A/N, thanks for all the reviews you guys, especially to all of you that stuck with me since hpana, wow it means a lot to see you guys here, and i see many familiar readers from star crossed, wow i'm just flattered, you're all awesoe!!! Well without further ado here's chapter one, review if you can :)

Chapter One:

It was the worst day in Hermione's life.

On top of being behind on her reading, Hermione was late to class and forgot one of her books in her dormitory. It was the first day of classes in her seventh year at Hogwarts, she was now a Head Girl and was very disappointed with herself so far.

She was rushing back to her dormitory desperately trying to retrieve the book before the bell rang. She practically ran across the halls and ignored all the weird looks that were shot in her direction, after all, being looked at was nothing new to Hermione.

Hermione was one of Harry Potter's best friends, and after being engaged in many thrilling adventures she was used to being looked at and talked about. She learned to ignore all the glares and live with the gossip, after all it wasn't as bad for her as it was for one of her best friends, and for that she was thankful.

As she arrived by the portrait hole, she literary yelled out the password and jumped inside the hole almost losing her balance. She ran up the stairs in lightning speed, found the book she was looking for after thirty seconds of frantic searching, and ran back down the stairs making her way out of the portrait hole as fast as her legs would allow her.

Hermione knew McGonagall wouldn't care for excuses. She wasn't a teacher that would tolerate such behavior especially from a Head Girl, after all she was there to set a positive example upon other students, not the opposite.

The bell rang as Hermione was running across the second floor corridor. As she was passing by a small group of students that showed obvious disregard to classes and rules, she met the eyes of the only person that could have made this day any worst, if that was even possible.

"Well, well, well, a Mudblood in the halls. What a surprise?!" said Draco Malfoy, glaring at her as the group of Slytherins behind him snorted nastily in reply.

Hermione decided to ignore his nasty comment and continued walking past them as if they were transparent to her. She did not have the time, energy or patience to deal with him at the moment, besides he was a prefect, she couldn't exactly deduce points from him either.

"Didn't you see the: "No Mudbloods Allowed!" sign on the wall?" spat Draco with hatred, as he pointed to a wall that had those exact words engraved in a serpent green color.

Malfloy's cronies stood behind him sniggering like a bunch of idiots waiting for another reason to laugh, either a reply from Hermione or another insult from Draco.

"Sod off Malfoy." replied Hermione, now getting impatient with his rudeness, after all she was a Head Girl and deserved some sort of respect.

Pansy as if reading Hermione's mind stopped her laughter and looked at Draco with a played serious expression on her face.

"Tut tut Draky do you really think it's a good idea to talk this way to the new Head Girl?" she asked in a mock concerned voice.

"You're right Pansy, I totally forgot this school has lowered itself to the level where they chose a Mudblood for a Head Girl, like they couldn't find a normal pure blooded student throughout this bloody school." said Draco showing his obvious distaste to the Headmistress choice.

"Like me, right Draky?" asked Pansy placing her arms around his neck and kissing his cheek. Draco just rolled his eyes in reply.

"Well, I for once cannot believe this school would ever allow an attempted murderer reside here, but after all our beliefs are not what counts." said Hermione storming towards transfiguration class.

As soon as Hermione walked inside the classroom, she received an "I'm very disappointed with you" look from Professor McGonagall. Hermione felt so ashamed that she couldn't do anything but lower her head and make her way to where her friends were seated.

Harry and Ron looked up at her with quizzical looks on their faces. They were obviously looking for some sort of explanation to her lateness. Hermione just gave them the "I'll tell you all about it when we're out of here." look and started on the day's class work.

Once they were out of the classroom Harry and Ron asked her why was she late to class, especially on the first day of school. Hermione told them all about how she forgot her book in the dorm and had to run back and retrieve it.

"On top of everything I met Malfoy in the hallway." said Hermione with a disgusted look on her face.

"What did he do?" Ron and Harry asked in unison, fury vivid on their faces.

"Nothing unusual, tried to insult me in front of his Slytherin Crowd. I want to see how brave he would be coming near me if he's ever alone." said Hermione angrily.

"I will kill him." said Ron, his knuckles turning white out of anger.

"I will curse him till he forgets his name, who the hell does he think he is talking to you this way?" added Harry, ready to punch the wall they were walking by.

"Relax, both of you. I'm used to it by now, and I really don't care what he thinks or says. It's just that I was late as it is and the last person I needed to see was him with his Pansytail attached to him. As much as I hated him before, I loathe him now." said Hermione, breathing in deeply to calm down.

"If he ever insults you again it would be the last time he would be able to talk as a human." said Ron angrily.

"I still don't understand how he came back to school, after all the events that happened." Harry said, his anger accumulating by the minute.

"Neither do I." admitted Hermione.

"How on earth did McGonagall allow him to come back. He attempted to kill Dumbledore." added Ron.

"If it was up to me, Draco would be in Azkaban right now, sharing a cell with his dear father." said Harry, glaring in the direction of an innocent Slytherin first year.

"Guys relax, we all hate him, but I'm sure McGonagall had a good reason to let him back in. Besides, it's our last year at Hogwarts, let's try to enjoy it fully and concentrate on the N.E.W.T's we'll have to sit through, not waste our precious time on that egoistic git." said Hermione, leading the boys to the charms classroom.

With all the anger and hate that the day has brought to them there was a thing the trio were thankful for the most, no Potions on the schedule for the day.