Name: The girl next door

Whom I happen to hate…

Rating: M

Summary: Draco Malfoy and his family have to be part of the Death Eater rehabilitation program. To do that, they must give up all their money; give up magic for a year, and move into a muggle neighborhood, guess who his next-door neighbor is? A funny story!

Author: Chaos

Warning: Does not follow all of the books plot.

A/N: So last chapter was a bit longer than the others. Hope you guys enjoy this chap.

Chaos

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Chapter 8: The Strengthening Solution

Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat in their usual seats at the end of the classroom. Draco and his thick friends sat in the front, all chatting waiting for Snape to arrive. When the dungeon door crashed, the classroom fell silent.

"As this is your NEWT year," Snape drawled. "I am taking the first half to remind you of potions we have already done in the past, and the second half to teach you new potions. Let it be known this was Dumbledore's idea and I had no intention, and still don't, of helping you." He said.

"Bit sad isn't he?" said one of the new Gryffindor students. Lavender shushed her, they couldn't afford to loose House Points on the very first day.

"Today we'll be producing the strengthening solution," Snape continued. "Who can tell me what that is?" He said turning around, "Besides Miss Granger," he added seeing as no one else would volunteer.

"What about you Longbottom?" he said. Neville jumped back and almost knocked his cauldron to the ground.

"I d-don't know, sir," Neville stumbled. Snape.

"Really?" he said. He turned to Lavender Brown, who looked like she was about to scream.

"What about you Miss Brown? Any idea?" he said.

"No sir…" she trailed off. Snape sighed.

"Very well, five points from Gryffindor for their lack of remembrance. You all should take a Memory Potion" he said. Hermione continued waving her hand in the air. Snape sighed. "Fine, Fine, Miss Granger why don't you enlighten us, seeing as your classmates have failed to do so." he sneered. Hermione smiled.

"The strengthening solution is made with Pomegranate juice and Salamander blood. Presumably this potion makes the drinker stronger. It could, however, be designed for inanimate objects if the potion was intended to be applied to them," Hermione answered. Snape rolled his eyes.

"Well it's obvious Snape is no longer trying to hide his hate for students, mind you, he never really bothered," Ron muttered to Harry who nodded in agreement.

"That is correct Miss Granger… again." he said in a bored voice which Hermione thought offensive but bit her tongue. "You have until the end of class to create this potion. Instructions," he said tapping the board with his wand "are on the board. Longbottom, try not to get yourself sent to the Hospital Wing," he said, making Neville seem more nervous.

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"You know Granger," Malfoy said. Hermione, Ron, and Harry turned back to look at Malfoy. "I think it would be good for you to use the Exploding Potion on your abnormally sized head. After all it does blow up anything it's injected with right? Save me the trouble of doing it, myself."

Hermione glared at him. She could tell Harry and Ron were fighting with all their might not to pounce Malfoy right then and there.

"Well as lovely as that offer sounds, Malfoy. I think it would be rather more amusing to see yours blown up don't you?" she said looking at the other Gryffindors walking out of the Dungeon. They all nodded and muttered their 'yeah's'

"You know the rules Malfoy," Hermione teased. "Majority rules," she said then she turned to leave but Draco grabbed her by the arm first.

"Here's another offer you won't like to miss," he whispered dangerously in her ear. "Taking your clothes off for me." he said. "After all, you've already done it once, what's one more time?" he said. Hermione pulled her arm away.

"Git," she said before hurrying of to reach Ron and Harry. Draco Malfoy sneered at her. This might actually be fun. He thought.

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By lunch time Hermione was very glad she only had potions with Malfoy that day. He had become so annoying she was just about ready to explode. He was constantly finding her in the halls to tease with her. If he was this annoying when he wasn't in classes with her, she could only imagine how much worse it would be if they were in other classes together, today.

What bothered her wasn't the fact that he was annoying her, he did that yearly. It was why he was annoying her. Not only to constantly remind her that she had slept with him, but also to make her feel sorry for why she did it.

And it was starting to get to Hermione. Because, she felt sorrier for him by the minute. She whished she wouldn't have done it. Then maybe she and Draco could have been together now, fighting through the crowds of students criticizing them. She sighed as she sat in the Great Hall and began to pour food onto her plate.

"Mione?" Harry said. He was unsure how to phrase his next part.

"What's up with you and Malfoy?" Ron blurted out straight. Hermione looked up at them suddenly, more than she would have like to.

"Nothing. Why do you ask?" she said. Harry shrugged slightly.

"It's just that since we've been back all he does is mess around with you. And we've only been back for a day." he answered. Hermione sighed again, she couldn't tell them what had happened. They would stop talking to her. She couldn't loose her best friends now.

"I don't know. Malfoy's probably just being Malfoy. Might as well ignore it. I'm not letting him bring me down." she lied straight through her teeth. Harry and Ron seemed not to notice though because they shrugged and went back to their mashed potatoes.

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That Saturday Hermione woke early and went down for breakfast with a grumbling Ron. The two of them in silence watching the other heads eat at their own house tables. The Great Hall seemed strangely quiet.

"Can't believe I got stuck with that oaf," Ron grumbled as he shoved more toast down his throat. "Rather be with the troll we fought in first year, or Aragog, and I hate spiders." he went on mumbling.

"Oh shut up Ronald," Hermione said. She was in a deeply depressed mood, she had been dreading Saturday. "At least you can insult her and she wouldn't realize it, now I got stuck with Malfoy. He's awful but he's not stupid. This is going to the worst Saturday of my life. I'm going bicker all day with him, I just know it." she said. Ron immediately shut up. He knew today was definitely not the day to mess with Hermione Granger.

When Dumbledore showed up, all of the Head's had finished their breakfast and were awaiting instructions in the front of the hall. Dumbledore gave them all a twinkling smile before starting.

"Well today I think we're going to put up some of the torn down walls," he said. "I trust all you seventh year's know how to do that?" he asked. When all of them nodded he smiled yet again.

"Well then, Mr. Weasley, Miss Parkinson you'll take the east side of the castle. Mr. Macmillan, Miss Patil, you'll take the west side, though there isn't much there you can do the back of the castle once you're done." He said. The four nodded and left.

"Now, Mr. Goldstein, Miss Abbot, you will take astronomy tower, seeing as classes will start next week on that tower, try and hurry it up a bit," he said the two nodded and left without word. Then he turned to Hermione and Draco.

"I am aware that neither of you are in good terms at the moment," he said his blue eyes showing that he knew more than they had thought, "But I do hope you are both adults and mature enough to behave, you will do a good job. You have the kitchen side of the castle," he said. Draco and Hermione sighed and both went off to the kitchen sides. Neither very happy about it.

Both began to work, Draco taking piles of rubbish and throwing out and Hermione restoring walls with her wand. Draco envied her, what he would do to have his wand back in his hands and to be able to finish this faster. Come to think of it, he didn't realize why Dumbledore had given the Head posts to him and Pansy. Neither could work with a wand, they couldn't be much help.

Hermione side glanced Draco every few minutes. She couldn't help it, something stronger than her kept repelling her eyes towards him. Around eleven Draco finally got tired of working, with all the silence around them and stopped. He sat on a pile of broken stones, that once made a wall of Hogwarts.

He watched as Hermione continued working, gliding her wand through the air. He let his eyes wonder her body and sighed silently. The best night he had, was with her. He couldn't believe it, didn't want to believe it.

Hermione began to take a few steps back as wall began to reconstruct itself with new pieces of stone, Dumbledore had place there for them. As she took another step back, she tripped over a large crumbled stone and landed in Draco's lap.

Draco looked down at her and she up at him. Hermione felt herself blushing but unable to move. Draco felt all the control he had been trying to build up the last week of summer until now, leaving his body at a very hasty pace. Before he what he was doing he had stood up, pushed Hermione against the nearest wall, locked his lips with hers and was unbuttoning her shirt.

Hermione of course didn't complain after all, this is what she had wanted. Or so she had decided. Draco's tongue found its way into her mouth and explored every inch of it like there was no tomorrow.

Suddenly someone cleared their throat behind them.