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Hermione received her schedule at breakfast the next morning.
Hermione's schedule:
Arithmancy: 7:55
Potions: 8:55
Transfiguration: 9:55
Charms: 10:55
Lunch/Break: 11:55
Astronomy: 12:55
Herbology: 1:55
Defense Against the Dark Arts: 2:55
Draco had just gotten his schedule:
Artihmancy: 7:55
Potions: 8:55
Transfiguration: 9:55
Charms: 10:55
Lunch/Break: 11:55
Astronomy: 12:55
Herbology: 1:55
Defense Against the Dark Arts: 2:55
Hermione had finished eating and left her table by 7:45 and left to go to her first class of her 7th year.
Upon entering Arithmancy, she was took a seat in her assigned desk. The desks were in alphabetical order.
Which meant Hermione Granger sat two rows away from the infamous Draco Malfoy. Good.
Hermione got through the day with ease, and she had some bad news.
Draco Malfoy was in every last one of her classes. They had been paired for two projects already and it was only the first day of school.
She hated how the professors liked to pair the Heads for everything.
Draco Malfoy was going to die. He had every class with mudblood Granger.
He absolutely hated living with her, but now he had to do two projects with her as well? The professors could bite him if he was going to put up with that.
He didn't have any classes with Crabbe and Goyle. They were in special classes because they had failed the sixth year and they were not up to speed with the seventh years yet.
They, like so many others, had abandoned him. But this time for Blaise Zabini.
Blaise had once been Draco's friend, but no one could make Draco even so much as look at Blaise now.
Hermione wasn't thrilled. It was like being glued to Draco Malfoy, something that didn't excite her too much.
After her last class at six thirty, Hermione decided to skip dinner and go 'lounge' in the Common Room by the fire and do some review homework the professors always set on the first day of school.
But Hermione's plans to 'lounge' didn't go very far. Unless finishing your homework and falling asleep on the fireplace meant 'lounging'.
When Draco came in the Common Room, he saw Granger asleep on the stone fireplace.
Dang, that's gotta be uncomfortable, Draco thought to himself.
She looks uncomfortable, I can't just leave her there.
So he picked her up and carried her to her room.
Hermione had woken up the minute she heard the Common Room door open, though she kept her eyes closed. She was a light sleeper, after all.
She was surprised when she felt someone lift her off of the uncomfortable stone fireplace and carried her across the room. Whoever was carrying her had to be strong. And he was.
Hermione took a risk and opened one eye.
Her jaw nearly dropped.
She just managed to keep it closed. Draco Malfoy was carrying her to her room?
Of his own account? That was super abnormal.
Hermione smiled, but kept her one eye open.
She could swear she saw Draco smile down at her. She really saw Draco Malfoy smile at her.
And to top it off, it was a loving smile.
A loving smile?
Hermione shut her eyes, and continued to smile right before Draco laid her lightly on her barely familiar bed.
A loving smile.
