Our Complicated Love.

The Prefect meeting.

Harry got up from his seat. He stretched his back and yawned. " We should probably head to the meeting, Hermione. " He said, pinning his prefect badge to his robes. " Yeah, you're right" She sighed. She got up and started self conciously patting her hair down. Harry grabbed her wrist. " Stop it, Hermione you look fine. " He said. She blushed. " Well you know.. when.." she stuttered. " Forget what he said, Mione. I know that some of the animals in this magical world are pretty unique, but let me know when you meet a ferret that gives fashion advice. " Hermione laughed along with everyone else in the compartment . " If I ever find one, Harry, you'll be the first to know. " And with that she walked out of the compartment to the front of the train with Harry at her side. 

The reached the prefect compartment and Harry opened the door.  Hermione walked in and Harry followed. They went to sit on the gryffindor bench beside the new fifth year prefects. The head boy and head girl stood at the front of the room waiting for it to quite down. The other students eventually got the hint and stopped talking. 

The head girl looked around the compartment, noticing everyone was quite, she started speaking. " I assume most of you know me, but for those who don't my name is Katie Bell. I am your head girl this year. My partner here, Roger Davis, is your head boy. " Roger nodded to the crowd. " This is only going to be a short meeting as we are going to have one a week from now to discuss schedules and holiday arangment. Myself of Roger will leave a notice on the board as to what time the meeting will take place and where. . She nodded to Roger signaling it was his turn to speak. " We have made schedules to hand out for the first week but they wil be revised at the next meeting. When the feast is over, the sixth  year prefects will lead the first years to their house common room.  The fifth years...." Harry felt the familiar feeling of being stared at and turned to the right to see Malfoy glaring at him from the syltherin bench. Harry nudged Hermione in the ribs with his elbow. " What!" she hissed. " I'm trying to listen" Harry nodded towards Malfoy. " Doesn't look like he's very happy" Hermione looked at him. " Who cares about him, Harry. He's probably still mad that he got beat by a girl. " She sniffed and turned her head to pay attention to what Roger and Katie where saying. Harry was shocked at what Hermione said. She was usually the one who would tell him to just stop staring back or it might provoke something. But no, Hermione hadn't bothered to even be nice herself. That comment Malfoy made must have realy gotton to her. Harry shifted in his seat and listened to the heads. "...alright so that basically.. is there a problem, Malfoy? " Roger stopped mid sentence to face the blond slytherin. Malfoy continued to glare with his arms crossed. " Do I need to ask you to leave, Malfoy? Is this job to much for you? With that childish behaviour of yours I'm  not convinced you will need to be keeping that shiny badge of yours. Should I give it to someone else or are you going to stop.?" The authority in Rogers voice was undeniable. 

" You can't take my badge." Malfoy sneered. " It wasn't you who gave it to me. " " Actually" Katie said. " He can and so can I.Do you need a suspension, Malfoy? That is also in our authority. " She placed her hands on her hips in a way that reminded Harry of Mrs.Weasly. Malfoy rolled his eyes. " No, you don't need to " " Good" Katie said. Harry noticed Malfoy's faced was tinged red. " Now before we end this meeting, everyone should know that the head boy and girl will be picked by the end of the year. Not directly by us, of course, the professor have the biggest say,  but we will help in the decision. We wil be monitoring everyone's behaviour for the rest of the year, and the boy and girl who show the most potential will be awarded with this position! So good luck  to all of you! " She turned to Roger. " I think that's all we needed to cover, right?" He nodded. " Yup. Your all free to go back to your compartments for the duration of the train ride. " He started packing his stuff. 

Harry and Hermione got up to leave when Katie called Harry's name. " Harry! I want to ask you something!" She made her way over to were the two were standing. " I heard you are quidditch captain! Congratulations!" She smiled and clapped him on the back. " Yeah" Harry said " It was a little unexpected.." Katie interuppted him. " Unexpected?! It was obvious it was going to go to you, Harry! You were the most spirited on the team and you worked hard for it. You were the one who deserved it the most!" She finished. " She's right you know, Harry. You did deserve that award" Hermione said. " So when are you holding tryouts? " Katie asked. " Err...I haven't really thought about it yet. Probably in a week or so. But you don't need to tryout, I mean I've seen you play before, your amazing! " Harry smiled at her. " We'll see about that Harry. Maybe someone out there is better then me. But I seriously doubt it. " She laughed. " I'm just joking. Well  I got to go it was nice talking to you!" She turned and wakled out of the train compartment.

Harry and Hermione followed behind her, but as they stepped outside the compartment, they noticed Malfoy standing against the walll, flanked by his usual goons. His expression was furious. Hermione grabbed Harry's armed and continued to walk but malfoy stepped in the way, blocking them from continuing to walk down the hallway. " Even a half blood like you, Potter, should feel disgraced that you are touching that mudblood" He sneered. " Don't call Hermione that!" Harry shouted. " She is more of a witch then you will every be a wizard. You've always been jealous of her because she is smarter and better at you in everything." Students started peaking out of their compartments to see what all the commotion was about. " She is not! She is a filthy mudblood! No one can be smarter than a Malfoy, especially a bucked toothed beaver." Hermione snapped. " I'd rather look like a bucked toothed beaver, as you so kindly just called me, Malfoy, than a pointy faced ferret! " She shoved him out of the way and walked down the hall. " You're going to pay for that Granger! " He shouted. Hermione turned around and stomped back up the hallway. She took one look at Malfoy and smacked him across the face. She turned on her heel, grabbed Harry's arm  and walked back to their compartment.