Thsi fic is Work In Progress, so it might take a while for it to get finished, but fear not, i shall do my best! Here goes
Hermione Granger gave her parents a last hug, then made her way through the crowds of students towards the train. She waved to them and climbed inside to find her friends, whom she hadn’t seen since the end of last year. She had grown over the holidays, and was now 160cm tall. Her hair was still as bushy as ever, but she had managed to tame it just a bit. She was in her robes already, and there was a little badge with ‘HG’ pinned to the front, ‘HG’ stood for ‘Head Girl’.
She walked through the cars to the compartment where she usually sat on their way to Hogwarts, with her two best friends, Harry Potter and Ron(ald) Weasley. It was there that she found them, talking about Quidditch. They hadn’t changed much over the holidays, Harry still had messy short black hair that wouldn’t do anything but stick out at odd angles, and those piercing emerald coloured eyes. He hadn’t grown much and was only 165cm, and to his disappointment, shorter than Malfoy.
Ron on the other hand, was very tall, the tallest in the school. His hair was still red, though he had tried to dye it brown last year, just to shut Malfoy up. It didn’t work and you could see that on the end of his hair was very slight brown. His hair was long like Bill’s had been (before his mother got to it) and he kept it tied back at his neck. Both boys turned as she walked into the compartment
“Hey Hermione” said Ron as she walked in “Have you heard?”
“About what?” she asked, sitting opposite him
“The Chudley Cannons won the British Cup!”
“The what?” she knew that the Chudley Cannons were a Quidditch team, but she thought the British Cup was football competition.
“The British Cup! The one that all the Qudditch teams play for, the one that the best team in Britain wins! Have you never heard of it?” a look of horror came onto his face as Hermione shook her head.
“I thought it was a soccer cup, not a Quidditch one, sorry Ron” she said apologetically. Then she turned to Harry “I don’t think I got to say hello. So, hello Harry how was your summer?” Harry smiled
“It was alright, I’m glad that Sirius had been pardoned and I could stay with him over the summer. I think the Dursley's were as well, they’re still trying to get Dudley to loose weight and it’s not working” They all laughed et the thought of Dudley trying to loose weight.
“So you two, what’s it like being prefects?” she asked grinning
“You’re a prefect too, aren’t you Hermione? How do you feel?” asked Ron
“No, I’m not -just- a prefect, I’m Head Girl” she showed them her Head Girl and badge, and they congratulated her. Then the train whistle sounded and the train pulled out of the station.
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The train journey was just like it had always been, kind of boring. She left Harry and Ron to go find Lavender, Padma and the rest of her friends. She found them and for a while they talked about school, boys and the latest fashions and music and how they went out with so-and-so during the holidays, they were pleased that she was head girl, even though they weren’t even prefects
‘Better you than that Hufflepuff girl, Elizabeth Ryan’ Padma had said. Finally the Trolley Witch came along and offered them some food. She noticed Hermione and handed her an envelope saying
“Professor McGonagall asked me to give you this dearie” Hermione took it as the others bought some food. She opened it and quickly read it
‘Ms. Granger
Congratulations on being chosen as head girl of Hogwarts this year. We hope you will continue to meet the high standard of work that we have come to expect from you these last seven years.
I am pleased to inform you that the deputy head girl is Elizabeth Ryan from Hufflepuf, and that the Head Boy this year is Draco Malfoy from Slytherin and the deputy is Justin Finch-Fletchety from Hufflepuff”
The letter went on to say that the two head’s and deputy’s would all be sharing a common room this year, and at the bottom was written
‘Could you please give the other letter in the envelope to Mr. Malfoy, then come and meet the Prefects in the Prefects compartment’ she dropped the letter and suddenly realized what the letter had said. How was she going to survive a whole year of sharing the same common room as Malfoy?
She was brought back to reality by Lavender waving in her face
“So, what does it say?” she asked, trying to see the letter.
“Elizabeth Ryan is the deputy head” she said blankly, not wanting to tell them about Malfoy
“O my gosh, that’s not good. At least she wasn’t head girl. So, is Justin head boy?” asked Padma looking over her shoulder, it was a well known fact that Padma like Justin quite a bit.
“No, he’s deputy”
“So, who’s head boy?” they asked, trying to get the information out of her. Hermione gave in
“Malfoy” Lavender and Padma’s eyes widened
“Not -the- Draco Malfoy from Slytherin?” she nodded then Padma read from over her shoulder
“...you’ll be sharing a common room with the other three...” Padma stopped reading as what had dawned on Hermione dawned on them as well
“You poor thing, Malfoy is such a w***er, even if he is kind of sexy...” Lavender commented as Hermione stood
“I need to go give the other letter to Elizabeth” she lied, wanting to get away from them, she hoped Padma hadn’t read the bit at the bottom. She wanted to get away and think about how she was going to survive this year.
As she stood outside the compartment, she guessed Malfoy would be further down the train or the Trolley Witch would have given the letter to him, so she set off. About 15 minutes later she came to the last car. She had taken a bit longer than she’d wanted because she’d met Harry and Ron on their way to a meeting of the prefects and they’d wanted to know where she was going, she’d given the same excuse to them as she had to Lavender and Padma.
As she opened the door to the last car before the baggage one, she decided that Draco had to be here, since he hadn’t been on the rest of the train. It was very quiet in here, making it almost eerie, since in all the others cars you had heard the rattling of wheels and people talking, but in here there was no noise, none at all. She tiptoed down the corridor, afraid to make a noise from some reason.
She came to the last compartment in the car and looked through a corner of the window. Malfoy was there, and so was his father, Lucius Malfoy, Malfoy was in his school robes already, she could see the Head Boy badge on his robe. They seemed to be arguing, although she heard nothing. She decided they must have soundproofed the compartment and the car, and so that was why she could hear no noise at all.
Lucius pulled out his wand and said something, and then Malfoy seemed to be in lots of pain. She suddenly recognized the spell as the Crutatias Curse they had learnt about in their 4th year, she could tell by the miniature red sparks coming form the end of his wand. She watched as blood appeared at the corner of Malfoy’s mouth. Then it stopped. Lucius put his wand away and leaned close to Malfoy’s head, he whispered something then disappeared. No, dissaparated, Hermione corrected herself.
She didn’t move for a few seconds, to make sure that Lucius really was gone, then opened the door and kneeled next to Malfoy who had slumped onto the floor. He seemed to be unconscious, so she pulled out her wand, but just as she was going to enervate him, he cried out
“Tara!” he opened his eyes and sat up, but immediately winced because of the pain.
“Are you alright Malfoy?” asked Hermione worriedly. He turned and looked at her, his eyes wide with shock
“God, I must be hallucinating pretty badly to see you Granger” he turned away and ignored her
“Are you alright?” she asked again “I’m not a hallucination” Draco turned to look at her again, his eyes glaring at her
“I’m fine Granger, why would you care?”
“You were just attacked by your father! What am I supposed to do?”
“Leave your foul nose out of other people’s business. I’m fine” he said as if that was the end of it. He stood, with some difficulty and sat on the seat, Hermione sat opposite him “Why are you here anyway, and where are your body guards, Pot Head and his pet Weasel?” he asked
“Where are yours?” she asked, wondering why she hadn’t seen Crabbe or Goyle anywhere
“Expelled” Draco said dryly, Hermione didn’t bother ask why “So why are you here?” Hermione remembered the letter, she pulled it out and handed it to him.
“It’s about being Head Boy” he opened it and quickly scanned the page.
“Wonderful” he said sarcastically “I get to spend the year with you, Finch boy and girl who I’ve never heard of before. As if my year couldn’t get any better already”
“What do you mean?” she asked, then wished she hadn’t
“Just. Leave. My. Life. Alone. Get it?” he glared at her. She shrugged and stood up
“Coming?”
“Where?”
“To the prefect compartment to meet the prefects?” he stood, and waited for her to go “You’ve got blood in the corner of your mouth” she added as an afterthought and he quickly wiped it away. They made their way towards the front of the train. Hermione walked behind Draco, and as they walked through the cars, she noticed that he was, in fact, taller than Harry. His hair was still short and slicked back. She wasn’t sure, but she thought he had tanned a bit, he didn’t look as pale as normal, unless it was his father attacking him.
When they reached the door to the prefects compartment (they knew it was that because it had a little ‘Prefects Only’ sign on the door) Draco turned to her and said
“Tell about what happened, and you’ll get hexed, or cursed, or both. Alright?” she nodded, but whispered as they walked in
“By the way, who’s Tara?” Draco stopped and stared at her as she kept on walking into the room.
Draco didn’t say anything, but he stopped walking and the colour in his face drained (hard to imagine I know). Hermione turned and saw him hide his expression, but quickly walked over to Harry and Ron, who were sitting over by a window, once again, talking about Quidditch. As she sat, she looked over at Malfoy, who was sitting beside Terry Boot, another Slytherin. She guessed Tara must be his girlfriend or something.
The prefect’s compartment was one big room with big comfy chairs scattered around it. It reminded Hermione of the Gryffindor common room, apart from the fact that the chairs were not red and gold, and there was no fireplace. Harry and Ron both asked her at the same time who the head boy was. She decided not to put it off any longer
“Malfoy” she could see the horror on their faces as they looked over at him, on the other side of the room. Hermione looked over as well, but found him looking at her already. He mouthed ‘watch it mudblood’ and sneered at her. She looked away, hoping this year wouldn’t be too horrible.
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