In Between The Lines

Chapter 6

This chapter starts off in Draco's POV simply because it needs to, typically the two POVs will be separate chapters.

In Between the Lines: Chapter 6

Draco's POV

The first week of term was spent getting my bearings as quick as I could while ensuring I arrived at the classes within reasonable time of them starting. Every first year has a free hour once a day depending on what class you are in. Hermione says Gryffindor's free hour is Afternoon Period but Slytherin's is Second Period so I've only managed to see her around lunchtime and after dinner if we bump into one another. The teachers wisely only put Slytherins and Gryffindors together in two classes, Charms on Thursday and Double Potions on Friday. When I walked into Professor Flitwick's classroom, the Head of Ravenclaw House, a part-goblin part-wizard who has to stand on a pile of books to address the class, I immediately spotted Hermione's bushy brown hair in the front row. I wanted to sit with her to talk but didn't because she was in the first row. She had an empty seat next to her all class but didn't seem to mind as she answered as many questions as she could. It wasn't until after class that she realized I was in class with her.

"How come you didn't sit with me?" She had asked after greeting me, her eyebrows furrowed together and frowning slightly.

"I didn't realize you were in the class until it had already started," I lied easily. She watched me for a minute before saying she had to get to her Transfiguration class.

Crabbe and Goyle now followed me into the dungeon where Professor Snape's classroom was located. As Slytherin's we were the first to reach the classroom since we knew how to travel the dungeons already, so the three of us chose a seat in the middle. I had made sure to tell all of the first year Slytherin's how Professor Snape was a good friend of my mother and had known my father in school, Snape may favor Slytherin's some, but with me in class he surely will a lot more.

As the Gryffindors walked into the classroom we could all hear them fussing over the colder temperatures in the dungeons and grumbling about having to have another class with us Slytherins, but we simply snickered at their complaints and stuck to our side of the room. I kept my back leaning against the desk so I could talk with Crabbe and Goyle while discreetly watching for Hermione.

She walked into the classroom only a few steps in front of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, as a fellow Gryffindor she wasn't able to escape those two boys but had said earlier that she was making a valiant effort to stay away from the Weasley Boy. Now she didn't seem to mind sitting next to Potter with Weasley on the other side despite there being an empty seat in the table in front of me, which I knew she saw because she had caught my gaze as she walked in. Apparently she was getting back at me for not sitting with her in Charms, which was really childish so I turned away from her bushy head and focused on the other Slytherin's as we waited for Professor Snape.

Hermione's POV:

There were more boys in the Gryffindor first year class than there were girls by two, but with Lavender and Parvati being the other two girls I had decided the first night to try to make friends with the boys. Every Gryffindor was friendly and helpful to the first years when I had asked for help, however just like any other house, Gryffindor had a few members that enjoyed being an annoyance and hindering fellow housemates instead of helping, this seemed to be the case for all of the Weasley children except Percy Weasley; I couldn't tell who was worse, the twin Weasley's who pulled pranks in order to gain attention or Ron Weasley who never had a nice thing to say unless he was talking to Harry. Despite Ron, most of the male Gryffindors were fine with making conversation with me despite being the opposite sex, especially Neville who was also finding it hard to fit in.