Hey everyone! Thanks for reviewing. It helps me to go on. Sorry about the short chapters but I'm new and it'll take me a while to develop my ideas. Sorry about the cliffies but I feel that people will want to know more and that will make them continue to read my story. Well, thanx for the support! By the way, I'm sorry if Malfoy gets a tad bit out of character in this chapter but it'll only be for a second. When you see italics it is the characters' thoughts not said out loud.

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Chapter 3

Hermione turned around and sighed with relief. "Oh my god, it's only you Malfoy, you really freaked me out!"

"Sorry Mudblood," he said giving her a heart stopping grin (all his grins are heart stopping by the way), "It's just that you left some stuff at Florean Fortescue's, he told me to give it back to you. Although I'm surprised I actually agreed!"

Hermione blinked in surprise, "Was Malfoy actually being nice to me?" She shook this feeling off and said very doubtfully, "So you came here to give me my stuff back?"

Malfoy shrugged and grinned. Hermione nearly fainted when she saw him grin. She shook her head, "What's wrong with me?" she thought, "why am I feeling all weird? This is Malfoy we're talking about!"

Hermione smiled for she didn't know what else to do and took her stuff away from Malfoy. He grinned again right before leaving which puzzled Hermione, "Why is he grinning at me? Do I have something on my face?" She watched him leave and she didn't know why she couldn't take her eyes off him.

(from Malfoy's perspective)

Malfoy could feel her eyes on him until he turned a corner. "What's wrong with Granger?" he wondered, "She looked like she was going to faint on me!" He shook his head, "Must've been my eyes playing tricks on me, Granger couldn't be interested in me now could she? I t would make my job a lot easier if she did like me though. Mind you, I wouldn't blame her if she did like me, I mean who can resist me? But still, I haven't set the trap yet, she can't already have fallen in if I haven't even set the trap up yet. Damn my father, this job may be harder than I expected! Oh well, nothing a little Malfoy charm can't handle!"

He laughed out loud at this last thought as he exited Diagon Alley.

The week passed quickly and soon it was time to go to platform 9 ¾. Mr. Granger pulled Hermione's trunk into the car and got in. It was a really boring ride to the train station but Hermione managed by thinking about seeing Oliver Wood again.

Hermione said bye to her parents after they arrived at the train station. Her parents drove off and she walked straight through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. She found herself staring at a bright red train which was the Hogwarts Express.

She started pulling her trunk with much difficulty towards the train when someone asked, "Need some help with that Mudblood?"

She turned around and saw Malfoy standing behind her wearing a tank top (the guy kind) and jeans.

Hermione stared at him in awe, "Wow," she thought, "He looks extremely hot in muggle clothes." She shook this though away and scolded herself for thinking such thoughts. She instead started looking around for Malfoy senior because she didn't fancy an encounter with him.

Malfoy laughed, "Don't worry Granger. Lucius isn't here, I came alone. I don't need him to baby-sit me and watch over my every move."

Hermione smiled and nodded, "Thanks for asking. I could use a little help!"

Draco gave her one of his heart-stopping grins before pulling the very heavy trunk onto his shoulders as if it weighed less than a feather.

"Oh my god!" thought Hermione, "He's so freakin' buff!"

He bought her trunk to an empty compartment at the back. "There you go," Malfoy said grinning at her.

"Uhhh, thanks," Hermione said trying not to pass out.

He shrugged, "sure, no problem Mudblood." He left the compartment leaving Hermione very confused at his choice of words.

A few minutes later, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Ginny Weasley entered her compartment. The four friends sat down comfortably and soon began talking about nonsense and stuff that had happened during the summer.

Soon, the witch who pushed the food trolley came along and all of them bought a bit of everything. They were soon feasting away when the compartment door slid open. Four people entered: George Weasley, Fred Weasley, Lee Jordan, and Oliver Wood.

Hermione and Ginny, who also had a crush on Oliver Wood, both stopped eating when they saw Oliver Wood leaning against the frame of the compartment door.

"Having a ball are we?" said Fred.

"Well," said George grabbing one of Ron's chocolate frogs, "so nice of you to invite us!"

"What do you want?" asked Ron rolling his eyes.

"Actually," said Lee, his mouth filled with Pumpkin Pasty,"We came with a bit of interesting information."

"Yes, you might want to start thinking about it right away, especially the guys in here," said Oliver with a grin as he sat next to Hermione.

Hermione's heart stopped, Oliver Wood was sitting next to her! She thought she would pass out with excitement.

"All right then, what is it?" asked Harry with a frown.

"Weeeeeell," said George, "we just overheard the head boy telling the head girl that we are going to have four balls (dances for those who prefer that word) this year!"

"FOUR?!?!?" yelled Harry and Ron.

"But….but…but that means that we have to ask out four girls!" stuttered Ron.

"This part is even better!" said Fred ignoring Ron, "the balls (dances) are only for years 4 and up!"

"yeah," said Lee, "no little snotty first, second, and third years!"

"You might want to start thinking about the girls you want to ask!" said Oliver.

"Yeah, see you around!" said Fred.

The four guys exited the now very quiet compartment. "Well," said Hermione breaking the silence, "It looks like we're here!"

Sure enough, up ahead was Hogwarts Castle.

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Soooooo, how is it so far? Is the chapter long enough? Please review because then I can see if people are actually interested in reading my story. Thank you to those who have already reviewed. I didn't think anyone would review, seeing as how boring it is. Well, tell me what you think, I'll update if people are still interested. I originally planned on making Malfoy nice but that would just ruin the whole story. I think I like him better as he is. There's an interesting announcement from Dumbledore about new housing arrangements next chapter just to tell you. Keep reviewing! The years the people are in are a bit messed up. Oliver Wood is still around and he is in his seventh year. Fred and George and their little gang are in the sixth year. Hermione, Harry, Ron, and Draco are in their fifth year. Sorry, I thought it would be interesting this way.