Meeting Draco & The Beginning of the End
We were going to Diagon Alley to finish out school shopping with Ron, her older brother, and his best friend, Harry Potter. We were having a great time, when we went into her other brothers' Fred and George's, joke shop, Blaise was there, and he had a friend.
That was the first time I saw him.
Ginny ran over to Blaise and they began to make out, leaving me standing alone, looking completely clueless.
"Hi, Hermione." and there he was, Draco Malfoy, Blaise's best friend, the school rebel, standing in the middle of a joke shop, talking to me.
He was the bad boy that every girl wanted. He marched to the beat of his own drum, not to mention he was gorgeous in that off-beat way. Shaggy blonde hair and these piercing steel grey eyes; it was as if he could see right through me; like he knew something I didn't. ""We all knew who he was of course. As a Boy with a Reputation, his school hood legend preceded him.""
"Hi…you remembered my name," I said stupidly.
"We had Muggle Studies together."
"Yea, but you were never there, technically."
"Herms, come on we've got to go, mum's going mental," I heard Ginny say as she detangled herself from Blaise, very red-faced. She had interrupted my chat with Draco, even though technically it wasn't.
I said a quick goodbye and we ran out of the store, but not before I heard a "Bye Hermione," trailing behind me, from Draco.
Once we were back at Ginny's and were in her room away from nosy ears, we somehow came upon the topic of Draco.
"So you and Draco, huh"
"Ginny, please!" ""You never even told me you knew him.""
""I just know him through Blaise. He's messed up Hermione. He's got a lot of problems.""
""It's so weird though," I said. "I mean, him talking to me."
"Whatever you say, Herms."
We talked for a while longer, about random things. Sleep finally found us at around two am.
We had school tomorrow