Thanks for all the reviews!!! I really love them. ^_^ Here is yet another installment. Enjoy. ^_^ (sorry I couldn't get it up last night, I was sick and delirious with meds, so I had my sister read it, and she said it was pure babble. ^_^ which I'm sure I would have had flames for!! Anyway, here you go. ^_^)

Disclaimer: Do I look like JKR? Didn't think so. ^_^

"'ello Harry! How are ye all doin' today?"

"Fine Hagrid. How are you?"

"I'm alright. I got us some great specimens for this class today. No worries though, they're harmless." He winked. Hermione groaned.

The rest of the Gryffindor's and Slytherin's joined the trio on the lawn in front of Hagrid's hut.

"Well 'ello class! Today I have something very fun for ye, and I know the girls will like 'im. Stay right here and I'll get 'im for ya." He said, beaming. Pansy sneered.

"Must be something dreadful. Isn't that right Draco?"

Draco just shrugged, hands in his pockets. Harry's eyes went wide as he didn't hear a remark and he huddled with his friends.

"What's going on with him? That's just to bizarre."

"Yeah. He must still be sick or something. Or maybe Madame Pomfrey added something else to the potion!" He laughed. Hermione shrugged as Hagrid walked back out of his hut, carrying a little green bundle in his arms.

"This, class, is a Clabbert." He said, showing them the little green thing.

"What is it?" One of the Slytherin girls asked.

"A Clabbert. They were originally found in America, but they're now all over the place."

"It's kinda ugly." One of the Gryffindor girls said. The clabbert began to whine and seemed to withdraw.

"Aw, come now, don't hurt its feelin's! The Clabberts a very sensitive creature."

"So what does it do?" Ron asked.

"Glad someone asked. See this bump right here? It warns wizards whenever there's a muggle about. It turns red and starts to flash. Very handy to have if yere working on something you don't want no muggles seeing."

"Why isn't it flashing right now?" Pansy asked politely. Hagrid looked confused.

"Didn' I say it flashed when there was muggle around?"

"Oh, I thought you meant MUDBLOODS!" Pansy laughed, along with all the Slytherin's, except for Draco. Hermione flushed and tears sprang to her eyes.

"TEN POINTS FROM SLYTHERIN!" Hagrid yelled. The Clabbert made another whining noise and leapt from Hagrid's arms, scampering off towards the hut.

"That's not funny." Draco muttered, looking down at the ground. Pansy and a few Slytherin's around Draco stopped laughing and stared at him.

"What's wrong with you? You really are sick."

"I'm not sick. I just grew up, which I seriously suggest the lot of you start to do."

"Why such a change of heart Draco? Are you in love?" She asked, batting her eyelashes, laughing. Draco turned red and stared at her angrily.

"I am not. I'm just sick of harassing people that didn't do anything wrong."

"What do you mean by that? Are you saying being a Mudblood is fine now? You, Mr, I'm so great because my WHOLE family is pure?"

"I'm saying it shouldn't matter!" Draco shot back. Pansy withdrew a bit.

"Class dismissed for the day." Hagrid said, hoping they would take the fight elsewhere. Pansy and her friends stalked off, leaving Draco behind. He watched her go, his fists clenched into fists. Hermione whipped out a piece of parchment and wrote on it.

"Let's go." Harry said. "See you later Hagrid."

"Yeah, nice to see ya Harry," Hagrid mumbled and walked back towards his hut. Hermione trailed a bit behind Harry and Ron and crumpled the parchment, tossing it in front of Draco, and making sure he saw it. Crabbed and Goyle looked at it, and Draco picked it up quickly, not reading it yet.

"What is it?" Crabbed asked.

"Nothing but trash," Draco pretended to sneer. "Let's go."

Once inside the school, Draco stopped. "You guys go ahead. I'm going to the bathroom."

"That's alright. We'll wait for you."

"No, I can manage myself, thanks."

"Whatever. Come on Crabbe."

Draco walked to the bathroom near the Slytherin common rooms and stopped outside the door, pulling out the note to read. He looked around and un-crumpled it. At first he didn't see anything and thought it really was trash, but then one word showed up on it. Library. Draco's heart did a little flutter and he grinned, shoving it in his pocket again, and running to the stairs.

Hermione walked with Harry and Ron to the common room, discussing the incident the whole time.

"That was creepy! He actually got in a fight with Pansy, about you!" Harry laughed. Ron grumbled.

"He's still a jerk. I bet this is some sort of prank."

"Maybe. I have to run to the library and catch up on some studying."

"Want some company?" Ron and Harry asked.

"No. You'd be more a distraction than company," she laughed, and ran up to the girl's dorm to grab her books. She came down and headed out the portrait hole just as Neville came in.

Hermione waved to Sir Nick as she ran down the stairs once out of the Gryffindor wing, and towards the library. Some classes were getting out and she had to slow down.

"Where are you headed to in such a hurry Ms. Granger?" Professor McGonagall called from behind her. She froze and spun around.

"The library. I have some studying to do."

"Always such a diligent student."

"Thank you Professor McGonagall," she said, before scurrying off. There was a loud bang at the other end of the hall and McGonagall went running, yelling.

"PEEVES!" She yelled, and the poltergeist laughed, disappearing.

Hermione slowed in front of the library and took a deep breath before going in. 'Why am I so nervous? It's not that I like him. I mean, he's Malfoy,' she said to herself as she went in. She walked to rows of tables and found him sitting at the table in the corner, looking at a book.

"Is this seat taken?" She blushed. Draco looked up, smiling.

"It is now." He said, and pulled his bag off the table, keeping the book there to make it look like he was studying. "Did you want to talk to me?" He asked. She nodded.

"Why are you doing this?"

"Doing what?"

"You know what I mean! Standing up for me in Hagrid's class. It was very noble of you." Draco shrugged.

"It was nothing."

"Nothing?! You stood up for me in front of your friends! I'd say that's something. Why are you doing this? And what is this about?" She put the not from the Great Hall in front of him. He picked it up and looked at it, smiling.

"Who said I sent this?"

"Draco, be serious. I saw you looking at me after the owls arrived this morning. And once I got this your face turned an unbelievable shade of red."

"Oh," was all he managed to say before turning red again.

"About that shade too!" She laughed, which made him turn even redder.

"Please stop. I'm not used to feeling like this." He said, his color quickly turning to normal.

"I'm sorry. You know, if I was any meaner, I would do what you've been doing to be these past five years and just blow this all in your face. Make you feel like the loser."

"I guess I would deserve it. If you want to, then do it, but it's not going to change how I feel."

"You're serious about this, aren't you?"

Draco looked into her eyes. "More than I have been about anything in a long time."

"Why?"

"I don't know, honestly. I just feel differently. I feel like I've finally stumbled out of a dark tunnel and into the light." Hermione laughed. "Hey, don't make fun of me. I'm not good at this."

"I'm sorry, I just find it amazing. But, I still don't completely believe you."

"That's alright. I know now that I've done some horrible things in the past."

"Yeah, you did."

"And I intend on making up for all of it, given enough time."

"I'm not going to tell Harry or Ron." Draco made a face.

"Good. I don't want to know what they'd think right now."

Hermione and Draco sat in the library, unaware that they were being watched. The person watching them sobbed and shook with rage. "I'm only seeing things. This is just my imagination."

Well, hope you liked it!! Hmmm. I' wonder who the person could be? There are so many to chose from. ^_^ Later!