A/N: all right all right, on behalf of my FAB-ulous reviewers, Queen of the Scoubies, qaia exile, Shelby Strong, dogredcat, Dramione, Mariya Krum and Mew, I will continue the story!! Yay!!! I still think Hermione and Draco are cute together but Ginny and Draco are cute too. Oh well, a draco/ginny is on the way! Tune in! ps...I'm VERY, VERY sorry that I've taken so long!! I promise I'm gonna try to write a chapter every week. (now watch that promise die...) lol jk. pps: this is a very important chappie, because you find out something... OOOOOO suspence!!!!! lol. oh and I might only hve 10 chappies to this story because Hermione has figured out--CRAP said too much.

-Squox

Chappie 8

Draco the next Ferqie? DON'T THINK SO

Hermione was fuming. How could Ron be so stupid? Well that's easy. Because he's Ron, of course. As Hermione sat at the Gryffindor table in the great hall she twisted her toast into tiny pieces, imagining each one was Ron's head.

"Moine, what are you doing?" Ginny asked.

"Plotting."

"About-oh no, DON'T. He already thought he poisoned you; this will just top it off. I'll do it."

"NO. It's my business, I can kill him myself thank you very much."

In fact, Hermione was actually enjoying herself. Who knew that thinking of different ways to kill someone could be fun? She smiled. Now she knew how Voldemort felt. Just then the post arrived. The tawny owl that brought Hermione the Daily Prophet landed softly on her table and she dropped a knut in it's pouch. Just then about three handsome school owls landed right where the tawny had been, and dropped a familiar sized box on her lap. She lifted it and immediately knew what it was. She squealed and ripped it open. Inside was her faithful boom-box. As soon as she got over the fact that she had it here in Hogwarts, she wondered howit would even work. As everyone knows, electronics don't work in Hogwarts (stated in Hogwarts, A History. Read it, Ronald). And even if they did, she would need a plug-in, and there were certainly none in the school. Her excitement faded, and her smile fell. Suddenly Hermione's gaze turned on a note in the box, along with her favorite CDs. She grabbed it and ripped it open. She read:

Dearest Hermione,

Oh, we have missed you so much! It is your last year and we thought you'd like a little piece of home to get you through the year. We talked to your Head Mistress (shame the other passed away, great man he was) and she lifted some rules for you. She said that you were the brightest girl she's seen in years, and would be happy to do this for you. She has some batteries that she's, erm, magiked up a bit. So you will have to go to her to get answers. We have no idea, we're just dentists.

lots of love,

Mum and Dad xxx ooo

Now Hermione's smile and hopes returned. Batteries. Magic batteries. It sounds like something right out of a Sci-Fi. But if they worked, she wouldn't complain. She picked up the boom-box and marched down the hall, ignoring the stares from other students. She ran to McGonagall's office at full speed, careful not to drop the box with the CDs and boom-box inside. Suddenly she stopped dead, right at the giant gargoyle at the front of the office. She didn't know the password.

"LEMME IN GOD DAMNIT!!!!...oops."

"Yes, Miss Granger?" McGonagall was standing right behind Hermione, but when she saw the box and Hermione's flushed face she smiled. "Ahh, I see you have found your gift, did you not?"

Hermione nodded. "I-I think I need batteries."

McGonagall nodded. "Yes, indeed you do. I have them in my office." She turned and faced the gargoyle and muttered, "Squoxcoon." He leaped out of the way to let them pass.

"Professor, a little random, but isn't a squoxcoon the cross between a squirrel, a raccoon and a fox?"

"Yes, exactly right. You do know your facts, Granger."

Hermione beamed. They both passed the gargoyle and leapt on the revolving stairs. As they got to the top, a thought suddenly occurred to Hermione. She hadn't been in Dumbledore's office since... well she didn't remember the last time. And she hadn't been in after he died. A shiver ran down her spine as she walked through the doors. The inside was basically the same, just more things of McGonagall's. But then...

"Oh, hello Miss Granger. Long time no see."

"Pr-pr-professor Dumbledore?" Hermione shrieked. She didn't know weather she should be surprised or excited to hear his voice again, but then... (hee hee I like saying 'but then...' k onward!)

"Ahh, Hermione, I am no longer a headmaster, just think of me as a deceased good friend." Dumbledore spoke calmly, as if there was nothing wrong with a dead guy talking to a student. But then...

"Oh, pro-umm, Dumbledore! We've missed you so much! But where...-gasp-" Like all the other great Headmasters, Dumbledore was now a painting on the wall with the rest of them.

"Oh, you don't know how lonely it gets up here, it's nice to talk to a student once in a while."

"Wait-who else have you talked to?" Hermione asked.

"Only one so far, not including you. Someone I wouldn't have expected, but yet thought that someday he would come to appreciate me."

"Who?" Curiosity got the better of her.

Dumbledore's painted lips turned up into a broad smile. "None other than Draco Malfoy."

The moment his name was said, Hermione flipped. Her stomach took an unpleasent lurch, and her heart skipped a beat. "Oh, I-what?"

Dumbledore chuckled. "Yes indeed, and he came to talk to me about a very interesting topic."

Hermione swallowed the big lump in her throat, but it just kept coming back. She knew what the topic was. "M-me?" She squeaked, and Dumbledore smiled before launching into what Draco had told him. (a/n: not that important, Herm talking to Dumbledore, just a recap, i might put it in later)

Now Hermione was in the common room, jamming the batteries into her boom-box and trying to make sense of everything she had just heard. Draco had made an Imperiadus potion, Hermione said in her head, And I had made a love potion, because that's what Ron said Paravaty told him, when really the whole class was making love potions? Or Imperiadus potions? WHICH ONE? Think, Hermione, think!! OK, what colour was everyone's vials? That was a good question. In their class, they all turn out different. But love potions turn pink, and there was certainly no pink filled vials that day, and Snape would never allow them to make a potion like that, it wouldn't be in his nature. Now a Imperiadus potion... Hermione gasped. She had made the wrong potion, and Draco made the right one, and when they mixed those two together... Hermione knew all too well what the Imperiadus potion was. "GINNY!!!" She screamed, and raced out of the room.

Draco had seen Hermione screaming and running to find Ginny so... he decided to take advantage of it. He faced the portrait of the fat lady and said the password. He had gotten it out of a first year that same morning, and thought that maybe he use it to his advantage. He stepped in and saw the warm common room was empty. Every must be outside because there's no lessons today, Draco thought. He ran up the stairs to the girls' dormitory. This is easier than I tho-too late. "AHGG!!" He yelled as he slid down, legs and arms waving franticly, the once perfectly stairy stairs. He landed in a heap at the bottom. "DAMN BOOGY TRAPS! In MY house, we could come and go as we plea-" he realized that he landed right next to someone's feet. Someone he didn't expect.

"Ma-ma-MALFOY?" Neville stammered, then stood up straight and tall, even though he was shaking madly. "I-I- I'll fight you if I have to! I wont let you rob us!"

Draco laughed. "Oh shut up, you big Grandma's boy, I was actually snooping. If your brain can't hold that much information, I'll say it in small syllables. "Oh-sh-ut-up-you-bi-g-gra-nd-ma-s-boy-I-was-ac-tu-al-ly-..."

"ZIP IT!" Neville roared.

"Neville, be nice when you're playing with the ferret, ok? He gets a bit touchy when someone ruins his plans."

"Ginny?" Both the boy's said at once.

She nodded. "Go back to bed, Neville, you need your beauty sleep."

"Bu-u-UGHH fine." Neville tried to be sarcastic, but it didn't really work at this time.

"We need to talk." Ginny hissed. Suddenly Draco found himself behind a tapestry and in a small room. "WHAT IS GOING ON?!?"

"I don't know" Draco said plainly.

"UGGGH YOU'RE HOPELESS!!"

"Look, I don't have answers, ok? I heard Hermione scream for you though, and I'm pretty sure she knows so find her ok? Right now I'm hungry and I want food. Goodbye." and with that, he left the secret room. As he was about to go through the portrait he spotted Hermione's parcel. Being the snoop he was, he decided to investigate. He examined it and smiled. He knew EXACTLY what he was going to do with this...

Hermione sobbed into Ginny's sholder. "Oh how could I have been such an IDIOT? The one time I do something wrong, the ONE BLOODY TIME, and it ruins my life!!!" She started sobbing harder.

"Awww, Mione, It's ok! We'll find a way to get out of this, I promise." They sat down for lunch and Ginny made Hermione eat. "Hey, let's go try out your bomb-boox, shall we?"

"It's Boom-Box, Ginny." Hermione sniffed. Yeah, ok, let's go-" Hermione's ears twiched. She heard something. Something that she hadn't heard in a long time, and it was growing louder and louder...

"Don't cha wish your girlfriend was HOT like ME, don' cha..." People started pointing and laughing at the front where the teacher's sat. Hermione stood up and gasped. There, dancing horribly on top of the teacher's table was Draco, her boom-box resting on his shoulder, his arm wrapped around it.

"OH MY GOD!!!" She screamed.

"OHH YEAH!!! DANCE EVERYBODY!! COME ON!" Draco yelled as he shook his ass for everyone to see. Everyone was laughing hysericley when suddenly the song changed. And what did it change to? Why, Fergilicious, of course. Draco started doing moves that were, um... interesting, lets just put it at that.

"Fergilicious definition make the boys go crazy...something somthing laa laa laa, F to the E, R, G the I the E, and, can no other something something somthing like me!" He sang. "NOW EVERYONE THIS IS DEDICATED TO HERMIONE!!!! LOVE YA GIRLFRIEND!" He blew her a kiss then winked.

THATS IT, Hermione thought, then without warning, she ran up to the table, grabbed Malfoy and slammed him to the ground. Then she waasn't really sure what happened next, but she was pretty sure she blanked out. Right after the part when she heard McGonagall's shrill voice screaming, "GRANGER! MALFOY! DETENTION!!!!!!"

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A/N: hope u liked it!! sorry if there's gramatical mistakes, but I'm too lazy to fix them, I just want to put this chappie up! and my other chappies arn't the greatest when it comes to graammer lol. ps, if u don't know what songs those were, it was dont cha by the pussy cat dolls, and fergilicious by fergie. luv those girlies... wow this chappie was long lol.