Hey! Here's the next chappy! I hope you don't all hate me too much for that wonderful cliffy I left you last time. Hehe. But anyways, here's the chapter!
Draco stopped grinding and Hermione stopped too. Draco was looking towards the person with brown eyes. Hermione looked at Draco and followed his eyes. When she saw Kevin coming towards them she looked confused.
"What the hell are you doing?" Kevin screamed, loud enough for people to stop what they were doing and look at them.
"Why do you care what we were doing?" Draco said, pushing Hermione out of the way.
"You stay out of this, pretty boy." Kevin said turning towards Hermione. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Why the hell do you care what I'm doing?" Hermione said, really angry. "It's not like I'm going with you or anything."
"But he's a fricken Slytherin!" Kevin shouted.
"And you're a fucking asshole!" She shouted back at him.
"But at least I'm in your house!" He said looking hurt.
"Well, at least Draco isn't a pompous ass like you are!" Their shouting match was attracting a crowd.
"Maybe we should take this somewhere else." Draco said.
"This doesn't fucking concern you." Kevin said as he went to raise a fist.
"If it concerns Hermione, it sure as hell concerns me. And anyway, there's no reason to be pissed off at her for dancing with me." Draco said.
"You're a Slytherin. Why would you all of a sudden care about Hermione unless you were trying to use her as a way to get to Harry Potter! You want you're dark lord back and you need to get to Harry first!" Kevin said.
"Ha Ha. That's a good one." Draco said laughing. Hermione was looking at Kevin like he had just eating candle wax. A smile slowly came to her face and she started to giggle. She soon started laughing. Gradually the people around them started laughing. Kevin looked like he had been stunned. He shot one nasty look at Draco and left. Everyone was still laughing and then they started to dance again.
"What was his problem?" Ron said as he came towards Draco and Hermione.
"Oh, nothing. He was just jealous that I choose Draco over him." Hermione said as she took Draco's hand.
"Yeah, is that so? Well, umm," Ron said looking uneasy. "I just came to tell you good night. Me and Lavender are leaving, so umm, night." Ron finished saying as Lavender came up behind him. She put her arm around his and gave Hermione a smile. Lavender had confessed to liking him in their fourth year during a game of truth or dare.
"Aww, that's so sweet." Hermione said. "Night Ron, Night Lavender!"
"Night!" The couple said in unison. They walked in sync to the door and were gone.
"That's so cute." Hermione told Draco. "Lavender's been trying to get Ron's attention for ages."
"Cool." Draco said uninterested. Another muggle song, Cotton-eyed Joe, came on and Hermione pulled Draco to the dance floor to learn it.
The time flew by for everyone at the dance and in no time fireworks could be heard from the ceiling. Everyone looked up and gasped. A hundred or so blankets, some big and some small, appeared on the floor. People started sitting down and looking up at the fireworks.
After a half hour the finale came to an end and everyone clapped. People headed towards their dorms and said good-bye to each other. Hermione and Draco came to a portrait of some long ago Head boy and girl.
"I'll see you tomorrow at classes." Hermione said. Draco went to kiss her, but Hermione pulled away and gave him a hug. 'What the hell do I keep doing wrong?' Draco thought to himself as he watched Hermione walk up the first floor steps. She was too beautiful and smart for him. She went for guys like Harry Potter. 'Not that I'm not smarter or better-looking then Potter. I'm the second in our year, an I am so much hotter than Potter.' He thought to himself.
"Yo, Draco, you comin'?" A voice appeared in his head. He turned around and Blaise was there with Pansy looking quite drunk. "I could use some help with her." Blaise said.
"Sure." Draco said as he went next to Pansy and hoisted her arm over his shoulder.
"Drakey-Poo! You know what? I need to tell you a secret." She said and leaned towards him. "I had a lot of punch. He He He!"
"I can tell." Draco told her as they walked towards their dormitories. Draco and Blaise called down a girl to take her to her dorm.
"Night Drakey!" Pansy said to Draco. Draco and Blaise just looked at each other, shook their heads, and laughed. They made their ways up to their dormitories, changed, and went to sleep.
The next morning Hermione woke up bright and early to get ready for classes. She took a shower and changed into her robes. She went into the common room and saw Ron and Harry talking by the fire when she came down the steps they came up and met her.
"You to are up early!" Hermione said.
"We took your advice this year and got up early." Harry said.
"I didn't want to get up though!" Ron said to Harry, who in return gave him a look.
"Well, let's go down to breakfast! I'm starved!" Hermione said. They walked out of the common and went down to breakfast. When they got in there Dumbledore was talking to McGonagall, and when Hermione walked in Dumbledore motioned for her to come over.
"You guys go sit down ok?" Hermione said as she made her way to the Headmaster. "Yes Headmaster?" She asked.
"I was hoping that you could pass out the schedules for your house. And get Mr. Weasley to help you." Dumbledore said as he handed her a hefty stack of paper.
"Umm, Professor, these papers are blank." Hermione said looking confused.
"Oh, right. They just need to say their year and tap it with their wand. Then their schedule will appear." McGonagall said. Hermione took the pieces of paper to their house table and told Ron what to do. They started passing out paper's to everyone who was there. In another ten minutes or so the whole house arrived and they were done passing out the schedules. Hermione sat down next to Ginny and across from Ron and Harry.
"Hermione, why are you sitting here?" Ginny asked.
"Oh, we only get to sit at that table during holiday's and special feasts. During normal days, only Head Boy and Girl get to sit up there, see?" Hermione said as she turned her head to the Head table, where she saw Kevin looking at her.
"Oh yeah, I see." Ginny said as she sustained a giggle.
"God, could these schedules BE any worse?" Harry said looking at their schedule.
"Year six." Hermione said and tapped the sheet of paper. This is what their schedule looked like-
8:00 Potions
9:00 Divination
10:00 Defense against Dark Arts
10:00 Ancient Runes
11:00 Lunch
12:00 Transfiguration
1:00 Muggle Studies
2:00 Charms
2:00 Arithmacy
"Ah! Bloody hell! All our classes are with Slytherin!" Ron said angrily.
"Well, Slytherin isn't all that bad you know." Hermione said as she shot Ron daggers. Ron was quiet, as well as Harry. They started eating again. After about ten minutes Ron broke the silence.
"I don't get it. How do you know what classes to take?" Ron said confused.
"Well, you go to whatever classes you're taking at the times they say." Hermione said simply.
"Oh, I get it." Ron said.
"Yeah, well, we'd better get to class before Snape flips out on us." Harry said as he stood up and grabbed his bag.
"Buh Imm eatinnn." Ron said with a mouthful of food.
"That's really disgusting Ron." Hermione said.
Ron quickly chewed and swallowed his food. He got up, grabbed his bag, and walked to the door without looking back at Hermione. The trio walked out of the Great Hall and towards the dungeons. When they got to the classroom the door was actually open. They walked in and saw a seating chart.
"Oy! That's just typical!" Ron said. "I'm with Crabbe!"
"And I'm with Goyle." Harry said as he made a face that looked like remarkably like Goyle's. Hermione made a face and laughed out loud. "Who do you have Herms?" Harry asked as Hermione was doubling over. Hermione took a couple quick breaths to calm her. She looked at the list and a small gasp, followed by a smile, escaped her.
"What?" Ron asked. "Who do you have?"
"Oh, no one." Hermione said with a slightly bigger smile. She took her seat and so did Ron and Harry. Draco walked in followed by his two goons Crabbe and Goyle. Draco looked at the seating chart and smiled. He turned to Hermione and smiled. She, of course, had hidden under a book and pretended not to see. Draco told Crabbe and Goyle where to sit. They grunted and sat next to both Harry and Ron, flexing their muscles.
"Why, hello there, partner." Draco said as he slid into his seat. He bumped Hermione slightly.
"Hi Malfoy." Hermione said without even a glance. She was more deeply hidden under the book and he couldn't see her smiling.
"What? What'd I do?" Draco asked looking worried. Before Hermione could say anything Snape walked in.
"Settle down, settle down." Snape said even though everyone got completely silent the moment he walked into the door. Draco slumped in his seat and stared strait ahead. Hermione looked over at him and started to apologize but Snape started talking again.
"This is the N.E.W.T. class of Potions. If you did not get an 'Outstanding' on your O.W.L.'s test then you shouldn't be here." Snape said. A few people including Crabbe and Goyle got up and left.
"Then why'd you tell them where to sit, Professor?" Draco asked.
"Because I knew they would come in here even though they all only got 'acceptable' or something lower, like 'troll'." Snape said. "Anyway, we need to get started with our first potion. This one usually comes up on the exams. It's called the Mindolous potion. You and your partner will brew it together. You will give me each a piece of hair after the potion is complete. Then I will randomly partner you up and you will drink the potion. Does everyone understand? Good." Snape said without stopping. He flicked his wand toward the board. "Directions are on the board. This potion will take about two months to brew. Get to work."
The directions appeared on the board. Draco read them and then turned to Hermione.
"Well, we'd better get started." He said glumly.
"Draco! Listen…" Hermione started to say.
"No, you don't need to explain. You can snog your precious boyfriend, Kevin. See if I care." Draco said, interrupting her. He went up to the cupboards and grabbed the supplies. He handed half of them to Hermione and got to work chopping his up. 'What does Kevin have that I don't have? We seemed perfectly fine last night, and yesterday for that matter.' Draco's thoughts swirled with questions as he started to cut up his roots.
Hermione had been watching him for some time. At first his roots looked perfect. 'I never knew Draco cared so much about this class. It's not like he isn't the second wizard in our class.' She thought to herself. After about three minutes he started getting sloppy.
"Draco, you ok?" Hermione asked.
"None of your business, mudblood." Draco shot her a glance and got back to cutting. His roots were less than perfect now and his hand was shaking so bad he cursed. 'What's up with me today? I can't let a woman, none less a mudblood, do this to me.'
'But she's not a mudblood, remember?' a little voice from the back of his head said.
'Right, old habit, I guess.' Draco thought to himself. He looked down at his roots and was mad. They were in all sorts of weird shapes. He threw his knife down and lay his shaking hands on the table. He lifted his head up and looked towards the ceiling.
Hermione was still watching him. She slid her hand into his closed up shaking fist. With her fingers she opened his hand up and pressed her fingers next to his..
Draco was looking up at the ceiling when he felt a hand in his. It opened up his fist and spread out his fingers. He stopped looking at the ceiling and looked down at his hands, then at Hermione. She was watching him intently as she closed her fingers around his. She was holding his hand. Draco used his instincts and closed his hand around hers. Their eyes met and they pulled apart right as someone was clearing their throats.
When they turned around they saw Ron and Harry behind them. Harry was cutting up roots, but Ron was just sitting there, looking down at his hands. 'What's up with him?' Hermione wondered to herself as she shrugged and turned around. She flashed Draco a movie star smile and got to work. By the time class ended they had gotten the farthest.
"Good job." Professor Snape said. "20 points to Slytherin."
"What about me?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, right. 10 points to Gryffindor." Snape said as he turned to yell at Ron for sitting there and doing nothing.
"So what are you doing next period?" Hermione wondered as she turned to him.
"Oh, I'm, umm, free. I mean I don't have any classes." Draco said.
"That's cool. What're training to be?" Hermione asked.
"Auror." Draco said simply.
"That's cool, me too."
"I guess we'll be having classes together then, right?"
"Yup." Hermione said with a smile. The bell rang and Snape released them. Hermione and Draco started heading towards the library, but were stopped by Harry and Ron.
"Hey Hermione!" Harry said. "We were going to go down to Hagrid's, wanna come?"
"Well, actually Harry…" Hermione started to say. She looked at Draco.
"Go on, it's cool. I'll see you next period." Draco said to Hermione, pushing her towards the door.
"Bye." Hermione said as she looked back at him.
They walked through the grounds to Hagrid's hut. There were students all around his hut and most of them looked scared.
"Third years." Hermione said. "Maybe we should go and try to help him out."
Hermione, Ron, and Harry went over to Hagrid and asked if they could help.
"Yes, please!" Hagrid pleaded.
They all got to work helping students with their pictures of blast-ended skrewts. They stayed there until the bell rang to signal class was over. They helped everyone clean up and said good bye to Hagrid. The 'Golden Trio' walked up the stairs to Defense Against Dark Arts, laughing the whole way. When they got to the door they stopped laughing and walked in.
"Good Morning." Came a cool voice from the teacher's desk. Hermione, Ron, and Harry looked up to see a women leaning against the wall. "I'm Professor Felton, the new Defense Against Dark Arts teacher. The seating chart is over there." Professor Felton said, pointing to the board. Hermione started to walk over there, but Harry was in her way. She stared at him and he was staring at Professor Felton.
"Psst, Harry, you can move now." Hermione whispered to him. He jumped, as if being pulled out of a trance, and hit Ron. Ron jumped just like he did. Hermione grabbed the two boys hands and walked over to the board.
"I think the seating chart is the same in all of our classes." Hermione said, as she was the first to reach the board. She was once again paired with Draco. She went and took her seat next to Draco.
"Hey." She said to him. He didn't say anything. He was looking at the new Professor, as were all of the boys in the class. Hermione turned to Lavender and said "What's up with them?"
"I don't know, but it's really starting to bug me." Lavender replied she turned towards Ron and repeatedly said his name. When he didn't say anything she turned to Hermione and shrugged.
"So are you two going out now?" Hermione asked. Lavender blushed and nodded.
"Yeah, he asked me last night after we left." Lavender said. Then her voice became hushed. "At around 2 in the morning when everyone was asleep I went up there and we were spooning."
"What?" Hermione asked.
"Oh, it's just a muggle term I picked up in America. That means when he's laying one way and then I lay that same way so he can put his arms around me. It was really cute."
"Aww! I'm so happy for you. You've been trying to get him to notice you for ages now." Hermione said.
The bell rang before Lavender could say anything. The class started with the boys drooling over Felton. The girls chose to ignore this and there partners.
The rest of their classes went by fast. Hermione went strait to the common room to do her homework, and help the boys with theirs. Soon they found themselves getting ready for bed.
"Good night Ron. Good night Harry." Hermione said as she headed up to her room.
"Night Hermione!" the boys said together.
Hermione went up to her dorm and changed into her favorite blue silk pajamas. She went to sleep with thoughts of Draco on her mind.
Down in the Dungeons, Draco was getting ready for bed as well. Blaise came over to talk to him just as he was ready to sleep.
"Hey, man, I need to talk to you." Blaise said seriously.
"What's up?" Draco asked. Blaise started wringing out his hands and cracking his muscles.
"Ok. I really like this girl, since 4th year. But our house would totally crucify me if they found out, because she's in Gryffindor. Unless, someone stood behind me on this one. Like maybe, the Slytherin Prince himself?" Blaise said.
"So you want me to risk MY reputation, just so you can get some?" Draco asked.
"Like I haven't done it for you before." Blaise said.
"True, true." Draco said with a smirk.
"But, anyway, she means more to me than just a one night stand. She's not the kind of girl that would do that." Blaise said almost dreamily.
"Yeah, sure man, whatever." Draco said. It wasn't until he was in his bed and half asleep that he thought to ask who it was.
When he did, Blaise sleepily replied "Hermione Granger."
Ok there's the end of the chapter! I hope you guys like it. Thanks to everyone who reviewed! And if I don't get around to updating until after Jan. 21st, it's because of those darn finals! Well, lots of love to everyone.
Til next chappy!
sara