Disclaimer: Once again the only thing that belongs to me is the plot, the characters all belong to J.K. Rowling.
Hermione walked up to the portrait of the fat lady and said the password, chocolate frogs, and walked through as the hole opened up. Everyone turned to see who walked in, and Ron, Harry, and Ginny jumped up and ran to greet her.
"Hey 'Mione. We were hoping that you would come down soon. I've been stuck watching these two play wizard's chess for over an hour. Little annoying really. What have you been up to?" Ginny was happy for something to distract the boys from their never ending game.
"Oh the usual, catching up on some reading. You know me," Hermione left out her conversation with Draco. Ginny wouldn't mind, but Harry and Ron would be furious. She decided that telling them that her and Draco had come to a mutual agreement to be friends would not be a smart choice.
"Hermione classes haven't even started yet! I haven't even looked at my books. In fact they are still buried in the bottom of my trunk. You are mental, you realize that don't you," Ron wasn't really surprised to hear that Hermione had been reading, but he always had to make fun of her for it.
"I wasn't reading school books Ronald. Besides it beats playing a dumb game day in and day out. It's a beautiful day out, I'm surprised that you're not out on the quidditch pitch getting in some flying practice."
"She's right Harry lets get down there and get some flying in before lunch. I can't wait to get back out there on the pitch." Ron's eyes lit up at the thought of quidditch.
"You don't mind do you 'Mione?" Harry didn't want her to be upset if they left when she came to visit.
"Just go. I don't mind. I'll catch up with Ginny on all of the girl talk that we've been missing out on. You boys have fun." Hermione laughed at the excited look on their faces as she gave them permission to leave.
"Thanks 'Mione!" they said in unison running toward the portrait hole.
As soon as the boys left the room Hermione and Ginny went to sit in their favorite chairs by the fire and were joined by Lavender and Parvati. Right away Lavender started in on Hermione getting to live with Draco. "What's he like Hermione? He is so cute. You are so lucky you get to live with him. What does he wear to bed? Don't you think that he's just to die for?"
"Slow down Lavender. Draco is fine. Yes he's cute. I wouldn't really call myself lucky, we've never really gotten along. I don't think it matters what he wears to bed, and I don't think that any guy is to die for," Hermione laughed at her boy crazy friend. "I think that covered all of your questions. Is there anything else that you would like to know?"
"Oh come on Hermione, you have to give me something more than that. He's the hottest guy in the whole school. Draco Malfoy the Slytherin sex god. What's his room like? What does he sleep in? Come on Hermione I need details." Lavender couldn't contain herself, she was just dying to know.
"Ok Ok. I've never seen his room, so that will remain a mystery. I've only lived with him for a day, but he slept in a pair of green silk boxers. That's really all that I know. I haven't talked to him much. Draco's not really Mr. Social."
"You saw him in his boxers. Oh Merlin! Hermione you are so lucky! Can we have a sleep over at your place soon?"
"Would you back off Lavender. Give the girl some room to breathe. Hermione I'm happy that things don't seem to be too horrible for you living with Malfoy the amazing bouncing ferret. Speaking of which when did you start calling Malfoy Draco?" Ginny had a curious look on her face. Hermione was one of her best friends, and she had never seen Hermione so calm when the topic was Malfoy.
"It really isn't as bad as I thought that it was going to be. I'm really relieved. So far we've only gotten into one real fight. I started calling him Draco when we decided to start over and attempt to be civil, and when he started calling me Hermione." Hermione said this like it was completely normal.
"Hermione are you insane? We're talking about Malfoy here. He has treated you, me, Harry and Ron like trash from the bloody beginning. You can't possibly think that he's serious about being friends. He's never been nice a day in his life." Ginny couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"I thought that you would understand Gin. Merlin, it's amazing how much you just sounded like Ron. I really think Draco has changed. Look at all that he did for the order during the war. He turned in his father as well as several other deatheaters. We couldn't have won the war without him. I think that he deserves a chance to prove that he's different." Hermione was surprised, this was not the reaction she expected from Ginny.
"I know that he helped out during the war, but that doesn't change the fact that he has been a prat for the past 6 years. Listen 'Mione I trust your judgement, I just don't want you to get hurt. Just be careful. If you think he's changed, I'm willing to give him a chance, but if I were you I wouldn't mention this to Harry and Ron. I don't think they will be anywhere near as understanding as me. Especially Ron, you know his temper."
"Thank you so much Ginny. You don't know how much it means to have somebody on my side. Besides what harm can it be, it's only a friendship." Hermione glanced at the clock on the wall. "It's time for lunch we better get down to the great hall."
"Yeah if I don't get down there now Ron will have eaten all of the good stuff." Ginny laughed and stood up to walk to lunch with Hermione.
When they got to the great hall Hermione walked towards the front of the room to the head's table. Draco was already there when she sat down. "Hey Draco. How did your visit to the Snake Pit go?"
"Not bad. You know Blaise has the hots for the little Weaslette? Apparently he's liked her ever since the beginning of the year. He's got it pretty bad." Draco smirked and laughed.
"Really? I thought that it was against the rules for a Slytherin to like a Gryffindor. We even have to keep our friendship quiet because it would cause a fight. Is he planning on doing anything about it? I could find out what Ginny thinks of him."
"Most Slytherins have at one time had a thing for a Gryffindor, we just try to ignore the feelings. We are superior you know." He laughed at the look of disgust on Hermione's face. "Relax Hermione I'm only kidding. I think that it would be great if you found out if the little Weaslette likes him. We can play matchmakers and get them together."
Hermione punched him on the arm for the superior comment, and laughed. "We Gryffindors are obviously the superior ones. We do win the house cup every year. Not to mention the quidditch cup as well. I'll talk to Ginny first chance I get. I think that it would be cute a Gryffindor and a Slytherin couple. Wouldn't that start some rumors."
Draco looked at her and smiled while pulling off a piece of his roll and throwing it at her. She got a shocked expression on her face and threw her whole roll at him. They both broke into fits of laughter. They stopped when they noticed a lot of the eyes in the room were turned to them. Draco instantly replaced his laughter with his signature smirk, and Hermione went back to quietly eating her food. "We really need to be more careful in public. That was close." Draco whispered.
Hermione nodded, finished her food, and stood to leave. "Don't ever call me that again Malfoy! You loathsome little pile of hippogriff dropings!" She winked at him to let him know that she was just putting on a show and stormed out of the room.
"Why would I want to talk to you anyways? You don't even deserve to be in this school, why don't you go back with the rest of the muggles where you belong!" He pushed his chair out, and stood up and walked out of the hall as well.
Draco walked through the portrait hole into the head common room after wandering for a while outside. He didn't want to head directly to his dorm because it would be suspicious if he followed Hermione after their "fight" at lunch. Hermione was on the couch in the common room reading a book, as usual. "Great acting earlier in the hall. You even had me convinced there for a minute. Don't you ever stop reading and just hang out and have fun?"
"You weren't too bad yourself. Thank you for refraining from using the word mudblood Draco. I really appreciate it. Yes I do have fun, but I was supposed to be mad, so I couldn't really go out and act like nothing happened."
"Hey you know what we should do. This is our only free day before we start classes. We should go to Hogsmeade. I want to check out the new brooms, and since we are heads, we have permission to go to Hogsmeade as long as it doesn't affect our school work. Come on what do you say? I might even think about buying you a butterbeer."
Hermione thought for a moment, and decided that she wanted to check out the book store for any new deliveries since her last visit. "Sounds great. How are we going to get there without it looking suspicious? We can't very well walk out of the castle together and head to Hogsmeade."
"You're a witch Hermione. Use your head. We don't need to walk there, we just need a room with a fire, which we have, and a little bit of floo powder, which we also have. I'm just going to run up and grab some money, I'll be back in a minute." Draco ran up the steps to his dorm. He grabbed his money pouch, and shoved it in his pocket. He then stopped to examine himself in the mirror. His feet were all muddy from walking around the grounds. He quickly did a spell to clean himself up, ran his fingers through his hair, and went down to meet Hermione. "All set Hermione?"
"All set. Where should we floo to, the Three Broomsticks, or Honeyduke,s?"
"Three Broomsticks I could really use a butterbeer. Ladies first." He motioned towards the fireplace.
Hermione walked over to the fireplace, grabbed some floo powder, tossed it in the fire screamed Three Broomsticks, and disappeared. Draco followed right behind her.
Well there is another chapter done. I hope that you enjoy it. Thanks again to all of my reviewers. I appreciate the support.