Chapter 5 – The Next Day

The next morning Hermione woke up confused. Why am I on the couch? she asked herself. She looked over to the other couch and saw Draco sleeping. He looks so calm without that smirk on his face. She thought. She tried to remember what happened what happened last night and then she remembered that she fell asleep last night reading.

She got up from the couch and covered Draco with the same blanket. She turned around and tried to walk away, but a strong hand grabbed her wrist.

"Don't leave me Hermione" said Draco in his sleep.

"Malfoy, wake up and let go of me!" she yelled while trying to wake him up.

Draco opened his eyes and saw Hermione standing there in pain. He let go of her immediately.

"What happened?" he asked.

"You tell me. You were the one that grabbed my wrist and said 'Don't leave me Hermione'"

A blush crept up Draco's cheeks. "Well..erm..." Wow. Malfoy is stuttering that's a first. She thought. "I just had a bad dream." He lied. "I'm sorry if I scared you."

Did he just apologize? He is acting weird today and it's scaring me.

"Are you ok?" she asked.

"Yea, I'm fine."

"If you say so..." Hermione said not really believing him.

Hermione went to her room and saw that Ginny was still sleeping. She walked over to Ginny's bed and woke her up, and then they both got dressed and went down to the Great Hall for breakfast. They sat down at the Gryffindor table across from Harry and Ron and started eating.

"What class do we first?" Hermione asked.

"Double Potions with the Slytherins," said Harry.

"Why do we always have it with the Slytherins?" asked Ron. "We never have it with the Hufflepuffs or the Ravenclaws. Dumbledore must love to torture us."

"I agree with you mate," said Harry.

Hermione and Ginny ate their food in silence while Harry and Ron sat there complaining.

"If you guys are done complaining let's go before we're late for Potions." Hermione said.

They all got up, said their goodbyes to Ginny, and headed down to the dungeons. They entered the classroom and sat in their usual seat in the middle the middle of the room.

"I bet Snape won't take points from Gryffindor now that you're his niece," said Ron.

Before Hermione could say anything, Snape walked in with his robes billowing behind him. The whole class stopped talking immediately when he came in.

"Today we will be making the Confusing Concoction Potion. When you drink it, the drinker will be confused depending on how much you drink. You will be working in pairs," he paused to look around the classroom. Everyone looked excited, that was until he announced that he would be choosing the pairs. "I will partner you up and one person from each pair will test the potion so you will need to make the antidote too. I will now put you in pairs and I don't want any complaining. Weasley...Zabini, Potter...Parkinson, Longbottom...Bulstrode, Thomas...Goyle."

He kept on pairing up Slytherins with Gryffindors until there were two people left.

"Snape..Malfoy"

"WHAT!" yelled Malfoy.

"You heard me now move Malfoy unless you want to be in detention tonight," sneered Snape.

Great, I get to spend the whole class period with Malfoy of all people. I can't believe my own uncle would do this to me. Hermione thought.

Draco walked over to Hermione's table and sat down next to her muttering something under his breath.

"I'll go get the ingredients, while you heat up the cauldron," said Hermione.

Hermione walked over to the cabinet and grabbed the ingredients needed for the potion and antidote and walked back to her seat. When she got there, she saw Pansy Parkinson in her seat.

"Move Parkinson," Hermione said.

"Why should I mudblood? I don't take orders from filthy mudbloods like you!" she yelled. Now the whole class had their eyes on the two girls.

Hermione was about to say something but Snape beat her to it. "50 points from Slytherin for your language Miss Parkinson and you will be serving a weeks worth of detention."

Everyone was shocked that Snape took points from his own house. The Gryffindors looked amused while the Slytherins all glared at Pansy. Hermione sat down in her seat and started working on the potion while Draco brewed the antidote. They were the first ones to finish so they sat there in silence.

Draco sat there looking around the room thinking about the girl sitting next to him.

(Draco's POV)

When I was finished with the antidote, I looked over at Granger. I couldn't help it but she looks hot this year with her new look. Wait, this is know-it-all Granger we're talking about she can't be hot. I thought.

You know she's hot. You're just denying it.

Who are you and I am not denying it.

I'm the little voice inside your head. Now stop denying it. We both know that she's looks good this year.

I am not denying it.

Its okay, the first step acceptance is denial.

"I am not denying anything!" I yelled.

Shit, I just said that aloud.

"May I ask what you are denying Mr. Malfoy?" asked Snape with amused look on his face.

Great, now everyone's looking at me. Help me little voice.

I would love to help you, but this is when I'm supposed to leave. Bye.

You got me into this and you're supposed to help me, so come back.

Silence.

"It's nothing Professor," I replied trying to sound as calm as possible.

(Normal POV)

When class was almost over, everyone lined up in front of Snape to test their potion. So far, only one group brewed it correctly and the rest of the class had to write an essay on what they did wrong. The last pair to test their potion was Hermione and Draco.

"Mr. Malfoy, test your potion," said Snape.

"Why me?" he asked.

"Because I said so, now hurry up, we don't have all day."

Hermione smirked at him while he drank the bitter tasting potion. After Draco drank the potion, he was babbling like an idiot. Hermione and Snape couldn't help but laugh. Snape gave Draco the antidote and he returned to normal with a scowl on his face.

"You brewed your potion and antidote correctly. You may go now," said Snape.

Two walked out of the Potions classroom and went to their next class.