Chapter 3

Draco had followed suit taking the floo route to Victoria Heights. A minute later he found himself standing in what looked to be a fancy mansion. Then he looked around and saw a desk with what looked like servants behind it.'This must be some sort of muggle Inn.'He thought looking around at the high ceiling and the people buzzing around with luggage.

Hermione noticed him looking around in confusion,"It's what we muggles call a 'Hotel', I live here in an apartment upstairs."Hermione walked toward two large closed doors. Well they looked like doors but had no handles. She reached out and pushed a button beside it on the wall. The doors opened and Draco watched her enter a small boxed area.

"Are you coming Malfoy?"He realized that this must be some muggle transport device and stepped in next to her. A panel of many buttons was on his right. Hermione stepped over and pushed the number eighteen. The doors closed and the box started to move. He latched on to the railing surprised at the sudden jostle.

Draco noticed Hermione looking up at a small device near the top of the doors. It was counting up. When it reached eighteen the doors magically opened and it revealed a long hallway of doors. They stepped out and walked almost to the very end when Hermione took something square out of her bag.It was some sort of card.

Draco stared at it intently. He waited for something to happen. She stuck the card into a metal device on the door and pulled the handle down. He found it very interesting as he examined it before entering further into the room.

"This is my apartment. You can have a seat in the living room over there," she pointed to a room filled with two couches and a chair. She started to walk away.

"Where are you going?" He didn't want to be left alone in this muggle place.

"Just to my room to change, business atire isn't exactly appropriate for where were going." And with that she went through another door which must have been her bedroom. Malfoy walked around and stared at all the strange objects about the room. The paintings didn't move and neither did most of the pictures. A few that did were of her,Potter and Weasel. He sneared at them and moved on.

He heard a thump come from her room and moved closer to the door. She hadn't closed it all the way and he could see inside. She was busy dragging something across the room he didn't recognize, it looked heavy though. He was about to suggest he help her when she lost interest in the thing and stood in front of a dresser pulling clothes from it.

He watched as she took off her jacket and then her blouse. The sight of her bareback made his breath catch. She slipped her wool skirt off and kicked it to the side. She was wearing black lacy under garments that were practically seethrough. This intrigued him. Little Ms. Granger the goody goody had some bad girl panties. Maybe she wasn't so innocent after all he thought.

She was about finished redressing and he jumped away from the door not wanting her to catch him in the act of watching her. He walked toward another wall and pretended to study the pictures on it.

She emerged a few minutes later wearing some blue jeans and a pink t-shirt with the word 'princess' on it. He laughed," Princess? You've got to be kidding me." She glared at him."It's only a shirt Malfoy."

She looked at her watch,"Well we have time to go collect your things so lets go."

"My things?"

"Yes,your things, you know clothes and such. We will be gone for a couple of months you know."

"I didn't put anything together, I was called to the ministry without being told what was in store for me so I don't have a bag ready."

She sighed,"Well you probably don't own anything proper for this trip anyways. We'll have to go shopping I guess. Do you have a money with you?"

He retrieved a small pouch from his pocket." I have about 500 galleons here. I think that should be enough.

She coughed, she would never carry that much money around with her! "That would be if we were in the wizarding world but were in 'muggleland' now. I had meant paper money, muggle money. I should have known there was no point asking you about it of course you wouldn't have something like that."

"Oh well, I'll just have to lend you some and you can pay me back later. Come on let's go then." She picked a jacket off the coat rack by the door and went to stand in the hall waiting for him.

They went back down the 'elevator' as she called it. They walked out the front doors of the hotel and Draco was blasted by a wave of heat. Muggle cars were racing past him on the road. Hermione had started walking to his right and he ran to keep up as she started to get lost in a crowd.

She stopped in front of a large brick building. The sign on the front said 'The Gap'. He knew it! She was really leading him to his death so she wouldn't have to deal with him. Well he wasn't going to go easily. She stepped through the revolving doors and as he followed he readied his wand.

Just as he got to the other side he realized he wouldn't need it and set it back in his pocket. He had been mistaken about the threat of death. What lay before him was no never ending chasm but rows and rows of muggle clothing. Hermione was talking to a sales person as he walked up.

The sales person looked him up and down and nodded. He grabbed a few things here and there from the racks around him and then ushered Malfoy into a small room with a curtain for a door. He tried on the different clothing and was even made to come out and model it for them. Feeling totally embarassed and vulnerable they looked him over and Hermione handed the man a small card."We'll take all of it."

"Excellent," the sales person said and walked behind a counter and started putting his new clothes in bags. He had gotten three pairs of 'jeans', five 't-shirts', one 'raincoat' and a pair of sturdy work boots. He looked at himself in a mirror. The person staring back at him didn't look like a Malfoy at all. The man standing there had loose fitting jeans on and a black t-shirt that stretched across his well formed chest.

He felt surprisingly comfortable in the strange clothing. It was nothing like the suits he was use to wearing. Hermione finished paying and handed him his bags."Lets get going before were late." She walked out of the store.