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Hermione's POV

I'm left standing at the Portrait hole, watching as Draco runs off, feeling very confused inside. Instead of eating in the Great Hall with my classmates, I had grabbed a sandwich and and wrapped it in a napkin so I could eat in my room. However I bumped into Malfoy and now I'm here.

I slowly walk into our dorm through the portrait hole and sit on the window seat in the common area. I finish my lunch and think about what I smelled in that potion. I knew the potion was Amortentia, but I didn't think too much about it. Then when Neville and I finished making it, I was overwhelmed by the smell of parchment, my mother's perfume, and to my surprise, Malfoy's hair. I was so shocked, I didn't say anything to anyone, but when Malfoy asked why I was confused I went completely defensive.

Then when I bumped into him outside the portrait, he just stared at me for a good minute or so. It was really weird, it was as if it was the first time he had really seen me as a real person. I wonder, does he like me? Am I just imagining things? Should I say something or just leave it? I think the potion is just addleing my brain. I'm in the middle of these thoughts when I feel my phone start buzzing. I pull it out of pocket and see that it's just an alarm saying that there is only 10 minutes left of lunch break. I gather my books for the afternoon, and leave for my next class.


I go down to the Great Hall for dinner and I eat some shepherd's pie and a selection of fruits. After eating quickly, I go upstairs to my dorm so that I can get a bit of my homework done before Malfoy comes up. I get to the portrait and go inside. I grab my laptop, earbuds, and my homework. I sit on the couch and play music from my laptop as I start on an essay for potions. I'm about halfway done when Malfoy walks in.

"Granger, I just need to grab my laptop and then we can start." He says, then he runs up the stairs to his room and comes down a few moments after.

"Alright, let's try to keep this as short as possible so we can get on to the rest of our homework. First let's set up the computer. Open the laptop and rest it on your knees. Yes, like that. Now you don't have proper laptop as they are very expensive, you have a chromebook which means you just use online stuff. The name of the program is called Chrome." I see that he looks a little confused, but I keep moving on anyway.

"Okay see the little thing in the corner that says 'add person'? Click that by dragging your finger on the silver bit in the middle of the bottom part of your laptop. That is called a trackpad, and will move the little triangular icon on screen. You will be asked for an email which we will set up first on my computer. I'll put your name in for you, what do you want your email to be? You have to choose the beginning and then it will end in 'at gmail. com '. For example, mine is hermione. granger 'at' gmail. com. You can make it as creative as you want."

"Um, how about draco. malfoy. sg 'at' gmail. com?" I wonder what the sg stands for or if it even has any meaning.

"Yeah sure. Next you need to pick a password. I'll let you do it yourself, as it prevents other people from accessing your account. Just click here and press the keys for each letter or number. If you want the little symbols above the numbers, hold the 'shift' button at the same time you press that key. Using numbers, letters, and symbols is best as it's harder for people to guess it. Then type the same password in the box underneath it." I look away as he does the password. When he's done he tells me and hands me back my laptop.

"Now, I need your birthday."

"June 5, 1980"

"Okay, and you are male, and we are in the United Kingdom. Done! Now type your email into the box on your computer."

"Alright, done."

"Now it should ask for your password. Just type it in."

"I've done that, now it's taken me to a page and it's asking if I want a tour. Should I click yes?"

"No, that's not necessary. I can show you how to change your profile picture and wallpaper another time. For now, hit the little circle icon with the blue circle in the middle and red, yellow, and green around it. That is the Chrome icon. The one beside it is for your email, then google documents, and YouTube. I'll explain those in a bit. You should have a screen that says Google and a long rectangle box under it. That is called the search bar. The other place you can use to search stuff is the really long one at the top of the page. That is the URL box. If you type a website address, it will take you directly to it. For example type: drive. google. com, then hit enter. You are now on Google Drive. You can create a writing document, make graphs and tables, and make an online presentation with images and words."

"Perhaps we should actually look up what these things on my list are before you get side-tracked again?"

"Oh right, sorry. What was the first thing on your list?"

"Airplane."

"Okay, for all these items, search 'what is the definition of a…?'. In this case it would be 'what is the definition of an airplane?'. Then it will show you a list of different links in blue colour. Click the link and it will take you to a website and you should be able to find a definition in there. Got it?"

"Yeah, thanks Granger, I can take it from here."

"Okay, in that case Malfoy, I'm going to go shower now as you'll be occupied down here for the next while."

I go upstairs and take a quick shower, before getting out and quickly tying my hair in a rough bun so it doesn't drip down my back while I'm doing homework. I go downstairs and see Malfoy is really engrossed in his work, but he's only written down 2 of the 20 definitions.

"Malfoy, are you having trouble with the definitions?" I ask him. I've been gone for at least 15, maybe 20 minutes so he should be almost done.

"No, I'm just learning so much about each thing. There's so much you can learn here! I've started using this website called Wikipedia, and it leads from one topic to another so easily! Unfortunately I don't know how to go back to the page I was previously on so I just keep going deeper into a topic."

"Oh right! I didn't tell you how to go back! Okay, do you see the little arrow pointing to the left in the top left corner? Clicking that will take you to where you just were. If you hit the one next to it pointing to the right, it will take you back to the one you were one before you went backwards. If you want to open something on a separate page, click it with both fingers on the trackpad, and a list will appear. Click the one called 'open link in new tab'. Make sure it's tab, not window. If you want to open a tab and search something new, see the small parallelogram next to the long trapezoid at the top of the screen? Hit that. The trapezoid is the name of the tab. If you click it, it will take you to the open tab."

"Okay Granger, I don't need anymore help."

"Okay then. I'll be over here on the other couch if you do need more help." I say. I don't quite think that he won't need help.

Malfoy doesn't ask for anymore help, and finishes the sheet after about an hour or so. I finish my essay and edit it before checking my email on my laptop, and then going upstairs to bed.

"Malfoy, I'm going to bed now, if you need anymore help, I'll have to show you tomorrow morning."

I go upstairs and brush my teeth before changing into my pyjamas and settling down and playing my music quietly. I fall asleep quickly, feeling content with how I helped Malfoy, and hoping it would always be like this.


Author's Note: Draco's birthday is actually correct. Check if you don't believe me. For the emails, I had to put extra spaces in between them and add 'at' in place of the usual icon as Fanfiction doesn't let me put URLs or emails in the story, sorry if it looks weird. Please read and review, feedback and comments are always welcome. Just know that hateful comments will be responded to with a lengthy and polite reply. Thanks, and see you next time!