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Review Comments:
tom-felton-luver1-2-2: Thanks for the review! I read your story, its great! Keep on writing!!
Emma: Don't even try! lol
CountingSheep123: (aka soupie): I already told you what the password was! Oh well. I'm not telling you the thing under the mirror though…..you can try and figure it out yourself!
digjam23: I know the whole "Draco suddenly decides to be nice to Hermione" thing was kindda confusing. I guess what I was trying to get across was that Draco had changed a little over the summer, and he was realizing how upset he makes Hermione when he calls her Mudblood. Hope that helps!
A/N: I still didn't get a very good amount of reviews but I guess I'll tell you what the password means anyways (partly to help my somewhat clueless beta!). For those of you who can't remember the password it was expugno tui varietas, which is Latin for "overcome your differences"……kindda weird, but it was the only thing I could think of.
Chapter 3: Fighting the Dragon
In silence the two entered their common room. The common room was quite large. There was a fireplace off to one side with a blazing fire already crackling inside. In front of the fire there was a large couch and on the wall behind that a tall bookshelf, to Hermione's delight.
They sat down on their comfy couch; Hermione with a book and Draco deep in thought over what one could only begin to guess.
About 20 minutes later, Hermione got up and headed to her room to go to sleep.
"Where are you going?" Draco questioned.
"To bed, if that's okay with your majesty" replied Hermione.
"Jeez, I was just asking"
"Well you don't always need to be checking up on me you know; I'm a big girl and can take care of myself."
"Fine" snarled Draco, "I don't see why you hate me so much".
"Me hate you?" laughed Hermione. "You're the one who calls me mudblood and makes fun of me all of the time! So I think I should be asking you; why do you hate me so much? Huh, why is it Malfoy……..I'm waiting".
"Do you really want to know?" asked Draco
"Would I be asking otherwise?"
"Fine then, it's because I-I-I'm jealous of you Mu-Granger."
"You jealous of me? Draco Malfoy, the kid who has everything, jealous of a "stupid, mudblood, bookworm, like me, if I am not mistaken. May I ask why exactly?"
"Granger, you don't understand what you have that I long for. You have friends that care about you, a family that loves you, and the teachers cherish you. I don't. I don't have friends that I can confide in, my family pretty much hates me, or at least my father does, and I may be lying but I think the teachers find me rather annoying. Well, now you know. I don't really hate you, I've never hated you to tell you the truth, it has all just been bottled up jealousy. So, go ahead and laugh your head off" Fumed Draco.
"Draco, I had no idea. I-I-I'm sorry" stuttered Hermoine.
"You're what?"
"I said I'm sorry", and with that Hermione turned around and ran into her room.
Draco sat there on the couch stunned. An apology was the last thing he had expected to come out of Grangers mouth. A few minutes later Draco went into his room, next to Hermiones.
Both Hermione and Draco went to sleep with mixed feelings about the other.
The next morning Hermione woke up to the buzzing of her alarm clock, one of the many muggle inventions she found useful. She got up and trudged to the bathroom where she took a quick shower, got dressed, put up her hair, and applied a light amount of make-up.
Just as Hermione was about to leave for a quick bite to eat in the Great Hall before heading off to transfiguration, she realized she had not seen or heard any sign that Malfoy was awake.
"Should I check and see if he's up yet?" Hermione thought.
After pondering this for awhile Hermione decided it was the right thing to do. Malfoy had shown a different side of himself last night, maybe there was a way to work things out.
Hermione walked up to his door and gave a light tap………tap. She got no answer. She wondered whether or not she should just go into his room and see if he was still asleep. Hermione examined the possible outcomes of this action. Either Malfoy could be thankful that she had woken him up or he could already be up and is just fixing his hair, and would therefore get angry with her for barging in.
After much debate Hermione decided just to peek in. She twisted the doorknob as quietly as possible and made a crack in the doorway just big enough for her to slip her head in.
"Malfoy?" she whispered as she peered in.
Still getting no response she pushed the door open farther and stepped into the Slytherin's room.
Hermione spotted Draco curled up under all of his covers. She strode over to the edge of his bed and noticed how cute he was when he slept.
When Hermione finally processed what she had just thought, about Malfoy being cute, she didn't try to push the thought out of her mind. She liked the way his skin always seemed to glow because of his nice complexion, and the way his hair fell into his eyes when he didn't have it slicked back.
Hermione snapped back to reality and remembered why she was standing next to Malfoy in the first place. She now only had ten minutes until first period. If she didn't wake Malfoy up soon they would both be late! (The horror).
Hermione gently reached down and shook his shoulder. Malfoy started to stir but he just turned over and went right back to sleep.
"Draco" Hermione hissed "wake up!"
Malfoy's eyes fluttered and he finally awoke.
"Finally" Hermione whispered, "You're going to be late if you don't get up this instant!"
"Hermione? What are you doing in my room?" Draco questioned groggily.
"Oh my god!" Hermione shrieked.
"What?"
"You just called me Hermione, you've never done that before."
"I know, I decided last night that I would make an effort to be nicer to you since we are going to be stuck in the same common room".
"Okay, I guess I could try too" said Hermione.
"Okay"
They gave each other a weak smile.
"Shoot, now we're really going to be late for transfiguration. C'mon" said Hermione
Without thinking, Hermione reached down and grabbed Draco's hand in an attempt to pull him out of bed. When she realized what she had just done she immediately dropped his hand and blushed a deep shade of crimson.
"Sorry" she mumbled.
"Well I guess I made you miss breakfast" said Malfoy trying to change the subject.
"That's okay; I wasn't all that hungry anyways. Well, I'll be waiting in the common room for you."
"Oh you don't have to wait for me."
"It's no problem, just hurry please!"
"Okay, just let me do my hair."
With that Draco began to slick back his hair like always.
"No don't do that" Hermione said rushing over to him, "You look so much better with it down."
Hermione ruffled his hair up with her hand so that it hung in his face like it had the other day when she had seen him on the train.
"C'mon, you look fine" Hermione said as she pulled Draco out the door
A/N: Hope you liked this chapter! PLZ REVIEW!!!!
Soup: piece of advice: never tickle a sleeping dragon!