Chapter 5: The First months, truth or dare, and Draco's story
By: Hatred Violence and Cruelty
Last time: After they had the rest of the house situated, Professor McGonagall took Draco and I to our new living spaces.
"You will be living here for the remainder of the year. Draco your room is over through that door," she pointed to a green door. "And Hermione, your room is over through that one," a door opposite Draco's, the door red.
"I expect the best from you two." And with that she left.
"So," said Draco. "Shall we settle in?" He then walked through his door to his room, and slammed the door.
The first few months passed by in a blur. With all the preparation for N.E.W.T.S., I had enough to worry about. My head girl duties made it even more difficult. With Slytherin and Gryffindor sharing sommon rooms now, dra-Malfoy and I had to keep order, which was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. With Voldemort gone, Slytherin didn't have much of a reason to terrorize us. Also, McGonagall and Snape kept such a close eye on us that if anyone put a toe out of line, they would know.
Also, Draco still acted weird. Whenever he was around me or anyone that wasn't Slytherin, he was like a friend. But as soon as someone like Pansy or Goyle showed up, he turned back into the old Malfoy I loved to hate.
Other than that, nothing exciting happened for me until sign ups for staying over Christmas Vacation, which of course I did, because it was required for my head girl duties. I didn't want to go home either, so this was a really good excuse for not being able to go home. Ginny, Ron and Harry did, of course. Malfoy too.
So on the last day before Christmas holidays, almost everyone packed up to go home. So many people were leaving that in our common room, ony Ron, Ginny, Harry, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle and I were left. This was quite nice though.
With everyone gone, we had free reign.
One night a few days before Christmas, Harry and Ron were playing chess, while I styled Ginny's hair. I straightened it, and added dark red highlights to it. It looked great.
So after Ron had demolished Harry yet again, we decided to play truth or dare.
"So, Harry, truth or dare?" I asked him.
"Truth," he said immediately.
"Hmmmmmm, So, Harry who do you like?" I asked with a grin on my face. I knew of course who it was. Ginny. Quite obvious. And she was in love with him too, even though she denied it.
Harry went red in the face, and whispered something "wrwiny."
"What? What was that harry?' Asked Ron.
"Ginny!" He yelled still red in the face.
Everyone looked at Ginny. She was sitting there with a look of surprise and happiness.
"I like you too!" and she crawled over and kissed him on the cheek. Harry's face lit up, and he kissed her soundly. It was all quite cute. I'm glad they finally did it too. Ron seems pretty glad too. I think that he thinks Ginny deserves the best, and that's what Harry is too him. Thank god, he won't go psycho like he did when Ginny dated Dean Thomas. That was scary. Almost ruined Ron's and Dean's friendship too.
At that moment, Draco entered the Common room. He looked at us, and started towards our room, but Harry called, "Hey Draco, wanna play? It's truth or dare!"
Draco looked surprised. Maybe it was the fact that Harry had called him Draco, or that he'd invited him to play. But whatever it was, Draco came and sat down in our circle.
"So, Potter, what are we playing?" he asked, looking at me.
"Truth or dare!" Harry shouted. (He's a little hyper! A/n)
Draco nodded, and Harry asked him truth or dare. "Truth" he answered.
Harry thought for a moment, and Ginny whispere something in his ear.
"OK, so Draco. What inspired you to change? I mean you are treating us like humans, and the whole mud blood crack towards Mione is gone. So what's the deal?"
Draco looked a little uncomfortable at this.
"You know you don't have to answer," I said after a few seconds.
He looked at me with those kind eyes that I had seen the first day back, and said, "No, I'll tell you guys why."
"It started last year, around Christmas. Just after Lupin died. My father wanted me to join the ranks with him. Be a death eater," he added at Ginny's confused look.
"Anyways, I finally realized, Voldemort is crap. He was lying to my father. As soon as Voldemort reached his full power, he would just kill Lucious. So I decided against it. The displeased me father very much. He did anything and everything to convince me to join. Torture of me, or my mother. He ended up killing my mother. He went that far. But I still didn't join.
"I had also realized that everything that Lucious had taught me was a lie. About Purebloods and muggle borns. Us being better than everyone else. I finally realized that was all just a fantasy in my fathers head.
"So I decided to join the fight against him. And right after I did. Voldemort was destroyed, along with my father, and my mother came back, my whole life changed. I decided that I wanted to have friends, not people like Goyle or Crabbe. But I had to be careful. Because the families of the death eaters who had died, wanted revenge. So I couldn't let any of the other Slytherins know that I ahd changed sides. That why, Hermione," he looked at me with those tantalizing gray eyes. "I treated you like vermin when Pansy joined us. I regret it, but I just wanted to be safe. I know it's cowardly how I am living, but there is no other way."
He finished, and there was a silence for a few minutes.
"Wow," I whispered after that. "I never knew."
"Well now you do." And with that, Draco stood up, and without a backwards glance he walked to out common room and shut the door.
Too stunned to speak, we all just stood up and went to our common rooms. I was the last to leave, but before I could leave someone grabbed me. Covering my mouth so I couldn't scream, and dragged me out of the common room.
