Disclaimer: as you can see I am not JK Rowling and I do not own any of the characters that are recognizable, those that aren't recognizable are completely mine. By the way the characters in here may be a little AU I have warned you
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Chapter 4: The Friends
The morning came fast and I felt that I had barely anytime to sleep. Of course I went to bed at like 2 in the morning. But still it felt early, I got out of the comfort of my warm bed and immediately the cold air hit my body. I scrabbled quickly to the washroom to find it already occupied. I was frustrated because the whole reason why I got up this early everyday was so I wouldn't have to wait for the bathroom but that was with Lavender and Parvati... that's when you need to get up before them or else you don't get it before class at all.
"Morning Hermione" Draco said coming out of the bathroom "are you always up this early?"
"Good Morning Draco" I said "yes I am, I shared a dorm with Lavender and Parvati, they take hours in the morning"
"Really?!" he said intrigued
"Was I not supposed to say that?" I asked him, I really wasn't sure about the whole girly rules. "Don't tell anybody Draco, I'm serious."
"Fine, fine, I won't tell," he said "Bathroom is all yours" he walked to his room and I didn't even notice that he was only wearing a towel around his mid section while we were talking. I stood there gawking at his retreating body. "Something wrong?" he asked turning around.
"Nothing, it's just I can't get over the fact so soon that you are being so nice to me, that's all"
"That, Hermione was a terrible excuse" he said, he looked at me weird almost like he caught at something. Which well he did. But he was not going to know that. I turned and walked into the head bathroom. I did my morning routine, have shower, wash face, brush teeth, magically straighten hair etc. then I walked over to my room to get ready for the first day. I put on my uniform and noticed something really different, first of all my uniform was huge on me, like three sizes to big.
"What is going on?" I asked myself , these are the same robes I wore every year since first year, there is no way they are big on me, if anything they should be small on me" I talked to myself. "sigh" I said yes I actually said sigh. I did a spell to my uniform to make them fit me just right, usually I would wear my uniforms one size to big that way I would not get any looks that I did not want from the boys but since it is my last year and the last chance I will have to date people I spend everyday with before the workforce I better do something quick. Over the summer I had invented a bunch of everyday spells to help me with the little things, hair straightening was one of the major ones I noticed that my hair went three inches longer than normal if it was straight. As well during the summer I received a lot more looks from when I was Hermione with straight hair to when I was Hermione with bushy hair. Every year I have to fix these robes, I guess it's time for some new ones. I looked in my full length mirror and almost screamed.
"Hermione? Are you decent? We have to talk about something" I heard Draco at the door.
"Yeah come on in" I said slowly.
I heard the door knob turn and the door whoosh open "Oh My God" were the only words I heard from him. "What did you do? It looks great, not that you didn't look good before but wow!!!" he said.
"Nothing really" I said trying to keep my cool, but he looked at me like I knew I was lying "I just straightened my hair, and adjust my uniforms to fit me properly" I explained "does it look bad?" I fished for compliments.
"No not at all, in fact stay like this; you will scare the shit out of Potter and Weasley. Not to mention Pansy and all other girls in our year." He said still staring at me.
"Draco snap out of it, if it is this bad I will change it back," I said and waved my hand in a circular motion around my head, I felt my hair get heavier and he snapped out of it. "That's better. Now what was it that you wanted to talk about?"
"Well my friend owled me this morning and he wants to see the head dorm and since we need permission from both heads I have to ask you first before I tell him"
"Who is it?" I asked "it better not be Crabbe or Goyle, or Nott"
"It's not." He said "I'm not an idiot"
"Who is it then?"
"Blaise" he said
"Who?" I asked "Oh Zabini, I guess so, wait is he one of the mean ones?"
"No he's like me I guess, he's my best friend" he said "let's compromise if you allow me to have Zabini in here I will allow Little Weasley in here" he explained "Deal?"
"Deal. I guess I will write up a permission note for Blaise" I said to him and scribbled down a little permission note "I, Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy allow Blaise Zabini into the Head Hallway" I said out loud and he nodded and I scribbled another one for Ginny "now we both have to sign them" I said and we both signed them now you give that one to Blaise and I will give this one to Ginny" he left my room and I quickly put my hair back. I grabbed my bag and my books and headed for breakfast.
I received many looks while I walked down the halls and the basically the whole hall when I opened the doors, I could see Draco sniggering watching everyone's face at the look. I walked over to Ginny Harry and Ron and sat down. "Morning guys"
"Hermione what did you do to your hair, it looks great" Ginny said immediately
"Thanks, it's just a little spell" I said "does it really look good I mean basically the whole hall is speechles"
"Hermione you look completely beautiful" Ginny said loudly. "So did you have a good night?"
"No, it was terrible when I was on patrol I had this huge feeling that I was being watched the whole time and it didn't stop until I was done it was so creepy I kept turning around to see who was behind me, Malfoy thought I was going insane" I explained
"I see that really does suck Hermione"
"You boys wouldn't know anything about that would you?" I asked Harry and Ron who still looked gobsmacked. "Boys"
"It was Harry" Ron blurted out
"Ron!!" Harry exclaimed
"Harry!!" I said loudly "Why would you think anything would happen, how could you? I told you yesterday that I can take care of myself, and do you really believe that you have to watch over me for every second of every damn day" I exclaimed "I was going to show you my dorm but no now you will never see it" I said "C'mon Gin" I got up and walked away having Ginny trail after me.
"Hermione you know that he didn't mean it right?"
"Ginny, listen, it wasn't just on patrol, it was all of yesterday, when we were on the train they just showed up while I was trying to rest, Malfoy and I were actually having a civil conversation until they showed up" I explained we walked over to the trophy room.
"What are we doing in here Hermione?" she asked and I grabbed the slip out of my bag and handed it over "I Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy allow Ginny Weasley into the Head Hallway" she read aloud. "Oh my god, there's a hall way there" I smiled and started walking down the hallway. I stopped and turned I felt someone trailing behind me and I was right Harry and Ron were right there staring at us, but what they saw were a bunch of trophies. "Weren't they just right here?" Harry asked.
"What is it with you, why are you watching over Hermione so much?" Ron asked
"Well I have to" he said
"Why" Ron asked "it's not like you're her guardian or something"
"No, but she is rooming with Malfoy, this is Malfoy we are talking about"
"Why can't you accept the fact that she can take care of herself" Ron said "Whoa, where did that come from?" he asked himself Harry laughed "c'mon let's go to class we will ask her there" he said and they walked away. We turned and walked around to mine and Draco's portrait.
"Whoa, is that you two?" she asked I rolled my eyes "well I mean wow, your up there in a portrait and your not bickering"
"That is not all Ginny" my portrait said
"They have our memories too" I explained before "I" could finish speaking. They swung the portrait open and we walked inside.
"Oh my god" she said when we walked in,
"C'mon up to my room" I said.
Draco's POV
"What was that all about?" Blaise asked
"I really do not know, nor do I care" I said "it's just Granger and her stupid friends"
"Granger? Since when do you call her Granger?" Pansy asked
"Oh we were forced to be civil to each other, or else we would lose our power, so to me she is Granger and from her to me I am Malfoy, her friends though are a completely different story I have no rules against them" I explained, and Pansy sniggered
"So are you going to show us your dorm?" Pansy asked once she stopped laughing
"No" I said and she pouted "Nope it's a rule, both of the Heads have to agree to have the person in the dorm, and there is no way Granger is going to agree to let you in. by the way, Blaise you my friend are allowed in"
"What?" he asked "How did you manage that?"
"A simple exchange" I said simply "Granger made me agree to have her friend in the dorm if she allowed me to have a friend"
"And you chose Zabini?" Pansy said shocked
"She chose Zabini, my choices were you Pansy, Crabbe, Goyle and Zabini" I said "she said hell no to you three and she doesn't even know Zabini so she reluctantly said him"
"I see, I'm so sad Drakey, we were supposed to share the dorm together why did the mud-blood, have to get it"
"Because she is smart and you are a worthless piece of shit" Blaise said to her I had to hold back my laughter, "C'mon Draco I want to see this amazing dorm that the Heads are rumoured to have" he said and pulled me to the hall way, there I burst out laughing.
"Oh man that was awesome, you don't know how hard it was to hold that back"
"I know man, I figured the sooner you get out of there the better" he said and we walked to the trophy room. Just outside the room though we heard potter and Weasley in there talking, apparently she was right and they were keeping tabs on her and trailing her. "What are we waiting for?"
"We have to wait until they leave" I told him, and he stopped asking questions, Potter and Weasley were leaving so we had to completely go against the wall, besides they were too preoccupied as to where Granger went. "Don't" I said slowly as they passed "Cause Attention" once they were out of sight we moved, "come in here, face this wall and read this out loud" I told him and handed him the paper, he read it and the hallway opened up. We walked through it and stopped at my portrait.
"Draco you may not want to go in there at this time" my portrait said
"Why not?" I asked "I know Hermione is in there with her friend if that is what you are warning me about" they both nodded and opened the portrait. We walked in and he looked around.
"It isn't as I expected but I will be spending plenty of time here so I better get used to it" he said and smirked
"Yeah in your dreams"
"Oh I don't doubt it" he said looking at Hermione and Weasley coming down the stairs. I looked at him strangely.
"Good morning Draco, Zabini" Hermione said to us
"Morning Hermione" I replied and both Weasley and Blaise looked at us weird.
"A truce" she said
"In here we are Draco and Hermione, we are in no danger here from anything" I said Blaise nodded "so we have decided to be civil to each other even more so to help our work go along so much smoother, this way we aren't always disagreeing on things." They both nodded. "This stays in here though, outside Head Hallway we are Malfoy and Granger" they nodded again. I looked at the clock "Oh my god Blaise, Hermione we have to get to class"
"I have a spare first thing I am good but I'll get going I have to finish breakfast" she said. "Do we have to read the paper every time we want to come down here?"
"I don't think so but keep it just in case you try to come back later and you can't see the hallway" Hermione said "wait what do we have first?"
"Potions" I said and her eyes went huge
"Ginny I have to go I will see you after, I must not be late" she said and ran out of the room.
"What was that about?" I asked
"Snape hates any Gryffindors no matter how well they do in his class, if we are even a second late we get docked, it is very hard" she explained "Have fun in potions" she said and left
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