Enemy Seduction: Dramione

Things Can Change

After ten minutes of studying with Draco, they were still at it. Even though Harry and Ron had now left, Hermione and Draco were still full of energy.

"Okay, so," Hermione said in her professional tone, "The hardest part of Transfiguration for you is keeping focus." She turned to look at him.

Draco, who was in an evident good mood, now swallowed and looked down at the table. "Go on, Granger. Tease me for it."

Hermione's face looked incredulous. "Why would I do that?"

Draco looked at her with a are-you-kidding expression. "You're Granger. You're the smartest in the grade. And I'm..."

"You really think I'm smart?" Hermione was shocked. She would never think that Draco would just come out and give her a form of a compliment. This was a pretty big compliment coming from Draco.

"Duh. Why else would you be tutoring me?" Hermione slightly blushed and decided now that they were on better terms.

"Okay, well let's start off with someting simple," Hermione grabbed her handbag and pulled out a green apple she got from the Great Hall, "Transform this into a quill."

Draco obediently pulled out his wand without objection. He looked at Hermione, and she could've sworn she saw the tiniest hint of edginess in his eyes.

"Remember: Focus." Draco nodded at her and raised his wand.

His eyes were burning from focusing, and once Draco chanted the spell with all the force he could muster, the green apple started to move.

Hermione watched the apple; then, bunglingly, the apple turned into another object. A piece of parchment.

Hermione turned expressionless and studied Draco. His fists were shaking with outrage and his knuckles were white. He looked almost vulnerable.

"I can't do anything," Draco helplessly looked at Hermione, as if she would make it turn into the quill for him.

"Draco, that was only your first time. Patience." Hermione honestly hadn't been expecting anything to happen. If Draco could've made it change on his first try, she wouldn't be here.

Malfoy didn't say anything, just stared at Hermione.

"Maybe it'll help if you watch me first," Hermione suggested as she pulled out her dragon heartstring wand.

"I'm going to use the Vera Verta Spell, which we learned about two years ago. This spell can be used to transform an animal into a water goblet. Wand movement are very important." Hermione explained while aiming her wand at the library caged parrot.

Draco watch intently, like he was study every detail. Hermoine took this as a go to continue; she figured the background information might help his understanding.

"Okay, here I go." Hermione raised her wand and performed a perfect Vera Verto spell.

She looked back at Draco to see if he was watching only to see him staring at her wide-eye.

"Wow," was all he said.

"It seems hard but once you get the hang of it, it really isn't. Remember to say the incantation cleary and focus on what you want your end result to be. Also,-"

"HEY! HEY! YEAH, FOURTH-YEARS! TURN KEA BACK! AND DON'T MESS WITH HER AGAIN!"

Hermione's face turned pale. "Sorry!" She aimed her wand and waved it weakly, but it still worked.

Meanwhile, Draco started cracking up at Hermione's face while she glared at him saying, "It's. Not. Funny!" But that just made him laugh even harder. Eventually, Hermione started to laugh with him.

After they were both sure a six pack had formed on both of them, they stopped laughing. It was dinner time already and the pair of them were hungry.

"Well, today was good. Tomorrow, same time?" Hermione asked while packing up her belongings.

"Yeah," Draco half-smiled at her. Hermione was wondering why he wasn't packing up his stuff.

"Ok, see you then. Are you going to dinner?"

"Oh, no, not yet. See you tomorrow," Draco concluded and left Hermione to leave the library. Who would've thought that Draco and I laughed together, Hermione thought, well, not really together, but laughing at me, together.

Making her way to the Great Hall, Hermione wondered if she should tell Harry and Ron what had just happened in the library. It wasn't that big of a deal, though. All they did was laugh and talk more than the ususal. Hermione didn't understand why she kept thinking that it was a big deal when it wasn't.

Lost in thought, she sat down at the Great Hall to get a bite to eat. She sat down at her usual spot in the Gryffindor table and Harry, Ron, and Ginny looked up at her.

"There you are! We were wondering what had happened to you," Harry told her once Hermione took a swig of Pumpkin Juice.

"Yeah, I was just finishing up in the library," Hermione said, hoping to avoid the subject of her newest job.

She looked up and saw Malfoy entering the Great Hall right then. Malfoy looked at her and then looked away. Weird, Hermione thought, considering what had just happened in the library, he could've at least smiled or waved.

But then she remembered they weren't friends. Barely acquaintances. There was a tiny part of Hermione that would like to see what being close to Malfoy would be like, but then the smart part of Hermione slapped that part and see knew better.

After Hermione finally realized that there was a tiny part of her that wanted to see what being friends with Malfoy was like and the other part got ride of it, she thought it was done. And she was relieved because of that; for she did not want to go making friends with the wrong kind.

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"My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy!" -William Shakespeare