Love to Cheer

Chapter 3: Cheer Tryouts

Hi everybody! I would like to dedicate this chapter to the numerous people who have either added my story to their favorites, are following it or gave me a review (not so many reviews ).

Disclaimer: I do not in any shape or form claim to own the Harry Potter septology, but I do like to create plots, borrowing the characters for my own sinister purposes.

I am also adding P.O.V As a reminder:

Speech: "Blah blah" Thought: 'Blah blah' Words of action and what not: Nothing

Third Person P.O.V.

"What do you want, Malfoy?"

"You," Draco replied in a suggestive voice.

Hermione stared in shock at him, without even realizing it she had begun to lean in closer to him.

"Merlin, did you actually fall for that? Gryffindors really are dumber than I thought."

"No worries there, Malfoy. I wouldn't have kissed you even if you were the last male on earth."

Draco was hurt, but he tried not to show it.

"Same goes for you with me."

"Did you just call me male?"

"Oh, did I? Well we males are exceptionally superior to the female race, minus Potty and his sidekick the Weasel of course."

"Are you calling me superior, in a sick, twisted kind of way? Thanks!"

"That's not what I meant and you know it Granger, now I hear you are doing some sort of cheerleading group to support house unity or whatever."

"Not that it's any of your business but yes, I am"

Is there any way I could help?"

"Not in a billion years, will I ever need your help!"

With that, Hermione stormed away to the Gryffindor common room.

Leaving Draco to ponder what she had said and how he could secretly and 'inadvertently' help her. It would all be accidental of course, or at least that is what Hermione… no Granger would believe.

Off he went to go drown his sorrows with some good old-fashioned sulking.

Hermione's P.O.V.

Convincing Dumbledore had been easy, but Hermione was afraid that the students would not be swayed as easily. She knew she needed someone capable of convincing all the girls to try out from each house, but she wasn't positive Harry was able to do that. Sure, he was cute, but in a boyish, little-kid type way.

The only person who most girls in the school liked was… no, she knew he would never help her and she would never resort to measures as extreme as asking Draco Malfoy to help out. After all, she had just rejected his offer downstairs.

But, he was a Quidditch player and he could come to tryouts under the pretense of being a judge. Hermione's mind was made up; she now had to find a way to convince Draco Malfoy to come help her with tryouts and not fool around and pick the worst cheerleaders.

Maybe Ginny could get Blaise to come too; then they could each take one house and meet up for the judging for the Hogwarts school team. Now she just had to plan it out so that the Quidditch field wouldn't be too crowded and hope that Draco… no, Malfoy would still be willing to help.

Third Person P.O.V.

Draco was way past the point of being confused. He was now downright, utterly disgusted. He had just walked in on Blaise making out with a mannequin that resembled Weaslette. He has been innocently and mindlessly wondering what Granger looked like in a string bikini when he arrived at his dorm and opened the door assuming Blaise would be engaging in less compromising activities. Something like making out with an actual person, even if it was a Hufflepuff. No, scratch that, a Ravenclaw. A Gryffindor was less than unacceptable, especially an illusion of one. At least the mannequin would talk less than Weaslette.

Draco P.O.V.

'Holy mother of a snitch! What did I just walk in on? Slytherin is going to the dogs, kissing or in my case, trying to kiss Gryffindors. Hmm, Love Potion? Those messed-up twins probably hit their heads at the last Quidditch game and came up with this piece of crap joke. This is so twisted!' So off I went to go confront The-Idiots-That-Make-Me-Want-To-Barf. See, not only Potter and Moldyshorts has to have ridiculously long hyphenated names. Yes, Moldyshorts, I do not support him and I never will, he has no nose for god's sake. Not to be narcissistic like my mother (pun intended), but I value my nose and its beauty. I also value my eyes, ears, mouth, hair and of course my body. I have the best abs in 4th year after all.

Irresistibly so, which is why my plan to help Herm- Granger should involve taking my shirt off and showing them off. But will there be enough time between the roses and the saving her from a ferocious unicorn bit? That's a thought for another time.

Later…

Hermione P.O.V.

'Is it possible for Draco Malfoy to get any more handsome? Oh, he's got his fan girls with him. Nope! Blaise is with him so they must be his; Draco's too much of a git to have fan girls.'

'But he's quite a handsome git'

'Shut up brain! Malfoy is not handsome!'

'So you are back to a last-name basis with him, because earlier...'

'Your hopeless and your MY brain or conscious or whatever. I need to go look this up in the library! Maybe Fred and George have encountered this in their prank studies; maybe I've been prank-drugged.'

Reaching the library quite quickly, considering the distance, Hermione settled into her private corner in a hidden alcove at the farthest end of the Library. Grabbing her latest book from its hiding place under the chair, she curled up and began to read.

'My Gods, could this book get any better?'

5 minutes later…

Draco P.O.V.

'Why does she have to be so adorable when she's sleeping? Wait, what? Why does is my stupid conscious telling me this drivel?'

'I'm not your conscious… I'm Hermione's!'

'Geez, you get around…'

'Shut it you slimy snake face,'

'You even sound like her'

'Nah, she's all Draco his and Draco that, never stops talking about your irresistible charm or your apparently gorgeous abs'

'Really?'

"Are you sincerely that senseless?'

'She really does look like an angel while she sleeps,' was all Draco could think.

No, she's actually a buck-toothed, frizzy-haired…. Goddess!

Feeling angry with himself, he stomped away so he could continue his argument with Hermione's conscious.

HG and DM HG and DM HG and DM HG and DM HG and DM HG and DM HG and

I'm sorry it's so late; inspiration just isn't on my side for this fic. I have a few new updates for other stories and a few one-shots that I am also working on and this isn't a priority. Just so you don't get too mad at me I also want to inform you that I had a better chapter written but half of it was accidentally erased when my computer auto-shut down. I will be including components of that in the next chapter. Ps. If you want, PM me with a couple you want to be together in this story ( Anyone other than Draco, Hermione, Ginny and Blaise and I will consider it. I also have a few other couples but, they are surprises so you can't know yet!