Chapter 8:

The first week of Smeltings for the wizards and witches has passed and everything was quite well despite the fact that they know nothing about the muggle world. Finally, after five days of torture, the weekend was here. While Harry took the boys out and introduced football to them, the girls decided to stay at their flat and relax. Pansy was reading a muggle fashion magazine; Hermione was reading a book; Ginny was playing with her phone and Daphne was eating a sandwich.

"I'm bored," Pansy whined.

"Aren't you always," Ginny muttered.

Ginny rolled her eyes. This was what Pansy had been saying for the past few hours since the boys left. Harry planned to play football with them and they would be coming back late.

"How about we go to the mall and do some shopping?" Hermione suggested.

Pansy immediately looked at the other girls with her best puppy dog look since she was too bored and wanted to do something else.

"Sure, why not?" Ginny said

"I've wanted to buy some new outfits for ages," Daphne said cheekily.

Hermione brought the girls to the nearest mall and explained what it was.

"The mall is like Diagon Alley, except it's a building," she explained.

The three purebloods listened attentively as Hermione talked to them more and more about the mall. When they got their at last, the girls sprang out of the car and was ready for the best shopping trip ever.

"C'mon! What are you girls waiting for?" Pansy squealed.

The witches went to a lot of boutiques and shops and bought a lot of new things, and most of them were pretty much clothes. For example, Daphne bought a new cute white top, a pair of jeans, sneakers and new earrings while Pansy bought a black skirt, a sliver necklace a bottle of perfume. The girls went to the supermarket and did some grocery shopping too. At last, they went home carrying bags of clothes and food. After they put the things back, the four of them jumped onto the couch lazily.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but the muggle world is actually quite cool," Daphne said.

"I had a lot of fun today," Ginny commented.

"Thanks for bringing us to the mall Granger, this was one of the most fabulous shopping trip I've ever had," Pansy smiled.

"No problem. I, myself had a lot of fun with you girls too." Hermione giggled, "Oh, and Pansy? It's not Granger anymore, it's Hermione. "

The four girls smiled at each other warmly. This was the start of new friendships.

Harry brought the guys to a football field since he thought they might enjoy the sport. Football and Quidditch are quite similar actually. The biggest difference was that a Quidditch match is held in the sky where the players play on their brooms while football was played on the ground.

"Here we are," Harry announced as he led the boys to the field.

He started explaining how football was played and to his surprise, Draco Malfoy was actually interested in it. Among the three boys, Draco was the one with the most questions for Harry. Harry hid a smile, it was not everyday that you could see a Malfoy interested in something, much less a muggle sport. The-Boy-Who-Lived started teaching the three boys some basics about football. While he was younger, Harry used to sneak to the playground and watch Dudley playing football with his mates secretly, so that's how he knew something about this sport. While Harry was teaching them how to play, a group of boys walked towards them.

"Hey, I'm Dustin. These are my mates Wyatt, Peyton and Liam," the tallest guy of the group, Dustin said.

Ron eyed them suspiciously. What did they want? Are they mobs? Are they here to cause trouble? These questions kept popping into his head. He sent Harry a look but his best mate just shrugged and turned to the group.

"I'm Harry and this is Ron, Draco and Blaise," he introduced.

The others from the two groups muttered their hellos to each other.

"So, we were wondering if you guys are up for a game. It's usually the four of us but we're getting bored. What do you say, wanna play?"

Harry glanced at the boys and they nodded.

"Sure, why not?"

After three hours of football, the boys went back to their flat, all of them covered with sweat. They were all exhausted from the game. It was an eventful day to them. They made new friends, learned how to play football, the list just goes on and on. The three male purebloods have learned a lot more about the muggles and the Slytherins weren't so resistant towards the muggles anymore.

"To be honest, the muggles aren't that bad. They're quite cool actually," Blaise confessed.

Ron looked at the Italian with a shocked expression. He has always thought that the day a Slytherin would like muggle stuff was when Voldemort came back to life.

"I enjoyed football a lot. Thanks for bringing me Potter," Draco blurted out.

He turned red like Ron's hair after saying this. Ron almost fainted. What's happening to the world? First, Zabini thinks muggles are cool, now a Malfoy admitting that he liked a muggle sport and was being polite to Harry Potter?

"Aw, is little Drakie-Poo embarrassed?" Blaise teased.

"Shut up Zabini," Draco mumbled.

Harry looked at the two Slytherins and grinned. Maybe the Slytherins weren't as bad as he thought they were. Maybe they could actually get along and become friends. Maybe this project wasn't a stupid idea after all.

Hope you guys enjoyed chapter eight as much as I enoyed writing it!

Since it's almost Christmas, I decided to make this chapter extra long as a treat for you guys. Let's just say this is my Christmas present for you:)

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