Chapter Two
Draco Malfoy sat in the heads compartment waiting for Hermione. He knew who the head girl would be. Who else would it be? No one else even came close to surpassing her.
He was nervous. He had changed over the summer and he wanted her to accept it. Deep down in his heart he knew that it would take her a while. Over the summer his dad had been put in Azkaban, he joined the Order of the Phoenix, and Voldemort had been killed for good. He was on the right side now and he was free of Lucius. What could be better? Well, for one, to have the woman that he loved. (A/n: bet you can't guess who that is)
He was in deep thought when he heard a compartment door open.
"Malfoy?"
Draco smirked to himself, a habit that he would never grow out of, and looked up at her.
Hermione was shocked. She never even thought of Malfoy. Of course it would be him. He was the smartest boy in their grade, and was second to herself out of the entire class.
She just watched him as he smirked at her. She noticed that he had changed over the summer too. First of all his face was rid of the mouse look, (well maybe ferret would be more appropriate), and he had grown in to his body. He had filled out from his quidditch and was a nice 6'2". His skin had lost its sickly pale look and now looked a little more tanned, though not too much. His white-blond hair was hanging loose and framed his face, reached down past his ears. His eyes seemed less cold then they used to. They now looked warm and comforting. Odd, I never knew a Malfoy to be warm ever, she thought to herself. All in all, Draco Malfoy had become hot.
What!!!! Am I thinking of Malfoy of being hot? Man Harry and Ron would kill me if they knew.
What Hermione didn't know was that Harry, Ron, and Draco had become somewhat of friends over the summer. Draco spent a lot of time at the Black House and with Harry and Ron. They both knew about his father and forgave him for past offenses. They also spent a lot of time at the Burrow playing quidditch and playing jokes on the twins to get them back.
"Um, Hermione, are you just going to stand there all day or are we going to have the prefects meeting?"
Hermione was interrupted from her day dream by Draco. She just scowled at him, not ever noticing that he had said her first name.
She walked in and sat down next to him. A minute later the prefects started filing into the compartment. Hermione looked at Draco and he nodded towards her, as if to tell her to go first. So Hermione started.
"Welcome. First of all, let me congratulate you on becoming prefects. It is an honor and should be handled with the utmost importance. You are allowed to give points and take points away. You will patrol corridors on certain days. Oh, and I think I should say when it comes to taking points away it must be fair. You can't just take points away for reasons such as, 'your breathing to loud', or 'your in my space'. If we get any reports of unfairness with the points, we will personally take the matter to the Headmaster."
Now Draco spoke up, "We will need you to meet us right before the feast to get the passwords to your common rooms, seeing as you will be escorting the rest of your houses to them."
Hermione and Draco looked at each other, silently asking the other if that was all they needed to say. When neither one could think of anything Hermione said, "That is it, you all may leave. We will be having a meeting in two days to discuss patrol times. Right now we need you to patrol the train for about twenty minutes then you may go back to your compartments. Just patrol every now and then until we arrive. Have a good journey."
The prefects all mumbled a good bye and Hermione let all of her breath out.
"We're you nervous?"
Hermione snuck a look over at Draco. She rolled her eyes but felt bad about it when she noticed how he looked sincere.
"Yeah, just a little. The only people that I have ever had to order around were Harry and Ron. At least they were the only ones who really listened to me."
Draco chuckled. He thought that it was pretty funny that she thought Harry and Ron ever actually listened to her. Every time that they talked about Hermione, they talked about how she always bossed them around and told them what to do. She always thought that they did it too. And they did, at least until she was gone and they could do what ever they wanted. It was no wonder to any of them why Harry didn't make head boy. His grades weren't the best and he got in to too much trouble.
"Attention all students, we will be arriving in Hogsmeade in five minutes. Repeat we will be arriving in Hogmeade in five minutes time. Thank you."
"Mmmm," said Draco, "They haven't ever done that before."
"Maybe they decided to start so the students knew they needed to get on their school robes in time."
"Maybe."
Five minutes later they were at Hogsmeade. Hermione went strait towards where Harry and Ron were. They got into a carriage and Hermione noticed that Ginny wasn't there.
"Harry? Ron? Where's Ginny?"
"Well she decided to go ahead because we asked her to. We needed an open seat for someone, actually two people."
"Who?"
"Us," came a voice from the door of the carriage.