Hello Everyone I am here with my new chapter. This one is little bit longer than the other ones. I realized that I haven't given any Ron, Harry and Hermione moments at all so in this chapter I put them together once again. I want to thank everyone for the love and support that you have given me. I will promise to always give you the best chapters so bear with me till the end please. Love you all and once again thank you all.

P.S. All the characters are J.K Rowling's imagination but not this story

Chapter 6

Draco was half way through his breakfast when all of a sudden he hears nothing. Thinking back the potion class came in mind when he went momentary deaf so he started to growl. He didn't want the episode repeating so he looked up from his plate to see what was going on to make everyone so quiet.

For a minute he thought his eyes were playing games with him, but after taking everything into his brain he was fully aware of the fact that Granger was standing in front of him (well actually not in front of him per say, she was just by the Slythering table and he thought she was closer to him). This is the reason why everyone (including the teachers) was mute. Some were dumb struck, some were shocked, some were puzzled, and well one can say that there were different types of emotions flying around the Hall. In fact Draco was in the turmoil of emotions himself. He couldn't understand whether he should be happy with the fact that Granger was near him on her own or he should be puzzled or confused. He was defiantly shocked that's for sure because never before had he seen Hermione Granger come to Slytherin table let along have smile on her face. Trying hard to hide his happy emotion, Draco asks "What are you doing here, Granger?"

It is then he realized that she was not looking at him. She was not even smiling at him (Oh that hurt). Shifting her gaze towards him she said "it's none of your business, Malfoy. I am here to see my partner. But as I expected he is trying to ignore and avoid me. Well you know this attitude of yours won't work on me Goyle. Either you work with me or you work with me, there are no other options, so you choose" she said in a very matter of fact way. Now everybody was very interested in her convo with Goyle that they forgot to eat (including Ron). Draco felt very much rejected. He wanted to talk to her even if he was going to be very rude to her. "I will have you know that this is a Slytherin table. Nobody here follows an ugly know-it-all's order" he did not mean it to sound so rude. When he saw pain in her eyes from his words he wanted to take it all back but she pulled herself together and snapped at him "Malfoy I don't know if you know this but everyone knows that I'm the smartest witch of our time. I am very well aware that this is a Slytherin table, that one is Gryffindor's, that one is Ravenclaw, and that is Hufflepuff. Well if everyone here knows which table is for whom, shall I get on with my work?" she asked.

He was about to say that he was ok with it but she ignored him and moved towards him and Goyle. Now standing behind Goyle she poked him. By now Goyle was really angry; he stood in his full form and faced Granger "Stop poking me you mudblood. I don't care who assigned us together but I am not working with you. I wouldn't degrade my pureblood self to be around your presence, so beat it you ugly whore or else you are going to regret it"

If it were a normal person, he or she would have been very scared of the way Goyle was looking at them. But this is Hermione Granger; she is not scared of anyone. Rather she was looking at Goyle in a very challenging way. She finally sighed and said "Malfoy scoot over I want to talk to him. Come on, move over" Draco being shocked as it is did what was asked of him. Every boy in the table was rather shocked or interested on Granger so they did not comment. But all the girls were now over the top angry that they could blast their heads off. So Pansy being the leader of the girls she said "I think you have lost your mind mudblood. Didn't you hear that Goyle doesn't need your…." With a swish of her wand Hermione made her quiet and moved to sit between Goyle and Malfoy. After sitting she glared at every girl in the table as if challenging them to say one word against her. Her glaring might have done the work because nobody was objecting her. After sitting she came closer to Malfoy and said in a whisper so that only he could hear her " hey your thigh is touching my ass, would you mind taking care of that" to Draco it seemed like she was flirting with him. She was smiling at him in a seductive way and he couldn't help it and smile back. But then, as if nothing happened just now, she turned to face Goyle totally ignoring Malfoy.

"Ok first of all let me tell you something. I wanted to tell you this for a long time but couldn't find the right time. So I am letting you know now. When you guys call me a mudblood ...seriously nothing happens to me. What I meant to say is that, I am a muggle born so whenever you use these wizard's terms to dish me it doesn't work at all. I don't get sad or happy or anything because I don't know the meaning of the term and I didn't grow up in the magical cultural. So to save everybody's time I am gonna ask you to stop calling me names coz I don't get offended by it."

Everybody around her was confused by her reaction. And the truth which she just told took some time to sink in their brain. The boys who were on the bet with Malfoy were highly amazed by her interaction. Even Goyle seems to be speechless (technically he doesn't really have much of a vocab anyways, those sentences were the only sentence that he could come up with to dish Granger so now he has nothing). Draco on the other hand was thinking entirely different thing.

His mind was back in Malfoy Manor a year ago when Potter and his friends were brought in by the snatchers. He was thinking of the time when his psychopathic aunt was torturing Granger and managed to scribble mudblood on her arm. He was very proud of Granger for letting everyone know that the word mudblood doesn't affect her at all. In fact he was beginning to respect her in a very highly intellectual level. He knew she had a big heart but never seen it until now. All of a sudden he was drawn to her. He was staring at her. Her big brown eyes were shining when she was trying to make Goyle understand the value of education. That oaf doesn't understand anything about studying, about the beauty that is talking to him, her beautiful smile, her seductive voi….what the fuck am I thinking? Oh Merlin, I am going off track. Why do I think her eyes are beautiful and she doesn't have a seductive voice, it's rather very high pitched and annoying. Why am I even thinking about her this way? I am supposed to seduce her, that's the bet. I have to win this bet. Draco was really confused as to why he was acting the way he is. Why was he attracted to Granger? But he thought maybe it was due to the fact that she was way too close to him at the moment. Lost in his own world, Draco was brought back to earth by a moving hand in front of his face.

"Malfoy, Malfoy. Hello! Earth to Malfoy. Are you there?" asked Hermione

"Huh" Draco replied losing his entire cool. But he brought himself back as soon as he knew what he was doing "Why the fuck are you waving your hand in front of my face Granger?"

"It is because you are sitting on my skirt, you idiot" snapped Hermione.

"If you hadn't spread out your skirt like this then maybe I wouldn't have sat on it" replied Draco.

"You know what; I am not going to argue with your idiotic logic. I have had enough of Slytherin for one day. Anyways Goyle, you better be on time to work in the library for this project or else I will hex you to oblivion like your father". She said looking at Goyle and then when she was about to leave, she leaned towards Malfoy and whispered "you know Malfoy I didn't want you to sit on my skirt because …"

Draco looked up into the brown eyes and asked by being irritate "because?"

"Because you could have pulled my skirt down and… I don't have any underwear on today" after saying this she left.

It only took him couple of seconds to understand what had just happened. After he understood he jerked himself up from his seat and went straight to his washroom for a cold shower.

All of these interactions were being watched by a very annoyed Ron. He was slow at understanding the situation before but now the time has changed. After the war everyone has become mature and he was and is one of the three heroes who worked on defeating Voldemort. After the fall out of their relationship as a lover, they still remained best friends. May be this was the reason that their relationship could never work. They were very good friends. Although he is never jealous of the relations that Hermione has, he didn't want her to be in love with one of his enemies. He knew something was off with Hermione lately. He knew this because one day he saw her and his sister come into the common room together but without saying hi or bye they went straight to their dorm. He thought he saw Hermione's swollen eyes. He wanted to ask the reason but held back thinking that it might not be anything. His doubts were conformed after the potion class. He thought Hermione would freak out for having Goyle as a potion partner but she was rather pleased with herself. It looked like it was her idea to be with him. Very confused with the situation he tried to talk to Ginny if she knew anything.

Flash back

"Look Ginny, I know this is private between you and Hermione, but I want to know if there is something going on with her?" asked Ron

Placing a panic face aside Ginny said "there is nothing going on with Hermione. Why on earth would you think like that?"

"Ginny I know I might give you the vibe of being stupid but I am not. I have known Hermione for seven years. I know what she is like, what she likes and who she likes. So don't give me this crap. I may be only a year older but I am still your big brother so tell me what's going on?"

By the time Harry had joined them and asked them what was going on, so Ginny didn't have any choice. She sighed and said "I can't tell you what is happening with Hermione for two reasons; I promised her I wouldn't tell anything to anybody including you two, also I won't tell you because this is not my problem to tell you. You have to ask Hermione yourself. I suggest you can ask but be very subtle about it. Don't yell at her, or be angry with her. Listen to her problems and be a friend and help her out. Trust me you guys will definitely have fun"

Flash back ends

He was more confused after talking to Ginny. How are Hermione's problems going to be fun? So determined to find out the problem from the source herself, he went to their common room. He found her in between the piles of books. Although worried about how to start their convo, he still managed to smile seeing Hermione like that. She hasn't changed yet it feels like everything is changed or is about to be changed. Throwing all the other rubbish ideas out his mind he nodded to Harry who joined him shortly.

"So how are you going to ask her?" asked Harry

"I don't know but I am asking her today" said Ron.

"Ok mate. I am with you, lets go"

"Er… Mione, we have to ask you about something" said Harry

She looked at them and said "look boys I have other things going on with me right now so please I beg of you do not ask me anything about homework."

"No, it is not about homework but rather we have to ask you about your other things that are going on with you." said Ron. Before she could retaliate him, he stopped her with his hand and spoke again "Mione I know you are gonna say there is nothing that's going on with you and we don't have to worry. But we are worried. Hermione I am or we are not gonna be angry with you at all, I promise. If you want to I can even do an unforgivable vow with you. So please don't shut us out, please."

Harry added "Mione, you were with me in the time of my needs, I think of you as my sister so please let us know what is happening."

Hermione was really touched and proud with her boys. She had tears in her eyes. So she decided to tell them everything from her hearing the Slytherin boys betting for her to have sex with Malfoy to the plan she made with Ginny and every other details. By the time she was finished the boys were very calm and collective.

"You know Mione, I thought I was going to pounce that ferret when I heard him betting you but I like your plan, I am in… what do you say Ron? asked Harry

Ron was very quiet throughout the story telling. Hermione was afraid that he might go pounce Malfoy and ruin her plan but then he spoke "that damn ferret bastard. I wanna kill him so bad but I know it will ruin your plan so I am also in. So what do we have to do? asked Ron

Hermione smiled and said "You guys only need to be there for me. I will do the work but if I need a major help I want you guys to be there. But now I want you to bring your books for your home works"

Both the boys rolled their eyes but smiled at her and promised to help her out with anything.

Those Slytherins are going to have the time of their life (in a negative way).

Let the fun begin in the next chapter.