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Next Week, Monday

As I ate my breakfast in the Great Hall, I pondered whether or not Neville was starting to like me. He was saying hi to me more often in the halls. He even sat by Harry, Ron, and I instead of Dean and Seamus once. Granted, it was because he didn't get the homework, and we spent the whole lunch hour going over it. I can't actually expect him to fall in lust with me in a week. I know for a fact that you can't get over a crush (Ginny) that fast. All this thinking, dare I say it, was putting me in a bad mood.

"Hermione, are you listening?"

"Huh," I replied confused.

"Nothing. We were just talking about the defense Against the Dark Arts teacher," said Harry.

"Right, we have her after Potions today," I said nonchalantly. What do you expect from me, especially when I wasn't paying attention.

"Brings joy to my heart," muttered Harry.

"At least they didn't double it," I said trying to be positive. "Which is a good thing," Ron said between chews.

"I like the subject. It's just, the teacher is so-"

"Annoying?" said Ron and I finishing for Harry.

"Exactly," replied Harry.

"Well guys, I forgot my Potions Book. I'll meet both of you down in the dungeons," I informed before leaving.

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Potions

I got to class just in time. Malfoy was here today. I think he threatened his fellow Slytherins to not make fun of him. It was working pretty well actually. The only time they secretly laughed at him was when he was looking down at the cauldron and putting ingredients in. I had a hard time keeping the laughter in myself.

"Pass the toadstool."

"What?"

"Pass the toadstool, Granger," said Malfoy a little more sternly.

I passed it to him.

"You can go ahead and let all the giggles out. I'm sure everybody else in this class is happy to see me as well," he said bitterly.

"Just peachy," I said distracted. I need to stop thinking so hard.

"So, I guess I should update you on my side of the bet," he said nonchalantly. I guess he doesn't know that he's sort of having a one-sided conversation.

It took me a few minutes to realize what he wanted to talk about. I ran the sentence through my head again. I heard update and bet. I immediately perked up.

"Do tell."

"Why? You're probably going to start daydreaming again," he said nonchalantly again.

His tone was agitating me. In fact, he was agitating me in general. Plus, he was teasing me. That did not help my mood.

I simply glared.

He continued talking as if I begged him to talk. I had to admit I was rather curious, but it could wait. I took over stirring to give me something to do while he basks in his glory.

"I caught dear Lisa in the library crying. Flinch-Fletchy obviously did it. It was rather harsh what he said to her," he said adding a slight drawl. I guess he was expecting me to be curious.

"Anyways, I comforted her. She agreed to see me whenever Flinch-Fletchy starts to upset her."

I kept stirring.

"I think I've made better progress than you have with Longbottom," he concluded cockily.

The silent treatment thing was starting to lose its appeal. I wanted to bite back so much. Damn self-control.

"I mean the best thing you've done is homework with the clumsy gi-"

I had enough. "He is not a git, Malfoy. The perfect definition of a git would be you."

"I am not the one playing him, now am I" he retorted slyly.

I turned to him. "It's not because of you that I'm doing this. It's because of me."

I bet he could tell he touched a nerve. "Really now?"

"I am being serious. But you know as well as I do that I wouldn't tell you. There's the whole trust issue thing, isn't there?" I said calming down.

I had to make him believe that I was still as sarcastic as ever. If he knew he touched a nerve, he would take advantage of that.

"Right you are, Granger. Besides, I already got my next assignment in mind," he said nonchalantly again. He is so lucky that there are laws in this world, because he would've been as good as gone.

"Really now?" I said imitating him. "Thinking to much already, are we Malfoy?"

Yes, my sarcasm was back. My mood wasn't any better though.

"I don't appreciate that-"

"Turn in your Potions now," bellowed Snape before Malfoy could finish his retort.

"See you at the meeting tonight," I said in a low voice before leaving. He was stuck with bringing the Potion up to the Professor this time.

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DADA

"Ok like class! Like attention!" said Professor Harpenger.

We normally wouldn't respond to this demand, but nobody wanted to here anymore likes.

"Now like, we will like learn how like to like counter a like hard like curse like today. This curse like makes like your opponent like blind until the counter like is said. Can like anyone like tell me like what like this curse like is?" she asked. You know, if she didn't use all the likes, she would sound smart.

I raised my hand. She called Hannah's name out and was actually looking in Hannah's direction, so I assumed it wasn't me.

She got it right, surprisingly. I'm not calling her stupid. It's just that hardly anyone who doesn't read as much as I do knew about it.

"Very good like Ron," she complimented. Ron woke up.

"You might want to stay awake. For this one," I whispered to Ron. "She was talking to Hannah though."

Ron nodded and started to rub his eyes.

"Now like I don't like want to like try this on like you, so like I will use like a rat for like this curse," Professor Harpenger explained. "After like my demonstration (ooo big word), you like will like all get rats to practice on," she said cheerfully. I'm sure the rest of the class was rejoicing as well.

So she demonstrated. The class had to pay extra attention to what she was saying. If we didn't, then she might add in an extra like while saying the incantation.

40 min later

"Hermione, I can't do it!" whined Ron.

"Ron, it's easy. It's not like the rats are emotionally attached to you or anything," I said reassuring him.

"It's not that. Look."

I turned.

"All of them either turned into a miniature dog or lost its teeth. And I think the two over there have developed an attraction for each other," he said pointing. I had to admit, it was disturbing.

"Here, let me-"

"Class, like our time is like almost like over. I want each like and every like one of like you to have like this curse like by the end of the week," Professor Harpenger yelled while we packed our books.

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Prefect Meeting, Library

It was towards the end finally. I let Malfoy talk through this one. My mood has yet to improve today. If I explained something and the others had questions, I would've been irritated enough for all hell to break lose. And I still had to do homework with Neville.

"Now, I want all of you to make the list of the people in your house that are allowed to go. Then give the list to Granger or me. That is all. Dismissed," said Malfoy. I hope he sees how unprofessional it is to call me Granger in front of everyone.

I started to pack my stuff. I was about to escape when Malfoy was stupid enough to stop me. "I am curious about your side of the bet Granger."

"I bet you are Malfoy," I replied sarcastically. Either he developed a sort of odd attraction to me, or he wants to annoy me as much as possible today. Do I have to remind him of my mood...again?

"I trusted you enough to tell you my side of the bet. I want your side now," he said sternly. I'm not going to quiver in my boots anytime soon. I'm not sure he noticed that yet.

"If you must know, Malfoy," I said giving a long fake sigh. He rolled his eyes. Annoying him for a change gave me a slight pang of happiness. "I've been making progress this past week. Although, I'm not going into detail since your perversion can't handle it."

He turned his back to me. "Is that code that you aren't doing so well?"

"No, it's code for you'll see. Wait till Hogmeade weekend my undear Mr. Malfoy."

"Whatever, Granger. As long as I win this thing, I'm a happy man."

"You mean happy thing right? I wouldn't consider you a man just yet."

"Granger, shut up. You are such an insufferable-"

Before he could finish, he heard the door slam behind him. That was the sweet sound of me leaving.

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Gryffindor Common Room

"Hey Neville," I said while entering. I tried to be graceful, but it's kind of hard after running a long way.

"You're late," he said without a greeting.

"I know. The meeting ran a little longer than expected," I replied knowing very well I was lying.

He caught on. "Ron came back twenty minutes ago."

"Yes, I know. Malfoy and I had to finalize things," I said. It was true in an odd sort of way. At least, that's what I convinced myself to think.

"Ok."

I inwardly sighed with relief.

"Ok, lets get started on Charms-"

1hr later

I was more successful than I should be today. No, I didn't kiss him or anything. I just brushed my hand against his and moved closer to him than I normally do. The surprising part was that he didn't pull away. I knew that my look changed, but people just thought of me as the same old Hermione that actually became a woman. Normally, others would have pulled away.

"So I'll see you tomorrow then?" asked Neville.

"Neville, do you really have to ask that question?" I asked trying to sound teasing. My progress didn't keep my mood from improving. I'm sure Neville noticed since I was a little snappish towards him today.

And instead of answering me, he smiled and took off. This did not upset me. I knew if anyone said anything else to me today, I would start to scream. Thank goodness he took that into consideration.

Now all I need to do is find Crookshanks before I go to sleep. Scratch that, he probably already went to sleep before me.

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Chapter explanation: And there's your chappie! This chapter hardly had any humor when I wrote the first draft, so I decided to put Hermione in a bad mood throughout the whole day. I also changed it to less DADA and more Potions. Since Draco doesn't take DADA in this fic, then I thought it would be better for his conversation with Hermione to take place in Potions. It prevented me from writing an extra pointless scene after the prefect meeting. DADA was sort of pointless in this chapter, but I wrote it for fun, and I promised DADA in the last chapter preview. I hope this update didn't upset anyone, because I know this isn't my best. Constructive criticism is allowed!

Next Chapter Preview: Neville makes his move. A conversation between Lisa (Draco's assignment) and Justin take place. Ron goes snooping on Harry to find out the secret introduced last chapter. We might have a brief Charms class. The next chapter is purely for relationship development.