Too Much Candy Comsumption

Glowering, Hermione stepped into the Head's compartment. She couldn't understand how Malfoy the Amazing Ferret got to be Head Boy. He hadn't arrived yet, to her relief. She sat down and tried to imagine what kind of hell he would give her this year.

The sound of footsteps and the click of the door as it slid closed brought Hermione back to reality. She looked up and saw the boy who had caused her friends and her so much grief.

A strand of his thin, platinum blonde hair fell into his eyes as he muttered, "Morning, Mudblood."

"You too, Ferret," she replied. Malfoy sat down across from her and stared out the window in silence. Hermione looked around the compartment; the red, matted carpet, the faded, green fabric of the seats, determined to look anywhere but at Malfoy.

They sat there for a few minutes and, hearing the final whistle blow, Hermione looked out the window and watched the parents slowly pass. She noticed Malfoy's eyes follow something out the window. She curiously searched for his parents, but instead saw a house-elf in filthy rags with tear stained cheeks, waving sadly at Malfoy. Out of the corner of her eye, she could've sworn she had seen him wave gravely back and smile sweetly. But the Malfoy she knew wouldn't give a speck of compassion to a human being, let alone a house-elf. She sighed and saw her parents rush by in a blur of colour and light. Pulling her heartstrings, she quickly smiled and waved, hoping that they had seen her.

Both Hermione and Malfoy said nothing and stared out the window for nearly twenty minutes. Finally, Hermione broke the silence, "I wonder if we have to stay here the whole time..."

"We better not," Malfoy snapped, "I'm not staying here with a filthy Mudblo-" At that moment, the compartment door slid open. They watched as Professor McGonagall stepped in and slid the door closed behind her. She looked quite peeved. "Both of you are to see Professor Dumbledore after the feast. The password is Rainbow Sherbert Icecream," she told them tersely. Turning around to leave she added, "And you may leave if you like."

Before McGonagall could leave, Hermione asked quickly, "What about the Prefects? Don't we have to meet with them?"

"I've already gone to talk to them. Creevey kept wanting group pictures and head shots of everyone," McGonagall replied, sounding annoyed. As she left, Hermione heard her mutter, "Why Albus made him Prefect is beyond me..."

Hermione got up and walked into the hallway without a backward glance at Malfoy. It took her almost twenty minutes trying to find Ron and Harry, and when she did, both were passed out from what seemed to be too much candy comsumption.

Chocolate Frog wrappers and Bertie Botts boxes littered the seats and floor. Hermione carefully stepped around the mess and cleared off the part of the seat near the window so that she could sit down. As she sat down, she sighed. Again, she began to stare out the window at the passing blur of colour. Hermione started to think of what it would be like to live with a nice Malfoy, one who didn't make her life a living hell, but one who was sweet and caring. She found her self nodding off to sleep and her last thought was, "Yeah right... Like that would ever happen..."

"And when I had gotten downstairs, I saw Fred and George-"

"They had stolen Pig and started to turn him pink!" Ginny giggled. She had interrupted Ron again. He cringed, but went on.

"Anyways, I ran up to them and-"

It happened again, probably for the sixth or seventh time now. Ron looked over at Hermione as she slept peacefully. He sighed, "Should I wake her up? It getting pretty annoy-"

SNOOOOOORE!!!

It happened again. "Yeah, it's starting to get loud..." Harry replied. Ron walked over to Hermione and shook her gently.

"Ten more minutes, mummy..." she muttered. Ron shook her a little harder.

"Herms, get up," her told her, "The Hogwarts Expr-" Hermione bolted up at this, accidentally knocking Ron to the ground.

"Oh my gosh! I leave today and I still need to pack and-" She stopped and looked around. "Oh... um... Sorry guys. I didn't get much sleep last night and I-"

"Snore," Harry finished for her. Hermione gave him a confused glance and shrugged it off.

"What time is it?" She asked.

"Almost six o'clock."

"Oh my! We're almost there! Out. I said get out! I still need to change!!!" Hermione said frantically as she ushered Ron, Harry, and Ginny into the corridor and slid the door closed hastily.

The start of term feast had been marvelous. The Sorting Hat had sung it's new song and sorted the first years into the four houses. The house elves in the kitchens had done a superb job in preparing the food - it was delicious. Dumbledore made his opening speech; the rules, death, house points and Cup, death, new teachers, Voldemort - which then lead to... death. When all was said and done, Dumbledore sent them to their dormatories.

"He sure had a lot to say on the war..."

"Of course he did Ron! As the leader of the Order, he needs to inform the student body of-"

"He was just making a comment, Mione. Calm down," Harry rubbed Hermione's
back in a soothing way. "So where's your new dorm?"

Hermione stopped dead in her tracks. "Bloody hell!!" she cursed loudly, "I forgot to go see Professor Dumbledore!!" With that, she sprinted down the staircase that they had just climbed.

A/N: I'm truely sorry that I hadn't posted this chapter sooner!! It was done a while ago, I was just being too lazy to type it up...

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