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A/n- Omfg tons of reviews, sweet! Sorry for the long wait(what like 7 days?), but here the next chapter is. Thanks for the great feedback. More at the bottom…
This chapter goes out to all my loyal reviewers, especially soccerpixie3000 and BlackOwl892006.
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Of Being a Gryffindor
"Is that Draco Malfoy?"
"Isn't he a death eater?"
"I thought they expelled him!"
The whispers followed Draco everywhere he went on the platform, people pointing and staring, whispering and yelling to their friends. Draco felt alone when looking at the large families saying goodbye to their kids and giving them hugs. It almost made him miss his mother.
After the shouting match, his mother had run as far as she could away. Draco hadn't seen or heard from her since. And his father was still in prison, not that he missed him at all. But he sometimes wished his life could have been different; better.
"Oh god, a death eater!" some kid yelled and stepped back from Draco.
"Oh shut up, would he be here if he was a death eater?" Hermione snapped at him and basically anyone that said something like that to Draco. He was grateful but could feel Ron's eyes staring into the back of his head. He looked back and noticed how Ron's fists were balled and his eyes were sharp.
Draco looked away and grabbed Hermione's wrist, making Ron even angrier, and dragged her closer to the train, to the spot where the carriage. He laughed as she walked into the Heads' compartment and ducked into it himself.
"What did you grab my wrist for? I can follow someone on my own!" she asked him angrily. Draco admitted to himself that she looked hot when she was angry. Oh, shit, what was he saying? This is mudblood Granger here. Ew, totally!
"Make Weasley jealous. Did you see how pissed he was?" he said gleefully and Hermione narrowed her eyes maliciously.
"Why do you have to make my life so difficult?" she complained and pushed past him out of the compartment.
"Where are you going?" he yelled at her as she stormed down the corridor of the train.
"To comfort my boyfriend, jackass!" she screamed at him and almost ran into a first year who was nervously shuffling down the hallway, looking for a spot to sit. She muttered a sorry and continued her way, leaving a trail of destruction behind her.
Draco laughed and fell back into their compartment, leaning against the seat and relaxing his feet. He soon fell asleep, his dreams haunted by last year, his father and mother, and Voldemort.
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"Get the hell up!" Hermione screams pierced his ear and shook his eardrum as he shook awake groggily. He sat up and blinked around, noticing Hermione, who had her head against the opposite wall and was crying.
"Hermione, wha-?" he asked her but she rounded on him, her fist clenched and tears streaming freely down her face. Draco had never once seen her cry before, or at least, never in front of people.
"You!" she said pointing directly at him and raised her fist fast and Draco quickly moved to avoid getting punched. But she dropped her fist and fell down, bringing her knees together and rocked back and forth, silently crying. Draco got up and sat next to her, moving the hair from her face.
He sat there and breathed in her scent, feeling her baby soft skin with his finger. He moved her hair out of her face and noticed how soft it actually was. He wanted to cup her face in his hands and make everything alright for her. He wanted to comfort her and make her forget Ron.
He couldn't believe he was thinking like this. Thoughts such as these were sinful in his house. But he was a different person; he had changed a whole lot during the summer. But he should never think like this, this was Granger he was talking about! He jerked his hand away quickly and she continued to cry.
"What's wrong?" he said softly and tried to get her to look at him. She gave in and looked at him, the happy glint that had been present in her eye hours ago gone.
"R-Ron d-dumped me," she managed to choke out and burst into another fit of sobs that rocked her entire body.
"What? Why?" he exclaimed, looking to make sure the door was closed.
"He-he thinks…he thinks me and you…he thinks I'm cheating on him…with you," she muttered and looked at him. Draco tried to give her a sympathy look but he couldn't. His smirk showed. She rolled her eyes at him but she had stopped crying. "Crazy, right?"
"Yeah, crazy," he said faintly. But he didn't think it was crazy at all.
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"First years over to the oaf! Ow!" he yelled to the crowd and Hermione kicked him in the shin.
"Don't call him that you prat," she scolded and she assisted a few first years on their way over to Hagrid, who was preparing for the regular trip across the lake. Draco rubbed his shin where Hermione had kicked him absently.
After all the little first years had made their way to the lake and the safety of Hagrid, Draco and Hermione headed to their carriage. Most of the others had already departed, except theirs and the prefect carriages. It was most likely that nobody was in those at all, usually the prefects just sat with their friends. They got into their carriage and off they went.
"Your pissed at me, I know," Draco said to break the unsettling silence that was between them. It had been the same way on the train, except for a few comments, mainly from Draco.
"Your right," she said simply. Draco sighed and put his head in his hands.
"Forgive me. Please. You're the only friend I have Hermione," he pleaded. Her first name must have caught her attention because she looked up suddenly.
"Cheer me up and maybe I'll forgive you," she said and laughed and he came closer and began tickling her. "No, not…tickling!" she gasped and pushed him away, tripping in the process and landing on top of him.
They were so close Draco couldn't stand it. He closed the gap between his lips and hers. She leaned away but didn't get off of him. Draco rolled over and landed on top of her. He wanted nothing more than to kiss her right now and he didn't know why. Why did he want to kiss Granger?
He pressed his lips against hers and she began to struggle. She relaxed as Draco kissed her again and sunk into their kiss. She quickly began to flail around and kick him. "No, no, no!" she screamed as she broke off their kiss and pushed him off, standing up. "We can't, no!" she said, breathing hard.
"You know you enjoyed it," Draco said with full confidence.
"No, I didn't," she said quickly, but he could tell she had enjoyed it very much. "No," she said again and shook her head. She sat down and gripped the seat until her knuckles were white.
"Don't lie to yourself," he sneered at her and smirked and walked over to her, sitting next to her. She scooted over to the edge, getting away from Draco.
"We can't," she said faintly and looked straight at Draco. "Never do that again, if anyone had seen us Draco, we'd be dead," she said.
"So, no one will catch us. We have our own common room," he said easily.
"I'm not dating you, me and Ron…" she said but stopped and Draco could see the tears forming.
"Broke up. I don't want to date you Granger, god," he said. But inside he felt quite differently. He didn't understand his feelings for Hermione anymore. Supposedly they were just friends, but Draco didn't know if he wanted to be friends with her. Actually, be just friends with her.
"Pervert," she muttered and Draco laughed. "I still have feelings for Ron," she said. Draco rolled his eyes. She wanted to be friends with him, so he would be friends with her. Besides, there were so many girls at Hogwarts who will be fawning over him as usual.
"Do you want to, I don't know, talk about it?" he suggested. "Is that what friends do?" he asked her uncertainly. She laughed at him and kissed him on the cheek. Draco touched the spot where she had kissed him and nodded to her.
"Yes, that's what friends do. Maybe later?" she said as the carriage came to a stop. Draco nodded at her and they both got out and trudged up the castle. Yes, Draco decided, this as definitely going to be an interesting year.
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"Ahh, nice of the Head Boy and Girl to join us," Lupin announced as Hermione and Draco entered the Hall, soaked through because it had started raining and out of breath from laughing so hard. Hermione was all muddy because Draco had pushed her into a mud puddle, and Draco's cloak was ripped because Hermione had stepped in it and Draco had walked too fast.
"Sorry Lupin, I mean Professor," Draco said as his teeth chattered. The entire Hall roared with laughter and Draco walked back to the Slytherin table, where he was getting death glares. He sat down and looked around him, getting a bad feeling from people staring at him. He looked instead at Professor Lupin, who was restarting his opening speech.
"I am no Dumbledore, yet they don't have many people willing to run a school, so I took it up. Welcome to Hogwarts for you new faces, and welcome back our old hands. So, first off, I'd like to say that you are completely safe here at Hogwarts. Or as safe as you can be. We know that Voldemort is out there, but we are working to protect you as best as we can. I hope you enjoy your year here. And now, to announce this years Head Boy and Girl, you may already know them, Hermione Granger of Gryffindor House and Draco Malfoy of Gryffindor House!" he exclaimed.
Scattered clapping followed but most people were staring at Professor Lupin like he was an idiot. I'm in Slytherin, Draco thought to himself. He got up shakily and walked slowly to the front of the Hall where Hermione was already standing, giving Lupin the oddest look.
"No, you didn't hear me wrong. Draco Malfoy will be transferring to Gryffindor House for his final year at Hogwarts. How about a round of applause for a new Gryffindor?" Lupin said energetically and Draco felt his body go numb. The roar that followed was deafening, everyone in the Hall except the Slytherins were on their feet, clapping hard for him. Draco shook Lupin's hand and walked slowly back to the Gryffindor table.
Hermione sat down next to Harry and Draco shooed away a third year and sat down on the other side of her. He ran the thought through his head; I'm a Gryffindor! He had mixed emotions, he sure was glad he didn't have to sit next to that lot anymore, but he didn't really like the Gryffindors a lot.
The food quickly appeared and Draco ate in silence, barely noticing the tension between Hermione and Ron. In the end, he snapped out of his trance and noticed how Ron was stabbing his meat with his knife very hard. Draco laughed but continued to eat anyways. After the desert was over, Draco saw Hermione, Ron, Harry and Ginny get up all at once. He followed them quickly and trailed behind them as they left the Hall.
At the stairs, the group split up. Harry and Ginny went up to Gryffindor tower and Hermione led the way to the Heads' dormitories. Ron stood still in the midst of them all and stared after Hermione.
"Hey, Hermione! Hermione!" Ron yelled at her retreating back and ran to catch up. "Can we talk?" he asked tensely.
Hermione seemed to consider it for a moment and then looked away and said," No, we can't," and strutted off. Draco ran to catch up and smirked beside himself. Definitely an interesting year he assured himself.
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A/n- Ok, fourth chapter is up, I want to see some cool reviews people! Thanks in advance. I'll try to get a new chapter up by next weekend, but it depends on my reviews! Great feedback for chapter three though, thanks. Krista
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