So here is Chapter 5, I would have done a chapter yesterday, but I went shopping with my grandparents ;D
I hope you enjoy it, and no, I still don't own Harry Potter D:
Part 1
Hermione sighed as she sat back in her armchair in her bedroom.
Yesterday, she, Pansy and most of the other girls had been decorating the entire common room with everything from a giant tree in the corner, to fairy lights strung around the ceiling.
And today she had spent all of her time either eating or watching muggle Christmas films – all of that time in very close proximity to none other than Draco Malfoy, the guy she was trying to avoid after figuring out she had a crush on him. She had thought that by watching muggle films, he would leave and do something else, but no. He had spent the entire day sat there with her. She was a mess.
It had been better yesterday when she actually had something to do.
Xx Harry Potter xX
"Hey Pansy, where are Draco and Blaise?" Hermione asked one of her best friends, hoping she didn't sound too odd asking where Draco was.
Pansy smirked at the question before replying,
"They went to Diagon Alley so that Draco could buy his Secret Santo gift. The lazy sod still hasn't bought the gift yet and it's 4 days until Christmas. The nerve of some people" She deadpanned, before her and Hermione burst into laughter, startling some of the people around them.
"Oh, cool. Anyway, I need someone to come with me to muggle London to buy some Christmas decorations for the common room, you game?" asked Hermione, knowing Pansy would come with her wherever she was going (she had decided Hermione needed a 24 hour body guard).
So that's why an hour later, Pansy and Hermione were traipsing round a huge Tesco somewhere in the middle of London looking for some fairy lights and tinsel.
"Oh come on, we must have at least 50 metres of tinsel Hermione, surely we don't need to buy anything else" whined Pansy, who was pushing around a trolley full of Christmas decorations.
"Sorry Pans, we just need to find a star to go at the top of the tree, why don't you go and queue up to pay while I go and find one, okay?" Pansy nodded and headed off to one of the queue lines while Hermione quickly ran off to find a star to put on top of the tree.
She quickly found one and went to join Pansy in the queue. Just as she was approaching she saw Pansy and realised how awkward she must feel. A pure blood witch stood in the middle of a muggle store, Hermione never should have left heron her own.
She was surprised to find, however, that Pansy was happily flirting with the checkout boy as he was packing all of their shopping into a bag. Hermione came over and just gave Pansy a look that said 'you are soo you' and turned to pay for their purchases before they left to head back to Hogwarts for the afternoon.
Xx Harry Potter xX
They had been decorating the room for the last couple of hours and Hermione couldn't help but look over at Draco every 10 minutes or so, and she was pretty sure that Harry, Blaise and Pansy had all noticed, but nobody had said anything.
It had become apparent to Hermione, and most of the girls, that the two boys playing chess just didn't really care about the decorations in the common room, so as the time went on they asked for their opinions less and less.
At about half past 5, just after Draco had, yet again, won a chess match against Harry again, Hermione realised she had been sitting there staring at Draco as he laughed with Harry, 'get a grip of yourself Hermione, you need to stop staring at him' she thought to herself as she turned back to decorating, missing the longing gaze that Draco sent at her moments later.
Later on in the evening, when all the decorations were up, Hermione was in the middle of an animated conversation with Dean about getting a television into the common room because she had finally worked out how to make electronics work inside Hogwarts, when Harry came over and reminded her about the Secret Santa announcement she needed to make,
"Thanks Harry" she said to him as he walked back over to where he had been sat and she stood up to make the announcement,
"Okay, so I know that a lot of you are going back to your homes on Christmas day, so, now that the tree is up, everyone can start putting their Secret Santa gifts under the tree starting tomorrow, and we'll hand them out on Saturday evening. That's all guys, you can go back to whatever you were doing" And she turned back to talk to Dean about setting up some films to watch tomorrow.
After Harry had made his leave from the common room, Hermione was one of the first to head up to her room to get some much needed sleep after her day of decorating.
Xx Harry Potter xX
The next day Hermione decided to just go ahead and set up a television in the common room so that she could watch some of her favourite Christmas films.
Dean had asked her if she could put on Die Hard 2 at one point in the day and she was also going to put on The Grinch, the Muppets Christmas Carol, 4 Christmases and her favourite, Love Actually.
The idea of doing this was to get away from Draco for the day. She figured that if she put on muggle films, he would just sort of disappear. Oh, how she was mistaken. Pansy had appointed him as her body guard for the day, so she ended up spending the entire day with him.
She also felt very embarrassed when she realised she had been talking along to most of the words in Love Actually as she had completely forgotten that she wasn't alone.
Once it had finished (Love Actually being the last film of the day) she got up, yawned and announced she was going to bed.
Before she got into bed, however, she spent 10 or so minutes sat in her armchair thinking over the last two day, 'for trying to avoid Draco, I didn't do a very good job' thought Hermione as she got up to change into her pyjamas.
She climbed into her bed and lay there for a moment, trying to work out when her world had turned so upside down, and she could only come to one conclusion, which left her smiling as she drifted off to sleep.
'When I became friends with Draco Malfoy'
Part 2
For Draco, keeping his identity as Hermione's secret admirer was getting harder everyday.
Ever since her breakup with Weasley she had been spending more and more time with him, and as a consequence, he had been surrounded by her charm and intelligence for the best part of the past week.
The only time he had managed to get away from her in the last two days was yesterday morning when he had gone shopping for her Christmas gift.
Xx Harry Potter xX
After breakfast that morning, Draco all but pulled Blaise out of the front door of Hogwarts to go with him to Diagon Alley to buy Hermione a Christmas present.
A couple of weeks ago he had pulled Hermione's name out of the hat when she had insisted on doing a Secret Santa with the entire 8th year. And now, he needed to buy her a present that was worthy of her, not an easy feet.
He had decided to bring Blaise with him because he would know what Hermione would or wouldn't like, not that Draco didn't, but he decided he was going to need someone else's opinion.
Blaise had cut straight to the chase, and had pulled Draco straight into one of the most expensive jewellery stores in the whole of Diagon Alley.
They had been browsing for about half an hour when he found it. It was a solid gold charm bracelet, with enough space to hold 12 charms, 'perfect' thought Draco 'I can buy her 12 charms and give her one for each of the twelve days of Christmas' - it was a great idea.
After showing the bracelet to Blaise and gaining his approval, they left the store and ended up going over to a small coffee shop to sit and get a drink before they went back to Hogwarts,
"So, do you think she'll like it, the bracelet I mean?" said Draco, needing assurance that he had just spent a lot of galleons on something worth buying. Blaise simply chuckled before replying,
"I'm sure she'll absolutely love it, trust me" Draco sighed in relief, "And by the way, I heard from a very reliable source" Draco snorted, but allowed him to continue, "that the lovely Miss Granger is actually hoping that her mystery man, is in fact, you" Blaise finished with an uninterested look on his face as he took another sip of his coffee, staring out of the window at a group of men walking past outside.
Draco was feeling like doing a happy dance (internally, of course. Malfoy's don't act like fools in public) but he refrained, and replied as casually as he could,
"Oh really, and who, pray tell, is your reliable source?" Draco asked, secretly hoping it was, in fact, a reliable source, and not just an annoying, gossip hungry 5th year.
"Well, I was in Hermione's room when I happened upon an open book. Not knowing what it was, I read a few lines before realising it was her personal diary" said Blaise, who almost cracked up laughing at the look on Draco's face. It was a cross between ecstatic and murderous, something he was sure only Draco could pull off.
"Anyway," continued Blaise, "we should probably be heading back to Hogwarts now, don't want to miss lunch" Draco nodded his head in agreement as he dropped a few galleons onto the table before he and Blaise took their leave, heading back to Hogwarts.
Xx Harry Potter xX
The rest of that day had been spent watching the girls and Blaise decorating the common room for Christmas.
Every once in a while, one of the girls would ask him or Harry for their opinion, and they would do their best, often ending up receiving glares from multiple girls before they turned back to their game of wizards chess.
Draco also ended up sending a longing gaze at the back of Hermione's head every half an hour without even realising what he was doing.
At about 8 in the evening, all the decorating had been done, and the entire 8th year (minus Ron and Lavender) were sat around the fire, discussing things like Christmas, Quidditch, clothes, or something similar.
Before everyone started disappearing to go to bed, Hermione stood up to address the group,
"Okay, so I know that a lot of you are going back to your homes on Christmas day, so, now that the tree is up, everyone can start putting their Secret Santa gifts under the tree starting tomorrow, and we'll hand them out on Saturday evening. That's all guys, you can go back to whatever you were doing" And she sat back down and continued her animated conversation with Dean about something muggle that Draco couldn't remember the name of.
"She looks happy" said a voice behind him, and he turned to see Harry stood behind him.
"Yeah" replied Draco "But will she still be happy when she finds out I'm the guy sending her all the notes?" he questioned, hoping Harry would have the answer to the question that had been bothering him.
"Well, you'll never know until she finds out it's you" he said, before bidding his goodnight to the group and going up to bed.
Soon after Harry left small groups started to disperse to go to bed, Draco being one of those people.
He lay back in his bed, hoping he could get a good nights sleep.
Xx Harry Potter xX
The next day was interesting for everyone.
Hermione had announced that she had finally worked out how to make muggle electrical appliances work inside Hogwarts, so she had taken it upon herself to set up a television and DVD player, and put on several different muggle Christmas films throughout the day.
She had then proceeded to claim one of the comfiest armchairs and watch every film, quoting along to one in particular called 'Love Actually' which amused Draco immensely.
At the start of the day when he was instructed he had to sit with Hermione all day so that she didn't get too emotional and start crying or go and kill Ron, he hadn't been that pleased.
But, spending most of the day sat in the common room with her, watching films was actually rather pleasant. So much so that at 9 o'clock that evening when Hermione announced that the final film had finished, Draco was a little upset. He enjoyed Hermione's presence immensely and didn't want to part from her when she announced that she was having an early night and going to bed.
He stayed lounging around the common room for the next 10 or 15 minutes before he realised he should just go to bed because he had nothing better to go.
As he was changing for bed he realised that apart from yesterday morning, he had spent the entire of the last two days with Hermione.
He groaned, realising that it was going to be hard keeping his identity a secret from her for much longer, '10 days' said a voice in his head 'you can last 10 days'
And with that thought in mind he drifted off to sleep.
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