Chapter 4

Hermione woke up early the next morning. She tried to go to sleep again, but she couldn't. So, she decided to get up and watch the sunrise. She took a quick shower, brushed her teeth and hair and got dressed. When she walked past the Great Hall, she saw that the house elves were laying the tables. She smiled when she saw Dobby and some other elf chase one and other around the Slytherin table. She walked across the lawn and over to the lake. The sky was so beautiful, pink and peaceful. She sat down on a bench and looked up.

"Hey, what are you doing up this early?" a voice behind her said. She turned around and looked at a boy she had never seen before. He was tall, with black hair and iceblue big eyes. He smiled, so she smiled back.

"I couldn't sleep," she answered. He sat down next to her and looked up at the sky. They sat there quiet for a few minutes, before Hermione's curiousity took over.

"Who are you? I've never seen you before," she said. He looked at her, and she shivered. His eyes were so blue.

"I'm Derek. I'm a Slytherin." Hermione started to feel a little nervous.

"Are you a seventh grader?"

"Yes, I can't wait to get out of here." He looked at her, and wrinkled his forhead a little. "And who are you?"

"Hermione. I'm in Gryffindor," she said a little too fast, she didn't like the look in his eyes.

"So you're Hermione. The mu." He stopped talking. "Draco talks a lot about you. And I don't mean good things." He smiled. Hermione shivered again. This Derek was obviously a friend of Draco's. That couldn't be good...

"Don't worry, I hate him, he's a pain in the ass," he quickly added when he saw the nervous look in her eyes. Then he looked up at the sky again. Hermione did the same, but she was a little surprised about the fact that a Slytherin student talked shit about Draco. If Draco found out he would probably kill him. She looked at Derek again, but he wasn't there anymore. She looked around, but he had disappeared. She thought that was kind of strange, but she didn't really care. She sat there for while, until she decided that it was time to meet the rest of the students at breakfast, so she walked to the Great Hall. Harry and Ron were already there when she sat down. Harry looked at her with a suspicious look.

"Where have you been?"

"Can't a girl be alone fore one second without people asking about it?" she hissed quickly. She was still a little mad about last night.

"Okay, sorry that I asked!" Harry turned around and started to talk to Seamus. Hermione started to eat her bacon. Then she realised that Ron hadn't said a word, he always talk a lot in the mornings. She looked at him. He was staring at nothing, and he was putting a LOT of ketchup on his pancake. When he decided that it was enough, he took a bite, and strangely he seemed to like it, because he ate the whole pancake. Hermione stopped him before he put his fork in the butter.

"Hey, Ron, Holly is wearing a REALLY short skirt!" She whispered to him. To her surprise, he didn't move. He continued to stare at nothing. "Ron, the world is calling for you!" She knocked on his head. He woke up from his daydreams and looked at her.

"Hey Hermione!"

"What's up with you?" She asked. He smiled.

"Nothing special." He had just finished the words when a girl from Hufflepuff walked up to them.

"Hi Ron, are you ready?" She asked him. He took her hand, stood up and kissed her. Then they walked away.

"Yeah right, nothing's up with him," Hermione muttered and ate the last piece of bacon. Then she took a bubblegum and left the table.

Later that day, at a potions lesson, Ron was still a little absent-minded, because he put a handfull of worms in his potion. Unfortunately Professor Snape saw the incident, and walked up to their table.

"Mr Weasley,may I ask you what you are doing? Do not tell me that you put a handfull of worms in your potion?" He said with an evil grin.

"Yes Professor, I think I did" Ron whispered. Snape grinned even more.

"Drink it, Weasley." He said.

"But Prof.."

"DRINK IT, WEASLEY!". Snape shouted. Everybody were now watching. Draco was smiling as usual. Ron held the potion to his mouth, and closed his eyes. He swallowed it, and opened them again. But his eyes weren't green anymore, they were black. Infact, his whole body was black-and-white. He looked like a guy in one of those old movies without colors. Harry started to laugh. After a while, everybody were laughing (not Draco of course), even Ron, because he had waited for something more embarressing.

"Silence, please," Snape said calmly. He bell rang and the lesson was over. Harry and Ron (still black-and-white), went to the commonroom, but Hermione needed some air so she walked out in the park and lay down on the ground. She was looking at the sky when someone suddenly kicked her.

"Hey, mudblood, get up. The grass is getting dirty." It was Malfoy. He kicked her again, and she stood up. He wasn't alone, Derek was standing beside him.

"Shut up Malfoy, and leave me alone!" she hissed. Malfoy looked at Derek and smiled.

"See, do you know what I mean now? She is a f..."

"Yes Malfoy, I know what you mean," Derek cut in with a sharp voice.

"There you go, Granger. Nobody likes you. Except Ron and Harry, but they don't count, they're both idiots." He looked at her. His grey eyes were so evil...Hermione slapped him in the face. He looked surprised for a while, then he smiled.

"Is that the best you can do?" Hermione had had enough. She kicked him in the crotch as hard as she could. He gasped and fell to the ground. She sat down on him and started to hit him in the face, but he was faster. He pushed her away and grabbed her bag, took out a book and wiped his blood (from his nose) on it. Hermione stared at him. Then she ripped the book from him and she was just about to kick him again when someone grabbed her. It was Derek, and he looked angry.

"Stop it, mudblood!" He shouted and threw her on the ground. Then he walked away, just like that. Draco looked down at her, grinned, and ran after him. Hermione put her book back in her bag and ran towards the Gryffindor common room. When she arrived, she went straight up to her bed and started to cry.

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J.Fo's note: hey again everyone! I really hope you liked this chapter, it wasn't very funny. But you can't always have fun, can you? And please, I would really like to get more reviews, so please write.And by the way, does anyone else think that Tom Felton is a great actor, and of course hot? (I know he's 'only' 15, but so am I so who cares.) Well, C ya next time =)