Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter because if I did I would be a millionaire.
I woke with a start. I'd fallen asleep! I looked over at Malfoy and breathed a sigh of relief. He was still sleeping, which meant he didn't know that I'd spent the night. I ran back to the dormitory to grab my books and then headed to class. I was excited for this year; I would finally get to take my NEWT courses. I had double potions first with the Slytherins.
I walked into the room and found that the teacher had us all standing, looking at the seats. "Miss Granger!" Professor Slughorn exclaimed, "How delightful. I was so hoping that I would get to teach you again."
I smiled awkwardly back at him, thankfully, before I had to reply, I was interrupted by the door opening. In walks Malfoy looking like the epitome of health. I sent him a suspicious look which he answered with another one of his stupid smirks. Git.
"Now that everyone's here we can begin! You may have noticed that I have not allowed any of you to sit down. This is because you will be assigned partners for this class and you must sit with them. I've paired you up with the person who is closest to you in intellectual range and there will be no complaining. The partners are:…."
While Slughorn walked around the room showing people to their seats, I realized that he had a permanent limp to his step and that he had lost a lot of weight. He looked a little older too.
"Miss Granger" I gave a start, thinking he had caught me staring "…and Mr. Malfoy, you will be at the back of the room on the left side." More time with the ferret. This was gonna be a long year.
"Alright Malfoy, I expect you to help with this and if you intentionally screw it up I will kill you. Got it?" He sneered. "And why should I be afraid of a filthy little mudblood?" I saw red. "How dare you." The strength in my voice surprised me. The classroom went deathly quiet. In seconds we were full out dueling.
Malfoy's dueling had improved quite a great deal, probably from his time as a death eater. He was a pretty even match for me now.
" ! Miss Granger! There will be absolutely no more of that in my classroom. 75 points from Gryffindor and Slytherin! I can't believe this, especially from the Head Boy and Girl! Now both of you go to the Headmistress's office. And if you so much as say one bad word to each other on the way there, you'll be in detention for a month."
I was furious. How dare that git get me in trouble. He was the one that started it. We made our way to McGonagall's office in frosty silence.
We walked into the office and were greeted with an extremely angry McGonagall. "Head Boy and Girl! Never in my life have such responsible students caused so much trouble. What could have possibly even provoked you? No. I don't want to know. I warned you to behave at the beginning of term and you didn't even try. Get out of my sight and 20 more points from Gryffindor and Slytherin."
We walked to our next class without so much as looking at each other.
In every single class after that the teachers insisted on pairing us up. And Malfoy was my partner in every. Single. Class. McGonagall probably put them up to it. Needless to say, I was extremely excited to get away from him at dinner.
"Gin! You're a sight for sore eyes. You have to save me!" She raised an eyebrow at me. "Save you from what?" "The ferret. He's my partner in every single class and I have to share a dormitory with him! And if that isn't bad enough we both lost 95 points for our fight in potions. And McGonagall was mad at me. ME!" She winced. "Tough luck Mione. But you hardly need saving. Draco Malfoy is easily the most attractive guy in school not to mention he has top marks, second only to you. And look on the bright side, it will definitely make our lives more interesting."
I sighed. "He is most definitely not attractive and even if he was, he is the world's most annoying git with the personality of a cactus. But I guess I have to try to be civil with him or else I think McGonagall will kill both of us." She smirked. "I think the lady doth protest too much. Even you can't deny how hot he is now. Besides, you two would actually get along really well if you weren't always at each other's throats. By the way, I really wanna see your dorm. We should have a sleepover there tonight, and then Malfoy won't be able to bother you for tonight at least."
I smiled mischievously, thinking about all the different ways we could torture him. "I think that's a great idea."