AN – Hi guys, I am back and am apologizing for such a long break
AN – Here is the next chapter, I don't know if it turned out well but please just let me know
AN – also I am removing Ron and Harry from Character list as they both come and go but Hermione and Malfoy are the central characters, so here it goes…
The One where an Opportunity is lost…
"Why would I go with you to the ball Granger, you are just a know-it-all mudblood." Draco Malfoy said to the nearly in tears girl in front of him and he hated it.
It was their NEWT year and as most of these kind of fic's go, Draco Malfoy was selected as Head Boy for no particular achievement in the past seven years (even though there are quite a lot of them made up like – his excellence in Potion, helping Harry in Battle against Voldemort, acting as a spy and… forget it I can't think of anything else) and despite of his past as deatheater, using banned curse like Imperio and Crucio. Because of course forgiving him should lead to giving him the title of Headboy which is the next powerful position after a professor.
But enough with the chitchat, as I was saying Malfoy was headboy and like many other authors who, in the lack of better idea make Blaise challenge him to sleep with Gryffindor princess, Our Blaise had done the same almost 4 months ago.
Granger had been a tough cookie to crack and took Malfoy almost one potion lecture to make her see that he had really changed. And then there were several forced plot twists occurred. like Crookshank's suddenly liking or trusting Malfoy, then Ron suddenly in one scene after seven years of hating the term 'Mudblood', calling Hermione just that and Harry, who himself has experienced alienation many times because of stupid reasons, abandoning Hermione because she talks two nice words to Malfoy and says that he has changed.
But the biggest plot twist is when Hermione chooses Malfoys friendship over her two friend's opinions. (Yeah that's very rational Hermione go ahead and chose a spineless coward over the guys who stood against a maniac to protect Muggleborns like you)
So abandoned by whole school and warned by most of her peers, Hermione became Malfoy's friend. Since there was no other pretty blonde girl… oh sorry… Male in the sight, Hermione and Malfoy decided to start dating in secret. Because being a muggleborn and fighting Voldemort was not enough for her being a target but she was in danger from Slytherine students (Shudder), who are mostly consisting of cowards without their disgraced families backing every wrong moves against muggleborns.
And then there is the final plot twist, where Malfoy actually starts liking Hermione. That is again the reason of her suddenly having straight hair, pretty smile and big boobs and better sense of dressing. You will observe that each and every thing I mentioned is a petty outward appearance which only overly shallow people will look. But this is Dramione we are talking about, so who the hell cares.
Again onto the story, according to the bet Malfoy must take Hermione's virginity before the ball. But even after trying his best he cannot get uptight Granger to spread her legs for him. In the end he tells her the sad story about how he had to suffer because his father was a deatheater, and how he was nasty to them only because his father told him to (Again I fail to understand why Malfoy sr. was so interested in his son's school life – or could that be another made up reason)
In the end she agrees and they both do the deed. But to win the bet Malfoy must dump Hermione in front of whole school. And for Malfoy's pride is always greater than the girl they love. So onto the current ongoings…
"…But…but Draco why…?" Hermione asked
"Isn't obvious, it was all for a bet. I had to sleep with you to prove that I am ultimately the sex god of Hogwarts" Draco said with a sneer on his face. He did not want to break up with her. But girls were always easy to manipulate. He will tell her later how Slytherine's bullied him into doing this, telling her that they were going to hurt her. Yeah that should do it.
"Sex god he said...isn't that Harry potter?" "No, Ron is definitely better…" "I say it's still Blaise" There was murmuring in the background.
"You are lying" Hermione said looking at him.
"Stop annoying me and accept the truth Mudblood, You weren't that good of shag either. Go back to Weasely maybe he will accept you now, they are used to hand me downs." Draco said giving the final blow, looking at his friends as if to signal them to laugh at his joke, and they did.
As Hermione left from the scene with wet eyes, Draco turned to Blaise who handed him his prize money.
'I just have to buy her an expensive gift and everything will be fine' He thought to himself
SCENE BREAK - - NEXT MORNING
"Aaaaahhh…" before Draco could realize what had happened, another punch landed on his face and he fell to the ground.
"Give me my money back you liar" Blaise was sitting onto his chest and beating the shit out of him. After previous night Malfoy had never expected this kind of reception from his admirers
"Blaise, stop it man. What the fuck are you doing? What did I lie about" Draco screamed after other students dragged Blaise off him.
"You lied about fucking Granger, she just showed her memory of the night you claimed you took her virginity." Blaise said gasping "She tricked you asshole, made you drink a fantasy potion where you dreamed of shagging her and then her friends undressed you and left you naked in that classroom."
"That is not possible, I felt everything. It was real. Bitch is lying about it save her skin." Said a shocked Draco Malfoy
"That memory was authentic Malfoy, We saw it in Dumbledore's Pensive." Blaise said in disgust "Slytherine's have become laughing stock of the school man. As if being labeled cowards wasn't enough they are calling us Idiots. Because her panties which you brought back are the only thing that we have as proof and that's not a very strong evidence"
Draco's head was spinning. How can this be, he had to talk to Granger.
SCENE BREAK - - In GREAT HALL
Draco Ran towards the great hall as one of the students had told him when he asked where Granger is. He found her sitting with Potty and Weasel. Odd thing was they were laughing and joking with each other like fight between them did not even exist. He walked up to them.
"Granger, what is the meaning of this?" He asked furiously
"Oh! You are here Malfoy, I was wondering when will you show up?" Hermione said turning to face him.
"What did you do? You know what happened between us was true." Malfoy said
"What I did Malfoy was exactly what you did." Hermione said smiling "I made a bet with my friends"
"What kind of bet?" Malfoy asked, dreading the answer.
"Bet that you had really changed. Seems like I lost." Hermione said wiping away the fake tears
"You see Malfoy, when you came to us the first time I was very suspicious and told her to be cautious but she said that everyone deserves a chance" Harry said turning on his seat to face Malfoy
"So we made a bet that she will prove to us that you have changed before the ball." Ron said taking a bite of carrot on Hermione's plate.
"But just before you proposed to me, castle ghosts and elves warned me about your intentions. But I accepted your proposal just to see if you go through with destroying someone else's happiness. I thought you will at least hesitate like you did before killing Dumbledore, but you proved me wrong and I lost the bet that you have any redeeming potential. So I gave you the fantasy potion made by George and voila! You showed your true colors. "Hermione said getting up and packing her bag.
"Thank you for teaching me a very important lesson Malfoy, 'never trust a known liar, until you have a strong reason to do so'." Hermione said and took out a bag of pastries and gave it to Harry. "According to our deal Harry"
As she was leaving with Ron, Draco Malfoy overheard a conversation from Gryffindor table
"So what did Ron get from the bet"
"Oh! He had the better end of the bargain, last night and I could hear Hermione screaming Ron's name even with silencing charms"
"So those two are going out then"
"Yeah, it's been ages since he asked her out. I guess only snakes didn't know about it. Why else do you think situation looked so much staged and choreographed? (Because author wanted it to be that way)
And Draco Malfoy could not help but scream, thinking that he just lost the opportunity to be with the best witch of his age
FIN
