Chapter 4
Draco's POV
I looked over at the Gryffindor house table where Hermione was studying the staff table. After a minute she struck up a conversation with Ginny Weasley and Parvati Patil. For the first time in my life I wished I was sitting at the Gryffindor table.
"Drake, you're drooling," Blaise smirked at me.
"No I'm not," I muttered.
"Maybe not but you've been staring at her for the past five minutes."
"Shut up."
"Oh crap there's Pansy," Blaise whispered nodding towards the end of the table. Pansy looked up and down the table but apparently didn't see us because she sat down near a group of sixth year girls. I breathed a sigh of relief.
"D'you think she took the hint when we ditched her at the station?" Blaise asked.
"Nah, she's not gunna give up that quickly, she probably just couldn't see us."
At that moment Professor brought in the sorting hat and stool and everyone shut up as the doors opened and the first years entered. The sorting hat sang a new song, probably about the battle at the end of last year, I wouldn't know. I was staring at Hermione again. She was giving the hat her full attention as it began to sort through the midget first years. I watched as she cheered on the first new Gryffindor and barely remember to clap as a new Slytherin joined our table. Once the sorting was finished, McGonagall stood up to make the customary start-of-term speech, and I looked up at the head table. For the first time I noticed a witch I'd never seen before, she was probably the new DADA teacher. She seemed rather ordinary. McGonagall's speeches were very different to Dumbledore's, but they made a lot more sense to me, not that I was giving her my undivided attention. Hermione was and she was smiling. I registered vaguely that the new professor was called Clarke, before McGonagall sat down and food appeared. As we ate and talked I think Blaise noticed I was looked at Hermione, he was certainly smirking at me. I noticed Hermione was speaking to Parvati Patil quite a lot, I didn't know think were friends. After dinner Blaise and I got up and made our way out of the Hall with the rest of the school. We were just outside the door when I noticed Hermione and her friends were walking next to us.
"Hey," I said to her, smiling. God I probably looked like an idiot.
"Hi," she smiled back. I noticed some of her friends looked rather surprised, but I expected that.
"Well, uh," I was very aware that we were causing a hold-up in the crowd, "I'll see you around."
"Yeah, I guess so," She replied. She was still smiling. I remembered I'd just said goodbye so I turned and walked through the door leading to the Slytherin common room.
"Smooth," Blaise laughed once the door was shut behind us.
"Shut up," I muttered.
Sorry, this is a short one.
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