A/N: Chapter two! Read and Review!
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Immediately, Hermione went looking for Harry and Ron to tell them the good news. When she finally found them, they were in a carriage together with most of the other seventh year boys.

"Guess what," said an obviously delighted Hermione.

"Parvati's engaged," said Neville Longbottom.

"How did you know?" she asked confused.

"Everyone knows, it's spreading like wild fire," said Dean

Hermione looked around at the group of young men gathered before her. She noticed the looks of worry on their faces. She couldn't help thinking they were nervous.

"Well then why the long faces?" she asked, "I thought you would be happy."

"We are happy," said said an obviously not Ernie Macmillan, "for her. But not for us."

Now Hermione was confused. What was going on?

"Im sorry, but I don't understand. Your happy for Parvati, but not for you, why?" she asked looking around

"You see, because Parvati's engaged, alot more girls are going to want to get engaged too. It's the next obvious step after this year. After all we are graduating. We're supposed to get married and start a family. But we're not ready for that yet," said the ever calm Anthony Goldstein.

Hermione couldn't help it, she started laughing. "You think that because Parvati's engaged, then your girlfriends are going to what to be aswell?" she asked looking at the nodding heads around her. "Well that's ridiculous. Not everyone wants to get married right after graduation you know. Who ever said you're supposed to, you decide what you want no one else. I know I'm not getting married after graduation."

"That's the thing Hermione, your different. Your not like the other girls. You don't even have a boyfriend. No one expects you to be married until your thirty," said Ron matter-of-factly.

Hermione didn't know whether to be offended by this comment or not. So she merely told them not to worry and walked out of the compartment.

She started thinking about what Ron said as she walked down the corridor. It was true. She didn't have a boyfriend. She knew she wasn't totally unfortunate looking, but she also knew that because she was smart, alot of guys were intimidated by her. She didn't know if she should be proud of this or sad. Everyone thought of her as a bookworm. No one looked at her like she deserved to be loved. She sighed, Ron was right. By this rate, she'll be lucky if she's married at thirty.

Hermione was so deep in thought that she didn't notice the person walk out of the compartment in front of her.

"Woah," she said as she bumped into them and fell to the ground.

The person turned around and helped her up. "Thanks," she said, "I'm sorry about that."

"Don't worry about it," came the deep voiced reply.

Hermione's eyes widened in shock as she recognised the voice. She looked up and met the grey eyed gaze of Draco Malfoy. By the looks of things, he had grown aswell. He now towered over her. Gone was the small, runty boy of previous years. Here was the handsome, strong young man.

"Malfoy!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Granger!" Draco exclaimed.

Their eyes made their way down the front of each others robes. They stopped at the silver badges pinned there. Their suspicions were confirmed.

"Well, this is going to be an interesting year," they both said in unison.

A/N: I know, short chapter. Sorry! Longer one next time! Remember, click the blue review button!