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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 List
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Chapter 5- A Conversation

The next morning, Hermione woke up with a groan. She rolled off the couch and made her way into the bathroom, jumping in the shower and scrubbing at her skin until it was bright red, and all traces of Harry were gone. She decided to run down to the Great Hall earlier than usual so she could hopefully be gone before she had to see Harry or Ginny that morning. She grabbed some bread, bacon, and tomato to make a sandwich and then headed to the library. As she sat at her favorite table, she pulled out her potions book to read the first few chapters again. She found that she couldn’t concentrate for long, however, her thoughts being dominated by last night’s events.

All too soon, the bell rang signaling the end of breakfast, and Hermione had to go to Potions class. She rushed down to the dungeons, entering the potions classroom. She immediately spotted Harry and Ron in the back of the classroom, obviously paired up for the day's assignment. Instead of partnering with Neville as she had done in years past, she decided to sit with Ginny, in hopes of figuring out more about her and Harry's relationship.

"Hey Gin!" Hermione exclaimed, plopping down next to Ginny at the wide desk.

"Hey 'Mione! What're you doing sitting here?"

"I haven't talked to you in forever, plus Neville will be fine with this potion I'm sure. Anyway, Slughorn’s a much kinder Professor than Snape was, especially to the Gryffindor students, so she knew Neville would be fine.

“Oh, alright! I know what you mean, too, we haven’t had a good conversation in forever... It seems like Ron and Harry are always around when we have any free time!” Ginny looked excited about the potential of some good “girl talk”, making Hermione think that there was more wrong with her than she let on.

“Oh, don’t I know it! You’d think they’d be sick of me after spending a year alone on the run, but apparently not!” The girls shared a small laugh at this, and Hermione was about to bring up the subject of Harry when Slughorn began to speak.

“Hello, class. Today we will be brewing a simple malnourishment cure potion to see where you all are in your NEWT level studies. You will be able to work with your chosen partners today, but after I see how you are doing I will be pairing each of you up based on skill level for the rest of the year. you have this class to complete this potion, so I suggest you start working! Good luck!” With this, Slughorn sat down behind his desk and started eating some crystallized pineapples while flipping through some obscure magazine.

Hermione and Ginny got started on their assigned potion, and, finding it easy to complete, finished it well before class was over. After turning it into Slughorn, they packed up their things and walked towards the library. As the pair crossed into the Great Hall, Hermione decided to take advantage of the situation and have a conversation with Ginny about her relationship with Harry.

“Hey, Ginny, fancy a walk around the lake? I’d like to talk to you more if you have time!”

“Of course, ‘Mione! I have a free period next, and I don’t have homework yet. I’d also love to be outside as much as I can before it gets cold!” Agreeing on this, the girls wandered out of the building, making their way to the far side of the lake.

When they arrived to their destination, a clump of trees close to Hagrid’s hut, the girls sat down, spreading out their school cloaks underneath them.

“So, ‘Mione, what did you want to talk about?”

“Well, I’ve been concerned about Harry this year. I know it’s hard for him to come back, and I wondered if he had told you anything about any issues he might be having.” Hermione was nervous about Ginny’s answer, but she needed to know if Harry had even started talking to her about his issues before she decided to pursue any type of long-term relationship.

“Not really. I mean, I know he’s struggling, but he’s pulling away from me in some ways... I’m not really sure where we stand, you know? I know he loves me and all, and I think he’ll come around, it’s just hard right now.”

“I know what you mean. Has he talked to you about anything at all?” Hermione was curious as to the level of Harry’s withdrawal from Ginny, wondering if it was just sexual or in all aspects of their relationship.

“Well, we haven’t been... physical... with each other in a long time, if that’s what you mean. I know he’s having nightmares, and I can calm him down well during them, it’s just been tough to have any type of... intimate physical reactions with him. We do talk a lot though, often about the future. I'm just being patient with him, I know he’ll come around!” Hermione was intrigued at this statement, but she supposed it made sense. If Harry were to fully pull away from Ginny in all aspects, then she would break up with him, and he apparently didn’t want that.

“Yeah, I think it’s tough on all of us, especially Hary. Having lived his entire life in the limelight, it’d be tough to add more onto it. I think you’re going about it in the right way, though. Keep at it, I’m sure he’ll come around!” In reality, Hermione thought nothing of the sort, but she knew her friend needed to hear it.

“Thanks, ‘Mione. How about you, though? What’s it like being able to oogle the Slytherin Sex God’s arse whenever you want?” Ginny asked, winking at Hermione and wagging her eyebrows.

“Gross, Ginny! That’s nasty! Never in a million years would I check out Malfoy!” While Hermione was repulsed by this, she was intrigued for a moment, but she quickly shook off the sudden arousal that swept over her. Shoving Ginny, she laughed and changed the subject to classes and NEWT’s, much safer subjects in her mind.

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A/N: OK all, here’s chapter 5... Before I sign off, I’d appreciate it if you all would read this:

I have gotten a lot of comments and reviews about people’s dislike of Harry and Hermione’s characters... I have a couple things to say in response to these. First off, these are OOC characters. Having said that, I don’t think they are TOO OOC. I think that war changes people, not always for the better. I think that Harry’s actions could be explained a few ways. First off, in DH, Harry finds out that his entire life has been manipulated to fit into people's plans. That would piss me off, and I think it would lead to Harry wanting to take back his life, and sex is one way to do that. Also, he almost died. Well, he did die, and he came back to life. I feel like there was always an appreciation for Hermione in the books that could be understood as sexual attraction, and I feel like if someone died and then got a second chance, they would "jump on" any opportunity they got to get what they wanted, including having sex and using Hermione.

This being said, I hope that people do keep reading this story. But be forewarned, I WILL delete nasty comments, and they are not welcome here. I do love constructive criticism, so keep that comin' please!

Until next time, love you guys!
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