Chapter 9 Harvey's first match

It's been a month since the incident with the junior Death Eaters. Hermione noticed that Draco had completely avoided her after that. She thanked him for helping though, but he only nodded in response, then everything went back to avoiding her.

Hermione also was shocked that Theo was now training her instead of Draco. She found it disappointing at first but then she thought it would be for the betterment of them.

Pansy's doubts though, had left her when she hadn't found anything more suspicious. She gave up and went back to being her normal self. She interacted more with "Harvey" and even helped him in some things, with Zabini to be exact.

Blaise though, had still thought of pursuing her. She just wished she could tell her that she was in fact a girl so that she'd finally leave her alone. But she knew it'd be too much trouble.

Another thing bothering her was that her first match was coming, and it had to be against Gryffindor. She sighed dejectedly as she thought of it. She'd be facing Ron since he's the keeper.

She then thought what it would be like to be Hermione again. Even she forgot about what's like to be a girl. She got used to pretending to be a boy. Though, she had problems with the red waves but she made sure to keep tabs on when she'd be visited again.

Apart from those problems, Hermione also had to deal with the raging female population. She now had more girls pinning after her. She hated it since she had to be followed everywhere by squealing girls who wanted to take her on a Hogsmeade weekend.

Hermione walked intently toward the Great Hall and sat beside Blaise. She was lucky that Blaise had agreed to not be clingy to her as possible.

"Morning." She muttered as she grabbed a piece of bread.

"Morning." Pansy said, she was currently reading the recent issue of Witch Weekly.

Hermione itched to borrow it and read but she stopped herself.

"Good Luck today." Blaise said.

"Thanks…" Hermione said.

"Oh, Draco said you had a meeting." Pansy said closing the magazine Hermione itched to read.

"Oh." She took one last gulp at her pumpkin juice before turning to leave. "See you guys."

"Okay, everyone here?" Draco said.

He glanced around and saw "Harvey's" face and nodded at them. "So, um what we will be doing is…" But Harvey himself cut him off.

"Draco, I have a plan." Hermione said.

Draco stared at her and nodded. He let her lead and she explained intently.

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"Everyone, don't forget the plan!" Hermione shouted over the roaring crowd.

Her teammates nodded at her and grinned.

"Madam Hooch gives the signal! And the game begins!" Luna said cheerily.

Hermione hovered close to the 3 rings. She saw Ginny and Ron with determined faces. She smiled and moved forward. She gave a little signal with her hand and the quaffle was passed on to her.

"You can't pass me Wilson." Ron said, an angry glare reached Hermione's eyes.

She smirked. "Watch me Weasel."

"She throws the quaffle oh! Ron catches it but he…falls? Oh! The quaffle wasn't really a quaffle! It was a bludger that was sent by Goyle! Wilson throws the real quaffle and scores! Slytherin leads 10-0." People gasped at Luna's commentary.

Hermione grinned at her teammates and their game continued.

Ron recovered fast and his eyes gained more anger.

Hermione was once again in front of him.

"You won't pass with the same trick Wilson." He spat.

"Who said I was gonna Weasel?" she smirked a Malfoy smirk. Merlin if he knew how she always copied his gestures, Hermione knew he'd be proud.

She sped on forward clutching the quaffle Ron was going to block it, following Hermione's movement to the left side. Suddenly another chaser came with…a quaffle! She threw it and scored!

"My! What another excellent plan by the Slytherins. They lead with 20-0."

It turned out, Hermione struggled with the bludger, acted as if it was a quaffle and told her teammate to throw the quaffle to the goal. She grinned happily and the game continued for another hour.

The game was becoming far more intense than before. The current score was 90-80 favoring Gryffindors. Draco was cursing under his breath and was determined to catch the snitch, but the Weaselette was trailing behind him.

Hermione watched from afar as Draco and Ginny were neck to neck in the fight. Hermione caught sight of the little bugger and she saw Draco saw it. Now it was a hard decision for Hermione since her brain was picking on which side to choose. She wanted to win, but she also liked if Ginny caught the snitch. Deciding it wasn't her problem at all, she continued to hover near the goal and threw the ball.

"This game is once again a tie! It now depends on who catches the golden snitch."

Hermione fought against the bludger and passed the quaffle. A Gryffindor Chaser intercepted it and they scored. She cursed under her breath and tried to get the score back when Luna's announcement caught her attention.

"There they are! They're nearing the snitch! The golden Snitch is almost with them. Oh!" everything went silent.

Hermione closed her eyes, she could hear the beating of her heart loudly. She took in deep breaths noticing not one sound was still heard. She opened her eyes to see shocked faces of every student watching.

"Draco Malfoy has caught the snitch!" All the Slytherins roared in joy.

Hermione smiled happily.

"Slytherin wins with 100-240!" Luna announced.

The team gathered around a panting Draco Malfoy who sat on the ground, his eyes were still on the snitch.

"We did it!" a beater beamed at their captain.

Draco, for the first time, took his eyes away from the Snitch. He glanced at his fellow teammates and smiled.

"We're celebrating tonight!" he said and everyone cheered.

Hermione couldn't help but feel sorry for the Gryffindors. Hermione glanced at Ginny who cried. After all have left, she approached Ginny. She handed out her handkerchief.

"Want to taunt me?" she spat with venom in her voice.

"No." then she smiled. Ginny's eyes widened in shock.

"Why are you doing this?" she said, wiping her tears with the given handkerchief.

"I don't know. I just…don't want an enemy I guess." She said before leaving.

"Wait! Your hanky," she stretched her hand.

"Keep it. As remembrance." Then she grinned.

Ginny's eyes widened more before smiling. Hermione returned to the Slytherin Common Room to see everyone wide-awake.

"Where were you? Let's dance!" Blaise said. Hermione laughed and obliged.

It was a party after all. Hermione started dancing with the crowd and didn't notice a pair of silver orbs that followed her move.

"I'm tired, I need a drink." She went over the butterbeer stand and took a mug.

"It's the first time we beat Gryffindors, did you know?" Draco said, he was leaning on the wall.

Hermione looked at him, an eyebrow raised. "Really?" she said.

"If Potter was seeker, I would've never caught it." He said motioning her to come with him.

He lead her outside the to the balcony and they stood there, feeling the wind rush past their exhausted body.

"Well you wouldn't really with that pessimism of yours." She nagged.

Draco looked at her and turned away. "I wanted to talk to you." He said, still facing the sky.

"Really, and here I thought you were avoiding me." She said sarcastically.

"About what happened…" he started.

"Don't. I think we both know that we're trying to forget about that." She stopped him before he finished.

He nodded. But inside of him, he felt a little down, and he didn't know why.

"So…back to talking again?" he said.

"Of course." She said taking his hand and shaking it.

With that she left Draco to look at his hand. It was burning with warmth. He gazed back at the sky and thought of things.

'I wanted this right? To let her know that we'd just forget about it…but, why did I feel suddenly disappointed when she said to forget about it?' he thought.

'Am I in love with him?'