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"Good night Ginny." Hermione said turning off her light and snuggling down into her bed, thoughts of Draco certain to be in her dreams.

Chapter 3: Tryouts and a New Partner

The next morning Hermione took her shower and got dressed. Today Professor McGonagall was putting up the flyers and the auditions were at 1 o'clock. Hermione had put on a pair of black tight stretch pants and a long sleeve pink sweater. On her feet she wore a pair of white converse shoes. Hermione carefully put on her necklace. It was a black stone; it looked like a tear drop and changed colors depending on her mood. When she put it on it turned the color of ice and slightly cold. She knew she wanted to go skating. She had been skating since she was little and she hadn't done it in over two days. That was bad for her. Over her shoulder she had her pink A.D.I.D.A.S. bag with her ice skates in it.

She walked into the common room to see Ron and Harry playing a game of chess and it seemed like Harry was actually wining.

"Hey, guys what's up?" Hermione asked as she walked up to them. They just grunted in response.

"Well, I'm going to go out side and skate. Can you tell Ginny to come down and watch if she wants or she can skate to?" Hermione asked them. They nodded. They weren't going to tell her, but she left to go to the rink anyway.

Dumbledore graciously had an ice rink installed. It was an outside one, but still it was a lot better than the lake. And it had a spell on it so that the when she skated on the ice, the ice would immediately go back to its glossy surface looking as though no one had skated on it. It was easier than having a Zambonie come out every hour.

Hermione stepped into the cold fall air. Of course the rink was magical so she could skate in summer if she wanted to. She sat on a bench near the rink and took off her shoes and put on her skates. They were normal white, but what people didn't see was the H.G. in light pink. No one saw it because it was so light it looked white. Hermione tucked her necklace under her shirt and stood on the ice. She loved the feeling of being on the ice.

Hermione skated onto the ice. She did a figure eight then went into a triple. She landed on the still on her own two feet. 'Wow.' She thought. She hadn't done a triple since the last competition she was in and that was at least 3 months ago.

Hermione did a triple over and over and over again. Then some jumps and spins. She never noticed a blonde haired boy behind a tree looking at her.

Draco Malfoy had been out for a walk, getting prepared for the auditions at 1.

While he was walking he came upon an ice rink. On it was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She was so graceful, like she was dancing. He stopped breathing for a moment when he saw her do a triple. 'Wow, she's amazing. I wonder who she is.' Draco thought, but his question was answered when said girl turned around and had the happiest smile on her face.

Hermione Granger had just done a triple. Draco hadn't known she could do one. He knew that she was a professional skater but had never actually seen her skate before. He watched for a few more minutes, and then decided that he should go get suited up for the tryout.

Hermione was having the time of her life. She was doing the thing she loved to do the most.

Most people thought she loved homework and reading. Homework she didn't like that much, but decided that if she did it early enough she could go skating. As for the reading, she loved to read, it was her second favorite thing to do. She read about new skating moves, biographies about herself and other skater she knew and mostly love stories. One were the outsider girl got the insider guy. (Unpopular girl got the popular boy).

Hermione was instructed by her parents to go inside and stay there until they came and got her to see her new partner. They needed to use her rink for the tryouts and she couldn't watch and had to stay away from all the windows. She walked into her room to find that all the windows were blacked out and the only light source was from her lamp. Hermione decided that she would read a book. The book she picked was one like Romeo and Juliet but was about a magical couple. From Hogwarts. Written by Addy Miller. One of her favorite authors of wizarding and muggle kind.

Draco was watching the competition. Well, he wasn't sure he could call them competition. They were awful. Actually, he didn't know if he could call what they were doing skating. 'More like falling.' Draco thought and chuckled.

They "skaters" weren't very good. They would trip over there own two feet. He could tell that the Grangers weren't very happy at the turn out.

"Next is Draco Malfoy." Mrs. Granger said.

'Finally,' Draco thought, 'my turn to show these chumps a thing or two about skating.'

Draco stepped out onto the ice and skated in a circle around the rink. Not very impressing, yet.

Suddenly Draco did a triple then a double. Everyone clapped, but he wasn't done yet. Next he did a sit spin. Then a twirl. He finished his tryout with a back flip and another triple.

"So, how was that?" He asked, knowing how amazingly good he was.

"We have found my daughter's new skate partner." Mr. Granger said and everyone agreed.

"Hermione dear, can I come in?" Mrs. Granger asked knocking on the door and opening it slightly.

"Yes, are the tryouts done yet?" Hermione asked sitting up in her bed excitedly.

"Yes, they are and we have found the most wonderful partner for you." Hermione's mother said to her.

"Ok, so who is he?" Hermione asked hoping it would be a good answer. She was wrong.

"No no no, I absolutely refuse to skate with him." Hermione said later on the ice. She crossed her arms and gave that childish look of not wanting to eat her vegetables.

"Hermione, if you don't you won't be going to the Olympics." Her father said in a stern voice.

Hermione sighed and looked at Draco. She considered it.

"Can he even skate?" Hermione asked not meeting Draco in the eye. She didn't want him to think she did not believe that he could actually skate and good for that matter.

"Yes, I can. And if you don't believe me I will show you." Draco said and started to skate.

Draco did triple after triple after triple. He jumped and spinned and just to show off he did a back flip and landed it. He skated over to Hermione with that 'Oh you just got dissed' look on his face.

"Fine." Hermione said even though inside her jaw had dropped to the floor. He was really good. She could do all of the things he could except for the back flip.

"When do we start training?" She asked not seeing the smirk Draco gave her behind her back.

"Now." Her father said. Hermione sighed. She just knew he was going to say that and she knew that she was going to have to touch Draco. It wasn't the fairest situation, but what could she do. She skated over to Draco.

"If you even think about embarrassing me I will make your life hell." She said taking his hand.

"Oh, feisty." He whispered in her ear and took her other hand.

They had been practicing for at least 2 hours. Hermione knew that Harry and Ron would come looking for her. Suddenly she tripped and fell bringing Draco down on top of her.

That wasn't their first fall and Hermione knew it wouldn't be their last. Practice wasn't going so well.

"I see that things aren't going to well." Dumbledore said surprising Hermione and Draco who hadn't known he was watching.

Draco stood and helped Hermione stand. Hermione skated a ways away from him and brushed herself off.

"They seem to have a problem skating as partners or even being near each other." Mrs. Granger told the Headmaster.

"Hmm, I think I can fix this." He said pulling out his wand. He pointed it at the two skaters and whispered a spell. It seemed to have no effect until Hermione went to move more than 2 feet away from Draco when she was suddenly pulled to his side.

"What the heck?" Draco said clearly confused.

Dumbledore smiled.

"Would you like me to show you wear you shall be staying?" He asked politely.

"You did this?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, Miss Granger. Your mother said that you two were having trouble skating as a pair so I cast a spell. Now you have to be with in 2 feet of each other or you get pulled to one another. I shall rearrange your schedules so that you have every class together. I hope that you can come up with an agreement on were you shall sit during meals." With that Dumbledore started to walk over to Hermione's parents.

"Oh, he is going to take this spell of right now." Hermione trying to skate over to him but with no luck, she just got pulled back to Draco.

"Well come on." She said grabbing his hand and pulling. She didn't move anywhere.

"What is up with you?" She asked.

"Nothing." He said, and walked over to Dumbledore with her.

While Hermione was ranting at Dumbledore, Draco's mind started to drift back to the second year.

Flashback

Hermione was in the hospital. She was petrified. Harry and Ron were with her talking when Harry took the piece of paper out of her hand and looked at Ron knowing that this was the reason Hermione was in the library. They rushed out, leaving Hermione alone.

Draco suddenly came into the hospital wing and went up to Granger. He looked at her for a while. Just looked. He wanted to memorize her face so he could draw a picture. No one knew that Draco Malfoy was an amazing drawer. He drew all sorts of things, but dragons and people were his favorite. He had always thought that the Mud-blood was very pretty.

Even though he always insulted her bushy hair and teeth, but the truth was she was the most beautiful creature on earth or at least in Draco's eyes.

End Flashback

Draco suddenly came out of his revive when Hermione nudged him.

"What?" He asked stupidly.

"Do you think what Professor Dumbledore did was a good idea?" Hermione asked him, trying to tell him that she wanted him to say that what Dumbledore did was a bad idea.

"Yes, I think it was a great idea." Draco said receiving three smiles and a glare from Hermione.

"Then it's settled. The spell will stay intact until you two have learned to cooperate with each other and skate." Dumbledore said.

"Now if you would follow me I will show you were you will be staying."

Draco and Hermione went over to a bench and toke off the skates and put on their shoes.

"I really hate you right now." Hermione said to him.

Truth be told, Draco rather hated himself right now to. Or at least his body.

"Umm, Her-Granger?" Draco asked.

"What?" She asked clearly annoyed.

"I need to go to the bathroom." He said, b a blush tinting his cheeks.

Hermione suddenly stopped short and he ran into her, but didn't fall.

"I am SO going to kill Dumbledore." She said heading toward the castle to find a bathroom, that she would be allowed into so Draco could go.

Behind Hermione, Draco smirked. 'This is going to be fun and maybe I can become friends with her...or more.' Draco thought as they entered the castle.

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