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Chapter 2: Arriving

Hermione sat in the compartment with Ginny until they had reached Hogwarts. She had been more than willing to tell Ginny about everything that had happened and escape from sitting alone in a compartment with Malfoy. That was the thing she least wanted to do at the moment. Even though he had seen her do it before, she always got embarrassed when she cried in front of him. He probably thought she was weak. She had tried so much throughout all of her years at Hogwarts to forget her love for him, but now, as they were both heads, that would be very hard to do.

Malfoy sat there for a moment and allowed the tears to run down his face. He didn't care what he looked like anymore. He was way past that. Each time he had stopped crying, he thought of Hermione's face streaked with tears of anguish and hurt that he couldn't stop or protect her from which made him cry even more.

Just as Malfoy had finally stopped crying for good, the train stopped. They were finally at Hogwarts.

Emotions ran high for Hermione as she re-entered the Great Hall for the beginning of the year. It was lit with thousands of candles and the ceiling was bewitched to look like the starry night sky. It was so beautiful. Hermione heard two male voices calling out to her. She found that they were Harry and Ron's.

"Ron," she exclaimed as she broke out into a run, "Harry! I'm so glad to see you guys!"

"We're glad to see you too, Hermione," said Harry. Then he whispered, "Ron hasn't stopped talking about you all summer."

Ron, overhearing this, blushed furiously as his ears went red and he gazed upon Hermione. (A/N: Don't worry, this is a Draco Hermione fanfic.)

"Hello Ronald," Hermione said in her playful tone. She leaned up and kissed him on the cheek and as she did so, he turned even more red than he already was if that was possible.

"Hi Hermione," Ron replied in a very shy voice as if he spoke any louder, Hermione would vanish. Just as they were sitting down, Dumbledore walked in the Great Hall.

"Good evening students. I'm looking forward to another great and exciting year here at Hogwarts." He then sighed, "I'm also quite sad that some of our most talented students will be leaving this year and going on to their jobs out in the wizarding world. We hope we have prepared them well. While I am on the subject, I would like to introduce our new head boy and girl. Head boy this year is Draco Malfoy."

Draco stood up from his place at the Slytherin table and turned around so everyone could see him. The Slytherin house table cheered very loudly, but no one else seemed to. Draco smirked and then sat down.

"Our head girl this year is Hermione Granger."

Hermione stood up and looked around. The whole Great Hall, except the Slytherin table of course, erupted in cheers. Everyone was so happy for Hermione. She felt that all of her hard work over the past six years had finally payed off. She sat down as Ron patted her on the back. Dumbledore made a few more announcements, but no one was paying attention because they were all so hungry. Once he was done, he clapped his hands together twice and the feast appeared on the plates before them.

They all ate until they were extremely full and very sleepy. Professor McGonagal called Hermione and Draco over to her once most of the people had left the Great Hall.

"Since you are head boy and girl," she said, "You will have your own rooms."

Hermione and Malfoy followed the Professor through twists and turns of the building until they finally reached a dead end. On the stone wall in front of them was a very small picture of a lion with a snake wrapped around it. If you weren't looking at it hard enough, you wouldn't have even known it was there.

Professor McGonagal turned around to face Malfoy and Hermione. "Head girl gets to choose the password."

It took Hermione a moment before she decided on what she wanted to be the password. "Crookshanks," she finally said, picking her cat's name as the password.

Malfoy was about to make a comment on the password she'd chosen, but the wall that was just in front of them disappeared and they saw their common room. It was beautiful, decorated in colors of scarlet, gold, green, and silver. Everything was magnificent. Neither Hermione nor Malfoy could find anything to say. Professor McGonagal turned and left to let them explore their new living space. They each walked up to their rooms, which were decorated exactly as they would have dreamed it. The only problem with all of this was that they shared a bathroom.

I know that chapter didn't really have much to it, but I promise the next one will be better.