Chapter 5: Rounding Corners

Something was changing, Hermione could see it, and most of the people around her started to see it too. Hermione was literally shaking as she sat in the great hall waiting for dinner to appear. She had no idea why she bothered waiting for dinner, when chances are she would not want to eat anything anyway, but sometimes she would get a craving or a sudden want to eat something so she waited.

She sensed something, and looked up from her staring at empty table in front of her. She looked behind her to see Malfoy staring at her, his face lacking any emotion other then the slight upturning of his mouth. This was a typical sign, or warning you could say, that he was in the mood for some mudblood torture today.

Hermione turned around, and with a huff decided that tonight she would not even bother to try to eat. She decided her time was best spent in the library doing homework, or perhaps some light reading. She grabbed her bag, and swung it over her shoulder and briskly left the great hall, not bothering to look back, but still knowing that he would most likely follow.

It was weird sometimes, when you knew someone was following you, and it was almost freighting to be unaware of what that person could do to you without anyone around to stop them. Malfoy was the type of person who enjoyed a crowd when he teased her, and he knew all the right things to break her. Not today thou, today she was going to stop being his punching bag. Today she was going to be strong, fierce, and she would prove that she was not a witch to be messed with.

Draco was not really planning on following Granger, but it was the look she gave him that was just too tempting to refuse. He was staring at the back of her head, thinking about the potion he was creating how it would... and she turned around and gave him the most pathetic look. It was so pathetic that he decided to give her a little grin, a special grin just for her, so she would know he was planning something horrible for her. She turned around, grab her stuff, and with slacking shoulders she left the great hall.

So he decided to follow her. She was walking rather slow, making Draco slow his pace, and forcing him to stay much farther behind. She made no noise while walking, it was so unwomanly like, but he remembered that she did not wear the hard bottom shoes or heels like the other girls at school. She usually wore plain, black flat toe shoes with off-white socks. He was so caught off guard about how much he knew about her that he almost lost sight of her rounding a corner.

"Not so fast Granger" he thought to himself as he rounded a corner. He was so sure that she would still be walking, most likely towards the library that he was shocked to see a very furious Granger staring directly into his eyes, wand pointed at his chest. Her hair was wild; her lips trembled with fear, or maybe from anger. You could see a slight shine of sweat on her brow, but it was her eyes that sent chills over his body. Her eyes were green, like blades of grass, but they looked at him with years of repressed fury. This was the Granger he remembered, this is what he had been waiting for! He fumbled for his wand, but he was too late, she had already had the upper hand.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Granger said harshly.

His limbs locked up, and he fall straight back on the cold cobblestone hallway.

She hovered over him and whispered "Time to wipe that grin off your face Malfoy, welcome to my world bitch."

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