One week passes and pretty much nothing happens between our two favourite characters except a few snide remarks and a lot of 'meaningful' glances. Then one fateful day:
a) Draco suddenly sucks at Arthimancy and needs Hermione to help
b) Draco and Hermione are stuck doing an Ancient Runes assignment together or
c) Snape puts Hermione under Draco's guidance for potions just out of pure sadism
On the first night, Hermione runs back to the common room to tell Ron, Harry and Ginny all about big bad Malfoy while Harry and Ron:
a) Complete Divination homework
b) Play chess
c) Play exploding Snap
d) Play gobstones
e) Throw darts at a picture of Snape's head
Meanwhile, Ginny paints her nails / reads Witches Weekly or some other teen magazine with a preppy name like "Ban-she" or "Teen Witch".
After hearing about Hermione's unfortunate situation, Harry and Ron:
a) Threaten to bash up Draco Malfoy
b) Threaten to break Malfoy's 'pretty little nose' or
c) Threaten to feed Malfoy to the giant squid
Then Ginny pipes into the conversation after being dragged away from her article "How to Lose a Wizard in 9 days", and happens to mention that Hermione is actually lucky because suddenly all the girls at Hogwarts are driven wild by Malfoy's gel-less hair. Go figure.
As Hermione returns to the common room that night, she contemplates the statement Ginny made about Malfoy and as she walks in on him in the common room with light from the fire flickering on his face giving him a ethereal glow, Hermione decides to have a crush on him but remain in denial for the majority of the story.