Should I Change My Mind?

Chapter 2

Hermione woke up, she got dressed in her uniform and then went downstairs into the Gryffindor Common Room. Harry and Ron were sitting on the Gryffindor red sofa talking. Hermione walked over to them happy to be at Hogwarts.

"Hello boys." Hermione said now standing directly in front of them.

"Hi Hermione." Harry said.

"Should we go to the Great Hall now?" Hermione asked them.

Ron nodded and smiled at the thought of food.

"Yeah I think we should go now." Harry said.

The trio picked up their bags with the things they needed for the lessons.

They went to the Great Hall and people were scattered over the tables.

The Golden trio sat down at the Gryffindor table. Ginny walked in and sat next to Hermione. Ron and Harry were facing them on the other side of the table.

"So what classes have you got today?" Ginny asked the trio.

"We have Potions first for two hours, then we have transfiguration until lunch and then we have charms." Hermione said recalling from memory.

"At least Snape isn't the Potions professor anymore." Ron said happily while grabbing a few slices of toast.

It was now 8:45.

"We should go, I want to be early for Potions." Hermione said.

"OK then." Harry said. Ron stuffed the rest of the toast on his plate in his mouth and gave them the thumbs up to say that he was ready.

The trio said a quick goodbye to Ginny and left for Potions.

The day went quickly and now it was lunch.

"Well I like potions better because of Slughorn, but I wish he would remember my name." Ron said to Harry and Hermione. Hermione, Harry and Ron laughed.

On the Slytherin table...

Draco, Blaise and Pansy were sitting having a nice conversation when the trio's laughing cut their conversation off.

"What are they laughing about?" Said Pansy she wasn't clinging to Draco's arm, she was sitting opposite him. She understood that Draco didn't really love all the admires he enjoyed a few but hundreds everyday was driving him crazy. So being sensible she decided to not cling around Draco that much and let him do what he wanted.

"I don't know just probably some joke that isn't worth laughing about to us." Draco said. His face was masked with no feelings but if you looked into his eyes you would be able to tell he was upset.

Draco may be horrible to people but really he was just bullying them because of his problems at home. No one would really think that Draco cared about anyone but he did; he cared about his Mother. His Mother was the only person who he truly loved, he loved his Father but he was making him choose the wrong choices. Draco cared about his Mother because he didn't want her to get hurt, he knew that she didn't want him involved with the Dark Lord, but he had to otherwise his mother might have been seriously hurt. That's why he became a Death Eater purely to protect his Mother.

Draco was still looking over at the 'Golden Trio' and scanned the rest of the Gryffindor table, most students were laughing or looking really happy, others catching up on homework. His eyes made his way to the Slytherin table the Slytherin students weren't showing any kind of emotion except for a few girls who were giggling and looking his way. Draco sighed and his eyes made their way back up to the Gryffindor table. He felt a pang of jealousy. He had always felt sort of jealous of Gryffindors. At least they could get on with their lives without any worry where-as he has to kill Dumbledore this year. All Gryffindors seemed so relaxed even though they knew another war was going to happen soon.

Draco was still staring at the Gryffindor table when Blaise clicked his fingers in front of Draco's face. Draco looked at him as if to say 'What?'.

"It's time to go to Charms with the Gryffindors." Blaise said.

Draco stood up with Blaise and Pansy and they walked to Charms.

On the Gryffindor table...

"Harry, Ron we should go to Charms now." Hermione said with a smile.

Harry and Ron nodded and they all stood up and walked to Charms.

At Charms a few people were there and more people were coming.

Professor Flitwick welcomed the students and let them go into the classroom.

"Today I will be setting a project. You will have partners and the project will require you to do research in your own time." Professor Flitwick stopped for a breath and carried on. "I'm sorry to disappoint you but I will be choosing the partners." Mostly all of the students groaned. Professor Flitwick cleared his throat so he had everybody's attention. "The partners will be Harry Potter and Daphne Greengrass, Ron Weasley and Pansy Parkinson..." Professor Flitwick finally got to the last two pairs. "...Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy..." When Hermione heard this her heart stopped. She didn't pay attention to the last pair. She was going to have to spend time with Draco Malfoy. The boy who had bullied her for the last 5 of Hogwarts. She looked over at him and he seemed to of been caught off by shock too.

"Now will you all move to sit next to your partners." Professor Flitwick said.

Professor Flitwick had arranged for everyone to be making a presentation of the most uncommon charms and the most useful. He said if they wanted to go into the Restricted Section of the Library to find the right book, just come to him and he will give them a slip to go in.

The class slowly ended.

Later that night Hermione was thinking about how it was going to be like having Draco as a partner for Charms. She sighed. "This is going to be the worst year ever!" She muttered under her breath.

Little did she know it was going to be one of the most exciting and possibly the best...