Chapter two

Malfoy's New Best Friend





" Ron, up!" Harry shook Ron's shoulders vigorously.

" What unearthly time of the night are you trying to dig me out of bed at?" He groaned, rolling over.

" It's eight in the morning you sod. Come on! Charms start soon!" Harry pushed Ron so hard he fell off the bed.

" Alright, I'm up." He stretched and drew his curtain so he could change. Satisfied, Harry ran down stairs to meet a rather impatient Hermione.

" Is he up yet?" She asked, brushing back a strand of bushy hair from her face.

" Yeah, not too happy 'bout it though."

" About time." She rolled her eyes as Ron slid sluggishly out from the boys' dormitories. They made their way to charms in an unsettling silence. They sat through the lesson in an unsettling silence. Harry guessed it was because of Ron's grogginess and Hermione's bad mood. He noticed that Hermione kept checking her watch, as though she couldn't wait for the lesson to end.

" You're kidding!" Ron wrinkled his nose in disgust.

" No I'm not." Hermione replied flatly.

" You want to sit right at the front!?!" Ron gaped.

" Yes. So?" She said hastily.

" HERMIONE!!! THIS IS POTIONS!" He raged. Harry stood quietly aside, knowing that Hermione in a bad mood was something to fear.

" I repeat, SO WHAT?"

" It's suicide!" Ron hissed, " He'll eat you!"

" Yes he will." The three of them turned to see Malfoy leaning casually in the doorframe of the dungeon. Crabbe and Goyle snickering behind him.

" He hates you Gryffindor scum and especially hates mudbloods." He said silkily.

" Well, look, if it isn't the three stooges." Ron sneered. Malfoy smiled wryly.

" Oh no, not three. Four." He said as Avolorm pushed his way past Crabbe and Goyle.

"Well. you're still stooges!" Ron said defensively. Malfoy ignored this and returned to his usual seat. Hermione was sitting only a couple of seats away.

" What's up with her?" Ron muttered. Harry shrugged but couldn't help wondering why Hermione seemed to be looking forward to double potions with the Slytherins. More surprisingly however, She made an error in her Youth Reviving potion.

" Granger, why is your potion a pink colour?" Snape asked, looking positively delighted. Hermione blushed the same colour as her potion.

" Because you put too many wolf bladders in it!" Answering the question for her.

" Detention for you and ten points from Gryffindor." He smiled the same wryly smile that Malfoy wore so often. Hermione opened her mouth to protest, but thought against it and blushed with shame.

" I can't believe him!!!" Ron cursed, turning a bright crimson.

" I did deserve it." Hermione sighed.

" No you didn't!!! What about Crabbe and Goyle? They're potions weren't even in the liquid state!" He raged, throwing out his arm and upsetting a set of armour's helmet. He hastily picked it up and continued.

" He gives you a detention and takes away house points from you and his own students have IQ's lower than trolls!

" Shut up Ron. Leave me alone." With that Hermione disappeared into the girls' bathroom.

" What's her problem? What did I do?" Ron gaped.

" Dunno. best take her advice and leave her alone." Harry grabbed Ron's arm and led him out into the grounds.

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