Hey again, it is the answer to the question that has been hanging over your shoulders for so long (yeah right) the next chapter to complete the cliffy! So here it is after the Disclaimer (I don't want to get sued!) and my thank-you's.

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And one other thing, I know that Hermione is OOC, but you see she sort of has to be for the story to flow correctly. I mean if it really bothers you than you can send flames to me, but I hope you wont = ( and also I know that she shouldn't like Tom (considering who he is and all) but this is a Tom and Hermione ROMANCE and she can't help that she is falling for him. Thanks

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Who Would Have Thought

Chapter 3

When she finally landed she felt someone had caught her, and when she looked up too see who it was she felt her body stiffen. She had landed in the arms of someone that seemed very familiar, but she really didn't know whom he reminded her of. She quickly tried to scrambled to her feet which was harder than it seemed considering he was holding her a few feet from the ground.

"I guess I had better have an umbrella while I'm walking down the hall," he pointed out, after he had set her down. "Because it is raining angels." (AN: cheesy I know)

"Yeah, I guess so." said Hermione, awkwardly.

"My name is Sercio De Graff, I'm guessing you're new to Hogwarts this year, correct?" he asked, gray eyes flashing in the candlelight

"Yeah, nice to meet you, my name is Hermione Gran…er…Grant. Are you by chance related to the Malfoy family?" she asked after she realized whom he looked like.

"Pleased to meet you too. And no I'm not related to them, but can I take you to the Headmaster so you can be sorted?"

"Oh yes, the Headmaster, I was supposed to go to Dippet the moment I arrived." She said, thinking out loud.

"Well then do you want me to take you?" Sercio questioned.

"Umm, well." She hesitated, before she was dragged down the corridor.

With that they started on their way towards the Headmasters office. Hermione would occasionally glance over at Sercio; he really was cute with his gray eyes and bleach blonde hair to go along with his well-built figure. He would She found him glancing over at her quite often, which was really weird to her.

She was stopped when she ran into Sercio, because he had suddenly stopped in front of a gargoyle that Hermione recognized as the entrance to the Headmasters office.

"Sorry about that." She said, backing away from him a little.

"Don't worry about it." He told her. "Do you want me to go up with you?"

"No" she said, faster than she had meant to. "I guess that I will see you around, and thanks for taking me by the way"

"No problem" he replied. "Yeah, I guess I will see you at dinner."

Before Sercio left he said the password and she made her way up to the circular office. She continued on to Professor Dippet's desk, not really sure what she should say to him, but she didn't have to worry too long.

"So, you are Miss Granger or should I say Miss Grant?" Dippet asked, while she walked to his desk. "Professor Dumbledore told me that you would be arriving."

"Yes sir, is there anything I need to do?" she asked.

"I do need to sort you into your house again considering times have changed since the last time that you have tried it on." He stated.

He then went over to get the age-old hat off of the top shelf, and placed it on her head.

"~So,~" the hat said. "~You again. Well I don't think I want you I'm Gryffindor this time. I think I want to try you in.~" "Ravenclaw" the hat yelled out loud.

"Well then I guess the hat has spoken" Dippet said, placing the hat back on the shelf. "Oh yes there is the minor detail about letters and such between times. The only thing you have to do is give me the letter and I will get it to its destination. So if you don't have any questions?"

"No I believe that I am fine." She replied.

"Well then if it is alright I am going to get Tom, our head boy, to help you get settled in." the Professor said, calling Tom by way of the fireplace. "So if there is anything you need you can come and ask."

"Thank you, and I will" she assured him on her way out the door.

Hermione met Tom outside the office and then they made their way to the great hall for dinner.

"So what is your name?" Tom asked with mild concern as he looked over to her for the first time.

"Hermione" she told him, looking into his blue eyes. "Your Tom Riddle, correct?"

"Yes" he said, his interest growing once he saw her. "Are you going to be in the 7th year?"

"Yeah, I'm really glad that this is my last year, but I'm also sort of scared about leaving." Hermione said in pure honesty.

"Same here, but I wouldn't worry about it much, you will be fine." He confirmed, as they arrived in the great hall where he took her to her seat at the Ravenclaw table, which happened to be facing the Slytherin table.

He then took his spot in the middle of a clump of girls crawling all over him, which he didn't seem to notice. During dinner that day all he seemed to notice was the new girl sitting at the next table over.

Hermione was trying her best to keep from meeting his glance, which she could feel on her every so often, but when she looked up it was gone. She began to eat and talk to some of the people that were in her year.

"So have you gotten your schedule yet for classes?" Hermione asked one of the girls that she was sitting by.

"No not yet, I think that we get them tomorrow at dinner. I'm Michelle by the way." The girl told her.

"Hi." Hermione said, smiling. "My name is Hermione. It's nice to meet you"

"Same here." Michelle replied. "So what year are you in?"

"7th and final. You?" Hermione asked the girl.

"It's my last year too. I'm a little nervous about graduating, you know about like what I am going to do and where I'm going to stay." Michelle said, shrugging.

"I know what you mean everyone has been telling me what I should be, and that I should really hurry and decide." Hermione agreed as a girl walked over to Michelle and sat down.

"Michelle who is this that you have been talking to without me?" the girl asked her friend.

"Oh I'm sorry," Michelle said. "This is Hermione and she is new here."

"Pleased to meet you Hermione, my name is Katie, I'm in 7th year too." Katie told her, smiling warmly. "Hey, aren't you that girl that I saw walking down the hall with Tom earlier today? He is so cute, don't you think? It is too bad that he is way out of reach."

"What do you mean, 'way out of reach'?" Hermione asked with a confused look on her face.

"Well besides the face that the only person that he even looked at was Brigitte over there." Katie said, pointing to a pretty redheaded Slytherin girl sitting next to Tom and a few other boys. "Now that he isn't going out with her you still won't be able to get him unless you are a Slytherin."

"Well, I think that he is changing that last one 'cause he has been looking over at you." Michelle told her with an envious smile on her face.

"Yeah well, he is really cute." Hermione said, looking to the next table at him. "But something tells me that it is not going to happen."

"Well I wouldn't have that big of a cow about not getting him." Katie told her looking over to the Slytherin table at Tom. "He is a real jerk to the people that he doesn't like."

"Oh yeah!" Michelle agreed. "There is this girl Myrtle, and he is so mean to her that she spends most of the time up in the girls bathroom moaning and crying. A lot of Slytherin's joke that she is going to die in the bathroom."

They didn't talk much more that evening, they just ate and glanced over at Tom every once in a while.

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The few days that they had before classes stared again flew before her eyes, till the morning of the first classes finally came. She sat at breakfast that morning with Michelle and Katie, but she didn't talk that much. She was more focused on her upcoming classes and if a certain person would be in them.

"Hermione you have barely touched your food and haven't talked to us since last night. What is wrong?" the girls asked Hermione.

"Oh, nothing." She said coming out of her trance. "Just thinking about things."

"And would those 'things' happen to have blue eyes and sit at the Slytherin table?" Katie asked, with a smirk on her face.

"No! Of course not." She lied quickly. "What makes you think that?"

"Well besides the fact that you won't quit looking at him...nothing, nothing at all." Michelle replied sarcastically.

"You can think what you want," Hermione said getting out of her seat. "But I am going to class."

With that she walked out of the great hall not realizing that she was being followed.

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"I can't believe that she is denying the fact that she is all caught up in Tom," Katie said after Hermione had walked out the doors. "I mean it's not like she is the only one."

"I know!" Michelle agreed. "Wait! Where is Tom going?"

Right after Hermione had left, Tom got up and left. Normally this wouldn't have been strange considering he was probably just going to class, but class didn't start for another 30 minutes and Tom never went to class early. Usually he would slip in right after the bell rung, but the teachers didn't mind, except Professor Dumbledore who saw him for what he would become. All the same he left right behind the new girl without Brigitte or his swarm of girls, as he normally would have. Not to say that the girls didn't try to come with him, he just didn't let them come this time.

He continued to walk down the hall in the direction that she had left in. He figured that she would be going to her class, which would give him his chance. He followed her down two or three corridors before she turned into the Arithmancy classroom.

"~Good~" he thought. "~She has the same class that I do in the mornings~" And he walk in after her.

When he entered the room he saw her take a seat in the front of the classroom and open her new book that Dippet had assigned to her. He walked over to her with everything planned in his head on how things were going to go, but things went a little different from planned.

"So, Hermione is it?" Tom asked, causing her to jump a little.

"Yeah, that's right." She said, continuing her work.

"Well you have Arithmancy first thing in the morning too I see." He said trying to get her to talk to him.
"I guess that would explain what I am doing here." She said trying not to look at him.

"I happen to have it too." Tom told her, getting a little aggravated.

"Good for you." Hermione replied sarcastically.

"I know every girl in this school and have gone out with most of the good looking ones," He said giving up and cutting to the chase.

"Your point being...?" she asked with mild concern.

"In other words, I don't know you and I want you to go out with me for a bit." He said getting frustrated.

That was all Hermione could handle, no matter how cute he was. She hated it when guys thought that they were all that and would let girls go out with them, thinking that the girl should consider herself privileged to go out with them.

"What makes you think that you can just waltz in here and basically tell me that I can go out with you. That is so stupid, I don't care how cute, girls think you are or how much any girl in this school would love to be in my situation. Guess what, I'm not like other girls and I don't care how cute you are or how much girls think of you." She said, finally standing up and looking at him.

"F-fine!" he stuttered, never having this happen to him. "I don't need you I can have any girl in this school."

With that she walked out the open door completely forgetting about her books. Tom however stood rooted to the spot, staring out the open door, feeling that what he said was true but not what he wanted. He could have any girl, but he wanted her and that little scene only made him want her more.

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The rest of the day went by Tom free for Hermione, even though he was in basically all of her classes. He didn't try to talk to her but he would always stare at her in the same way that Draco had done before she had left. She was getting a little worried and it was keeping her form her classes. She just went around that day caught up in her thoughts about what Tom was thinking and if she was really sure about not going out with him. She eventually made it through the day and into the Great Hall for dinner where, her two worried friends pulled her out of her reverie.

"Hermione?" Michelle began with a look of concern on her face. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah" Hermione replied, not being totally honest. "Why would you say that?"

"You have been really out of it today and haven't talked to us since dinner yesterday." Katie told her.

"Well I've been concentrating on my school work and was busy with classes" Hermione tried to convince them, but it didn't work.

"Hermione come on, you don't think that we are that stupid do you" Michelle asked her. "I know that you haven't known us that long, but you can trust us."

"Yeah, I mean it isn't like we would go and tell anyone." Katie said in all honesty. "We want to be able to help you, but you kind of have to clue us in."

"Ok," Hermione said, smiling after finally giving in. "I'm gonna go upstairs and take a shower, and than I'll meet you in our room and we will chat."

"Thanks Hermione, it will make you feel tons better, promise."

The two girls reassured her, as they all made their way out of the Great Hall not realizing that they (mainly Hermione) were being watched. At that same moment that they were leaving two Slytherins that were staring at the trio of girls leaving the hall.

"You know that new girl, Hermione is it?" Sercio told Tom as they watched the girls continue on their way. "Well, she is really something, don't you think?"

Tom continued looking out the doors long after she had left, not quite realizing what he had said.

"What did you say?" Tom asked finally turning away from the door.

"I said that Hermione is really something." He repeated. "I can't say that I would mind going out with her."

"She isn't your type." Tom told him firmly and quickly. "Umm, I mean..."

"Someone has it for the new girl." Sercio joked with him.

"So what if I do? What the hell does it have to do with you?" Tom yelled at him, losing his temper.

"Calm down man," He told him, before he lost it again. "If you want her you can have her, but I don't think it is going very well so far."

Sercio was really pushing Tom's buttons that evening, and he was about to get it, and he would have except...

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