tiled green and

gold. After she was done in the bathroom, she left it and went back to her room. Then she finally

crawled into bed and fell to sleep within minutes not thinking about a certain Slytherin. Of course she

would never think that he was thinking about her, but he was.

When Draco finally went up to his room about ten minutes later, he liked his room too.

It had a wooden floor too. The walls were green with a silver snake border. The bed was king

sized with silver sheets, and a silver comforter with bits of green in them.

Draco was getting really tired too, so he got ready for bed in his green boxers and crawled into

bed and went to sleep.

But before he fell asleep, he was thinking of a certain girl, and how he still couldn't tell her the

truth. He knew that he was never like his father. Draco knew that how he treated Hermione was just an

act so his father wouldn't get upset with him. But in the past when his father got angry at him for

getting out of line, he would hurt him. So he always knew he had to put up an act, unless he wanted to

be beaten even more. He knew he should tell her, especially since no one was in the way of him fulfilling

his goal. It was tearing him up inside to think that he had always acted so cruel to her for the past six

years just because she was supposedly inferior to him.

But he knew she was one of the smartest witches of their time, and blood didn't have anything

to do with it. He knew she was a wonderful person, and he wanted to get to know her. But he knew he

would never get near her when she was around Potter and Weasely.

But someday soon I'll find a way to talk to her. I mean, we will have to work together a lot

dealing with Head prefect duties.

And he smiled to himself before he drifted off to sleep.