Chapter 3: To Hogwarts

Harry, Ron and Ginny were waiting at King's Cross station for the train to arrive, after they had searched for Hermione, who was no where to be found. Ron was playing with his owl Pig, while Harry was reading the Daily Prophet.

Ginny interrupted: "I voted for you, you know" she said proud. Harry raised one eyebrow and just continued reading.

The train arrived and they got their luggage and went to find some empty seats. When they got in, Hermione was also sitting there, reading 'Hogwarts: a History repeats' and wasn't pay attention to them. Harry sat down next to her, Ginny across him and Ron next to Ginny. Harry looked out of the window, but he couldn't really concentrate now they had an argument with Hermione.

"You know,... maybe it's kind of good that Viktor comes to our school,... he's very good at Quidditch" Harry started, but Hermione just cut him off with a brisk "You only care about Quidditch, don't you?" and started reading again.

Harry felt his temper rising and looked at her as if she just insulted him very bad. "I ONLY wanted to finish this STUPID argument!"

"Oh, so now you think I'm stupid? Well, of course you do, because, YOU are the great Harry Potter, that guy who can't do ANYTHING wrong,... well, I don't need your advise or apologies at ALL!" she stood up and opened the door. "Don't expect me to come back here!" and with that she walked away.

Harry and Ron looked very surprised and Ginny just smiled 'She's such a sweet-tempered girl,... '

Draco came walking towards them, but he saw Hermione coming his way.

"So, Mudblood, what ARE you doing here without Potty and Weasel?" He asked with a rather surprised, but still sneering face.

"NONE of your bussiness, Malfoy, and if you keep calling me MUDBLOOD, someday you'll regret!" Hermione answered and pushed him aside.

"So, you probably had a fight, or else you would run away and cry out by your little pesky friends whenever I called you that" he noticed.

"As I said, it's NONE OF YOUR BUSSINESS!" shouted Hermione, now facing him directly.

"You've got a lot of NERVE,... but that's okay, I like that." He said smiling and walked passed her.

"Wonder where she went,..." Ron said slowly and Harry just wondered his gaze off.

"He doesn't care" Ginny answered and Ron raised one eyebrow "You can tell?"

"Of course I can,... I KNOW him, and I feel the same about her. She's annoying!" Ginny answered clearly.

"I'm capable of answering myself, thank you very much, Ginny, but I agree,... you are kind of right" Harry said a bit threatening.

"Of course you do! I know that! I agree with you, but I had to explain it to my idiotic brother" she smiled.

"Who are you calling IDIOTIC?" Ron said angry.

"Who do you think?" Ginny said a bit brisk.

In the mean time, Hermione had found herself a lonely little seat in the front part of the train. Or at least, she THOUGHT so.

Then, all of the sudden, she saw someone taking a seat at the left side of the opposite row. She was shocked when she found out it was Draco.

"Go bother someone else" Hermione said brisk and he raised his eyebrows.

"In what way am I bothering you?"

"Being alive,..." she said short and he crossed his arms.

"Nice argument,..." he said with a bit of anger "You always seem to find a way to insult me, don't you?"

Hermione softened a little and started regretting her hard talk. "... guess I'm sorry then."

"Well, you always say that too late" he noticed.

"Like you never insult me!" she attacked.

He just turned blank. "Yeah,... well,... maybe I don't really want to insult you" he started.

Hermione looked confused.

"Who,... who says,... who says I want to be like I am?" he continued.

"You mean,... you mean you don't mean to do so? You are someone else?" She asked confused.

'... I'm not always like I act' he responded.

Again, she looked confused.

"You really don't think I like it to scold other people like they are my worst enemies, now do you?" he asked.

Hermione didn't know wheter to shake or nod her head, so she just gazed at him. He smiled in discomfort and sighed a bit.

"I don't think this conversation is heading anywhere,... "

"Well, I was just getting interested,..." she marked and he looked rather surprised.

"You musn't tell this to ANYONE" he threatened her.

She just nodded her head and he continued.

"My father. That's the person to blame." He added and Hermione clapped a hand over her mounth and shook her head in disbelieve.

Draco looked at the ground and slowly nodded. Hermione got very uncomfortable about the fact she had scolded him and doubted if she had to comfort him or not. But before she could do anything, he got up and walked away. She quickly caught his arm and pulled him back. At that moment, Harry came walking in.

He saw them in the not so common position; Hermione holding onto Draco's arm. First he looked surprised, than the surprise turned into anger.

"What the hell are you doing to her!!" he shouted at Draco. He grabbed him by the collar and yanked him up.

"Harry! Put him down!" she yelled at Harry and pushed him away.

Harry looked at her in disbelief. "What? But Hermione!"

Hermione gave him an angry look. "Draco, are you okay?" she asked him.

"Fine, just tell Potty here to leave me alone!" He said to her.

"Okay, I want to know what the hell you did to her, Malfoy! What charm did you use?!" he yelled furious at Draco.

"I didn't do anything to her, just ask her!" Draco responded.

"Harry, just leave me alone! Mind your own bussiness!" she responded angry.

"FINE! Just stay here with Malfoy and have a good time!" he spat out angry as he walked out.

Hermione fell down on the chair miserable. She sighed. Now she really had a fight with Harry. Draco sat down as well and suddenly changed his facial expression. Hermione got a confused look on her face, but still tried to look concerned.

"What are you still doing here?! Get away, you Mudblood Granger!" he demanded.

Hermione's eyes became watery and she turned around and walked away.

The train slowed down a bit, most of the students got their luggage together and slowely shimmied towards the exits.

Harry angrily grabbed his trunk and Hedwig's cage and walked passed Ron and Ginny, who stared at him with no single idea of the reason of his mood.

"What's up Harry?" Ron asked him, while he ran after him with a bit too much luggage, causing him to almost trip over a tiny wizard.

"Oops,... sorry!" he apologised.

Harry just gritted his teeth. "It hasn't got to do anything with you!"

Ron raised one of his eyebrows "And,... with WHO has it got to do then? With Hermione?"

"You guess!" Harry said, while stepping out of the train.