A/N: How are you? It's been so long, I know, but I went back to school and got loads of homework piled onto me. Trust me, I didn't like it either. I would have rather been typing. Damn Italian. Anyhoo, this is the next chapter, I hope you all like it and I'm sorry it took so long to write. I'm also going to damn writers' block. Damn writers' block. Okay, I'll shut up now, please review! walks away waving and smiling.
The Prank
The next morning, They all got up bright and early to see what the Slytherins boys looked like. They got dressed quickly and met in the Common Room. They walked down together and took the best seats they could get that faced the Great Hall door and the Slytherin table. After waiting anxiously for twenty minutes, they finally heard maniacal laughter coming from outside the hall doors. The fifth year Slytherin boys walked into the Great Hall wearing dresses and skirts and low cut, shirts with high heels. None of them particularly happy about this arrangement, but seeming as they found out this morning that these were the only clothes that they had to wear, they would rather wear these than walk breakfast naked. That would have been even more embarrassing. They trudged haughtily over to Slytherin table and sat down amidst the laughter of the rest of the school. You could see Sirius at the Staff table laughing his head off at the Slytherins misfortune. Draco sat facing the Gryffindor table and saw Hermione, Harry, Ron and Ginny nearly rolling on the floor in laughter and giving each other hi-5's. His eyes went wide with realisation. They had done this to them. He turned red with anger and told the other boys about it. They turned around to see what Draco had just seen. They were seething in anger.
I'll get them back later. Draco thought. They sat during breakfast and ate quickly, hoping to get to find Flitwick so they could ask for the reverse spell. Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny all finished their breakfast and sat under the tree by the lake talking about their prank. They were soon joined by and enraged Draco and a sniggering Sierra.
Sierra sat beside Harry and buried her head into his chest, still trying to fight down laughter after this mornings episode. Draco sat with a huff down beside Hermione, but didn't look at her. They were all trying to stifle laughter, but failed miserably, so they all just burst into laughter to get it all out.
'You looked so, funny!' Hermione yelled between gasps of laughter. Draco shot daggers at her.
'Now I know why you really wanted the password for! You planned all of this, you pulled the prank on us!' Draco shouted. Hermione caught her breathe and sat up again from her position of laying on the grass.
'Well, it was all in good fun.' Hermione explained, getting a little scared at what Draco was going to do, for he looked like he was about to explode. Harry and Ron sat up and Sierra rested her head on Harry's lap, still giggling. Draco shot the worst glare her way that she visibly flinched.
'You know I'm going to get you back for this.' He said.
'I'd like to see you try!' Harry said. Draco gave him an evil look that just screamed, oh, I will, and turned back to Hermione.
'I'll get you back in different ways than I will them.' Draco said. Hermione shrugged, looking indifferently. Draco got an evil glint in his eye and Harry pulled Sierra out of harms way. Draco suddenly tackled Hermione and started to tickle her relentlessly. She started screaming for mercy, but he wouldn't stop straddling and tickling her. Harry, Ron, Ginny and Sierra were laughing there heads off at the silly couple and Harry took that moment to take a sweet kiss from Sierra, who complied happily. They ended up snogging on the ground, though no one noticed, and by the time any one did, they were rolling on the ground in laughter anyway, so no one noticed that they were snogging. Draco then noticed and scared the living daylights out of them.
'BOO!' He yelled in their ears. They jumped apart so suddenly that Harry had jumped off of her and landed on the ground beside her. The others were rolling on the ground in hysterical laughter. Just as they had calmed down enough to talk reasonably with each other, Pansy joined them, sitting on Ron's lap and snogging him. Everyone rolled their eyes as they didn't stop. Hermione sat on Draco's lap and leaned into his chest.
'I love you.' She whispered to him. He smiled at her and whispered in her ear, 'I love you more.' He snuggled his head down into her neck and kissed the sensitive skin there lovingly. She smiled to herself at how lucky she was to have him.
They went inside after a while and sat in the Great Hall to talk in a warm place that they were all allowed to be in. After a while they got bored and just sat down, not really doing anything. Hermione got a bright idea.
'Why don't we play Spin the Bottle?' She asked. The others looked at her curiously as Harry groaned.
'Do we have to?' He asked.
'Well, let's let the others decide. I'll tell you the rules and then you can decide if we play or not.' Hermione suggested. The others nodded in agreement and Hermione started to explain the rules.
'Okay, do any of you have a bottle?' She asked.
'Wait a sec, I'll go get one from the kitchens.' Draco said. He got up and ran down to the kitchens, returning a couple of minutes later with a Butterbeer bottle.
'Here you go.' He said, putting the bottle on the table and sat back down next to Hermione.
'Okay, there is one person who spins the bottle first and the person that it lands on has to either hug them, kiss their cheek, peck them on the mouth, kiss their chest, stomach, knee or foot, and then snog them, depending on how many times the bottle has landed on that person, with the other person spinning. For example, if I spin the bottle and it landed on, say, Draco, then he would first have to hug me, then, I spun it again and it landed on him again, then he would have to kiss me on the cheek, then, if I spun it again and it landed on someone different, the chain would start all over again, except Draco and I still stay on that, and the other person that the bottle had landed on would only be on hugging me. Okay, that was a really bad example, but I'll explain more of the rules as we go.' Hermione explained. She spun the bottle and it landed on Harry. She got up and gave Harry a hug.
'Okay Harry, now you spin the bottle.' Hermione instructed. He spun the bottle and it landed on Ginny.
'Now hug her.' Hermione explained. 'Oh, and we won't play gay or lesbian, that's just cruel on everyone.' She added. They nodded enthusiastically. 'Gin, spin the bottle.' Ginny spun the bottle and it landed on Hermione again.
'Spin again Gin, it has to land on a guy.' Hermione said.
'Oh, okay.' Ginny spun it again and it landed on Draco. 'Now you have to hug Draco.' Hermione said. Ginny got up and hugged Draco before sitting back down and casting an apologetic glance Hermione's way. Hermione smiled warmly at her and motioned for Draco to spin the bottle. He did and it landed on Sierra.
'Um, if I land on her heaps of times, do I really have to do that stuff to my cousin?' Draco asked after giving Sierra a hug. Hermione grinned.
'No, if you get Sierra too many times, and it starts to get awkward, then spin again, same with Ron and Ginny.' Hermione explained.
'Good, because there is no way in hell that I am doing half that stuff to my cousin.' Draco said. Ron and Ginny nodded vigorously. Hermione smiled.
'Sierra, your turn.' She pointed out. Sierra spun the bottle and it landed on Harry. She got and gave him a big hug, which he returned. Harry spun the bottle again and it landed on Hermione.
'What do I have to do now?' He asked cautiously. Hermione laughed.
'You have to kiss me on the cheek.' She answered. Harry leant over and kissed her quickly on the cheek before sitting back down with a crimson colour staining his cheeks. Hermione laughed again.
'Harry, you do know that when I had friends in the muggle world we used to play a worse version than this? You doing that is nothing compared to what we used to do.' Hermione said. Draco turned a rather nasty colour red and held onto her waist tighter.
'It was before I even knew you, you're safe.' Hermione said to him. He nodded jerkily and Hermione spun the bottle again. It landed on Ron. Hermione got up and gave Ron a hug. He hugged her back before she sat back down beside Draco. Ron spun the bottle and it landed on Pansy. Ron leant over and enveloped Pansy in a loving embrace. Pansy blushed lightly and spun the bottle. It landed on Harry. She went to hug him and sat back down.
'You know, this isn't very interesting.' Ron complained. The others nodded. Hermione grinned evilly.
'Oh, it gets better. Just you wait and see.' She replied. A couple of minutes later, it had gotten interesting. Draco had just kissed Pansy's chest and had turned bright red. Hermione had to try and hold back laughter, so she ended up crying from it. When Draco saw, he tried to apologise and said it was a dumb game, but Hermione couldn't take it any more and burst out laughing. Draco trying to apologise had made the situation a hell of a lot funnier.
'I was crying from holding back laughter, Draco, not because I was upset!' Hermione cried after catching her breath. Draco turned an even brighter red and sulked next to her for a while. Hermione put her arms around him and comforted him a little before telling him that he had to spin the bottle. Draco spun it and it landed on Hermione. He was up to kissing her stomach, so he leant down and placed a gentle kiss on the clothes covering it. She smiled as he came back up and cuddled into him. He smiled back at her and wrapped his arms around her waist. Everyone grinned wickedly at each other and said altogether, 'Awww.' Hermione glared at them before spinning the bottle. It landed on Ron. He turned pale at the prospect of snogging the girl that was basically another sibling to him. Hermione started leaning forwards. They only snogged for a little while, but that was all that was needed to make Draco very jealous and turn Ron incredibly red. Hermione was undeterred however, as she sat back down without a care in the world. Draco looked at her for a second before he realised that she was as embarrassed at kissing Ron as he was about kissing her, but she was just able to not show it. He leaned down and gently kissed the top of her head. She looked back up and smiled at him. He smiled back and they again settled into each others embrace just in time to watch Harry and Ginny snog one another and to see Sierra turn away. Draco smirked a little at his cousins' jealousy. When Harry and Ginny broke apart, Draco kicked Harry in the shins and looked pointedly at Sierra. Harry noticed and wrapped his arms his girlfriend. She looked up at him and gave him a small kiss, and then wrapped her arms around him in return. Harry then started to spin the bottle and it landed on Pansy. He stood up and kissed her knee before sitting back down and waiting resume the game. Pansy spun and it landed on Draco. Now it was Hermione's turn to be jealous of the two snogging, but when Draco surfaced, he pulled Hermione onto his lap and buried his head into her neck. She laughed at his stupid antics and kissed his head. She felt him smile, which, in turn, made her smile. Draco spun the bottle and it landed on Hermione. He quickly bent down and kissed her exposed knee. She smiled at this and giggled a little. It tickled. They all started laughing.
'How are we sure that he actually kissed your knee and not somewhere else?' Ron asked. Hermione shot him a dirty glare as Draco turned slightly pink at the suggestion and the others started laughing.
'Do you really want to check Ron?' Hermione asked. Ron turned red and shook his head. He really didn't want to check or know if Draco had actually done what he was supposed to do. The others were still laughing at what Ron had suggested when Hermione spun the bottle so hard it hit Ron in the head.
'Sorry Ron, but you deserved that, and it wasn't intentional.' Hermione added. The others were still laughing at Ron's misfortune when Sirius walked up with Lupin in step.
'Hey guys, what are you up to? Not mischief I hope.' Sirius asked, but he ruined the effect by winking at them.
'You do know that the wink you just gave us ruined the effect.' Hermione said, since she was the only one not laughing at Ron still. They stopped pretty quickly though.
'We're playing Spin the Bottle. It's a muggle game that Hermione though we should play.' Harry explained. Lupin and Sirius shared a smirk and the others looked wearily at each other, wondering what the first generation of Marauders was thinking.
'I remember that game. Your mother introduced it to us Harry, seemed to think it was a good idea, and they needed guys, so we happily volunteered. Though, it was actually James that hooked us into it. He wasn't going to pass up a chance to finally get to kiss Lily. It just so happened that they got together at the end of the game, while the rest of us were still single, though, we liked it that way. Peter wasn't going to get a girlfriend anyway.' Lupin said. Harry smiled at James' horniness as a teenager and wanting Lily that much.
Well, he thought, now I know how my parents got together.
'How long have you been playing for?' Sirius asked, sitting down beside them. Lupin followed his lead.
'About an hour, we had to start again after a while because we finished that circuit.' Harry explained.
'Which version?' Sirius asked.
'The non-dirty version.' Hermione answered. Sirius smirked. He had though so.
'That's no fun Hermione. You should have done the dirty one.' Sirius whined.
'Not in front of you lot we weren't.' Hermione snapped at him. Sirius barked in laughter.
'Thought you guys would be chicken.' Sirius teased.
'We didn't want to get in trouble by teachers. Considering that we shouldn't be playing this in the open anyway.' Hermione added in an undertone. Draco raised a questioning eyebrow at her and she blushed lightly. It wasn't like Hermione to play an illegal game at the school out in the open.
'Then why didn't you play it in an empty classroom?' Sirius asked.
'Because the Great hall was common ground, and it was warm.' Ron replied. Sirius laughed again.
'Typical. I thought so.' He muttered. Hermione shot him a look which he returned with his award-winning smile. She sighed and rolled her eyes. Typical Sirius.
'Well, do you know of any place with heating that could be called common ground?' Harry asked his Godfather. Sirius pondered the question, then turned back to face him.
'No, I don't, but you could ask the house-elves. They know this place back to front.' Sirius commented.
'Good idea, Dobby!' Harry called. At the mention of his name, Dobby appeared with a loud crack at Harry's side.
'Mr. Harry Potter called Dobby, sir?' Dobby asked.
'Yeah, I did. Is there any place in the castle that is heated, is a common ground for all houses and where nobody could find us? Where we could do whatever we wanted to do without being seen or known about by teachers?' Harry asked. Dobby got all excited all of a sudden.
'Yes Harry Potter, sir. It is called the Room of Requirement. Though, I don't think I should tell you about it in present company, sir.' Dobby muttered throwing looks at Professor Lupin. Harry and Lupin started chuckling.
'Don't worry Dobby, I won't tell anyone. I would like to know about this place. Hopefully it could save me going down to the Whomping Willow every month.' Lupin said. The others gave him sympathetic looks, well, all except Sierra, who had no idea what he talking about. Draco whispered it in her ear at the look on her face. Her eyes widened for a second before she too looked at him sympathetically.
'Maybe, we'd have to tell Dumbledore about it though, and maybe it's not a good idea that you are in the school Moony.' Sirius reasoned. 'At least when you're in the grounds you can run around, if you're in the castle you'd have to stay in the one room the entire time.' Lupin nodded absentmindedly. He would definitely rather running around rather than being kept in one room.
'So where is this place Dobby?' Draco asked. Dobby looked at his old master with fear in his eyes and wouldn't answer him. Draco sighed and rolled his eyes.
'I'm not going to hurt you, you know.' Draco said in an exasperated voice. Dobby looked around a little before answering.
'Well, sir, it is on the patch of wall across from the tapestry of Barnebus the Barmy, sir.' Dobby said. He was still a little scared of Draco and Draco knew it. He vowed to be nicer to the elf to gain his trust again, not just his fear. 'You have to walk in front of the wall three times, saying what you want the room to turn into, sir.'
'Why don't we go and find it then?' Harry proposed.
'Yeah sure.' Sierra said. Everyone nodded and they got up to leave with Sirius and Lupin following. They reached the seventh floor where the tapestry was and did the rest to what Dobby had instructed. Then, all of a sudden, a door started to appear on the wall. They looked at each other in shock. The door only took a couple of minutes to fully form, but when it did, it looked splendid. It was an old door that suited the rest of the castle. Harry reached forward and opened the door. When they walked inside and saw a huge hall with mirrors on every wall, reflecting them from every angle. They looked around in amazement, taking in everything they saw. The place had a huge library in one part of the room and armchairs and couches in another area. A fireplace crackled at the end of the room and the place was relatively warm, unlike the rest of the school which was rather cold.
'Wow, this place is amazing.' Hermione muttered. As usual, she walked over to the books and looked at the covers, running her fingers on them as she read them silently to herself.
'Just like you to go to the books first Hermione.' Draco teased gently, coming up behind her and wrapping his arms around her waist. Hermione sent a playful glare his way and hugged his arms that were around her, smiling. He kissed her neck tenderly and squeezed her tightly, yet gently.
'This place could be put to good use.' He whispered lowly in her ear in his deep voice. Hermione shivered slightly and looked up at him. She looked at him firmly with a look on her face that clearly said she was not backing down on what she was about to say.
'I'm not ready for anything like that yet Draco. We only just started dating. Not yet.' She said to him. Draco's eyes widened at what she meant and quickly shock his head, a little embarrassed.
'No! I didn't mean that! I'm not ready for that either! No, no I just meant that we could sit and snog or something, not that.' He said frantically. Hermione grinned at the look she was receiving from him. He looked totally flustered and embarrassed at what Hermione had suggested.
'It's okay, I know you wouldn't do anything like that yet, you've changed, I know that. Anyway, I like your reason for coming here better.' She said seductively, turning around and wrapping her arms around his neck. Draco regained his composure and bent his head back down to her neck.
'Really?' He asked, placing light kisses on her neck, all the way up to her jaw. Hermione groaned lifting her head up and enjoyed the attention she was getting. Just then, they heard someone talk behind them.
'Would you two get a room and Draco would you stop sucking the skin off of Hermione's neck, I'm sure she wants to keep it on her body.' The voice commented. They turned around to reveal a rather amused looking Ginny with her hands on her hips and her eyebrows raised. Hermione and Draco shot glares at her and walked out to the others to join them. Ginny followed behind them, snickering.
'This place is amazing; I didn't know that Hogwarts had a place like this.' Harry said in awe, still looking around the room as Draco, Hermione and Ginny walked up to them.
'You don't know much about this place any way Harry, not even Dumbledore knows everything about it.' Hermione said. Harry chose to ignore this comment and rounded on them.
'I'm guessing you've already taken a look at the Library then.' Harry said, smirking. Hermione shot him a glare and Draco turned slightly pink, but tried to bring it down to his usual pale skin colour. He was obviously trying to hide the embarrassment at being caught being intimate with Hermione.
'Shut up Harry.' Hermione said, breaking Draco out of his reverie. Harry just smirked at her and turned back to look around; luckily he hadn't noticed Draco's embarrassed colouring. He would have made his life living hell. Draco took Hermione's hand and squeezed it gently, smiling down at her. She smiled back up at him and leaned into his chest. Draco's smile broadened at the warm body leaning on him and he wrapped his arms around her.
'Hang on, where's Ron and Pansy?' Ginny asked. They all turned to look at her and then started looking around to find them. Sirius was the one to find them at the back of the library snogging like there was no tomorrow. Sirius snickered and brought the others over to see them; they hadn't noticed them standing there yet. Once everyone was standing around, Sirius cleared his throat loudly. They two of them jumped apart and went redder than Ron's hair. The others started laughing at the loudly at the look on their friends' faces. They sent glares their way, even though their faces were still bright red.
After a while of sitting around and talking, it was about time for Lunch.
'Can we go get Lunch, I'm starved.' Ron asked. The others rolled their eyes and relented.
'Sure Ron, I was sure Pansy had satisfied your hunger though.' Draco commented. Ron glared at him and Pansy turned bright red. Draco snickered and they got up to go to Lunch; which was a quick affair. They ate quickly and went back to the Room of Requirement to spend more time talking about things that they couldn't when they were surrounded by other students and teachers. Lupin was alright because he was a member of the Order and they could talk about anything in front of him. Including things that they wouldn't be able to with any other teacher, like relationships and what they had done in them. They started to play what could have been a game of Truth or Dare without the Dare. They were just constantly asking each other questions about their lives and things like that. It was quite hilarious as they told the truth about anything and everything that they were asked. It was highly amusing to hear all this stuff about their friends that they didn't know before, or hadn't been told about.
'Hermione who was your first crush?' Harry asked, hoping to get a reaction out of Draco, who took the bait. His grip on Hermione tightened and she smiled up at him, squeezing him gently before answering Harry's question.
'He was a boy that went to my muggle primary school. His name was Cameron Theron. He was really nice to me and we were what you could call friends. I found myself thinking that I did have a small crush on him but it amounted to anything more because it eventually faded and I never acted on it. Plus, he was more into the slutty girls for girlfriends anyway. It wouldn't have worked.' Hermione explained. Draco's grip on her had lessened when she said that it had eventually faded. Hermione smiled up at him again and held him tighter, kissing him on the cheek quickly and snuggled back down into him. He smiled at her and held her tighter, kissing the top of her head lightly.
'Ron who are you related to distantly that you wish you weren't?' Hermione asked. Ron had a thoughtful expression on his face and then looked back at her.
'The Nott's, I think we are related to them. I'm not sure. Some type of cousin of ours I think. Oh well, yeah, I don't like being related to them. And it's definitely distant. About five times removed and way back on Dad's side. They also don't admit they are related to a bunch of Blood Traitors like our family. Which is good because then nobody knows and we can keep it a secret between the families.' Ron said. 'Promise you won't tell anyone? I don't want the world knowing that the Weasley's are distant relatives of the Nott's.' He asked. They all nodded at the astounding revelation. None of them had ever suspected that to come to light.
'Harry what is the worst thing that the Dursley's ever did to you?' Ron asked, convinced that they wouldn't say anything to anyone else. Harry visibly flinched and Sierra held him. He stole a glance at her and saw it was full of concern. This is going to be hard to discuss with them. He took a deep breathe and tried to remember.
'Well, they locked me in that damn cupboard until I was eleven, then I upgraded to Dudley's second bedroom, they starved me for days on end if I accidentally did any magic without knowing. I remember once I made a glass panel at the zoo where a snake was in captivity disappear when Dudley was leaning on it because he was being a prick to me and then he fell into the water. The snake crawled out and the glass on the cage came back and Dudley was trapped in there until the reptile manager had to come and let him out the back. That would have been incredibly funny if Uncle Vernon hadn't been looking at me murderously. I think I should be glad I survived the ordeal. I was chased up a tree by Uncle Vernon's sister Marge's dog, Ripper. That was an experience that I will never forget. I've been almost bashed my cousin, basically a slave in my own house. I don't really know which one is worse. I still don't know why you people don't know why my reflexes are so good. I've had to duck more blows in my life than most people have.' Harry said, deliberately not looking Sierra in the eye. She was looking at him with deep passion and concern for his well-being.
'Well, everything is fine now because I can now live with Sirius in peace and not have to put up with those bastards any more. They've been treating me reasonably better ever since third year and I found out about Sirius being my Godfather. I used him as a threat. Mostly it was that they would be turned into a bat if they mistreated me. It was funny to watch Dudley's reaction to this. His eyes would widen and then he would grab his fat ass because the first encounter he had with a wizard was when Hagrid came and told me that I was a wizard. He gave Dudley a pig's tail and ever since he's been terrified of them. Oh, and last year when the Weasley's came to get me from my house so that they could take me back to the Burrow to go to the Quidditch World Cup. Fred and George dropped a bunch of ton-tongue toffees on the floor and they purposely missed some so that they could try it out on Dudley. His tongue was at least five feet long before the Dursley's would let Mr. Weasley turn it back to its normal length. I remember Uncle Vernon throwing the china at both of us and yelling his head off before I left through the floo. Then I remember you guys getting yelled at when he came home and then the threat of telling Mrs. Weasley, which he wasn't actually going to do, then she came in and asked him about it and he went really pale. That's when we all left the room, hoping not to get in trouble from her for what happened. Then I remember the screaming.' Harry said with a slight smile. Ron was laughing at the memory.
'I remember that! Fred and George got in so much trouble that day! We had to avoid mum for ages because we were too afraid that she would blow up or something! I remember her picking up that spelled wand that turned into a rubber chicken. She nearly went off her nut!' Ron said while laughing hard at what he had remembered. The others were laughing with him as they both retold it in full detail, not leaving out anything, from the beginning. When they finished, nearly everyone was rolling on the floor laughing.
'Okay, okay, Draco, what's the worst thing that has happened to you?' Harry asked once they were all silent again and the laughter had died down. But his question had a bigger effect than he had thought. Draco's face had fallen incredibly fast and Pansy looked frightened. Hermione looked worriedly at him and wondered what was so bad about Draco's life.
'Well, apart fro having the Cruciatus Curse placed on me as soon as I walk through the door when I get home after the holidays, I've been tortured using muggle methods, and stuff like that. Don't ask me to go into it, because I won't.' He answered stiffly. Hermione had tears running down her face as she heard what the man she loved had been through. She couldn't imagine ever having to go through something like that. She held him tight and buried her head in his chest. He kissed the top of her head lightly and whispered reassuring things into her ear.
'I'm sorry Draco.' Harry muttered. He looked it too. Harry might have been through some crap stuff, but it was nothing compared to what Draco had to go through every time he went home, and now it would be worse for him if he ever saw his father again because of his love for Hermione.
'Don't worry, I'm out of there now, no more father, no more mother. Just the people that I actually love.' He said. He looked back down at Hermione silently crying onto his chest. He tightened his arms around her and whispered reassuring things into her ear. To stop her crying I'm going to need to continue this or get us to leave. First option.
'Alright, Pansy, When did you realise that you had feelings for Ron?' Draco asked, hoping to lighten the mood that was slowly getting more congestive. Pansy blushed scarlet and Ron listened intently. Hermione lifted her head from Draco's chest and faced the blushing couple.
'Third year.' She mumbled. Ron was going an even brighter red, seeming as he was the only one to have heard what she said.
'What was that Pansy? I didn't hear it?' Draco asked teasingly. Pansy shot him a glare and straightened her back, gaining composure.
'Since Third year.' She answered loudly. Everyone in the room let out a resounding 'Awww.' They both shot them all glares and snuggled in closer to one another, which just gave they others more of a chance to annoy them with another round of, 'Awww.' They ignored it this time as Pansy looked around to see who she would ask.
'Gr-Hermione. Sorry, old habits die hard. Um, what was your initial reaction to what Draco did on the train, you know, being nice to you and all.' Pansy asked. Hermione didn't have to think about this much, but she did smile at the shock she remembered having when she heard Draco say sorry to her.
'Well, at first I was frozen with shock at actually hearing the Draco Malfoy saying sorry to a muggleborn, let alone one that he'd hated since first year. Then, after the initial shock wore off, I was completely confused. Though, Harry had his theories.' Hermione added. Harry smirked at her and everyone laughed.
'Ah, yes, my speculations that turned out to be completely true. You owe Ron and I an apology.' Harry stated. Hermione stuck her tongue out at him.
'Why? You were both still being assholes about it. I'm not apologising about something that you deserved.' She answered back with a playful withering glare. Harry just feigned hurt and then, failing miserably, burst into laughter. Everyone soon followed on with his laughter. Hermione looked down at her watch and gasped.
'We better get going or we will be late for dinner.' She said over the noise of her friends' laughter. They calmed down soon and went to dinner. Hermione told Draco the spell to switch back their clothing to boys' clothing and went to bed soon after her hearty meal.
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