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Chapter 3 – The great feast and a surprise

They were bought up to Hogwarts by the Thestral pulled carriages and were all sitting down at the table in the great hall, waiting for the sorting of the new first years to begin.

Miranda Bones had just been sorted into Hufflepuff as Dumbledore stood to make his annual announcements.

"as most of you already know the forbidden forest is strictly forbidden to all students of any year, there are another thirty six items added to Mr Filches list of forbidden items. The full list of all 597 items may be viewed outside Mr Filches office, now before we all settle down to the feast I have an unexpected announcement to make and I know this will come as a bit of a surprise to some people. But unfortunately the young lady and gentleman that I appointed to be your new heads have decided that they do not want to fulfil these positions after all. So I am left with no choice but to replace them. I have no other seventh year candidates at present as I feel that you will have enough to do with your newts. We usually only put students that can cope with their own study load and more as heads, so I am going to appoint sixth years. And I want all students including seventh years to show them respect and treat them as they would heads their own age, and with that I would like to ask Miss Hermione Granger and Mr Draco Malfoy to step up here"

"Oh my god!" Hermione said and immediately turned a deep shade of red, Malfoy too looked pleased.

They both made their way up to Dumbledore

"Well would you both like to fill these positions, if you do then they are yours for the next two years, if you don't then you will have no chance of being head boy or girl next year either"

"Yes, yes of course" Hermione said, she was beaming

"Yes sir" Malfoy said

"In that case I believe these are yours" Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as he handed the head badges over to the two students.

"Professor McGonagall will show you to your rooms after dinner"

"Enjoy your feast everybody"

"Nice one Hermione" the whole of Gryffindor table was shouting as Hermione sat back down and she was being patted on the back and all sorts.

She turned to Harry and Ron "you know what the worst part of it is don't you?"
"What's that?" Harry asked

"I have to share a common room with Malfoy for the next two years"

"That sucks Hermione" Ron said

"Well if he doesn't behave himself then you tell us" Harry told her and gave her a hug

Malfoy looked over at the three of them from his table and felt something in the pit of his stomach. 'I can't be jealous of them' he thought to himself 'I have friends'

'Yeah like Crabbe and Goyle, good friends they are'

He decided to stop looking and he might not be so pissed off with it all.

After dinner had finished Malfoy and Hermione both made their way over to professor McGonagall.

"ok you two follow me" she said and led them to the centre of the castle, there was a small building just off the courtyard with a portrait of a woman and a man sitting in a swing holding hands

"The password is Hogwarts Unite" she told them "there will be a meeting tomorrow evening after dinner, Good Evening"

They said the password and went into the common room, it was twice the size of their previous common rooms and had everything they could want in there. There were two soft suede sofas, a large glass coffee table. There were quite a few bookshelves and a large marble fireplace. With a little more exploration Hermione found a place where there was a little marble tablet that you could write something onto and it transported the message to whomever it was that you were sending it to. Hermione wrote a message onto the elves in the kitchen saying "can we please have a jug of pumpkin juice and a plate of biscuits" she then tapped it with her wand and said "kitchen" the tablet she had written on cleared itself and all of a sudden there was a plate of biscuits and some pumpkin juice sat on the coffee table along with two goblets 'nifty' she thought.

Obviously it only worked with professors and the kitchen as other students didn't have a receiving device for this.

She looked around a bit further there was a winding staircase that led up to two rooms, there was a door on the left with Mr Malfoy engraved into the wood. There was a door on the right with Ms Granger engraved onto that, Hermione opened the door to her room and gasped in astonishment. It was utterly beautiful. There was a king-size four poster bed in the middle with pink and purple silk sheets on it. There was a gorgeous writing desk against the wall, with the most comfiest chair she had ever had the pleasure to sit in. and there was the largest wardrobe she had ever seen.

She went back downstairs to take a look around the bathroom. It was twice the size of the prefect's bathroom. It had a swimming pool sized bath in the middle and had twice the amount of taps that the prefects one had as well. There was a shower big enough to fit herself in 5 times over and there were the fluffiest white towels hanging from the rack

"Nice isn't it mudblood?" Malfoy asked from the doorway

All of a sudden they heard a loud beeping sound coming from the common room "what the hell is that?"
"I don't know" Hermione said and rushed in. it was the marble tablet that was making all the noise, it had a message on it

"Dear Mr Malfoy and ms granger, if you do not learn how to get along then I will have to seriously rethink your positions, Dumbledore" it said

"He must have heard you call me a mudblood" Hermione decided

"Great now we get spied on as well" Malfoy muttered

"well just don't call it me anymore and we should be ok" Hermione said there are probably just certain things that trigger it off"

"Ok then granger" he said "I'll just have to bite my tongue"

The tablet started beeping again

"Please use each others first names" it said

"Bloody hell" Malfoy said

"Ok Draco. I don't want to lose this position for anybody, we will just have to do it" Hermione said

"Me neither" he agreed "Hermione, Hermione, Hermione"

"You don't have to say it that much" she told him

"Well it feels funny when I say it" he told her "so I was just trying it out"

"Goodnight Draco" She said and rolled her eyes. She went up to her bedroom and fell into a peaceful sleep.