A/N: Hey! Now I am home from my ski vacation, or at least I'm home today and tomorrow. Then I'm off again… I hope that you all like this chapter and thanks to Freakyella, my Beta and inspiration source. If you have the time, read her fanfiction "A pleasant vacation". It's very good!

13th November

Two more days and then I´ll don't have to be here on this crappy school for four months. Oh happiness, Draco thought to himself while walking towards Blaise and Grangers quarters. He would never admit it, and especially not to his best friend, he was very jealous of him. He had his own room and did not have to share room with Adrian Pucey, Graham Pritchard and Theodore Nott. He hated sharing! Sharing wasn't something he normally had to do, he as an only child.

"Hey Roseline" He said when he stood in front of her. She hadn't noticed him. She was apparently busy with looking herself in the mirror. He didn't know that paintings could watch themselves in mirrors, but hey, you learn something new every day.

"Well hello Draco, how are you today?" she said while she blinked with her eyes and spun her hair around her painted pale finger. God, did she flirt with me? Draco thought and quickly said the password, a bit uncomfortable with the realization that a painting was flirting with him.

"Going all ready?" was the last thing he heard her say before the door closed. Inside he walked over to Blaise's room, knocked and walked in. Empty of course. Blaise was almost never in his room this early. It was after all only 17.15. Classes had just ended.

He walked across the common room and knocked on Grangers door this time. He heard an "enter" and opened the door. She was studying at her desk and looked stressed. And for good reasons it looked like. She had none less them 5 books opened at the same time and it was 7 more books unopened at the desk in proper piles. It looked like she was reading from three books at the time and writing notes. "What are you doing?" he asked, intressed in what could be so important that she had put her arithmancy homework at hold. Or he guessed that she had since the book was one of those in the piles at her desk. Arithmancy was her favorite subject, he had learned while studying with her and Blaise in the library. And she looked more thrilled at those classes than anyone else. He would know though he always sat behind her at those classes. She looked at him for the first time and answered

"I'm preparing myself for the exchange"

"And you're reading what?" He asked

"All the books I could find about Aradia in the library" she explained.

"Always this craves for information, huh? Can't take it as it comes?" he teased a little.

"No, I prefer to have some background info when I'm going somewhere new" She said, not even noticing he had teased her. He was in the mood for a real fight, or at least a verbal one. For a verbal fight, there was none better than Granger.

"Have you found something interesting? " And to his own surprise, he walked into her room and placed himself next to her. She looked up at him for a second, not really sure if he really stood there, then looked down at her notes.

"It depends on what you think is interesting, but yeah, I found some interesting stuff. Like that Aradia is located in the north of Sweden. Very north, it is very close to where Norway, Sweden and Finland boarders meet. Since where going there during the winter months there are going to be extremely cold but beautiful and the school is located near a wizard-village called Kittelby. If you translate Kittelby to English it becomes like Cauldronvillage. There are about 360 students, most of them from Sweden. It's probably because Sweden has the biggest population of all four countries. "

"You checked up the populations of all the countries?" he said with a smirk. As she blushed and started to explain herself he interrupted "You really are a Know-it-all Granger". Much to his irritation, she apparently got pissed that he had called her a know it all.

"If you are going to call me names, you are not welcome here. In fact, why are you here at all? It's not like you would normally want a bloody know-it-all as company. She spat at him. God, that girl really had some temperament.

"I was teasing with you Granger. No need to blow yourself up. You maybe fall of your chair. Wouldn't want that do we?" He teased even more, just because he was in the mood to fight with her. As a response she cast her seventh year potion book at him. He was quite surprised at her action that he ducked instead of just taking a step to the side and hence he got the book in his head. Bloody hell! It hurt like hell. That book with it's 5oo pages wasn't exactly light.

"Fuck Granger, why did you do that?" Draco cried at her.

"Your made me upset you little albino" she shouted back. Albino, he was not an albino. Did she really thought that. He had fucking grey eyes, not red. Was she colorblind or what? He could feel how his blood boiled in his veins.

"I'm not an albino, I have bloody grey eyes you Mudblod he spat at her. He immediately regretted the word as he saw her genuine hurt look.

"Get out" she told him in a numb voice, very close to tears.

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She stared at Malfoy through water filled eyes. When he didn't move, she shouted the same sentence to him again. Instead of walking away he came closer.

"Granger, I'm..." he began

"I don't want to hear another word that you have to say, in fact I don't even want to see you anymore. I thought that we were acquaintances Malfoy and in any case being courteous to each other. Especially since we're both going to Sweden. But it seems like I was wrong." And with those words she picked up her homework for the next day and left her room with tears falling down her cheeks.

She walked toward the library and ignored the looks she got. Head Girls are not supposed to cry in the hallways. She sat down at her normal table and wondered why Malfoy always had to ruin everything. She had actually started to see him as a friend. Then he ruins it all with calling her a Mudblod. Even though she had been called it many times before, it had hurt badly when he had called her that. This just showed that she could never be friendly with Malfoy. She wiped her tears away and started with her homework.

"Hey 'Mione," she heard Ron and Harry say as they sat down next to her. Look happy, she told herself before greeting them.

"Have you been crying?" Ron asked and she could hear the concern in his voice. Ron was a real friend. He cared about her and her feelings and so did Harry. She didn't need a friend that hurt her. She hadn't really told either Ron or Harry about her and Malfoy being nice together and now wasn't really the time when Ron and Harry had seen that she had been crying they would probably go and hex Malfoy if she told them what he'd said. So she put a big true smile on her face.

"Maybe, but now when you are here, everything is just fine" she said, hoping that they would be pleased with that answer. They both looked very happy, and to her joy, they let the subject go.

"We are really going to miss you when you are gone you know" Harry said.

"I'll miss you too. But I promise I owl you as often as I can"

"So, should we skip studying and hang out properly one last time before you go away. You are always in your room these days, we never see you except at food time and at classes?" Ron said with a glimpse in his eyes.

"Ron" Hermione laughed "Always so eager to skip homework. But sure, I guess that I could do my arithmancy homework tomorrow at my free period" she said cheerfully.

"That's the spirit 'Mione" Harry said.

Instead of studying Hermione had a wonderful evening in the Gryffindor common room just hanging out with Ron, Harry, Ginny, Seamus, Dean and Neville. It was only when she was back in her room and lied down in her bed she allowed herself to think about what Malfoy had said earlier, and for the second time that day tears rolled down Hermione's cheeks.