A/n: Hehe! Another chapter up, aren't you all so happy:P Anyway, i would just like to say a really big thank you to Nel-Mari, u rok! lol.

CHAPTER 12: Messy hair and a certain potion

"So…how was your lesson with Malfoy?" Harry asked while avoiding an ink bottle that Peeves was dropping down on students.

"He is the most stuck-up person I have ever had the displeasure of meeting!" Hermione said angrily.

The three made their way down to the great hall for lunch.

"How was your lesson with the mudblood bitch?" Pansy asked Draco.

"Can't complain" Draco answered, trying to hide a smirk.

"Can't complain? Drakkie we're talking about Granger here, I mean, it had to be bad!" Pansy tried desperately.

Draco stopped walking and turned to face Pansy, "Would you shut-up for once! If I said I can't complain then that's that, end of story!" Draco hissed.

"What's this, Malfoy not complaining? That'd be a first" someone said from behind him.

Draco spun around. "What did you say Potty?" Draco hissed dangerously.

"He said-" Ron began.

"I know what he said!" Draco shouted,

"Well then why'd you ask?" Ron spat.

"Probably so he could buy some time to think of something witty and arrogant to say" Hermione said, looking Draco straight in the eyes.

"No-one gave you permission to talk mudblood" Pansy hissed from behind Draco.

Hermione dropped Draco's gaze and looked at Pansy, "You are unbelievable! What's it matter if I'm muggle-born? I'm smarter now then your pureblood ass could be in a thousand years! Not to mention people can actually bear being around me" Hermione said, glaring hard.

"People can bear being around me! Isn't that right Draco?" Pansy said, sounding highly insulted as she clung to Draco's arm.

Draco didn't answer; he just looked at Pansy with a disgusted expression.

Draco sat down next to Blaise at the Slytherin table.

"Hey" Draco said, sounding very irritated.

"Hey man, what's up with you?" Blaise asked, looking up from his lunch.

"Pansy"

"Oh, I thought it might have been that hot mudblood chick"

"Why would you think that?"

"You know, we've never liked her and you had to sit with her in potions, so umm, yeah…what's this with Pansy?"

"Pansy is being…well…Pansy; and it's a annoying the crap out of me"

"Pansy being Pansy, a truly horrible thing, anyway, where is Pansy?"

"I don't know, she ran off crying somewhere, who really gives a damn anyway?"

"A fine point" Blaise laughed then continued eating his lunch.

Draco shrugged and pulled a plate towards him which he immediately piled with food.

As he began eating he heard a laugh sound across the hall. He scanned the hall and saw Hermione laughing as Fred put her back down on the ground and kissed her forehead gently.

Draco could feel the anger rising in him as he watched the two.

Hermione smiled as Fred swept her of her feet and into her arms, and then laughed when he quickly put her down because of McGonagall's stony stare.

He kissed her forehead gently instead and they sat down.

Hermione started to eat, but unable to help herself any longer, she scanned the Slytherin table.

When she spotted Draco she shrank a little. He was looking at her; his grey eyes were cold and angry.

Hermione averted her eyes from his and began eating, feeling very uncomfortable as Draco's eyes bored into her.

At last she ate all of her dinner and kissing Fred goodbye she left, saying she'd be fine and that she was going straight up to Gryffindor tower…which she was.

Hermione looked back at Fred over her shoulder as she walked into the entrance hall; he caught her eye and winked.

Hermione made her way up the stairs leading to Gryffindor tower. She was just rounding the corner that lead to the fat lady when someone called out her name, "Hermione!" She spun around expecting Fred or George, hopefully not George with what he had witnessed earlier…

"Don't you mean mudblood?" Hermione spat, clearly shocked at seeing Draco, but keeping her cool.

"No…"

"Surprising"

"Look, I'm sorry about Pansy" Draco said coldly.

Hermione was taken aback at the anger in his voice, Draco saw this "Hermione, I'm sorry…"

"What is up with you?" Hermione yelled, stepping back as Draco tried to calm her down, "Can't you just make up your mind about me?" As the words left Hermione's mouth she realised that it sounded as if she was sort of in love with him, and that wouldn't do.

"What?" Draco asked.

"I said make up your mind about me! Then we can just get on with the lives we led before you practically began stalking me!" and with that Hermione ran over to the fat lady, whispered the password and stepped into the Gryffindor common room before Draco could stop her.

"Draco man, you got to get up" Blaise said, pulling the curtains back on Draco's four poster bed.

"Bugger off" Draco murmured, pulling them back.

This time Blaise showed no mercy, instead he ripped the curtains down completely and magically conjured ice cold water which fell onto Draco.

"I'm up!" Draco yelled, jumping out of bed.

Blaise smirked.

"That was not funny" Draco said, shivering.

"Well from your point of view it wasn't, but from where I was it was fricken hilarious" Blaise laughed.

Draco gave him a filthy look before storming off into the bathroom for a shower.

When Draco emerged from the steamy bathroom he found Blaise to be waiting for him.

"Ready?" Blaise asked, looking at Draco's hair which was everywhere. Truth be told, Draco's hair looked fantastic like that, but he always insisted to slick it back, a habit his father had gotten him into.

"Yeah" Draco said, not caring that his hair looked (well bloody fantastic) in his opinion untidy.

Blaise cast a worried glance at Draco but proceeded down the stairs anyway.

"Hermione…" Ginny said quietly as she leant beside Hermione's four poster bed.

"Mmm?" Hermione answered groggily.

"You have to get up; classes are starting in an hour"

Hermione didn't answer; instead she snuggled deeper into her blankets.

Ginny sighed, then leant in very close to Hermione's hear and yelled…

"HERMIONE GET UP! YOU'RE TAKING YOUR NEWT'S TODAY!"

Hermione's eyes opened wide and she launched herself out of bed and ran it to the bathroom raving about only studying for 4 hours last night.

When Hermione appeared in the bathroom doorway already dressed with her hair up in a messy wet bun with a white flower, well, let's just say she'd been happier.

"That was a cruel thing to do Ginerva Weasley!" Hermione said.

"Well, it had to be done, otherwise you would have gladly spent all day in bed, which seems weird, usually you'd already be sitting in the classroom at this time reading" Ginny said.

Hermione gave in and headed down to the common room with Ginny.

"And what on earth made you two take so bloody long?" Fred joked as they appeared from the doorway.

"Miss Perfect here slept in" Ginny teased.

Both the girls laughed as Fred pulled a shocked face.

As soon as George had come down from the boy's dormitory they all left for breakfast.

Hermione kept glancing back at George warily has he told him?

Slowly Hermione dropped back a bit until she was level with George.

"Hey" she said.

"Hey 'Mione"

She smiled.

"Um, I was just wondering if you told Fred about…you know, what you walked in on"

"No, I think Fred would have a fit if he found out that Malfoy kissed you again"

"Heh…yeah" Hermione said relieved.

"Just do me a favour"

"Mmm?"

"Next time Malfoy tries anything tell us, because I had a feeling that you weren't going to tell us about that little kiss"

"Yeah…" Hermione answered, she couldn't promise him, because she knew she wouldn't tell them if something else happened.

The four of them walked into the noisy hall that was full of more giggles then usual today.

"Oh god, giggling fits…let's eat in the kitchen" Fred joked.

They made their way over and sat down at the Gryffindor table next to Harry and Ron.

"What's with all the giggles?" George asked the two boys.

"Malfoy is wearing his hair differently" Ron growled, obviously annoyed at all the attention Draco was getting from the girls.

"That's it?" George exclaimed.

"What a stupid thing to get worked up about!" Fred joined in, getting many scowls from some girls.

Ginny kicked Hermione under the table and nodded in the direction of the Slytherin tale.

Hermione looked over, and waiting a couple of seconds for some of the Slytherin girls to move she saw Draco.

His hair was…gorgeous, almost breathtaking, but Hermione wasn't going into giggling fits just because some guy didn't brush his hair.

Draco walked into the great hall with Blaise and found himself swarmed with girls from his own house, all the others were giggling stupidly.

Draco pushed past them and sat at the table, annoyed with the unwanted attention.

During breakfast it seemed he couldn't even eat, let alone sneak a glance at the Gryffindor table.

"Oi! You two, move!" Draco said, pointing to the two girls that were blocking his view. The girls moved, positively thrilled that Draco had spoken to them.

Draco looked over at the Gryffindor table, he saw Hermione, her hair down up in a messy bun.

She was looking his way, but didn't seem to notice that he was looking back at her.

He watched as she then rolled her eyes and turned back around, starting a conversation with Fred…or was it George? Who cares? He thought.

Then an idea hit him, the belief potion!

"Wingardium Leviosa" he muttered, making the small vial that contained belief potion float in mid-air.

Slowly and extremely carefully he made it make its way to the Gryffindor table.

Once reaching it he hovered it just above Fred's glass and poured some in, then he did the same with George's or at least he thought it was George.

Bringing it back to him he smirked. No-one ever noticed when something was floating around the room except for the first years, and they weren't a problem.

He watched as the twins, finished off their breakfast, skulled their drinks and then got up.

He had to refrain himself from sending a hex when he saw Fred hold out his hand for Hermione, making her laugh.

Draco sat behind Hermione in Transfiguration. He had decided that he would talk to Fred and George a little later, making them believe everything they hear would be funny enough anyway.

"Hey" He whispered to the brunette.

She didn't answer.

He tried an arrogant approach.

"Care to give me another kiss?"

She turned around this time and glared, eyes flicking to his hair momentarily (a/n: gotta love that hair).

"Don't talk to me, don't even breathe around me" she hissed, and then turned back to face the front just as Professor McGonagall walked into the room in a foul temper.

"Books open to page 55, NOW!" she snapped.

Everyone hurriedly opened their books to the required page, and so the lesson began…

"Maybe I should just drop transfiguration" Ron moaned after class.

"Come on Ron, you weren't that bad…I mean I feel sorry for the rabbit you were meant to be transfiguring…"

"Shut-up Harry"

"Don't worry Ron, all you need is practice, after all, if you drop the subject then you have no chance of becoming an Auror" said Hermione.

"I don't think it's worth it" Ron said.

"It's not that bad Weasley, just concentrate a bit harder next time, you should do fine"

The three of them spun around.

"MALFOY?" They all exclaimed.

"What?" he asked.

"I'm not sure if you noticed but you were being nice to us"

"Oh yeah, about that, if you tell anyone, I'll kill you" he said, smirking at Hermione as he walked away. Hermione couldn't help but smile.

Draco walked away from the three, he was sure that he had seen Hermione begin to smile as he left.

"Good" he said to himself.

Just then a red head walked around the corner and they collided.

"Argh! Watch where you're going Malfoy!" yelled one of the Weasley twins.

"It was your fault" Draco said, experimenting.

"So it was"

Draco smirked, the potion had worked.

"So are you Fred or George?"

"George, not like it's any of your business"

"Ah, George, I wanted to talk to you about something"

"Well if it's about that kiss you forced upon Hermione's lips then I'm likely to hex you"

"Forced? Oh no, no, no, you've got it wrong, she kissed me" Draco said, smirking like mad.

"WHAT? How could this have happened?"

"Well, I don't really know, I just walked in and sat down then suddenly she was all over me"

"How could Hermione do that to Fred?"

"I don't know, but you should tell him, he'll be worse off if he finds out on his own"

"You're right" George said, walking away to find his brother.

Draco smirked and then hurried off; he had to find Fred before George did.

Draco started to make his way to the library, I mean, most guys that want to impress her go there right? So maybe he just wanted to try doing things she liked.

"Argh!" Draco shouted as he tripped over something.

"Dobby?" he shouted in disbelief.

"Master!" the elf shrieked, curling into a ball.

"I'm no-longer your master unless you forgot" Draco spat.

"Of course" the elf said, slowly standing up.

"What were you doing running around the school of a day anyway?"

"Looking for someone" The elf said.

"For who?"

"Someone"

"FOR WHO?"

"Ms Hermione Granger!" the elf shrieked putting his hands over his head in fear.

"And why would you be looking for Hermione?" Draco said, making his voice sound threatening.

"B-because m-mister Weasley asked me too..."

"Fred Weasley?"

The elf nodded.

"Dobby, where is he?"

"In the kitchens"

"Show me"

The elf shook his head and scurried away, but not being very bright, ran straight to the kitchens.

Draco followed the creature, but stopped when he nearly ran into a wall. "Damn!" he shouted.

He punched the wall, yelling in rage.

He continued this for a few minutes.

"Malfoy?" Draco turned around.

Fred Weasley was standing where a portrait of fruit usually was, behind him were house elves, all desperate for him to take the food they had made with him.

"Weasley" Draco acknowledged, noticing very much how Fred face twisted up in anger at the sight of him.

"I wanted to talk to you Weasley"

"Really, too bad I don't want to talk to you"

"Wait! It's about Hermione…and George" Draco said, stopping Fred in his tracks as he tried to leave.

"What about them?"

"Earlier today I found out that George likes Hermione a lot, but when I confronted him he got angry, now he's made some story up about Hermione and I kissing, I think he intends on telling you this to make you break up with her, I just thought you should know that its not true before you got mad" Draco said, once again smirking madly.

"How did you find out that George likes her?"

"I have my sources. Why? Don't you believe me?"

"No, no, I do, really!" Fred said quickly, before leaving to find his brother.

"Hey George" Hermione greeted as George rushed into the common room.

"Where's Fred?" George spat.

"George, what's wrong?"

"I asked you a question"

"Um, I don't know, haven't seen him"

"Probably with Malfoy"

"What? GEORGE!" Hermione was worried; he'd never acted like this towards her.

Just then Fred entered the common room at a run.

"Hermione!" he breathed, racing over to her and hugging her.

"Fred, I think something is wrong with George!" Hermione said worriedly.

"What?" Fred said turning to George.

"Fred!" George exclaimed. "I have to tell you something"

Fred cast a vicious eye at his brother.

"Yesterday I saw Hermione kissing Malfoy, I didn't want to tell you, but I thought it best I tell you then you found out on your own" George said glaring at Hermione.

"You're lying!" Fred roared.

"No, it's the truth, I was there!"

Fred was starting to get mad at his brothers desperation to make him believe.

He walked right over to him and punched him.

"FRED!" Hermione screamed, she had no idea what was going on, but it wasn't good.

"It's alright Hermione, I know you would never do that" Fred said, continuously punching his brother.

"Fred, stop it!" Hermione screamed, and unable to watch any longer she ran from the room.

"Hermione wait!" Fred yelled after her. He got up and ran from the room, shortly followed by George who had his wand out.

As Hermione reached the entrance hall in tears she heard Fred calling out.

She turned and saw him running towards her, shortly followed by George.

"Fred, she doesn't love you!" George yelled.

"George how could you say that?" Hermione cried.

"Don't talk to me" George spat.

Fred then turned around wand out, "How dare you talk to her like that! Stupefy!"

George dodged the spell, causing it to hit an unsuspecting 3rd year.

Fred and George continued their duel, causing spells to go everywhere, one hitting Pansy.

"Stop it!" Hermione finally yelled out, after it hitting a first year.

She stepped between them, a stupid thing to do, but when you trust someone…

"Expelliamus!" George shouted.

The spell hit Hermione and seeming she had no wand in her hand she was flung back instead. She hit the wall and fell unconscious.

a/n: Hello all my fabulous readers! Missed me? lol. I'm soooo sorry that i'm taking forever to update, but you know, all busy with the holidays, anyways, i want to mention that in this chapter, with the belief potion...an interesting potion with a very unoriginal name...You know how George tires to tell Fred that Hermione doens't love him? Well the belief potion won't work for that because Malfoy was the first to get to Fred meaning Fred will only beleive Malfoy on the particular subject. Sooo yeah, i'll try and update soon, and if you wish me to update quickly, then encourage me by reviewing! LOL