HMOH Chapter 2 – Oy! Too Much Drama

Everyone couldn't believe their ears. No one could believe that these former enemies had found love. Ha! Love, that's a good one. Thought Hermione as she stared at the expression on her friends' faces. She wanted to curl up in the corner and die. Harry was the first one to speak up.

"You're m-married?" He could barely think of this concept, much less speak it.

"Um, yeah. As of yesterday." She looked at her shoes as she said this.

"Wow." Ginny still had a shocked expression on her face. "Congratulations."

Hermione gave a weak smile. "Thanks." She looked at Ron, who still hadn't said anything. She could see the pain in his eyes. He wouldn't even look at her. They stood there for a few seconds without saying anything. But soon they were rudely interrupted by a shrieking voice.

"Draco Malfoy!" Draco turned around to meet the face of Pansy. "Tell me it's not true. Tell me this is just a horrible joke." Draco just stares at her. She goes on. "You didn't really marry her."

"Yup, I did."

"B-But..."

Hermione smiled. Maybe this marriage thing isn't a total loss. She thought.

"Sorry Pansy, but you gave up your chance last year." Draco said. "Remember, you said that you didn't need me anymore and you were madly in love with... whats-his-name." Pansy just stares at him.

"I didn't mean it. Draco come on, you can't possibly be married to that... that... that mudblood!" Draco looks insulted by this.

"Pansy, Hermione is my wife now. You cannot, will not, talk about her like that." He puts his arm around Hermione. "Now, apologize."

"But..."

Draco just looks at her. She sighs.

"I'm sorry." Hermione doesn't say anything to this. Pansy walks away in a huff. Hermione turns back to her friends.

"Well, you guys better be getting to your rooms before you get into trouble. I'll see you at dinner?" Harry can tell that something is wrong.

"Yeah, see you later." Harry said this as they all walked toward the Gryffindor common room. Hermione turns to Draco.

"What?" He asked.

"Why did you do that?" They walked towards the first years, who were just beginning to arrive.

"Do what?"

"Tell Pansy off like that. I thought she was your friend."

"She is my friend. But Granger, if we want people to believe that we are actually in love, we have to act like we're in love." She sighs at this.

"Yeah, I guess you're right."

"Of course I am, I'm always right." She sighs and they walk over to the first years.

A few hours later everyone walked into the Great Hall for dinner. Hermione and Draco were a little late because they had to finish up their head duties. They both thought it would be best for them to sit at their regular tables. Hermione spotted Harry and Ron and she quickly sat down by them.

"Hey Hermione!" Neville said with his mouth full. She smiled at this.

"Hello Neville. Hey guys."

Everyone that she hadn't already said 'hello' to said hi.

"So, Hermione is it true?" Parvati asked.

"Yes, are the rumors true? Are you married to Malfoy?" Lavender spoke up.

"Um, yeah. It's true." She didn't know what else to say.

"God, you are, like, the luckiest girl in the world." Parvati swooned.

"Yeah, you really are." Lavender stated. Hermione gave a half-smile. She looked at Ron, who was staring at his food. Harry could tell that they both needed to be talking about something else at this moment.

"So, does anyone know who the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is?" Harry said. Everyone, except Hermione, shook their head.

"His name is Professor Scott. I haven't met him, but he's supposed to be really nice. I heard he's in thirty's." Hermione said as she put some food on her plate.

"Wow, young." Ginny said.

"Yeah, but he's apparently very good at his work." They went into their conversations. About fifteen minutes later, Hermione found herself looking over at the Slytherin table. Little did she know that Ron was looking at her.

"Why don't you just go over there?" He spat at her.

"What?" She asked.

"All you're doing is staring at him, just go sit with him."

"Ron, what are you talking about?"

"Why are you even sitting here, you know you want to go sit by him."

"No I don't, Ron, you guys are still my friends." Hermione couldn't believe what her best friend was saying to her.

"Yeah, I thought we were too." As he said this, he got up and left. Leaving Hermione almost in tears.

"I-I..." she couldn't say anything. She looked at Harry and got up and ran out of the hall. Draco saw this and got up. Harry started to get up.

"I'm gonna go check on her." Ginny stopped him.

"I don't think you'll have to." Harry sighed as Draco left the hall after Hermione. He quickly followed her to their common room. She was sitting on the couch, tears rolling down her face. He sat down next to her. She looked up.

"What are you doing here?" She asked him.

"Well, I saw you leave the Great Hall and I just wanted to... um, to..." He started to stare at his shoes.

"You wanted to check on me?"

"Well, yeah." He looked her in the eyes.

"Oh."

There was silence for the next few minutes.

"Do you, um, wanna talk about it?" Draco spoke up.

"Do you want to listen?" Hermione looked at him.

"Well, if you wanna talk...um, I'll listen."

Hermione looked at him. Why is he being so nice? She thought to herself. She sighed.

"It's just this whole thing with Ron. He's just upset about this whole thing."

"Well, It's Weasley. What do you expect?"

"Draco! Stop! He's my friend." Hermione was almost in tears again.

"Okay, okay. I'm sorry."

Hermione sighed again.

"God, why did it have to be us? Why were we the ones who had to get married?"

Draco sighed and stood up.

"Because it's the only way the war can really be stopped."

"I know, but why couldn't it be another pair?"

"Because we're enemies. If people can see that two total enemies can become friends, and even fall in love with each other, then maybe they'll see that the war is pointless."

"I know, but..." She sighed, "I don't know, I just hope I didn't totally screw things up with Ron."

Draco doesn't say anything. She stands up and walks to her room.

"I'm going to bed." She said

"Okay."

"Um, thank you."

"No problem."

She gave a slight smile and walked into her room. Draco sat back down on the couch. What the hell is going on with me? He thought to himself. Is it possible that I am actually falling for Granger? No! There's no way! He stood up and walked into his room and got into his bed. Anyway, there's no was she'd ever fall in love with me.