Hi guys I'm so sorry I haven't updated for a while :( me and my editor have both been really busy, start of school and everything. Anyway I just wanted to tell you guys that this is set in the sixth year except the battle in the ministry at the end of the fifth book didn't happen. (I need it to be that way for certain bits of plot in here.) So lets say if I get five more reviews I'll upload chapter 7 to apologise. Once again so 's chapter 6 :)

Hermione was in the library, books piled around her. She had one pile for books that she needed, one for books she needed to put back and one for books that could be helpful. Finally she decided to give up and go with what she had. She had enough to be going through right now. She began to levitate the books that she didn't need back to the shelves, hoping Madam Pince wouldn't see her. Luckily enough she got away with it and she sat back down at the desk pulling the 'books she needed' pile towards her. After another hour of looking and lots more levitating, she was finished. She had a far smaller pile of four books that she decided on. She took them back to her dormitory, and as she walked through the common room, she managed to spot Blaise, Parvati, Lavender and Theodore. She couldn't see Draco so she assumed he was in her dorm. When she walked in she couldn't see Draco. She looked around and heard some noise from the bathroom. She opened the door of the bathroom and her eyes widened.

"Ewwww NO put some clothes on."

Draco was standing there wearing a towel and Hermione covered her eyes quickly. Draco glared at her,

"Seriously? You just opened the door? I could have been naked."

Hermione looked even more distressed at this,

"Ugh thats horrible. Why did you even make me think of that?! I thought you would be decent enough to lock the door."

Draco walked out brushing her as he passed.

"Look away if you don't want to see EVERYTHING. I'm getting changed."

Hermione walked in to the bathroom he'd just come out of and closed the door. She heard Draco's infuriating chuckle and she went to the sink and splashed herself with water. Once she had dried her face she shouted out,

"Are you done yet?"

"Yeah I was done ages ago."

Hermione opened the door cautiously and, seeing that Draco was fully dressed, walked out. Draco took a small hand mirror that sat on Lavender's bedside table and smoothed out his hair,

"Hey Granger, did you like my muscly chest?"

Hermione eyed him warily,

"Shut up Malfoy."

Draco walked past her and in to the bathroom to get his wand,

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Anyway why were you so eager to talk to me?"

Hermione sat on her bed and fumbled with the buckle on her bag,

"I found the most AMAZING potion in the library, check this out."

She threw the book to Draco who flicked through it.

"Ah yeah, I was thinking of a potion like that too. What is it? A sort of polyjuice potion that turns you in to an animal?"

Hermione shook her head,

"Its no where NEAR as hard to make as a polyjuice potion but it will be a challenge. What it does, is turn the drinker in to a temporary animal- their patronus. We have to do plenty of transfiguration charms on it and make sure we get it right."

Draco looked dismayed,

"Are you good at transfiguration? Its not exactly my best subject."

Hermione took out another book and examined it,

"Um it shouldn't be anything we haven't learnt so we can do it."

Draco went and sat next to her,

"Ok if your sure."

Hermione got up quickly,

"Yes I am. "

The others began to come in.

"Hey why have we got such a small dorm?"

Blaise said.

"Oh our dorm has always been like this. Now we have to share it with you guys."

Lavender replied. Parvati nodded,

"Look when we are getting changed we should do, boys in the bathroom, girls in here."

There was an immediate protest at this from Theodore, Blaise and Draco.

"No thats not fair, the bathroom is not big enough."

Hermione rolled her eyes,

"Its not THAT bad. Anyway us girls need our space and none of us want to see boys getting changed."

There were still protests so Hermione got really frustrated,

"Look I don't want something like earlier this evening happening again."

Parvati turned to Hermione,

"Huh? What happened Hermione?"

Hermione was annoyed with herself. Now she HAD to tell them.

"Well I saw Malfoy, um just- just in a towel..."

Lavender looked shocked,

"Wow oh my gosh! Really?"

Hermione nodded and said,

"So we are definitely doing boys in the bathroom, girls in here."

The boys looked grumpy at this but agreed. They all had to get changed out of their robes to go to bed so the boys squeezed in to the bathroom. As soon as they were in Lavender, Parvati and Hermione burst out laughing.

"Come on its getting late, lets get changed."

Once everyone was changed, for about an hour they all did their own things. Blaise and Draco were playing chess, Lavender was brushing her long hair, Parvati was writing a letter to her parents, Theodore was reading and Hermione was writing notes on their potion with a few books open around her. Draco and Blaise were making loads of noise as they played; shouting insults at the each other and laughing, also with the added noise of smashing chess pieces as they were taken. Hermione got up angrily,

"Calm down! I have never seen two people make THAT much noise as they play chess. You know what, its getting late I think its time everyone got to bed."

Blaise and Draco both looked unfazed by her outburst. Blaise got up and began to pack up the chess looking sombre,

"Yes of course sorry Professor Granger."

Hermione folded her arms,

"No I mean it. You two have made enough noise. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the hufflepuffs could here you."

Lavender and Parvati agreed that they should get to sleep. Hermione waved her wand and the lights went off. There was a yelp from Draco.

"Granger! Let me get back to my own bed first."

Hermione turned over grumpily,

"Its not hard to find."

She heard his footsteps and suddenly her covers were pulled off and she felt him trying to get in with her!

"Ow Malfoy what in the name of Merlin do you think you are doing?"

Draco jumped out quickly,

"Whoah I thought that was MY bed."

Hermione pulled the covers back up,

"No you are the other side of me. Wow that was scary!"

She heard Malfoy get back in to the right bed this time. After that, silence. She settled down and closed her eyes dreaming of bubbling potions.

The next morning she woke up far earlier and she took her dressing gown and put on her slippers. She crept out of her dorm and in to the common room. To her surprise Draco was already sitting on one of the sofas. He sat up straight as she got closer then slumped again,

"Oh its only you Granger."

Hermione walked over and sat next to him,

"So, what are you doing down here?"

Draco rubbed his forehead,

"I just woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep. Granger, was it really that horrible when I got in to your bed?"

Hermione looked at him incredulously,

"If you had STAYED there I would have had a thing or two to say about that, but you were really warm."

Draco took her hand and put his arm round her slim shoulders,

"Am I warm now?"

Hermione felt a little guilty made no protest. Nevermind about Harry and Ron.

"Yeah I guess you're pretty warm."

Draco put both his arms round her,

"Granger you are so confusing you know?"

Hermione gave a small chuckle,

"I do have a brilliant brain if thats what you mean. My speciality is hexing blonde slytherins."

Draco smiled thoughtfully at her,

"Whats your game? I cant work you out Granger."

Hermione put on her most mysterious face,

"Yeah thats right. I'm like a rubiks cube."

Draco looked down at her, more puzzled than ever,

"Huh? Whats a 'rubiks cube'?"

Hermione looked up at him and suddenly she felt this longing to kiss him. She stopped her self and muttered,

"Its nothing."

Draco tilted her chin upwards,

"Granger, why are you so much prettier than I remember?"

Hermione's eyes widened,

"You think I'm pretty?"

Draco released her chin and grinned at her,

"Definitely, all I remember from before is a bushy-haired girl with large front teeth who knew everything."

Hermione looked down at her lap,

"Thanks. I think."

Draco began to get up but Hermione tightened her grip on him so he sat back down.

"Malfoy, don't go yet. I think I do like you back... I don't really know whats its like to like someone. The only 'crush'I have ever had is- is on Lockhart."

Draco snorted,

"Wow Lockhart? I guess a lot of girls liked him. So who was YOUR first kiss? I told you mine."

Hermione drew away from him and took a deep breath,

"Ok well my first kiss was Viktor Krum."

Draco's mouth fell open,

"Wow your first kiss was an international quidditch player! I hardly think I can live up to that."

Hermione shook her head with a small giggle,

"I don't think he had kissed anyone before that because he bit my lip kind of hard. You are a way better kisser. I just WISH Harry and Ron would be a bit nicer about this. Harry has just taken Ron's side but I hope we are still friends."

Draco gave her one last grin before getting up,

"Come on. We better get back to our dorm, otherwise the others will notice we aren't there."

Hermione got up quickly. She didn't want to find out what Ron's face would look like if she and Draco were both found out of their dorm at the same time. As she walked out she thought she heard something stirring in the corner of the room. However she ignored it and walked in to her dorm. Still no one was awake and she glanced at her clock; it was half past seven in the morning. Normally they all got up at around eight, so she had a little while.

"We better get dressed."

She told Draco. Draco picked up his clothes and headed towards the bathroom.

"Ok, be right back."

Once he was out, the others began to wake up gradually. As they all got up, Blaise and Theodore went in to the bathroom while the girls stayed in the main part of the dormitory. Draco also had to go in to the bathroom so the girls could keep their 'decency'. Once everyone was finally sorted they walked through the now-fairly-busy common room and towards the great hall. They split as they went in, the girls to the gryffindors, the boys to the slytherins. Hermione gave a small sigh when she saw Ron and Harry. She didn't particularly want another argument with either of them so she sat down nearer the fifth years so she could chat to Ginny. Ginny saw her friend looking a little down so she slid along the bench so she was now opposite to Hermione. She pushed a glass of pumpkin juice towards her.

"Hey 'Mione! I havent talked to you in a bit, so what have you been up to? I heard you went to Slughorn's party! Part of the Slug Club now are we? I was invited too but I couldn't go."

Hermione perked up a bit. Ginny always cheered her up, so bubbly and energetic.

"Oh Gin, you don't want to hear that story.. To cut the long story short, I'm with Malfoy for potions. We went to hogsmeade together, he kissed me on the cheek, Ron got mad. Then I went to Slughorn's party with him to get Ron back, he kissed me on the lips and Ron found out. Ron now refuses to talk to me and Harry has taken his side."

Ginny looked astonished.

"Wow 'Mione, looks like you've been having fun! So how do you feel about Malfoy and Ron and everything?"

Hermione looked at little confused as she sipped her pumpkin juice.

"I'm not sure really. Malfoy is nice but I think he likes me more than I like him. As for Ron, he's just been a complete pain. Its none of his business who kisses me anyway."

Ginny leaned in confidentially ,

"So what was it like kissing Malfoy?"

Hermione laughed and gave Ginny a little slap on the arm,

"Ginny! So why couldn't you go to Slughorn's party?"

Ginny smiled happily,

"Because I was on my first date with Dean Thomas!"

Hermione beamed at her,

"Yay Gin! Thats great! Is he a good kisser?"

Ginny's smiled widened,

"Yeah totally."

Hermione took another sip of her pumpkin juice,

"Gin thanks so much. You have really cheered me up."

Ginny leaned over the table to give her a hug,

"No problem, if you want to talk about ANYTHING else then I'm here."

Hermione was far more cheerful now. Who needs Ron anyway? She felt lovely as she walked out of the great hall for her classes.

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