Harry and Ron were roaming around the school for some time before they finally found him with all his bags heading for the prefects common room.
"OI Malfoy" yelled Ron. Malfoy looked over and the smile he had on faded.
"What do you want?" said Draco.
"We wanted to talk to you about your new Roomie Hermione" said Ron getting to the point.
"Oh that" said Draco gloomily.
"Yes that, we know you have a thing for her and we came to tell you that if you try anything on her you will be sorry and we mean it!" said Harry angrily.
"What makes you think I am scared of you two?" said Draco plainly.
'Oh you will be scared Malfoy cause at the moment I am not angry try anything on her you will pay and I will raise hell on earth if you touch her I swear!" spat Harry and he was even surprised to hear these words coming out of his mouth but Malfoy backed down.
"Okay I understand' said Draco.
"Good" said Ron turning away and Harry followed him.
"Oh my god Harry I can't believe you just said that I have never seen that side of you no wonder v-v- voldemort is afraid of you' said Ron.
They got back to the common room only to find a sad Hermione with her bags packed and crying.
"Hermione' whispered Ron.
"w-ww-what?" said Hermione looking up.
"You have nothing to worry about we had a talk to Malfoy he won't try anything on you I can promise you that" said Ron happily.
"How can you be sure?" said Hermione not sounding very convinced.
"Well let's just say that from what Harry said to Malfoy he is probably wetting his pants" said Ron happily.
"Why what did you say Harry?" said Hermione suspiciously.
"Well I can't remember all of it" said Harry but Ron cut in
"Oh I do Malfoy said what makes you think I am afraid of you two and then Harry said Oh you will be scared Malfoy cause at the moment I am not angry try anything on her and you will pay and will raise hell on earth if you touch her I swear" said Ron very dramatically.
"Oh my god Harry I can't believe you did that" said Hermione angrily then she finished with "and I wasn't there to see it!"
"Yeh it was really cool it actually felt better saying it" said Harry.
"Well I have to go now" said Hermione a bit more cheerfully.
"Oh we will come with you we want to see how Malfoy act's around you now" said Ron happily.
They all walked down to the prefect's common room and up to Hermione's & Draco's dormitories. Draco was already there and putting his things into his drawers. Harry and Ron said they would stay outside just to see if he actually took them seriously. Hermione walked in and put her stuff on her bed. Malfoy looked up at her and his eyes narrowed she said hello and he just said hi and walked into the bathroom. Harry and Ron were on the other side of the door looking through a crack. They silently went into fits of laughter. Then they walked in and acted as though they just popped round to say hello.
"Oh hello Hermione we have been looking for you everywhere" said Harry cheerfully.
"Yes I think you will be very happy here" said Ron examining how far apart their beds were. Just as Ron went over to Hermione, Draco walked in he looked over at Ron and he was fine but he looked a little bit frightened. Then he turned and noticed Harry was there all the color vanished from his cheeks and he tried to say hello to them.
"H-hh-hhh-hello"said Malfoy stuttering.
"Hello Malfoy" said Harry cheerfully. They stayed and talked with Hermione for a while then they went back to their common room talking about Malfoy the whole way.
"Oh my god! Did you see his face?" said Ron laughing.
"I know I don't think he will be bothering us at all this year" said Harry happily.
"But he hasn't really bothered us much this year lately has he?" said Ron suspiciously.
"Maybe he has a crush on you to Ron" sad Harry sarcastically and they both started laughing.
The day of the ball was getting closer it was only a week away. Harry realized that he hadn't spent much time with Meaghan so he went over to her and asked if he could spend the day with her as it was Sunday and they had nothing to do. She didn't react like the she did the first time. Instead she just nodded lightly but she was smiling like mad. She hugged Harry and ran off to get ready. They went down to the quidditch fields and sat in the spectators' box talking. Harry thought this was the best place to take someone you wanted to talk to privately as no one was there they just talked for hours about different things Harry had learnt over his time with her that she had a sister 'Camilla' but they didn't see each other much as she went to a different school. Meaghan loved finding out things about Harry but his life hadn't been much fun outside but he felt like he could tell her anything so he told her everything. Harry was surprised that when he mentioned Sirius Black being his godfather she didn't run off instead she listened and she had a few tears streaming down her cheek when he finished she couldn't believe that Harry lost his parents, and then two years after he found another family member he lost him just as easy.
"Harry I can't believe you lost all of your relatives to voldemort" said Meaghan crying.
"No not all of the m I still have my aunt and uncle" said Harry bitterly.
"But by the sound of it they were never really your family" she said sadly.
"Yes well I guess they never felt like real family members" said Harry thinking about it.
"So are you excited about the ball" said Harry trying to change the subject.
"Yes" she said happily.
"I think it will be very fun" she said looking into Harry's eyes.
"Well I still have to figure what I am going to wear" she said miserably.
"Don't worry I haven't thought about what I am going to wear much" said Harry trying to make her fell better.
She smiled and kissed him on the cheek and blushed. Harry smiled at her and kissed her back but on the lips this time. They sat there for a while then they headed off back down to the castle.
Hermione was sitting at the table in her dormitory trying to finish her homework. She was really getting behind her studies and she had to catch up fast. She was also very unhappy because over the holidays she got a letter from Viktor Krum. She didn't tell anyone what the letter had said as she knew Ron would probably jump up and down screaming Hooray. But the letter had said that he didn't think they should be seeing each other anymore as they lived far apart and could never see each other. Hermione didn't like this news at first but for some reason it didn't bother her at all. It was about 6:30pm when she finally finished her homework the exact time Draco came in.
"Oh your still here Hermione" he said turning.
Hermione was getting sick of this she really loved the fact that he never bought up topics to discuss with her but she felt weird that they couldn't be in the same room anymore she didn't think it would be soo bad to just have a little conversation with him and plus he didn't call her Granger.
"Draco wait" said Hermione standing up.
"What?" he said turning back to face her.
"I think it is stupid that we are living in the same room and we can't even be in a room together there isn't much sense in that now is there?" she said.
"Well no but Harry made his intensions quite clear that he didn't want us in the same room together" said Draco shrugging.
"Well who cares what they want?" said Hermione walking over to her bed and sitting down.
"Well I thought you did" said Draco staring at her.
"Well now I don't and I think it would be nice if we could just talk for a while because I am bored" said Hermione patting her hand on the bed and making a space for him to sit. "Are you sure?" said Draco staring at her as if she were mental.
"Yes but on one condition No calling me mudblood. Granger or Hermione are fine" she said glaring at him.
"Why would I call you mudbl- oh ok then" he said sitting down. They talked for hours and hours then a topic came up that Hermione knew he didn't really want to discuss none the less he did.
"So why have you changed all of a sudden?" sad Hermione.
"Well because I realized I didn't want to be like my father that would be horrible so I just changed I started being nice to people and trust me I like this life better" he said happily.
"Oh well I suppose it is a good change' said Hermione thinking to herself. They kept talking for most of the night until they finally went to bed at 2:30 in the morning.