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Chapter 3:

"Good Morning Draky." Pansy greeted Draco with a smile when she saw him walk inside the Great Hall for breakfast.

She tapped the seat next to her indicating for him to take a seat by her. Draco was surprised to see her in high spirits, he thought she'd give him hell for yesterday's attitude but she seemed to just forget about it all. He took a seat next to her and waited for her to fill up his plate with all of his favorite foods.

Blaise looked at Draco and noticed the smirk on his face. He shook his head and mouthed "You'll regret this." in reply. He knew that Pansy was getting false hopes right now and will be upset about it later. Draco just shrugged he's shoulders and the thoughts of Pansy's reaction out of his mind. He decided he would deal with her when the time came, right now life wasn't so bad.

The Slytherins had a joyful breakfast anticipating the minute they'll go into the dungeons for double potions with the Gryffindors. While on the other end of the hall the trio were very upset about the upcoming class. None of them wanted to face Draco mainly because they feared they would lose their tempter at the sound of his voice, let alone his behavior.

The bell rang as the trio sighed in deeply and got up, heading towards their least favorite subject.

"At least there's something good about Potions this year." said Hermione, walking along side her friends.

"What could that possibly be?" asked Harry.

"Slughorn is teaching it." said Hermione simply.

"So?" asked Ron dumbly.

"So, we all know he prefers Harry to Draco." said Hermione with a smile.

"That doesn't change the fact that I hate Draco." said Harry.

"Yeah, same is true here." added Ron.

"Well maybe it doesn't change how we feel about Draco, but he can't get away with as many things as he could have with Snape, and Gryffindor wouldn't lose so many points for no apparent reason." said Hermione smiling.

"Whatever, I just hope we wouldn't have to face the git." replied Harry as he opened the door to the Potions class.

"Look at that, the golden trio has arrived." Draco announced to the class snorting.

The Slytherins snorted along, while the Gryffindors looked up at the trio anticipating their reaction.

"I wouldn't open my mouth if I were you." said Harry glaring at Draco.

"You wouldn't do a lot of things if you were me Potty. Perhaps you wouldn't be ugly, and lame, but then you are." replied Draco sending a nasty smirk in Harry's direction.

Harry's nostrils got red with anger and he took out his wand ready to duel Draco right there and than.

"Harry don't." said Hermione lowering his wand hand. "Just ignore the ferret." she added, yelling out the last two words.

"I think mudbloods shouldn't be allowed to speak." said Pansy glaring at Hermione.

"Wow, Pansy thinks, now isn't that a shocker?" shot back Hermione, now making the Gryffindors along with some Slytherins snort.

"Yeah, doesn't your head hurt from thinking?" asked Ron.

"Weasel how about I pay you a galleon a day for not having that stupid "I don't have a clue about the world" expression on your face. You could use the money, and I could use the laugh I would have seeing you struggle to change your dumb face." said Draco, smirking to the hard fit of laughter the Slytherins were engaged in.

Ron's knuckles turned white and he ran to Draco ready to punch him square in the nose. Crabbe and Goyle stood in front of Draco, cracking their knuckles waiting for Ron to come closer. Just as they turned their hands into fists Professor Slughorn walked in the classroom and asked everyone to settle down.

Ron walked back to his seat glaring at Draco the whole time. He hated that pureblood git. He was egoistic, evil, and mean. He hated him for always picking on him and Harry, he hated him for being responsible for Dumbledore's death, but most of all he hated him for treating Hermione like the dirt underneath his feet.

Ron cared for Hermione, a lot, and hated seeing how Draco makes constant nasty remarks in her direction. Although it didn't bother Hermione, Ron found it plain rude and disrespectful, and Hermione deserved some respect.

Slughorn assigned the days assignment and told everyone to work in twos. Hermione worked with Neville while Ron paired up with Harry. Pansy held on to Draco like her life depended on it and told him that she would love nothing else but to work with him, Blaise snorted in the background and shook his head. He felt bad for his friends, because h knew he was in a bigger mess he could clean up. The rest of the students split into pairs and started working on their assignment quietly.

Hermione memorized the ingredients from the blackboard, and walked to the storage cupboard to fetch them while Neville started lighting the fire underneath the cauldron.

On the way to the cupboard she passed by Draco's and Pansy's table. The pair glared at her with the usual hatred, Hermione glared back at them and continued walking forward, with her head raised high. She heard "Mudblood" and "Insufferable know it all" behind her back but decided to ignore their comments. She didn't want another fight to break off in front of the teacher.

Double potions passed by slower than ever. The trio anticipated the moment the bell would ring just to get out of the dungeons and not see Malfoy's face. As soon as the bell rang all the Gryffindors practically jumped out of their seats and packed up their belongings. They quickly made their way out of the dungeons sighing deeply with the satisfaction that Double Potions was over.

And so the first week of school passed by, with all the students getting over the shock of Dumbledore's death little by little, and somehow getting used to being in Hogwarts again. Yes it was true, Hogwarts was not the same without Dumbledore but the world did continue to orbit and life did move on. Everyone felt like there was something missing from their daily life, but after all they all accepted it and lived on.

Without even realizing it the weekend hit, and the trio were happy about having their first weekend off. They could finally visit Hagrid, and relax outdoors before the weather turned too cold.

Hermione spent the weekend making study schedules for all three of them. "N.E.W.T's weren't that far away." was what she said, and they had to have a study regime which they would follow, otherwise passing would be a slim possibility according to her.

The weekend flew by as with a blink of an eye, and Hermione woke up bright and early on Monday morning, she got up, got dressed and headed to the great hall for breakfast, dreading the walk down to the Dungeons for double Potions the whole time.