the greatest thing you'll ever learn

In this fiction Dumbledore is still alive and well, and as mischievous as before, with the same twinkle in his eyes. Draco is good but he will still have his famous humor and of course the grin. (lol) I really hope that you like the story !

Chapter 2 – the return to Hogwarts

She dreamt that she was dancing with some guy, and they had been practicing for almost six hours when they decided to go, when they came downstairs and saw their friends, she took his hand and asked if they shouldn’t dance it one more time for their friends, they had already been dancing for almost six hours, so why not once again. He turned towards her and tells her that he wants to teach her a dance which is so much more intimate than the dance they had been dancing, he shows her 2 steps and does one himself, then he comes closer to her and puts his hands around her and shows her how they would be dancing, but then she wakes up and she never gets to dance that dance with the boy. The dance they were about to dance was the Tango.

She remembers the dream when she wakes up, she smiles and closes her eyes to see the guy in her mind. She knows the guy in her dream. It was the blond tall guy that had walked her to her room the night before.

It was almost 8 o’clock in the morning, and she decided to lay in bed for a few more minutes before going to breakfast.

Hermione thought about what her friends would say if they knew she had just kissed their arch enemy, and actually liked it, and the fact that she liked him too. And what would the kids in Hogwarts think? If they were to see each other more, during school or did Draco want to keep this secret? She wasn’t sure, she would ask him in the plane.

With a smirk on his face, he sat up. Draco remembers the night before, how he never expected her to understand him, no one ever did. He had thought no one could know what he thought, that no one would want to know him for him, not who his family was, and yet the person he would understand if she hated him, somehow didn’t, and he had never expected that.

After breakfast Hermione got dressed in a white tanker top, blue miniskirt, a blue blazer, and a ,high heel leather boots. Her curls flowed freely over her back, and she only put on a little mascara and a little lip gloss, and went down to breakfast to meet her parents.

Her parents were not there when she came down, and she guessed that it was only a matter of minutes before they came down, but she saw Draco sitting alone with one of the tables, and decides to go to him and ask if she can sit with him until her parents come down.

“of course you can Hermione” Draco said “but you don’t have to go when you’re parents come down, they can join us” his famous smirk was now on his face.

“Are you ready to order” Draco asked her “ Yes, I think I’ll have a bowl of fruits and a glass of milk, and maybe some bread” Hermione said.

“that sounds good, I’ll have the same” Draco said to the waiter who was standing there.

The waiter took their order and went back to the kitchen to get their orders. When Draco and Hermione had gotten their dinner and were in a middle of conversation, her parents came down and saw them chatting while they eat. They had never seen their daughter so happy before, so they decided to let her know that they were down, but then go away to find another table.

“Hermione dear, we just came to tell you that we are down here, but since you already have a seat, we’ll just find us another table” Hermione’s mother, Victoria said.

Draco stood up and said “Mr. and Mrs. Granger, I’m Draco Malfoy, a friend of your daughter, you don’t have to find another seats”, “Why don’t you join us?”

“Are you sure we wouldn’t be bothering you” Alfred Granger said.

“Of course I’m sure” Draco said. “the more, the merrier, I always say”

“Well thank you Mr. Malfoy, then we will sit with you” Victoria said.

“Please call me Draco” Draco said and waited until her parents took their seats before sat back down and called the waiter.

When the Grangers had ordered their food, they all talked about Hermione’s and Draco’s last school year. When they were about to leave the table, Draco asked the Grangers if it would be ok if Hermione sat with him in first class, in the plane back home.

“ so you are in the same plane that we are in” Alfred said and looked at his wife and smiled. “of course she can” he said “ if only she will meet us when the plane lands.

In the airplane Hermione and Draco talked the whole time they were in the plane, and Hermione asked him how would they have to act in school, would he start treating her like before or would he be like he had been this two days they had been together in Paris.

“I want things to be like these days in Paris, where we can talk like friends, and see each other without anyone being mean to you because of your blood, but I think we should hide it for at least a couple of weeks” Draco said “ but I’m worried that the slytherins will not be too glad to see us together, they might try to hurt you, and I don’t want that. Many of them support the Dark Lord, and I want to see how things turn out before we come out in the public. I hope you understand”

“Of course I understand” Hermione said “I also need to break it to my friends. We’ll just wait and see, when we come back to school.

“Yes, and I can’t wait to see you again, and I’m afraid that I might have to be mean to you, and call you the word you don’t like, to uphold our appearance to all the school, you also have to respond like you did before. Everyone would be suspicious if we didn’t. I don’t like it, but I think we have to” Draco said, and looked into her caramel brown eyes.

“I know, we’ll just have to do our best to uphold our appearance, but we’ll both know that either of us mean it” Hermione responded, and looked on their holding hands.

The airplane landed in the states and they walked to meet her parents, when they got there Draco said that he’d meet her back in the train, because she was going to the Burrow and he had to go back home, to meet his mother. He saw the driver who had come to pick him up, and said his goodbyes to her parents, and said that he hoped to see them again, and looked at Hermione, she came to him and kissed him and they said they’re goodbyes before he left
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Hermione’s parents looked at her with curiosity in their eyes, Hermione blushed and told her parents that she liked him and he liked her, so she had just decided to kiss him. Her parents told her it was ok by them, as long as he would treat her nice.

When Hermione and her parents arrived at their home, Hermione hurried upstairs with her luggage and took her school stuff together and put it in her trunk along with more of her clothes, and make up and girl stuff. She put her school uniform and put it in the little schoolbag and headed down stairs to her parents, she had shrunken her trunk so it fitted in her little schoolbag, along with her other stuff.

Hermione stood in front of the door at the Burrow. Her parents had driven her there, and she got her Gryffindor courage up and knocked on the door. The door opened and Molly shrieked and yelled to everyone that Hermione had arrived she hugged her and dragged her in to meet all the people that were present there.

Hermione saw her best friends, and ran to hug Harry, Ron and Ginny, and asked them how their summer had been. Harry and Ginny blushed and said nothing much had happened that summer, Ron agreed with them and said that the summer had been a little boring without her.

Then they asked her how her vacation in France had been. Now it was Hermione’s time to blush, the whole gang noticed it and asked her if she had met a guy there, and when she said yes, they asked if he had been French, and she denied it, then they asked if he was in Hogwarts and when they blushed even more they asked who it was.

“I’m not going to tell you now” Hermione said “ you will know in time, when we want people to know that we are friends, or something more” she was blushing much more by now.

Harry and Ron didn’t push her. They knew how she could be if they kept on going, asking questions that she didn’t want to answer. They still remembered the time she had hexed them, and they didn’t want that to happen again. Harry shrugged his shoulder at that memory.

The following day their Hogwarts letters came in, and Hermione got a much thicker letter than the others, she found out the reason when she opened her letter and saw the “head girl” badge there along with a letter from Dumbledore. Her face lit up with a bright smile that lit up the kitchen where they sat.

“Hermione, why are you smiling like this” Harry asked. She showed them the head girl badge and they all gathered around her to kiss her and congratulate her, she only hoped that Draco would be head boy, so they could meet without anyone getting suspicious of their meetings. A big grin was now on her face, and her friends asked themselves what had put that grin on her face.

A few days later the whole gang walked towards the Hogwarts train with their luggage, and said their goodbyes to the Weasley’s. They found a buck and all sat down there until a hour before the train got to Hogwarts the buck doors opened and Draco’s face appeared there, and Hermione’s eyes lit up.

“Granger, you are to go to the heads buck to meet the teachers and go over the heads duties for we come to Hogwarts” he said with his cold voice and a sneer was put on his face.

“And why are you here Malfoy, don’t you have anyone else to bother” Hermione answered in the same cold voice, but with laughter in her eyes.

“Well, well, so the little know-it-all doesn’t know everything” Draco sneered, “I’m head boy if you must know” and his famous smirk appeared on his face.

“Hurry up Granger, I don’t want to be late to show up because you can’t take orders” Draco said with a twinkle in his eyes.

“If you touch her Malfoy, you will regret it” Ron said angrily.

“I wouldn’t touch your stupid little mudblood with a long stick if I hand one” Malfoy sneered and walked out of the cabinet and walked a few steps, before he stayed there to wait for Hermione.

He didn’t have to wait for long until she came to him.

“I’m sorry for saying the mudblood comment” he said “ I wasn’t sure if you wanted your friends to know about us yet”

“I won’t do it unless we are both sure that it’s what we both want, and know if this thing can last” Hermione answered “ and I didn’t take the comment to me, because I know you didn’t mean it, but I don’t think we should talk anymore, anyone could come and see us. We can talk in the heads cabinet after the teachers have gone”

In the heads cabinet they were given instructions that they would have to let everyone know that now was the time to put on their school uniform. When the teachers left Draco put his hands on her cheeks and leaned forward to kiss her softly before they went back out to inform everyone that it was time to get ready.


a/n

thanks all for your great reviews, I was so happy that someone actually liked my story. I hope you will still review, I would love some tips, to see what I’m doing right and what I’m doing wrong.

Skydancer – thanks so much for that pointer, I should have seen the grammar about the plane, and about the hotel and the plane, I didn’t even think about it at the time I wrote the story that it was maybe to convenient. So thanks

Sheedy – thanks for that pointer about the beta, I tried to go there but I don’t understand fully what to do, so if you could point that out it would be great.