A/N: wow thank you once again to everyone who reviewed! They make me sooo happy!! lol okay well quite frankly I have no idea what I am going to write in this chapter so…we'll see I have a feeling it's just going to be a kind of getting settled chapter but I'm not sure yet. I know that I am going to spend a lot of time describing the room and the walls so …yea that's basically all this chapter is. Read it any way cuz there's only one way to find out what I wrote so R&R!! Thanks oh and btw I just wanted to let u know that it might be a bit longer between updates now that I've re-started school from thanksgiving break so I have homework and such now. I will try my bestest (ya I no that's not a word but I like it anyway) to get chapters out but I don't know how long it will be between updates. Just hang w. me thanks!

"Ginny I really think I like him…" I whispered, afraid of being over heard by anyone else.

"Hermione, you and him have detested each other since your first year which makes that about 6 years. That's a long time for you to start ignoring and suddenly fall for him. I mean I don't want to see you get hurt Mione." Ginny stated, trying to reason with me to re-think my actions before I rushed into anything.

"Miss Granger, would you be so kind as to accompany me and Mr. Malfoy for a bit so I can get you acquainted with your head dormitories?" Professor McGonagall said sternly. I saw a flicker of that platinum blonde splendor from behind her and felt butterflies in my stomach.

What the hell? I've never felt that with anyone else I've fancied – not that I'm saying I do fancy him. I mean Ginny made a good argument, why should I suddenly forget all the times he's called me 'mudblood' and made fun of me? No I shouldn't. Maybe I should give him some of his own medicine. See how much he likes getting taunted.

I pulled myself out of my thoughts to pay close attention to where our dorms were. I wouldn't want to get lost and have to ask Dra-no-Malfoy for directions there.

It seemed like forever that we had climbed stairs, taken lefts and then rights. Our professor suddenly halted in front of a huge painting.

Its frame was intricately intertwined with bands of silver and gold. On the canvas, paint had been splashed to form a woman who held a phoenix propped on her shoulder. The lady looked no older than 30 and had beautiful blonde hair and green eyes. Her skin was so smooth it looked like porcelain. She was adorned with a rose colored dress that flowed freely behind her and she was sitting on a white marble bench. The phoenix was black with streaks of red throughout her feathers. It had bright yellow eyes that looked like a cats and stood perched so still it looked fake.

"Hello, Melanie. Scarlet pixies," McGonagall said to Melanie, who was apparently the lady in the portrait.

Melanie swung forward to let us in and as I climbed up I let out and involuntary, audible gasp.

It was the perfect clichéd common room. It had a red couch with silver pillows and a green couch with gold pillows. There was an entire wall filled with books upon books and in the corner was a small table that had a replica of the portrait to the kitchens to the left of it.

"Miss Granger, your bedroom is to the left, and Mr. Malfoy, to the left. There is one bathroom in between the two rooms. In order to get into your rooms you must tell your password to your portrait and it will let you enter. You may make up your password, just don't forget it. You can change you password whenever you wish, just make sure to alert your portrait. Feel free to inspect your what will be your new home for the next nine months; I shall see you in class tomorrow. Good night." And with that she departed

I walked up to my portrait, eager to see what my new room looked like. The image leading to my bedroom was of a little girl with dark brown hair, bright, familiar looking green eyes, and glowing pink cheeks, playing in the snow. She looked up at me and smiled, saying energetically "Hi! My name is Tiffany! Password?"

I thought for a moment and then decided on my favorite summer desert.

"Frozen Strawberries," I replied smiling back at her. "Umm, is that your mother out there? It looks like you two have to same eyes." I asked, pointing to the portrait guarding our common room.

"Yup, and that's my brother over there." she said pointing to Draco's portrait. As I was looking over, she had swung forward, allowing me to enter my room.

It was breathtakingly huge. My bed was king size with a burgundy canopy covering the top and sides and draped at the foot of the bed. The comforter was covered in a layer of dark red silk, but was about two or three inches thick from fluffy padding. I had 5 pillows all gold, and the center pillow had a red rose embroidered on it.

There were two windows, one on each side of my bed, and a vanity mirror against another wall. There was the door that led to the bathroom, and then a closet for all of my clothes.

The base color behind all the walls was a smooth, dark, creamy beige color. Each wall seemed to represent a different season, but all of the paintings flowed together. On the wall behind my bed, the season appeared to be summer and there was a painted trellis with roses climbing up it. The roses had a gold stem and leaves, and the petals were crimson. Moving towards the wall where the entrance to the bathroom was located there were stray petals that seemed to be floating in the painted wind. The petals slowly mixed with leaves, until the roses' petals were non-existent. On the wall that was that was clearly fall, there was a big oak tree, whose trunk was to the left of the bathroom door and its branches over looked the framing around the door. The leaves on the old oak tree were orange, red, brown, and a few green. There were still plenty of leaves on the vast branches of the tree, but many of them had already littered the base of the wall. As the leaves once again got picked up in the "wind" and floated towards the 'winter' wall, they seemed to disintegrate into pieces of what appeared to be glitter. The white, sparkling glitter was falling from the dark gray clouds that were bordering the top of the wall and the ceiling. This was the wall that the vanity mirror was up against and there had been snow painted to look as though it had fallen on the piece of furniture. To the right of the mirror was a snowman in a top hat with a scarf wrapped around its "neck." Eventually, the glittered snow glided to the last wall, ultimately forming into rain droplets, which were falling from clouds that were connected to the snow clouds. Through the clouds on the 'spring' wall, you could see the sun shining through, making a rainbow. The droplets of rain trickled down on flower blossoms in the green grass. There were blossoms on every inch of the bottom of the wall and as the rain continued to "fall" the flowers fell further into bloom. By then end of the spring wall there was a patch of yellow tulips in full bloom. The petals from the last few tulips then picked up in the painted wind and flew into the summer wall fading into orange and then red and then turning into rose petals before hitting the trellis, where the circle continued again.

As I looked at the elaborately painted walls and paused at the spring wall, I noticed cursive writing in gold paint across the red band in the rainbow. I gasped as I read in a whispered voice: "L'amour entre un lion et un dragon est eternal." I looked down at the delicate gold chain with the ring hanging on it and walked quickly to the portrait hole and out past the little girl. I took about 5 steps to Draco's portrait and knocked loudly.

As he stepped out, I noticed that he was only in his green silk boxers. DAMN!! I knew he looked good but I didn't know it was this good. Wait! Remember what Ginny told you! Yeah, he looks good, but you don't want him to find –

"I know I look good Granger, but I didn't know you were of that opinion too." He said cocking his eyebrow and smirking at me.

Shit. I knew that would come back to bite me in the ass when I said that in potions yesterday.

"For your information Malfoy, I didn't call you out to stare at you, as much as you would like to flatter yourself. I came out here to ask you about this." I said, trying to keep my dignity, as I undid the clasp and slide the ring down the chain and into my hand.

"What does it mean?"

A/N: You'll have to wait till next chapter to find out what it means!! Sorry! Lol yea I kno that chapter kinda sucked but im sure you will get over it. oh and thanks to my great, GREAT friend heather for thinking up that awesome name for Hermione's portrait to her bedroom! It's the best and so is she. I could of never have done it wit out u! Love ya girl - she wrote that lol anyways n the next chapter you will hear the bout the bathroom but it def wont be as detailed … okay so anyway even though I think this chapter kinda sucked please review !!! and don't forget that if u guys review I will have more motive to update sooner!! Merci!!