The very beginning

New start?

The next day I felt happy, Hermione left the Malfoy-case alone and everybody was enthusiastic about the fact that I was becoming the new Quidditch captain. I didn't even care that much when my predecessor came to me screaming that I was a filthy bitch and he left the team. It seemed for a second he was going to scream much more, but just left when George and Fred each stood a side of me. It made the bastard fuck off, but also gave me an overwhelming strong an satisfying feeling.

"thanks guys" There smiles returned my thanks.

And so I hung two papers at the announcements board one saying there would be a practice that evening at seven o'clock. The other saying the team searched a new chaser.

The first hour we had transfusions, I had to stay with McGonagall, who told me so far she was very happy with my interventions. I was happy as well when I left the room. All in heaven I walked on, until I remembered where I was going to: potions. I was going to be late but I didn't feel like rushing. I calmly went to the dungeons.

I knocked on the door, which I opened after a scary, but by me admired "come in." I opened the door and stepped inside "You're late Miss Dhanes"

" I know sir"

"And why is that Dhanes?"

"I was at professors McGonagall's, sir"

" I see, take your seat Dhanes."

"Thank you, sir."

When Malfoy didn't greet me I was pretty surprised and as soon as there was more noise in the room after my entrance. I whispered, "Hi", but he didn't responded. And I was pretty overwhelmed. When class was over he rushed out the room. I didn't know why but he did, it took away a bit off my luck, while I knew it was actually suppose to be good. But I tried to forget as I went to next class.

That evening Was Quidditch practice. Practice went surprisingly well and I found my self a good chaser: Ned Wares. Everybody was excited and loved to play, because it was a long time ago they actually did. I let Ginny and Ned try to score at Ron, who was doing great saves, while Ginny and Ned made great shots. I let Fred and George hit at a bludger for turn. Harry was racing after the snitch, but I had everything under great control. I even got to do some shots myself, but when I saw a little group people coming close I whistled. Harry had almost caught the snitch but immediately came down, Ginny, who was about to throw stopped her move and came down, accompanied by Ron and Ned. Fred caught the bludger and tied it up in the box. They all looked surprised at me "it isn't time yet is it?" Ginny asked.

"No" I saw much respect in my teams eyes and this gave me a lot of positive energy again. Now my team saw the little group as well. "Slytherins", Ned said, clearly disgusted. As they were close enough I stepped forwards so I was standing a bit before my team. A tall guy came forward as well. " Well, well, you Gryffindors did fell pretty low now, having a clumsy pathetic girl as captain?" I could feel the anger of my team but remained calm. " We'll see how clumsy and pathetic I am, now wont we?" The Slytherin captain looked as well surprised as disappointed. But recovered: "You need to clear off, we've got practice."

"I don't think we need anything."

"Yes you do girl."

"I've reserved for an other half an hour and we'll take that one, so you can, look, go back and discus some tactics or you can discus with me while I let my team practise for half an hour." I didn't wait for an answer, but turned around and nodded at my team. Ginny, Ron and Ned flew back to there position, clearly satisfied. Harry went up high, also satisfied searching for the snitch. But Fred and George stayed by my side, clearly afraid I was in danger. The Slytherins didn't move and I t looked as if they were going to stand there and watch for half an hour. "Fred, George get your bludger and go on practice."

"but…"

"I'm ok now listen and off you go" the twins went for the blugder, while they kept suspiciously staring at the Slytherins.

The entire team was quite surprised that the Slytherins indeed did wait half an hour, to reward them I stopped practice five minutes earlier. "Joan", Fred said, " you're a wonderful girl and a great captain so far, I like you more and more" with a big smile on his face I answered his smile and saw Malfoy turning red.

The next day we started whit potions, I didn't know what to expect so I didn't feel to bad. As we got to the dungeons we appeared to be the first ones. "djees, who would ever have thought it would come to this?! Hermione, you're a bad influence." Ron claimed.

They laughed, but I was listening I was pretty sure I heard people talking, I concentrated.

"…he did?" Snapes voice said.

"yeah" Malfoy(!!) Answered.

"hmm well I guess Dhanes blew his socks off then"

" she pretty much did"

"yeah she's a special girl, how do you keep up with her in class."

"better then with each single one off her friends, she's friendly, but hypocritical."

"say if I didn't know any better I' d say you like her Draco, haha"

"we've gotten of the subject."

"right yeah well, if you're willing to become captain you should I guess, now the rest of the class will be here in a moment, so you can go to you're seat."

"ok."

"quick" I whispered and we ran back down the hall and pretended to just come to class, I knew they had been busy and they didn't hear the conversation and I was bloody happy for that.

" ahh we're early now, aren't we?" Snape said. " come in already I'm not in the mood to stand in the hall with four students. Harry, Ron and Hermione all sat at a desk alone while I sat next to Malfoy, who was clearly ignoring me, so I decided not to say hi this time.

KNOCK KNOCK " come in"

"morning professor" Fred said. I was pretty surprised to see him, as were the other persons in the room. "what do you need Weasley?"

" I needed to ask something at Joan Dhanes, if you don't mind?"

"go ahead." While Fred came in Coyle, Crabbe and Parkinson came in as well. "hi" Fred said. "hi, what's wrong?"

"nothing it's just…" I noticed Malfoy was looking and listening.

"What?"

"You realize we need to do homework for McGonagall?"

"yes"

"Did you made it?"

"Yeah…While I was trying to escape from Hermione" I added a lot more silent.

He smiled, " Well .."

"Yeah yeah you can have it" and I searched for it and give it to him.

"You're the best" he smiled.

"Sure, sure now go"

"Alrighty captain" he added smiling. And as soon as he had left the room I realized nearly all students were in and there was a lot of noise in the class. "Do you like him" a cold voice behind me asked.

"Excuse me?"

"Yeah you guys hang around a lot these days"

"We're classmates" I answered in a disappointed high voice. He looked pretty blaming. I knew he was right. "he's my best friend." I added a bit more silent.

"Well he's a very close friend then."

"he is actually, we're just friends, but why do you care?" I sneered bit.

"Do you actually even dare to ask that?" he asked with a certain anger in his voice.

"Well you didn't speak to me in two days, so I wouldn't think you care that much." I responded coldly.

"bloody hell, Joan" he now said on a blaming tone.

" you weren't jealous were you?"

"I guess everyone is here", Snape suddenly broke through, " we can start."

I tried to catch Draco's eyes, but it didn't work. But Draco felt stupid, I could tell he felt stupid cause he told me I didn't act like I should towards him, I knew, I understood. "I don't think you' re stupid." his moves blocked which made him accidentally throw the ingredients he had in his hand towards Snape. "Professor!" I yelled, he turned and dived away just fast enough. "DHANES!"

"But sir I didn't.."

" It was me professor, I'm sorry I slipped." I was astonished, he did it again!

"I'VE HAD IT WITH THE TWO OFF YOU!" Snape shouted and then added much calmer as If it gave him satisfaction:" The both of you every Thursday two months at my office."

"Sir.." we both started.

"Don't….make it four."

"This sure didn't feel good, but there wasn't anything to do against it. The bloody dumb thing was that today was Thursday, but one positive thing was there wasn't practice anyhow, cause Ravenclow had practice and Hufflepuff as well. And so I was on my way to the dungeons again that evening.

"come in Dhanes", Snape said, before I even had touched the door. And so I went inside, "today I had first years the last hour, Draco is already started to clean the class", he continued. " oh yeah", he added: " it wouldn't be a punishment if you could use magic, so your wand please." I didn't feel good giving my beloved wand away, but I did. " Well you can go and help Draco now Dhanes." I was a bit surprised about this and he clearly noticed this. "I've some better things to do then watch the two off you each week for two months Dhanes."

"Oh yeah, I see"

"Just be nice and don't kill each other, I have my reasons to take your wands. Now off you go." And so I left his office and walked to the classroom just near it. As I walked inside I saw Malfoy rubbing a desk. "Hi" I tried careful. He looked at me waited a second, then turned round to continue with the desk as he mumbled "hi". I couldn't help feeling sad about that, but also started rubbing a desk. After half an hour my arm hurt so bad I stopped rubbing and looked to do something less rough for my arm. And so I saw there were some ingredients on one desk and decided to put these in the cabinet. I felt Malfoy following me with his eyes. As soon as all ingredients were in the cabinet my arm still hurt, so I took a broom and cleared the floor, while Malfoy, who had damn strong arms, was still rubbing desks. I suddenly realized I was staring and just was about to turn my eyes of when I noticed he'd stopped rubbing and was looking at me. I turned my eyes off anyway and tried to clear to floor as good as possible. Then I realized Malfoy didn't turn his eyes off. I looked back up at him, consciously not in his eyes. "What?" I asked.

He just stared back at me. Then a couple seconds later he answered. " I wanted to ask the same thing." I didn't know to good what to answer, the feeling of understanding that always had been there when we were with just the two off us seemed to be disappeared. So we continued cleaning after a moment as if the feeling came back a long with more pain in my arm he said. " Look, if you need to rest a while go ahead."

"hm?"

"your arm"

I felt my face turning red, but the fell in a chair whit a sigh. He looked at me, then he approached and took place in the chair next to mine. " I'm sorry" he said.

"what?"

"yeah for this morning, I guess I am actually too jealous."

"hmm well I understand I…I would feel the same way." he gave me a little smile.

"So your Gryffindors Quidditch captain now?"

"yeah"

"too bad, now you guys will start to train again." but he added a smile. I returned his smile saying " I don't like your captain though."

"oh well that's disappointing.."

"why is that?"

"Let's say you gave proof of a lot of authority the other day and our captain felt so humiliated he gave away his roll as captain."

"Did he now??"

"yeah, I'm captain now."

"Oh well in that case I guess I have to reconsider my view to the Slytherin captain."

" you' d say you like our new captain?" I was happy we were good again and so I responded. " yeah I guess you can say so." We heard footsteps and jumped up to clean further on. Snape opened the door, "well I guess you can go when he looked through the class. Sanitio!" And the entire class became perfectly clean again. I knew Draco felt the same rancour I did, but we didn't say anything. He gave back our wands and let us out. As soon as we were round the corner I said "Bloody stupid…" at the same time Malfoy started: "That dumb ass of a…" We both shattered out our laughs. I never could have thought Malfoy could be such a nice, funny sensitive friend. His laughter sounded as golden apples falling down from heaven. " I do like the Slytherins captain" I looked in his eyes, his smile softly took place for a rather serious face, but I just stared in his eyes. He smiled at me, a smile spreading out so much happiness and joy, that I had to smile as well.