A/N: sorry for the super long wait...I had major writers block and I had to stop to read Deathly Hallows. Anyway without further ado chapter 10!!!

Chapter 10

Hermione

"What are you laughing at!" Hermione asked Draco when she found him in the common room the next morning.

"You. I find your discomfort slightly amusing."

"My discomfort? I'm not uncomfortable."

"You were last night. Or did I imagine you jumping up and running off to your room?"

"I was tired!" Hermione exclaimed getting a little flustered.

Draco just smirked at her. "What are you laughing at now!?" Hermione fretted.

"You know, you are kinda cute when you are flustered." Draco said as he got up and left the common room to head down to breakfast leaving an embarrassed and even more flustered Hermione in his wake.

'Merlin does that boy get to me.' Hermione thought as she went back to her room to gather her books for the day. 'I don't know why I let him get to me, so I do think he is rather fit, well obviously. Oh Merlin what am I suppose to do! This is the enemy we are talking about! I can not like Draco! ... But you do', Hermione's conscience told her. Flustered, Hermione decided that she would ask Ginny's advice later that day seeing as her best friend was such a strong person she would tell her what she needed to hear. And what she needed to hear was that she was crazy and that she should NOT like Draco at all. Unfortunately for Hermione that was not what she wanted to hear, she wanted to hear that Draco was completely gorgeous and that she should go after him. Thats it, I have finally lost it, Hermione told herself as she walked out the portrait hole.

When she got to the Great Hall Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Blake were already there. As was usual these days Ginny and Blake were glued together at the lips and Harry and Ron were talking conspiratorially by themselves. Hermione sat down next to Ginny, across from Harry and Ron and raised her eyebrows at the boys.

"What are you two whispering about?" Hermione asked

"Nothing" Harry relied sheepishly.

"You know you two have been acting really weird lately. Is there something going on I should know about?"

"No, same as always." Ron replied with a sideways glance and a smile at Harry.

"Okay..." Hermione said, unsure. Hermione turned her attention to her best girl pal and made a soft coughing noise. Ginny broke away from her boy toy reluctantly and turned to Hermione.

"Ginny, do you think I could talk to you for a minute before class?"

"Sure, whats up?"

"Uh...do you think I could talk to you...alone?" Hermione whispered.

Ginny gave her a knowing raised eyebrow look and agreed. She returned to passionately snogging her boyfriend and Hermione turned back to her breakfast.

"Now who is being secretive?" Harry joked.

"What! Its just girl talk anyway, you wouldn't want to know."

They all started laughing and finished breakfast completely enjoying one anothers company. It seemed as though they hadn't gotten to see each other at all since the start of term so they rather enjoyed the limited time they had to be around one another. Sooner then any of them would have liked it was time to go to class. Hermione had been too caught up in talking with Harry and Ron she hadn't left herself enough time to talk to Ginny, and Ginny had been way too busy to notice how fast the time had gone by.

"Ginny, can we talk after classes today?"

"Sure."

"Great, meet me in front of my dorm before dinner then?"

"Sounds good."

And with that they all scurried off to their classes. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Blake all hurried off the the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom for their first class with the new professor. Hermione scurried into the classroom first and took a seat in the front row, the boys reluctantly sat down next to her. Hermione was practically giddy with anticipation. The class had had a new D.A.D.A. teacher every year, some had turned out to be horrible like Professor Umbridge and some were the best teachers any of them had ever had like Lupin. Hermione was seriously hoping that this teacher would turn out to be a good one too. The rest of the classroom filled up around them, it was Gryffindors and Slytherins together, and the professor still hadn't gotten there. Hermione cast a reluctant look behind her and caught Draco's eye, he smiled briefly at her before returning to his surrounding cronies. Hermione looked around nervously wondering when the professor would finally get there.

BBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hermione was so startled that she fell out of her seat. She looked wildly around trying to figure out where the explosion had come from. All of her class mates around her were looking around also, at the front of the classroom there was a huge cloud of smoke, presumably where the explosion had originated from. Hermione tried to peer through the smoke to figure out what had happened. Slowly a tall and very handsome man could be seen through the haze.

"Hello students, sorry for my dramatic entrance there, I always seemed to have a flair for theatrics!" The man exclaimed.

Hermione glanced around at the faces of her fellow classmates, they all looked as stunned and confused as she felt. She looked back up to the man at the front of the classroom and realized that he was the new teacher that Dumbledore had introduced at the start of term feast. Dimitri or something...

Professor Alecsander Dimitri

"I am your new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, my name is Aleksander Dimitri but please call me Dimitri. I don't care for that whole 'Professor' thing or even 'Mr. Dimitri'. Makes me feel old! Now then is everyone here?"

There was a general mumbling of consensus that everyone was present.

"Fantastic! Okay now then, I have been told that you have had several Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers while you have been here. I was hoping that you would all help me out by telling me how you've felt about your education so far, who your favorite teachers were and why, and the least favorite and why. Also a general idea of what all you have studied. This will give me a pretty good idea of what I am up against here, and also what kind of teaching you respond well too. Now if you would all take out a piece of parchment and a quill." There was a lot of groaning and mumbling at this last statement. "Now don't get me wrong here, I do not need a full essay or anything like that. You can write it all down anyway that you would like. You could write a list or in paragraphs I don't care either way just as long as you let me know everything you feel about this subject so far."

The students reluctantly pulled out parchment and began to write. Alec settled himself a top his desk and began to swing his feet back and forth. He smiled widely at any student who happened to look his way. By the time the bell rang he was rather excited.

"Okay great first class everyone! Now anyone who is finished please bring your parchment to me, anyone who would like to write more please feel free to do so and bring me your parchments next class. Thanks everyone!"

Most of the Slytherins handed in their short lists and shuffled out the door. The Gryffindor's however mostly kept their parchments. 'Good, good this means that they are really thinking about the assignment. I should get some good feed back from them.' Dimitri thought to himself.

Hermione

"He seems a bit off that one." Ron said to Harry and Hermione once as they were out of earshot of the D.A.D.A. Classroom.

"Ron!" Hermione scolded "that is not a very nice thing to say at all. I rather liked him, I think that this is a brillant way to get to know where we all stand on our Defense Against the Dark Arts education."

Ron and Harry both rolled their eyes at their friend. They proceeded to go to their next classes and before long it was the end of the day. Hermione had been anxious all day long, she needed to talk to Ginny because she was the only one she trusted to set her straight. And Hermione needed to be set straight. She had spent the whole day with images of Draco haunting her every thought. She couldn't concentrate properly with him in her head all the bloody time. Hermione was down right desperate by the time her last class finally ended that she jumped up and sprinted out the door to find Ginny.

Ginny

Ginny walked out of her last class and headed up to Gryffindor tower to change before she met up with Blake. She hurried up the stairs and was just about to give the Fat Lady the password when she heard someone screaming her name.

"GINNY!!!!!" It was Hermione trying desperately to catch up with her. 'Crap, I forgot that I was suppose to meet Hermione' Ginny thought.

"Ginny," Hermione panted when she finally caught up to her. "Do you have time to talk right now? I really need some advice."

The look of desperation of Hermione's face was enough to make Ginny post-pone her rendezvous with Blake. "What's up Hermione?" Ginny asked, concern in her voice.

"Uh...could we maybe go somewhere a little more private?" Hermione asked as a fellow Gryffindor passed them to go into the tower.

The two girls made their was to the room of requirement where they knew for sure they would not be interrupted.

Hermione

Hermione paced in front of the hall way where the room of requirement was three times while thinking to herself 'I need somewhere to talk, where no one will disturb us'. Slowly a large ornate door materialized in front of them. The two girls entered into a room that look just like the common room in Gryffindor tower, complete with large comfy arm chairs and a big fireplace with an inviting fire crackling away. After looking the room over they settled into two arm chairs in front of the fire place.

"Okay now can you tell what has you in such a tizzy?" Ginny asked.

Hermione took a deep breath and launched into an explanation. "Ginny, I don't know what is going on with me! I should hate Draco...I mean Malfoy! See thats what I mean I am starting to not hate him anymore, more than that actually I think I might even be starting to like him. I don't know if I like him like he is okay to be around...or something more. I mean he is obviously very fit. (Ginny gave her a look that said 'you can say that again') But I have standards don't I? I mean just because he is rather good looking on the outside doesn't mean that I can get past what is on the inside right? He has been a right foul git for the past six years Ginny! How can I possible be forgetting all about that! What is wrong with me?"

"Ha ha ha ha Hermione its called hormones!"

"Oh pish! Hormones can not be what is causing this! I must be losing it! I have finally cracked that what it is! Oh I am so confused... I almost went completely nutters yesterday morning, I walked in on him Gin!"

"YOU WHAT!?"

"He was in the shower when I woke up, so I waited for him to be done, when I thought he was, I knocked, I didn't get an answer so I walked in. It turns out that he wasn't done...and he was just standing there, dripping wet, looking at me with this bemused expression on his face. Ginny I can't get that picture out of my head!!!"

"Well I should hope not!!"

"Ginny!!"

"What? Look Hermione, what you have to ask herself is whether or not you think that the old Draco was the real Draco or this new one that is treating you like a decent person should. People change Hermione, you just have to be willing to accept the new Draco."

"I think that I already have. I think I may like like him Gin." Hermione said in a quiet voice.

"Hermione we don't choose who we fall in love with."

"I didn't say anything about love!! Maybe I just find him really fit, maybe I am falling in lust with him but definitely not love!"

"Whoa there! A bit touchy are we? Okay, okay maybe not love but you are feeling something for him. I would just go with the flow, see what happens. He is acting like he is feeling anything?"

"Well...he put his arm around me and I can sometimes see a glint of something like lust in his eyes... Do you think it means something?"

"Only time will tell."

"How come you are so good at all this?"

"Who me? I'm a natural!"

The girls laughed and Hermione felt a million times better than she had since getting to school. Ginny was right all she needed to do what let it come as it would. Who knew what she was feeling, and it happened to be that she wanted Draco who was to say that it was wrong? All she knew was that she couldn't get him out of her head and now that she had Ginny backing her up she didn't want too. Hermione decided that she would make more of an effort to get to know this new found Draco. Perhaps he would become someone she could love.

Harry

Harry and Ron and waited up until the rest of the Gryffindor's had gone to bed. They just wanted a little time to themselves to figure out what they were suppose to do about their new found feeling for one another. It was one o'clock in the morning by the time the last stragglers had headed up to the dorms leaving Harry and Ron alone.

"So...erm...yeah" Ron said feeling a bit awkward.

"What now?" Harry asked.

"I dunno Harry, this is a bit weird don't you think?"

"Yeah I feel a bit awkward, like I don't know how to act around you anymore."

"I know what you mean, do you think its always going to be like this? Now that we have these other feelings does that mean that we can't be friends like we use to?" Ron asked a bit nervously.

"I think we can still be friends like we use to be, we just have a bit more to the relationship now. I mean if you still want to that is. Its not to late you know, we could just pretend the last couple of days didn't happen. We could just go back to being just friends." Harry knew that they could never go back to the way things were, but it just wanted to give Ron an out if he needed one. He didn't want to push Ron into doing anything that he didn't want to do.

Ron looked at Harry with a steady impression, "I don't think we could do that Harry." Ron picked up one of Harry's hands and held it with his own.. "And as a matter of fact I really don't want to go back to the way things were, I rather like the way things are heading." Ron leaned in a kissed Harry full on the mouth. Harry was a bit startled at first, his eyes growing wide. But soon his eyes drifted shut and he leaned into Ron to intensify the kiss.

'Wow' Harry thought, 'I never knew it could be like this'. He was beginning to lose himself in Ron and he hoped that Ron was feeling the same thing. Ron began to push Harry into a laying down position and climbed on top of him. They were snogging furiously. After several intense moments the pair broke apart, panting.

"I definitely don't want to go back to the way things were if things are going to be like that!" Harry moaned, still a little dazed from the kissing.

"I know exactly what you mean." Ron responded in a husky voice. The two sat staring at each other for a long awkward moment.

"I think, that maybe we should take things kinda slow." Harry whispered feeling a bit nervous.

"I think you maybe right, Harry. Too much of a good thing and all that." Ron said getting up from the couch. He offered his hand to Harry who gladly accepted and the two walked up to their dormitory. Harry gave Ron a passionate goodnight kiss before opening the door. They got ready for bed, silently slipping out of the days clothes. Stripped down to just their boxers they laid down in their separate beds, whispered goodnight and feel asleep, huge matching grins spread across their faces.

A/N #2: I hope you like the new chapter. Please remember to review it means a lot!! I have been rather sad...I have over 2000 reads but only 8 reviews!! Poor me...I don't know whether or not to ever continue the story cause no one is telling me what they think!! On another note, what did everyone think of the new movie? And the last book? Personally I thought they were both great even though the movie was a bit lacking...but how much can you really jam into 3 hours of running time? Anyway if you don't have anything to say about my story how about telling me what you think of the book or movie?