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Chapter 5 Going Back To Hogwarts

When Hermione arrived in the huge fireplace of the Leaky Cauldron, Draco was still sitting at the bar. He was eating a piece of cake and drinking an Irish Coffee. Hermione sneaked up on him.

"Hey." She breathed as she wrapped her arms around him and kissed his neck.

"I assume it went well, then?" he asked turning to face his girlfriend, who nodded and had a huge smile on her face.

"Yeah, they believed me! I'm so happy!" she exclaimed.

"Why don't we celebrate it?" he asked and turned to Tom. "A bottle of champagne, please!" Hermione smiled and nodded.

"Where do you want to drink it? Our room?" she asked and finally let go of him.

Draco nodded, took the bottle from Tom, slapped a few pounds down in front of him, grabbed Hermione's hand and dragged her to their room.

She laughed "Someone's eager to get somewhere."

They sat down on the sofa that was in front of the little television in their room. Draco opened the bottle, transfigured two of the complimentary chocolates into champagne flutes and poured some into each glass. In the meantime Hermione grabbed a blanket from the closet and spread it out over their laps and cuddled up to Draco who handed her a glass.

"To us." Draco toasted and they clinked their glasses together, looking directly into each others eyes before taking a sip of the bubbly liquid. Draco pressed a kiss to Hermione's temple and turned on the TV. They sat there, drinking champagne and watching a movie, occasionally making out a little.

The rest of the two weeks passed quickly and Hermione and Draco found themselves actually dreading to go back to school because they would have to act like they hated reach other. And Hermione wasn't sure if she could to that.

"You'll only have to hate me in public." Draco tried to convince her that it wasn't that bad. "Besides, we can always make out- up, I mean, afterwards." Hermione smiled at this, that didn't just slip his tongue, he fully meant to say make out in the first place.

Hermione sighed. "All right. Then let's pack and get to Kings Cross early, like we're supposed to." And she began packing her trunk, running around the room as her stuff had been spread all over during those two weeks.

After a little while they had packed all their things and headed out of the Leaky Cauldron, lugging their trunks behind them. They decided to get to the train station with a cab. Draco loaded their trunks in the back while Hermione plopped down on the back seat of the cab. Draco closed the trunk and sat down next to her.

"To Kings Cross, please." He told the driver.

"All right. Buckle up." The driver answered and they sped off.

"In a few minutes we'll have to pretend to hate each other again." Hermione said, giving Draco a weak smile. Draco gave her a reassuring kiss and wrapped his arms around her, resting his chin on her head.

"Don't worry, I'm good at acting." He joked and Hermione swatted him on the arm playfully. She lifted her head to face him and kissed him one last time because the cab stopped, they were there. Draco got out first and got his trunk from the back while Hermione gave the cab driver his money. Then she got out and got her trunk. They locked gazes and he winked at her before leaving her to trail behind.

One after the other, but keeping a fair amount of distance between them, they went through the barrier onto platform 9¾. Hermione went towards the head of the train to assist any new students, while Draco went towards the back of the train to do the same.

It didn't take long for the first lost and nervous first years to arrive. Hermione smiled at them. "Hi, I'm Hermione Granger, this years Head Girl. Just go on board and find a compartment. You can stow away your trunks in there, too." She told them. "and if you need any more help, just come out and ask me, okay?" she smiled at them again and they went on the train.

Soon Harry, Ron and Ginny came towards Hermione and all greeted her with hugs.

"Hey! I'm SO glad you guys are here, it's only been me and that git Malfoy." She gave a fake shudder. "He's been taunting me with what happened all day!" she exclaimed and winked at Ginny so that only she could see. Ginny snickered. Harry and Ron turned towards the young red head with questioning looks on their faces.

"Oh, I was just trying to picture our dear Hermione here drunk." She said, careful not to give herself away. "And making out with Malfoy no less." She made a face.

"Did I just hear my name?" came a voice from behind them. They all turned around to face Malfoy. Immediately, they all had looks of pure hatred on their faces- some more than others, who were just faking it.

"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry spat at the intruder.

"Yeah, what do you want? You have no reason to be here." Ron chimed in.

Draco smirked. 'This is going to be so much fun.' He thought. "Well, I just wanted to say hello to my little partner here." He smirked and gestured towards Hermione.

"I was drunk, or else I would have never given in to you, Malfoy, and you damn well know that." Hermione hissed with a lot of malice in her voice.

"Ooohh, the little mudblood curses." Draco smirked and as soon as the word mudblood left his mouth, Harry and Ron both lunged at him.

"Harry, Ron, stop it." Hermione said calmly and the two boys turned towards her, disbelieving. "The ferret's not worth it." She explained. She was really getting into this. "You might get your hands dirty." She added, moving to stand in front of him. She slightly winked at him, only for him to see. "Now get out of my sight. Or I'll hex you into oblivion."

He sneered at them and slowly turned away from them. "You stained my vision anyway." He said as he stalked away to find his cronies.

Hermione sighed loudly and turned back to her friends with a grin. "I don't think he'll bother us again on this train ride. Come on, guys, I already saved us a compartment." She said and started walking towards the train. Harry, Ron and Ginny looked at each other and shrugged before they followed her with their trunks dragging behind them.

Hermione had chosen one of the bigger and nicer compartments near the front of the train. She had plopped down at a seat next to the window and facing in the direction the train would be going. She didn't like to travel backwards, it always made her a little sick to the stomach.

"You can sit down but I have to go outside again. Just to check on everything, okay?" Hermione said and walked back out. Harry and Ron started a conversation about Quidditch the moment she left, Ginny sighed and took out a magazine and started to flip through the pages.

Outside the train Hermione began searching for Seamus and Dean. She wanted to remind them not to tell anyone about what they saw at the McDonalds in London. And also invite them to stay in their compartment. She quickly spotted them and ran over to them.

"Hey guys!" she called approaching.

"Hermione!" they called in unison. "It's good to see you." Seamus added "Yeah." Dean agreed.

"Listen, I wanna thank you again for not telling anybody." She said.

"No problem." Seamus replied.

"The things we do for a friend." Dean joked and Hermione laughed.

"Do you guys wanna sit with us in our compartment? We have lots of room" she offered.

"Sure, why not?" they nodded and they all started walking back towards the train.

"Draco and I are still acting like we hate each other in public, just so you know." Hermione told Seamus and Dean. They nodded. "So don't be surprised if we start yelling at each other, we don't mean what we say then." They walked the rest of the way in silence, Hermione was thinking about Draco and the other two thought about what she had just said, this year would certainly be a fun one if the Heads would shout at each other a lot. They couldn't wait to witness it for the first time.

Neville was also sitting in the compartment when Hermione, Seamus and Dean arrived.

"Hey. How was your summer, Neville?" Hermione greeted him.

"It was great!" Neville beamed. "Gran took me to this herbiology convention and we spent a whole weekend there. It was amazing…" and Neville proceeded to tell Hermione all about his summer. Hermione was pleased to hear that Neville has found a girlfriend at the convention. She was genuinely happy for him, he deserved someone to like, or even love him.

Quite some time into the train ride, Draco opened the door to their compartment, looking sour.

"I don't want to interrupt any of your Gryffindor lovey-dovey activities but, Granger, we have to go patrolling on the train, have you forgotten?" he spat in Hermione's direction and walked away.

"OH! I completely forgot!" she exclaimed and turned to her friends "I'll be right back, okay?" and she got up and hurried out of the compartment. She spotted Draco waiting for her a few metres away and quickly went over to him.

"What was that all about? We don't have to go patrolling…" she asked confused. Draco rolled his eyes and pulled her into an empty compartment. He locked it and pulled the curtains closed.

"Ooohh, now I get it." Hermione said and grinned as Draco placed his arms around her and started to kiss her. She immediately gave in and wrapped her arms around him, too.

"This is nice." She said dreamily after some time.

"Yeah. But I think we should go back to our compartments now. They're probably already looking for you. They might think I did something to you, well they're right about that then…" he trailed off, smirking. Hermione slapped him playfully.

"Ha, ha, very funny." She said dryly "But I guess you're right." She turned towards the door. "I'll see you after the welcoming feast in our Common Room?" she asked and Draco nodded, kissing her one last time before she left to go to her friends again. Out in the hallway Hermione made sure that she looked passable and that there were no signs of her meeting with Draco. She quickly put some make up over a hicky on her shoulder and walked back to her friends.

"Hey, guys. Everything's in order. We'd better get changed. I can already see Hogsmeade." she pointed out and the guys left to change elsewhere.

"You didn't really go patrolling, did you?" Ginny grinned.

"Of course I did! What makes you think that?" Hermione was mock outraged.

"Well, for one thing, you've been beaming since you came in here again." Ginny replied smugly. "Oh, and you missed to cover up a mark on your neck." She snickered. "Don't worry, they're too daft to see those things. Here, let me take care of that for you." She added as Hermione's hands flew up to her neck in horror.

"Thanks Gin, you're a good friend." She smiled at her only true girl friend at Hogwarts.

"No prob, hon." Was Ginny's reply and they got changed. And not a moment too late because the guys came in right when they were done.

"Can't you knock! We could have been changing!" Ginny yelled at them, outraged.

"That's kinda what we were hoping for…" Harry said and Ginny threw a shoe at him but he ducked and it hit Ron right in the face. Everyone burst out laughing.

"That's. Not. Funny." Ron scowled but soon had to join the laughing. Then the train came to a halt. They all looked at each other.

"Here it goes. This is our last year guys." Dean said.

"Not mine, I still have next year." Ginny stated.

"We were talking about us, Gin. You don't count." Ron said and got slapped by Ginny and Hermione for that comment. Together the group made their way out of the train and into the carriages that would take them to Hogwarts. In the distance they heard a gruff voice saying "Firs' years this way!" and they smiled. This year would be great.