Chapter 2

They stood immobilized in their places just staring at each other, not minding the smoke the train left as it rumbled away towards the English countryside.

A hundred memories overflowed as the Book of Life turned some pages back to a familiar chapter. The heading of the page said Hogwarts, Year 7

Hermione was the Head Girl and so was Draco except he was a Head Boy. She was currently dating Seamus Finnigan who turned out in the later years of his life in Hogwarts to be a very attractive young gentleman. He was funny at times, often childish yet very charming. In fact, his comical and puerile ways were his charms. He was however Hermione's opposite in personality.

Hermione was the serious type who took her duties and responsibilities earnestly. Everybody looked up to her as a role model. She was not only intelligent, responsible, nice and demure yet nasty when provoked, she was also gorgeous and enticing, and she was naïve about it. Boys flattered her, and she answered them with civility. They flirted with her; she was indifferent.

How these two got along so well for 2 years was romantic and the students considered them the cutest couple. But something very wrong happened that changed everything…

They had been together for 2 years when they were in their final year in Hogwarts. Everything was going on just like before at the beginning of school, but when winter came, a very strange thing happened between the two most unlikely people who were drawn together at the beginning of the new school year because of the duties they both faced.

For almost four months, Hermione and Draco had worked together quite miserably at first, but bearably later on. Half the time they argued and bit each others' head off, while the other half time they spent in accomplishing their obligations to the school and to the students.

In December, almost everybody was out of the school. Harry and his girlfriend, Ginny, spent their Christmas with Sirius and Lupin; Ron was with his family. Hermione did not go home that winter; her parents were away in the Caribbean. And she didn't go with Seamus to visit his family that Christmas either. She was just left with some students including Draco who was abandoned by Crabb and Goyle that Christmas.

Alone, Hermione made her way out of the castle to play with the beautiful white snow one winter's morning. She made a snowman with a carrot nose, coal eyes and tree branch arms. She made him wear a snowcap on the bald head and a scarf around his neck (if a snowman has one).

A few minutes after she finished, a snowball hit the snowman followed by another, which splashed in her head. She need not turn to know from whom the wicked laugh belonged to.

"Oh, I'm sorry," he continued laughing sarcastically. "I thought you were a snowman too."

"Very funny, Malfoy," she answered. "What do you want?" She finally turned and saw him with a plow. "Oh, you're plowing today, aren't you?" She laughed and Malfoy's grin disappeared.

"Shut up, mudblood!" He retorted. The word no longer had any effect on Hermione for she was used to the nickname he always used with her. He ignored her and turned to plow an area near the entrance doorway.

"Hey, Malfoy!" Hermione called a few minutes later. Draco turned just in time for the big snowball to him hard on the face.

"So you want to play?" He snickered at her devilishly. "You will pay for that, you silly little mudblood!" And that was the beginning of a new morning routine.

Every morning after that day, they plowed together the entrance not just because McGonagall asked them too for exercise, but also for the fun of it. They always end up getting wet because of the snow fights they throw at each other during their plowing.