Chapter Two- Aboard The Hogwarts Express

Hermoine arrived back into the compartment, dressed in her school robes to find Ron and Harry in the middle of a game of Wizard Chess. She smiled and sat down to join them. They chatted merrily for a half an hour or so until Hermoine remembered Blaises' badge.

"Well, I think I've found out who's head boy..." she started, rather reluctantly.

"Who? Ernie McMillan?" Ron asked, remembering Ernie being the favorite to gain to coveted position. "No, that's who I thought it would be too actually. You know, being a prefect in Fifth Year and all." Hermoine answered, adding "You're not going to believe this... but I think... I think its Blaise."

Ron let out a sarcastic snort and exclaimed, "Ya right, I mean he wouldn't know a Grundylow from a Gnome, that guy's a dumbass. His whole life revolves around his hair. You must be joking..."

"I certainly wish I was, but I saw the badge on his robes... well what looked like a head-boy badge anyway." She said, munching on a Pumpkin Pasty. Ron had never forgiven Blaise after he had tricked Ginny into believing that he liked her, then cruelly humiliating her on front of the whole school when she confidently questioned him about it. She had cried for days, and would only eat when Ron, Harry and Hermoine brought food up to the Gryffindor Common room. The three of them spent the rest of the journey talking to several of their fellow students who dropped in to say hello. Then, suddenly, Draco Malfoy burst into their compartment.

Blaise sauntered back into the compartment, looking extremely pleased with himself.

Not only had he made Hermoine, the pathetic little mud blood, think he was head-boy by wearing Draco's head-boy badge, he had reduced a poor first year to tears, by exclaiming out loud how much her head resembled a perfect circle. His satisfied smirk soon faded as he saw Pansy Parkinson lounged out on a seat, taking up one whole side of the compartment. "Pansy" he muttered a note of annoyance in his voice, not at all ready for the girl's high-pitched laugh and attempts to be seductive. Her constant eyelash-batting and thigh touching was, he considered, way too desperate. "The one and only," Pansy replied, twirling a lock of hair around her finger, "How are you Blaise hun?" Blaise raised an eyebrow at the term, but gave a overly fake smile and answered "Fanfuckingtastic", saving himself an inquisition while pushing her legs off the seat to make room for himself next the window. The conversation carried on as Blaise watched the blurred countryside fly past the train window, rolling his eye's as Pansy gave a day by day account of her holiday around Italy.

There was something about Pansy Parkinson that really got under his skin. Aside from the fact that he had gone out with her for three or four weeks, like many other students at Hogwarts, there was always an air of total fakeness about her. Right from her perfectly straightened chocolate brown hair, to her regularly pedicured toes. The girl was totally self-centered and thought about nothing but herself and maybe, sometimes, her arm candy whoever the poor boy may be. Pansy considered herself God's gift to men and waltzed around the castle as if she was the prettiest girl at Hogwarts. Which to some boys she may be, but in actual fact the two most sought after and desired girls in the school were Mel and Hermoine. Deep-down Pansy knew this, but for some strange reason it made her even more determined to become the biggest and 'easiest' slut ever to pass through Hogwarts doors, thinking it was some kind of achievement. Pansy had always liked Draco, forever. To her being with Draco even for even one day would be absolute heaven. The sad thing was that everyone in Hogwarts including the Austrian exchange student knew it, and it had put Draco off her from the start. He continued stringing her along though, like a true Malfoy. She sensed his liking towards Mel and despised her for it. She took the phrase 'Keep your friends close and your Enemies closer' quite literally and clung onto Mel in an attempt to eventually win Draco's heart. Pansy finally decided to leave much to all Mel, Blaise and Draco's relief but not before blowing each of them a kiss. As soon as the compartment door closed, Blaise let out a sigh and exclaimed, "God, she's getting dumber by the year..." "I know" Draco added, a look of disgust on his face, "I mean, she thinks Paris is in Italy. Even Crabbe knows its in Spain" Mel let out a giggle and said, "It's actually in France." A light shade a pink swept over Draco's cheeks and he insisted he had known that before slouching back down into his seat, angry with himself.

The three of them spent most of the rest of the train journey in silence, Blaise staring absent mindly out the window, Mel drifting off to sleep on his shoulder. Draco sat on the hard train seat, leaning against the wall, occasionally shooting glances at Mel. She should be lying on my shoulder Draco thought as she snuggled up next to Blaise, who looked as if he was in deep train of thought. Draco sat there, amazed at how beautiful Mel was. He watched as she let out a yawn and ran a hand through her silky hair, oblivious to the fact he was watching her. Mel was unlike any other girl Draco had ever known. She was smart, funny, thoughtful and caring. She was real, innocent and pure. She loved her friends and they were lucky enough to see what a really great person she was. Being Mel's friend was good enough for Draco, although he would just about die with happiness if they became more than that. He was way to worried of being rejected to tell anybody how he felt so all his emotions and feelings were given out as hate and abuse to anyone who tried to question him. He was renowned for his ice cold exterior and for treating all his ex-girlfriends like shit. While deep-down he hated himself for it, he was determined to keep it that way, to be like a true Malfoy. If there was such a thing.

His train of thought was broken when eh looked at his watch and exclaimed "SHIT!" He was already late for the Head-boy/Head girl start of year meeting in the top carriage of the train. He gathered his belongings together and ran out of the compartment, banging the door behind him. Blaise and Mel barely noticing him leave. They stayed like that for about three quarters of an hour until Mel announced they would be reaching Hogsmeade station in a matter of minutes. The compartment was dark now and a heavy rain bashed against the windows, and the bad-quality light set a low dim over the compartment. With the sound of the train screeching to halt, it erupted with students rushing around the place, grabbing their belongings and running to the carriages to get out of the rain. Rather reluctantly, the two of them joined the bustling crowd as Draco walked up and joined them, looking extremely pissed off.

Draco had been half way there when he stopped and realized Blaise still had his Head-Boy badge. Fuck he murmured and looking at his Sterling Silver watch decided he would have to carry on without it. Luckily, he passed the Gryffindor's compartment and remembered he had forgotten to tell Hermoine about it. He burst in through the door and after several seconds of heavy breathing on Draco's part, he finally blurted out, "Hermoine must c-come to the top compartment with me. Now" The three Gryffindor's looked at one another in surprise and annoyance. Then, Ron spoke up, and said firmly, "Eh... she's not going anywhere with you Malfoy." Agreeing with Ron, Harry added, "Ya, so if you wouldn't mind getting the fuck out of here that would be great."

"As much as I'd love to in the fear of catching some sort of disease," Draco replied spitefully, looking at Ron, "There is a meeting for the Head-Girl and Boy, which started about 5 minutes ago." He added, looking at his watch.

Hermoine raised an eyebrow sarcastically and asked, "Then why are you here? Blaise is head-boy."

"'Fraid not mudblood, you're stuck with me for the year," Draco said, a smirk on his face.

A scowl formed on Ron's face, the sheer thought of Draco and Hermoine sharing a dorm made him feel angry. "So they didn't give you a badge then?" Harry asked a note of sarcasm in his voice. "They did actually, I just misplaced it." Draco spat, and then, turning to Hermoine said, "And, as much as I'd love to stay and chat, I've got a meeting to go to." And with that, he turned and left, without a glance back.

"Shit, I better go," Hermoine muttered as the door slammed behind him, "Just in case he actually is Head Boy.

Hermoine stepped into the corridor of the rapidly moving Hogwarts Express and held onto the walls on either side to stop her from falling. Eventually she reached the top compartment and slowly opened the door to find Draco sitting with a smirk on his face tapping his watch amused when her face turned into a scowl as he said, "Bit tardy today aren't we mudblood?"

"Well if you had actually told me about it, I would have been here." She answered, wanting to slap him on the face. What a despicable idiot, how dare he she thought to herself and shot him an angry glance as she sat down on the opposite side of the compartment than him. For some reason her eyes lingered on his silver grey ones, amazed at how much hatred she saw in them. The meeting came and went and they basically spent the time arguing over petty little things such as who got to patrol which house, both not wanting Hufflepuff. Eventually Hermoine tricked him into taking Slytherin and Hufflepuff, and her getting Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. After that, they split up to make sure everyone on the train was still behaving and to break up some of the inter-house fights. Draco spent his time sulking over the fact that the mudblood had tricked him and Hermoine spent her time flirting with all the gorgeous Ravenclaw seventh year guys. The Hogwarts Express finally pulled into Hogsmeade Station and Hermoine and Draco met up again, to gather the students together and make sure everyone got into a carriage and safely up to the castle. Draco, still annoyed with Hermoine, left her in the lashing rain to sort it all by herself and walked over to join Blaise and Mel in a huff.

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