Chapter 7

Hermione ran down the stairs taking them two at a time. She had been busy reading and comparing 'The History of Malfoy' and 'The History of Evergreen'. Why hadn't Draco called her, she wondered aloud? She ran out of the main room but turning around and looking at the main door to look at the picture it had turned into. She was walking backwards when her back can in connect with a solid objet. She whirled around and came face to face with Harry Potter! "Hi Hermione it's nice to see you. How are you?" Harry said quickly, while hugging Hermione. Hermione put her face in Harry's shoulder then lifted it up looked at Harry, straightened his glasses, covered his scar with some hair and lightly kissed him on the cheek. "I missed you so much!" Hermione said while making her way to the grand hall. "Yep same here, Ron was so unhappy that you didn't come to the burrow and the Weasley's started freaking out when they realised the Evergreen family had a family reunion. Ginny was so unhappy that you wasn't there she wanted to go for some muggle shopping with you." Harry said. "Ginny must be well upset that this is your last year." Hermione said
"Yep and she knows… actually everyone knows that Voldemort is going to have a full out war with me this year." Hermione opened the door of the great hall and saw Theodore, Draco and Pansy talking. She wanted to be with her brother more than anything right now. She didn't want to face up to Ron or any of the Weasley's or anyone on the Gryffindor table. She took another step into the great hall and suddenly the whispers started. She knew everyone was watching. Why!? She wanted run out of the hall, cry, kill her grandparents, kill the death eaters and kill FATE!

Hermione made her way to the Gryffindor table with her head bowed down she knew the whole school had their eyes trained on her but she was not going to face them. She made her way through the people walking to and from the grand hall and sat down in the middle of Ginny and Neville, opposite Ronald Weasley. "Hi" Hermione said uncertainly to her best friends.
"Hi Hermione" Ginny said, "I missed you so much I wanted you to be there so you could take me muggle shopping and other things. Also I don't care if your Evergreen I have know you for so long that I know you are not like them. She darted her eyes at the Slytherin table while saying that to Hermione.
"You think she has not changed. You have heard that saying 'a person's statues and family name changes them', well Hermione's statues is a pureblood and her family name is Evergreen which makes her a like them." Ron said while pointing at the Slytherin table in pure disgust. "I have nothing to do with her" and with that Ron gave Hermione a death glare and set to finishing his breakfast, others on the table murmured their agreement.

That was it. Hermione ran out of the grand hall with tears flowing from her eyes and ran to her dormitory.
Inside she plonked herself on the Gryffindor coloured couch put her legs up, buried her head and cried. Thank god she had a free day or she would be walking in to a lesson looking like an idiot! She wanted to be the normal Hermione but she wasn't.

Draco had seen Hermione ran out of the hall and knew exactly where she was going. He got up from his half eaten breakfast and followed her with Theo and Pansy behind him. He shouted Dramione at the door and the three Slytherin's piled inside. Theo ran and saw Hermione sitting on the couch. Her eyes were red and puffy and she looked like a right mess. Draco wanted to hug her, tell her it was alright like Voldemort said he should but he kept himself from touching her. "Not now" he commanded himself. Theodore ran to Hermione and hugged her keeping her close to himself. Hermione put her head on his chest she knew Pansy was watching but right now she wanted a comforting hug and she didn't care if Theo's girlfriend was watching. After a few minutes of silence Hermione broke away and looked at Pansy and Draco. Malfoy looked away, at this rate he was going to get killed; Nott was doing a better job than him. He needed to act fast. Pansy looked at Hermione and sat on the Slytherin couch. "Look I know it weird me speaking to you nicely but my boyfriend, Theo said that if I wanted to go out with him I had to be nice to and well I love Theo and I thought, I will give it a in the future we might be great friends but right now I want it to be 'hi, hello, do you want to go shopping' kind of thing okay!?" Pansy said.
"Okay?" Hermione said in sheer shock, friends with Pansy Parkinson. Boy was this year getting weirder by the minute! Nott got up from sitting next to Hermione and moved to sit next to Pansy. Draco moved next to Hermione and asked her, "What did the Weasley tell you?" Hermione looked at her shoes and said while tears started to form in her eyes, "Well Ginny was like I don't think you have became different just because of your name but Ron was like yes she has became different, and then Ron was saying this weird saying it went something like 'a pers..." Pansy interrupted and said "did it go something like a person's and family name changes them." Hermione nodded and continued "afterRon said that he said I had just become like a death eater and a Slytherin because my parents were Slytherin and are now death eaters. Ron also said he has nothing to do with me and everyone else..." Before she could even finish her own sentence tears fell. With one swift movement Draco had Hermione in an embrace. This was different to any other embrace Draco and given to any other girl. It felt different in some way. Hermione was shocked DRACO was hugging HER! She put her head in his chest and cried silently. Draco's body frame was bigger than Theo's and it was more supporting. His hug felt more secure and safe.

She instantly fell in love with the way her body fitted into his; Malfoy also felt this and loved it. Draco hugged her tightly and whispered to her "shhshh Hermione it's going to be alright. Look we are going to sort Weasley out for you. Did potter do you any trouble?" Hermione shock her head so Draco continued, "okay we will sort out for you. He has no right to mess with the head girl like that. Theo and Pansy I think it's time for you to go to potions me and Hermione have the day off all our lessons starts tomorrow." Hermione quickly removed herself from the embrace and both Theo and Pansy took the opportunity to hug Hermione and tell her that it was alright and that they would sort Weasley out.

After they had gone Hermione looked at Draco and said, "thank you so much. Pansy is not as half bad as I thought she was."
"Yeah well Pansy was doing this because she loves Nott but I think she is starting to like you. I think soon you guys will be great friends." Draco answered her. Hermione nodded and started to look like she was going to cry again. Draco opened his hands out wide and Hermione slithered into to another embrace. Draco watched as she buried her head in his chest and the looked at the fireplace. He smiled an evil smile. The fun was just getting started.

A/N: Hope you liked this chapter. Please Read and review. Will update soon.
Also Theodore Nott in my story is different to the guy who played in the films. Check a pic of him on my profile.