Forbidden Attraction

C H A P T E R 2

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Ah yes another gloomy morning.

Hermoine rose up from her bed, gazing out onto the river below the castle, it was a rather gray and dark morning. The clouds were low, lightening just striking rapidly in the distance as the clouds began to grow darker.

Hermoine stretched her arms into the air, only to look up and see a creepy child staring down at her.

"AHHH!" Hermoine screamed, the child screamed as well and immediately fell down, hitting their head on the hardwood floor.

"Sorry...I didn't mean to scare you....I-I'm Adriana! I'm a first year! You must be Hermoine Granger!" She said, slowly getting up from the floor. Adriana said, slowing raising her hand to shake.

"...Hello. I...don't recognize your accent, where are you from." Hermoine asked, hesitating to shake the strange girls hand.

"Me? Shoot I forget sometimes I'm in a different country! I'm from the states, well Georgia to be exact. My accent is the funny one now I see." She says chuckling to herself.

"How do you know my name?" Hermoine questioned.

"Well, I have a cousin that goes here. He told me how the famous Gryffindor trio has been starting trouble since the first year. I didn't believe that eccentric white haired boy until I got here." She said rolling her eyes. "Not to say that you guys started trouble I was just curious-"

"Are you a Malfoy?" Hermoine said, slowly standing from her bed. Adriana's face was flushed, she looked down and nodded.

"I am a Malfoy, But the good side I swear! Lucius is my uncle, the family has a brother named Leonardo that they forcefully removed from the Malfoy family tree. He fled to America where he met my mother, and that's where I came along. He was Gryffindor as well, they didn't want anything to do with my dad when the sorting hat made the decision." Adriana pleaded, you could hear the shakiness in her voice as she stated her full life story to Hermoine.

"Surely you didn't have to tell me all of that..." Hermoine finally said, sitting back down on the bed.

"I-I wanted to..." Adriana stammered. "I didn't want you to think any less of me, knowing I was related to that arrogant know-it-all."

"I see you don't like him at all, but if you all kept in touch after all this time-"

"I wanted to know how it was going to be here, my dad pulled some strings to get me here. I guess Dumbledore was fine with an American like me to get into this very British school....oh you didn't ask about that, I-uh reached out to Draco myself. He didn't want to talk to me of course but I persisted, he gave in and we got kind of close."

Hermoine frowned a bit. The sky started to clear a bit, and the bell for the morning classes rang loudly in the distance.

"Shoot! Can we talk about this later?" Hermoine said rushing to the bathroom to get ready for the day. Adriana realized the time and started to rush as well.

"One more thing Hermoine! No one must ever know I am truly a Malfoy! Draco made me swear! Call me by my mothers name, Jackson." Adriana shouted as she ran out the door.

Hermoine raised her eyebrows in confusion but brushed off the subject. She did not know why initially Adriana was spying on her slumber or why she felt the need to tell her all that was about her. She did not care about the ancestry of the Malfoy's, or how she got to this school alone. She didn't know how, but she had a gut feeling that Draco was going to use his own cousin Adriana as a weapon to do something far more destructive than she had thought.

Hermoine was determined to find out.

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"Draco pay attention!" Shape boomed as Draco shot up from his sleep.

Draco shot a very cold stare at Snape as Snape did the same back to him. Draco's eyes then eased as he felt Snape's gaze get more intense as time went on. Draco rolled his eyes and sat up again and the class continued, boring and long.

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Draco walked down the halls with Blaise on his right shoulder, and Goyle on his left. The stares from the other students almost excited Draco. He felt as if he and his friends were the rulers of the school. That is, until Potter, Granger, and the Weasley family came stomping down the hallway.

They all pushed past them, not paying them any attention to them and walked out into the courtyard by the big tree.

"Don't start there big guy. Remember what you said about not starting any trouble this year." Blaise warned.

"Well it looks like I'm gonna break some rules today!" Draco said, storming out to the courtyard. "Potter!"

They all glanced towards Draco, all annoyed about what's about to transpire.

"Yes." Harry said in a such matter of fact tone. Draco was taken aback at how the tone in his voice was slightly altered, almost like Harry wanted to start some trouble as well.

"Anything you have planned with your freaky little mudblood friends, it be best to stay out of my way." Draco said intensely. He realized that he actually did not have a motive for saying that. For the first time ever, people watched intensely but were secretly making fun of the young Malfoy.

"I didn't know my time with my friends greatly concerned you Malfoy." Harry rebutted, flashing a snickered smile across his face.

Draco was actually stunned at his bravery, he knew Potter was brave but it was definitely obvious that he was mocking him. Hermoine got up and faced him.

"Malfoy, go and pick on a first year like you always do. Leave us alone." Hermoine stated simply. A crowd slowly started to form around the standoff.

"Settle down Granger, no one was talking to you." Draco said, cutting his eyes toward Hermoine. She looked uneasy but she was a fighter, Draco knew how to get her good.

"I know something you don't know. So go away," she hissed.

Draco raised a brow. "What are you playing at?"

Her friends shifted towards her, as did the crowd of people awaiting what she would say.

Almost instantly, that little tyrant Adriana walked past timidly. She was hugging her books awkwardly, and she avoided eye contact with Draco looking down at her feet. Hermoine cut her eyes at Adriana and grinned enough to notice.

Draco clenched his jaw and stormed off, leaving everyone but Hermoine confused.

She knew how to shut him up.