New Guy in the Club

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AN: Sorry that last chapter sort of wasn't going anywhere so I've been working to get this one up harder (though I've been gone so much lately that didn't help too much) because I felt that the last chapter sort of sucked, so, here ya go! Oh yeah, thanks for the reviews… especially the ones that like last chapter! As usual, shout outs at the end.

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Chapter 6

Hermione walked into History and dropped her large and heavy pile of books on the desk she regularly sat at. She whisked out her notebook for the notes that were to be taken each day. The bell rang and Professor Dublibinn walked in from his office with a small rectangular box held in his hand.

"Today, class, we are going to watch a movie on World War I." His voice was a loud, monotonous drone. "You are to take notes on it, which you may use on the test over it tomorrow." He put the video in the VCR and started the film.

Hermione turned to Ginny who was sitting next to her and passed her a note. Hermione had already seen this movie and would take notes that night, also making a set for Ginny, being as it was her fault that Ginny couldn't watch the video with the rest of the class.

Ginny quietly unfolded the note, looking forward to more details of her friend's previous night.

Ginny-

Last night with Draco was like seriously the best. He got along so well with my parents that it was sorta freaky, actually. What a gentleman! We didn't kiss again, though. I need your opinion on the kiss. Do you think that it's movie way too fast? I mean, me and Harry *dated* a few weeks before the first kiss. And this is all probably just a fling anyways. Who knows how long it will last? But when we did kiss…wow. It was unbelievable! But I'm not going to bore you with the details. Anyways, I had the strangest dream last night. I'll sum it up for you. I went to the Bronze but it was empty except for me, you, Ron, Harry, and Draco. You guys were talking when I entered, you flew apart when I landed in the middle of your circle from a pipe. You flew in a jukebox. Ron thought he was a psycho-killer or something with the glass. Draco taught Harry to dance. I was his partner. We kissed. Harry poked Draco in the arm repeatedly as if it were the worst kind of torture. Then Ron gave him a piece of glass and Harry stabbed it into his hand yelling "CLEAN THIS CUT!" Then I woke up. It was so weird and seemed like Harry knew about last night, like what happened and all. But he can't, first of all because that was just a dream, and he also wasn't there. You remember what I told you about how Draco got that piece of glass stuck in his hand, right? Oh well. Anyways, what do you think about that dream? Write back ASAP.

-Hermione

And I thought *I* had weird dreams thought Ginny. She sighed and thought about the note. She turned Hermione's note over and began to write on the backside of it.

Hermione-

Well at least you know that your parents like your…uh…new friend? guy you like? whatever…And about the kiss, I'm not really that sure either. I guess you could do what feels right, but we don't need you sleeping together. Just joking! Don't hurt me! lol. You two make such a *cute* couple though, you can't deny that. But I'm not too sure about what to do with Harry. Maybe that dream was like telling you to be careful of him and he'll probably over-react. But I think we already knew that, he is Harry still. It could also be saying that your relationship with Draco is danger and going to be in a bit deeper waters than you may think. You hardly even know him and have no idea what your getting into, when you think about it. It seems all good, but maybe Draco's a bit more than you think (even though he is like the hottest guy we've ever met). You should just try taking your time. Then you'll know if you *really* want to be doing all this. Ok, I've basically said the same thing like three times so hopefully by now you'll get my point, lol. WBS (Write Back Soon)!

-Ginny

Ginny folded up the note and glanced at the clock. The only had ten minutes of class yet. Since when does time fly in History She turned to Hermione who was half asleep, much like most of the rest of the class.

"Hermione," she whispered, trying not to draw attention to herself. Hermione remained in the same semi-dormant state.

"Hermione," Ginny shot out a little louder, this time with more luck. Hermione slowly opened her eyes and murmured something that sounded strangely like "three's not enough?" "Three…" began Ginny but she thought better of it thinking of the different possibilities, most unneeded information. "Never mind," she muttered and handed Hermione the note.

Hermione, now fully awake… or as much as you can in History, read the note over quickly twice and re-opened her notebook and tore out a page as silently as she could. She began to write back.

Ginny-

Yeah, I suppose you did point out that fact quite a few times. Oh yeah, I thought I'd let you know that I'm going to make you up a copy of notes tonight. My parents own that video for some reason I don't actually know. Anyways, I suppose you're right about Draco. It is moving way too fast. We should get to know each other better, meet the parents (well, he already did that), you know, the normal stuff. And he is quite the hottest guy ::smiles to self:: I wonder what Harry will do when he finds out about me and Draco. I'm thinking I'm gonna do my best to not let him…nor will he know of my dream. Doubt he'd be too happy. Or maybe he would cuz he got his revenge in a sense at the end. Does that mean that he's always going to victor and I'm going to be stuck with him forever? Because, he's a nice guy and all, but he's a little boring and I just can't see myself marrying him, you know? So I'll *try* to control myself around Mister Malfoy. lol.

Luv,

-Hermione

Ginny had been waiting for her friend to finish. When she finally did, she didn't even bother folding it, feeling Ginny's intense eyes boring into her. She handed it to her. Ginny read it and wrote back once more.

Hermione-

Yeah, I think that's all a good idea. As for Harry, you're stuck on your own. I can't make that decision for you. But if you don't really want to stay with him, nothings holding you back. Just break it off…but try not to make it sound like it was all from Draco cuz u don't need Harry's wrath taken out on him. Well, I'll talk to ya in the halls.

Luv,

-Ginny

Ginny passed the note back to Hermione. She barely had enough time to read it, for as she finished, the bell rang announcing the departure of class. The girls gathered their books together and walked out of the shared class. History was broken into two groups: Jr. and Sr. Junior consisted of 9th and 10th graders, while Senior held the 11th and 12th graders. Most people assumed that it was because they couldn't come up with enough material to cover 4 years.

Hermione and Ginny barely made it out of the classroom before hearing their names being called out from down the hall. They turned around and saw Harry and Ron pushing through the crowd in an attempt to reach the girls, who were giggling at the site. After about 20 seconds, the boys managed to reach their destination.

"Hey! What's up?" Harry said, panting from the "hard work" of getting there.

"What, you couldn't wait five minutes when we had lunch and could talk there?" asked Ginny. Everyone except Harry laughed at this.

"I wanted to see Hermione!" came the defensive reply. He turned so he was fully facing her. "Where have you been all day, anyways? I haven't seen you once yet!"

"Oh, um, I've been around." Hermione lied to him uncertain of his response if she told him the truth. She had, in fact, actually been looking for Draco all day, hoping to maybe bump into him. Literally wouldn't be too bad either. Unfortunately she had no luck, and hoped to see him during lunch. She realized she had been staring at the wall and quickly shook her head. "I had to talk to Phillips about an assignment and had trouble finding him. I *finally* did before History. I swear, it was like he was avoiding me…or just trying to piss me off, either or."

"And, lucky me, I got to trail her around the whole time," added Ginny not actually lying, for she *had* had to trail her around in the search for Draco, not that she was objecting, though.

"Well let's go to lunch, I'm starved!" Ron was already walking towards the lunchroom as he said it. His friends sighed and laughed at him, but followed, nonetheless.

When they arrived at the lunchroom, Hermione scanned over the pool of head for a platinum blonde. He was not alone, though. He seemed to have a perky, squealing, leech on his arm by the name of Parvati Patil. Though she was quite popular amongst the school, she could only dream of it ever amounting to Hermione, which she actually did. She acted as a sheep, following as Hermione did, constantly tagging along in hope of increasing her popularity. It never worked that way though.

Harry saw her scanning the crowd and he feared it was for the boy they had met last night. He decided to check. "Who are you looking for?"

"Oh, Parvati. I need to talk to her about *what* she wore yesterday! I mean did you see it? She mixed a Gucci skirt with an Armani sweater that should *never* be seen even *near* each other!" she replied, resuming her normal manner, especially when talking about Parvati.

"Well," said Ginny, catching Hermione's drift, "We so need to get over there before she leaves and continues making a fool of anyone even seen around her."

The group made their way over to the table. To Hermione's delight, Draco was resisting Parvati's "charm" and was trying to push her away, obviously uninterested. His face immediately brightened when he saw Hermione making her way over there. He also noticed Harry next to her with his arm around her waist, but paid no mind to it except not making any moves. Parvati noticed him smiling and said, "I'm glad you agree! The world would be SO much better off without fad diets! I can't believe I ever even tried one!" She was about to continue rambling, but was interrupted by Draco talking.

"Hermione!" he said enthusiastically.

"She tried a fad diet? I *knew* she wasn't that perfect without doing something!" Parvati obviously hadn't noticed the girl who was arriving at the table.

"Actually, no I haven't. Unlike you, my beauty comes naturally," said Hermione as Parvati looked up, obviously embarrassed of her big mouth. She turned to Draco and quickly said, "Hey Draco," like old friends before turning back to Parvati. "Anyways, speaking of beauty, we *really* need to talk about that outfit you wore yesterday unless you have this burning desire to give a bad name to anyone seen within a twenty foot radius of you."

Parvati looked slightly hurt at this coy remark, but had to remain calm, in fear of making a scene and becoming the aim of most insults for the next few weeks. "What was wrong with it? And do you know how much money I even spent for it first of all? I could only buy one more outfit that day!"

"Hmm, besides how horrible it looked?" threw in Ron who sat happily munching on an apple.

"Shut up Ron, you really don't need to get involved," said Harry quietly.

"Right."

Hermione started up again. "Seriously, if those were the same designer, would you get both and wear them at the same time? Honestly, it would seem as if you didn't watch "Designer Fashion Today" last week! A black sweater *can not* be worn with a brown skirt and haven't been able to for months!" Parvati twitched and started to feel stupid as soon as Hermione mentioned Designer Fashion Today. She had forgotten about it when she went shopping to get the outfit in question. Hermione continued despite this. "Besides, even you should know that Gucci and Armani styles usually have enough contrasts lately that *anything* mixed usually won't work. Few people pull it off."

Parvati interrupted. "And of course, you're one of them that can. I know that part; everyone knows that part, let's move on. I'll be careful what days, I mean what outfits I shop for from now on if that will make you happy."

"It could help being as I could actually allow to be seen around you."

Throughout all of this, Harry and Ron sat quietly talking off to the side and Draco just stared, amazed at the power Hermione had. He softly cleared his throat, which also got Hermione's attention. She flashed her eyes in his direction, and immediately softened the gaze she had been using on Parvati.

"Draco," she said sweetly, "sorry about that. Anyways, did you get home all right? I hope it wasn't too much of a hassle to walk all that way."

"Oh, it was fine. No problem…really," he replied. He thought back to the night before. After all, the walk was fine. It was actually quite refreshing. The part that wasn't "fine" was when he got home and had to face his father. Draco closed his eyes at the thought.

,.:•*`'`*•Flashback•:.,.•*`'`*•:.,

Draco quietly pushed the front door to his manor open, hoping nobody heard his entrance. Or if they once again failed to notice I was gone, he thought. This, unfortunately, was not the case. As Draco walked into the kitchen, he was greeted by his father, Lucius Malfoy, who was sitting in a chair that was facing the doorway.

"Hello son, decide to go out on your first night in a new town?" Lucius said with a sneer.

Draco decided to be polite and brief in hope of less punishment. "Actually, yes. I met some new people in school today. Their names are Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. They told me to meet them at this place called Hogwarts. Though they didn't show up, I also met four more people. Their names are Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and Ginny Weasley."

"Nice to see you've been getting around. Now to the issue where you didn't feel that leaving the house was important enough to inform someone."

"I'm sorry, father. I figured that no one would mind as I would commonly go out in our previous town."

"You're sorry my ass! Our previous town we were well known, as well as our power. Here no one yet has a clue of what we can do. People will take advantage of us and push us into the dirt," Lucius spat. "You are not to go out of the house without permission from now on until I remove that restraint. I think you will need something to enforce this."

Draco looked up at his father defiantly. "I'm a big boy, I know how to remember things."

"Remember, but not do, and talking back will earn you another half hour." Draco's eyes flickered for a moment at his father's words, but immediately returned to their previous state. Lucius's stayed a cold gray, showing no mercy. He beckoned his son as he began to walk out of the room. "Come."

Draco had no choice but to follow. He knew his punishment would be worse if he didn't. Draco followed throughout the maze of his house in a downward slope. Finally they stopped in the lowest room in the house, which was freezing cold and so far underground that even if someone screamed at the top of their lungs, not a sound could be heard, even to the sharpest ears.

This was one reason Lucius had bought this house. The last one he had to put up numerous layers of padding and soundproof barriers to achieve this "quality".

Lucius walked over to the far wall of the room. Upon it hung many sorts of whips, chains, and weapons. Lucius grabbed a particular whip, where each strand of the whip was embedded with small pieces of metal and glass, which could never be removed. There were five of these strands. Draco flinched as he saw his father take this one. It was one of the more painful ones, which were usually used when Draco needed to have something to help enforce a new rule or reinforce an old one.

"Now I suggest," said Lucius menacingly, "that you take off your shirt that I *WORKED* to provide the money for it. That is, unless you want it ruined and have to pay for it with money that you earn in hard labor." Draco cautiously unbuttoned it and placed it on a nearby chair. This allowed view of the many scars all over his body, in all different sizes and widths. He glared at his father as Lucius approached his son.

Lucius pulled his arm up over his arm, and brought it down with the whip, allowing it to cut into Draco's back. He did this a few times. Then he started bringing it to the point where the strands of the whip are just starting to touch the body, and pulling it back, tearing and gashing at the skin. This went on for another hour to Lucius's cruel amusement. Draco never shed a tear or cried out though. He would never give his father that sort of pleasure or satisfaction. He knew this time it was all definitely worth it.

,.:•*'`'*•End of Flashback•:.,.:•*'`'*•:.,

"DRACO!!!!" Hermione screamed, shaking his whole body. He wouldn't respond to anything. Finally she grabbed a glass of ice water and threw dumped it on him.

He shook his head and yelled, "What was that for?!"

Ron looked at him, mouth stuffed with food. "Bout time! You wer' like dead or somat."

Draco looked irritated, but before he could say anything, Hermione spoke. "Anyways, what we were trying to ask is if you were going to Hogwarts tonight."

Draco thought back to the night before. He figured he could sneak out the window or something. "Yeah, what time should I be there?"

"Well, it's a Thursday night so it doesn't open until seven, so be there after eight and before nine," replied Harry. Then he smiled mockingly. "Unless daddy won't let little Drakie out that late."

"Harry," Hermione said accusingly.

Draco decided that this was just a coincidence. Then he muttered so only Harry could hear, "At least I have a father." Harry looked ready to kill. "Well, I have to get to class. Bye Hermione," he said while waving. "See you tonight. Ginny, Ron," he nodded to each of them. Ginny smiled giddily at Hermione. Draco walked out of the cafeteria, all the girls turning their heads to stare at him and the guys glared at him, while trying to get the girls' attention back.

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Well here's another chapter! Sorry it took so long, almost a week! But it is the longest one yet! I hope that you liked it, being as it took *forever* to write! And if any of you were wondering about that whole Hermione-Parvati exchange………I just sorta made that up as I went, so yeah. Anways…

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