Sorry that it took me so long to update, but I had my end-of-year exams. But they're done now and it's summer! Yay! I'll be able to update way more now, but your reviews will always help. So R&R! Please? And thank you to Luvluvv (random as always I see, but still very amusing), sweet-tang-honney (as always), madmay24 (thanks!) and LadyBookworm80 (I have no idea what world it would be from either. Some of my characters are for sure very ooc though.)

Chapter 5

"This is all your fault." grumbled Hermione "You moronic pure-blood!"

They were still standing in the entrance of the Great-Hall, watching all the havoc that their new situation was creating.

"Sorry to burst your bubble Granger, but you're sort of a pure-blood yourself. You are a disgrace to this blood line. Granted! But you are a pure-blood, none the less." retorted Draco.

To this Hermione rolled her eyes.

All the while, the Slytherin table was intently watching the two enemies with fascination.

"So Granger," asked some 5th year from the Slytherin table, "since when have you been into Draco? Weren't you supposed to be miss goody-two-shoes and I'm-too-good-for-a-Slytherin or something?"

"I most certainly am not a goody-two-shoes," snapped Hermione, turning red. "And I never said I was too good for a Slytherin. I'm just different from them. Where I'm kind, loyal, caring and brave, Slytherins are evil, lying, back-stabbing, sarcastic gits. And even if I did respect anything about Slytherins, where the bloody hell would you get the idea that I was somehow 'into' the blasted ferret?" Hermione turned back to Draco, sending him a questioning glare. If he had anything to do with this, he would pay.

"Yeah, um... by the way Granger," Draco mumbled for her ears only. "I sort of told them that you were into me and that you sort of forced me to... marry you. You see, the funny thing is...uh." He cut short as her face turned a red that could compete with the Weasley family's hair.

"You did what!" yelled the witch.

"Shit, some Slytherins are staring at us in a weird way." Said Draco. "Probably wondering why you would be getting pissed at me, especially if you liked me and wanted to marry me. I've got to do something or my reputation's dead." As Draco said this he grabbed her by the waist, pulling her towards him until they were too close for comfort, bringing her into a hug. "Play along Granger or you're dead!" threatened Draco in her ear, pronouncing every word with venom.

But Hermione was not one to be pushed around by threats, especially if it was to Draco's advantage.

"Apparently a funeral is to be arranged then." whispered Hermione, as she pushed him away with all her force.

Draco just stared at her with his mouth agape like a fish. He was aghast and looked frantically around him, hoping against hope that no one had seen the exchange between them. Sadly, he had no such luck. Everyone was staring at them with practically the same opened mouthed expression as he, but mixed with either amusement or anger.

"Whatcha gonna do Malfoy?" asked Seamus Finnigan, being the first to brake the eerie silence. "You gonna go cryin' to your mummy again? Just like you did at the ministry eh." He then started to imitate the blond boy crying and was followed by the rest of the Gryffindors. This brought on the laughter of the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws. The Slytherins didn't have such a sense of humor and were waisting their time glaring at the other houses.

"I do enjoy a good story," said Dumbledore with a crooked smile and a twinkle in his eye. "But sadly, none of which you heard on the train about Mr. Malfoy or Miss Granger are true. I was just informed by the Minister of the whole real story. Anyone interested?"

This was answered with shouts of approval by mostly everyone. But you could still hear the blood curdling scream from the pair in the entrance and some form of yawn/denial from Snape. He couldn't care less, but decided to go against whatever Gryffindor was for.

Dumbledore clapped his hands together merrily, delighted that the majority of the people present wanted to hear the story.

"OK, well the majority of you are obviously interested." said Dumbledore with an evident smile on his face. "I must warn you, this story may shock you, may horrify you. It may even give you nightmares for the rest of your life. But there is one thing that I am sure of: this will undoubtedly be the best...how do you kids call it now days? Gossip is it? Well the best gossip of the century. And you will be some of the first to hear it."

Another round of excited shouts came from this information and certain gossip queens, including Lavender Brown, were drooling in their seats at the possibilities.

"Settle down, settle down. So, where to begin? Ah, yes. I know..." said the Headmaster who then told the entire real story to the enjoyment of most.

Once the story was done, Hermione was met by glares from practically every single female student. The others were busy crying of jealousy. Even the Gryffindor girls! Though they would never admit it until now, they were all completely head over heals for Draco Malfoy. The boys of Slytherin, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff alike were literally falling from their seats in laughter. The only students left were Hermione and Draco who were looking around nervously. They were now terrified for different reasons. Hermione was terrified for her life, looking at the now aggravated jealous girls. And Draco, on the other hand, looked even more terrified than the witch beside him, for he was fearing for his perfect reputation.

"Granger, we're leaving." snapped Draco through clenched teeth.

"Couldn't agree more." replied Hermione.

They both turned to leave when suddenly Dumbledore tried to speak up through his laughter. This took a little while since he was probably laughing the hardest. At least McGonagal and Snape were trying to keep it in, but as for the rest of the staff, they were just as bad as the students.

"Wait one moment." said the Headmaster at last. "I'm quite happy that you two are agreeing on something, for once, but that might not continue. So I'd like to have a little chat with the both of you. As for everyone else, you may go."

"How could you have heard that we agreed to leave from all the way over there?" asked Draco, making his way through the crowd of moving students.

"Oh, I didn't need to hear you to know that. I just saw you leaving together without any spells being shot at each other." answered Dumbledore. They made their way up to the professor's table and their Headmaster motioned for them to follow him into his office. They sat down across from Dumbledore. He offered them each a drink and they immediately drank it since they hadn't been able to partake in the feast.

"To assure the ministry and I that you do obey by the rules by staying together at all times," the aged wizard began. "I have convinced professor Snape to brew you each a potion. What you just drunk up so quickly was a potion that instantly chains you to the other. This way, you will not be able to be more than a few meters from each other at all times. Quite a brilliant idea if I do say so myself! Wouldn't you agree?"

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