A/N: ok, well here you go....not that much dog/cat fighting but there's one that's close...hope you enjoy...you know what to do in the end....

Disclaimer: (insert disclaimer from chap 1)

Battle of the Bands

Chapter 4: Making the Cut and Childish Brawling

2 Days later: Gryffindor Common Room

As Hermione, Ron, Harry, and Ginny entered the common room coming from dinner all of Gryffindor House was gathered around the mantle of the fireplace. The Quartet was trying to make their way to what everyone was gathered around, but they couldn't get through. Then all of a sudden little Ginny shouted to the rest of the house, "Make way the Head Girl is coming through! Move or she will give you a detention!" As soon as she said that everyone parted like the Red Sea. "Thanks, Ginny." Hermione said as she walked straight up to what everyone was looking at; it was the list of who made the talent show. She looked down the list to see if they made it:

Dance:

Luna Lovegood & Michael Corner: Ballroom

Padma & Parvati Patil: Tap

Susan Bones & Colin Creevey: Ballet (Pointe)

Music: Solo Instrumental

Dean Thomas: Trumpet

Hannah Abbot: Violin

Amy Ling: Piano

Music: Solo Vocal

Pansy Parkinson

Justin Finch-Fletchey

Dennis Creevey

Stand Up Comedy:

Neville Longbottom

Seamus Finnigan

Seth Clark

Unusual Abilities:

Roman Caesar (no pun): Flame Throwing

Annette Spencer: Contortionist

Music: Band Vocal

Hermione Granger, Virginia Weasley, Ron Weasley, & Harry Potter: Serendipity

Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle: Black Night

Aurora Borealis (hahaha), Sora Black, & Nikolai Santana: A.S.N.

Hermione scanned the list again when she saw their band on there. Harry, Ron, and Ginny just stared at her and waited for the verdict. "So did we make it?" Harry asked. Hermione looked at them all with a solemn face; they are looked down at there feet, but Hermione smiled, "So what song should we do for round one?" They all gaped at her, "Blimey Mione! Don't do that!" Ron shouted as he pulled her into a hug. They all then got into a group a hug and were bouncing around. Everyone else just began their conversations again about the show. Soon afterwards Harry took Ginny's hand and they disappeared leaving Ron and Hermione to entertain themselves. "So Ron, up for our History of ..." before Hermione could finish the question she spotted Ron and Seamus in an already tense game of Wizard's Chess. "Hmpf...I guess I'm the only one up for the history of magic essay." With that she picked up her stuff and headed towards the Library. . .

In the Library 1 ½ hours later...

Hermione read over her newly finished parchment for any errors, 'none and done.' she thought to herself. She rolled up her parchment and put it her bag. As she was placing all the books back she didn't notice a rather tall blonde standing behind her. The book that was close to the shelf was swiftly snatched out of her hand. She didn't even have to look at him to know who it was, "Give me back the damn book Malfoy." She whispered dangerously. Draco smirked at the brunette and dangled the book in front of her, and when she reached he put it way over her head so she missed, "Damn Granger, you really are that short." She looked at him irritably, "Malfoy just give me the book for goodness sakes because I don't feel like arguing with you right now." Draco smirked at her again, "No that's ok, I think I'll keep it for myself." Hermione return his smirk with her own, "Fine then, keep it, I'm done with it anyway." She then turned on her heel and grabbed her stuff and headed out...

She headed for the Head Common Room, but suddenly realized that someone was on her tail, "Malfoy, are you following me for a reason?" She turned around to face the guy who had made her school life a living hell for the past 6 almost 7 years. "Actually as a matter of fact Granger I just wanted to wish you good luck for tomorrow cause you'll need it competing against me." Hermione scoffed in his face, "You know, I was just thinking the same thing about you." His expression changed from annoyance to amusement, "So you were thinking about me?" Hermione snorted in disgust, but before she left she heard some very loud giggling coming from one of the old classrooms. She pulled out her wand, "Granger, what are you doing?" Hermione shushed him and crept up slowly to the door of the classroom. "Alohamora!" she said as the door unlocked. She opened it to find...

"HARRY JAMES POTTER AND VIRIGINIA MOLLY WEASLEY WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DOING IN THERE!" Harry and Ginny untangled from one another and stood up straight away. Malfoy, however, busted out laughing at the situation. Ginny and Hermione shot him a dirty look, "Hey Mione," Harry said. "Don't "hey Mione" me, you know I'm going to have to punish you." Harry and Ginny both looked at there hands and waited for their sentencing. "You know Granger I wouldn't mind punishing them for you." Draco said wickedly. "Why? So you can go rob our House of more points?" she retorted. "What? You're not going to give them a decent punishment anyway!" Draco and Hermione were now facing one another and it looked like it was going to get bad and quickly, "Draco Malfoy I have every intention of punishing them, and you best be careful with your accusations before I take points from Slytherin for your disrespect!" Draco laughed out loud at this, "Granger you will think twice before you take points from my House for your sake and for the sakes of those two." He pointed in the direction that Harry and Ginny were standing only they weren't there. Hermione and Draco looked around to find them both trying to sneak away from the two bickering Heads.

"You two have now lost our House 30 points and you both now have detention for trying to get away!" Hermione yelled and caught the two in their tracks. After they realized they were caught they ran off towards Gryffindor Tower. "You know Granger, I thought you said that you were going to punish them." Hermione stepped right up to Draco and looked him in the eye, "Stop the bleedin instigating Malfoy!" Draco shoved her back, "Stop with your shit punishing!" Hermione shoved him back, "Don't question my authority, you bastard!" "I'd only question it if you actually had authority!" He shouted back at her. She then did something really childish not really knowing what to do and kicked him in the shin. "Oww! You bitch!" Draco yelled. He then grabbed her hair and yanked her towards him. "Let me go damn it!" she shouted. "Not until you learn to respect a Malfoy!" he then put her in a headlock. Trying to remember what she learned in self- defense class over summer she stomped on his foot, and elbowed him the stomach, and that little bit made him let her go as he dropped to the floor holding his stomach.

As she tried to walk away Draco grabbed her bad ankle and she fell immediately on the floor with him. She tried to shrug him off her foot, but to no avail, "you're not getting away with that one Granger!" He pulled her to him and once again raised his hand to hit her, but the strike never came. He immediately remembered the song he sang a couple of days ago, 'This isn't me! This isn't me! This is what father does, not me!' he thought to himself as he put his hand down. Hermione took this chance to stand up and straighten herself out, "you know Malfoy, I really don't get you." Draco looked at his hand as though it was dirty then he looked at Hermione, "I'm sorry." "Wait, no I should be the one saying that I started it after all...wait a minute hang on, did you just apologize?" she said almost disbelieving her own words. "I'm sorry." Was all he said as he stood up and shook his head. "Goodnight, I'll see you tomorrow at the show." He then stalked past her as he headed towards Slytherin House. Clearly Draco had a lot of thinking to do, and Hermione just stood there thinking to herself, 'What the hell just happened?'

A/N: OK chap 4 done, next chap will be round one of the talent show, and hopefully a civil(no fighting) conversation between Hermione and Draco...