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Chapter 3: Giggles or Not?

"This is the beginning of another year at Hogwarts. Welcome again to the first years. I would like to remind you that the Forbidden Forrest takes after it's name and is forbidden to all students unless with a teacher," Dumbledore began.

"I also would like to introduce our care-taker, Mr. Filch's to the first years," Dumbledore said, motioning to the Great Hall's doors, where Mr. Filch stood.

"Everyone is to be in their dormitories by 9pm. If you are caught out of bed, you will loose house points. Breakfast is at 8am tomorrow morning and classes begin at 8:30am. Lunch is at noon and supper is at 6pm. I now would like to introduce the prefects."

"From Gryfindor, Mr. Ron Weasley and Ms. Lavender Brown." Everyone clapped except the Slytherins.

"From Hufflepuff, Mr. Michael Shellent and Ms. Hannah Abbot."

"From Ravenclaw, Mr. Jonathan Douglas and Ms. Cho Chang."

"From Slytherin, Mr. Blaise Zambini and Ms. Pansy Parkinson."

"And our Heads this year are Draco Malfoy as Head Boy and Hermione Granger as Head Girl." All of Gryffindor exploded at Hermione's name and all of Slytherin exploded at Malfoy's. Hermione beamed as all of Gryffindor and most of the people from other houses turned to look at her. She smiled and turned to look at Malfoy. The funny thing was: he was looking at her too.

Hermione and Draco walked up to the staff table in silence. They were waiting for Professor McGonagall to show them their dormitory.

She smiled as they approached and led them out of the Great Hall and to the left. Then they turned to the left and finally reached a picture of Hogwarts Castle. It had lights flashing on and off and you could see people moving around inside.

Professor McGonagall stepped up to the picture and turned around to Hermione and Draco. "You get to choose the password," she said, knowing what was going to happen next.

Hermione and Draco looked at each other.

"Muggles suck?" Draco suggested, with a smirk.

Hermione gave him an evil glare and said, "Hogsemade?"

Draco sighed, but nodded. McGonagall looked taken aback. She just stared at them. 'Had they just agreed on something?' She came out of her thoughts when Hermione asked, "Professor?"

McGonagall smiled a weak smile, nodded, and walked away, leaving a very confused Hermione and a receiving a roll of the eyes from Draco.

Hermione shrugged and said, "Hogsemade."

The portrait swung open. They stepped into the common room, looking around in amazement. Everything was silver and green or gold and red. The chairs were a deep maroon and the tables were made of clear glass. The fireplace was huge with a huge bouquet of roses and pansies as the centerpiece. There was a grand stairway leading to three different rooms at the top. The bathroom was in the middle and on either side, facing each other was the bedrooms.

The one on the right said, "HEAD GIRL" and was gold and red. The one on the left said, "HEAD BOY" and was silver and green. Hermione stepped in her room. Her bed was in the middle with a canopy over it. She had a study desk, wardrobe, which were both mahogany. Her closet was a walk-in with all of her clothes already unpacked. 'Wow!' she thought.

Suddenly, there was a knock at her door. "Come in," Hermione said.

Draco stepped in, looking around. "You room is just like mine, except for the disgusting colors. What you need is silver and gold!"

Hermione rolled her eyes. "The only problem with that is that then I'd have to start acting like you and I honestly don't want to be a snob," Hermione said, with great accent on the word, snob.

Draco gave her a glare and stalked out of the room.

'Finally, some peace and quiet,' Hermione thought as she crawled into bed an hour later. And in no time at all, she was asleep.

Hermione woke up to the bright shine of the sun. Slowly, she sat up in her bed and looked around her. The day was beautiful and her mood fitted with the weather perfectly.

She stood up and yawned. She then headed to the bathroom. She didn't hear the shower running, so she figured Draco was still asleep, but just to be safe, she peeked in his room. He was laying on his bed, snoring loudly. She giggled. He is such a lazy butt.

She took a quick shower, got dressed, brushed her teeth, and was putting on her make-up when Draco came barging in the door, not really caring if anyone else was in the bathroom.

"Draco!" Hermione screeched.

Draco jumped three feet in the air. "Whoa! Don't scare me like that...geez...." He said, his eyes which had gone wide with fright, were slowly turning back to normal.

Hermione started giggling. "What in goodness name could be possibly funny right now?" Draco asked, getting annoyed.

"After all these years of me trying to scare you to death, I do it when I wasn't even trying to!" Hermione said, still giggling.

Draco rolled his eyes and let out a little laugh, and stopped himself immediately. 'He just laughed...with Granger....mudblood Granger....he must be seriously sick...' he thought irritably.

Realizing that Hermione was giving him a confused stare, he shouted, "Get out of the bathroom, Mudblood!"

Hermione gave him an angry stare, but left quickly.

Draco slammed the door shut behind him. 'Nice save, Draco...NOT!'

Hermione ran into the Great Hall, heading to her spot where she always sits, every morning.

Harry, Ron, and Ginny looked at her eagerly.

"Just one more day!" Ginny cried.

Hermione looked confused, "One more day until what?"

All three of them laughed. "Until your birthday, Hermione!" Harry cried! "How could you forget your own birthday?"

Hermione managed a weak smile. "Must have slipped my mind," Hermione muttered.

Classes went by quickly and soon Hermione sat a couch in the common room, doing homework. She sighed. She wasn't really excited about her birthday. She didn't really care, actually. It made no difference to her. She in fact had forgotten about it completely.

Hermione sighed again and once again went back to her Potions essay, which was due in two weeks.

So busy doing homework, Hermione didn't notice the two blue-gray eyes that were watching her every move. The person smiled to themself and smirked.

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