Authors Note: Yay! Next Chapter!

The airport was loud with the noise of many people returning from far of place or getting ready to leave. Hermione sat in a seat waiting to board while Draco had his noise pressed against the window entranced by the huge metal planes.

"So these 'things' actually fly?" asked Draco hardly buying any of it.

"Yes Draco, they do."

"Don't lie to me. How do they fly without magic? The whole thing is preposterous." He said that with his Malfoy arrogance returning.

"You fly a broom and your asking me how those fly!" Hermione laughed at him making him blush.

Draco finally had enough of staring out the window and came to sit beside Hermione. They of course had come quite early, with it being Hermione who was too organized to let them miss the flight. They had packed light, shrinking their trunks and only taking backpacks with a few things to make them look not so suspicious.

They waited in silence. Hermione was reading a novel called Harry Potter and the Sorcerers stone. A wizard had begun publishing Harry's adventures as children's novels. They were beginning to get quite popular. However, other than the main events none of it was completely true. At first she had wondered if it had been a good idea, but then she decided it probably would that way if muggles heard anything wizards said they would just think they were talking about the book.

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Draco sat silently beside Hermione while they waited to board the "plane".

This is so weird; I can't believe she is a pureblood. Why didn't she tell anyone? If I had known I wouldn't have made fun of her when I was young and ignorant. We could have been friends before now…if you can even call us that now. I guess it is more of a mutual agreement to be civil. How I wish I hadn't been so stupid to consider my dad as the closest thing to god, but it is too late now. At least I figured it out before he made me get the dark mark. What is she laughing at? What is so funny in that book…

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"What are you reading that's so funny?"

Still chuckling Hermione answers him, "It's a book about Harry that was released for muggles. I'm reading about the troll and how Ron and Harry 'saved' me."

"Everyone knows that you ran in there just in time to save Potter! Hey! Are they allowed to publish that kind of things for muggles, isn't too risky?"

"Well, it is just a children's book. They just think J.K. Rowling has an over-active imagination."

"Oh I see. So what does it say about me? That I'm terribly smart and devishly handsome?"

Hermione began to laugh even harder. "You are so full of yourself. Everything about you is pretty true. Everything about you is pretty true. You being a jerk and calling us names."

"Oh." Draco then became quite silent and stared out the window. Hermione realized what she had just said, she felt really bad because she knew he had changed. But she didn't want to bug him so she just let it be silent for a while.

Loudspeaker: "FLIGHT 203 TO ROME IS READY FOR BOARDING! SEATS 1-30 LINE UP FIRST!"

"Well that's us. Lets go Draco." Hermione got up and walked the front of the room where flight attendants were checking the barding passes, Draco followed quietly behind her. She got out their passes and handed them to the pretty women with long black hair.

"Everything seems to be in order. Have a nice flight Miss. Saphira and Mr. Malfoy." She smiled and gave them back their passes. Before they went through the door leading to the plane the women gave Draco a wink.

Draco burst out laughing as soon as they entered the hallway.

"What is so funny?"

"The women hit on me! It was funny, she is so old, like 30!"

"Oh come on I'm sure she didn't hit on you."

"She did!"

The two of them argued over it until they sat in their seats. It was a smaller plane because it wasn't that long of a flight to Rome. Hermione had given Draco the window seat because it was his first time. He sat there playing with the window cover pulling it up and down over and over.

"Would you stop that?" Hermione asked getting annoyed.

"Stop what? This?" He did it a couple more times.

"YES!"

"I don't think I want to…"

"DRACO MALFOY STOP THAT RIGHT NOW OR I'LL THROW YOU OFF THE PLANE, BUT NOT UNTILL WE ARE IN THE AIR!"

He looked at her nervously. "You can't actually do that…can you?"

"Yes and I will!" Hermione wasn't usually one for lying but it was really annoying.

" OK well maybe I'll stop then. So why does it have to be so cramped in here?"

"Oh stop complaining, it's only a couple of hours. Look we are beginning to move"

Draco looked out the window to see indeed that they were moving towards the runway. Hermione handed him a piece of gum telling him to chew it and explained it would help keep his ears from popping too much. Draco was actually really nervous about take off; he still didn't believe that it would fly. He braced himself as they plane started going faster. He closed his eyes sure that it would crash and end his life. A minute later Hermione tapped on his shoulder and he opened his eyes.

"Look Draco we are in the air!"

They were and Draco was amazed. It was so cool. He wondered why all wizards didn't travel like this. It was fun!

They had passed most of the plane ride in silence. They watched the movie that was playing, it happened to be Shrek 2. This also amazed Draco since he had never seen a movie before. He laughed hysterically telling Hermione that the donkey was his favorite and he liked the cat wearing boots. After the movie and sitting again in silence he asked her a question.

"Hermione?"

"Hmmm?"

"Can I ask you something?"

"I suppose so."

"Why don't you seem sadder about your parents? I always thought you'd be the person who would cry for months after someone died."

"I don't know, I am sad. I just had two months of crying, but after a while I realized I was wasting my life and my parents wouldn't want that. Besides I cried myself out. Although I do still cry sometimes at night…I really miss them." She became very quiet as she talked and looked like the topic would make her burst out into tears at any second.

"I didn't mean to upset you. I'm sorry."

"That's Ok, it's nice having someone to talk to. Why did you change?"

"Wow that was sudden…"

"Well so was yours" A small smile appeared on Hermione's face.

"Well…I guess I just realized I could be better than my father…and I didn't want to be just another dark lord follower."

"I see. Well if it makes you happy, I really like the new you."

Draco chuckled at the last comment. "Thanks."

Just then they felt the wheels of the Plane hit the ground.

Loudspeaker: "WELCOME TO ROME!"

Authors note: I hope that explains why their characters are like what they are. Please Reveiw!