Title:Helping Her

Genre:Humor/Romance

Category:Full Story

Summary:No one ever thought Draco Malfoy would show compassion. But being the cause of a major turn up at Hogwarts, he must show at least a spark of compassion for what he has to deal with.

Krysta's Notes: Draco may be slightly OOC to his 'problem' Can't tell you what it is though. It's a surprise.


Chapter 2: Hermione Granger, Age Five

A little girl with curly brown hair and brown eyes looked up at the Slytherin.

"Oh, damn. What the fuck did I do to the bitch?" Madam Pomfrey glared hard at Draco's blonde head.

"Where am I?" She asked, looking around at Madam Pomfrey, who was straightening potions on a shelf.

"You're at a magic school. You're a witch, Granger." He said to the girl, her brown eyes watering up.

"What?" He said softly to her.

"You called me Granger. Nobody ever has called me that, unless they were being mean." Her bottom lip, which hung from her mouth, began to quiver. She looked absolutely adorable.

"I'm sorry." He said, tried to console the girl. "Hermione," He said. She stopped sniffling.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to call you Granger." He said.

"Oh good!" She said happily. "But I don't know your name." She said happily.

"Draco." He said. "Draco Malfoy."

"Why'd you tell me your last name, silly. I'm not gonna call you Malfoy." She said, giggling at the blonde. He stared at her in fascination. She didn't know him, his potion went wrong. The user was supposed to be aged, which wasn't a problem, they were at their Aging stage when it spilled. But she was supposed to remember that she hated him. And Professor Snape had told him to take care of what he had done.

"Come on Hermione. You have to meet someone." He said. He had to go talk to Professor Snape.


Knocking on the Potions door, he stood patiently. He opened it, everyone looking at the little girl in his arms. Some were giggling at how cute she was, and others were staring in awe. The first year Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs looked at them.

"Mister Malfoy, what is going on." Professor Snape demanded. Hermione jumped from Draco's arms and walked over to Professor Snape.

"Well, Professor, this is what happened after she was hit with the potion." He said calmly.

"So, does she remember anything?" He asked, eyeing the child at his feet.

"No. Not anything. Except up to this age. But I told her where she is."

"Well, you'll have to keep charge of her until she changes back, which might not be for a long time." He said.

"Hi!" She said waving to the Professor. He looked at her in repulsion.

"Hermione." Draco said. "This is Professor Snape."

"I like you, you're tall." She wrapped her little arms around his feet, and the class 'awwed' at Hermione.

"Come on Draco, can we go meet some more people. Bye bye, Professor Scrape!' She said to the Professor, and he glared at the child as she left the classroom.


Draco led Hermione into the Great hall and up to the Staff table who stared at her.

"Professors," He said. "I had an accident in Potions and hit Granger with an unfinished Aging Potion, and this is what happened." He said.

Professor McGonagall spoke. "She doesn't remember anything, I'm sure." He nodded and she continued. "I'm sure your Head of House told you to take care of her, and we'll have to inform the school. That's it, Mister Malfoy. She goes to everyone of your classes." He left and sat her down at the Slytherin table. Before serving the food, Dumbledore stood to announce her changing.

"During a 7th year Potions class, an unfinished Aging Potion was accidently threw at another student, therefore stopping the Aging process and Deaging them. I am informing you, that none other than Hermione Granger was the student the Potion took affect to. She is now under charge of the person who cause it, Draco Malfoy." Every head turned to the Slytherin Table, where they saw the little girl sitting next to the flaxen haired Slytherin.

"Hi!" She waved, and another serious of 'Aws' erupted through the crowds.

"Well, if you ever come across this girl, you know who she should be returned to. Tuck in." He said, allowing the students to eat. Hermione was delighted as the food popped onto her plate, and she began eating the mashed potatoes and gravy that was on her plate. Her tiny fingers, were covered in potatoes and gravy, and she took a chicken leg, and ate half, before closing her eyes, leaning her tiny head on Draco's forearm. He looked at the little girl curiously, before turning back to his dinner.

"Wow." His friend Blaise said, looking at the sleeping figure. "She's cute."

"She hugged Snape when I told him about her changing." The three Slytherins laughed at the thought of it.

"I can't believe you hit Granger with a potion. I'm surprised McGonagall didn't have your head when you told her." Pansy said, scowling at the girl, but not being able to look at her without smiling.

"No, they just told me I had to take her to all of my classes. And Pansy, I just thought about one thing. If she stays like this for a while, you know. She is a girl, and could you help me with her? You're a girl, ('I think.' He thought.) and you could dress her and give her baths and stuff, girl stuff."

"Oh of course, I'll help you Draco." She said. "Anyways, she's absolutely adorable though." The little girl shifted, moving her head back up after it fell. She buried her nose into Draco's robes, tickling his shoulder. Dinner was over, and Draco picked Hermione up, careful not to wake her. He walked into the Transfiguration classroom, and sat her on the chair between him and Pansy.

"Today, we will be transfiguring cockroaches into pins." Professor McGonagall said, writing the spell on the board. Hermione sat up, obviously awakem and looked at the spell on the board. "So," She waved her wand, and a cockroach appeared on everyone's desk. "Start." Draco said the spell, his cockroach turning half way into a pin, with legs. Hermione giggled, and picking up the scuttling pin, and gave a little shriek.

"Oh yeah, let's see you try and turn it like a pin." He said to the girl. He changed it back to a cockroach, and looked at her. He handed her his wand, and she recited the spell, the cockroach crawling away.

At first, it went into convulsions. Then, it flipped over, legs flailing, and one leg folding over, the other five combining into one. The cockroach's body rounded up, and the back of the cockroach was a perfect pin. He glared at her. He began silently cursing at nothing, not aware the Hermione was listening to him.

"Minnie! Professor Minnie!" Hermione called out, waving her pin. She walked over to the girl.

"Oh gracious, Hermione, you did that by yourself?" She asked.

"Yes, Draco told me the spell, but this is his cockro--- Eep!" The pin, which the spell was only temporary, popped back into a cockroach, and Hermione jumped up into Draco's lap, hiding herself as Pansy helped pick it up.

"Thank you Pansy." Hermione said to the Slytherin, smiling.

"No problem, Hermione, no problem." She said, laughing at the girl.

The bell rang, dismissing the class. This time, Pansy held the little girl as they came up to the common room.

"Is this my room?" She asked, turning to Draco.

"No, your room is there." He said, pointing to the door with her name on it.

She ran into it, and stared at everything. She jumped on her bed, looked into the mirror, played with the beads hanging off her dresser, looked at her trunk, and lay on her bed.

The girl had now been occupying herself with the taps in the bathroom, when she heard,"Hermione! Hermione! We have Divivnation!"


Krysta's Notes: That was on purpose. XD Well, you have to wait and see what Hermione does in Divination. Her and Trelawny.