A/N- Sorry this took so long, the next chapter is almost done so it shouldn't be long before it will be out.

Disclaimer: See Chapter 20

New Friends

Hermione smiled happily and decided to wait until tomorrow to write a letter back, and went to bed.

Down in the Slytherin common room, Hope had just gotten a tour and was sitting down in front of the fire thinking about how well the prank went. While she was lost in thought two people came over and sat down near her. One of them cleared her voice and Hope looked up slightly surprised.

"Hello" Hope said looking at them curiously. She wasn't sure who either of the people were but she knew they were no one that Hermione warned her against, and she hadn't seen them with Malfoy so far, so she thought she was okay.

"Hi, I'm Theo" the boy introduced himself, "and this is Daphne" he said nodding his head to the girl sitting next to him.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Hope."

"Nice to meet you too" Daphne said smiling.

"So, we take it your not a fan of Malfoy" Theo said smirking.

"Not really" Hope said not wanting to say more because she didn't know the two's angle and one thing she learned at her other school was to be cautious of new people.

"Neither are we" Daphne said smiling.

"He thinks he rules the world, his head is so far up his arse" Theo added in making Hope laugh. "That prank at dinner was wicked though, how did you do that?"

"Do what" Hope said smiling innocently.

"You're good" Daphne said laughing.

"Thanks" Hope said and then filling them in on the prank because she felt like she could trust them and she usually had good instincts on things like that.

"Wow, truth cookies, those sound wicked" Daphne said smiling but also taking note to be careful when Hope offers her food.

"It was nice seeing Draco taken down a peg" Theo said giving Hope a smile.

"Well, let's just say it might be a few more pegs by the end of the year" Hope said smiling evilly and making the other two laugh.

"Remind me not to get on her bad side" Theo said jokingly to Daphne, making both girls giggle.

"Well if you ever need any help, I am totally up for it" Daphne told hope.

"Yeah me too, and I share a room with him so just let me know if I can be of service" Theo added in.

The three continued talking and forming a new friendship, before heading off to bed. Hope knew that not all Slytherins were evil and thought it would be good to have some allies in her house. She also thought that the rest of the group would like the two, but just had never gotten the chance to get to know them. She hoped she could change there minds, and she went to bed thinking about that and the next prank that was planned.

The next morning Hermione woke up, wrote Fred a letter and got ready and headed to the Great Hall for breakfast. When she got there she sat down next to Ginny and told her about the letter that Fred had sent her last night.

"You guys are too cute" Ginny told Hermione and looked up and waved to Hope as she walked into the Great Hall with Daphne Greengrass, and Theodore Nott. Hermione looked to where Ginny was waving and added in her wave before turning to Ginny.

"Well is seems like she made some friends in her own house."

"Yeah, let's all just be happy it isn't Pansy" Ginny added in making the two girls laugh.

"What's go funny" Harry said walking up to the two girls with Ron and giving Ginny a quick kiss before filling up his plate.

"Hope and Pansy being friends" Hermione said giggling.

"WHAT!" Ron shouted starting to feel sick but not breaking more then saying what to stop shoveling food into his mouth.

"Not really" Ginny said, "We laughed at the image of Hope and Pansy being friends, and are just happy she is friends with Greengrass and Nott instead."

"ill ot ood" Ron said still eating.

"Better then Malfoy, and thinking about it I don't think I have ever seen the two of them with Malfoy" Harry said thinking.

"Yeah and it might be good to have more allies in Slytherin to become better pranksters then your father" Hermione said smiling evilly.

"What has Fred done to our sweet little Mione" Harry said laughing making Ginny and Ron join in, which was a little gross because Ron still had a mouthful of food.

Before Hermione could answer back, McGonagall came and handed out schedules. Ron, Hermione and Harry started looking them over and Ron and Harry looked up high-fived each other just as Ginny groaned.

"What's wrong Ginny?"

"Double Potions right after breakfast with Slytherin. Why were you two high fiving?" Ginny told Hermione and then asked the boys.

"Because we don't have double potions first this year" the boys said together.

"No, but we have it first tomorrow" Hermione said still looking over her schedule and making the two boys groan.

"Thanks for ruing our fun Mione" Ron said looking sad.

"What's wrong Ron?" Padma said walking over to the table and seeing Ron looking depressed.

"Double potions tomorrow morning." Ron said making the girls laugh at how pathetic he sounded.

"Yeah but sweetie, everyone has it together this year because most people dropped out of it, so at least most of our group will be there."

"We can plan pranks before Snape gets there!" Hermione said excited and everyone looked at her like she had grown an extra head.

"I think we need to see if Fred has given her one of his prank things because Hermione is going insane" Ginny told the others and everyone agreed.

"I think it's just love" Hope said walking up to the table with Daphne and Theo.

"Love does crazy things" Padma agreed.

"I think love is a bit soon" Hermione told the others with a slight frown.

"Nuh-uh" Ron said still eating but for once breaking enough to for the short sentence.

"Well we all better get going" Hermione said wanting the subject to change.

Everyone picked up there things and headed back to there common rooms to pick up there books and head to their first class. Hermione still thinking about what Hope and everyone said before, was she really in love with Fred? She knew she liked him, but she didn't know if she loved him yet, but she did feel for him like she had never felt for another guy before.

A/N - Hope you enjoyed. I know it is kind of short but I am rather busy and I wanted to get something out.