Ch.3-The Hogwarts Express
The last two weeks of break went too fast for anyone's liking, even Hermione's. Soon it was the night before they returned to Hogwarts. Every one was checking their trunks to see if they had everything. Hermione had all her things there, her Quidditch magazine was in her trunk with everything else. Hermione closed her trunk and she and Ginny walked out of Ginnys room and up to Ron's.
"All packed?" Ginny asked Ron and Harry.
"Yup, what about you girls?" asked Harry.
Hermione flashed Harry a smile that clearly signaled 'When are you going to tell her?' and Harry flashed back a smile that said 'Later'. "All packed. Harry could I borrow your Fire Bolt?" The two boys and Ginny looked at Hermione like she had three heads. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Are you crazy?" asked Ron. "You can't fly for beans Hermione."
"I need it in one piece when you give it back, ok?" asked Harry.
"You guys are so mean!" said Hermione and she took the broom Harry held in his hands. "If you want me I'll be in the back yard!"
"I wanna see this!" said Ron. "You guys coming?"
"Yup," said Ginny and Harry together. They all walked out to the back yard and Hermione mounted Harry's broom. She rose steadily in the air and did a couple of flips. Ron and Harry's mouths fell open and Ginny said.
"Go Hermione!" she flew a couple laps around the yard and then dove for the ground so fast that Ron ran to where she was headed thinking she was going to crash. But she didn't, when the tip of the Fire Bolt was about two inches away from the ground she pulled up and stuck her toung out at Ron. She dismounted the broom and handed it to Harry.
"I'm going to bed, I am so tired!" she said and walked into the house, up the stairs and into Ginnys room. She yawned and put on her pajamas. She hopped in bed and was just about to fall asleep when Ginny came into the room. "Night Gin."
"Night Mione." Ginny put on her pajamas and got in bed. Both girls fell asleep right away. Hermione dreamed of joining the Gryffindor Quidditch team and Ginny dreamed of marrying Harry and starting a family with him. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* On the train Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny sat in a compartment together. They already had their robes on and Hermione's prefect badge was clearly the shiniest thing in the room. They had all been talking about Quidditch when the compartment door opened to reveal Draco Malfoy standing there, also with a prefect badge.
"What the hell are you doing here?" asked Harry.
"Ready to play nice for a year Granger?" asked Draco Malfoy.
"Hermione looked up and noticed the badge. "Shit! Now I have to live with the biggest git in the world for a year! Uggg to me!"
"Uggg to you? Yeah right!" said Draco. "You should be happy to have to live with a pureblood, Granger. Me, on the other hand, I am disgusted to have to live with a filthy mudblood!"
"Ron! Don't waste your breath on a little git like him," said Hermione.
"Oh, I'm only a little got am I?" asked Draco putting on a, visibly fake, happy face.
"No, you are by far the biggest!" said Ginny.
"Thank you!" said Draco in an I don't actually mean it voice. "Granger, get your ass into the prefect compartment or-"
Hermione winked at Ginny. "Or what?" she put on a smirk to match Draco's.
"Or I'll have to make you!"
"Ah, I'd like to see you try!" said Hermione.
"Oh, just get your ass into the damn compartment!"
"As you wish!" Hermione brushed past him and Ginny stood up. Before Draco could turn to leave, Ginnys hand was in the air and he felt a tingling sensation in his cheek.
"I just had the urge!" she said as she sat down. Draco glared at her and left. He caught up with Hermione about two compartment doors away, leaning against the wall, laughing her head off.
"That bitch slapped me!"
"Funny what a wink can do isn't it?" said Hermione.
"What the hell are you on about?"
"She caught on fast."
"What?"
"Ah, girl communication! The movement of a finger could mean something!" They walked into the prefect compartment to see Padma Patil and Justin Finch-Fletchey sitting on opposite seats. "Padma, Oh my god! How come you didn't tell me you were going to be a prefect?" Padma stood and hugged Hermione and the both sat down.
"Oh my god! I totally forgot! I am so sorry!" said Padma.
"Oh I've missed you so much!" said Hermione.
"Since when did you people know each other?" asked Draco.
"Since when was it your bizness?" asked Padma.
"Oh, since maybe 3rd year was it?" said Hermione.
"No, i think it was 4th year," said Padma.
"Right," said Hermione.
"Blah blah blah blah blah!" said Draco in an amazingly girly voice. Hermione whispered something in Padma's ear and the two girls cracked up laughing.
"You really think so?" Padma asked Hermione.
"Definitely!" squeaked Hermione. "Grow out the hair a bit, bye bye gel, add make-up, add girl clothes and.Voila!"
"The perfect girl!" said Padma.
"Just imagine, bad ass Slytherin king. A girl!" said Hermione.
"I am not and never well be a girl!" said Draco.
"Right!" said Justin. "That's just what you want us to think!"
"Three against one, no fair!" said Draco. "Oh, think so? Get used to it!" said Padma.
"By the way, does your father still think Dumbledore is a mudblood-loving, crazy old bat?" asked Hermione.
"How did you know that?" asked Draco.
"I believe it was 4th year on the Hogwarts Express, and if you actually did go to Durmstrang a lot of people would have been happy you were gone, me for one, I'd party till i fell asleep!" said Hermione. Padma whispered something in her ear. "You think so?"
"Definitely!" said Padma. Hermione muttered something but the boy's didn't hear her. She didn't want them to.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Hogsmeade Station*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The four prefects stepped off the train, one after the other and ran like mad to a carriage. It was raining harder, and there was more thunder and lightning, than ever before.
"Holy shit!" said Draco when they were safely in the carriage. "That is the most rain I've ever seen in my life!"
"Me too, I'm soo cold," said Padma shivering.
"Come here," said Justin taking Padma's hand. "I'll warm you up."
"Thanks, love," said Padma sitting on Justin's lap.
"Too much love over here!" said Draco squishing himself into the corner of Hermione's side of the compartment, as far away from Hermione as possible, she was a mublood after all.
"You are so childish! I don't bite and I sure as hell don't have some deadly disease that can be passed around!" said Hermione; she was so fed up with him. "I'm so fed up with the way you act around me, and next time you call me a mudblood. oh, you're gonna get it!"
'Stupid mudblood bitch' Draco muttered, thinking she couldn't hear him.
"If you don't think I heard that, you are so wrong!" Hermione held up her hand and slapped him across the face. He winced with pain and covered his cheek with his hand. Hermione pulled her knees up to her chest, leaned her head forward and burst out in sobs, he didn't know how much it hurt. Padma jumped up from Justin's lap and rushed over to comfort Hermione. Draco stood, took out his wand and pointed it at Hermione. He was about to kill her, but he stopped. Not because there were two other people in the carriage, he could have killed them to, but because of her tears/sobs. There was something about her tears that made him stop, he didn't know why though. Every other time he had seen a girl cry, it was usually because of him, it didn't affect him at all. Draco sunk to the floor, dropped his wand and laid his head in his hands. Justin was sitting on the edge of his seat, mouth opened in shock. He took out his wand as Hermione looked up, she had stopped crying, he cleared her face of all signs that she was crying. The carriage stopped, they all got out of it and ran to the big oak front doors of the castle. They walked into the great hall in silence and sat at the prefect table. They watched the sorting ceremony and ate quietly. Dumbledore shooed all the students out of the hall except the four prefects.
"Now, this year there will be a trip for the 6th years," he said. "You will need to make groups of four students, one from each house, pick ten places for the groups to go at different times, rent rooms in hotels, make lists of supplies for the ten places and pack bags with the things I bring up later on. You will also have to make portkeys and bewitch everybody's trunk to go to the next place you are to go."
"Ok," said Padma and Hermione.
"Where is the prefect thing?" asked Justin and Draco.
"Follow me," said Dumbledore. They walked out of the great hall and Draco said.
"Granger, could I have a word?"
"Sure," she looked at Dumbledore, Padma and Justin. "We'll catch up." They watched the three turn the corner and Hermione looked back at Draco. "Now, what do you want?"
"I would like to challenge you to a duel."
"Can I take off my robes so I can move?"
"Fine!" She took off her robes and took out her wand. Draco's mouth dropped open. 'Who knew a mudblood could be so hot?' he thought, 'No she is not hot, she is a mudblood bitch.' She was wearing a short, black skirt, a blood red tank top and high heel, black shoes. She also had her belly button pierced.
"You like what you see?" asked Hermione. She walked closer to him. 'Oh, this is gonna be fun' she thought. Draco stood there with his mouth open. She leaned in to him a bit and whispered in his ear, "you wish!" wand and robes in hand Hermione turned on her heel and walked out of sight around the corner. When she turned she noticed Padma was sitting on the floor, trying, with no success, to stifle a laugh. Hermione smiled and Padma led the way to the prefect common room. They got to a portrait and Padma stopped. The portrait was of all the prefects in a big pasture, having a picnic and to Hermione's dislike, portrait Draco was snogging portrait Hermione. Padma said, "Préfet uni," and the portrait swung open to reveal a room half the size of the great hall. There was a big fireplace at one end with a couch for each house with a blanket draped over the back of each one, crowded around it. In the middle of the room there were a bunch of tables, chairs and couches for doing homework. At the other end of the room, there were four tall portraits, each on held one of the founders and opposite the door where Hermione was standing, she could see four staircases with each of their names over them and doors at the top. The farthest to the right was Justin's room, then Padma's, then hers and then Draco's. She gave Padma a hug goodnight just as Draco walked in. Hermione smirked at him called G'night to Justin, he called G'night back and she went up to her room. It was big too but not as big as the common room. There was a queen sized 4poster bed in the middle of the room with a small wooden table by the side, to her right there was a huge wardrobe and a desk with two shelves over it. To her left there were two doors, one led to a big bathroom with a Jacuzzi and a shower, the other led to a walk in closet. Hermione opened her trunk put her laptop on the desk and put her stereo on the shelf. She put up all her pictures on the walls, put her clothes in her wardrobe and closet and put on her pajama's (a blue tank top that declared her a Bad Ass Chick and a pair of Harry's old boxers she had stolen the previous year). She took out her book, Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul, On Love And Friendship, got in bed and stated to read. About an hour later she was done reading her book and fast asleep dreaming of joining the Gryffindor Quidditch house team.
The last two weeks of break went too fast for anyone's liking, even Hermione's. Soon it was the night before they returned to Hogwarts. Every one was checking their trunks to see if they had everything. Hermione had all her things there, her Quidditch magazine was in her trunk with everything else. Hermione closed her trunk and she and Ginny walked out of Ginnys room and up to Ron's.
"All packed?" Ginny asked Ron and Harry.
"Yup, what about you girls?" asked Harry.
Hermione flashed Harry a smile that clearly signaled 'When are you going to tell her?' and Harry flashed back a smile that said 'Later'. "All packed. Harry could I borrow your Fire Bolt?" The two boys and Ginny looked at Hermione like she had three heads. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Are you crazy?" asked Ron. "You can't fly for beans Hermione."
"I need it in one piece when you give it back, ok?" asked Harry.
"You guys are so mean!" said Hermione and she took the broom Harry held in his hands. "If you want me I'll be in the back yard!"
"I wanna see this!" said Ron. "You guys coming?"
"Yup," said Ginny and Harry together. They all walked out to the back yard and Hermione mounted Harry's broom. She rose steadily in the air and did a couple of flips. Ron and Harry's mouths fell open and Ginny said.
"Go Hermione!" she flew a couple laps around the yard and then dove for the ground so fast that Ron ran to where she was headed thinking she was going to crash. But she didn't, when the tip of the Fire Bolt was about two inches away from the ground she pulled up and stuck her toung out at Ron. She dismounted the broom and handed it to Harry.
"I'm going to bed, I am so tired!" she said and walked into the house, up the stairs and into Ginnys room. She yawned and put on her pajamas. She hopped in bed and was just about to fall asleep when Ginny came into the room. "Night Gin."
"Night Mione." Ginny put on her pajamas and got in bed. Both girls fell asleep right away. Hermione dreamed of joining the Gryffindor Quidditch team and Ginny dreamed of marrying Harry and starting a family with him. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* On the train Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny sat in a compartment together. They already had their robes on and Hermione's prefect badge was clearly the shiniest thing in the room. They had all been talking about Quidditch when the compartment door opened to reveal Draco Malfoy standing there, also with a prefect badge.
"What the hell are you doing here?" asked Harry.
"Ready to play nice for a year Granger?" asked Draco Malfoy.
"Hermione looked up and noticed the badge. "Shit! Now I have to live with the biggest git in the world for a year! Uggg to me!"
"Uggg to you? Yeah right!" said Draco. "You should be happy to have to live with a pureblood, Granger. Me, on the other hand, I am disgusted to have to live with a filthy mudblood!"
"Ron! Don't waste your breath on a little git like him," said Hermione.
"Oh, I'm only a little got am I?" asked Draco putting on a, visibly fake, happy face.
"No, you are by far the biggest!" said Ginny.
"Thank you!" said Draco in an I don't actually mean it voice. "Granger, get your ass into the prefect compartment or-"
Hermione winked at Ginny. "Or what?" she put on a smirk to match Draco's.
"Or I'll have to make you!"
"Ah, I'd like to see you try!" said Hermione.
"Oh, just get your ass into the damn compartment!"
"As you wish!" Hermione brushed past him and Ginny stood up. Before Draco could turn to leave, Ginnys hand was in the air and he felt a tingling sensation in his cheek.
"I just had the urge!" she said as she sat down. Draco glared at her and left. He caught up with Hermione about two compartment doors away, leaning against the wall, laughing her head off.
"That bitch slapped me!"
"Funny what a wink can do isn't it?" said Hermione.
"What the hell are you on about?"
"She caught on fast."
"What?"
"Ah, girl communication! The movement of a finger could mean something!" They walked into the prefect compartment to see Padma Patil and Justin Finch-Fletchey sitting on opposite seats. "Padma, Oh my god! How come you didn't tell me you were going to be a prefect?" Padma stood and hugged Hermione and the both sat down.
"Oh my god! I totally forgot! I am so sorry!" said Padma.
"Oh I've missed you so much!" said Hermione.
"Since when did you people know each other?" asked Draco.
"Since when was it your bizness?" asked Padma.
"Oh, since maybe 3rd year was it?" said Hermione.
"No, i think it was 4th year," said Padma.
"Right," said Hermione.
"Blah blah blah blah blah!" said Draco in an amazingly girly voice. Hermione whispered something in Padma's ear and the two girls cracked up laughing.
"You really think so?" Padma asked Hermione.
"Definitely!" squeaked Hermione. "Grow out the hair a bit, bye bye gel, add make-up, add girl clothes and.Voila!"
"The perfect girl!" said Padma.
"Just imagine, bad ass Slytherin king. A girl!" said Hermione.
"I am not and never well be a girl!" said Draco.
"Right!" said Justin. "That's just what you want us to think!"
"Three against one, no fair!" said Draco. "Oh, think so? Get used to it!" said Padma.
"By the way, does your father still think Dumbledore is a mudblood-loving, crazy old bat?" asked Hermione.
"How did you know that?" asked Draco.
"I believe it was 4th year on the Hogwarts Express, and if you actually did go to Durmstrang a lot of people would have been happy you were gone, me for one, I'd party till i fell asleep!" said Hermione. Padma whispered something in her ear. "You think so?"
"Definitely!" said Padma. Hermione muttered something but the boy's didn't hear her. She didn't want them to.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Hogsmeade Station*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The four prefects stepped off the train, one after the other and ran like mad to a carriage. It was raining harder, and there was more thunder and lightning, than ever before.
"Holy shit!" said Draco when they were safely in the carriage. "That is the most rain I've ever seen in my life!"
"Me too, I'm soo cold," said Padma shivering.
"Come here," said Justin taking Padma's hand. "I'll warm you up."
"Thanks, love," said Padma sitting on Justin's lap.
"Too much love over here!" said Draco squishing himself into the corner of Hermione's side of the compartment, as far away from Hermione as possible, she was a mublood after all.
"You are so childish! I don't bite and I sure as hell don't have some deadly disease that can be passed around!" said Hermione; she was so fed up with him. "I'm so fed up with the way you act around me, and next time you call me a mudblood. oh, you're gonna get it!"
'Stupid mudblood bitch' Draco muttered, thinking she couldn't hear him.
"If you don't think I heard that, you are so wrong!" Hermione held up her hand and slapped him across the face. He winced with pain and covered his cheek with his hand. Hermione pulled her knees up to her chest, leaned her head forward and burst out in sobs, he didn't know how much it hurt. Padma jumped up from Justin's lap and rushed over to comfort Hermione. Draco stood, took out his wand and pointed it at Hermione. He was about to kill her, but he stopped. Not because there were two other people in the carriage, he could have killed them to, but because of her tears/sobs. There was something about her tears that made him stop, he didn't know why though. Every other time he had seen a girl cry, it was usually because of him, it didn't affect him at all. Draco sunk to the floor, dropped his wand and laid his head in his hands. Justin was sitting on the edge of his seat, mouth opened in shock. He took out his wand as Hermione looked up, she had stopped crying, he cleared her face of all signs that she was crying. The carriage stopped, they all got out of it and ran to the big oak front doors of the castle. They walked into the great hall in silence and sat at the prefect table. They watched the sorting ceremony and ate quietly. Dumbledore shooed all the students out of the hall except the four prefects.
"Now, this year there will be a trip for the 6th years," he said. "You will need to make groups of four students, one from each house, pick ten places for the groups to go at different times, rent rooms in hotels, make lists of supplies for the ten places and pack bags with the things I bring up later on. You will also have to make portkeys and bewitch everybody's trunk to go to the next place you are to go."
"Ok," said Padma and Hermione.
"Where is the prefect thing?" asked Justin and Draco.
"Follow me," said Dumbledore. They walked out of the great hall and Draco said.
"Granger, could I have a word?"
"Sure," she looked at Dumbledore, Padma and Justin. "We'll catch up." They watched the three turn the corner and Hermione looked back at Draco. "Now, what do you want?"
"I would like to challenge you to a duel."
"Can I take off my robes so I can move?"
"Fine!" She took off her robes and took out her wand. Draco's mouth dropped open. 'Who knew a mudblood could be so hot?' he thought, 'No she is not hot, she is a mudblood bitch.' She was wearing a short, black skirt, a blood red tank top and high heel, black shoes. She also had her belly button pierced.
"You like what you see?" asked Hermione. She walked closer to him. 'Oh, this is gonna be fun' she thought. Draco stood there with his mouth open. She leaned in to him a bit and whispered in his ear, "you wish!" wand and robes in hand Hermione turned on her heel and walked out of sight around the corner. When she turned she noticed Padma was sitting on the floor, trying, with no success, to stifle a laugh. Hermione smiled and Padma led the way to the prefect common room. They got to a portrait and Padma stopped. The portrait was of all the prefects in a big pasture, having a picnic and to Hermione's dislike, portrait Draco was snogging portrait Hermione. Padma said, "Préfet uni," and the portrait swung open to reveal a room half the size of the great hall. There was a big fireplace at one end with a couch for each house with a blanket draped over the back of each one, crowded around it. In the middle of the room there were a bunch of tables, chairs and couches for doing homework. At the other end of the room, there were four tall portraits, each on held one of the founders and opposite the door where Hermione was standing, she could see four staircases with each of their names over them and doors at the top. The farthest to the right was Justin's room, then Padma's, then hers and then Draco's. She gave Padma a hug goodnight just as Draco walked in. Hermione smirked at him called G'night to Justin, he called G'night back and she went up to her room. It was big too but not as big as the common room. There was a queen sized 4poster bed in the middle of the room with a small wooden table by the side, to her right there was a huge wardrobe and a desk with two shelves over it. To her left there were two doors, one led to a big bathroom with a Jacuzzi and a shower, the other led to a walk in closet. Hermione opened her trunk put her laptop on the desk and put her stereo on the shelf. She put up all her pictures on the walls, put her clothes in her wardrobe and closet and put on her pajama's (a blue tank top that declared her a Bad Ass Chick and a pair of Harry's old boxers she had stolen the previous year). She took out her book, Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul, On Love And Friendship, got in bed and stated to read. About an hour later she was done reading her book and fast asleep dreaming of joining the Gryffindor Quidditch house team.