Sorry, had temporary writers block. Please review. This chapter is for my best friend who likes my stories and gave me the encouragement to do this chapter. Please check out my other story. Thanks for reading!

At 8 Hogwarts knew Hermione was in a bad mood and by 9 they knew what caused it. It wasn't that hard to figure out and the gossip spread like wildfire. And by 10 it was official; Draco Malfoy had cheated on Hermione with Daphne Greengrass.

Hermione was pissed. She skipped all her classes and didn't attend any meals. Her friends tried to comfort her but she was annoyed. The only thing she would tell her friends is "I HATE HIM." before laying back down and sobing. She had even tried to destroy her ring but she couldn't, so she had settled for throwing it in the fire where it refused to burn.

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Draco wasn't having a very pleasant day either. He kept trying to explain that it was Dauphine who started kissing him but no one believed that. Now the whole of Hogwarts hated him except Daphne, she was happy. Blasie was annoyed as well.

"Mate, I get that you hate her but you are engaged. That was a filthy lowdown thing to do cheating on her."

That hadn't helped his mood at all, neither had being scorned by everyone. All the girls thought tought he was mean and the boys were annoyed because their fiancés were annoyed, but yet the only thing Draco could think of was how annoyed his mother was going to be.

The next morning the headline news was article about the marriage law Draco wondered why the law had taken so long to reach

The Marriage law

By Xavier Blake

It has been a carefully kept ministry secret but today it was confirmed as official. The ministry passed a marriage law on the 1st of September. The law reads that all people between the ages of 16 and 35 must marry a chosen partner. When asked about this Minister of Magic Matthew Tudor said "The magical population has declined we lost 49% of our community during the war. We are now at risk of dying out as a community. The ministry has decided to fix this problem we hope that all students will be happy with their chosen partners and invite people to attend their marriage on Sunday the 14th.

More on pages 12 and 13

Draco flipped to the next page and he gasped this could not be happening because the headline was "Already problems with the new law: the Malfoys engagement and Draco's big mistake" Draco was annoyed this made him sound like he was the problem he wasn't Daphne had just kissed him and Hermione had had the misfortune to find out.

Draco was rudely shoved out of his thoughts by a howler and a load of hate mail arriving. he decided that it would be best to go up to his room and burn all the letters. After that he would deal with Hermione, he didn't need her yelling at him yet but he would try to get her to see sense. And as his subconscious told him slyly "You truly like her" he ran down the stairs to try to muffle his mums howler and burn the papers.

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Hermione was also reading the daily prophet in her room and decided that she needed to stop chickening out, she need to go and yell at him.

She found him on the third floor and as she walked towards him the hallway went silent, no one wanted to miss this.

Hermione started to yell "YOU HORRABLE MEAN FERRET! IT OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU THAT YOU WERE ENGAGED YOU HAD TO HAVE AN AFFIR WITH THAT SLUT" she said pointing to Daphne who went white.

"I wasn't having an affair she threw herself on me I didn't want to kiss her" Draco sounded so sad and worn out defending himself that everyone except Hermione (and some of the dumber boys) it was obvious that he liked sounded so sad and worn out defending himself that everyone except Hermione (and some of the dumber boys) it was obvious that he liked her.

"LIKE I'M GOING TO BELIVE THAT" Hermione was annoyed at how emotional she was getting. It wasn't possible that she was having feelings for the ferret it just wasn't possible.

At that moment Professor McGonagall came and broke up the fight. She sent both Draco and Hermione to Dumbledore.

When they entered his office Dumbledore asked them "What's wrong?"

Hermione replied in a flat monotone as if dead to the world "He cheated on me" However inside she was sad. How could he do this to her they were engaged and she there she paused before finishing her thought with a bust of revelation she liked him, SHE LIKED DRACO MALFOY!

Draco was instantly defending himself "She threw herself at me, I was pushing her away when you saw me"

"Sure" she scoffed but with less anger than before.

Dumbledore told Hermione to calm down and that this most likely was a misunderstanding and than called for vertrusim for Draco.

Draco took the potion and Dumbledore started asking him questions.

"What's your name?"

"Draco Lucius Malfoy"

"Who are your parents?"

"Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, my father is dead."

"Did you kiss Dauphine Greengrass or did she kiss you?"

"She did"

"Do you like Hermione Granger?"

"Yes"

And when the vertrusim wore off just outside the Slytherin common room Hermione kissed him and left him standing there, happier than he had ever been in his life.

A cheery ending, just to clarify Mr. Malfoy was killed in the battle of Hogwarts and Draco really was innocent. Also if you have any wedding ideas please help, I haven't been to one since I was four. Thanks to the three people who reviewed the last chapter I'm glad that you like the story.