The Weird Noise
"Welcome first years" Dumbledore announced.
"Now everyone can enjoy the feast in the dark with the light off of your wands". Dumbledore announced to the four houses.
When the feast and dessert was over Professor Dumbledore had another announcement to make to the school.
"Now that we are done the feast in which I really do hope you all enjoyed it I have the pleasure in announcing that I have found a new Defence Against the Dark Arts (DADA) teacher". I would like you all to meet professor Doloris Wallace.
"Wow she looks really young", Hermione said with her mouth half open at the fact that she was extremely pretty.
"This here is my granddaughter in which she was very excited when I told her that we had an opening for a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher here at Hogwarts. Right after I mentioned it I remembered that my lovely and beautiful granddaughter here had taken a course to become a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at the best wizarding college ever so I decided to hire her and hopefully she will last more than a year unlike all of our other Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers".
The whole great hall erupted in applause for Professor Wallace who (taken her seat at the top table right beside her grandfather) and surprisingly some of the Slytherins were clapping too.
"Now everyone if you can please make your way very carefully through the dark up to your common rooms and if you need to use lumos with your wands", Dumbledore announced.
"Like always tomorrow is the first day of classes so during breakfast you will receive your timetables for this term from your house advisors before you head out to your first classes".
As everyone got up from there house tables to go out to the great hall everyone froze as fast as they got up.
"What the fuck was that!" Ron yelled to Harry and Hermione over all of the frightened screaming coming from mainly the first years.
"I don't fuckin know", Hermione replied.
"Hey guys look over at the Slytherin table", Harry said to Ron and Hermione over the screaming with a look of amazement on his face.
"See Malfoys face", Hermione sneered.
"Ya he looks pretty frightened, wouldn't you two say?" Ron said.
"Ya, isn't it so fuckin funny", Harry replied trying so hard not to laugh.
"SILENCE!", Dumbledore screamed over screaming for the second time tonight.
"There is nothing be afraid of", he told the whole school.
"Just light your wands and make your way very carefully to your common rooms".
As everyone made there ways to there common rooms they heard another noise but this time it was just a clap of thunder.
"Wow could this night get any weirder?" Ron asked Harry and Hermione.
"Oh it probably could, in fact it just did", Hermione replied.
"What do you mean Hermione?" , Harry asked Hermione with a look of suprise.
"Look whose coming right this way looking guilty of something and looks like he wants to be nice", Hermione told them.
"Malfoy", sneered Ron.
"What do you want Malfoy?", Ron said to Malfoy.
"I just want to talk to Granger alone for minute please", Malfoy replied.
"Why?", Hermione asked aghast.
"Because I want to er ask you something?"
"Ok you have five minutes", she replied to him.
"Hermione if you need us just scream", Harry told her before she walked off.
"Ya and we'll wait right here for you too", Ron told her.
"I was just thinking you, Potter and Weasley have been my enemies the past three years and I don't want this to continue so I was wondering if we could call it a truce?" Malfoy said to Hermione.
"Ok I'll tell you this I have secretly liked you since third year Malfoy but I don't think Harry and Ron will call it a truce with you", Hermione told him.
"Can you try and get them to call a truce?"
"Tell me why exactly Malfoy?"
"Well see the thing is that my mom told me that I am not really a Malfoy. Not biologically. And that I have different parents and my father is a death eater and he'd want to kill me because originally I am a muggle born which I just found out at the beginning of summer. So I've had a long time to think about this. My dad doesn't know I'm adopted. My mom pretended to be pregnant. She told me she's going to tell him".
"I see", Hermione replied
"Ya, and my mother told me to not go back to the house until I here from her. Not on holidays or anything, who knows what he'll do to her. Or me for that matter. My friends' parents found out and now they're not aloud to hang out with me at all and I have no friends left, and because you're a muggle born too that means that we're sort of alike", Malfoy said.
"Can you explain my story to the other two and ask them if they'll call it a truce?"
"What about Ginny we hang out with her all of the time?"
"Ya, her two, please can you do this?
"Ya I guess I can do that, Malfoy. But I'm telling you, after 6 years, I'm pretty sure they'll make you work for it".
"Thank you and for the record I've liked you to since for a while too. Since third year also".
"I'll send you an owl with their answer", Hermione told Malfoy.
"Ok I will see you then", Malfoy said before leaving.
"So what did he want?", Harry asked her when she joined them again.
So Hermione explained the whole situation to them and they said that they will have to sleep on it.
The next day everyone in the common room seemed very tired. They were all talking about the power failure and the weird noise that they heard. They figured that it was someone or something trying to get into the school using magic and it backfired.
"Is everyone on crack?", Ron spat on their way down to breakfast.
"I dunno", Hermione answered shrilly.
"You have to admit though that it was really weird the power went out and then that weird noise that was even louder than a clap of thunder", Harry said.
"True", Ron and Hermione agreed.
Harry, Ron and Hermione found three seats at the Gryffindor table and sat down. Harry and Ron started filling their bowls with cereal. Harry chose Corn Puffs, Ron chose Nesquick and Hermione started to eat her porridge.
"Oh look there's the mail owls", Ron said with a mouthful of cereal. Harry and Ron were so interested in eating before their first class that they didn't realise that Hermione had got an owl.
Granger,
It's Draco Malfoy, I was just wondering if you had spoken to Potter and Weasley last night about what we talked about. Write back and let me know.
Hermione read this letter hiding it underneath the table and decided to write back and tell him that she did but didn't get an answer yet.
Malfoy,
I did talk to them and Ginny about what we talked about but they all said that they would have to sleep on it. I'll send you an owl once I know the official answer.
Hermione sent the owl that brought her Malfoys letter with her response and then started to talk to Harry and Ron about it.
"Have you guys decided yet if you want to call it a truce with Malfoy yet?", Hermione asked them.
"Ya, but we want to have a meeting with Ginny about it first before we give you our answer", Harry told Hermione.
"Ya, we'll let you know when we know what we want to do", Ron added to Harry's response.
"Where is Ginny anyway?", Hermione asked them.
"Oh, I see her coming", Ron spat out with yet another mouthful of food.
"Hey Gin what's up?", Harry asked her.
"Nothing. Hey guys do you remember that whole thing Hermione said about Malfoy?", Ginny asked Ron and Harry.
"Ya, what about it?" said Ron and Harry together.
"I was just thinking maybe we should give Malfoy a chance. I mean he is after all like Hermione. Well, so he says", Ginny replied.
"What's that suppose to mean?", Ron said scathingly.
"MUGGLE BORN YOU STUPID GIT!", Ginny screamed at Ron.
Luckily there was so much noise in the great hall that no one else heard what she had screamed.
"Ya. We could give him a chance, but we're not going to be totally nice to him.", Ron said to Hermione.
"Ya, I agree with Ron. He has to work for our trust and liking", Harry told them.
"Well we're going to be Malfoys only friends now", Hermione told them.
"Oh ya I almost forgot, on one condition", Ron said.
"Ya and what would that be?", Hermione asked them.
"Only if we're on first name basis. I hate hearing my last name all the time", Harry said to her.
"Ya if he calls us by our first names then we'll call him by his first name", Ginny added.
"So Hermione you can tell him that we've agreed only on that condition", Ron told Hermione.
"Ok I'll tell him that, but don't forget it will take a little while for us to adjust to calling him by his first name and him to adjust to calling us by our first names, so keep that in mind".
"Ya we know Hermione", said Ginny.
"Oh look here comes Professor McGonagall with our time tables", Hermione squealed.