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Chapter 11

"I'm very excited to see what Hagrid has in store for us." Hermione said, as she walked along with Ron and Harry towards Hagrid's place.

They were extremely happy for their friend when they found out he was made into a Professor at Hogwarts. The only thing thing she wasn't looking forward to was seeing Draco and his hideous gangs of Slytherins. Ever since Harry fainted from a dementor, Draco and his friends has been teasing and making fun of him. She wanted nothing more than to smack him hard across the face for his idiocy.

Her excitement deflated when she noticed the object of her dis-satisfaction standing in front of her with his two buffoons he calls Crabbe and Goyle. They were chatting none sense and trying to give Hagrid a hard time by asking him how to open the bloody violent textbook.

"Yeh've got ter stroke 'em," Hagrid told him, as though this was the most obvious thing in the world. "Look!"

Hagrid took Hermione's textbook showed the class how to open The Monster Book of Monsters. As the book tried to bite him, he took his finger and ran it down the book's spine, making it shiver and fall open quietly in his hand. He handed it back to Hermione with a smile.

"Thank you." Hermione grinned, glancing down at the book with interest.

"Oh, how silly we've all been!" Malfoy sneered. "We should have stroked them! Why didn't we guess?"

Hagrid looked at Hermione, "I thought they were funny."

Hermione looked at Draco and glared at him, telling him to shut up with her eyes.

"Shut up, Malfoy." Harry said quietly.

He, Hermione and Ron wanted Hagrid's first lesson to be a success. However, Draco tried his best to make it his worst. He kept taunting the new Professor, but stopped short when they saw weird creatures trodding towards them.

"Hippogriffs!" Hagrid roared happily, waving a hand at them. "Beau'iful, aren' they?"

As Hagrid explained to them about Hippogriffs, Draco spoke to Crabbe and Goyle. Hermione tried her best to listen to Hagrid's teachings, but was being distracted because of Draco constant interrupting.

She turned to him sharply and said, "Pay attention!"

Draco snickered and glanced at her, "Make me, Granger."

She glared at him and turned her attention back to the front of the class. Why won't he stop being a jerk for once? Her anger turned to curiosity when Harry volunteered himself to touch the first hippogriff, Buckbeak. Hermione held her breath when the hippogriff was released from its chains, and hoped Harry knew what he was doing. Thankfully, Buckbeak accepted him and let Hagrid carry Harry on it's back.

"Go Harry!" Ron exclaimed, watching the hippogriff fly off with Harry.

Hermione grinned and jumped up and down with excitement. "Woo hoo!"

Draco glared at the flying hippogriff and Harry, before glancing back at Hermione. He couldn't help but feel a stab of jealousy and wanted to bring their attention to them.

"Big deal! It's just a bloody giant bird!'' Draco scoffed out loud.

However, their attention to Harry didn't quiver. That irked Draco a bit. Before he could make another comment, Buckbeak flew back down with Harry.

"Good work, Harry!" roared Hagrid with everyone except Malfoy, Grabbe, and Goyle.

Hagrid took the other hippogriffs and divided them to each group to practice on.

This is stupid. Draco groaned to himself, as he and his friends were to take over Buckbeak. The hippogriff bowed to him, and was now patting it's beak, looking disdainful.

He glanced to where Harry, Ron, and Hermione was, and kept his eyes on his childhood best friend. He couldn't see why the intelligent student couldn't recognize him.

Unless she already knows, and is in deep denial! Draco thought to himself.

"Good job, Ron!" Hermione exclaimed, hugging the redhead. Ron grinned sheepishly, as Harry laughed.

Draco felt another jolt of jealousy and turned back at to Buckbeak.

He drawled loudly for them to hear, "This is very easy! I knew it must have been, if Potter could do it... I bet you're not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?"

It all happened so fast. Hermione heard a loud pitch scream and whipped her head around to see Draco all curled in the grass writhing in agony. She felt like her heart was beating ten times faster than normal, and paled to see the blood seeping through his robes.

"I'm dying!" Draco yelled, as the whole class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!"

Hermione knew he was being pathetic, but couldn't help but feel panicky all the same, as she and the rest of the class ran towards Draco and Hagrid. She stared at Draco in the floor and felt like heaving to see the gashes in his arms, and the blood contaminating the grass.

"Yer not dyin!" Hagrid said, who also gone very white. "Someone help me! Gotta get him outta here!"

Hermione quickly ran to hold open the gate as Hagrid lifted Draco easily. The moment Draco was being lifted, something in his neck broke and fell to the ground. No one else has noticed except Hermione. She told herself to grab it for him later, and watched as Hagrid walked away with Draco.

"They should fire him straight away!" Pansy Parkinson screamed in tears.

"It was Malfoy's fault!" Dean Thomas snapped, ignoring Crabbe and Goyle's threatening glares.

As the Slytherins and Gryffindors argued, Hermione suddenly remembered the object that dropped in the grass. She quickly rushed to where Draco was, and looked at the ground, searching for whatever it was. Her eyes finally caught something shining from the sunlight, and narrowed her eyes.

As she walked closer to the object, she held a sharp breath and stared at the fallen object with wide eyes.

No way. Hermione gasped to herself, dropping to her knees and snatching the necklace off the ground. The blue bead was hanging in the middle, as the necklace itself looked a bit battered. She didn't know what came over her, but she took out her wand and repaired it.

No no no no no! She grabbed her own necklace and pulled it off of her. She held hers up next to Draco's and compared them.

It looked exactly the same as the day she gave it to him when they were younger.

"Draco Malfoy is Drake?" Hermione muttered to herself, staring at the blue bead on the necklace.

She felt a mixture of emotions consuming her. Anger, Confusion, sadness, and happiness.

Anger, because it was Draco Malfoy all along.

Confusion, because how could it be? Drake was nice and Draco's a git.

Sadness, because Drake turned out to be her enemy.

And happiness, because she finally found him.

However, the anger overcame them all, as she balled up the necklace in her hand and stuffed it inside her robe. She stared at her own necklace and reluctantly put it back on.

"What's that?" Ron asked, coming behind her.

Hermione shook her head and followed Harry and Ron out.

"D'you think he'll be all right?" Hermione asked, nervously. Just because she didn't like Draco, doesn't mean she wished him anything deathly fatal.

"'Course he will. Madam Pomfrey can mend cuts in about a second." Harry said, knowing he had far more worse injuries.

They kept walking until they found Hagrid. They bombarded him with questions and hoped that he wasn't fired as a Professor. Hermione promised herself that if something happened to Hagrid, she would give Draco or Drake a piece of her mind.

Hermione went along the next few days, trying to ignore Draco. She was still confused, and wondered if he knew about her.

Does he know who I am? Hermione asked herself. She paused for a minute and scoffed. Of course not! If he does, he wouldn't be treating us like that! He wouldn't treat Hagrid like that, either!

"Lost are you, Granger?" A voice drawled behind her.

Hermione dropped her bag heavily and turned around. She groaned out loud at the sight in front of her.

Draco raised an eyebrow in amusement.

"Something wrong?" He smirked, glancing at the huge bag she was carrying. "What happened to you?"

You happened, you pathetic twat. "None of your business." She snarled instead, trying to grab the bag again.

Draco looked at her with a soft expression and looked at the heavy bag. He sighed and bent down to grab it.

"Here let me." He murmured, ignoring Hermione's shock expression.

"Your arm." She said, watching him as he held her bag with ease.

"I'm not using my injured arm, aren't I?" He smirked.

Hermione narrowed her eyes dangerously, "Your arm isn't even that bad! You been making all those stupid excuses about pain up!"

Draco snickered, "So what?" Enjoying this game of teasing her.

She glared at him and roughly grabbed her bag from him. "Sod off, Drake!"

He stiffened and all the trace of humor from his face disappeared. "What did you call me?"

Hermione frowned and suddenly realized what she said, and kicked herself for being stupid. She wasn't ready to tell him yet. What would his reaction would be if he finds out his childhood best friend was none other than Hermione Granger?

"I called you Draco. That is your name, right?" She said, hoping he believed her.

Draco continued staring at her. She called me Drake... Does she know? "You didn't call me Draco, Granger."

She scoffed loudly and gripped her bag tightly. "Yes I did."

He shook his head and slowly walked towards her.

Hermione widened her eyes, as she backed away from him. "Sta- Stay away from me!"

"You called me Drake." Draco murmured softly, already standing in front of her.

Hermione felt herself pressed against the wall, as he was standing too closely for her liking. "I don't know what you're talking about, Malfoy. Please leave me alone."

Draco studied her face and reached out to tuck her wild curls behind her ears. Hermione stiffened at the touch and felt her heart beating against her ribcage, as his hand slid down to her cheek.

What is he doing! She panicked to herself.

His gaze dropped downward as he softly brushed the hairs away, to expose the skin of her neck. He felt the chains of her necklace under the blouse and untucked it, revealing the necklace with the pink bead. He stared at the necklace as memories passed through his head.

Draco looked back at Hermione's face and gave her a small smile. "Hello Herminee."

She gasped quietly as his thumb caressed her cheek.

That wasn't really the reaction she thought he would give.

"I missed you." Draco said as his voice cracked, letting her know he was just as nervous as she was.

Before she could reply back, Grabbe and Goyle interrupted them.

"Draco! There you are!" Crabbe yelled.

Draco quickly snapped back to his normal cold self and backed away from Hermione quickly.

"Why didn't you wait for us?" Goyle asked, ignoring Hermione completely.

Draco shook his head, "I wanted to get out of class."

Crabbe and Goyle nodded and followed Draco out.

Draco glared at Harry and Ron as he reached them, with Crabbe and Goyle behind him.

"There she is." Harry said, nodding towards Hermione walking towards them.

Draco turned around and noticed Ron and Harry quickly rushing to her. He sighed and shook his head about his behavior earlier towards her, and turned around to continue walking.

"How did you do that?" Ron asked.

"What?" Hermione said, joining them.

"One minute you were right behind us, the next moment, you were back at the bottom of the stairs again."

"What?" Hermione asked, feeling confused. She suddenly remembered she had used the time-turner and was late because of Draco. "Oh! I had to go back for something. Oh no!"

Her bag suddenly ripped open, causing the dozen of large and heavy books fall off.

Ron questioned her about the many books, and told him she was taking those classes. Ron frowned, knowing some of the classes were being taught in the same time, but Hermione quickly changed the subject by saying she was starving.

"D'you get a feeling Hermione's not telling us something?" Ron asked Harry.

Harry shrugged, as they followed Hermione towards the Great Hall.

Woo! Finally right! THEY BOTH KNOW! lol

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