This will probably be another short one. Sorry, I try to make them longer but it never works out. I think once I'm done with this I'm going to re-write it, mostly because I know I can do better than this. Anyway, onto the next chapter.

Chapter 10-

(Lanne's POV)

Lanne turned around and was about to shout when she realized it wasn't Malfoy who was following her.

What the hell? "Granger?"

"Hey Lanne," she caught up to her now.

Lanne looked at her confused. "What do you want?" I thought I was rid of these prats.

"Are you really in Slytherin?" she asked Lanne, a bit of shock in her voice.

"So it would seem," Lanne gestured to the Slytherin emblem on her robes.

"Oh..." Hermione replied, disappointed. "I um, wanted to know if you would come by the common room later on. But, I thought you were in our house... but you're not… so um, I guess you probably wouldn't want to."

Damn right I wouldn't want to… "Umm… I've got some homework I've got to finish. I can't," Lanne replied, trying to sound sorry.

"Oh, okay. That's alright. I guess I'll see you around," Hermione turned and walked away.

"Yeah, sure," Lanne turned to walk away, but was interrupted again.

"Hey Lanne?" Hermione had turned back to her.

"Yeah?" Lanne asked a bit impatiently, fidgeting as she stood there.

"I- uh. You- you're not hanging with Malfoy… are you?" Hermione asked hopefully.

"Umm… I guess you could say I am," Not that I want to… or have much of a choice as it is now at least. Hermione gaped at her, which annoyed Lanne. You look like a friggin fish gasping for air. She wanted to say, but didn't. "Err… is something wrong?"

"N-no! I mean, Malfoy's so… I don't- Umm… never mind. I would just advise keeping a good distance from him," Hermione told Lanne.

This agitated Lanne a bit. "Well, it's not like I really like hanging around him. But he's a nice guy. Just because he's a prick to you and your little buddies doesn't mean he's like that to everyone. And don't think that just because you were the first people I met here means that you're my "guides" and I most certainly am not going to listen to every piece of "advice" you have for me. I can do just fine on my own." Lanne turned and walked away, heading for the common room to get her things for Potions. Hermione watched her walk away and wondered what was up with her. "I'll just have to talk to her when she's in a better mood," she thought.

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Malfoy's POV

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Malfoy sat there for a while just poking his food around. It wasn't until everyone began standing up and walking out of the hall that he was snapped out of his thoughts. He followed suit and walked towards the common room. When he was in the common room he proceeded to his dorms and grabbed his Potions books and headed to class.

When he walked into the classroom, he spotted Lanne sitting over in the far corner. He went over and sat by her.

"Hey…" he said softly. "Look… I- um, I'm sorry about before. I know I shouldn't have told Blaise, but he-"

"Don't bother Malfoy. It doesn't matter now anyway. What's done is done, and you can't take it back. Okay, so Blaise knows. Fine. Well, it's not fine but there's nothing I can do now," Lanne started talking angry, but was quieter by the end and more so talking to herself than Draco.

"But you're a witch. There's always something you can do. Memory charms… or… I don't know… something-"

"What's the point? So you can just find out and have to go through this all over again. I know you would. And Blaise won't say anything. He has no reason to. It won't do him any good in any way at all. So there's no point," as she finished, Snape walked in the room with his long, quick strides to the front.

"Today class, we will be doing a very simple healing potion. I will assign you pairs. The only difference is that this year, your pairs are permanent. I will not waste time assigning your partners for each and every class," Snape explained to them and began listing the partners. "… Zabini and Weasley, Brown and Goyle, Patil and Crabbe, Dean and Bulstrode, Malfoy and Potter…" Snape finished listing the students and they immediately began moving around to each others' desks. Snape walked up to Lanne's desk.

"Lanne. You're the new student. Well just because you're new, you'd better not expect any special treatment. You're partners with Granger. Now get to work," Snape finished and Lanne audibly sighed.

Draco hadn't moved to go to Harry's desk and he turned to Lanne. "Well, that sucks. Good luck with her."

Lanne laughed bitterly, "Hmpf, yeah. This'll be so much fun." As Hermione approached, Malfoy got up and moved over to Harry's desk.

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Lanne's POV

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"Hey again Lanne. I guess we're partners for the year, huh?" Hermione greeted her, most likely trying to start up a conversation.

Stupid Snape. It's the first goddamn Potions class and I already hate him. "Um, yeah," Just shut up and let's get this over with. Lanne walked over and retrieved the ingredients for the healing potion. She read the instructions and found that it disinfects wounds and helps to seal them. Hah, well isn't that just so ironic?

Hermione read over the instructions as well and asked Lanne to pass some kind of herb to her. Lanne wasn't paying attention, so she just followed Hermione's finger to what it was pointing to and handed it to her. She carefully began cutting it up. Lanne glanced over to Ron and Blaise. Ron was carelessly cutting up the same strange leaves that Hermione was, and Blaise was just sitting there, watching her.

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Malfoy's POV

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Oh, boy. This will be an interesting year. Draco walked over to Harry's desk and plopped down on the chair. He sat there and did nothing and it was unspoken but understood that he was not moving. So Harry went up and gathered the ingredients for the potion. They both read over the directions and as Harry began to cut them up, Draco boiled the strange colored liquid in the cauldron, absentmindedly stirring it.

"Malfoy! What the hell are you doing?" Harry shouted and grabbed the stick Draco was stirring with. The potion turned a grayish blue color and Snape came over.

"Potter! What did you mess up this time?" Snape scolded to boy.

"What? It wasn't me professor! It was Malfoy, he kept stirring it!" Harry defended himself. Snape just looked at him in disbelief.

"Get rid of it and start over. And this time, pay attention!" Snape walked away and they emptied out their cauldron. Draco started to boil the liquid again, but Harry stopped him.

"Oh no you don't. I'll do it this time. You finish chopping up these," Harry handed Draco the leaves he was chopping up before. Harry carefully stirred it, glancing at Draco almost every ten seconds.

"I think I'm able to cut up some herbs without you babysitting me, Potter," Draco spat.

"Well, sorry Malfoy, but you already screwed it up once. I don't really feel like being yelled at for something I didn't do again," Harry replied and went back to stirring. Draco glanced over at Lanne, who was sitting nervously and fidgeting. She wasn't doing anything, but kept looking at another part of the room. Malfoy followed her gaze to where Blaise sat. Blaise wasn't looking at her right now, but was working on the potion. He turned around to meet Draco's gaze, which was glaring at him. Blaise gave Draco a confused look and Malfoy nudged his head towards Lanne. The other boy looked at Lanne and back at Draco, a still confused expression on his face. Malfoy grabbed a piece of parchment and a quill and quickly scribbled, "What are you up to?" on it. He charmed it to quickly fly over to Blaise, keeping out of Snape's sight. Draco was completely unaware of a pair of green eyes locked on him.

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I think that was a bit longer… or at least I hope it was. I still need to work on more narration rather than all dialogue. But, I finally know where I'm going with the story. There was a bit of foreshadowing in this chapter, see if you picked it up.

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