A/n: Hey guys, I got a little bored, so, I decided to update a little sooner. Thanks to I a y u m I, and good-times 22. ok chapter three.)

Chapter 3: Diagon Alley

Hermione, Ginny, Harry, and Ron walked out of Gringotts with their moneybags half full. They decided to go to Flourish and Blots first seeing as how they would be there the longest.

While Harry, Ron, and Ginny were in the Quidditch section, Hermione hurried off to the transfiguration section. She always had had an ambition to be an animagi and cause some havoc around school.

She picked up a book titled, "Animagi; a How to Manual." She continued to leaf through it and then put it with her other schoolbooks.

"All right you guys, I finished." she called out.

"Finally Hermione, what took you so long?" asked Ron.

"Oh, I was just in the history section." She lied.

"Right then, let's go to the ice cream parlor. Hermione and I have some news to tell you guys.

Unbeknownst to them all, a pair of eyes followed them out of the store.

Draco Malfoy stalked into Flourish and Blots and headed into the transfiguration section. Like Hermione, he also wanted to become an animagis. But he had decided to become one for different reasons.

He wanted to become an animagi to be free. He figured as an animal, you wouldn't be so burdened by everyday problems from homework to his fathers nagging about the Dark Lord. He wanted t o become an animagis to experience that temporary high to be knowing that you were breaking the rules.

For he did not intend to register. Nor was he supposed to become an animagis while you were still studying magic unless you had special permission from the headmaster or his transfiguration teacher.

A rustling on the other side of the shelves snapped him back to his senses.

He looked through the books and shelves to see one of the last people he wanted to see. 'What is she doing here this early?' e thought, 'Well, it is her. The little mudblood must have finished her local library.' He smirked at the thought. He paused to take in her new appearance.

'Well, it turns out the mudblood isn't a man after all.' Here, Hermione bent over to pick up a book, giving Draco a full view of her cleavage.

'Whoa...' he thought. He shook himself at the thought of what he had just seen. 'Hmm, probably magic enhancers' Thought Draco, unconvincingly.

He watched her call out to her friends, and walk out of the store.

Over a chocolate fudge Sunday, Hermione started to tell the good news to Harry and Ron, "Guys, Ginny and I both have something to tell you."

"Yeah." Added Ginny.

Hermione looked over at Harry, and saw that he and Ginny were holding hands under the table.

"Yes, well anyway," Continued Hermione, clearing her throat, "I got Head Girl! I heard the news last night!"

"Hermione, that's great!" said Harry,

"Yeah Hermione, truly! We know how much you wanted that position!" said Ron, "And Ginny, what's your news?"

"Oh, um, I got picked as Gryffindor prefect to replace Hermione!" said Ginny happily.

"Oh, Ginny, congratulations!" said Harry, giving her hand a squeeze, and her a wink.

Ron raised an eyebrow at this display of public affection, and looked at Hermione who in turn shrugged. "Yeah, that's great Ginny!" he said.

"Guys, I have one more place to go. Can you guys go to the Quidditch shop for me and buy me the best broom this amount of Galleons can buy? Thanks." Said Hermione, placing a pile of galleons on the table.

She had decided over the summer that if she was going to change, she might as well learn to fly. She wasn't afraid of heights; she just couldn't control her broom, which led to being afraid of getting hurt.

"Really?" said Ron.

"Yeah. Harry, would you give me lessons?" she asked.

"Yeah, sure." came his response.

They separated on different ways, and Hermione made her way to her final stop. She entered the magical pet shop and looked around. It was a different place from the one where she had bought Crookshanks. It was more expensive and organized.

She looked at the different animals until she arrived at the owls. There was one owl she had been keeping her eye on. And yesterday she had finalized the deal with the shop's manager.

When Hermione reached the owls, she was not happy with what she saw.

There was a shop employee trying to convince none other than, Draco Malfoy, that he could not buy the sapphire blue owl he had on his arm because it was already sold.

"Come on, how much do I have to pay you?" he was asking.

Keeping her rage down, she called out to her owl. "Azura! There's a good girl!" she said to the beautiful owl leaving Malfoy's arm.

"And what exactly, do you think you're doing trying to buy my owl Malfoy?" she said to him.

"Your owl?" sputtered Malfoy in disbelief. "You are the bloody owner of this owl? Are you serious? Oh for Merlin's sake!"

"Well Malfoy, I'm glad you like my taste!" she said. Then, tearing her gaze away from Azura, she met his, and was shocked at the intensity of the molten pewter eyes boring into her own sable eyes.

She looked away and asked him, "What are you doing here Malfoy?"

"What does it look like mudblood? I'm buying an owl!"

"But what happened to your own owl?"

"Since I got Head Boy, I decided to celebrate by buying a new owl. So I set mine free. What are you doing here?"

"YOU GOT HEAD BOY???" she shrieked, ignoring his question.

"Yes," he said impatiently, "now answer my question."

"I'm here for the same reason!!!"

"WHAT??? YOU ARE THE HEAD GIRL???"

"YES!!!"

"Oh, crap!" they both said in unison.

Malfoy turned away and said to the employee and said, "I'll take this one." pointing to a sleek, black, female owl with silver markings on it's head.

"Hello Bonnie." He said it so low Hermione barley heard it.

"Bonnie?" she asked.

"Yea, Bonnie, Ebony. Get the difference? You know, honestly Granger, you're supposed to be the smart one."

Hermione sighed in exasperation, turned to pay for Azura and her things, and left the store.

She went to Gringotts; the meeting place she and the others had agreed on and waited only about five minutes before the others arrived. Ginny handed Hermione a very shiny (A/N: OOO SHINY!!! ) blue and silver electricshock42.

"Something else new already Hermione? First the look, then the broomstick, now the owl...Honestly, is there anything else you want to tell us?" said Ginny sarcastically.

"Yes actually, I just found out Malfoy is Head Boy" she said.

Ginny gasped.

"What!!! No, it can't be!" sputtered Harry and Ron.

"How did you find out?!?"

Hermione told them about the incident at the shop, leaving out the whole eyes/bonnie ordeal.

"Stupid git." Said Harry, turning to leave.

"Be careful this year you two," said Ginny, "Malfoy's head boy this year, remember that, you could get in a lot of trouble."

"Aah, but Ginny," said Ron, "you forget that Hermione's the Head Girl!"

They were leaking the leaky cauldron when an all too familiar drawling voice called after them, "Well, well, well. Look what we have here. The pothead, the wench, the fag, and the mudblood."

"Who's we Malfoy, your imaginary friend? Well, seeing as how you don't have any real ones..." said Ron.

"Friends are for weaklings." Drawled Malfoy.

"Really Malfoy? That's not what you thought in first year. You know, when I turned you down, you must remember." Said Harry. (A/n: Is it me? Or does that make Draco sound Gay?)

"Yeah Malfoy, and at least Hermione didn't Buy Head Girl Position like you have yours among other things, like Quidditch!" said Ginny.

Now with this, Hermione didn't agree. She agreed about the Quidditch bit, but not about the Grades and Head Boy Position. Who was he going to bribe? Dumbledore? McGonagall? Maybe Snape. But she wasn't going to let him know that she felt this way.

"I'm sure that's true, and I bribed Dumbledore and McGonagall to get it. Well potter, at least I don't have a hideous scar on my forehead!"

"Why you little-"started Harry.

"Harry, just let it go." whispered Hermione in his ear. Hermione thought she saw a little jolt go trough Malfoy's eyes but shrugged it off, "Just walk away."

And they did. But Ron, being so immature, ( and Overage) cast a silencing spell on Malfoy as he walked away. Malfoy began sputtering around like a lunatic. But they just kept on walking.

When they were out of earshot, Hermione said to Ron, "Ron, you really shouldn't have done that!"

"Oh, Hermione! Relax! It wears off in 20 minutes!" responded Ron.

"Oh, all right then!" giggled Hermione.

And with that, they tapped the bricks on the magic wall (You know the one) , and made their way out of Diagon alley.