Hermione gasped "Oh my god! You are..."

"OH NO, DON'T YOU SAY THAT, GRANGER! DON'T YOU DARE TO SAY MY NAME!"

Ginny lookd into Hermiones eyes and whispered "I'll tell you later..."

The girl that looked exactly like Sydney, that Hermione expected to be Tricia, looked furios at the scene "You know each other?"

Hermione looked into the silvery blue eyes of the black haired boy for one more second, then turned a bit and smiled "We met short time after Hogwarts, yes... But we don't really know each other..."

Tricia smiled "You're lying, but that's okay. Everyone of us has a secret he's never speaking about and if he is asked about it, he lies..."

The boy with the bluest of all blue eyes said 'Alright pet, you and Gin just shut your mouths and we play...

The group of seven people were on their way to Corridor 457 and everybody seemed to want to know everything about Hermione... Spike walked a bit behind the group, but nobody really bothered... He had ever been a bit strange and really quiet... That was one thing why they all liked Spike. He had something mysterious...

"Alright Mya, so, I'm Tricia as my twinsister surely told you, but please, call me Trish, right? Well, I got a question, just because of curiosity... Are you pureblood or half?"

"Why does it matter?"

"It doesn't. I just want to know..."

"I'm... half..." Hermione glanced back at Spike. He smiled. "Something wrong, pet?"

Tricia stopped dead "Fuoah! He smiles! Hey, guys, look at that. Spike is actually really smiling!"

Sydney laughed "He did smile before, Trish"

"Yeah, but only if he was drunk..."

"Oh, will you all shut up, please? This staring is annoying me!"

Rick caught Hermions eyes "Have you got a boyfriend?"

"None of your business"

"Are you virgin?"

"None of your business"

"Why are you so afraid of Spike?"

"I'm not afraid of the ferret boy, understand? I never was and never will be. I have always been much more powerfull than he ever will be and he knows!"

Spike looked at her "Yes, I know, Hermione. But you are afraid of me because you're not sure you still know me..."

Hermione stared at him, but looked away when she heard Ginny sigh "Spike, Hermione doesn't know now, so you two can fight after you told her"

"What if I'm not going to tell her, Gin?"

"Then she will be a danger for your secret"

Spike stared at the red haired girl "I like you, Gin. You're kinda smart and, even though you met Spike McCarthy just two days ago, you trust him, even if you still hate my old identity..."

Ginny smiled "Everybody deserves a second chance and everybody in the band trusted me from the first second... Isn't it the same with you, Mya?"

Hermione snorted "Yeah, dunno, I hope so... But I'm not sure about the second- chance-thing yet..."

Sydney smiled widely "I think we should all go to bed now, right?"

Hermione stared. Sydney was really nice and stuff, but... Why was this girl always smiling?

Hermione stepped into her room and had a first, close look at it. In one Corner, there was a huge metal four poster bed with black curtains. To Hermione, it looked like the bed of the devil himself, but then she saw the old, white teddy bear sitting on the black satin pillow and smiled.

That was so sweet... The other bed was an modern, asian one made of wood and coloured black, the covers were a dark green. Over it some drumsticks hung on the wall... So the metal-four-poster had to be Spikes... "I never knew you had something like a teddy bear, Spike"

"You never knew anything 'bout me, Granger" Rick looked at the both of them staring into each others eyes "If you could please stop arguing? We have classes tomorrow and we have to get miss Grangers part of the room ready... Let me see... I guess you want pink pillows with roses on them?"

Hermione looked at the third bed... It was small and thin and the covers were some-kind-of-green-or-yellow-nobody-actually-knew

She took out her wand and a few seconds later, It was a huge, wooden four poster with dark red curtains and covers "Looks really much like your headgirl-bed at Hogwarts, Granger..."

"Yeah... That may be, Spike, but, you know, I ever felt more home at Hogwarts than somewhere else..."

"Same here, Granger, same here..."

"I thought you ever enjoyed returning to Ma... your house"

"There's so much you don't know, Granger..."

"Than tell me" Spike glanced at Rick

"Alright, alright... I'm leaving... off to see my grilfriend..." He went out and knocked at room number 60. They heard the door open and then Trish's voice "What d'you want?"

"See my grilfriend"

"Well, then go ahead"

"I meant you"

"I'm not your fucking girlfriend"

"Gimme a chance"

"No. But come in, I guess Mya nd Spike wanna talk and I don't want them to be disturbed by your annoying face..."

"Thanks, sweetheart"

Hermione laughed a little but then turned serious again and closed the door "Now tell me, what happened to you, Draco Malfoy?"

He sighed and let himself fall onto his bed, running his fingers through his hair "You see, you never knew me. Nobody did. Nobody ever asked me what I wanted, what I felt... They all just expected me to do... things. They expected me to hate you, so I did. They expected me to hate all muggle borns, and I did. They expected me to get good grates, so I did. They expected me to become headboy, so I did. But then, on our last day at school, you said something to me.. On the train, we just arrived King's Cross. I told you that I myself wouldn't be there any long to give you a hard time and that I would haunt you in your dreams instead... And you just said... 'I just want to visit one of your dreams, Malfoy, so I maybe could understand what your whicked mind is all about. I don't think anybody can be as evil as you behave'. First I was really pissed off because you snapped back at me and didn't give me a chance to respond, but a few days later... You see, my father told me I was expected to become the heir of the dark lord some time soon and first I smiled. Then my smile faded away. And I asked my father what he would say if I just didn't want to. And... well... he beat the hell out of me. And then, he beat the hell out of my mother and said it was all her fault and that I had to be a bleedin' bastard, that she surely had tricked him with another man... And he hit her until she didn't move anymore and I stood beside him and yelled at him, I attacked him.. But he just didn't care. And when my mom was dead, he turned to me again and screamed that it was my fault that she was dead and that I killed her and... Well, then, he beat me up again and I just stopped moving. He thought I was unconscious and told the house elfs to bring me up the stairs and... I got up, took my trunk and went to the ministry. I told them about our cellar and what was hidden in their and how to get to the hiding places and... About mom... Well, my dad is in Askaban now and I got all his money and his house because I'm his only heir and he will be in Askaban the rest of his life. The ministry gave me permission to change my name so I can forget about my past... And then you and Ginny Weasley came and remembered me... Luckily that Thomas-Boy didn't recognise me, too..."

Hermione sat there, completely shocked "That... I'm sorry"

"No, you're not..."

Just when Hermione wanted to answer, the door opened "He guys... When I told Tricia that I feared we had to share a bed she... well... threw me out and said I could kiss her ass and when I said that I'd really love to, she just... smashed the door shut so I fear you have to continue your little chat when she has calmed down a bit..."

Spike (or Draco) Shut the curtains of his four-poster "I just wanted to go to sleep. Night"

"Night" Hermione and Rick answered

"So, what were you talking about? What dark little secrets does Spikey have?"

"I'm right here Rick and I hear every word..."

"Yeah, right... so, tell me. Is he a murderer and the police is searching for him?"

"Rick!"

"Or did he maybe rape somebody or something?"

"Rick!"

"Yeah?"

Hermione smiled. She had to get used to the thought of Draco Malfoy being Spike McCarthy and having changed because of something she herself had said... but they were all so nice...

Ginny, of course, her best friend since the readhead went to school, then Sydney who had found her in the hallway all lost and alone and taken her to meet her friends... Then Tricia, her twinsister that was really... well, she was weird, but still nice and Rick who was just weird and uncontrollable... She hoped she would made friends with all of them because they seemed to be like she was... A bit weird, some kind of smart, dark and just different...