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Chapter 5: Signature Smirks

As Hermione stepped off the train to the platform, her cheeks red and her appearance flustered, Harry and Ron advanced towards her almost immediately.

"Guess what?, Mal-ferret wasn't on the train." Ron reported, almost shaking with glee. "You don't think they locked him away with his Death-Eater dad do'ya?"

"You KNOW he was cleared of all accusations Ron, we were there when it happened!" Hermione screamed with annoyance. "As a matter of fact, he was there on the train...I should know" Hermione mumbled unintelligibly.

"But we didn't see him" Harry pressed the matter, not having heard Hermione's last sentence. "He usually grants us the presence of his ferret-self when we're on the train"

"You didn't see him because he was in the compartment with ME!" Hermione screeched, drawing the attention of a few passers-by.

Harry and Ron both stared at her, as usual both slow on the uptake, giving her confused expressions, as if begging her to explain further.

"He made Head Boy, you idiots" Hermione sighed loudly in exasperation.

"WHAT?" They both shouted so loudly that a few second years scuttled away in surprise.

"Ten points from Gryffindor Potter, Weasel" Hermione jumped in surprise as Draco Malfoy suddenly appeared right by her side, his Head Boy pin gleaming brightly in the sunlight. "You're disturbing the peace with your girlish shrieks"

"Lay off Malfoy!" Hermione scowled, her cheeks tinting a faint pink, as she thought back to the previous moments with the Head Boy.

"I don't think i actually have to follow the orders of some low-life muggle, but thanks for the offer." Malfoy sneered and headed for the carriages.

Hermione settled herself between Ron and Harry at the Gryffindor table. Her face adorned a scowl as she thought back to the confrontation with Malfoy.

"Can't believe I thought he'd changed over the war! Stuiped, Stuiped Hermione" She Mentally scowled herself. "Just because he kissed you, doesn't mean he feels any different. Brightest witch of the century my arse."

As Mistress McGonagall did the usual speech and the feast was presented, Hermione felt the jab of someone's gaze staring into her.

She looked around unconsciously, her gaze drifting around for the source of the stare.

As her eyes passed the Slytherin table, she saw Draco Malfoy, sitting with his usual friends, Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson & Gregory Goyle, who looked quite out of place without his other-half, Crabbe, who had died during the Great War.

But as the others ate their meals, Draco's eyes were not focused on his dinner. Instead, he gazed at her with such intensity, that Hermione felt oddly disgruntled and flustered. She was however, pulled away from her gaze, as Harry prodded her in her arm with his elbow.

Hermione lifted her head to meet Harry's questioning eyes, as he saw her staring at Malfoy.

"Are you worried about Malfoy?" Harry asked, concern seeping into his voice.

"I'll kick his arse if he tries anything" Ron growled before gulping down his pumpkin juice.

"I know you will," Hermione said, laughing at his child antics. "I don't think he will, anyway, so don't worry about it."

After the feast had finished and Professor McGonagall had told all the students to go up to their respected dormitory, she approached Hermione. She saw that M had Malfoy in tow after her.

"Congratulations, Miss Granger and Mister Malfoy," she said to both of them. "Follow me." She led them to 6th floor.

They stopped in front of a painting of a beautiful lady dressed in a flowing gown, eyeing Draco flirtatiously.

"This is your dormitory. You each have your separate bedrooms but you are to share a common room and a bathroom. You are to assign the prefects' duties and organize patrolling. Choose a password. I must leave you now, do try not to bite each others' heads off please." And she swept her emerald green robes and left them without another word. She seemed to be in a hurry as if something terrible would happen if she lingered with the two teens.

Hermione and Draco looked at the portrait for a few seconds before meeting each others gaze.

"Err, d-do you want to pick a password then" Hermione muttered shyly as her cheekbones turned an appealing pink over her creamy skin.

"Alright, then," Draco said in a bored drawl, obviously not as affected by Hermione's presence as she was his.

He turned to look at the lady in the painting. "Well hello there, madam," he said in a suave voice. The lady blushed and fluttered her eyelashes at Draco.

"I don't think that's a very good password," Hermione said, rolling her eyes at Draco's stuiped antics. "How about 'house unity'?"

"Fine, fine, just hurry up, I need the bloody bathroom Granger!"

"House unity" her clear voice rang in the corridor, her lady in the portrait swung forward to let them enter, but not before giving Draco suggestive winks.

Hermione had to try hard to resist the temptation to gag all over her new living quarters.

Hermione settled into her room, slowly unpacking her trunk and putting everything in its proper place before she allowed herself to crawl into the welcoming queen-sized bed.

She drifted to sleep, dreaming off pale, blond hair and signature smirks.

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