Hermione walked with the first years up to the Great Hall, when they arrived she directed them into their lines and went to stand by the stool with the sorting hat. She stood and watched as the Hall filled with the rest of the students, the seventh years were first to come in and everyone in the group stared at her and the badge on her chest, she could almost hear what the were thinking and whispering about her.

The sorting began and Hermione directed the first year to the correct tables when they were sorted. Dumbledore was still busy calling names.

"….Dianni…." Hermione watched her little brother as her climbed up on the stool and the hat was placed on his head sinking down to cover his whole forehead. Hermione was starting to worry that he wouldn't be sorted into the right house when all of the sudden the sorting hat decided.

"…..Gryffindor!!!" It shouted loud enough for the whole hall to hear. Everybody clapped and Hermione put her arm around him and gave him a hug showing him to the table next to the other first years.

When the sorting was over everyone began to eat dinner and talk about their summers. Hermione sat down with Harry, Ron, and Ginny and began to tell them about her summer.

"When can we come and visit you, we want to see everything?" Ginny asked almost too excitedly. Ron nudged her and gave her a "that was rude" look. Ginny just shrugged it off.

Harry looked up from his food "When do we get to meet your little brother?" he asked.

"I wonder if he is just as smart as you, because if he is the first years are going to have a run for their money in getting in any answers in class." Ron said with a half full mouth.

"You can meet him after dinner, your prefects and you have to come to the meeting, he'll be there too because I need to talk to him and Dumbledore afterwards." She said and wadded up her napkin and throwing it at Ron.

"Don't talk with your mouthful Ron," Ginny said and elbowed him in the stomach like her did to her when she was rude "It's rude." She finished, with a smirk.

All of the sudden Dumbledore stood up and the dirty dishes cleared and he began to talk. "I am excited to begin this year with a good start and enjoyable new first years. Now as you know the prefects will take the first years back to the common rooms and then meet back in the library for your first instructions by your two head students. This year I am happy to say that we have two very wonderful head, one of those being Mr. Malfoy, if you could please stand," Draco stood up and then Hall erupted in cheers most coming from the Slytherin table.

"And the other being Miss. Granger, who I am proud to say has returned to us with her true name Dianni, if you could please stand." The Hall once again erupted in cheers but this time mostly from the Gryffindor table.

When she stood it was all the Slytherin guys could do to keep their mouths from dropping open at how different she looked. They were practically drooling waterfalls from their mouths.

After Dumbledore was done talking Hermione got up and followed professor McGonagall to find her brother and then go to the head dorms.

When they were about to leave the Hall when McGonagall turned to her "Miss. Dianni I trust you and your brother can find you way to the head dorm while I fetch Mr. Malfoy."

Hermione nodded and took her brothers hand leading him out of the doors and towards the dorm.

"Alex are you o.k.?" Hermione asked him when she saw the worried look in his eye.

He forced a smile "Yes, I'm just tired"

Hermione looked him over, he was tall for his age and very athletic, she knew that he would make the Quidich team (he had been practicing in the sand all summer), he had the same skin tone as she did and slightly darker short hair that he wore gelled to stick up in spikes of his head, god she thought that was a very weird style but her parents had said it was some weird Egyptian thing. There was no doubt in her mind that he would be a magnet for women when he got older.

When they reached the dorm Hermione inspected the picture and thought for a moment, she was sure it was a test, she had to find the password by herself while she waited. It looked it over and noted that it was a picture of the forbidden forest at Hogwarts. That's odd she thought there must be more, then she had an idea and covered her left eye with her hand.

She grinned at what she saw it was a snake that was curled around a tile that said something in Parseltoung (language of snakes in the book); she figured Daco knew how to speak it. When she put her hand down the picture went back the forbidden forest and she covered her right eye and saw another image. It was that of a lion standing proudly with its head up and in its mane was a word in Latin, "fortitude" she thought a moment, it means bravery or courage.

She dropped her had and spoke to the picture "Courage…." She paused and the door slid open. They slowly entered the room.

Hermione looked around amazed at the beautiful room, they were apparently in the common room, to the right there was a door made out of dark almost black wood and next to that there was a similar one but made out of cherry wood and tinted red, between them there was another door that she assumed led to the shared bathroom. To her right there was a door, she went over and opened it, what she saw made her gasp, it was a beautiful library with a balcony overlooking the grounds, there were windows everywhere that let in amazing amounts of beautiful light.

She turned and went to the red tinted door and opened it once again she felt like she was in heaven the room was beautiful with a soft dark red carpet and a four poster queen bed covered in amazing gold sheets, there were more tall windows with long drapes.

Hermione practically jumped out of her skin when McGonagall spoke from behind her. "I must congratulate you on the amount of time it took you to find the password, I thought it would take much longer but apparently it did not."

Hermione nodded her head in thanks, then McGonagall spoke again this time with a more demanding tone.

"Now, I will let you two get used to your new dorm and then in one hour you must be in the library and ready to inform the prefects of their duties this year?" McGonagall turned to look at both Hermione and Draco as she spoke. They nodded and she started to leave just as she was about to walk out of the door she turned.

"And for Merlin's sake try not to kill each other this year, am I clear?" She looked at Hermione who gave an unwilling nod and then at Draco who apparently felt the need to say something smart.

"Like Butter." He snorted and she turned to leave with an exasperated sigh. "Don't be late or bloody for that matter when you meet the prefects, we don't want you to scare them."

When McGonagall was gone Draco smirked and looked over at her brother that had now traveled into the library and out on to the balcony.

"Wow Hermione I'm so disappointed that you failed to inform me of your little bother and his magic abilities, especially in Quidich."

Hermione looked at him coldly "I didn't tell you for a reason, Draco," she dragged out his first name just to bother him. "How in the hell do you know about the Quidich we've only been her a couple of hours?" She snapped.

"Well, I know a player when I see one and I heard him talking about how he was going to try out to some other first year, on the way up to the castle." Draco smirked again, bothering her came to him like second nature and it was so damn easy too.