A/N: I know the first chapter makes it seem like this isn't Draco/Hermione, but by the end of this chapter you'll see that it definitely is Draco/Hermione! So read!

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Chapter 2

The first week of classes had gone by the same as always for Hermione, Ron and Harry, not too much homework, an early detention from Snape for Ron and Harry and having to put up with the insufferable Slytherins, mainly Draco Malfoy…who was not only the practically self-made leader of the Slytherin House but he was also quite a piece of 'Eye Candy' for not only the Slytherin ladies but for many of the other girls in the school third year and above. Draco had grown quite a bit taller he was now about an inch over six-feet, his body finally reaped the rewards of athleticism which was a strong muscular build which made the girls melt, and his hair grew slightly longer now which he kept bound back. He was now a perfect replica of his father Lucius Malfoy, except younger and far more handsome.

Harry, Ron and Hermione saw him walk by with a group of Slytherins (mostly Slytherin girls) towards the library, but not before spotting the three Gryffindors and shouting out with a mischievous grin, "Better start saying your prayers now Potter, for your going to need as many of them as possible to survive what I'm going to do to you this year."

Harry clenched his fists at his sides as he shot a piercing glance over at Draco as he walked by with the Slytherins at his heels.

"Oh forget about his rubbish Harry, he has nothing that could harm you." Ron said hoping to get the rage out of Harry's eyes.

"Ron's right Harry, it really isn't worth it. Malfoy wants you to get angry just like every year since our first." Hermione said in a logical manor.

Harry glanced at his two friends and eased up, "He just gets me so furious! He thinks he's so great cause he's a pure-blooded Malfoy! Not to mention that now since his appearance has changed somewhat every girl at Hogwarts is practically throwing themselves at him, making him feel even more superior than ever!" He said in a frustrated tone.

"Well not every girl, Harry. I still think Draco is just as insufferable as before." Hermione said with a grin.

Ron and Harry grinned in delight, "At least his charms haven't rubbed off on you Hermione, don't think I could imagine life in this place if you too were falling head over heels for the git." Ron said in a way that you could tell, he was very relieved that Hermione saw nothing interesting or fascinating about Draco Malfoy.

"Hey look there's Lucia." Hermione said as the three of them spotted Lucia Malfoy coming into the library with a group of Slytherin girls.

"You'd sometimes never think her and Malfoy were related." Ron said in bewilderment.

Lucia's appearance broke the Malfoy tradition of blonde hair and blue eyes, for Lucia had green-blue eyes and golden hair that wasn't a pale silvery-yellow like her cousins or uncles. Her skin was just as pale as Draco's however and she had the same sneers and facial expressions of any other Malfoy, that's how you knew Draco and Lucia were related. She also captured the interest of many Hogwarts males, though she never really seemed to care, unlike Draco who was basking in the glory of his popularity amongst the females.

"Too bad she's a Slytherin and a Malfoy." Ron said sadly.

Hermione looked at Ron as if he were insane, "I hope that you Ron Weasely are not insinuating that you find Lucia appealing in any way shape or form are you?"

Ron suddenly flushed pink and Hermione was left in shock, as Harry merely chuckled.

"Unbelievable Ron, perhaps maybe I should try a bit harder to find Draco Malfoy extremely attractive then shouldn't I?" Hermione argued.

"Go ahead and try Hermione I doubt you could find it in yourself to think of him in that sort of way." Ron replied wisely.

Hermione frowned in disapproval, "Perhaps you're right, but just remember Ronald Weasely that I always manage to do things that never seem possible in the first place. Your just lucky that succeeding in finding Draco Malfoy attractive at all is something far too advanced and difficult for me."
"Well that's certainly a relief." Harry said with a grin as the three of them headed into the library to begin a little bit of the massive amounts of homework that had been dumped on them.

"Snape, never fails us…always giving us more then we can chew." Ron said in a whiny tone as he took out his quill, parchment and ink bottle.

Hermione rolled her eyes, "I suggest you start getting over it, its been this way for five years, it'll be this way for the rest of our time here."

Ron moped and dropped his head on the table shaking it in misery.

Harry grinned, "Oh cheer up Ron, look on the bright side."

Ron didn't look up, all you heard was a low mumble which sounded like, "What's the brighter side?"

Harry glanced at Hermione who raised a curious brow to him, "Uh…when I think of it I'll let you know."

Ron whined, Hermione just rolled her eyes as she dipped her quill in ink and began her long essay.

Suddenly Lucia began walking over to the three of them, "Hey Ron its your love interest." Hermione said in a teasing manor.

Ron's head shot up all pink looking and Harry and Hermione glanced her way as she approached them with no one for once following her. Hermione spotted Draco at the other end of the library looking over in their direcion most likely curious as to why his cousin would want to go over to the three of them.

"Hello." Lucia said civilly, not being cheerful or mean. She was always neutral and civil with them three.

"Hello." They all said together.

"Hermione, I was never able to copy all of Professor McGonagall's notes, and since you always manage to copy down everything write down to the last dot, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind lending them to me?" She asked, with no sign of disliking or otherwise.

Hermione glanced at Harry and Ron to see what their reactions were, but they just shrugged in a 'why not its just notes' fashion. She glanced back up at Lucia who was patiently waiting and glancing down at Hermione with her dazzling blue-green eyes.

"Sure, why not. Just please try and have them back to me before our next Transfiguration class alright?" Hermione said as she took out the notes she had taken earlier in the day, she then reluctantly but not showing it handed the parchments over to Lucia.

Lucia nodded and took the parchments from Hermione, "Thanks, Hermione. Oh by the way did any of you sign up for the new class Hogwarts introduced this year?"

"It's a voluntary class isn't it?" Harry asked.

Lucia nodded.

"Which one I believe they introduced two new ones?" Hermione asked, most likely forgetting her slight dislike for Lucia.

"The one open only for sixth years, Magic of the Minds." She replied dryly.

Magic of the Minds was a class where students learned how to channel there powers from their minds, instead of always having to use their wands. Just about every sixth year signed up for the class but only the students with the top grades got accepted into the class.

"Oh yea, I signed up for that I didn't make it though." Ron said gloomily, feeling rather stupid at the moment.

"I did, surprisingly." Replied Harry.

"I did too. I suppose you were accepted too, Lucia?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Yes, as was my cousin." Lucia said without realizing the low blow she had just dealt Harry and Hermione since they had the class.

"Malfoy, was accepted into that class!?" Harry asked hoping desperately that he had heard wrong.

"Yes, he was. Though he's slightly upset that Dumbledore is going to be teaching the class."

"Dumbledore is teaching the class? That doesn't surprise me, I had heard that Dumbledore was able to channel his magic through his mind. I think the class should be rather exciting." Hermione said with a smile of delight.

"Yes, well see you in a few then." Lucia said with a sigh, it seemed as though she suddenly got bored with their conversation and left back to her Slytherin peers.

"Some class, too bad Malfoy's presence is going to take whatever possible fun there could've been away." Harry muttered, glancing over at Draco who was crowded by several Slytherin girls, one who was particularly throwing herself on Draco, was Pansy Parkinson…apparently she couldn't keep her eyes off Draco ever since third year, but ever since Draco stepped off the Hogwarts express this year, she was pulling herself to him like a magnet. Draco however, tried to escape Pansy's smothering presence and he broke through the girls as he got up and walked over towards the library exit. Not before glancing over at Ron, Harry and Hermione with a wicked sneer.

"Had enough of your fan club for today Malfoy?" Harry shouted out to him.

He stopped walking and turned his head over to him, "Oh, what's the matter Potter? Jealous you don't have one of your own?"

Harry glared at him as he left the library acting like the king of the castle.

"What a shame his good looks, have to go to such waste." Hermione said as she watched Draco exit the library. Not realizing exactly what she had just said. Harry and Ron glanced at her in shock, after about a minute she glanced back at them, "What?" She asked, innocently.

"What a shame his *good looks* have to go to waste!? Hermione what are you on about?" Ron asked still not completely over what Hermione had said.

Hermione looked at Ron and then back at Harry, "Uh, I uh…oh please…and this question is coming from the one who thinks Lucia Malfoy is attractive."

"Well, onto other things besides Malfoys," Harry began as he took out his schedule, "It seems that Hermione and I have our Magic of the Minds class with Dumbledore in a minute, so we best pack up and be off." Harry said in slight dread…another class with Malfoy…he couldn't catch a break even when he tried to.

"Ron…what do you have now?" Hermione asked as she packed up her things.

Ron took out his schedule which was all crumpled up out of his pocket and began to look it over, "Let's see here…oh…I have an extra Potions class for everyone who has fallen behind over the course of last year." Ron said looking sick with grief.

"Ouch…that means you get Snape twice." Hermione said stating the already obvious.

Ron glared at her with a, 'thank you for stating the obvious' look.

Harry sighed, "Alright let's be off class is about to begin."

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Harry and Hermione entered the classroom. The working areas for the students seated two people, Harry and Hermione new they'd be sitting together if they had any say about it. They found an empty desk and the two of them sat down at it. Right across from them was Lucia, sitting next to Lavender Brown.

"Hi Harry, Hi Hermione!" Lavender said from across the way.

"Hi Lavender!" They both said with smiles. Lucia looked over to them and nodded her head in acknowledgement of the two.

A minute later Draco walked in, several girls already shot their glances into his direction as he walked towards a desk with one seat still available right behind the one Lucia and Lavender were seated at, he then looked over towards Harry and Hermione, "So, where's Weasely? To dumb to make it into the class?"

Harry went to say something but Hermione warned him not to.

"Oh what's the matter Granger? Still recovering from the heartbreak?" He asked with a wicked grin of pleasure. He enjoyed getting Harry and Ron mad, but he really enjoyed getting young Miss Granger not just angry but furious.

Hermione glanced over at Draco looking at him with a hard glare, "Oh, well then I suppose the only reason you're here Malfoy is because daddy paid off the Professors, is that it?"

He still kept on his wicked grin, "That's a rather stupid thing to ask Granger considering I have top grades, probably better then your own."

She had had enough of his smugness and turned away.

Just then Professor Dumbledore walked into the room and everyone who wasn't already seated sat down.

"Hello class." He said with a smile.

"Hello sir." The class replied, everyone except Draco that is, who was lazily resting his head on his hand and leaning on the desk, looking uninterested.

"Well, before we get started a brief summary on what this class is all about, and what will be required from each of you." He replied as he stood in front of his desk. The students began taking out parchments and quills, but Dumbledore raised a gentle hand up to them, "No need to write anything, put your parchments and quills away for now."

Everyone looked at him curiously but did as they were told.

"Now," began Dumbledore, "Magic of the Minds is a class, that doesn't require the power of your wands, but the power of your minds. In order to use the power in your mind, you must trust yourself without a wand. Though first a mind needs stimulation, an incentive. The mind is a complex thing but it is also a very powerful thing and what this class will teach you to do is to first, bring out the power to channel through your mind, second, learn to control the power you channel and lastly to learn your limits and what would be considered abuse. Any questions so far?"

Lucia Malfoy suddenly raised her hand.

"Yes, Miss Malfoy."

"Sir, I've heard that this type of Magic is very powerful, and that at one point the school did teach this class, but it was stopped once its lessons were abused by several students who had developed incredible skill in the subject, was He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named one of these students?" She asked as the rest of the class looked at her with slight fear at her question. Draco simply raised a curious brow up at Dumbledore, showing he was curious to know the answer.

Dumbledore sighed as he looked around at the curious class through his half-moon spectacles, "Yes, Miss Malfoy, this is a very powerful type of Magic, that is why it is only open to students with top grades. Also, yes several students did abuse the power once they left Hogwarts and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was one of them."

An eerie silence fell over the class, as the students looked both shocked and frightened.

"Now any further questions before I begin the class?" He asked looking around, but no one had any questions, "Alright then, now to begin. In this class you have to work in pairs. For like I said a mind needs a trigger to work an incentive to push the mind to its full potential and the one thing that makes this possible is another mind for it to have to deal with and learn from. Now it doesn't happen with any two minds, oh no, not at all. The minds need to be matched, they need to have the same desires to succeed, they also need to have differences which can range from right and wrong, goals, morals etc."

Pansy Parkinson who was conveniently seated next to Draco raised her hand.

"Yes, Miss Parkinson?"

"How do you determine which minds are matched? Is it through your houses?" She asked hoping it was through houses so that she could have a decent shot at being paired with Draco or as she secretly calls him, 'Her Handsome God.'

"No, Miss Parkinson. Minds aren't determined by houses, for everyone was put into the same houses cause your minds were too much alike, there aren't enough differences there to make a match. It is rare indeed if two people from the same house had minds that matched." He replied, as Pansy's grin quickly flipped upside down into a big frown, much to Draco's secret relief.

"So how will the minds be matched sir?" Asked Harry, with extreme curiosity and interest.

"Well, I was just about to get on that. To match the minds you will have to well…take a test." Dumbledore said with a grin.

"A test sir? What do we fill out a paper or something?" Asked Hermione, looking puzzled.

"Not at all…I will call you up one by one and you will all pull out a clear crystal from this bag, now since there are 26 students the crystals can become one out of 13 colors. Whoever has the same color crystal as yours, is your partner for the year. This is a mind test." He said gently opening the velvet black bag.

"When does the crystal change color?" Asked another sixth year girl.

"Once everyone selects a stone, you will all close your eyes and focus on nothing but the stone then say, in a low whisper, 'Find me my Match'."

"That's it? Nothing else, no waving wands or anything?" Asked Hermione in a rather disappointed voice.

"No that's all you have to do. Now the mind crystals are all connected, that's how they match everyone at once. Such amazing things , mind crystals. Anyhow," he said as he took a parchment with all the students names on it out of his robe, "When I call your name come and take a crystal."

"This is awful…Harry, we most likely won't be partners." Hermione said looking disappointed.

"I know…as long as I'm not paired with Malfoy, I don't care who I get." He replied as Dumbledore called out the first name.

"Patil, Parvati."

Parvati walked up put her hand into the black velvet bag and pulled out a clear crystal no bigger than a golf ball, she then went back to her seat.

"Potter, Harry."

Harry got up did the same as Parvati and sat back down again.

"Malfoy, Draco."

"Who do you think you'll get Harry?" Hermione asked in a whisper.

"I don't know, I can't think of anyone who could match my mind in the way Dumbledore said." Harry said looking at his crystal curiously, wondering who on earth it would match him up with.

"Malfoy, Lucia."

"I can't imagine who I could be matched up with." Hermione said as she saw Lucia sit back down with her crystal in hand.

"Granger, Hermione."

Hermione got up and grabbed her crystal, on her way back she saw Draco grinning mischievously at her and she just narrowed her eyes at him and sat back down.

After all the other names were called, Dumbledore put the black bag back on the desk and said, "Alright now as I had said before, focus on the crystal…once your mind is locked on the crystal it'll glow a bright white indicating its ready to make the mind match."

Everyone began to focus and one by one crystals were lighting up with a white glow, "Excellent now that everyone's mind is focused close your eyes and say, "Find me my match."

Suddenly crystals began glowing in different colors, blue, red, green, yellow every color imaginable. Dumbledore was pleased to see the crystals match everyone so quickly, "Good job everyone. Open your eyes and see who's your match."

Everyone opened there eyes and right away they looked at the colors of their crystals, "Purple? Why purple?" Harry said as his crystal glowed with a purple light.

Hermione opened her eyes and glanced down at her crystal, "Eck…black? Why on earth black?"

Everyone began murmuring as they saw the colors of their crystals.

"Everyone please place your crystals on the desks," Dumbledore said as he began walking down the aisles he began at the front, taking a crystal from a girl who had a red crystal, "Red…who else has red?" A young boy raised his hand, "Ah, please come sit with the young lady. You are now matched, good luck."

It went on like this, everyone though was paired with someone of the opposite sex and had to sit together for the year.

Dumbledore reached Lucia and he said, "Purple…who else has purple?"

Harry raised his hand slowly with utter shock on his face, though Lucia seemed to have no reaction at all as she glanced over at Harry. Draco was rather shocked on the other hand, his cousin matched with Harry, he found it almost insulting.

"Harry kindly take a seat with Lucia."

Dumbledore then walked up to Draco, for he was taking crystals from the right side of the room, "Mr. Malfoy, ah, black…who has black?"

Hermione eyes widened with horror and shock, she slowly turned to face Dumbledore with her crystal in hand, "I-I do sir."

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A/N: Did you like? I hope you liked lol, I really hope you liked! Please read and review tell me what you guys thought of the fic so far? Now can you see how this ends up Draco and Hermione…even though it took a little while to make it obvious as to why. Everything happens in Magic of the Minds class lol!

See you next chapter, any questions, comments, things you didn't understand e-mail me at Maygirl5306@aol.com, k? See ya later!