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Kate stared at Draco, shocked that he could be so nasty. He had just deeply insulted her new friends, and would have insulted her if he had not recognized her at the last moment. Yesterday he was so nice and kind to her, but this Draco was a completely different person.

Draco was quite surprised to see Kate staring back at him. He came into the compartment and started to taunt the Golden Trio, just like he always did, when he saw her. Why would she be sitting with them? He had told her to stay away from them, and there was no doubt that her mother and father must have told her to keep away from Harry Potter. Yet here she was, sitting in their compartment, chatting with them as if it was the most normal thing in the world. Now she was staring at him with a look of hurt, betrayal, and even disgust on her face.

"Kate. What are you doing in here?" Draco questioned.

"What does it look like? I am obviously sitting here, talking with my friends. Or at least I was until you came in and so rudely interrupted us," Kate replied coldly.

Draco was amazed that Kate, who seemed so quiet and soft spoken yesterday, was now quite strong willed and headstrong. She certainly knew how to stand up for herself. "Well, I forgive you Kate. You must not have known the filth that you are sitting with; Potter, Weasel- face, and that garbage Granger. They are not fit to be your servants, let alone your friends."

"Excuse me? Don't you dare presume to tell me who I can befriend, and who I can't. You have no such right to dictate how I shall live my life. Yesterday, you may have had me fooled in believing that you were a gentleman, but now I see that you are nothing more than an arrogant git who believes that he is better than everyone else simply because his family is pure blooded." Kate announced, glaring at the blonde boy in front of her. Harry, Hermione, and Ron were all mesmerized by the scene that was unfolding in front of them.

His sparkling blue eyes turned into steely silver as he replied, "You call me arrogant? That whole speech sounded quite snobby to me."

"You want to know what, Draco Malfoy? The very sight of you disgusts me. Get out of here now, or I swear that I will hex you!" Kate stated, with her hands on her hips and her wand out to emphasize her point.

Draco slowly turned around and walked out of the train compartment. Kate sank back into her seat next to Harry.

"How do you know Malfoy?" Harry asked Kate after a few moments silence.

"The Malfoy's are old family friends. Our parents went to Hogwarts together when they were younger. Yesterday they came over to welcome us into our new home and Draco and I talked for a little while," Kate explained to her friends.

Ron cringed at hearing this and said, "Wow. You are friends with the Malfoy's? You are friends with Draco? How could you stand it? I would have gone mad."

"Yes, well, we are not all as thick as you, Ron," Hermione finally spoke up.

The rest of the trip past without incident until Kate decided to change into her robes. Hermione told her to just go to the bathroom to change, so Kate followed her advice.

When she put on her robe, she smiled at her appearance. The Hogwarts robes were black, which was Kate's favorite color. At her old school in New York, which was an all girls academy, the school robes were pink. Kate abhorred pink, and the robes were in a particularly horrid shade of pastel pink.

As soon as Kate walked out of the bathroom door, a strong hand grabbed her, and dragged her into an empty compartment. Before she had a chance to scream, another hand was clamped over her mouth. Her captor spun her around, and Kate found herself staring t none other than Draco Malfoy.

"Listen to me, Kate. I just want to talk with you," Draco said quietly and calmly.

Kate managed to free herself from his grip. "You wanted to talk to me so you kidnap me instead? Oh, that is real nice, Draco. You're a real gentleman."

"I just wanted to talk with you before we arrived at school. I was afraid that if I asked you to talk with me, you would laugh in my face," Draco explained.

"How could you think such a thing? Do you think me heartless and cruel?" Kate replied, still glaring angrily at Draco.

"Of course not. It is simply that you seem rather unpredictable, and I did not know if it would provoke rejection from you," Draco said. Kate mumbled something under her breath, and Draco said, "What did you say?"

Kate responded with a look of innocence on her face, "All I said was that at least I was not the one who was being quite rude not too long ago."

Draco sighed in exasperation. Kate would obviously not drop the subject. "Listen, Kate, I'm sorry. Alright? I am apologizing. It is just that Potter and I have been enemies ever since the first day on the train. Weasel face has always been hot tempered, so we never got along either."

"What about Hermione? What is your prejudice against her?" Kate questioned.

"Well, it is just that she is a mudblood. She is a filthy mudblood. Surely you knew that! Why would you befriend such scum?" Draco answered accusingly.

Kate glared at Draco in disgust. "Perhaps I befriended her because she is nice, and because I am not a prejudiced pig like you are."

"I already apologized. I mean, I'm sorry that you are offended that your friends and I don't exactly get along, but there is nothing more that I can do. We just don't get along, okay? Anyways, do you honestly want the truth? If I wasn't the one who came in to insult them, they would have come to insult me. So I'm sorry that you don't like it, but we just don't get along. That is something that you are just going to have to live with," Draco declared, carefully watching Kate's reaction. He expected her to yell, or perhaps even slap him, but instead she just shrugged her shoulders.

"Alright. I know what you mean. However, they are still my friends, so I am going to ask you to be polite when I am with them. Can you handle it?" Kate asked Draco.

Draco's pale face was etched with annoyance s he agreed, "Fine, but do I have to be polite?"

"You do not have to go out of your way to be courteous and polite, but I do expect you to at least treat them with civility. That means that you must not make any rude comments or insults." Kate said as she stuck out her hand.

Draco clasped Kate's warm hand as he replied, "Fine, you win. I promise that I shall be civil."

Suddenly, the train came to a quick halt. The suddenness of the stop made Kate fall backwards, right into Draco's strong arms. She felt different, at ease while she was in his arms. She felt like he could protect against anything.

Draco was surprised when Kate fell into his arms. Shockingly, he didn't push her off of him, like he would have if anyone else had fell into his arms. A few moments passed by until he cleared his throat. Kate immediately stood up, her fair cheeks turning red with embarrassment.

"Sorry about that. I never did have good balance," Kate apologized, not looking Draco in the eye.

"That's alright. Anyway, I believe that we just arrived at Hogwarts," Draco replied warmly.

Kate's eye's lit up when Draco told her that she had finally arrived at Hogwarts. "You mean we are actually here? We are actually at Hogwarts?"

"Well, we are at Hogsmeade Station, but we just have a short ride in the carriages, and we will be at Hogwarts." Draco said.

"Good bye, Draco, I really should go and find Harry, Hermione, and Ron. I suppose that I shall see you soon, though. Farwell." Kate told Draco as she slowly started to walk away and get off the train.

Authors note: Thank you to ALL THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK THE TIME OUT TO REVIEW. Sorry it took so long to update, but I got grounded from the computer. I hope that you liked the chapter! Bye!