Dramione // I require you

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝟸

She sat near Draco, who didn't even glance at her for a second.

After a while there was too much silence so Hermione tried to start a conversation

"Malfoy"

"What do you want Granger, I thought your boyfriend's curse was enough for today, because if you wanted me to be the most hated person in all Hogwarts, congrats! You reached your achievement!"

He answered disgusted looking at the girl with his arms crossed and an expression full of hate. The gryffindor got immediately mad and started to rethink her previous decision of defending the blonde

"At least now you understand how I felt all of these years under your 'jokes' or should I recall you that time Bellatrix tortured me and you just standed there looking?"

Draco said nothing.
He felt ashamed of what he had done, but he had had no choice. Hermione, noticing the embrittled look on the boy's face felt immediately bad for bringing that up and tried to change subject

"And by the way, not that this is any of your business but I don't know if he still is my boyfriend"

In that moment of fragility she had told almost a stranger about her personal feelings

- what's wrong with me -

Malfoy's eyes flickered and for a moment Hermione could have sworn she had seen the exact same look on his eyes during the fourth year, when she had caught him staring at her during the Yule Ball

"Uuuh Granger don't tell me you two had a debate for me?"

Said Draco joking.
In the end he still was the cool and snobby rich boy she had known since the first year. It was almost a pleasure for Hermione to talk to him when there wasn't that cold barrier who didn't let Malfoy be himself.  The girl believed he had metaforically built it because of all he had been through during the war. The poor boy had lived under the continuous threats of the dark lord, menacing him to kill his entire family, although she still was oblivious about this particular

"I won't answer you.."

The girl brought her hair behind her ear

"By saying this you just confirmed my idea"

Said Draco smirking and looking at the gryffindor. Their conversation, (and what a deep conversation), was interrupted by the professor, who asked

"What is the chemical difference between a liquid luck and a love potion?"

Granger answered sure about what she was saying as always

"The liquid luck is made of pearl dust instead the love potion with squill bulb"

"No"

Malfoy stood up in front of the whole class still looking at Hermione

"I'm sorry miss Granger but it's the opposite"

"That's impossible, I-"

She checked the book and... the blonde boy was right!

"Good Draco, 20 points to Slytherin!"

The boy sat down again, continuing to smirk. Oh how she hated to be wrong!
After a while of new embarrassing silence finally the girl had found the courage to speak again

"I-I'm sorry, I mean for the... crucio curse"

She whispered at last, eyes locked to the desk in front of her

"Don't be, I- I deserved it"

For a second vulnerability and guilt took control of Draco, and unfortunately for him Hermione had noticed it as she always noticed everything.

How was it possible that the second before Draco was the proud of himself Slytherin he had always been and the second after he began to be cold and without emotions? He looked almost afraid of being vulnerable

Hermione had seriously started to think the boy was bipolar, even though there was something intriguing about him that attracted her attention in a way no one had ever done before.

She smiled and nodded. Three minutes after they found each other discussing about the ingredients to put into a potion

At least they had succeeded in talking for the first time to each other without any insults-

"ITS SALAMANDER BLOOD!"

"WHAT THE- NO DRACO! ITS POWDERED BICORN HORN"

The gryffindor was quicker than him and threw the powdered bicorn horn into the potion, but a few moments later Draco threw the salamander blood in too

"Uh oh. I don't think the colour is supposed to be-"

The potion exploded and all the room was covered in green gummy liquid.

"MALFOY AND GRANGER TODAY YOU WILL REMAIN IN HERE UNTIL ITS ALL CLEAN"

~ no problem it's just one or two spells ~

"WITHOUT USING MAGIC!"

~ oh shit ~

They both thought