Draco lay in his bed that night and for once his head wasn't running a hundred miles per hour. Instead all he could think about was how cute Hermione looked when her cheeks blushed rose and the sound of her giggle, that Draco was convinced he could hear for an eternity and would never get bored of it.

He ran there conversation over and over again in his head. He never in a million years thought she would talk to him let alone trust him. He thanked Snape in his head.

He suddenly had a burning desire to go to Snape's room at one in the morning, so he got out of bed without thinking, he pulled on his emerald jumper his Mother had gotten him and rushed to Snape's quarters.

He banged on the door loudly. "Snape, Snape quick I've got to talk to you before I explode" He shouted over the sound of his loud knocking.

He heard a grunt from the other side of the door, and the fall of bare feet on the floor. Snape pulled the door open and looked, disbelievingly, at the bouncing blond boy outside his door. He gestured inside. Draco entered, trying as hard as he could to keep himself calm. He sat on a old sofa by Snape's fireplace.

"What do you want Draco, I was actually asleep for once and you woke me up, this better be good" He said, a little slower and lazier than usual. His grogginess was apparent.

"It's a miracle Severus, she talked to me, she actually talked to me and she agreed to talk to me in front of Potter and Weasly, She even blushed at me, and you should hear her giggle it's the most beautiful sound I have ever heard..." Snape put a hand over Draco's mouth and muffled the sound. Draco took a while to realise what was happening.Without taking his hand of Draco's mouth he begain to speak.

"Right, I can see it went well, but next time you interrupt me when I'm asleep to tell me you talked to a girL. I will force you to make a Daught of Fart, Its almost unbearable to make because of it's smell. Then I will then force you to take it, you won't be able to stop farting long enough to talk to her." He slowly brought his hand down from Draco's mouth.

"But Severus she blushed at me, I told her she had cute giggle and she blushed scarlett" He smiled unwavering at Snape angry face.

" You have issues boy, OK well what is the plan now, have you got one" He asked. He looked at Draco's face and couldn't help feeling happy for the boy. Since Draco started at Hogwarts, Snape had looked out for him. He never understood why Draco behaved the way he did, but never questioned him on it . When Draco needed his help, he gave it. He had meet Draco's father, He understood why Draco was so out of depth when it came to common communication. The only people he had been around since he was little was death eaters and death eater's children, When it came to socialization Draco was extremely lacking the right experiences.

"Snape I think this is what is going to make me happy and maybe normal, Hermione is the most down to earth girl in Hogwarts, no other girl here understands the world the way she does. She see's everything as it is and can learn fast enough not to mess any of it up. I just hope she helps me and I don't hold her down" He looked to the floor, this thought had clearly been on his mind for a while. Snape knelt in front of Draco.

"Look at me boy, you will not let your self drag her down, I've seen you and I know that if this is what you need and your recognize that you of all people won't mess that up. Look at the inquisitorial squad, you where determined to help find them and you did, you might have subconsciously done it to save Hermione in fact if you think on it." Snape said trying to lift the boy's spirits again. " And she blushed at you, that means she really likes you, Draco, Hermione Granger doesn't just blush at anything. She gone through more stressful and emotional situations than all the girls in Hogwarts. She would only get embarrassed if she felt that she had been embarrassing, and you made her embarrassed , your on a good track, your next move is just talk, Girl who are intelligent love to talk, she probably suffers with trust issues as well like you, but unless you give her reason not to trust you she will in the end trust you completely and with her life, I've watched her's and the boy's relationship flourish, until those two proved that she could trust them, she didn't, but now she trusts Harry to put her in a situation more dangerous than any other student in the school has been in, and she trusts him to get her back alive, even when Harry doesn't believe it himself"

"Thanks Snape, to be honest you've been more of a Dad to me than my own Father, and I trust you with my life, I was wondering if me and Hermione work out, will you help me tell my Dad about not wanting to be a death eater, I only ask because he is scared of you, you don't need to worry he doesn't plan on doing anything until the end of summer, but please Hermione would never forgive me if I was a death eater"

" Draco, I love you like a son, A really annoying, bouncy, uncontrollable son. If you feel that way about being a death eater I have no qualms about coming to your house and stopping your father from ruining your life, like he did his own" He looked Draco in the eye for a second and patted him on his back.

"Now tell me what happened" Snape said getting up from his knelt stance and sat next to Draco. Draco started to tell Snape what happened. When he had finished gushing over Hermione it was 4 in the morning and becoming light outside Snapes tiny window. Snape sat there silent after his story taking in Hermione's reaction to Draco, he had been just as surprised as Draco, when he had told him she had said she wanted to get to know Draco.

"I'm warning you now boy, don't mess this up, now off to bed with you, Its four in the morning and I have first years first thing in the morning, I almost killed Dumbledore for that." He smirked, he hurried Draco out of his room and closed the door. Draco stood outside the door for a few seconds to recollect himself before going back to bed. When he arrived back he realized that he had just spent two hours on a two minute conversation. This was when he realised He had caught it bad.

He was so in trouble with his parent when they found out.