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Another day at Hogwarts at things were... Odd. 


 


If it wasn't bad enough that Harry was now excelling in his classes because of the stupid book he found that belonged to 'The Half Blood Prince', Hermione felt like her day might just get a whole lot more different, and that was as soon as she had stepped into her third class for that day, which just so happened to be potions. 


 


Horace Slughorn had replaced Snape as Potions teacher that year, and he was definitely a lot more jovial than their old professor. He also had a knack for picking out particular talent, and that included Hermione. 


 


However, when it came to making partners, he was clearly oblivious as to who to pair with who, and Hermione assumed he didn't really care. 


 


As Hermione entered the class and saw the board, she saw names places together for an assignment. Harry was -- luckily -- placed with Ron, and that was only lucky for the latter since they had the Half Blood Prince on their side. When Hermione scoured the board and found her name, she saw that it was right next to a certain Slytherin. 


 


She wondered, as she turned around to walk over to Draco Malfoy, books clutched to her chest, how this was going to turn out. 

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco entered his potions class with a grimace, taking in Potter and his weasly gang. He never seemed to be able to escape their shadows, so the only chance he got to be noticed, was to be mean to them. 


Being moaned had earned him respect over the years, not the kind he wanted but it was respect all the same.


He took in the board with names scrawled on it, his brow in its usual furrowed state as he did so.


Eventually spotting his name on the board and he exhaled deeply as he stalked over to where his partner was.


"Filthy mudblood" He growled as he slammed his books down on the desk. He didn't want to mean, in fact he had wanted to be friends with them once upon a time but they had never given him a chance, so they left him with no choice..

 

[adrianna]

Hermione did her best to ignore Draco's words. They hadn't exactly been on the best of terms, and it was all because of her blood status. Or maybe due to the fact that she was best friends with the boy that he constantly fought with. 


Either way, things weren't exactly bright for the two of them and she couldn't see why Slughon couldn't partner him with Pansy Parkinson or one of his cronies like Zabini. 


No, instead, she had been partnered with him. And the sooner they got it over with, perhaps they could get back to their normal lives. 


She honestly never understood why she had never spoken to Draco with anything other than malice. He had always just saw her for her blood status, so she supposed that was the reason she had never had a prope conversation with in, 


"let's just get this over with," she murmured, avoiding his gaze as she opened up her potions book to find the necessary recipe.

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco watched with a crooked eyebrow as the brunette witch opened up her recipe booklet and focused on the task ahead of them and he did everything in his power to ignore the fact he thought the way her forehead crinkled as she read was cute.


This was Granger that he was talking about...she was Potters friends...but she wasn't even a pureblood, there was no hope of anything but misery coming from this predicament, for both of them.


"So what are we doing today?" He asked before muttering "Granger" after his sentence, trying to keep up the malice for the witch, he had always had, but for reasons he could never quite explain.


Maybe it was just because she never saw him for anything more than a Deatheaters son, nothing other than trouble.


She'd never looked at him twice since their first day, and that admittedly stung a bit, any girl could be his, any girl apart from this Gryffindor phenomenon 

 

[adrianna]

"Amortentia," Hermione read out from the board. Each pair had been given a specific potion to brew and she and Draco had been given Amortentia. A love potion. How... Convenient. 


No, ironic was a more fitting word. It would be convenient if she wanted him to like her, which she didn't. At least, not this way. Not under the influence of a love potion. 


"Stop it," she said aloud, without meaning to since she had wanted to say that to her inner thoughts. They were going rampant. How did she suddenly even come up with the idea? They hadn't even brewed the potion yet but she was already in over her head. 


Realising she she may have sounded like she told Draco to stop doing something, she looked up t o meet his steely grey gaze with her own warm brown one. "Sorry," she murmured. "Internal thoughts." She explained before pulling out a few ingredients. 


"Have you made this before?" She asked as she handed him something to cut up. 

 

[Catastrophic]

Amortentia


He sighed softly at the mention of the highly potent love potion, and he couldn't help but smirk as his mind filled up with all sorts of devious plans he could use that in.


How fun would it be to have little miss righteous following him around like a lovesick puppy? It would teach her that she wasn't so above everybody like she seemed to think.


He chuckled and rolled his eyes as she talked about her internal turmoil and thoughts and he watched as she started to pull out ingredients from different places.


He scoffed at her question 


"Of course not, I've never had a reason to make this before. Have you?" He teased, hoping to make the pale skinned girl blush as he started to chop up some of the ingredients, doing everything surprisingly neatly and precisely

 

[adrianna]

Hermione began to grind together some beans as she listened to him speak and when he asked her the same question in return, her cheeks flushed slightly. "No, of course not," she said in a nonchalant tone. And it was the truth anyway. She didn't believe in using love potions. It was basically like forcing someone to be infatuated with another and that wasn't the way she wanted to do things. 


"If you ask me, Amortentia is probably as bad as the Imperius curse," she murmured softly as she set aside the ground beans and then worked on heating up the cauldron with her wand. 


"The person is manipulated. Has no sense of what they really want. And that's not the way to go about with getting someone to like you," she told him with a shrug. 


She didn't know where all this was coming from. She was actually having a normal conversation with Draco Malfoy and she was finding it hard to digest. 

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco smirked as he saw the intended effect of the question on the brunette witch and his eyes took in her crushing the beans, almost frustratedly as she talked about the effects of the potion.


"What would you know about getting people to like you?" He asked with a bigger smirk than the last time, yes it was probably a mean comment to make, but Hermione had never seemed to have any romantic connection over the years.


"So you won't be having any need for the Amortentia after we're done here?"  He asked, kinda intrigued to experiment just a little bit with it, but who knows, he probably wouldn't go through with it or anything.


But surprisingly, the mudblood wasn't bad company, maybe that was the appeal she had to Harry and Ron, she was good company from what he could tell.

 

[adrianna]

Hermione lifted her gaze to meet his once more as she heated up the cauldron and she wrinkled her nose slightly in annoyance. "I don't need to get anyone to like me," she told him in a soft tone rather than malicious like she knew Ron would have spoken. She was different. 


Besides, there had been men in her life. Somewhat. There was Viktor, whom she still wrote to on occasion. And for a moment there had been a hint of something with Ron but he was just her friend. 


"I'd rather it happened of it's own accord. Just.. naturally." She shrugged and looked away from him again and back to the cauldron. 


"So to answer your question, no, I won't be needing any. You can have it all." She said and poured the powder she had made into the cauldron. She had no idea what he would want with it. She had never really seen him with anyone either. Which surprised her, since he was rather good looking. 

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco raised an eyebrow in surprise as Hermione stayed rather pleasant and kind as she replied despite obviously annoyed by his comment but she had every right to be. He just thought she would have snapped at him, but no, instead she was making it incredibly hard to remember any of the reasons why he actually disliked Granger.


Draco did his part in helping her make the potion, nobody really ever noticed him in classes or anything, and if they did it was for something he said, no one really knew that he was actually kinda smart...though that didn't stop him making other people do his homework for him.


"So...how's your boyfriend Weasley?" He was struggling to not have a decent conversation with her, he didn't want to like her...it would just make everything so damn more complicated than they already were

 

[adrianna]

"He's not my boyfriend," she replied in a rather tired voice because lately a lot of people had been suggesting the same thing. And she just wasn't interested in him that way. He was one of her best friends and that was how it would always be. 


"But he's alright if you really wanted to know," she doubted that he did though. He was only asking to probably annoy her or possibly just tease. Eitherway, she responded with a similar question. 


"How are you and Pansy?" She asked, referring to the dark haired girl a few tables over that was looking at Hermione with a look so sharp it coud have stabbed her. She knew she wasn't exactly good in the other female's eyes and being partnered with Draco just made her hate her more, she supposed. 


Not that she cared.

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco chuckled and glanced over at Ron, who had barely been able to take his eyes from the pair the entire lesson, his eyes clearly showing his annoyance by the pairing of Draco and Hermione, probably fuelled by jealousy.


"I'm not sure if Weasley knows that" he mused out loud, more to himself than anything.


He didn't make any comments in return to her actual answer. He didn't care about the current condition of Harry's little minion.  Only hermione and Harry really intrigued him, he supposed it was because you could have a conversation with them that consisted with more than just grunts. 


"Parkinson?" He asked confused at why the brunette witch had brought up the slytherin girl. She meant nothing to him, and he couldn't remember ever giving an indication that would contradict that statement. 


"She's harmless really" He said following Hermione's gaze 


"But I guess she thinks she's got some compeition" He chuckled as his eyes returned to looking at Hermione as she continued to almost frantically stir the potion, she always seemed to be doing things at 100 miles per hour. He doubted she had an off switch.

 

[adrianna]

Hermione shrugged a little and looked back at the potion, now adding in the ingredients Draco had cut up, according to what the book said. 


"I don't know why she should think there's any competition," she murmured as she knitted her eyebrows together while reading the next steps of the recipe. Pansy Parkinson was an admirer of Draco, that much was clear to many. But that didn't make Hermione competition. She wasn't vying for Draco's attention in any way. 


The potion was soon done snd Hermione was satisfied by it's ever changing appearance. The scent was intoxicating in the best way and Hermione made sure not to get too close. 


She was waiting for Slughorn to come around to their table to check the potion and until then, she glanced at Draco. "What do you smell?" She asked him out of curiosity.

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco leant against the counter as he watched as Hermione dropped in the rest of the ingredients as she kept mixing everything in.


"Neither do I. Guess she just thinks one of us wants the other" He said with a confident smirk lingering on his lips, he quite liked teasing the brunette, and he was kind of hoping that this lesson would never end but he knew it had to and it would be all too soon.


Draco stared at the potion curiously as he took  in the love potion, letting out a small sigh as they both kept their distance and he raised an eyebrow at Hermione's question but as he opened his mouth to give her an answer, Professor Slughorn came over, a bumbling frenzied idiot like always and he looked away, pretending like he didn't care whether their potion was successful or not, which he guess he really didnt.


Hermione got heap tons of praise from the slightly balding Professor as he took in the love potion and Draco watched on curiously, taking in her reaction to the blizzard of compliments coming her way with a genuine interest.

 

[adrianna]

Draco's response was cut off by Slughorn's appearance at the table and Hermione didn't know why but she was slightly put off. She had been curious, more so than she imagined herself to be, to hear what scent it was that Draco inhaled but she shifted her attention to her potions teacher as he threw her praise. 


"It's a shared effort," she added in between because Draco had done half the work and she didn't deserve all the credit. Still, it felt nice to be complimented, especially since Harry had the book that was helping him excel in that class. 


Hermione turned back to Draco as Slughorn left to go see Harry and Ron's potion. "Good work," she said and managed a crooked smile. It was odd to have worked with him without fighting and even more so to be complimenting him at the end. 


Hermione wasn't sure how she felt about it but it wasn't bad.

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco couldn't help but offer a small grin towards Hermione as she shared the praise, or made an as of but he was grateful for the gesture as he shoved  his books rather carelessly back into his bag as Slughorn eventually left them be and went to go torture another pair of students.


"Likewise Granger" He said with a slightly bigger grin, and he meant it. She was truly an exceptional mind, something she got praised for but also unfairly mocked for.


He made a start to head off with the rest of the students as the bell rang for break but he paused, turning round and he answered her question from earlier


"Cinnamon and mint" before disappearing with the growing crowd of students before Hermione could give him an answer. 


He was grateful for the chance to leave, he feared he'd made himself look too vulnerable by actually getting along with Hermione throughout the lesson, and he just planned on avoiding the trio for the rest of the day, though he did want to see the brunette again, hopefully somewhere private where they could be civil to one another.

 

[adrianna]

Hermione for one couldn't understand Draco and she found it hsrd to digest that they'd been civil during their assignment. It had been as if she was working with a friend thiugh she knew she couldn't call Malfoy that. 


Not yet anyway. 


This was most likely just a one time thing snd she told herself that as she met up with her two best friends. They seemed to think differently and Ron didn't stop houndig her till much later when the boys had to head off to Herbology, and Hermione retreated to the library. 


It was one place she felt utmost peace and it was always good to pick up a book and just relax with it. So that was exactly what she did. She perused the shelves and picked out one before sitting at a table toward the back of the library and beginning to read.

 

[Catastrophic]

The rest of the day was boring, it was odd, he found that Hermione had actually been interesting, fun even but he was doing everything he could not to think about that brunette witch.


Instead of heading to his next class, Draco instead decided to just hide out in the library, not wanting to get caught from any of the teacher's and reprimanded from skipping class but he just couldn't be bothered with paying attention to a boring lesson.


He should have been expecting it when he spotted her, her brown curly, almost frizzy hair the thing that immediately gave her away as she bent over a book, her face buried into it.


It was a place she was known for hiding out in, that girl always had his nose in a book.


Draco hesitated briefly before walking over to the table she was at, and he pulled out the chair before sitting down in the chair


"Granger" He greeted her with a small grin as he lounged on the chair, waiting for her to acknowledge his presence.

 

[adrianna]

Hermione was startled when someone pulled out a chair close to her, and the surprise only remained when she saw that the person who had joined her was none other than Draco Malfoy. 


He had willingly come to sit with her in the library. Draco, a boy who she had fought with a number of times before. 


She had a feeling she was dreaming but she didn't pinch herself. It would be just as weird as when she had spoke aloud to internal thoughts. 


Instead, she acknowledged him. "Malfoy," she said with a short nod. And put her book down slowly, eyeing him curiously. "How come you're sitting here?"

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco could almost hear the cogs whirring in her brain as she tried to process this and tried to come up with a valid reason as to why he was sitting down next to her, and it made her chuckle softly.


He watched as she slowly placed her book down and he knew then that he had her full attention


"Does a boy have to have a reason to sit down at a table with a girl?" He teased before saying "I answered a question and I wanted to know your answer to it.."


With a small flourish, he pulled out the small bottle of the love potion and he opened it up slightly


"I want to know what this smells like to you" He said, tipping her head slightly as he allowed the aroma to fill the air around them

 

[adrianna]

At first, Hermione was confused as to what he was talking about. But then she saw him bring out the small bottle of Amortentia. She hadn't realised that he had bottled some. Did he plan on using it on someone? 


She tried to shake that thought from her mind and instead focused on his question before the aroma of the potion hit her senses. 


She inhaled it, smelling a number of things and immediately pulled back slowly so as to not be dazed by it. 


"I... I smell new parchment," she murmured as she looked at Draco's steely grey eyes. "And the sea."

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco watched ass she took in the aroma before wisely backing away from the smell and he capped the flask and shoved the bottle of the elixir back into his bag.


He listened with a tilted head as Hermione revealed what the potion smelt like to her and he honestly had no idea why she actually cared about it, but he did.


And he nodded his head slowly once sue finished talking and he leant back in his chair, taking in the surrounding scenery of the libraty

 

[adrianna]

"Is that all you wanted to come here for?" She asked with a raised eyebrow, the hint of a smirk tugging at her lips. 


"To find out what the potion smelled like for me?" She asked him curiously. It seemed like a small reason to come and sit by her and she had never even known him to talk to her. But now they were acting like acquaintances. As if nothing had ever happeend in the past. 


She wasn't sure what was weong and what had brought it about but she wasn't necessarily complaining. She realised he wasn't very bed company.

 

[Catastrophic]

Draco chuckled slightly and he shrugged his shoulders "well I didn't want to go to class either..and you were here so I just figured.." 


He trailed off, he didn't really have a reason as to why he was sitting here asking her about the love potion.


He was trying to make do, and almost fix everything that had happened in the past. Granger wasn't as bad as he thought she was and surprisingly she wanted to spend more time with him.


He reached for the book lying on the table and flipped it over to see to see the name on the  cover of the book curiously

 

[adrianna]

Hermione looked at him with big, brown, curious eyes but said nothing till he reached out to see the book she had been reading. 


"It's Ancient Runes," she explained since she had a fascination with learning what different runes meant. 


"But I was more curious as to... why you're talking to me," she said softly. It wasn't an accusatory tone. She was soft, and mainly curious. 


"We'e never spoken in a civil manner until today... and now it continues. I guess it just confuses me," she murmured and leaned forward to look at him