A/N: Hey everyone! Hope you like this story, I just had a sudden inspiration to write something like this. Enjoy reading!

Disclaimer: Nope, I don't own it. I'm not British, Rich, or Bonde. Try Aussie, broke and Brunette. Sorry to disappoint you.

A Malfoy Curse

Draco's Crush

Harry and the Weasley's made their way to Platform 9 and ¾'s in record time, they had ten minutes left until the train left the station.

As soon as they got through the barrier, Hermione could be seen rushing towards them.

'Harry! Ron! Ginny!' She called. She ran up and gave them all huge hugs and took them straight over to the train where she had already got them a compartment.

'Harry, you and I have to go now over to the prefect carriage, they're having their meeting in a couple of minutes.' She told him after they had put their stuff into the compartment.

'Sure, Ron, can you tell Mrs. Weasley that I say goodbye and that I have to go immediately to the prefect carriage?' Harry asked his best mate.

'Yeah, sure. Come on Gin, we better go out and say our goodbye's now. See you later.' Ron said and him and Ginny left the carriage and went to find Mrs. Weasley to say goodbye.

'Come on Harry!' Hermione said. She was very impatient at Harry taking so long to hurry up.

'Hermione, calm down, we're not going to be late. I know you like being there fifteen minutes early, but that is not going to happen now.' Harry said, trying to calm her down a bit.

'I know, but I'm excited and scared at the same time, and let's go already, I'm getting more nervous by the second!' Hermione cried. She was shaking with anticipation rather badly.

'Okay, let's go.' Harry rejected.

'Thank you.' Hermione said, she sounded very exasperated and started to almost run down the corridor of the carriage to get to the next one where the prefects carriage was.

When they got there, nearly everyone was there apart from the Slytherin prefects. They went up to Hannah Abbott and Ernie McMillan and started to talk to them. Hermione had calmed down a little by now and was no longer shaking.

A couple of minutes later, the Slytherins showed up. Of course, they were Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy.

'Great, now everyone's here, we can start.' The seventh year Head Boy shouted over everyone else talking. His shout brought everyone's attention. 'Now, when we get to Hogwarts, we have to be the first one's out to open the doors for the other students. But during the train ride, we will have to go on patrols. Gryffindor, your first patrol up and down the train. You go twice, starting from here, the head of the train, right down to the end. At the end of it, you must come go and find the next people who are doing the patrol after you.'

'They are the Slytherins.' Announced the seventh year Head Girl. 'You have go find the Slytherins, who are. . . Draco and Pansy.' She said looking at the clipboard she had in her hands. 'You two have to go and find the Hufflepuffs after you have finished, they are Hannah and Ernie, then they have to go and find the Ravenclaws, Padma Patil and Terry Boot. Now, when we get into Hogwarts, after we've had the feast, you have to call over the first-years and take them to your Common Rooms. The slip I'm handing out now has you password on it.' With that, she passed out the slips to each of the pairs and went back up to the front. 'Please do not loose these or give them to another pair to read, tell only the people in your house when and if you see them, but tell them discreetly. You may go now and Gryffindor may start their patrol.' She concluded.

Harry and Hermione waited back a little bit to make sure everyone left. As Draco went passed them, he accidentally bumped into Hermione. 'Sorry Granger.' He mumbled, but just that mumble made Hermione stand still with a confused expression on her face. As soon as Draco and everyone else had left the compartment, Hermione turned to Harry.

'Did you hear what Malfoy said to me?' She asked, still a little in shock.

'No, but is it something I have to hit him for?' Harry said angrily.

'No, he bumped me a bit in the arm and he said sorry.' Hermione answered.

'What?' Harry was utterly confused. Malfoy says sorry to no one. Usually he said, 'watch where you're going!' or, 'get out of the way!' Not sorry, considering he thought he was better than everyone else.

'You must have heard wrong. Draco Malfoy never says sorry.' Harry explained as they walked out into the corridor to start their patrol.

'I know, that's what I thought, but I heard him loud and clear, he said 'Sorry Granger.' I'm not joking.' Hermione said.

On their patrol, they only confiscated a few things and told any Gryffindor that would pass by them the new password. After finishing, they went to find where Pansy and Draco were hiding.

'Where do you think they are? Slytherin always stay in the one carriage, don't they? Should be easy to find them.' Harry said. They made their way to the Slytherin carriage and found Malfoy and Parkinson sitting in the compartment right down the very end.

'I'll go in and tell them, I handle them better than you do.' Harry teased.

'Ha ha Harry. Aren't I usually the one telling you and Ron to cool off when Malfoy baits you?' Hermione reminded him.

'Yeah, well, it's a male thing, Hermione, you might get it someday.' Harry said, opening the door to the compartment.

'Hopefully never.' Hermione muttered under her breathe and leaned against the wall on the opposite side of the compartment.

'Ever heard of knocking, Potter?' Malfoy drawled.

'Ever heard of being nice, Malfoy? What am I saying, of course not. Your turn for patrol, we're done.' Harry answered, leaning against the door frame and just showing Hermione in the background.

Harry looked around the room at the people in it. The usually crowd were here, Zabini, Crabbe, Goyle, Parkinson, but then, Harry spotted another girl, roughly the same age. sitting on the other side of Malfoy that looked incredibly like him, apart from the eyes; she had beautiful Amber drops for eyes, and soft, wavy, shiny and silky bright blonde hair. He also noticed her soft pale lips and wondered what it would like to kiss them. Stop it Harry! She's probably a Slytherin! Keep your head out of it! Harry kept his eyes on her for a while, but as soon as she caught his eye, he turned his head back to Malfoy and avoided her penetrating gaze.

Hermione caught Malfoy's eye and he instantly stood up, that meant the Pansy was knocked off of him, for she was resting her head on his lap.

'Well, come on Pansy, we have terrorizing little first-years to do.' Draco drawled, he sounded rather flushed by his sudden movement and Pansy was looking at him like he was going crazy.

'Yes, let's go, Draco.' She said slowly, eyeing him off. As they left the compartment, Hermione caught his eye again and gave him a suspicious look. Harry shut the compartment door and looked at Hermione quizzically.

'What was that all about?' He asked cautiously.

'As soon as he caught my eye in there he stood up so suddenly that even I jumped a little out here.' Hermione said, still a little scared by what had just happened.

'That was you? I wondered why he did that. Usually he'd say something like, "I'll do it when I feel like it, Potter." He's been acting rather strange around you lately.' Harry mused.

'You sound like you think he fancies me.' Hermione accused.

'I do think that. For one reason,' Harry added quickly, 'because he's never nice to anyone in Gryffindor, let alone someone of your blood type.'

'That part scares me a little as well. I'm muggleborn, why would he even think about talking to me?' She mused.

'That is my exact question, although I still think he likes you.' Harry added as they walked back to their compartment. Hermione just rolled her eyes.

Meanwhile, Parkinson and Malfoy were having nearly the same conversation.

'What's going on with you and Granger?' Parkinson asked him suspiciously.

'Absolutely nothing Pansy, now stop it.' Malfoy answered. He started to a little red around the collar and Parkinson knew she had him.

'You do! You like that filthy little mudblood!' She said. She was now walking backwards facing him so she could easily see his facial expressions.

'Don't call her that!' He snapped, but suddenly realised what he said and his eyes went wide for a moment before schooling his expression back to normal. Pansy's eyes went wide too, but a huge smile had appeared on her face.

'That explains everything! Wait until the school finds out about this!' She cackled.

'I forbid you to tell anyone! Especially not Potter and Weaselbee. They'll have a field day.' Malfoy muttered. But Pansy was having just as much as they would have. Running up and down the corridors teasing him about children and marriages and all that kind of stuff. By the end, Malfoy was getting incredibly sick of it.

'Shut up would you! Who says she even likes me back, keep your head in and voice down before I take it from you!' Malfoy shouted at her. She came back up to him silently, but was still giggling softly to herself as new thoughts about him and Hermione sprung up in her head.

'This is classic.' She muttered.

'Oh shut up.' He mumbled angrily.

Back in Hermione and Harry's compartment, Harry was telling Ron about what happened in the prefect carriage and in Malfoy's compartment, but conveniently left out the part about the extremely pretty blonde.

'You mean you think that Malfoy likes Hermione? What! No bloody way would Malfoy like a Gryffindor.' Ron said shaking his head.

'Just imagine what the Slytherins are going to say once they find out!' Harry said excitedly.

'One more thing, before you guys go on a tangent about me, let's talk about Harry, I seem to remember seeing him stare at a pretty blonde Slytherin that looked a hell of a lot like Malfoy himself if you ask me.' Hermione sat back in her chair and looked thoroughly pleased with herself, but that just turned out wrong for her because Ron started asking how pretty she was, what she looked like and whether Harry knew her name. She put her head back exasperatedly and gave a huge sigh. A little while later, they started talking about Quidditch and Hermione took one of her books out and started to read it. She had never taken a fancy to Quidditch the way the boys did.

After about twenty minutes, they saw Malfoy and Parkinson walk past. Harry gave Hermione a smug little smile, while Ron looked rather disgusted and she gave them death glares. But outside, Pansy was thinking of a clever plan.

'You go on; I have to tie up my shoes.' She called, while with her other foot, sliding the shoelace out to untie it.

'Sure, don't get any clever ideas though.' Draco said, walking on but he kept looking back at her and making sure she wasn't doing anything stupid. When she was sure he wasn't looking, she did up her laces quickly and backtracked to Harry and Ron's compartment. She looked back to check he wasn't still watching her and opened the compartment door, letting herself in.

'What do you wan,t Parkinson?' Hermione asked boredly, putting down her book and staring daggers at the other girl.

'Just wanted to tell you that a certain Slytherin has taken interest in you.' She said slyly.

'Well are you going to tell me who?' Hermione asked, determinedly wishing in her mind that it wasn't Malfoy.

Pansy looked out of the compartment.

'Speak of the Devil.' She said, quickly shutting the door behind her and leaning against it, smirking.

Draco came over to the door and pounded on it.

'Pansy! Get out here and help me with Patrol!' He called at her. Pansy cackled as she watched Hermione go bright red and wide-eyed staring at Draco behind the door.

'Well, see you around Granger.' She said still cackling and opened the door behind her to get out of the compartment.

'What did you do?' Draco demanded when she came out.

'Oh nothing, just planted ideas into their heads.' Pansy said smugly and walking off to find the Hufflepuffs.

'You told them, didn't you?' He demanded again, walking after her, still able to hear the eruption of laughter that had come out of the compartment.

'No, as I said, I planted ideas, I didn't tell them outright. Though I did say speak of the Devil right before you came to the door, so I guess that gave it away.' She mused to herself. Then, seeing Draco's face, ran off down the corridor with him chasing after.

Back in the compartment, Hermione was in even more shock the she was before. And the boys weren't helping in the slightest.

'Harry, you are one amazing guesser!' Ron yelled when he caught his breathe after laughing so hard.

'Thank you, always knew I was.' Harry answered after catching his own breathe. Then they started laughing again. Hermione couldn't say anything; she was still wide-eyed at find out about the truth why Malfoy was acting the way he did. For the rest of the trip she remained silently reading her book until it was time to get changed. She sent the boys to get changed somewhere else and quickly got into her Hogwarts robes. When they came back, Hermione took Harry and they stationed themselves beside the doors to open them when the time came.