Don't Judge A Witch by Her Looks

AN: Somehow by the first season of Angel the series and watching a few of my fav eppys from that season has made my muse for this story start talking, again, maybe Angel really is a muse...Anyways I'd like to thank everyone who's reviewed this story...and to ask for them to keep coming...And I'd like to thank Avri for being a very understanding beta since I'm still pretty new to the writing with a betaness...Please Review Y'all...And no I'm not from 'down south', I'm proud to be a northern/eastern...*shrugs*...Whatever I am...Also I'm not sure if I ever said if Voldy was alive or dead...well he's dead and Harry, Hermione, and Ron killed him at the end of the 5th year...if I said something besides that please tell me...Enjoy...Thanks Again Avri..

Chapter Thee: Broken For Now

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Hermione walked down the hall to the library smiling. She had found

herself doing that a lot lately. Her and Ryan's relationship was going great, Harry had begun to be okay with her dating a Slytherin and strangely Ron was even more understanding then Harry was. That alone freaked Hermione out, but all was fine. She had seen Ryan almost everyday after that special night and he hadn't done anything to signal that he wanted anything but her. She loved having him in her life. True Harry and Ron treated her great, but she was more like a little sister to them and not a girlfriend. Hermione had also noticed Harry and Ginny being very distant, she'd have to check that out after she meet with Ryan.

Tomorrow the four of them, Harry, Ron, Ryan & Hermione had agreed since

they were going to Hogsmeade and have a very long chat, about erything.

Hermione had decided she'd explain everything she'd done in the past before and after Hogwarts. If Harry and Ron didn't want to be her friends because of some things while she did then, then it was there fault. Plus she still had Ryan no matter what, with him she felt like there was nothing she couldn't deal with, even if it meant losing Harry and Ron.

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Ryan turned the corner and saw the library come into view. He grinned;

he was going to see Hermione, seeing her always struck something in him.

"Where you going, stud?" An annoying familiar voice asked not far

behind him.

Ryan stopped, sighed and turned around to face Pansy. He shook his

head, ever since this girl had realized that Draco was through with her she'd been after him. And he'd been here less then a month, what a slut. "What do you want?"

The strawberry blonde girl smiled her green eyes shinning. "You of

course."

Ryan frowned; she still didn't get that he didn't want her. She was

nice when she wanted to and from what Malfoy said hell in bed and hell Pansy wasn't all that ugly but still there wasn't something that clicked when it came to her. He'd been nice to her and she had thrown herself at him, people who did that bugged Ryan even if they were pretty, pretty.

"Well guess what Pansy?"

Her light eyebrows went up then she returned to her calm smile happy

look.

She took a step closer to him. "What?"

"I don't want you and I don't want you to want me, ever." Ryan was

tempted to step back but he wasn't going to show anything in front of her.

"But it's so obvious that we're made for each other?" She too another

step closer.

Ryan was tempted to step back again but didn't, again. She was really

pissing him off again; this went beyond hitting on a person. "What the

fuck makes you think we are made for each other at all?"

She looked hurt but then smiled her little smile again. "Can't you feel

it?"

Ryan shook his head. "Sorry I feel nothing for you. Well I used to feel

that we could be okay friends, and that's it but then you started this," he motioned between the two with his hand, "And now I have my doubts that we'll ever be anything at all, ever."

"You don't mean that?" Pansy was face to face with and pouting.

Ryan was tempted to spit on her this time but again didn't. "I FEEL

NOTHING FOR YOU."

Pansy smiled and had knowledge in her eyes.

"What is it?"

"You don't feel anything," she traced her fingers down the side of his

face in a feather type manner, "Because I haven't let you get close enough to feel anything."

Ryan swallowed; he didn't like this but was wasn't about to walk away

until he knew exactly what she was talking about. "Meaning?"

She grabbed his chin and kissed him, hard, letting her tongue slip in

there too.

Ryan pulled back as fast as he could and turned to the running

footsteps he heard. Oh shit Hermione, he thought running after her.

"What have I done", he muttered, running after the heart-brokened girl.

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Hermione's smile dropped when she turned the corner. There she saw

Ryan, her boyfriend, her best friend, the boy she'd known since childhood who's hide nothing, besides one thing from her KISSING PANSY. In front of everyone, as if they did it normally. She felt the tears come and turned and ran.

"Hermione!" She recognized Ryan's voice but didn't stop running. She

heard his footsteps soon though.

Since her tears flooded her vision, the prefect didn't see the blonde

until she ran into him. She fell right on her ass. "Shit!"

When Hermione looked up she saw a hand outstretched for her and took

and stood up. She gasped slightly when she found that Draco Malfoy was the one who'd helped her up.

Draco gave Hermione a look over. "What happened?"

If Hermione didn't know Malfoy was well, Malfoy she would have thought

that he sounded caring, but Malfoy hated her at least she thought he did. Now here he is being actually decent to her, Hermione was beyond confused. Plus why were knees suddenly feeling slightly weak around him, ever since the beginning of the year. It stopped when Ryan showed up and suddenly its back. This just can't end well, Hermione thought. "I-I saw..."

"Go on, Granger." Malfoy looked her in the eyes.

Hermione didn't and did want to look away. But if he was being nice,

why not be nice, or decent back, right? "I saw Ryan kiss Pansy."

Draco's eye went wide; he should have seen this coming. Pansy knew he

felt something for Hermione, he'd been staring at her for the past week and since Pansy knew she couldn't have him so she went after Draco's secret crush, Hermione's best friend. It was so like Pansy, she expected him, Draco Malfoy of all people to be jealous of her and that yank, hardly. "Are you alright?"

Hermione pulled away from him and looked at him like he was insane.

"What?"

Draco made a confused face. "I asked if you were all right?"

"I'm fine."

There was a moment of silence. Draco was about to ask something but

Hermione beat him to it.

"Why are you being so nice to me?"

Draco was silent and found himself looking at Hermione's eyes. "I'm

sorry I treated you like filth before this. It's just that my father-"

"Filled your head with those thoughts."

Draco nodded.

Hermione shrugged. "I understand. I mean I wasn't thrilled to find out

I was a witch because I could do magic. I thought it would help me steal things easier and possibly fight better somehow."

Draco made a confused face. "What?"

"Hermione!"

Draco was about to turn his head even though he knew it was Ryan's

voice but Hermione grabbed his chin in away Ryan couldn't see. "Kiss me!" She whispered.

Draco was so close to her, plus she had asked him to. He kissed her

with everything he had. She deserved someone better then Ryan who would

cheat on her with Pansy, if he really did.

Hermione smiled and kissed Draco back. This would teach Ryan to kiss

someone else. She was about to pull away because she knew Ryan had seen her but she didn't want to. Mal-Draco kissed good, very good, some may say great. She was defiantly feeling something she didn't with Ryan. She felt Draco slip his arms around her waist. Hermione really didn't wanna pull away now. She slipped her arms around Draco's neck, not caring who was watching. This felt so right.

Draco smiled feeling her arms around his neck. He knew other people

then Ryan were looking now. Not that often that a Gryffindor and a

Slytherin, especially Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy were making out right outside in broad daylight for all to see. He loved this. Just this kiss felt better then any he'd had before, and he'd had a lot. He pulled away when he knew his breath was short. He looked Hermione in the eye, just from her bright cinnamon eyes he could tell that she felt what he had.

Hermione didn't want that kiss to stop but she didn't want to die from

no air either. She smirked and leaned in for another kiss, hoping this one would be as great as the last one. Hermione smiled a few minutes; this one was even better.

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Ryan stood there dumbfounded. He would have attacked Malfoy, but he knew he deserved this. He knew Hermione thought he kissed Pansy, but in truth it was Pansy who'd kissed him. He didn't want to announce that to everyone. Everyone already knew Pansy was a slut. He'd just wait till tomorrow or maybe a few days after that to explain everything to Hermione.

He knew his childhood friend would see his things his way. She always did. The last time they'd broke up was because he wasn't with her during the school year. Well now he was and a few little kisses between her and Draco wasn't going to stop them from being together.

They were meant for each other after all. Childhood friends, always been there for each other. The only thing that separated them was now gone. Hermione would come back to him one she hears his side of the story, he thought. Ryan turned and walked back to the Slytherin common room not knowing Hermione was already falling deep for Draco in the back of her mind, as was Draco for her.

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Harry had seen the kiss. It seemed Hermione would kiss anyone but him.

Why didn't she turn to him? Why didn't she run to him? He was the one who was waiting. He knew what Pansy was going to do because he'd convinced her to go it.

The plan was that Hermione would see Ryan and Pansy feel betrayed and

run to him. He would be standing just outside because he knew she would run there. BUT NO, that just didn't happen. Instead she ran right by him and into Malfoy. Of all people, Malfoy. If it was anyone else he knew he would have no worries. But Malfoy, the blonde was just a whole nother story. He couldn't convince her to get away from Malfoy a week ago. He knew he would never be able to get her away from him now.

He still didn't understand how his Hermione could just turn to the arms

of those dirty filthy killing Slytherins. He knew Voldemort was dead but not many of the Slytherins had changed. They were as mean as ever. Of course know that they were older the names got worse then mudblood or scarhead or weasel. That's the people she chose to run to; Slytherins. She was a Gryffindor and she was to run to them for help. Just because this Ryan guy used to be her friend doesn't mean he should be now.

Harry shook his head after he saw Hermione kiss Malfoy again. He looked

at his watch and realized he had to meet Ginny in five minutes. Great,

this day was suppose to be a good one. If Hermione had run to him he'd have a much better reason for breaking up with Ginny but now he just had to say he didn't feel that way for her. It was suppose to go something like, 'You're a really nice girl but I think I'm in love with Hermione, plus I just kissed her'. Oh well, he thought, either way the redhead will cry and probably never want to talk to me again.

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Hermione smiled looking at the bright stars. She hadn't spoken to Ryan

all day but just the look in one another's eyes and they both knew it was over, for good this time. She planned to talk to him because she still wanted to be friends, like before.

She hadn't talked to Harry or Ron about Draco and didn't really know

what she would say yet because she didn't even know what was between her and Draco for now. They'd kissed and she loved it and by his beautiful gray eyes she knew he had loved it to. They'd just stood there for at least an hour and kissed. Then of course her knees were tired so they sat down for another hour, and kissed some more.

She grinned bigger at the memory of the kisses that had happened. She

suddenly frowned remembering that Harry had broke up with Ginny. She'd

seen the girl run through the halls crying. She tried to help but the

redhead had pushed her aside and practically spat of her. She didn't know what had happened but Hermione was defiantly going to ask her tomorrow. She was also was going to see what was going on between her and Draco then possibly tell Harry and Ron about it if they hadn't already heard.

She still wasn't sure if Draco even wanted something more. He'd pretty

much left her hanging. After there last mouth kiss of the day he stood up grabbed his things and said, 'See you soon'. He then kissed her on the check and left. She realized it was dinner time and left for the Great Hall. She didn't see him in there either.

Hermione sighed and wished she knew what was going on. She yawned and

shut her eyes letting sleep take over. In the back of her mind she was also wondering what would happen next.

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A few rooms away Ginny was also star gazing. Expect unlike Hermione she

was thinking of Harry breaking up with her instead of kissing Malfoy and the cause of their breakup. The redhead had tears in her eyes and dry ones on her face. She felt like crap and knew she looked like it to. She knew Hermione was the reason for her and Harry's breakup. She

wasn't as stupid as some thought her to be. She had seen the glances from him at her. He had a look in his eyes when it came to the brunette. He was never like that about her.

Ginny knew Hermione didn't go out of her way for anything but her

studies and protecting her friends. But Ginny still couldn't help but feel jealous of Hermione and hate her. She wanted to crush her with her bare feet. The redhead also knew she could never touch Hermione. The other girl had Ron, Harry; this new guy and apparently Malfoy now at her back. Not to mention the current 6th year Gryffindors.

Everyone preferred Hermione over Ginny. Ginny started crying again. She

hated this feeling. She wanted to hate the one and only true person

that was ever always there. Harry used to be there then they broke up. Ron was her big brother and she loved him, but it seemed that most of the time he turned to Hermione and Harry instead of her. Ginny whipped the tears from her eyes and face then laid down in her bed. The other girls in her year were asleep. She started to think about her and Harry's great times and drifted into a deep sleep.

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What did you all think??...Sorry about my horrible spelling mistakes, not to mention the typos...Also I know I spikep prove's around and it was sorta happening all at the same time but that's just what seemed to work with this shapter...But other then all that what did you people think??...Please Review...