Hogwarts Romance chapter 5
Next morning Hermione went down with Ron and Harry to eat breakfast. They sat down and three tables away, Draco who was in the middle of a bite of his toast, stopped and stared right in Hermione's eyes. She blushed to his amazement and pleasure. But she didn't turn away. Draco smiled and she smiled back! Draco hadn't been this happy for a very long time.
In the gryffindor's table Harry had noticed her smile.
"what are you smiling about?" he asked.
"oh, nothing." Hermione answered, looking down on her bacon and eggs.
"oh, yes you did." Harry said and looked over to the Slytherin table and saw Draco looking back at him.
"Ah, it was that prick Malfoy"
"Don't call him that!"
"What?"
"oh haven't you noticed? Hermy has a crush on Draco. And as far as I know he's pretty down in her too." Ron said abruptly.
Harry looked hurt, but Hermione started smiling again. Does my ears deceive me?, she thought. Could Draco possibly feel the same as her?
Ron mumbled something about Transfiguration and they went up the stairs towards the classroom, but when they stepped over the threshold McGonagall was nowhere to be seen. She came hurriedly through the door five minuets later and excused her self that she had been delayed by professor Snape who wanted to talk to her. But Hermione could tell by the rumpled up hair and the not so tidy robes that there had been more than talking going on.
She looked at Harry and Ron but neither of them was smiling. She had quite forgot to tell them about the two professors but started to whispered it now instead. All three of them started to giggle when Minerva discretely tried to flatten her hair and robes.
"What do you think is so funny?" McGonagall asked irritatedly.
"Oh, it was just this stupid joke about a wizard, giant and a house-elf, that Ron just told us", Harry said boldly. "Wanna hear?" he continued .
"Spare me." McGonagall responded crushingly.
She walked over to the blackboard and started scribbling something about how to transform a schnauzer into a small stool. Hermione copied that down of course and successfully transformed her exemplar into a neat wooden one with a upholstered seat.
"Catherdrium. Catherdrium!"
Ron's still ran around and barked while Harry's had a wavering tailunit.
"This is ridiculously hard, I don't see how you do it?" Ron cried. Hermione smiled with satisfaction.
" Don't encourage her." Harry muttered under his breath, loud enough for Ron to hear. Ron giggled until he got hiccups and had to excuse himself to the bathroom. The blue bubbles followed him all the way through the door.
The lesson ended briefly after that and Harry hurried towards the boys' bathroom since Ron yet hadn't left.
Next lesson was Herbology so Hermione decided to get there and wait for them until Ron's hiccups had settled. She was heading towards the oak-doors when someone pulled her arm into a nearby broom cupboard. Her heart stopped for a moment. Draco...