I Love You, I Love You Not

I Love You, I Love You Not

Chapter 1

Changes

Harry, Hermione, Ron and Julia were walking down the hallways of Hogwarts. Harry and Ron were chatting about Quidditch as usual. Hermione was not paying attention to their conversation at all. She was walking with them but was focusing on all of the seventh year boys she passed. Over the summer Hermione had gone through a few changes.

When she realized that she wasn't walking with her friends, she ran up to them and thought of one day in the summer that will always be with her.

*Flashback*

"Are you ready?" came Mrs. Granger's voice from downstairs.

"Coming!" Hermione replied. She ran down the stairs and jumped into the car. They were going to do some shopping. At the mall Mr. Granger stopped the car and they all got out. Once inside Hermione took leave of her parents to go to her favourite bookshop.

She was walking through the store when one book caught her eye. It was titled: "Witches and Wizards: Do they really exist?" She rolled her eyes and smiled at the title. "Muggles... so clueless," she thought and laughed slightly.

"My my. We seem to be enjoying ourselves," said a cold, drawling voice from somewhere behind her. She quickly spun around and what she saw made her gasp: it was Draco but not the Draco she had grown to hate.

"Malfoy?" she asked disbelievingly. He frowned down upon her. He had grown quite a lot during the summer and was well over 6 ft. His face was not pointy anymore but nicely oval. He was still thin but more muscular and he was wearing a black t-shirt that emphasized his biceps.

"Don't you recognize me?" he asked with his trademark smirk. Hermione couldn't help but smile at him and his voice: it was rich and low, but still had that familiar coldness. She thought she would melt if he spoke again. He saw her smile and smiled back. A thought struck Hermione.

"What are you doing here?" He looked surprised.

"Uh... none of your business," he said rather too quickly.

"Oh... sorry." Hermione wanted to mentally slap herself for apologizing to Malfoy.

"What is going on with me?" she thought as she turned to walk away. Draco grabbed her wrist, making her stop.

"Hermione... stop," he said. She turned around and looked up at him.

"What is going on with me?" he thought as he opened his mouth to speak.

"There's no need to be sorry. I should be the sorry one because I snapped at you. Sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you," he said.

Hermione could see that he really meant it and she saw that he had changed. She then noticed his hair. It was cut short and spiked up.

"Your hair looks nice," she said with a smile. He blushed slightly and smiled.

"Thanks."

He looked her up and down. She wasn't the bushy-haired bookworm he could remember. She had grown into a lovely young woman with chocolate eyes and long brown locks of hair.

"You don't look so bad yourself," he said as he released her wrist and gave her a warm smile. It was Hermione's turn to blush.

"Thanks," she said and looked up. Chocolate eyes met gray and locked together.

*End of Flashback*

"And we have been friends ever since," she thought as she caught up to Julia. She looked at her three best friends in turn and smiled. Harry and Ron were still talking about Quidditch. They were both on the Quidditch team. Harry was the Seeker and the Captain and Ron was the Keeper and had improved immensely since fifth year.

Julia came to Hogwarts in the trio's sixth year. She had immediately befriended them and Ron took quite a liking to her. They have been a couple since mid-sixth year and are still madly in love. Harry and Ron have grown up a lot. They were both over 6-ft. but Harry was a little bit taller than Ron.

Harry still had his famous, emerald green eyes and messy, jet-black hair. He was lean, muscular and handsome. While Hermione was looking at Harry she thought that he and Draco looked alike a lot but were also very different. Ron, on the other hand, was lanky and cute. Julia was well built, like Hermione, and had long, blonde, straight hair and the most beautiful sea-blue eyes.

They entered the Great Hall. When they sat down, Hermione scanned the Slytherin Table and found the person she was looking for. She gave him a little wave and he waved back. She smiled but was soon brought back to earth by Prof. McGonagall tapping her glass with her spoon.

The Great Hall fell silent as Prof. Dumbledore stood up. He cleared his throat. "Good morning to all. I do hope you had a good night's rest and are ready for the first day of school. It is now my very great honour to introduce the Head Prefects to you both. As Head Girl we have Miss Hermione Granger."

The Hall erupted in applause. Hermione stood up and walked to the teacher's table. Dumbledore gave her a kiss on the cheek and Hermione blushed. He then shook her hand and gave her the Head Girl badge. She turned to the students and smiled. Once again applause filled the air.

Dumbledore cleared his throat and everyone fell silent once more. "The Head Boy for this year is... Mr. Harry Potter." Harry stood up when everyone began applauding. Dumbledore shook his hand and gave him his badge. Harry stood next to Hermione and smiled. After a while they went to sit down and everyone began eating.

"So, Hermione... how do you feel about sharing a bathroom with Mr. Potter over there?" Julia asked in a whisper.

"Come on, Julia. It's fine," Hermione answered with a laugh.

"Anyway... how did it go with Ron this summer?" Hermione asked with an evil grin.

"Hermione!" Julia exclaimed as she playfully slapped Hermione's arm.

"Well?" Hermione urged.

"Ok...ok. He is such a gentleman..." Hermione interrupted Julia with a snigger.

"What?"

"Nothing," said Hermione innocently.

"Whatever. Anyway... I tried to see if I could make him sleep with me... for curiosity's sake. He said that he didn't want to because he cherished our relationship. After that I admitted everything and we just laughed," Julia said in a low voice.

Hermione raised an eyebrow. "She's not telling me everything," she thought. "And?" Hermione said.

"What?" Julia said, trying to sound innocent.

"You know," Hermione said with a wicked smile.

"Ok fine. We... did it," Julia said looking down.

"What exactly?" Hermione said.

"We had sex."

Hermione faked a gasped and then smiled wickedly. "I knew it!" she said. Julia smiled and shook her head.

"Hermione... are you sure you're the real Hermione?"

"Not really. I don't know what's gotten into me." She looked over to the Slytherin Table. Gray eyes met brown once again and they parted with a wink from the brown.

Hermione looked at her two best friends. They were in a heated conversation about something. The Great Hall started to empty slowly and Julia realized that they had to go.

"Guys?" They trio looked at her. "We have to get a move-on. We don't want to be late for class on the first day.' Harry and Ron jumped up.

Ron walked over to Julia. "Come on, Jules," he said, helped her up, and just as she was standing, kissed her passionately.

"UGH!" Harry said with a distraught face but then smiled. "Lovebirds," he said softly and rolled his eyes as he walked over to Hermione. When he came to her he saw that she had a dreamy expression on her face. "She looks so beautiful," Harry thought. "Hello?" he said as he waved a hand in front of her face. She snapped out of her trance.

"Huh?"

"Come on. We have to go to school."

"I don't want to go to school," Hermione said as she got up. Harry frowned and they left.

To Be Continued