"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry asked the smirking boy with a rash tone, which he didn't mind using at all at the moment.

The pointed-faced boy looked at him with a mockingly devious look.  "I was just wondering if 'The Great Potty' was stooping as low as to having to talk to himself nowadays…" he said, his smirk intact.  He ran his hands through his white-blonde hair, which he recently decided to wear down, the tips of it brushing against his ears.

"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry responded with a renowned feeling of annoyance. "Aren't Prefects supposed to be at the Prefects compartment right now?" he asked with raised eyebrows, obviously not out of concern.

"Why do you care, Potty?" he said playing smugly with his hair once more.

"I don't." Harry answered, shrugging carelessly.

Malfoy snorted derisively. "Figures…you're just so jealous. "

"What? I'm not jealous-"

"Oh, are you not?" he smiled, clearly satisfied with himself.

Harry rolled his eyes. "I'm not jealous… why would I be?" He asked pouting lightly.

"Come on, Potty… admit it.  You are jealous… jealous because the 'Filthy Mudblood' and Weasel were made Prefects and you didn't.  Couldn't stand not being the center of attention for once, could you?" he said, smirking once more.

"Malfoy… you are honestly the biggest git this world has ever had the misfortune of seeing…" Harry shook his head, his jet-black hair getting messier.  He knew what Malfoy said wasn't true… at least he hoped it wasn't…

He is not right…its only Malfoy…-he thought to himself pushing the 'possibility' of him being jealous to the back of his mind.

"Oh, the biggest git, you say?" Malfoy asked taking a step towards Harry and glaring at him menacingly.

Harry stood up and glared back just as intently.  "Now I must say you're deaf as well."

"Don't be a smart-arse with me, Potter.  Its not convenient for you." He said grinning evilly.

"What are you gonna do? Call your dear 'daddy' the Death Eater on me?" He had done it.  Malfoy's face portrayed nothing but outmost hatred and rage.  He quickly withdrew his wand from his black cloak and Harry did the same.

Malfoy attacked first. "ADFLICTATIO!!"

But then, a third voice called "Protego!" and Malfoy's pain curse vanished inches away from Harry's nose.  Both Harry and Malfoy looked at the compartment door, only to find Hermione pointing her wand at Malfoy.

Ron stepped forward. "Honestly Malfoy.  If you're not the biggest git in the world, I demand a recount." He said shaking his head.

"That was exactly my point before he attacked me." Harry said nodding.

Malfoy seemed to be thinking of a good insult to shoot back at them, but instead, he turned to Hermione who was snickering at Ron and Harry's comment.

"What are you laughing at Mudblood?" said Malfoy with his usual smugness.  As he heard this, Ron stopped laughing and pointed his wand straight at Malfoy.

"Don't ever… call her... a Mudblood…again." He said through gritted teeth.

Malfoy looked down at Ron's wand and back at him, this time smirking.

"And what are you gonna do if I do, Weasel?"

"This!" but it wasn't Ron who answered, instead Hermione was pointing directly at Malfoy. "Albesco roedore!" and as the curse hit Malfoy, he transformed into a small, white ferret.

"Hermione!" Both Harry and Ron said on unison.  Harry's mouth fell open out of shock and Ron's eyes were wide out of amazement.

"I've been looking for this spell ever since the Moody impostor did it… its quite difficult actually…"she pointed her wand at the white ferret that was running frantically around the compartment and made it fly out the door.

"Well, it was definitely worth the wait." Harry said beaming at Hermione.

"Thanks." She said blushing slightly.

"Hermione that was wicked!" said Ron when he finally found words to describe Malfoy's unexpected transformation.  Both Harry and Hermione chuckled at Ron's delay of words, while he blushed at his own stupidity.

"Thank you, Ron… and for defending me too…it was very sweet." She said this, blushing again.

"Oh, it was nothing…"

Harry watched with raised eyebrows as Hermione leaned closer to Ron and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

Even thought he looked rather pleased, the color of his face finally matched perfectly the color of his hair.

"Honestly!" Harry thought.

"Hem…" Harry made that infamous coughing noise he had hated so much the year before.

"Where's Umbridge???" asked Ron looking around frantically.  Harry rolled his eyes.

"Oh, guess what, Harry…" Hermione asked while she sat down where Bonnie had been sitting earlier.

"Er… what?" he asked sitting across from Hermione.

"Well… remember when Mrs. Weasley and Tonks were talking about 'two from America and one from Beauxbattons' when we went back to the platform?"

"Yes, I think so…why?" he asked, his eyebrows furrowed.

"Well, they were talking about three new exchange students!"

"So that's what they were talking about… heh… well I already met one of them…" he nodded his head and smiled to himself. 

"You did?! That's great!" Hermione said smiling at him and ignoring the fact that Harry was on a merrier mood than when they left him to go to the Prefects compartment.  "Well, Ron and I got assigned to show any exchange student that gets sorted in Griffindor around the school. "

"Yeah, and I really hope that whoever gets sorted on Griffindor is nice… I really don't want to get stuck 'babysitting' some mean git for two weeks…" Ron said as he sat down next to Hermione, who was shaking her head because of his comment. "We have enough gits here, anyways…"

"Well the girl I met… her name is Bonnie, and she's a really nice girl… there's something … weird about her… but she's definitely nice." He said nodding his head once more.

"Well, she seemed to have cheered you up!" Said Ron winking at Harry, making him blush… again.

Honestly, if I blush once more, I'm scared that's going to become my color…permanently … he thought to himself. 

A couple of minutes after this, their conversation was briefly interrupted by the food cart.  They all bought plenty of snacks (most of them chocolate) and entertained themselves in the pleasant duty of 'devouring' them (in Ron's case…) for a while… until they were interrupted again.

"Honestly, Neville! It was right there and you almost killed it!!" said Ginny Weasley as she entered the compartment along with Neville Longbottom.

"Well I didn't see it! It could of have happened to any one! Oh, hey guys!" said a nervous-looking Neville.  He had grown a couple of inches over the summer and his shoulders and arms had seen some growing as well.

"Hi Neville." said both Harry and Hermione at the same time, smiling at him but the only sound that came from Ron's mouth was something that resembled a muffled "Hi".  He was still attempting to eat 5 chocolate frogs at once.

"That poor thing! Didn't you hear how loud it squealed when you stepped on its tail? I'm not surprised it tried to bite you after kicking it as well!!" said Ginny placing her hands on her hips.

"What are you guys talking about?" asked Hermione clearing the seat that was filled with candy wrappers so Ginny could sit down next to her.

"Oh, just this poor animal we found in the hallway.  And Neville kicked it!" she said this shaking her head sadly.

"What animal was it, Neville?" asked Harry.

"Oh, I think it was a ferret or something like that…" he said stroking his chin in thought. "It was white and had a bad attitude!" he pouted lightly.

Ron, Hermione and Harry looked at each other before bursting up with laughter.

"What is so funny?!" asked Ginny obviously loosing her patience.

"That… was… oh my god… that was Malfoy!!!" Harry answered unable to stop laughing.

"Hermione hexed him and he got turned into a ferret!!" said Ron who wasn't making any attempts to not laugh.

Ginny shook her head and turned to Neville, who had joined in the laughing as well. "You should have kicked it harder, then." She said, finally laughing herself.