At breakfast the next morning all thoughts of Malfoy were gone. That is because I received a letter from my Uncle Percy. Uncle Percy was a stick in the mud if I ever saw one, and his daughter Molly was almost just as bad. His other daughter, Lucy, however was more social and like her mother, thank Merlin for that. Uncle Percy meant well, he cared for us very much, especially our education. His letter was only a couple lines saying this:

Dear Rose,

I hope your fifth year is going well. I'm sure you are receiving the highest marks as usual, and I encourage you to continue that trend. I have the utter most faith in you that you will receive all O's on your OWLs. Good Luck with your studying and we'll see you at Christmas.

-Uncle Percy

When I got to Potions, I walked straight to where Al was sitting and showed him the letter.

"Did you get one of these?"

Al looked at it. "Yeah, I think he sent it to all the fifth years. But at least he sounds like he has confidence in you! In mine he said 'I know you are struggling, but I encourage you to keep with it". Just then there was a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see Malfoy standing there.

"Excuse me, shrew, but you're in my seat," he said nastily.

My face automatically turned into a grimace. "Excuse you, but I'm talking to my cousin." He glared at me, and for a second I thought wow he does have pretty eyes. That is when I came to my senses and realized what I was just thinking. My cheeks must of flared up red, because Malfoy gave me a strange look. I quickly shoved my way past him to my table with Dom and Sarah.

"What's up with you?" Dom asked when I sat down.

"Nothing," I quickly changed the subject, "did you get a letter from Uncle Percy?"

Dom rolled her eyes, "Yeah, he just said that I should focus more on school if I want to be head girl like Vic, blah blah blah". Luckily Professor Slughorn stood up and started the lecture, before Dom could go back to pestering me.

I tried to focus on what Professor Slughorn was saying and not look at Malfoy at all, but occasionally I found my eyes drifting that way. I never really looked at Malfoy before, like really looked at him. And now that I did, I realized that Sarah was right...he wasn't ugly. He was actually kind of hot. I tried to tell myself that he wasn't, but who was I kidding. I also realized that the girls did fawn over him. Missy Hale, a Slytherin girl, would giggle every time he cracked a joke with Al and Jessamine Penhallow was way too excited to let him borrow a quill.

"Rose!"

I woke up from my thoughts, and looked at Sarah. She and Dom were looking at me weird.

"What is up with you today? Do you even know what potion we are supposed to be making right now?" Sarah asked.

"Uh...Strengthen Solution?"

Dom's mouth fell agape. "Rose, honey are you ok? We're making wit-sharpening solution. I don't think I've ever seen you space off in class before."

"It's nothing. I'm just tired."

Dom seemed to accept this answer, but Sarah squinted her eyes at me. I gave her a look that said drop it until later, and lucky for me she obliged. After class, my plan was to get out of there as quick as I could, but Slughorn stopped me so he could ask me how my mother was. Mum was a very important in the ministry, but I was surprised he didn't stop Al. He must have gotten away in time. It took me a couple minutes, but I finally escaped. I stepped out of the classroom to see Malfoy standing against the wall talking to Missy Hale.

I couldn't hear what they were saying, but Missy was twirling her hair and batting her big eyes at him which made me want to vomit. I stalked passed without giving them a single glance.

"Weasley!"

Surprised I turned around to see Malfoy coming up to me, with an angry looking Missy left behind giving me dagger eyes.

"What do you want Malfoy? You don't want to talk to me too long, your girlfriend might get upset."

Malfoy scowled at me, "Missy is not my girlfriend."

I could sense he was genuinely irritated that I said that. Usually I would take this opportunity and use it to my advantage to make him even angrier, but I decided not to. I could save it for later.

I sighed, "What is it, Malfoy?"

His face got a little brighter. "I just wanted to say that I saw that you spaced off today in class. Better not make a habit of it Weasley, or else I might just pass you in Potions."

I gave him a dirty look and walked away. Potions was my strongest subject, there was no way he would surpass me. I could feel him smirking at me as I walked away.

That night, after dinner, Sarah grabbed me by the arm and dragged me to our dormitory. We unpleasantly were met with one of the other girls we shared a room with making out with her boyfriend.

"Sorry ladies, didn't realize dinner was over, we'll go somewhere else" Nicola said, and dragged her boyfriend out the door.

I plopped down on my bed. "If I walk on them making out one more time, I'm going to gag."

Sarah wrinkled her nose. "I know, I wish the spell was still on the stairs so no boys whatsoever could come up! Curse you Victoire!" There used to be a spell on the staircase keeping boys from coming up to the girls' room. But when my cousin was in her fifth year at Hogwarts, she changed the spell so if a girl gave them permission, the boy could come up. Vic was really good at charms, and could do anything she set her mind to it. She could be scary that way.

Sarah sat on the edge of my bed and stared at me intently. "What was up in potions?"

I considered lying to her, but Sarah would be able to tell. I hid my face in the pillow and muttered, "You were right... Malfoy is pretty hot."

"I TOLD YOU!" she exclaimed

"But I do NOT have a crush on him," I said quickly, "I hate still hate him. You can hate someone and still think they are hot, right?"

"Of course, it's like that muggle book I read, The Hunger Games. I hated Cato with a passion, but Merlin was he hot!"

I laughed; Sarah always knew exactly what to say to make me feel better. "Speaking of potions, did I tell you how much I dislike Missy Hale? If I hear her giggle one more time, I'm going to jinx her." Sarah groaned and started ranting about Missy and Jessamine, and how they were the most annoying girls she had ever met. I was glad to change the subject; I didn't want to think about Malfoy anymore. Christmas break was next week, and I wouldn't have to see him for two whole weeks.

Thanks to BookLover8 for asking me how Al got in the girl's dormitory, your question has been answered! Seriously, you guys should review on what you guys are thinking and if you have questions because I'll probably incorporate it into the next chapters! Thank you :)