Chapter Two
"Ooh Draco! How will you ever live with that filth of a mudblood?" cooed Pansy Parkinson. Draco was obviously her love interest, but it was the exact opposite for Draco. If Draco had any feelings for Pansy whatsoever they never showed. And for good reason, Who'd ever have a crush on pug-faced Pansy?
"I'll live" was all Draco said as he saw Dumbledore and Hermione walking out of the Great Hall, and listened intently, from his table, with a handy little spell he'd learned which enabled him to hear from far distances.
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"Yes, you two will be sharing a living quarters. Is that a problem Ms. Granger?" said Dumbledore calmly. Dumbledores voice always seemed to be calm even in uncomfortable situations.
"Well, you have to know about my rivalry with him. Don't you?" protested Hermione.
"Oh Ms. Granger, this will be expected of the Heads, you won't want to go changing traditions." Protested Dumbledore in his booming, yet calm voice.
"Oh Professor!" and gave him a sympathetic look.
Dumbledore looked satisfied and shooed her away with a wave of his hand and motioned her to go join in the feast.
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As soon as Draco heard word of this he smirked to himself. Poor little Granger didn't want to live with him? He'd teach her to defy a Malfoy, rival or not.
"Professor Dumbledore would like to say a few words" came McGonagalls voice.
"I will be announcing the Prefects of each House and the Heads"
The students looked up intently never taking an eye off of Dumbledore. Sheer confusion for the first years. "First the Prefects, from Gryffindor, Lavender Brown" there were loud claps from Gryffindor table and one solitary clap from the Ravenclaw table. Obviously Padma Patil, her best friend's twin sister. Lavender basked in the glory that was there for her fifteen minutes of fame. "Now, Justin Finch-Fletchly from Hufflepuff" there were a few claps from Gryffindor from Harry and Ron, mostly sympathy from Harry's claps because of the snake incident in second year that enabled him to find out he was a parselmouth. The whole Hufflepuff table clapped as Justin got up and bowed for his supporters.
"From Ravenclaw – Padma Patil" Claps from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw for her.
"And from Slytherin – Blaise Zabini" A few claps from Slytherin. "Ah yes, Good job, Lavender, Justin, Padma, and Blaise, now to the Heads. We have Hermione Granger from Gryffindor." This times the whole school clapped, that is except for the Slytherins whom Draco threatened to make them stay down or he'd curse them. "-And from Slytherin we have Draco Malfoy" Another few claps from Slytherin. Harry, Hermione, and Ron were certainly not going to clap for him.
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Now that the feast was over and the heat had died down Professor Dumbledore asked the prefects and heads to follow him. The six students followed him down a hallway and to a painting of three Grindylows being mischievous and bothering the merpeople deep under the lake. Dumbledore instructed the prefects to say 'prefandite' and the grindylow would laugh and open graciously, but not before introducing themselves to the strange creatures. Lavender said "Hello little fellow, my name's Lavender, I'm from Gryffindor" she waited… "Oh yea, prefandite" she heard the grindylow giggle and the painting opened showing a strange tunnel. Lavender walked in and waited while the rest of the prefects did the same. Dumbledore showed them around and they shared gasps and the girls cooed "Oh how beautiful!" After the prefects were situated and used to their new quarters Dumbledore returned to Draco and Hermione who were waiting impatiently for him to come back. Dumbledore said, "Follow me" and they did. In five minutes time they were in front of a painting of a strange looking man sitting on a bench. He waved at Hermione and said "Hey little lady" and winked. Hermione found him to be a nice man and waved back. Dumbledore instructed Draco and Hermione to say 'Aphrodite', their names and wave and that would set you nice with this man. The man didn't have a name, said Dumbledore, he was just a painting that was found and put to use. Hermione listened and said "Hi, I'm Hermione" and waved, and continued "Aphrodite" and the man waved his hand and the painting opened showing a golden door. Draco did the same. They opened the door and walked inside. It was wonderful. There was half the room decorated with green and silver, the other half, gold and scarlet. There was one fireplace in the middle on the wall. Two couches, one gold, one green. There were two working desks; both made of mahogany wood. All their belongings were most likely in their rooms. Those would be explored later. Dumbledore seemed content and walked out.
"If you think we can be friends just because we are sharing quarters you are mistaken" blurted Draco through the silence
"I wasn't counting on it" said Hermione as she walked into her room.
'Why does he have to be so cocky all the time, he just cant stand to be nice can he?' thought Hermione to herself as she dosed off.