Chapter Two

Platform 9 ¾

After Hermione passed through the barrier, she looked around for her two best friends. She immediately spotted Harry and Ron, due to the fact that Ron grew a few inches and you can clearly see his bright, red hair across the sea of students saying goodbye to their families. As Hermione was walking towards Harry and Ron someone said, "Hey Chicken".

Hermione turned around and saw a very handsome man with platinum blond hair, and deep silver eyes. He was tall and skinny, yet slightly muscular, he also looked oddly familiar… then it clicked.

"Hello ferret." Hermione shot back.

"Watch that temper mudblood, or I'll give you a detention for being rude to the new Head Boy." said Draco, his eyes dancing with hatred.

"Don't tell me its you!" Hermione said, mostly to herself.

"Angry now aren't you?" Draco said smirking.

"Actually, ferret, I'm the new Head Girl, so if I were you, I'd take that smirk off your face and shove it up your ass!" Hermione retorted.

Hermione turned around and walked towards her friends.

"Hey guys! I missed you all so much this summer!" she said, dropping her trunk. She ran up to them and hugged them, her curls bouncing up and down in the sunlight.

"Hey Hermione." said the boys, hugging her back.

"What happened with Draco just now?" asked Harry, looking over her shoulder at him.

"I'll tell you inside." she replied.

Harry then grabbed his trunk, and Ron grabbed his and Hermione's, while Hermione picked up Hedwig's and Pigwideon's cage. She started to walk towards the door, when the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. She turned around and saw Draco staring at her, his eyes deep, and without any sign of hatred.

'What?' Hermione thought curiously.

When he realized she saw him staring, he didn't do anything, just looked away.

Draco stood casually on platform 9 ¾ with his best mate, Blaise Zabini. They were talking about their summers when Blaise said, "This year is going to be different, I don't know why, I just feel it."

"You've been spending to much time with the Hufflepuffs, mate." said Draco with a grin on his face.

"Well you have to admit, almost every girl at this school is staring at us."

"Yeah, I guess." said Draco, looking around. It was true, almost every girl was staring at them. Draco didn't care though, due to the fact that he had been with almost all of those girls and they were all,… the same. Draco wanted something different, but he didn't know what.

Draco turned back to Blaise, ready to strike up more conversation.

"So Blaise… Blaise!" Draco said, waving his hand in front of Blaise's eyes.

But Blaise wasn't listening, he was looking over Draco's shoulder saying quietly, "Surely that isn't her."

Draco turned around. He saw a very attractive girl, no one from school, he was sure. He looked at her face, her inviting and warm eyes, her perfect lips all things looked familiar, then it clicked… 'Granger?' But there was something different about her, 'well, firstly she's good-looking' thought Draco. 'Wait… did I just think that? Granger,…hot. NO way.'

But no matter what he thought, he couldn't stop staring, Hermione didn't have her two huge front teeth, her hair wasn't frizzy anymore, 'she's changed' he thought.

"Draco." Blaise said. "That's Granger, she's changed, she's hot, wow…"

Blaise was always able to get away with saying things like that since he was half-muggle. But due to the fact that he was in Slytherin, no one seemed to care.

"Oh god, you have that look in your eye." Blaise said after a second or two.

"What look?" Draco asked turning back to Blaise.

"The look that your interested"

"But I'm not!" Draco said defensively.

"Draco, I've known you my whole life, and I think I would know when your interested in a girl."

Draco turned around, back towards Hermione, now was his chance to prove he wasn't interested.

"Hey Chicken" he said, a name he heard her muggle father say to her earlier. She whipped around to see who said that. She looked at Draco up and down, apparently thinking he was someone else, yet interested, until realizing who it was. Her face turned from one of interest to one of disgust in a blink of an eye. Draco was happy to see this, until she shot back "Hello ferret".

"Watch that temper mudblood, or I'll give you a detention for being rude to the new Head Boy." he said.

He saw her expression, and was glad to see it was surprise.

"Don't tell me its you!" He heard her say.

"Angry now aren't you?" Draco asked smirking.

"Actually, ferret, I'm the new Head Girl, so if I were you, I'd take that smirk off your face and shove up your ass!" Hermione shot back, she then turned on her heels and stormed off.

"Yep, she's changed," Draco said, turning around to see the now laughing Blaise.

"Bugger off" he said to him.

Hermione's changed alright. She wasn't like any girl he knew, usually the girls would flirt constantly, trying to get Draco's attention. 'But not Hermione, she actually had the courage to stand up to me' he thought, looking back at Hermione 'And I'm a Malfoy!' . She turned around and looked at Draco, he immediately looked away, smiling to himself, 'How right Blaise was, this year is going to be different'