Chapter One: Start of a GREAT year

"Oh shit! Dammit! Not again. What the . . . . . ?!" Draco Malfoy lay sprawled out on his bedroom floor in a flood of dirty laundry. On his ankles was a small pink towel that had managed to wrap itself around his feet, forcing him to fall flat on the floor, in his rush to get everything in his trunk for the first day of school. He scrambled about trying to shove all of his belongings into his brand new dragon skin trunk that his father had given him for becoming a prefect. He ran around his room checking and double checking to make sure he hadn't forgotten anything, all the while cursing his idiotic father for setting free that stupid house elf Dobby four years ago.

"What a nice way to start things off." He whispered under his breath. "DAD!!!! Are we leaving yet?" Draco yelled down the hallway.

"Dammit, Draco! I thought you were already ready. Now come on!" His father, Lucius Malfoy, walked out the front door of their four story manor, slamming it shut behind him.

"Damn bastard, can't do anything for himself, has to assume that everything is already being done for him. Well he won't have anyone to do anything for him anymore. Wait till he hears what I have in store for him just wait." Draco struggled with his heavy trunk letting it hit each step of the stairs with a loud clank.

"What the hell am I doing? MOM!"

"Yes, Draco?"

"Help me with my trunk." Draco's mother immediately swooped her wand from hair and levitated Draco's trunk a few inches above the ground and led it outside the house and onto the front lawn. He followed her straight to the car and open the car trunk for her. After all his things were set up in place he gave his mom a long hug, she being the only one that he felt any near closeness to.

"Bye, Mom." He gave her an extra squeeze and then shot straight back up into his usual spiteful manner for presenting himself.

"I don't want to receive anything from the school this year. Especially something about you and a certain person found in an unusual situation in the teachers bath." She looked pointedly at her son and her eyes gave a small flicker as if she were actually smiling. But she wasn't. His mother never smiled. Not even at him. She only gave him that look that told him that she knew only he would understand. The look that each mother gave their child.

"Don't worry. See you whenever." That's all he ever said when he said goodbye to his mother and that's all he was going to say right now. He climbed into the car where his dad had been waiting and they sped off towards the train station.

"Ginny!" Ginny Weasley looked behind her and was barely able to make out the bushy haired Hermione Granger as she rushed forward to embrace her.

"Oh, it's been so long! I'm so sorry that I wasn't able to come visit all of you this summer, but I was made an intern at the Ministry of Magic." Hermione stood back and held Ginny by her shoulders as to find any change in her.

"I know, Hermione. Dad told us. Only Ron was a bit upset. He went about the whole summer moping around the house and the garden, complaining that you should be able to take some time off to come see us or him for that matter."

"Ron," Hermione shook her head slightly and finally released Ginny's arms. "Well where are Harry and Ron?"

"They're in the train already. You gonna sit with us?"

Hermione bit her lip and looked down at the floor. "Uh . . . no. you see, well actually."

"You were made a prefect." Hermione smiled and nodded her head fervently. Then she and Ginny locked arms and walked toward the train compartments laughing at absolutely nothing.

"Well what do we have here? A mudblood and might as well be a muggle, Weasley. Nice way to start the year with the likes of you two."

"Nice to see that you're in a good mood, Malfoy," sneered Ginny.

"If you only knew sweetness, if you only knew." With that he headed off towards the end of the train and disappeared within the confines of the first compartment. Ginny and Hermione quickly looked at each other with wide eyes at the realization that had just come to them.

"Draco Malfoy is a prefect?!" They both said at once and then all you heard was a piercing scream. Heads poked out of the trains compartments and doors. Then came the scrambling of feet and passersby tried to see what all the commotion was about.

"Hermione! Ginny! What on earth is the matter with you? The train is about to leave now come on," said Harry who had grown another two inches over the short summer months.

Harry and Ron tried to move the girls into the train but they seemed to be rooted to the floor. They pushed and pulled until either was out of breath and stood looking at the girls.

"Now what the hell could be the matter with you two?" exclaimed Ron, immediately catching the attention of Hermione who felt strongly against the use of such foul language.

"Ron!" shouted Hermione as she brought her right hand from herself and slapped it against the back of Ron's head.

"Shit! Dammit, girl what do you mean by that?" He rubbed his head for a few moments and recollected himself. "Well, that was nice. Now will you two please get onto the train so we can go?"

"Don't be so bossy!" said Ginny, who already inside of the train merely hanging out of the door. "Come on people. I want to find a seat." With that they all boarded the train. Hermione sat in with them in their compartment for a while, until it was time for her to take her place with all of the other prefects. The ride to Hogwarts couldn't have been any slower if they had been walking. When they finally arrived, kids emerged from the train as if they had been in a deep sleep. Girls ran to each other and sounds of high pitched giggles and screams could be heard. Guys met up with their friends and exchanged "manly" punches all around their circles. Carriages were filled to maximum capacity as people tried to find was to sit together.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and a few other Gryffindors were lucky to find their own spacious carriage and left off to the school. Upon arrival, the students each noticed that something wasn't quite right. There shouldn't have been a large gold scaled dragon lounging out by the lake.