Saturday 7:33

A sudden sound of footsteps coming from the girl's dormitory ended Hermione's conversation with Harry. Three girls from their year crowded around.

"Is it true?" Paravati asked.

"Is what true?" Hermione asked suspiciously.

"Draco Malfoy!" she said. Hermione blushed and glanced at Harry.

"You're pretty lucky," Lavender put in.

"Yeah, I mean, all along its been, if only he wasn't in Slytherin," the third one said.

"I guess you don't care though!" Paravati said with a grin.

"Well actually, he's changed a lot," Hermione said grinning. Harry raised his eyebrows, apparently he'd never heard of any of this.

"His eyes are to die for," Lavender said sighing softly.

"Don't forget that hair," Paravati reminded her.

"I heard he moves really fast with girls," the third one said giving Hermione a look.

This time Hermione raised an eyebrow, "We've been moving pretty slow so far I guess."

Hermione's face was bright red by now and she looked at Harry who was apparently completely absorbed in magazine.

"I heard that he's really good at well, you know," Lavender said with a giggle.

"Excuse me?" Hermione asked thoroughly embarrassed by now. She'd known a lot of girls thought Draco was hot and all, but never any of these rumors.

"I've heard things from almost all the girls in Slytherin in his year," the third girl said, "They all say they dated him at least once."

Hermione raised her eyebrows.

"So, what's he like?" Paravati asked curiously.

"What's he like?" asked Hermione.

All three nodded their heads and the third one said, "You know, personality... is he a good kisser?"

Hermione smiled and said, "Oh, he's really sweet and caring. He's very, in control of himself, you know?"

All three nodded again, absorbing what Hermione told them, so she continued, "He's way better at kissing than Victor Krum."

"You kissed Krum?!" Harry interrupted, an incredulous expression on his face.

Hermione grinned, so Harry was listening, and decided to stretch things a bit.

"His, you know, is," Hermione raised her eyebrows, all three giggled. Harry had his nose buried as far into the magazine as possible as he tapped his foot against the ground.

"We haven't done it yet, but there's other things he's good at," Hermione told them mischievously.

Harry leaped up one of his eyelid's twitching slightly and yelled, "You're making it up! I know you are! You're doing it just to get on my nerves!"

Hermione couldn't help it, she burst out laughing. Harry looked so funny, obviously disturbed by what he'd heard. Ron chose to stumble sleepily down the stairs at that time. At the bottom though he looked up opening his eyes fully, seeing a room full of four laughing girls and one very red Harry.

"You don't want to hear what she's been saying Ron!" Harry said pointing a finger at Hermione wildly, "I know she's making it up!"

"You hope I'm making it up you mean," Hermione said grinning wickedly, knowing that Harry wasn't mad, just losing his wits.

"I know it! I know it!" Harry said getting slightly hysterical, "When would you have been able to? When?!"

Ron gave Harry and curious look having no idea what was going on while Harry ranted on, Hermione stopped laughing and gave Harry a worried look.

"Don't hyperventilate," she told him putting a hand on his shoulder, "Of course I was making it up."

"You mean its not true?" the third girl asked, looking a bit disappointed.

"Well the part where I said he was really sweet and caring is true," Hermione told them, "And he is a really good kisser."

Harry took a deep breath and pushed him back into his chair. The three other girls walked over talking in hushed whispers.

"There goes the Draco Malfoy fan club," Hermione told him.

"I didn't even know there was one," Harry said then added, "Rumors like that were the main reason I didn't like the idea of you and Draco."

"Do I dare ask what is going on?" Ron asked sitting down as well. Hermione grinned.

"I just exaggerated some things a bit," Hermione said.

"Okay, I don't want to know," Ron said making up his mind.

Harry finally gave Hermione a resentful look but she could see the beginnings of a smile twitching at the corner of the mouth.

"Good wasn't I?" Hermione asked him.

Harry bit his lip and said, "Just don't scare me like that again. I have a nice good image of the kind of person you are, don't want any bad images mixed in."

"Don't worry, kissing is about all we've done," Hermione said.

"Glad I missed out on this," Ron said, still looking a bit sleepy then looked at Harry, "Care for a game of chess?"

Harry nodded and Hermione stood up deciding to go find Draco before breakfast. As she walked down the hallway she realized that Harry and Ron at least probably believed that she had never done it, and actually she hadn't, that didn't mean she wasn't a virgin though. These thoughts of course, stirred up darker memories and she stopped, closing her eyes, willing herself to think of something else. The laughter of the morning washed away faster than Hermione could have imagined and she took a deep breath thinking to herself, I can handle this. Just think of something else.

Hermione started walking again, quickly this time, focusing on what they'd been doing in Herbology the other day. She found herself at the Tower and hurried up the steps, muttering the procedures for growing plants extra fast.

The trap door was open, though Hermione had half expected it to be, and she climbed out to see Draco leaning over the edge, gazing into the distance. He turned around upon hearing her and seeing the expression on her face, brought her up into a soft hug. She leaned against him, breathing in his scent until finally she relaxed.

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