Mommy: Why didn't you write that stupid 'D' thing on your fic?
Me: I'm lazy mom. (Mommy started to open her mouth to speak) Fine, I'll write that now.
Policeman: Too late, some of your readers had already reported to us that you didn't put that 'D' thing on. Let's get going... (pulls Me into the police car while she yelled madly, "WHO?! WHO BETRAYED ME? ARGH!")
Me: AHH!!! (Woke up from nightmare)
So you see? I still have to write that 'D' thing down!
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter! Now, get off my back!
Enjoy...
She let go off his hand instantly and blushed. With an inaudible muttered 'Sorry', she ran out of the dungeon and to her next class, Defense Against the Dark Arts. 'Phew! Luckily no Slytherins are in this class. Only Gryffindors.'
But how wrong she was...
Chapter 4: Lessons to Attend on First Day of School Part 2
"Harry! Ron! Why didn't you both wait for me just now?" Hermione asked while hurrying onto the changing staircase the boys were currently on.
"Careful, Hermione." Cautioned Harry as he she jumped from the landing onto the stairs. "You might just slip and fall! For goodness sake, do take care."
"I will, thanks." Hermione said as Harry lent her a helping hand and pulled her up to the step Ron's on.
Ron was watching the exchange between the both of them before stating that the staircase had reached the landing and requested the three of them to hurry to the classroom.
"By the way, had any of you seen the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for this year?" inquired Hermione.
"I dunno. Best not let that Roonie continue as the teacher. I had had enough of him last year." Ron ranted on the previous DADA teacher. Professor Roonie had been quite good to the trio but was a bit strange in some ways... (and I will not continue with this Roonie, he's nothing significant) They continued to walk to the classroom.
Once there, Ron and Harry took their seats together and Hermione was left alone, again, because of Parvati. She decided to find another partner, after this class, to sit with for the lessons.
For the second time of the day, she felt a rush of air from beside her and turned to find the same Malfoy she had for the first lesson in her last year in Hogwarts. 'Hell!'
"Why are you here?" She asked with suppressed irritation.
"Why am I here?" He repeated her question with a smirk. "You mean you don't know?" Draco hissed seductively into her ears while sitting down next to her. Hermione shivered. "We, Slytherins, are combining classes with you, Gryffindors, because Professor Sprouts was ill and we had no Herbology to attend for the time being. Professor McGonagall had it postponed and told us to attend Defence Against the Dark Arts first and after lunch, we'll have our Herbology back. Do you understand?"
"Why can't you go to another class first?" asked Hermione. It's going to be a long dreadful day.
From behind, Ron and Harry saw everything and put two and two together (2 plus 2 equals to 4) before they winked at each other. 'That Malfoy...' They thought slyly.
Not long after that, a tall, black-haired woman entered the classroom and introduced herself as Professor Dong. She was slim and spoke fluent English though she had the looks of an Asian.
"Ok class. Let's get started." She boomed in her cheery voice as she looked at the class list and some notes in her hands. "I see that Professor Roonie had covered all the areas of legal curses in duelling and how to counter them. And... Wow, you all learnt about all the Dark Artifacts already? I learnt that only when I was in... Um, I forgot when. But difficult things they were." Then, she plopped down the things in her hands and went on with the class before she realized that there were a more than usual amount of students in her class. "Why is it that there's so many of you here? I suppose I should only be having the Gryffindors now? May I have a representative for the Slytherins to tell me why the group is here?"
Draco, being the best verbaliser in the Slytherins seventh year, volunteered himself and was making his long boring explainations on the topic: 'Why the Slytherins were there?'
It was incredible how he could lengthen the explainations hundred time its original length which was only forty-eight words long.
The time ticked away and finally when he was done, Tang was only left with half an hour to teach. The lesson was very dull (and so was the chapter), they were practically reading texts from the book all the time. 'I wonder why Dumbledore hired her as the teacher. She's so boring.' thought Hermione with a yawn. Even she could not stand Tang and she don't know why. She had been the best student in every class! She could even pay attention to Professor Binns, so why not Tang? Weird.
Time's up! It's lunch already. The time for the morning seemed to have passed slower than usual, especially during DADA and during the Malfoy's crappings and snorings. (yes, he fell asleep in class) Hermione made her way to the Great Hall to eat and not to forget, find a Gryffindor partner.
"Lavender! Can you sit with me during lessons? Parvati's not here anymore…" Hermione said when she caught sight of Lavender in the crowd of students flooding into the Hall.
Quirking an eyebrow up, Lavender questioned, "Who told you that Parvati's not here anymore? She was just sick! I think she would be back by today's dinner... She merely got herself food-poisoned during the train ride here." And she left.
'What? This is ridiculous, who's the one gossiping about Parvati and said that she left the school? Oh my Hermione! When did you start believing in gossips of other girls?'
Hermione realized that she changed. Quite a lot. She had been taller, slimmer, hair less fizzy, tanner, less attentive in class (but still brighter), more attractive, fiercer and not to mention richer. Her parents just got very wealthy after they clinched a big deal for their dental clinic, thus, giving more allowance to their dearest only daughter. Oh, and she also changed to believe in gossips. Sigh. How very infuriating!
"Oy, Granger! Had a good day so far? See you. Be sure to be in the Common Room by nine tonight. There's something I had to tell you." Draco was walking over to the Slytherin's table when he saw Hermione and decided to greet her before continuing on his way.
'Good day my foot!'
The Girls Prefect Bathroom was such an enjoyment. Now, she just had to get back to the common room to dry her hair and she could take her work to the Gryffindor Common Room to finish with Harry and Ron.
Why would anybody want to stay in the same room as a Malfoy if they could avoid it?
"Not foes" She muttered the password which was changed by Professor McGonagall earlier on and pushed pass the curtains at the entrance of the door to make her way into the common room. Once she stepped on the carpet of the room, she saw a Malfoy standing just outside his room. He had his back facing Hermione and was half naked (only the top half's naked, pervs).
"... ... ..." Hermione heard him muttering something which she did not catch.
"Ahem!" Hermione announced her own arrival and walked straight to her room.
"Granger, McGonagall just left."
"Oh really? What did she say? Told you to eat shit?"
"Granger, we agreed to be friends." He said seriously.
"Then why must you keep coming to me the whole day?" She finished and turned around to face him. It was then that she realised how close she was to him. Their noses were merely two or three inches apart.
"Hey, I got close to you to get to know you better, but you don't seem to understand that." He smirked.
"Yea right. Get close! Must you get this close?" She could feel her face warming up, she must be blushing!
He laughed but still did not back away. Instead, Draco moved an inch more towards her, causing her to step backwards. They continued moving like this until Hermione finally reached her door but was leaning her back against it. Not the way she wanted. She tried stretching her hand to the door but the doorknob would not turn. She remembered spelling her door to open only to her wand (and also another key). But now, her wand was in her pile of robes which was left a feet away on the ground as she dropped it there while retreating from Draco.
"Why can't I get this close?" An eyebrow went swiftly up and down. "Scared again?" He smirked again and leaned closer again.
"You just go away! I don't want to punch you again. I'm giving you one last chance to BACK OFF!" She yelled in his ears.
"Shut it, bitch!" Draco glared. "You took liberty of me today, so I want to get back at you. Don't you think that I'm just being fair?"
"What? You thought that was on purpose? Maybe you placed your hand there yourself. Maybe you wanted me to touch your stinking hand so that you could get to feel my hand too!" She stuck out her tongue and held up her hands to push him away, but how could she use strength to defeat someone who had been training for Quidditch since Year Two in school?
"Why, just a kiss won't hurt, will it?" Draco asked impatiently. "It's an offer all girls would die for!"
"There's always an exception, Malfoy! Go away! I'll sue you. Do you understand?"
"No, I don't." Then, he his face twisted into a grin. It grew wider and wider before he burst out laughing and crouched down on the floor. Finally, he let go of Hermione.
"You're such an idiot!"
"Can't you take a small little joke?" called Draco from behind Hermione as she went to pick her things up.
"Well, that was a nice 'small little joke'! Grow up!" She then slammed the door to her room.
Knock, Knock...
"Argh!" Hermione stood up to get the door. "What now?"
"Just thought I'd drop in to say hi and have a cup of tea with you." Draco said teasingly. "Actually," He continued in a more serious tone when he saw the face of Hermione contort into anger and looked angry enough to just slam the door into his face. "I'm just here to inform you about the Inter-House Gaming Day."
"Beg your pardon?"
"It's the Inter-House Gaming Day. This year will be the first year the school's starting this. You heard Dumbledore today, he said that this year will be a busy year to promote Inter-House relationships."
"Who told you about this thing?" She asked unbelievably.
"McGonagall. Didn't I say she came just now?"
"Oh..." Hermione let out.
"So?"
"So what?"
"So when do you have the time to plan for the day. And we'd better don't kill each other during the plannings." He received a glare for this so he added, "that was from McGonagall!" Draco had to defend himself.
"Fine. I guess we have to start now. I was only flipping through pages of the book, to revise a bit. When is it starting?.."
The pair of them went on with their discussion as they went to the table infront of the fireplace and settled there.
They had finished discussing the otuline of the day's events, the things needed and some more miscellaneous things when the clock struck twelve midnight.
"So... I guess that's all for today. Tomorrow, same time?" Draco asked, smiling at Hermione as he gathered the pieces of parchments with details of the IHGD.
Hermione, who was also gathering the parchments, grinned back at him and replied, "That's fine with me..." She looked at him and shifted her attention from his face to his still-naked chest. It looked so smooth and alluring... Hey, wait.
'Damn. I'm blushing again.' Hermione stood up. "I got to turn in. Um, is it alright to leave the rest of the parchments and things to you? Please? Thank you." She asked and thanked without looking at him. Then, she got back to her room.
'Aww... She's so cute when she do that blushing...' Came Angel's voice.
'Yea... I agree.' Draco nodded to himself and Angel. They continued sharing the precious moments with Hermione sweetly and ignored Devil completely.
'Don't you think she might have fallen for me as well?' Draco asked Angel dreamily.
'Hey, I thought so too. The way she looks at you...'
'I thought she always glared at me?'
'No no. Not just now. Didn't you notice her eyes which always found her way to yours during the plannings?'
'Oh... That. I'm so glad. I think I would have a very good night's sleep tonight. Wait. Do you think I should start wooing her?'
'Sure! Why not?'
They plotted on how to woo a Granger... There were romantic attempts, lame attempts, would-be-embarrassing attempts and many more... But they still had not decided on which to use for the next day, so Draco could not fall asleep thus, could not dream of Hermione...
The End
for chapter 7 only
Or do you really want me to end the story here?
A/N: And so, they are friends already! Anyways, I find this chapter is pretty plain and boring.
Stay Tuned!
With a lot more Love,
fionger