A/N: I know Dumbledore died in the Half-Blood Prince but I don't wanna believe it! Face it, he only died so Harry and Voldemort could fight in the last book without Dumbledore coming to Harry's rescue. 'One has to die for the other to survive!' But anyway, play along and pretend that he didn't die! And I keep forgetting to put in the disclaimer but you guys all know that J.K Rowling was the amazing woman that created all of this! Basically most of the things that you haven't read in the books, I just made up! Okay guys! Now lets get into it! Thank-you to the people that reviewed! I really liked hearing your opinions!

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The car ride to Kings Cross Station was a rough ride with Draco refusing to get in the car if Hermione was going to be driving and Hermione refusing to get into the car if she couldn't drive.

In the end, they flipped a coin. One side meant that Hermione's mum got to drive, which was in Draco's favour and the other meant that Hermione got to drive. Both agreed that this was the only way in which the outcome would be fair, after Hermione got past the whole 'this is what 10-year-olds do' phase.

Draco won, which meant Hermione's mother got to drive. Hermione seated herself in the front passenger seat ready to control the cars' CD Player. She chose the first CD which was a mixed CD of her favourite artists.

It was quite obvious that Malfoy did not like the music that was playing by the look on his face. His expression didn't change much from the time they left Hermione's house and started listening to the compilation CD until they arrived at Kings Cross Station with the CD playing the second last song, 'Toxic' by Britney Spears. The only song he had seemed to like was 3 Doors Down, 'Here Without You,' which he softly sung the lyrics to. This was strange to Hermione; he didn't seem like the type of guy to know a song like that.

As Hermione said goodbye to her mother, she noticed that Draco wasn't flanked by his two "bodyguards" as he normally was. They were usually at the station before him, waiting to greet him and bully other students. Hermione knew that Crabbe and Goyle wouldn't have the courage to insult everyone if they didn't have Malfoy by their side. And there was no sign of the pug-faced Parkinson either.

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Draco stood in front of the platform 9 ¾ waiting for Hermione to come and join him to enter the barrier. He had piled her luggage onto a trolley and pushed it to the gate for her.

Her mother had been nice to him so he wanted to show Mrs. Granger that he was a nice boy, even if he didn't like Hermione. He didn't know why he wanted to impress Mrs. Granger. She was a muggle. She was nice, but still a muggle.

He had seen Hermione glance at him a few times as she was saying goodbye to her mother but he was incapable of looking away from her. She looked gorgeous today, there was no doubt about that and by the looks on the faces of the other male students and males walking by, he wasn't the only one that thought that.

But that wasn't the only reason he was waiting for her. He would never admit it to her, but she was the only one he had now, apart from Blaise and his mother. But what good were they? Both were usually drunk. But before he could go on thinking any further, he had seen Hermione start to walk toward him.

"Ya ready?" she asked him, unable to contain the excitement of being Head Girl. 'She's obviously excited,' he thought. 'It's a shame I'm not.'

"Yeah, lets get it over with." They both ran through the barrier, one after another.

As Draco emerged from the barrier, he noted that the bright smile that had been on Hermione's face just moments before had disappeared and that there were now tears welling up in her eyes. She was just staring at something and it was clear to Draco that whatever she was staring at was upsetting her. He turned his head just slightly to the right and his gaze instantly fell upon his red-headed enemy with his lips-locked onto yet another red-head.

"Hermione," Draco said softly, not wanting to upset her.

"What? You're going to taunt me now? Tease me about being dumped for Hannah Abbott? The Hufflepuff slut?" Hermione then regained her composure, with only a few tears sliding down her cheeks and steered her trolley into the crowds.

She wanted to be as far away from Malfoy and his upcoming teasing as fast as she could. She thought she heard him yell out after her but she dismissed the thought. After all, he was still a Malfoy.

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Hermione found herself an empty carriage. She didn't really feel like talking to anyone right now. She knew that she was expected to be in the Heads Carriage right now but Malfoy, aside from Ron, was the person she would try to avoid speaking to for as long as she could.

'Damnit! I didn't even have to tell him what happened. Now everyone's going to know! On the last day of school last year it was him kissing me and now on the first day back his kissing Hannah Abbott,' even Hermione, who is a very strong person, couldn't contain the tears escaping from her eyes twice today.

Flashback

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"Um, Hermione, can I please talk to you?" Hermione couldn't tell whether Ron was nervous or excited. She guessed he was a bit of both. If Hermione was right, she knew what was about to happen and she knew that it would make her so happy.

"Sure Ron," Hermione got up and followed him into a quieter corner of the Gryffindor common room, "What did you want to talk to me about?"

"Um, well I just wanted to know... I was wondering... umm, do you want to go out with me?"

Hermione wanted to scream out yes! But before she could do this she had to figure out one thing.

"Like boyfriend/girlfriend or just a first date type of thing?"

"Boyfriend/girlfriend, I guess. Look, 'Mione, it's okay if you say no. I know that the break up from Viktor was hard and if you need some time, you can have as much -"

Hermione had cut him off but not with words but with a kiss. It was soft, yet passionate. It was something Hermione had been waiting to do for months, but she couldn't because she was still with Krum. She had expected Ron to ask her out sooner, but he waited 3 months after the break-up to ask her out. Hermione thought he would never do it!

"Is that a yes?"

"Yep!" Hermione answered with a smile and she and Ron walked downstairs to breakfast, holding hands.

End Flashback

"Yeah I know. I felt like crying to when I first saw him. You guys were the cutest couple but now he's with that slut."

Hermione looked up at the door of the compartment to see the youngest Weasley, Ginny, standing there with puffy red eyes and a fake smile.

"Oh, hey Ginny," Hermione faked a smile in return. Hermione was embarrassed. It was always Ginny who helped her through break-ups. She was there for her when her dates went bad and when it ended with Krum and now it looked as though she was going to help her through this one.

"Hermione I really wanted to talk to you but we can't right now because you have to be in the Heads carriage for a meeting. And I'm just warning you, Ron and Hannah are both prefects this year so they'll be in there. But don't worry, I'm on your side for all of this. I can't stand that bitch."

For the first time since she'd passed through the barrier, Hermione laughed. It was good to know that Ron's own sister felt the same way about his new girlfriend as Hermione did.

"Don't worry, mum and dad don't like her either!" this caused both girls to break out in a fit of giggles.

As Hermione and Ginny walked to the heads carriage together, Ginny told her about her holiday fling with Blaise Zabini from Slytherin.

"You know, he's really nice and all but we're not gonna do anything during school because of all the fighting between the houses; it'd only cause more. I really like him though," While Ginny was speaking, she had opened the door to the heads compartment. Once she finally realised that Hermione wasn't listening anymore, she stopped talking and turned to look at the girl that had become her best friend. Hermione was frozen to the spot. For the first time in days, she had locked eyes with the man that broke her heart – Ronald Weasley.