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Charms

            Hermione Granger was walking down the hall to her first class.  She had just finished eating breakfast with Ginny, and was very proud of the fact that she had evaded Harry and Ron throughout the whole thing.  The first class today was charms.  There was an open seat at the front of the room by Lavender and Padma; she sat here.  Harry and Ron entered the classroom.  Hermione flashed them a smile with superiority laced through it.  They took seats at the back of the class; Hermione could tell that they were displeases with her.  The classroom began to fill up; on one half sat the Gryffindors, and on the other the Slytherins.

            Draco sauntered into the classroom taking a seat at the back; he sat in the corner and ignored those around him.  Their dumb conversations bored him.  Looking around the classroom, he noticed that his assignment was as far away from Potter and Weasley as she could be and still remain on the Gryffindor side of the room.  How very interesting,  he thought, if she's in a fight with those two, then maybe it will be easier to coerce her into believing I'm her friend.  A diminutive smile of triumph found its way to his face.  It's nice when people make things easy for me.  If he had not been sounded by people, he probably would have let out an evil snicker.  He was going to start working on his little project soon. 

            Professor Flitwick shuffled into the room and stood before his class.  Today they would be working on shrinking charms.  Each student was given five moderately sized objects.  The idea was to fit them all into a small box all at once; this was a very practical spell used during traveling.  Each box was to be placed on Professor Flitwick's desk at the end of the class. 

            Hermione breezed through the assignment and finished in less than five minutes.  The rest of the class however was not in such great shape; Draco finished in ten minutes, but the rest of the class was still struggling with their first objects.  Having finished his assignment Draco sat back and studied his assignment.  She was now entirely absorbed in the book she was reading.  Her hair fell in a mass of curls that were cascading down her back in a rather pretty fashion, although Draco did not admit to that.  His mind was busy formulating ways to get this girl to trust him. 

            The class ended and the students began filing out of the room.  Hermione was brought back to reality and began putting her stuff away, the book she was reading laid on her desk.  She took a step backwards into the desk which knocked the book onto the floor.  Hearing the bang of the book on the floor she was about to turn around, when a steely, deep voice crooned,  "Allow me." 

            Turning around, Hermione found herself looking into two pale gray eyes.  She knew that this meant some snide comment about being a cluts was coming but instead, Draco looked at the book in his hand and said, "Good choice."

            "T-thanks," Hermione started rather confused.  Draco flashed her a look that was almost a smile, not like the smirk he usually wore.  Then he turned and walked out of the classroom. 

            A rather bewildered Hermione watched him leave, was her mind playing tricks on her, or had he been, civil?  There were however two other heads watching this strange scene, but instead of the amused curiosity that filled Hermione these two heads became full of anger.  Malfoy had to be up to something they knew it.  And they were going to find out what. 

            Harry and Ron walked up to Hermione who immediately turned her back to them. 

            "Look, Mione,  we're sorry for last night.  We shouldn't have been so protective.  It's just that well you're like a sister to both of us and we don't want to see you get hurt," said Harry.  

            "Yeah," added Ron.

            Hermione thought about this, she knew that what they said was true.  But still she said nothing. 

            Harry continued, "We promise that we wont be so protective of you any more.  We'll behave.  Can you ever forgive us?"

            She still didn't move.

            "I'll have you know that we are prepared to grovel," he poked her in the side where she was ticklish. She giggled and turned around.

            "How could I not forgive you?" and with that pulled them both in for a hug. 

In the middle of the hug, Ron burst out, "so what did that git Malfoy want?"

Hermione's eyes flew open and she pushed both boys back.  "Ron!  You guys just said that you were not going to be so protective!"

"Yes, but this is Malfoy were talking about here.  Its not like we don't have reason to ask what he wanted."

"So that's it huh?  You just apologized so that you could make sure nothing bad happened with Malfoy!  Well I'll have you know that Malfoy just picked up something I dropped for me.  He treated me with respect, which is more than I can say about you two!"  She whirled around and ran out of the class room.  How had the managed to upset her again? 

Hermione did not talk to them during dinner, and she wasn't in the common room after that. 

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