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Best Enemies	By : MegWebs94 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 7628 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 2- The Banquet

The head chambers were just a few feet from the entrance to the great hall, so it didn’t take Hermione long to get there. As soon as she entered the main room, Hermione spun around to see Malfoy following her in. Why is he always smirking? Oh what I wouldn’t give to wipe that off his face! The little cockroach!

“OK Malfoy. I already made the prefects’ round schedules for the first few months, if you want to look them over. We will meet with them after dinner to distribute these and lay down the ground rules. Every Monday we will meet with all the prefects at 7 PM to go over any issues, and we can schedule other meetings as necessary. Other than that, stay out of my way. Got it?” Hermione finished, taking in a breath and daring Malfoy to try and contradict her. I hope he gives me an excuse to hex his bollocks off.

“Just one, Granger. Who the hell died and made you queen?” He was smirking again. The bastard had the nerve to smirk at her! Oh he’s going to get it... Hermione pulled out her wand.

“Levicorpus!” Malfoy was immediately lifted into the air, dangling upside down by his ankle. “Now you listen to me, ferret, you WILL respect me, and you WILL stay out of my way. If you fail to do these two SIMPLE things, your balls will be mine. Got it?” She released him and sent a nasty bat bogey hex at him. Thanks for that one Ginny! She thought stalking off to where she knew her room was. For the first time, she saw her picture posted by the door, smiling and waving out at her, seated at her favorite desk in the library. How fitting that is... That’s a great picture of me too! I wonder how they got that picture... I wonder what Malfoy’s is? She suddenly shook her head, clearing these thoughts out of her head. Who gives a rat’s ass what his picture is?

She walked into her room and went to sit down on her bed. She still had a half hour until she had to be present at the opening feast, so she decided to write a thank you letter to the Weasley’s.

She and Ron had tried a relationship out after their single kiss during the final battle, but things were not working out as they had hoped. They had finally agreed the week before to take a break, and Hermione couldn’t see anything happening between the two of them. Whenever her and Ron tried to do anything remotely sexual, she had to stop it... it was like making out with her brother! And the one time he tried to put his hand under her shirt, she almost passed out, it just felt so... wrong.

She felt horrible about it, especially since the Weasley’s were like her family. They took her in after the Death Eaters found her parents living in Australia and killed them towards the end of the war. She felt like she owed them everything, yet she couldn’t find it in her heart to love Ron like he deserved. She knew Molly had hoped they would settle down like Ginny and Harry inevitably would, but she couldn’t live that life. Her only consolidation was the fact that the Weasley’s had accepted her and Ron’s break up well, and she still felt like an important part of their family. The reason for the letter she was currently trying to write was a wonderful set of books they had gotten Hermione as congratulations as becoming Head Girl. It meant so much more to her knowing that the Weasley’s didn’t have much to spare, yet they thought her important enough to spend what money they did have on her.

She finally finished writing the letter just in time for the opening banquet. She looked in the mirror and decided she looked good enough to go down. Walking down the staircase, she was relieved to see that Malfoy wasn’t in the common area. I hope this is a normal thing. I really don’t want to have to deal with him more than I’m required to with classes and Head duty! She walked down the hallway and was immediately attacked by two barreling figures running at her, hugging her and almost knocking her down. Laughing and regaining her balance, she recognized the smiling figures of her two best friends in the world, Ron and Harry. Looking behind them, she saw Ginny laughing at them, waiting her turn for a hug.

“Geez guys, I just saw you this morning! It’s been maybe six hours since you saw me off at the Burrow!”

“We know Hermione, but we just couldn’t wait... It feels good to be back. You know, the castle feels so... normal after the hecticness lately!” Harry looked at her, and Hermione knew exactly what he meant.

"Alright you three, let’s get into the Great Hall. Ronald, your tie is crooked,” Hermione said, smiling at her friend. She was so glad they had a good relationship after the breakup, but she still held back from some more intimate gestures, like fixing his tie.

“Oh, yeah, thanks Hermione! Can we go sit down? I’m starving!” Ron remarked, looking bemused when his three companions started laughing. “What?”

“Ron, when are you not starving?” Ginny laughed at him as she took Harry’s hand and led him into the Great Hall.

Hermione trailed after the other three, smiling at the chaos that was the Opening Banquet. She became concerned, however, when Harry noticed the pictures adorning the walls around him. When she saw him freeze, she immediately walked up to the side of him opposite Ginny, and grabbed his arm in hers, leaning in to whisper in his ear.

“It’s OK Harry, don’t look at them. You know they all chose to fight, and you saved so many more lives. Let’s go sit down, come on now. You don’t want to scare the younger years, do you?” Hermione knew it was kind of a low blow to bring up the younger kids, but she was really afraid Harry would break down, and that would scare many of the other students, not only the youngest among them.

“You’re right, Mia. Of course you are. I knew they would have something for them, I just didn’t think it would affect me this much...” Harry looked on the verge of tears, and she knew that he wouldn’t use his special nickname for her unless he really needed her to be strong for him.

“Of course it’ll affect you the first few times, but you’ll be fine. Look, I’m here Harry. You can lean on me. We’re almost there, Harry, just a few more steps and we can sit down.” Hermione was worried about him, but they couldn’t leave now without people noticing and talking about it. I’ll talk to him about it more later.

They finally all got seated, and Hermione let Ginny take over the task of calming Harry down, while she tried to distract the rest of the table from noticing how shaken up Harry was by the pictures.

Dinner was served, and all the students ate until they thought their stomachs would burst. Harry looked like he was feeling better after eating, but Hermione could see that he was still feeling the affects of his nearpanic attack earlier. McGonagall tapped on her glass, and Headmaster Dumbledore stood up to make his opening remarks. After the usual stay out of the Forbidden Forrest and don’t bring in anything from the Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes shop that was banned, he finally made the announcement about who the Head Boy and Head Girl were. Everyone was naturally shocked about Malfoy’s appointment, but Hermione received many congratulations concerning her post. They were all dismissed after the speech was finished, and Hermione walked with her friends to the beginning of the hallway the Head’s area was located in. After telling her friends which portrait was the entrance so they could locate her if they needed anything, she walked down the hallway and up to her room.

She changed into her pj’s and climbed into her soft bed, deciding to get to bed early so she could wake up on time tomorrow for classes. She was just about to drift off to sleep when she heard someone pounding on her door.

“Granger! Damn it, open up the door! I swear to Merlin, if this door isn’t open in ten seconds I’m breaking it down!”

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A/N: Sorry for the cliffie guys! Just FYI: I will be keeping some characters alive who died in the books (ex. Dumbledore in this chapter), and killing others who didn’t (ex. Hermione’s parents). These are just a few stylistic things I thought would work well with my story, so don’t hate me! Also, it will be a few chapters until the really steamy scenes start to occur, so let me build up to it please! What do you guys think about the length of the chapters? too short? too long? let me know! OK I think that’s all from me, please leave a review and lemme know what you all think about it! Until next time, love you all! :D
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