Author's Note:

Sorry if the last chapter was short

and sorry for the late updation.

I promise you this Chapter would be long like the other ones.

Chapter 5

Draco's first year at Hogwarts had finished and Draco was a bit sad because he wont have a chance to see Granger everyday, it's weird for Draco to have feelings for her. He was so young. And it is because of her feelings why she always beats him in class. And Lucius was furious about it.

"Who is this girl, who beats you in class, Draco?" Lucius said, furious.

"It is Hermione Granger." Draco replied.

"What? A mudblood defeated you?" Lucius raised his voice.

"What?" Draco said, a bit shocked.

"Why did you let her defeat you?" he said with a very cold voice that made Draco have goose bumps. He pushed Draco in the wall hard. "You're a disgrace to our family!" he shouted right in through Draco's ear. "Go. To. Your. Room." Lucius commanded. Draco was so terrified that he couldn't do anything but to stare at his father. "Now!" and Draco quickly went to his room.

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"And you must be, Miss Granger." Lucius said, while looking at Draco. His eyes were raw. "Yes, Draco's told me all about you—" Hermione then glared at Draco then glared back to Lucius. "—and your parents." Lucius look at Hermione's parents from a far, then back to her and when he saw her glaring at him his eyes turned colder. "Muggles, aren't they?" he said, in a rhetorical question with a tone of arrogance.

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Everything changed, Draco needs to act more vicious than last year for them not suspect him from having those weird feelings for Granger, but she's a mudblood they can't be together, ever. But it's just a crush. He wanted to boast about his father donating Nimbus 2001 broom's to the slytherin quidditch team.

"Good, aren't they? But perhaps the Gryffindor team will be able to raise some gold and get new brooms, too. You could raffle off those Cleansweep 5's, I expect a museum would bid for them." Draco taunt.

"At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in. They got in on pure talent." Hermione spat. Draco can't take it, he needs to say something evil that will make her cry easily, that will be burried in her deepest thoughts when she grows up. 'Come on, Draco. She's a mudblood! She's filthy as mud!' Draco thought.

"No one's asking your opinion you filthy little mudblood." Draco spat back. Hermione went quiet and still, but she was glaring at Draco. So her teary eyes wont appear but she failed. Draco's expression changed into a gentle one, it's not his purpose to offend her. Very thing he thought about her is vicious, he can think of her that way, without offending her.

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He finally opens his eyes. He was back to reality, and it looks like he slept for hours but in the real world it was only for minutes. Draco moved uncomfortably in the bed, trying to find the best position to deeply sleep again, but he failed. He sat on the corner of the bed for a distant moment refreshing his dreams, his dreams about Hermione and his bloody blood status. He can't any more take her angelic face of hers every time she is sad. Draco's lucky that after those 4 years of admiring her, he finally realized that it was just a crush and he wont want to marry her or something. But Draco is sure that he has some real feelings for that HJ girl he met in the yule ball. Maybe, I can wonder around the castle for a while, I'm sure it's already early and their is no one to search the school. Draco thought. He stood up and grabbed his robes.

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Draco was walking down the dark hallway of the castle, while humming an unfamiliar tone. It was six in the morning and the sun was still hiding from the clouds. He was walking endlessly until he bumped into something or someone, Draco thinks it was a thing. Then his opinion change when he heard it moaned. He held out a helping hand and he received it right away. The moment Draco pulled him up the sun shone on them like a big spotlight, it wasn't a he, it was a she, and for that Draco was sure because it was Granger.

"Malfoy!" Hermione said, surprised.

"What are you doing here? It's 6 o' clock in the morning." Draco asked, also surprised.

"I should ask you that question. I'm a Head Girl and I have morning duties. And for that, I can deduct points to the Slytherin house."

"Really? Head Girls don't have morning duties."

"And do you have any proof to defend your suspicion?"

"I've been loitering around this castle everyday before the sun comes out. And this is the first time a Head Girl caught me. And if your saying the thruth that means you're not doing your duty properly." Draco said, questioning her about how she handles her duties.

After a couple of long seconds, Hermione finally surrendered. "Okay, you won. I was in the library, I managed to break in by using keys given to me as a Head Girl. I was searching books about the Silver Stock. And plus, it has another name it's called as, Stygoliberato."

"And that means?"

"Stygos came from a Greek word, which means hatred. And according to the Greek Mythology, the God of hatred is Stynx. And Liberato came from a Latin word, which means freed." Hermione said, sounding like a walking encyclopedia.

"So you didn't sleep?" Draco asked.

"No. And I am not planning to."

"Oh. Good luck! I can't wait to see you, laying on the floor, unconscious." Draco said, smirking.

"You wish."

"Yeah, right."

"Bye Malfoy I have something important to do."

"Bye."

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It was already dinner time at The Great Hall of Hogwarts and Hermione wasn't there to eat. And Draco was a bit worried about her because she hadn't eat anything. He was looking for her to ask if they're going to make a project tomorrow. He stood up from his sit and walked rapidly, out of the Hall. He ran down the corridors and stopped when he saw a bunch of first-year girls surrounding a Hermione, she was laying on the floor, unconscious. He moved the first-year girls in the corner to make a way into the middle of the crowd. He wrapped Hemione's hand on his shoulder and he carried her legs. The crowd of first-years murmured. Draco Malfoy was oddly carrying and saving a Mudblood, who was unconscious. He ran to the Head Quarters."Dux et rector." Draco whispered. He managed to break in by knowing the password to the room, he remembered bullying Johnson Clarke for him to say their password. Then the door slightly, opened. He saw Clarke sitting on one of the couch.

"Malfoy! Why are you here? And why are you with—"

"She is her room located?"

"Upstairs, the second room, next to the staircase."

"And the pass?"

"Umm—"

"What's the pass?" Draco yelled, impatiently and his voice was panicked.

"Mirable Cella" Johnson said, terrified.

Then Draco went to her room. And he laid her gently on her bed.

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