Harry Potter AUS

Romeo and Juliet//Draco//

 "My father will hear about this!" cried Draco as he stormed off towards the hospital wing. Ron, Harry, and I were left cracking up in the hallway behind him.

Hermione stood next to the three of us trying to look unamused. "Ron, I can't believe you gave him rabbit ears! To be honest, I didn't even know that you knew that spell."

"Hey," Ron sputtered, "I've gotten better at magic since I got to Hogwarts!"

I rolled my eyes and he elbowed me in the ribs.

We stood together in the hallway, talking and laughing, for a long time before Hermione eyed a clock on the wall rather regretfully and said, "It's getting late. We'd better be going."

I nodded and said goodnight, then we each went our separate ways - Harry, Ron, and Hermione to the Gryffindor common room, and me to that of Slytherin. The four of us had been good friends since we first met on the train to Hogwarts, but sadly, I had been placed in a separate house.

Seemingly, the worst house. After all, who would want to be stuck with Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Vincent Crabbe, or Gregory Goyle?

xxxx

Later that night, I was reading in the common room. I had finished my homework early for once, and was indulging in one of my guilty pleasures - reading classic muggle novels.

Right now I was reading Romeo and Juliet, which, so far, I was hating. No one falls in love like that!

A few pages after I started reading, Draco Malfoy sat down on the couch beside me.

"What are you reading?" he asked me.

"I see you've gotten your ears back to normal," I remarked. Why was Malfoy talking to me?

He just looked at me.

I sighed and said, "Romeo and Juliet. Why are you talking to me?"

"I was curious - not many wizards read muggle books," Draco spat out the word 'muggle' as though it was a curse, "Besides, Crabbe and Goyle are in detention."

"Surprise," I muttered, turning back to my book.

He sat there for a few moments, before suddenly saying, "y/n, why do you hate me so much?"

"You're mean to my friends," I said, without even a second thought. Why would I like someone who constantly pestered my best friends?

"But I'm not mean to you," he replied, "I like you. More than the rest of them, anyways."

"You're mean to them."

He rolled his eyes. "My parents hate him. You can't really expect us to be best friends, now can you?"

I shrugged.

"What's it about?" he asked, gesturing to my book.

"Two teenagers who fall in love. It's kind of dumb, actually."

"Why's it dumb?"

I looked away. This was kind of an awkward discussion to be having with Draco Malfoy, who was supposed to be my enemy. "Because they're young and stupid. They fall head-over heels in love for each other in a matter of days, they don't understand the danger of their situation, and they end up dying for each other."

"Wow." Draco said. "But it doesn't seem very realistic."

"I guess not."

"I mean, usually a person likes someone for a long time before they talk to them, right?"

I nodded cautiously.

"And then they usually try to find things in common with the other person?"

"I guess," I replied.

"And then, maybe they tell the person that they like them?"

All my attention was on Draco now. Was he telling me he liked me?

"And then see if they want to go to Hogsmeade next weekend?"

I blinked in shock. Draco had never been nice to me before, and my friends would tease me forever. But despite all of that, he was sort of cute.

I took a deep breath, and smiled at him.

"I'd like that."

Might as well give him a chance.