~DRACO, THE USER's MANUAL~

THURSDAY:

Draco had put up a huge projector in the Great Hall for today as he had planned on introducing the muggle equipments used on daily basis to ease their work.

As everyone sat down on the benches he spoke

"Fellas, today's lecture is about muggle equipments and how to use them."

The image projected was that of a coffee machine.

"This, my friends is a coffee machine. Yes there is an edible liquid in this world apart from water pumpkin juice and butterbeer. This is an energy drink and also a place where it is sold is called a café, a place where boys take girls on a date."

Those who knew of this nodded their heads and those who didn't, scratched it.

"Today the breakfast will be accompanied by coffee as I have requested the kitchen staff to do so."

There was clapping from all those who really missed this beverage and 'ooooh's and 'aaaah's from those who were new to this.

"And this is just the tip of the ice-berg! They even have something called the cell-phone! It is used for sending and receiving messages and it's instant. No owls, no letters and no ink problems!"

"Hey Draco! Why don't we guys have it then? Well Hogwarts: A History clearly states that to protect our identity all communication networks apart from owls fall apart as a muggle approaches us. Sadly a cell phone falls in the same category. Apologies guys!"

"Hey Draco! Can I call my dad over? He would absolutely love you!" George asked from his table.

"Why not? The more the merrier, no? Mr. Weasley can assist me infact!"

"Yes, he can talk about all the apparent uses of a rubber duck"

Draco winked at the boys and continued.

"Well the next image is that of the life-line of the muggle world. The internet"

The screen now showed the logos of the different web browsers that are used like IE, Firefox, Opera, and Google Chrome etc.

"These are browsers. Without these you cannot access internet. While the most important websites are Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter etc. these are the most websites for a student. No homework is ever done without them."

"And libraries?" asked many from the crowd.

"Mostly redundant, hardly ever visited. Internet has brought most of the knowledge a child will need to complete homework so to speak is present there."

"So this Wikipedia is like an online encyclopaedia?" asked Goyle from the slytherin table.

"Yes, infact recently Wikipedia was shut down for a day as a protest and I am told that no homework was submitted the next day in all of the Britain!"

This cracked many up in the hall and the students were more than excited to see what else Draco had for them.

The day went on with Draco introducing many other gadgets and equipments and even architectural marvels which were made without magic.

Hermione had never seen students so engrossed in a class and she herself was amazed that Draco had actually heard her when she babbled on about the life she life before Hogwarts and he had considered it important enough to be shared. He was charming and witty and his obviously drool-worthy persona made everybody to enjoy it. Even though she knew all of this, Hermione still felt excited about the next tem on the list.

In the end she was the one who stood up and clapped the loudest. It has been a productive day indeed!

That day when they moved back to their dorm Draco handed a package to Hermione wrapped in silver paper and a red ribbon made the bow.

"Well every day of this week has to be special for my baby. Open it"

"Draco you will pamper me until I become addicted to all this, won't you? Then you will complain how typical I am?" Hermione mocked Draco?

"Love, I want to do all this for you! What use of all the money if I can't get you happiness with it!? I mean in the little pamper you ways. Open no!"

Hermione gently removed the bow and the wrapping and saw what her gift was.

"I-pod you got me? This is like the one thing I miss the most about the muggle world. How did you manage this?"

"I talked to Dumbledore and I discussed the charm that envelops Hogwarts. There is none that bars gadgets on a whole but the ones that facilitate communication. I told him what an I-pod was and he accepted! And I know you absolutely love music then what was to think?"

"You are genius! Why hasn't anyone ever thought of that! Thank you baby, Thank you so SO much! I simply love music!"

"Fire it up. There is more."

Hermione turned it on and to her utter delight it had a playlist already created in it with all her favourite songs. Draco had given her a modern form of mixed tape!

"I had owled your parents on Sunday itself and asked them to send me a list of all the songs you used to listen or listen now when you visit them. They sent me the list and I asked the muggle store guy to put them all in. A little foresight can be amazing huh?"

"I had never really imagined that a single week can be so eventful." Hermione grinned at Draco.

"And the best part Milady is that the week isn't even over yet."

And he leaned down to kiss Hermione full in the lips and for a long time they didn't break apart.

And Draco is right. This week is far from being over.

Hoping you guys read further! Weekend on it's way! R & R! ^_^