A/N: I still don't own Harry Potter or anything that belongs with that, in case you were wondering. This is the chapter where Draco is an (unpolite word), where Snape is doing something unexpected and where Harry and Ron discover something but still don't know a thing. Just read it, i describe it way to vaguely, lol. This is longer, as promised and I think I did a pretty nice job :) Please tell me what you think!

Malfoy turned around, wand at the ready. "Are you ready Granger?"

"Ready for what Malfoy." I asked him calmly. He smiled and put his wand away. "Ready to make a mess of our beloved school of course."

"The question is not whether I am ready to make a mess of the school but whether you are ready to work side by side with a Gryffindor."

"As ready as I'll ever be. So, what will the first prank be?"

"I think our houses need to come a bit closer." I smiled a wicked little smile and Malfoy raised his eyebrows. "Don't you think the heads of our houses would make a lovely couple?" Malfoy's face went pale. He stared in the distance and the color returned. A devilish grin slowly spread across his face. "How do you plan to do this?"

"It's very simple Mr. Malfoy, we slip them love potions."

"Call me Draco. If we are working together I have no desire to be reminded of where I came from." His face was livid with anger. "Trouble at home?" I asked him, disturbed by the look on his face. "Is this the time for being sentimental Granger?"

"My name is Hermione. I thought we were working on a first name basis."

"You're right Hermione. As for your question, there is a lot of trouble at home. I have no intention of returning there, ever."

"Where will you go?" I asked, concerned after his sudden change.

"No idea. I will find a place somewhere."

"What happened?" I asked, pitying Draco for the first time in my life. "My parents had a big fight. My mother had met a muggle man. She claimed she was friends with him. Father did not like it and tortured the man. He appeared not to be as much of a muggle as mum had thought. He was a muggleborn wizard. He was very kind to me when my father was out to the stores, a few weeks earlier. The man reminded me of you. He made me and mother watch him getting tortured and killed. Mother broke down to pieces." Draco wiped a tear from his eye. "I kept seeing your face when I looked at that man. He crushed my believes against muggleborns." Draco was actually crying now. I walked up to him and put my arm around him. "It's OK if you don't want to talk about it anymore." He shook his head. "I have to do this Hermione. He has a son at Hogwarts, a son that doesn't even know his father is dead. I need to tell him so that he can do the one thing I can never do. So that he can turn my father in." There was a fire in Draco's eyes but the tears were still streaming down his face. "I will never call anyone a mudblood anymore." He said, the tears now reaching his voice. Draco broke down. I comforted him until he finally was done crying. "I will do anything to drive my father crazy. Working with a muggleborn to terrorize the school."

"Draco, I don't care about your motives. I am just happy you finally saw the light." We both laughed. "It took me long enough." He said, laughing despite himself. He walked up to the shelves with the love potions on them. "These are mostly for making people fall in love with you by adding a piece of yourself and making them drink it. One seems to be added to a undefined love potion with a picture binding it to the person in the picture. Most of these just last way to short."

"I bought a love potion at the shop of Fred and George."

"Hermione!" Draco shouted unbelieving. "You were planning to use a love potion on Ron?"

"No!" I shouted, laughing at the idea. "I just wanted to research it but this would be a much better purpose."

"How are we going to do this. Make Snape fall in love?"

"Good suggestion, I will take care of the picture. Meet me here again tomorrow during lunch. We will talk about the rest then." Draco nodded and walked out. I placed the bottle with the love potions and the other things I intended for pranks on shelves and in boxes. After that I walked out with a sneaky camera I had found in the blackmail section of our headquarters. I went to bed early that evening, mentally preparing myself for what had to be done. I woke up way too late and Harry and Ron had nearly finished their breakfast already. "Where have you been?" Ron asked with his mouth full. "Sleeping Ron, can you eat with your mouth shut?"

"You had me worried Mione, I thought you would be late for class, Harry said with a cheeky smile on his face. Lavender joined us. "Hello Harry, Hermione." She said with a smile, turning to Ron who quickly swallowed his food. "First thing in the morning." Harry commented slyly only to be shut up by Ginny, who wrapped herself around him to take her good morning. "Guys and Girls, I don't know if you noticed but transfiguration is about to start." I said, making the couples break free in shock. Nobody wants to be late when McGonagall is teaching. We made it to class just in time.

We were supposed to transfigure pigs into tables but I wasn't in the mood. I gave a careless flick with my wand and mumbled 'transformus tableta' and watched my pig turn into a tabloid. I turned it into a pink sheep which I turned into a table before McGonagall would notice. I sat on my table taking pictures of her with my blackmail camera. She gave me the usual compliments and I yawned inwardly. Everybody already knows I am good at this stuff, why bother to point it out. I managed to help Ron and Harry to get it right, although Ron's table was still a bit fat. Lavender's table remained pink and Harry's table still had skin. It felt disgusting to pet his table. I noticed Seamus had managed to create a pink, furry, walking table with a snout. Disgusting. At charms we had to conjure flowers out of our wands. Most had dead, dried or fake flowers but mine came out fine. I created daisy's, roses and tulips. After charms I went to the room of requirements, leaving Harry and Ron with a lame excuse. Lavender dragged them towards the Great Hall, not wanting anything to do with studying in her lunch break. I took the flowers I had created with me. I walked in and saw Draco was already waiting for me, holding a little bottle of wine in his hand. "Do I have to take points for drinking during lessons?" I asked looking at the bottle. "I just know how to get Snape to drink it. My father wanted me to give him this bottle of homemade wine. Snape won't share it with anyone and we can add the love potion."

"That really is a good idea. Let's add the final ingredient." I said, taking out one of the pictures I had made. I threw it in the bowl which had the potion in it. The face of McGonagall floated out of the photo and disappeared into the liquid. I took a little bit of the liquid out and poured that in the love potion I bought at the joke shop. The watery substance turned purple for a second and turned back to its former color. We poured it in the wine and shook it. "When will you give it to him?" I asked Draco. "This evening I think. He only drinks wine before he goes to bed. The potion should still be effective next morning, making the drama unfold around breakfast."

"We are so going to be expelled." I said, looking at the bottle. Draco leaned over me and whispered in my ear. "I thought you liked danger Hermione." Chills walked over my back and Draco leaned back again with a challenging grin on his face. "That was not funny."

"Why not? Does your boyfriend hate it when other guys come into your personal space?"

"What boyfriend?" I snapped at him. "So you're in love. How cute, who is the lucky guy?"

"I am so not telling you." I said, trying to sound dangerous while my heart longed to confess my feelings. "I think the lucky guy is a troublemaker. Why else would you do things that are so illicit?"

"Shut up Draco."

"I'm right am I not? I think it is one of the Weasley brothers. Is that completely wrong?" He asked and I felt my face going red. Draco was not allowed to know this! "It's Fred." I blurted out. Regretting it the instant I said it. Draco just smiled and jerked the roses out of my hand. He petrified him and wrote a quick note. He held it in front of my face so I could read it.

Dear Fred,

I really hope you like these roses, I made them especially for you! Don't tell anyone, this will be our little secret.

With love,

Your secret admirer.

I wanted to shout, tear the note apart, give Draco another punch on the nose and even worse. I could do nothing as he tied the note to the roses and took an owl from the live animals section. He tied the package to the leg of the owl and send it out the window. "There goes first step." He took the tulips and wrote a note for Mrs. Weasley, telling her we had all arrived safely and everything was going good. He send that out with another owl. That didn't make me angry at all, it was proper and exactly what I could have done. "I think I'll keep these myself." He said, taking the daisy's and putting them in his pocket. Suddenly I found I could move again. I stood up and gave Draco a punch that broke his nose. "Ouch, Mione! That was not necessary. It was bound to come out sooner or later." I gave him a kick against his leg making him feel more pain. I knew he was right but he didn't have to be so smug about it. The evil was done now. I left the prat there, knowing he would not abandon the plan but he had to limp to the hospital wing, that knowledge gave me some satisfaction. I walked into the Gryffindor common room singing to myself. I had nearly forgotten what the prat had done. "Hello Hermione! What's all the singing about?" Harry asked me when he noticed I was the singing person. "I gave Malfoy a run for his money. I imagine he is limping somewhere with a broken nose." Ron look approving and Ginny and Lavender cheered. "What did he do?" Harry asked. "The usual." I shrugged. Harry smiled and joined in on the tiny celebration of Malfoy's misfortune. If only Fred were here to make the celebration complete by stealing food from the kitchen. Boy I missed the parties the twins had thrown after Quidditch matches and other events. How would Fred respond when he read the note and saw the roses? I went to bed and Lavender hung around my shoulders talking about how fabulous it would be to see a limping Malfoy. Ginny was still sitting on Harry's lap in the common room while Ron tried to make his homework. Everything seemed normal but nobody knew about the new pranksters in town or about my feelings for my best friend's brother. How could anything be normal when I was keeping so many secrets from my friends?

I walked downstairs the next morning, still amazingly sleepy. I went to breakfast, something was going on that I should remember, but what was it? I was thinking and thinking but I couldn't remember. Lavender and Ginny sat down beside me. "Hermione, look what Snape is doing!" Lavender said with a shout, pointing at the teachers table. Snape… Snape! Snape was supposed to fall in love today? Had Draco pulled it off? I looked at the Slytherin table and Draco winked at me. I looked at Snape next and laughed. "Has he been hexed or something?" Ginny said. I looked at him critically. "Looks more like a potion to me. Does anybody look like it just had a succeeded plan?" I asked my friends. They looked around but saw nobody behaving anything other than surprised and amused. "Nobody." Ginny said, probably wanting to thank the person that slipped him a love potion. Dumbledore was even looking confused. He stood up and everybody stopped laughing. "How amusing a joke this might be, I would like you to tell me where you hid Mr. Weasley and Mr. Weasley. They have chosen to leave school and are therefore not supposed to play pranks on people inside the castle anymore." Everybody looked around, expecting to see one of the twins jumping out from a little corner. Dumbledore smiled and gestured everybody to keep eating. There was nothing he could do against potions when the expert was the one who was under the influence of a potion. They would have to sit this one out. Dumbledore tried to save Snape from himself, according to the rumors. He tried to lock him in his office but Snape had blown the door out. Somehow nobody seemed to notice the fact that McGonagall actually liked his attention. She blushed on a frequent basis, making Snape happy. The look in her face was the same look Lavender had looking at Ron. Was McGonagall in love with Snape? It would seem so. All we had to do was wait for Snape to find out what he had been doing. I wrote a note to Draco, come to HQ now! I banned it towards him with a charm. I saw him read it and his eyebrows shot up. I said a quick goodbye to my friends and went on my way. I heard footsteps behind me. Then he whispered in my ear. "Hermione, what is going on?"

"Not here." I whispered back. "Too many people. Just come along quietly."

We walked a safe distance from each other and did not speak when we were back at our headquarters. "Will you tell me what is going on?" Draco asked impatiently. "McGonagall loves Snape!"

"That is interesting. I heard him practicing a speech before I walked in, I pretended to be oblivious to what it said but Snape is in love too."

"Do you think little Snapes will be running around a house one day?"

"No way, the age difference is too big. It's like you would marry the eldest Weasley instead of Fred."

"I am not engaged Draco."

"I have hope." I sighed. I threw the hat I had gotten from Fred at him. "That must go near Snape."

"I can't see anything. What is this? I feel something but I don't know what. It's weird."

"Just put it in your bag and zip it up."

"Fine, just don't get me in trouble."

"I won't. It has been charmed by myself, do you trust me?"

"Yes. I do."

"Good." I pointed my wand at Draco's bag, which now had the hat with bird on it inside. " Activate your roots sir!" A pink light bulb floated to his back and squeezed through the opening of the zipper. The bag quivered and Draco said: "This is really safe?" I gave him one hard look and he shrugged and walked to potions class. I had to run to be in time for potions myself. I decided to leave a few minutes after him, for both our sakes. Harry and Ron were waiting there already. "Where have you been Mione? We didn't see you at breakfast! You should have seen Snape!"

"He's got a crush on McGonagall right? I had breakfast early, with Lavender and Ginny." Ron shrugged. "It was funny." The door opened. A sweet scent drifted towards us. Harry Ron and I looked at each other and shrugged. We walked into the classroom to find Snape standing there in a robe with a deep red color which made him look even more pale. He had a smile on his face and gestured for us to sit. "Welcome class. Today we will be brewing a potion which is truly amazing! It must look purple in the end and smell like roses. It is a potion that will color the skin of the drinker into a color that suits the moods of the drinker. If brewed incorrectly it will just make you nauseous. The instruction are on the board. You may start now!" With a dreamy flick of his wand the instructions for the most easy potion ever were on the board. There was another version which was said to be more specific and that one was much harder. Snape watched as most people prepared themselves for the easy version. He walked to Neville who started shaking. "You, my dear boy, will try the hard one. I am sure even you can finish it properly." He smiled encouragingly at Neville and Neville nodded. The class was surprisingly calm and Neville didn't make one mistake. In the end he, I and Draco had the best potions not to mention the only ones who didn't take the easy way out. We were all rewarded 50 points and everybody had to drink that of one of the three best students, as Snape put it. Neville was glowing Yellow with happiness, Ron had a gloomy color, Harry white. Draco turned purple. "He's up to something!" Snape said happily. I looked at him and watched him open his back and the hat came strolling out. Nobody noticed but I knew why Draco did it. He made me think about Fred before I took the potion. A sudden burst of love entered my heart as I remember how we had created that charm on the hat together. I absentmindedly took a sip. The potion was bitter and it might me lightheaded for a second. Everybody looked at Snape, who was defining colors. "It looks like Miss Granger is in love! 30 points to Gryffindor for that lovely display." The Gryffindors cheered and Ron and Harry looked at me curiously. Nobody had noticed the hat climbing onto Snape's head. A sudden burst of laughter from Draco made it obvious he had noticed it. Everybody was laughing and Snape bowed, knowing the hat was on his head. This had to be the most peculiar day in my entire life. Potions ended 5 minutes early, no homework. "Who is it?" Ron asked, his skin changing color. "Not important." I said. "Tell us Hermione!" Harry urged. "Snape didn't give us homework! He is crazy enough for that. Why won't you be crazy enough to tell us who it is?" I looked at my friends. "Fine, I'll tell. But not right now. I have to go to the library." They laughed and waved goodbye.

Of course I did not go to the library but to headquarters. Draco was there, holding a closed envelope. He had a smile on his face. "My letter has been answered. I think you should take the liberty of reading it out to me." He handed me the letter and I opened it. Draco looked at me with anticipation as I took the note out of the envelope and started to read it out loud.

A/N: Oooh what will Fred have replied to Draco's note? Find out in the Next chapter? Maybe but it will be resonably short, cuz it is Freds view! Don't we all love him? Please Review! This is only the beginning! Who thinks Draco deserves a love scene? The one who guesses what the note says right will get to read the chapter before everybody else! (I will PM or mail it or summit :P) I hope you enjoyed it! See you next time :)