Draco froze on the step. He turned to look at Hermione, who had a slightly scared expression on her face. Draco figured she just didn't want to deal with them.

"Hey Weasley," Draco said as he turned to face the boys that were making their way up to where he stood, "Potter." Draco nodded at each of them as he said both of their names.

When the boy would hang out together, they would call each other by their first names. Well, except for Draco. Ron and Harry always called him by his last name. He had to admit, he preferred it that way though.

Draco glanced back at Hermione, who had backed herself against the wall. He turned his attention back to the boys as they were clobbering up the stairs.

"Malfoy, mate, where have you been hiding?" Ron asked and he put one arm around Draco's shoulders.

"Yea, we couldn't find you anywhere." Harry said as he joined in on the other side, wrapping his arm around Draco's shoulders as well.

"It's not like I was hiding." Draco told them. Well, not from them at least. He was hiding from Pansy. The little bugger had been trying to get together with him since the new term had started.

"Well, we got you now," Ron said, sounding triumphant, "And we was wondering…"

"If you'd like to join us for some trouble making." Harry continued.

Sometimes, the way these two talked, you would think that they studied the way Ron's older twin brothers, Fred and George, talked. Draco occasionally found it creepy how they would finish each other's sentences.

"Sorry guys, not tonight." Draco was trying to wiggle his way out of the hold that Ron and Harry had on him.

"Come on, mate, you need to have some fun." Ron replied.

Then, Draco made the mistake of looking up where Hermione had placed herself on the other side of the stairwell, away from the boys. Ron followed Draco's gaze, the Harry followed suit.

"Well, well, well," Ron said, as her was checking Hermione out, "Looks to me as if Malfoy already has his fun planned for the night."

"Wow, Malfoy, you like the nerdy type?" Harry asked, incredulously.

Ron removed his arm from around Draco and started walking towards Hermione. He reached up to smooth out his ginger hair.

"Oi, Bookworm, you planning on having a good time with Malfoy, here?" Ron asked her, he was only a few steps from her.

Hermione just stared down at his feet. Draco could tell she was blushing with embarrassment and biting her lip. Even though he couldn't help but think about how cute she was standing there like that, Draco knew he had to put a stop to this.

"Hey, Bookworm, do you only answer questions from the professors?" Harry had joined in the teasing.

"Enough now, we're just friends." Draco nearly shouted at them as he broke free of Harry's arm. He was practically stomping to where Ron and Hermione were standing.

"Come on." he said as he carefully took hold of Hermione's arm and led her up the stairs.

Ron turned around to look at Harry and started to walk back down towards his friend.

"Looks like I may have found a new puzzle to solve." Ron said as he pointed up to where Draco was leading Hermione up the stairs, away from them.

"Then we should get to work on conjuring the perfect plan," Harry replied, his green eyes following the two as they climbed out of sight, "Because she won't be an easy one."

"I love a challenge." Ron smirked.