A/N: I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who read my fanfiction! If you want tips of two really good fanfics you should look up my two friends Freakyella and Threeunicorns fanfics. They are both really good, though Threeunicorns don't update very often (UPDATE KARRO!). So don't hesitate to click into their fanfics! And as always, thanks to Freakyella!
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After lunch the school had arranged an extra trip to Kittelby. So after a pleasant lunch she and Ellie went to their rooms to grabb their coats before walking towards the small village. When they arrived, Hermione saw that Kittleby was a very cozy, small town, there would be a trip to Kittelby in two weeks, and today they just had time to go to the seamstress, but Hermione guessed she would find a lot of interesting shops here. Ellie told her that the red houses with white corners were typical Swedish and most of the older houses up in the north had this exterior.
They had walked about two blocks before Ellie roughly dragged her into a little shop that had that was named "Aunt Cassandra's witches-robes". Spending time with Ellie definitely meant that you got a lot of bruises.
Hermione looked around the small shop, in the bottom floor there was one , as she could see, big room that the buyers was allowed in. It had a little podium that the buyer was supposed to stand on and a little desk with a cash register against the north wall.
There was a stair that led to the second storey and upstairs it looked like it was a small room with different fabrics.
"Hello Ellinor and who is your friend?" They heard a soft voice call from upstairs and a petite woman stepped outside the small room and headed down towards them.
"Good Afternoon Aunt Cassandra! This is my friend Hermione, she's from Hogwarts." Ellie explained to the woman. Cassandra was about 45 years old and was quite beautiful for being middle-aged.
"Oh, how wonderful! I went to Hogwarts too dear, but then I met my husband and he wanted to live in Sweden. My guess is that you want proper clothes and since you are here with Ellinor, I assume you're a Fox. You can step up on the podium while I collect the right fabrics." Aunt Cassandra said, not letting Hermione or Ellie talk.
As Cassandra had disappeared up the stairs, Ellie spoke with a little smile.
"She sure likes to talk that woman"
An hour later, Hermione's wardrobe had grown quite a bit. The new additions were one red velvet skirt, one black velvet skirt, on black pleated skirt, one grey (it was the closet to silver they could find without turning her to a disco ball) pleated skirt, two white blouses, one black, one red, four pair of black stockings, one obligatory black fitted blazer with the Fox badge embodied on the left side, a pair of red gloves, a pair of winter shoes and one new black coat with fur around the hood. The coat was a "must have" as Ellie had described it. It would keep her warm in the winter and was very modern!
As they walked out the small shop they bumped into Dean and his mentor Artur and since Ellie occupied Dean, she was left with Artur. But after getting over the awkward beginning, Hermione actually enjoyed his company and when they arrived at the Institute she and Dean told their mentors good bye and headed towards their section with all their new clothes.
"What do you think Ellie thinks of me?" Dean asked her.
"Erm…" Hermione began, thinking about all the times Ellie had talked about Dean "… I think she likes you." She said. At those words Dean looked very happy and then changed into a subject.
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As the weeks passed by, Draco and the other Hogwarts students all started the feel more at home in the castle and in the end of November, the first snow singled down from the sky. They had grown accustomed to the food, the temperature – that was always colder than in Britain – and to the new school. The only thing that Draco did not accustom to was the Fox clothes. He did, like all the other scholars, have to wear a blazer. But it was not the black blazer he had a problem with. It was the fact that he had to wear red. He had one red jumper, one red shirt and a pair of red pants (red pants was in some absurd way very popular in Scandinavia). Sometimes when all of his other clothes needed to be washed he had to wear them.
Today was a day like that. When Gabryel had said that he could go to Kittelby and order some clothes to Draco he had happily accepted. He'd had a homework to finish and the trip would have cost him some precious time so he had just handed Gabryel his measures. But when he returned he brought red ones, much to Draco's dismay.
When he wore red, both Granger and Blaise teased him for wearing Gryffindor clothes and he did not like being teased! At the moment, he and Granger made their Survivals homework in the library and Granger had just teased him, so the mood at the table was quite tense.
"Hello there fellows!" They heard a glad voice call out and saw that Joel headed towards them. His usually straight dark-blonde hair now carried, maybe, eight small ponytails.
"What have you done to your hair?" Draco asked aghast
"My hair? What is it with my hair?" he asked worriedly. Hermione conjured a mirror and gave it to him.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Joel screamed at the site of himself. He was very fond of his hair and did not like it when anybody touched it.
"Who did this to you? Hermione asked while trying to stifle her laughter.
"My evil little sister Julia." Joel said "She's so getting back for this!" Then he opened his book and started reading.
When Draco looked up he found Granger looking intensely at him. When he gave her a questioning glance she blushed and looked down at her book again.
He drifted away in his thoughts about Granger and started thinking about how much their relationship had developed since school began. They had gone from being enemies to good friends in just two short months.
Since they arrived at Aradia, they had begun to spend a lot of time together each day. They ate all meals together with Blaise and their three mentors, had some classes together, studied in the library together and at the evenings Draco, Blaise and Hermione always sat in the Heads common room talking, reading or playing games.
He liked her company and he cringed a little when he realized that he had started to care about her. She had become one of the persons that Draco actually liked and could be himself with. Gabryel, Joel and Ellie had also become important persons of his life and he felt happy that his small circle of trust had grown so that four more people could fit into it!