The response to Chapter 3 was amazing so I decided to write Chapter 4 and post it today. I hope you all enjoy it!

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They walked back in complete silence, Draco walking a few steps in front of Hermione as multiple times she had walked the wrong way. They finally got to the entrance of the maze and back to the pool area in her backyard.

Hermione's mom ran up to them, :Oh dear, are you all right? We saw you run off?"

"No, not really. This is all so new to me. I guess I expected everything to be the same when I came back from Australia, but I was wrong. It will take some time but I am sure that I can get used to all these snakes hanging around," she said with a hint of a smile on her face,

"We will all be here for you Hermione. We are your family and we love you."

"Thanks mom" she gave her mom a hug.

Her mother felt ears in her eyes, "Why don't you go with Draco and go properly meet the other kids." her mother shooed them back to the pool house.

Hermione followed Draco into the pool house and she was immediately pulled into the arms of her best friend, "Mione, are you okay? We saw you run away. I wanted to go after you but Malfoy stopped me." Harry said and they went and sat down on a couch.

"He did? He told you not to come after me?"

Harry nodded, "He said he thought he should be the one to go after you so he could explain his side of the story to you. I know this is hard to believe, but they are nice people Mione. They may be pricks most of the time, but it is all for show, or when sticking up for other people. They are good people, you just have to give them a fair chance."

Hermione sat there listening to Harry talk about how nice and good the Slytherin's were. Had it been different circumstances she wouldn't have even given them a second look. But after hearing what Daphne, Draco, and Harry had to say, she decided to give them a chance.

"Hey. Are you okay Hermione?" she looked up and Astoria was standing there.

"Yeah. I think I am okay. But I do have a favor to ask of you and Daphne."

"Sure. Anything for you."

"Could you properly introduce me to everyone. I know of most of them, but I don't know them. If you know what I mean."

"Oh of course we can do that. Come along, we will start with Theo." Astoria said with a big smile on her face when she mentioned her boyfriend.

Astoria dragged Hermione up and pulled her over to the pool table where a couple of guys, Daphne, Ginny, and Pansy were hanging out. "Everyone this is Hermione. You may have known her from Hogwarts as Hermione Granger, but it turns out that she is Hermione Greengrass. Daphne's and my sister. Well Daphne's twin and just my older sister." she said with a huge smile on her face, "Well Hermione these are some of our friends. This is Theo Nott, he is also my boyfriend. This is Blaise Zabini, he is dating Daphne. You know Daphne and Draco. This is Pansy Parkinson who is dating Ron who you already know. And you of course know Harry and Ginny. I believe that is everybody beside Luna who couldn't come today. Luna is actually my best friend."

Hermione looked at everyone. Sure she recognized all of them. She only really knew Harry, Ron, and Ginny. She had just met Daphne and Astoria and only recently learned that they were, in fact, all good during the war. It was a lot to handle, but she had promised to give everyone a fair shot before totally judging them. "Hello everyone." she said in a small voice.

Blaise set down his pool cue and held his hand out, "Nice to officially meet you Hermione."

She shook his hand, "Nice to meet you too Blaise."

"You know, Astoria has been talking about you since the war ended. She was so excited to finally be able to tell you that she was your sister. It's all she could talk about. Oh and I am Theo by the way."

"Nice to meet you Theo."

"Hey it looks like all the little kids are out of the pool. Lets go swim!" Daphne said excitedly.

Everyone agreed and they all ran out to the pool area. Some of them went to the water slide, some went to the lazy river, and some went to the pool just to swim. Hermione went to a lounge chair and just decided to sit in a chair and relax. She took of her cover dress and laid down on the lounge. What felt like only five minutes went by before a shadow cast over her body. She looked up and saw Draco Malfoy standing over her.

"What is wrong Granger? Can't swim?" he said with a smirk.

She rolled her eyes, "Of course I can swim Malfoy. I just don't feel like it right now"

"You just don't want to get our hair wet, am I right?"

"Fine. You are right. I don't want to get my hair wet because then it will frizz and I will look like I did first year."

"It wasn't that bad"

"Yes it was and you know it. You didn't just call me a beaver for my teeth. My hair contributed to that and I know it."

"Okay, maybe it wasn't as soft and wavy and beautiful as it is now. But why don't we just hop in the lazy river on a tube and you don't even have to get your hair wet. How does that sound?" he held out his hand hoping that she would take it.

Hermione looked at his hand and hesitated. Eventually she took his hand and they walked toward the lazy river. True to his word he held down a tube for her to get in and her hair did not get wet. Draco then jumped in his own tube and grabbed one of the handles on Hermione's so she wouldn't float away. As they went around the lazy river, they made some small talk and there were some laughs. About fifteen feet behind them were Daphne and Blaise.

Daphne turned to Blaise and said, "Do you think something could happen with them?"

Blaise looked at his best friend and his girlfriend's twin and replied to his girlfriend's question, "I hope so. I think she would be good for him. Out of all of us, he had it the worst. I don't know how he got through all these years and the war, being that involved. I have never seen him smile like this before. Maybe she is exactly what he needs." Daphne looked at Blaise and kissed him.

The rest of the night went great. There was great food and great people. Hermione went to bed that night thinking of all the new things that had happened to her in just one day and all of the new people she had officially met. Including a certain blonde boy and his smile that she just could not get out of her mind.