Author's Note/Disclaimer: Padma Patil will no longer be one of the Populars. K? And my name is Erica. Not JKR. That should be enough of a hint that I don't own Harry Potter. +walks off to cry in a corner+
Nothing else eventful happened until the First Years were sorted and everyone was seated in the Great Hall. Dumbledore stood up as usual for his traditional beginning-of-the-year speech and the students chatter came to a close.
"First, I would like to welcome everyone to Hogwarts!" Dumbledore's voice boomed, "I look forward to another wonderful and exciting year. I will not bore you with a long speech, because I am quite sure you are all hungry." At this, Ron nodded his head vigorously. "However, I would like to read to you the list of this years Head students and Prefects. After dinner, I would like these people to stay behind so we can begin our first meeting. Without further ado, here is the list of people," Everyone was already aware if they were going to be named or not, having been informed with their Hogwarts letter.
Dumbledore finished reading the list of Prefects, one of the names being Ginny, and was now proceeding to the Head students, the list that mostly everyone was interested in. "Head Boy this year will be Draco Malfoy!"
Gasps were heard and talking began, some girls, and even a few guys wolf-whistled. Many people cheered and clapped. Hermione's eyebrows shot up into her hair and was frantically asking anyone who would listen how this could have happened. Hermione looked over to Malfoy, who was currently standing up, basking in his glory. Dumbledore raised his hand to calm the noise and continued speaking. "The Head Girl will be Hermione Granger!" Hermione shortly stood up and received polite applause, with the exception of Ginny, who cheered while clapping thunderously.
Dinner was started and Hermione was in a bad mood. To make things worse, Lavender came over to Hermione and sat down across from her, making space between two third years, who quickly stood up and walked to another free part of the table. Lavender began talking to Hermione, "So…Delia, huh? Hermione Granger. Tssk tssk. Never would have thought you would lie about your name." Hermione ground her teeth, she didn't want to put up with an arrogant person right now. "Well, I'll talk to the gang and see what we want to do with you. You know, we were thinking you could become one of us, but now I'm not so sure." Lavender flipped her hair, and walked away without so much as a 'goodbye.'
Ginny whispered to Hermione who was sitting to her right, "Remember the dare. You have to be friendly with them!" Hermione bit her lip to stop her retort and tried to eat.
At the termination of dinner, Harry and Ron left, and gradually all of the stuffed students, leaving the Prefects, Head Boy and Girl, and all of the professors. The Headmaster asked everyone to stand up, and with a wave of his wand, the House tables were replaced with comfy chairs enough for all of the assembled students. Everyone took seats, and the meeting commenced.
Dumbledore spoke first, "Congratulations on your places of honor, they are most certainly well-earned. There are schedules for everyone to patrol and duties are also printed on the paper Professor McGonagall is handing out to each of you."
When McGonagall got to Malfoy, she stopped. She looked between Hermione and Malfoy, and reprimanded in a stern voice, "You best get along, being Head Boy and Girl, every student will be looking up to you to set a good example. The bickering you are both accustomed to will be in check. Am I clear?" Hermione and Malfoy both mumbled a small-voiced "Yes." Draco then turned to Hermione and sent her a glare as if this was her fault. Hermione thought, Gee, what a great start to this peace thing, Malfoy. Merlin's socks, I would be able to get along with him if he wasn't so egotistical, and maybe if he wasn't so biased toward muggle borns, yes, that would also contribute to our truce greatly.
The scraping of chairs on the floor broke Hermione of her thoughts. The meeting was over and she had completely tuned out. Hermione started panicking, she didn't hear anything that was said! She hadn't paid attention!
Hermione quickly turned to Ginny, "Gin, what was Dumbledore saying?!"
"Ooh, someone wasn't paying attention."
"Please Ginny, tell me what I missed?"
"Go follow Dumbledore and Malfoy."
"What?"
"Head students have a connecting dorm."
"What?!"
Ginny sighed, "I think you should pay attention next time, this isn't very fun on my part."
"I'm sorry, Gin."
"Eesokay. Just go now and catch up with them."
"Mmk, bye."
Hermione gave Ginny a quick hug and went out the Great Hall to find Dumbledore and Malfoy waiting there for her. The Headmaster spoke calmly with a twinkle in his eye, "I'm glad you have decided to join us, Miss Granger." Hermione had the decency to look down in shame. "Shall we go?" She nodded. Dumbledore led Hermione and Draco up to a seventh floor corridor painted a light shade of green with blue polka dots. When they got to a portrait of two students sleeping with their backs turned, Dumbledore's gently woke them up. The two people turned around and looked exactly like Draco and Hermione. The real Head students were shocked. What was Dumbledore playing at?
"Here is where I leave you," Dumbledore spoke, "The current password is Pickle Swally. You may change it if you would like. Goodnight Miss Granger, Mister Malfoy."
Dumbledore left.
Hermione then asked, "Are we going to change it?"
"Yeah - uh - any ideas?" Malfoy asked.
"We should come up with something really random- to insure the maximum theft protection."
"Yes. So.. Any ideas?" Malfoy snapped. He hated it when she got all smart like this.
The portrait Draco said, "Hey now, no need to be mean."
"Yeah, whatever," the real Draco said, "I just wanna hurry up and get this crap over with."
Portrait Hermione said, "Excuse me, but that is absolutely no way to impress anyone."
"What?!" Draco objected, "I'm not trying to impress anyone!"
Portrait Draco retaliated, "Draco, Draco. Please do not forget that I am you." Draco looked genuinely confused. "Your conscience brought to life, if you will. You try to impress any creature who can wear a skirt and not be transgender. And Hermione is of that female persuasion."
Hermione blushed at that comment.
"See? That's exactly what I said! I'm trying to impress nobody." Malfoy was the only one to find this funny. In between laughter, Malfoy said, "Get it? She's a nobody! I'm impressing nobody! But actually, I'm not really trying to impress her. I mean, she's just a good-for-nothing Mudblood." Malfoy laughed some more.
The portrait swung open and hit Malfoy, abruptly stopping his laughter. Portrait Hermione reprimanded, "That was so rude, Draco! Apologize!!"
Draco couldn't manage words at the moment for he was doubled over from the blast that had hit a place that hurt Malfoy a lot. The portrait people and Hermione roared with laughter at the sidesplitting scene. It had been almost 5 minutes before Malfoy shakily stood straight and said, "Hate to break up this little love fest, but we need to come up with a password."
The Portrait Hermione spoke thoughtfully, "Love fest…."
Then Portrait Malfoy said, "That's catchy, we'll keep it."
The real Malfoy screeched, "Hey! We were supposed to decide!"
"Well, technically, we did decide." said Hermione, smiling at her own cleverness, which only put Draco in a worse mood.
The portrait swung open and the two stepped inside, Draco muttered sarcastically, "Well, we know that the portrait favors you over me. Wonderful."
Without another word, the two Head students advanced to their respective rooms to call it a night.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed! Please review. Even constructive criticism would work. Notice I said constructive criticism? Yeah, that doesn't mean just: "I hate your story. You suck." Not that I've had that.. I'm just saying. Wow. I'm listening to Thriller, and I just realized how creepy it is. Has anyone else noticed or am I just stupid? Or maybe it's both. Ok, well, now that I'm rambling[and well aware of it I think ill stop, and let you review. Ok, thanks. 3 Ducky1414