A/N: Thanks all for reviewing :) I'll thank all of you personal in a second.
Disclaimer: Still don't own a thing, except the plot of course :)
Pairing: Draco/Hermione
Rating: PG till now :)
Small Summary: Hermione is in her 7th year at Hogwarts, she is the Head Girl... when she gets the news that her parents died people will comfort her... but what happens when comforting doesn't stay with comforting? (Ok sorry I suck at summaries! And you already knew that didn't you :))
Chapter Summary: Hermione and Draco receive their first assignment, how will they react towards each other? Will they be civilized? Or will they keep ignoring each other or insulting each other?
Review Reply's:
Avery-88 – Thanks, I'll try to update as soon as possible
PerennialOutlander – I don't know, I guess I was in a very pink mood, I'll try to pick other colours too :)
Tekvah Ariel – As I said in the beginning, this IS going to be a Draco/Hermione – fiction so yeah, I guess there is going to be some little romance, but I'll try to keep it in character ok?
meenyrocks – I'm very curious too :p, nope I'm not I know what's going to happen!! :D ok sorry I'm in a good mood because I've had 4 reviews in the first 24 hours I posted it!!!
Fly-Bird-NOT-THAT-HIGH – yeah boxers, I see that image right in front of my face, if you know what I mean :) Thanks for my fifth review!
Now on with the story :)
Note: The students from the Advanced Arithmancy class all are in the same year as Harry, Ron, Draco and Hermione I looked it up in Harry Potter Lexicon :)
Last Time on Notice Me:
Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy are Head Boy and Head Girl. They saw their common rooms, bedrooms and the bathroom they had to share...
She walked to her trunk and took a book out of it. Then left her room to read in front of the fireplace. She was so occupied with her book that she didn't saw Draco entering the common room with his green silk boxers.
Chapter 02 – Their first assignment!
What the hell is she doing in front of the fireplace, I wanted to sit their... whatever... Draco Malfoy sat down in the big black couch. He lay down and started to read his book, when Hermione heard him sit down she looked up.
'Malfoy what are you doing here?' she asked. 'What does it look like I'm doing, I'm reading mudblood!!!' She shook her head 'you know this is going to be a lot easier when we're not constantly fighting with each other!'
Malfoy seemed to think about it. 'Whatever mudblood, like I care what you think of it...' She sighed and stood up and walked to her room in her small little dress and didn't look behind so she didn't see Malfoy check her out...
She sat down on her bed to take of her shoes and crawled under the bed- sheets. She almost immediately fell asleep.
--The Next Morning—
Hermione ran downstairs she was late for breakfast, it almost never happened before but she overslept... Her bed was so soft and comfortable that she just didn't wake up when she normally woke up.
She rushed towards her house table and sat down next to Harry and across Ginny.
'Ah look who's there... 'Mione' Ginny giggled 'did you just woke up late? What's gotten in to you?' Hermione shrugged 'just a nice and comfortable bed' she smiled towards the younger Weasley, and started to eat some toast. And she talked a little with Harry, Ron & Ginny.
Hermione then had to go to the Advanced Arithmancy class, Harry and Ron were heading towards the Advanced Divination. She walked in the classroom and Professor vector announced that every house would have this class together because there were only 10 people in the whole 7th year who took this class. Last year Hermione had Advanced Arithmancy with the other Gryffindors and the Hufflepuffs, but because of the big amounts of work they had to do outside the classroom every single Gryffindor had left the class during the last year. She was the only gryffindor now.
She didn't know which Ravenclaws and Slytherins were in this class. And she took a look around and saw 1 Slytherin Draco Malfoy What the hell is he doing here... 3 Ravenclaws Terry Boot, Padma Patil and Mandy Brocklehurst, in the middle and on the other side were 5 Hufflepuffs Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Justin Flinch-Fletchley, Megan Jones and Ernie Macmillan, and then there was of course herself as the only Gryffindor.
She sat down at an empty table in the middle of the classroom and started taking notes of what professor Vector was telling. When they were in the half of the class there was a slight knock on the door, and Elenor Cauldwell a 4th year Hufflepuff walked inside.
'Professor Vector?' she asked shyly 'Yes miss Cauldwell?' came the reply. 'Professor McGonagall asked if you could send Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger to her office.'
Hermione looked towards Malfoy and saw him glare in her direction. 'Did professor McGonagall tell you why?' 'No, but she did said it was official Head Boy and Head Girl business.' The professor looked towards Malfoy and Granger and nodded his head.
'you 2 can lend the notes of the other students, you can take your bags and follow miss Cauldwell towards professor McGonagall's office' Hermione putted all her stuff in her bag, and so did Malfoy and then they both followed Elenor out of the classroom towards the professor's office.
They entered the room and the professor noted them to sit down. 'You guys know the end of the holiday dance is coming up soon?' they both nodded their heads. 'You two are going away for the weekend to search a band for the dance... ' 'but professor!' Hermione protested, she didn't want to go on a weekend with Malfoy... and the feeling was mutual
'No buts miss Granger!' the professor noticed them to both keep it quiet 'You two leave tomorrow evening, pack a bag with some muggle clothing.' Now it was Malfoy who protested 'Muggle clothing?' 'Yes mister Malfoy, muggle clothing, you'll meet some wizard-bands but the mean propose for you two is to find us a special act, a muggle act.'
'So here's a list of the wizard-bands and a list of muggle-performers so you can start discussing those who definitely won't be on the agenda to meet this weekend.' They both nodded, the one more hateful than the other and left the room with 2 lists.
'So what now...' Hermione tried to start a conversation about the weekend, Malfoy dropped 1 of the lists in her hands 'you can have that list of muggle-performers, I don't know any of them, and I'll keep this list because you won't know any of the wizard-bands.' Hermione sighed 'ok Malfoy, but we'll have to discuss them together BEFORE tomorrow-evening...' 'Whatever Granger, I'm going to class'
And so they each left in separate directions, with each a different list.
--Later that day, after classes—
Hermione was sitting in the library with her list to clear the list of useless performers when Harry walked towards her. 'Hey 'Mione' he sat down next to her 'How's it going?' she looked up 'Hello Harry, I'm fine, well how do you describe fine? I just have to spend a stupid weekend with Malfoy in a Muggle City, so you think I'm fine?'
'I'm sorry Hermione, I can't change the fact that you two are the smartest students in Hogwarts, and you two have made Head Boy and Head Girl, but this is a great opportunity for you... you're going to meet the best muggle performers, and the best wizard-bands in the world' he smiled at her, and that made her smile too.
'thanks Harry, to let me see the bright sight of it' 'You're welcome hermione' he hugged her and then she left with her short list of muggle- performers that were left of the long list that McGonagall gave her.
'Unity' she said against the painting in front of her common room and walked inside. She saw Malfoy sitting in the middle of the room with his list spread on the ground in front of him. HE looked up when she walked in, but not for long because he was reading the names on the list.
Hermione walked to her room, and took of her uniform and replaced it with a blue skirt and black top from her enchanted dresser. And walked back to the common room to discuss the names with Malfoy.
She sat down on the ground next to him and lay her short list on the ground. He didn't look up, he couldn't decide which band they wouldn't meet they were all great. So Hermione started to decide which one they wouldn't meet and started scrapping the names of the bands she knew and didn't like.
'What do you think you're doing?' he snapped at her when she scrapped a couple of names. 'Making the list shorter like we're supposed to do' she just answered. 'Well why don't you make your list shorter then and not mine!!'
'That's because my list is already short, I only have 10 names on them instead of a hundred like you!' he glared at her, but decided to be civilized because they had to share the common room for a year now and handed her a piece of the list without saying a word and started to concentrate on his part of the list.
Hermione smiled, she had just broken the cold-hearted Malfoy to let her help him. She looked at her piece and started scratching till she had only 7 names left, and then looked towards Malfoy.
'You really can't chose can't you' she giggled as she saw there were still about 30 names on the list. 'No I can't Granger, but that's because they are all great bands' 'yeah they are, but you got to think like this, you pick 2 bands, and you scratch the one that is less great as the other... and in the end you only have the best bands on your list.'
He looked at her 'Well Granger, that's one of the longest things you ever said to me without calling me ferret.' Hermione's eyes grew wide, he was right, this must have been one of the longest things she said to him without insulting him.
'Well I believe our work will go a lot better if we could just be civilized against each other the moments we have to work together, I don't mind if you insult me in class, but if we have to work together, it will be a lot easier if we could just talk without insulting each other!'
'Ok Granger, I'll keep it civilized when we're alone, but don't get your hopes up, I'll still be normal when we're with others!' he shrugged en look towards his list. With Hermione's help, he now had only 10 groups left.
He took Hermione's piece of the list and compared it. 'I didn't know you liked these bands' 'Well you don't know much about me Malfoy, you only saw part of me because we just shared classes from time to time.'
'Well, that's going to change now I presume.' 'Don't get your hopes up Malfoy, I'll only be civilized when we're alone' she smiled at him, and to both of their surprises he smiled back.
She yawned 'Well I'm going to bed, its getting late already... I'll see you tomorrow' she got up and walked towards her room. She took a nightgown and quickly changed. When she was in her bed, she fell asleep quick and slept a night full of dreams.