A/N: I know this chapter is kind of short and I'm sorry. I also apologize for the wait but so much has been going on that I haven't even had time to think about this story! So here it is, Chapter 2! leave a note!

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Chapter 2: Meet Mione!

~Draco~

"Now, this year we have decided to have a ball that has not been held in a very long time." Professor McGonagall told us.

"What kind of ball will it be, Professor?" Ernie Macmillan asked. She looked at him with a mischievous glint in her eyes.

"The ball this year will be a costume ball." She said this as though it had never been done before. "Meaning … no one can know who you are so you may very well meet and get to know someone you never thought you'd want to encounter before." I thought she had looked at me and to someone else in the compartment but thought nothing of it.

"Professor, can we change anything we like about each other for this ball … for example our voice?" Granger questioned.

"You may change voice, hair, eyes, and other small things like that. However," she drew out the 'ever' as if there was this monster big catch, "you may not completely change yourself. Meaning you must keep your identity secret, but not change it. Understand?" She looked pointedly at us.

So in other words, we could just change some feature about us but we could not get a new 'body' per say.

We all nodded in unison and she turned her nose up in the air. Old bat.

~Hermione~

Costume ball. Dance. Someone you never thought you'd want to dance with before. Nice.

As soon as she finished up the speech about the dance she informed us that the dance would be held on January 15. That meant 4 months of planning. This, although kind of over used (the whole costume thing I mean), sounded as though it could be fun.

We soon left the compartment and began walking back to our own compartments, but I stopped in front of Ginny Weasley's section. She was talking to a few girls in her year.

"… yeah, you should have seen the way she was looking at Harry. She gave me the fakest smile when she found out we were together. I just wanted to slap that stupid grin off her face and tell her to get off my man. I mean come on, why would he ever go out with her? …" Ginny snarled at her 'friends' and they all laughed and agreed with her. I thought it time for some fun. Well, that's fun for me, not for her.

I opened the door and seated myself in the cubicle and looked at the 5TH years.

"Whatever are we talking about ladies?" I coated my voice with sugary sweetness.

"Yo-" one of Ginny's little friends began but was cut off by a kick to the shin from Ginny.

"Yoozies. Um, er, it's a new invention of er, Fred and George, and er, it makes um, clones of people and things. Get it yoozies?" Ginny tried to lie but she was horrible at it.

"Actually I believe that Fred and George already made a creation called Yoozies and it has nothing to do with cloning." She blinked her eyes at me. It wasn't true but Ginny wouldn't know, she never talked to her brothers.

"Oh er, maybe I'm thinking of something el-" I cut her off because I couldn't stand people lying to me. Especially when I knew they were lying.

"Oh cut the crap Ginny. You thought I was all over Harry? How? What are you just telling your friends this so you can sound like you and Harry are this major thing?" I snapped at her. I could see her cheeks turning pink.

"Now you wait just a dam-" She started but I cut her off again.

"Language Ginny. Now, you want to stop spreading rumors that I was all over your man?" I barked and she nodded and mumbled something that sounded like a 'sorry'. I smiled at them.

"Have a nice day girls." I told them and strode out.

~Draco~

I stopped to listen to what Granger was saying to the Weasley girl and nearly choked at the coldness in her voice.

What was Granger hiding? That's all that ran through my head. Sure she looked different but how do looks give someone a new personality.

I hid in another compartment as she walked out of the younger girls compartment, a satisfied smirk on her face.

As she walked away, I saw her lovingly caress her upper right forearm.

It made me think, I'll tell you that …

~Hermione~

You know how people are always talking about 'uncommon gifts' such as seeing the future, reading peoples minds, or making things appear out of thin air?

I have a gift … I'm sure you're all thinking 'Um, what about magic?' Well yes, but just because you're a witch or wizard doesn't mean you have extreme gifts.

~Flashback~

There was this guy named Tyler Atkinson that lived in my neighborhood.

For a few years, Ty wouldn't give me the time of day. Then all of a sudden, one day, he showed up at my doorstep and asked me to hang out.

Seeing as how he was extremely hot, I said 'Sure'.

We hit it off great … that is before my 'gift' developed.

It was 2 months into our relationship (obviously he asked me out and we were boyfriend and girlfriend), when he handed me a necklace in a box.

As I reached to take it and my fingers wrapped around the box, another voice popped into my head.

I know that sounds crazy but that's the only way to describe what happened.

It was Tyler's voice!

*I'm gonna bed this girl and then I'm through with her! God, she's eating right out of my hand! I didn't know any girl could be so easy!*

I was watching his face, and his lips were not moving. He had a grin on his face and this twinkle in his eyes.

"I-I thought you l-loved me T-ty!" I yelled as the tears welled up in my eyes.

"What the hell are you talking about Mione? I just gave you a necklace!" He shouted at me.

"B-but all you want to d-do is bed me because I-I'm easy." I growled at him and he jumped off the couch as he realized I had been reading his mind.

"H-how did y-you kn-know that?" He whispered in a scared voice. I just bent my head and shook it in a confused way.

"I never told anyone. Not one person. We're through." He muttered and then he was gone.

~End Flashback~

You see, if I touch something that another person was holding, I can hear what they're thinking at that very moment.

I could be holding something that Viktor Krum had touched and hear what he was thinking at that very moment, even though he was in a different country!

There is another secret of mine and I will not tell you …

Yet.

~Draco~

We arrived at Hogwarts at precisely noon. The castle looked as it always had but it had this sort of … aura.

It was not a good aura. It was just radiating from the castle and I knew something was in Hogwarts. Something evil. Possibly something even worse than me. Or maybe even someone.

We all clambered through the entrance of Hogwarts and made our way to the Great Hall to watch the sorting and eat.

Dumbledore made the speech that he makes every year. The one about the forbidden forest and magic in the halls, when he asked a question he had never asked before.

"Does anyone have anything they'd like to ask or tell me before the sorting?" I swear I saw him glance at Granger and she just sat there, smirking at Dumbledore.

"Very well then. Let the feast begin!" He yelled and food appeared in front of me.

I nearly choked as I watched Crabbe and Goyle eat(if that's what you want to call it). Haven't they ever heard the phrase 'Chew, then swallow"?