A/N- Hi !!! This is my very first fanfic ever so if you think it sucks, I'm sorry. Although I assure you that as I keep writing, my writing style will develop !!!
DISCLAIMER- I do not own Harry Potter or any other characters in this story, they are all JK Rowling's. [ I will only do the disclaimer once in this story as I am very likely to forget to do it later on ].
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Chapter One: Back to Hogwarts
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Love is like quicksand, the deeper you fall in, the harder it is to come out …
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Hermione tucked a stray curl behind her ear as she scanned the
platform quickly.
Yes, it was that time of the year again. The day the students
of Hogwarts board the Hogwarts Express and start a new school year. It
was Hermione's 6th year and yet, she had changed very little from the 11year
old girl that she use to be. Her
hair- still curly and bushy, her clothes, still of 'geek' standard and her
personality, the same know-it-all attitude. But that didn't stop her
from becoming friends with almost the whole of Gryffindor that were in the same
year as her.
So, back to the platform :-
Hermione, seeing as it was useless to find Harry or Ron at her height, decided
to just find a carriage and settle in. She pulled her trunk behind her on the
trolley, walking slowly and making sure to check in each carriage in case she
did bump into someone she knew. Stopping bout halfway down the train, she
stepped in and heaved her trunk on an empty seat. She was just returning the
trolley from where it came from [ A/N- I know, I know,
Hermione must be the only person in the world to return a trolley back to where
it came from ] when someone called out her name.
"Hermione!! Oi!!! Over
here!!!"
She spun around to be greeted by the sight of Ron, waving frantically, and a
much composed Harry, standing next to him.
"Hey Guys!!" she called out. They made their way over to her, pulling
their trolleys behind them. It was then that Hermione remembered that Harry was
staying over at Ron's place, all thanks to Dumbledore, and she remembered how
stressing first day of terms can be for the Weasly's.
They reached her after a good amount of time and after all the 'Have you grown
taller?', 'Is that a new freckle I see?' and 'Oh my God! You haven't changed at
all!!', they followed Hermione to the empty carriage
she chose earlier. Only to find that it wasn't particularly empty. There was
someone else in it, someone they didn't want to see before Hogwarts even
started.
Draco. Malfoy.
He smirked when he saw them.
"What the hell are you doing in our carriage?" spat Hermione. She
looked for her trunk and to her relief, found that it was right where she left
it.
"Your carriage? I don't see your name written all
over it, so how can this be your carriage?" asked Draco, in what he hoped
was an innocent tone.
"Malfoy, get your butt out of here or would you rather I curse you
out?" said Harry, in a menacing tone.
"I'd prefer to take my time, Potty. But seeing that you want me out of
here so soon, I'll just be on my way."
Harry and Ron glared at him while he stood up slowly. But Hermione, being the
brain that she was, noticed that his usual 'bodyguards' weren't there.
"Where are your sidekicks, Malfoy? Taking a holiday are they? Or are they
so thick that they forgot to come?" asked Hermione, in what she hoped was
an innocent tone.
It seemed as though Draco had just been snapped into reality.
"What doesn't involve you doesn't concern you, Granger," he hissed,
"I suggest you keep your nosy head out of my business."
"Well, Hermione, I don't see why you should be worrying about that. Since
his bodyguards are gone, we'll just have an easier time bashing him up,"
said Ron, glaring at Malfoy with intense dislike.
"Don't think that you're going to get by easy this year, Weasel. I have a
few surprises up my sleeve." replied Malfoy and with that, he stalked out
of their carriage. Hermione stared after him. What did he mean by surprises?
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Pretty soon after that, the train started to move so Harry and Ron had started
to discuss the latest Quidditch news and Hermione, feeling very out of place,
stared out the window and became lost in thought. After a while, a numerous
amount of Gryffindors had joined them in their carriage and they all gathered
around Ron and Seamus, who were playing a chess game against each other. About
an hour to Hogwarts, everyone else left to their carriages to get changed into
their school robes. Hermione closed her eyes firmly as promised and faced the
wall while Ron and Harry quickly undressed themselves. She smiled to herself,
thinking that after all those years of being friends with them,
they didn't even want to reveal anything under their school robes to her. She
waited patiently and when they finished, they both faced the wall, and she
opened her trunk. And screamed. Right on top of her
clothes and books was this GIGANTIC and hairy spider. And it was alive. She
backed away from her trunk, while trying to think of a spell that would somehow
make it disappear. Harry and Ron, hearing her scream rushed towards her to see
what happened but Ron almost immediately backed away, leaving Harry to deal
with the . beast by himself, until they heard cruel
laughter at the carriage doorway. Harry, Ron and Hermione all turned their
heads towards the door. And there, leaning against the doorframe, looking very
pleased with himself was, yup, you guessed it, Draco
Malfoy.
"You! I've seen enough of you today
already!" spat Ron.
"Well it doesn't mean that I like what I'm seeing today either,"
replied malfoy coolly.
"I guess you should stop looking in the mirror then," said Harry
through gritted teeth, "now get that disgusting thing away from us. NOW!"
Malfoy just gave them a cold stare.
"I'll leave you three to deal with it, after all,
you do had the brainy mudblood with you."
And with that, he left. Again.
"God, I wish he would just trip over and ruin his pretty-boy face,"
said Ron, still glaring at the door.
And then Hermione's brain just went -click- and everything fell into place. So
Draco had come into their carriage to sneak the rubber spider into Hermione's
trunk. How he had broken all those locking spells, she didn't know but she had
a feeling that his surprises that he's got planned weren't going to be good
news.
"Well, no use just hanging about, we've got to get rid of that spider so I
can get changed," said Hermione, bringing her attention back to the
spider.
In the end, it was Lavender Brown who helped them out. She had a younger
brother and he apparently always played tricks on her using things like fake
rubber spiders that turn real when a person mentions a certain word. With a
*plop* the spider was once again, rubber.
"Hey, mind if I keep this?" asked Lavender, "I think it may come
in handy in getting a certain someone back for something they did to me."
"Yeah, take it, we don't need it," muttered Ron.
He and Harry followed Lavender out to visit someone else so Hermione could have
her privacy. She got dressed into her robes when something under her neatly
folded cloak caught her eye. It was a letter, sent from Hogwarts. It was to
tell her that she had been made a prefect. She kicked herself on the ankle,
cursing herself for forgetting to break the news to Ron and Harry. How could
she have forgotten such a thing??? Oh well, it must've been all those other
thoughts about school work and homework that distracted her from that, she
guessed. She stayed by herself for another five minutes or so, reading the
letter again and remembering how hurt she was when neither of her parents
seemed to be overjoyed that she had made it as a prefect. Sure, they had been
happy but not overjoyed. She was pondering over that when Harry and Ron stepped
back in. They saw her letter, and saw the words 'prefect' and 'badge' and
'enclosed' so they assumed the only one thing that could be possible.
"Hermione, why didn't you tell us earlier? Leaving it as a surprise huh??
Wow!! You actually got made a prefect, congratulations!"
"Cool, I've never seen a badge that close up before, can I touch it? Damn,
too bad I wasn't made a prefect."
She smiled as they both praised her for the rest of the journey. It felt good
to be appreciated.
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When they had got off the train and walked into the castle, Hermione smiled.
She was home, where she belonged.
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A/N- End of first chapter ever, what do you peepz out there think??? Review !!!
