Title: Half a Girl

Author: pistolheart! Me!

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, obviously. Otherwise I'd just write my own books and publish them and get tons of money. Instead I'm going to get my happiness by allowing you to tell me how much you love my story instead ;)

Rating: I'll rate it T for now, I might change it later on. I'm not sure yet. It's going to depend on where this story goes.

Spoilers: Hmm, well I'll probably have references to all of the books. However, I'm not going to deal with all the deaths and such. I want to put in some of the lovely Freddy and Sirius :D

Pairings: femHarry/Draco, Ron/Hermione

Warning: This is a slash fic, kind of. I will have Harry as a female soooo it's a little different. But, don't complain if you don't like it. Just don't read it how simple is that?

Summary: When Harry discovers he has a strange animagus of his own, will he choose to embrace it for all it's worth? This is post Voldemort, but back at Hogwarts.

AN: Hello! So I'm putting off writing the other stories I have swimming around in my mind in preference for this one. Which came to me in a dream. Okay, not really. Actually I really don't know where this story is going to lead. No idea at all. I'm just going to start and see where it goes. If it sucks horribly, I'll erase it and that will be the end of it. But till then, lets see where this adventure leads me shall we? Now without further ado….. Let the story begin!!!

"Harry mate! Wake up! We've got to get going if we're going to make it on time." Harry groaned and rolled over ignoring his best friend Ron as he tried to catch a few more minutes of shut eye before he absolutely had to get out of his warm bed.

"Come on, Harry!" Ron groaned exasperatedly as he pulled the blankets off of Harry's bed and tossed them across the room. "We can't be late! I want to get to the station so I can see Hermione! I've missed her!" He whined at his best friend.

Harry sighed and rolled out of bed, glaring daggers at the tall red head who was roaming around the room haphazardly tossing random articles of clothing back at his trunk. "It's not like you haven't seen her in years, Ron. It's only been a little over a week. I don't see what the big hurry is, she'll look exactly the same."

Hermione had left the week before to visit her parents in Australia before she returned to school for the year. Even after she had fixed their memories so that they knew who she was again, they had found that they loved living Down Under and had decided to stay there instead of returning with Hermione to London. Initially, Hermione had worried that she had accidentally affected their memories for the worst. But, she had eventually settled down upon realizing her parents were themselves again, they just loved the Australian Outback.

Ron glared at his best friend in disgust, "Really Harry, just because you can't seem to fall in love doesn't mean you have to be mad at the rest us because we found out we could love someone!" He snapped turning back to close his trunk.

Harry sighed. He knew Ron was still angry at him for deciding not to rekindle his relationship with Ginny at the end of the war. Ginny was great, but at the end of the war Harry had found himself completely disinterested in dating anyone. Ginny had understood, in fact she had been okay with it really. She and Justin Finch-Fletchley had begun to date happily soon after Harry broke things off between the two of them for good.

Ron however, had had different plans. He pictured he and Hermione going out on double dates and having a double wedding with Harry and Ginny. He was sorely disappointed that that no longer seemed to be the direction of their future.

Harry grabbed his wand from the table next to his bed. He had decided to stay a few weeks with the Weasley family before heading off for his final year at Hogwarts. He hadn't really wanted to return, however, he found he missed the halls too much to just drop out before his graduation.

Getting out of bed slowly he peered around the room to make sure he hadn't forgotten anything then stood up and grabbed his trunk to start pulling downstairs.

"Eh! Harry we're of age now! Remember?" Ron called.

Harry whirled around to see Ron walking past holding his wand. "Erm, Ron. Where is your trunk at?" Harry said peering behind his friend.

"I shrunk it mate! As you should too! It'll be much quicker to travel without lugging our big trunks behind us. Then we get to see Hermione that much quicker." Ron winked at Harry and heading downstairs called behind him. "You've got ten minutes to get out to the apparition point or I'm leaving without you!"

Harry sighed and turned shrinking his own trunk and slipping it into his pocket before bounding after Ron. 'I should let him leave without me. See the lecture Hermione gives him then' he thought as he grabbed a bagel from the kitchen table.

"Oh Harry dear! There you are. Come here and give me a hug before you leave." Molly Weasley stepped out of the kitchen drying her hands and holding them out to her surrogate son.

Hare gratefully stepped into the embrace and giving Molly a quick peck on the cheek before pulling away. "Now don't go getting in trouble this year Harry. Oh, and don't be a stranger! I expect to see you every holiday that I can okay?" She peered into his eyes waiting for a reply.

"Of course I'll come visit every holiday Mrs. Weasley. I couldn't stay away from your cooking if I tried." He smiled and hugged her one more time before taking off after Ron.

"It's about time you made it out here mate! I think my mum spends more time saying goodbye to you than me." Ron chuckled as stepped into the garage. He and Ginny were standing by the far left wall waiting for him.

"Oh shush Ron! You know that's not true. She spends about thirty minutes telling us goodbye every year. You'd think we weren't returning." Ginny chided turning to look at Harry. "Are you ready? I'm going to be side along apparating with Ron since I haven't taken the test yet."

Harry grinned at her and stepped up with the two of them. "I'm ready when you two are." With that Harry popped out of the garage leaving the siblings behind.

Ron wrapped his arms around Ginny "If he gets to Hermione before I do, I'm blaming you!" He said and the two also popped leaving and empty garage behind.

Draco Malfoy sneered at the underclassmen running around him on the platform 9 ¾. 'Every year these kids act as if the train will leave them if they don't run around like lunatics getting their goodbyes in' he thought watching a second year hurriedly hug her mum goodbye.

He turned around in time to see Blaise Zabini approaching him. "Hey Draco. I can't lie. I didn't expect you to return this year." Blaise smiling tentatively at the Slytherin.

"Well I obviously didn't particularly want to. However, my parents insisted that I return for my final year if only to prove the Malfoy worth to the rest of the wizarding society." Draco sneered, glaring at nothing and no one in particular.

"Sorry about that must stink. At least you aren't alone though. It seems that most everyone came back again this year. I saw Crabbe and Parkinson snogging near the back of train a few minutes ago, and Goyle was nearby talking to Bulstrode." Blaise smirked.

Draco's head shot back to peer at him. "Pansy and Crabbe? Sure can't say I saw that one coming. At least that means she'll finally be leaving me alone. This year."

"I wouldn't be so sure, Draco. She's been seen snogging half of our class and yet she's still managed to remain obsessed with you all these years."

Draco sighed, "yeah I know but it is still nice to wish every now and then isn't it? I mean I dumped the girl four years ago."

"Yeah, after you made her fall hopelessly in love with you" Blaise snorted and patting the annoyed Slytherin on the shoulder walked off towards the trains.

Draco sighed and adjusted his Head Boy badge. If Pansy was still attached to him this year it was going to be altogether unbearable. It had been okay when he'd had something to gain from being with the girl. Now that the Great War was over though, Pansy constantly hanging all over his arm was sure to drive him crazy.

"Oh good you're here already." Draco sneered at the immensely obnoxious bossy voice behind him and whirled around to stare at none other than bushy haired Hermione Granger. Okay he had to admit, her hair wasn't exactly bushy anymore and her body had filled out to finally be proportional. In fact, if it weren't for her annoying personality, Draco would have even considered the Mudblood to be extremely hot.

"Why yes Granger I am here. Obviously. Is there something I can help you with." He smirked at her face as she narrowed her eyes in annoyance.

"Actually, yes Malfoy. There is." she snarled back at him. "I wanted to know which shift you want to take patrolling the train. I don't really have a preference but I haven't seen my boyfriend in over a week and was kind of hoping for the second shift.

Draco sighed. He had forgotten that as the official Head Boy of Hogwarts he and Hermione would have to spend the ride making sure that none of the students on the train were being too stupid. He wouldn't have minded, except the students were extra excited about the school being restored again to its original state this year. Already kids were running and screaming to each other at the top of their lungs.

"Fine whatever, Granger! I really don't care. If you aren't out there after exactly two hours though, I will castrate your boyfriend." Draco growled at her.

"Thanks Malfoy! I owe you won. I guess." Hermione smiled sincerely at the scowling blond in front of her.

"Oy! Hermione love over here!" Hermione and Draco both turned around around to see Ron waving at her with Harry and Ginny standing behind him.

"Just remember Granger! You're shift starts at exactly 3:00 if you want to still have a boy for a boyfriend." Draco threatened as he turned and walked towards the train leaving Hermione to her friends.

"Harry, do you see Justin anywhere? I've been looking for him since we got the platform." Ginny broke into Harry's thoughts as he stared disinterestedly at the train looming in front of him.

"No, sorry Gin, I haven't been looking really. Did you try over with the other Hufflepuffs? I'm willing to bet he went to greet them." He turned to look at the youngest Weasley standing next to him.

Ginny had really matured since the War. She had always been slightly clingy and needy. Obviously spoiled being the youngest child and only daughter in the large Weasley clan. However, the war had really allowed her to grow up mentally. She had become a very respectable young woman who easily helped others without blinking an eyelash.

"Are you okay Harry?" She asked worriedly. "You've been extremely quiet since we got here. Do you want to talk about it?"

Harry smiled and ruffled her hair. "Gin, I'm just trying to decide if I really want to deal with the hours of praise I'll be receiving. Don't worry about me. I'll be fine. Now go find your boyfriend before Hannah Abbot does. You know she's always had a thing for him too."

Ginny grinned at him "I've got him wrapped. No Hufflepuff girl can push her way into my relationship with him." She quickly hugged Harry before heading off towards the group of Hufflepuffs standing on the platform.

Harry watched her go thinking about how much everyone had changed because of the war. He was worried about the praise. He was also worried about how different it would be this year because of the changed personalities of the students who faced the war the previous year. He hoped the school would be able to regroup and pull together to make the year a happy one, despite some of the hard memories from the year.

"See mate! I told you that you didn't really want to break things off with her for good. But dd you listen to me? No! Because Ron never knows what he's talking about." Harry turned to see Ron with grinning at him with his arm securely wrapped around Hermione's waist.

"Sorry Ron, wrong again. I was just thinking how great it is that she found someone to love her the way she deserves." Harry winked at his friends and turned towards the train. "Lets go, I want to try to find an empty compartment if I can."

He and his two best friends boarded the train, immediately heading for the end of it where compartments always tended to be empty. Once they found an empty compartment they all resized their trunks to their normal sizes and stowed them away for the ride. Harry collapsed on a seat by the window while Ron and Hermione sat on the other side still attached at the hip. They immediately started snogging again much to Harry's disgust.

"Ugh! You guys, seriously must you go at it right in front of me like that? I really don't need a private show."

Hermione pulled back grinning sheepishly at her best friend. Ron however, refused to relent. "Can you blame us Harry? I missed her! If you can't watch it, I suggest you leave us alone for a little bit!"

"Ron!" Hermione gasped smacking him on the shoulder. "Harry, I'm sorry. We'll stop for you. We were just excited to see each other is all."

Harry grinned knowingly at his best friend who was making get lost signals behind Hermione's back. "You know, I actually kind of feel like walking to the front to see if I can find Neville or Luna. I'll be back in a little bit. You guys have fun." He headed for the door. "Oh, and Ron, stay clothed."

He laughed as Hermione threw a book at the compartment door that he was already shutting behind him as he made his way out into the hall.

He saw Luna Lovegood and Dean Thomas heading into a compartment a little ahead of him and headed their way. "Hey Harry!" Dean called turning to see the Gryffindor heading their way. Luna gave him a dazed, but sincere smile and held the compartment door open for him.

Inside he also found Seamus and Neville sitting around bickering about the quid ditch game that they had been to the week before.

"I'm telling you Neville! The Refs were cheating in favor of the Appleby Arrows! If it hadn't been for that the Cannons would have won fair and square!" Seamus was exclaiming.

"They definitely were not favoring the Arrows! The Chudley Cannons deserved all those fouls. They were being completely wicked the whole lot of them! Oy! Hi Harry! How are you doing?" Neville glanced up noticing Harry laughing at their conversation.

"I'm doing great Neville and hello Seamus," he laughed "I personally side with Neville on this one, but only because Ron is so obsessed with the Cannons it's annoying."

The three friends laughed as Dean and Luna, having stowed away their luggage, sat down on the two remaining seats leaving Harry standing by the door.

"I'm surprised you actually returned Harry. We heard you could have gone straight in to Auror training, since you did win the war." Dean said smiling up at his fellow Gryffindor.

"I could have, but I decided to go ahead and finish my education first. It felt important to me somehow." Harry laughed at Seamus' expression which clearly said if he'd been given the chance he would have left this year.

"Oh, Harry! Did I tell you in my last owl about the Imoogi that I befriended?" Luna spoke up suddenly. "When I first saw it I thought it was a dragon, but he forgave me and blessed me with good luck. Is that not so nice of him?"

"Erm, yeah Luna! That's great to hear." Harry replied, shooting a perplexed look at his fellow friends.

Luna however didn't seem to notice, or care about the silent interaction between the four as she had pulled out three large green braided strings. "Take these," she said handing each of the boys one, "tie them around your ankle and the Imoogi will bestow his good luck to you too.

The boys each took the strings and good naturedly tied them around their ankles smiling at each other in silent laughter as Luna happily stared out the window. "Those Carckle Dust Fairy's sure are out heavy today, be sure they don't steal your thoughts."

"I'll watch for that, Luna." Harry replied as his other three friends bit their tongues to keep from laughing out loud. "I think I'm going to go see who else I can find you guys. I'll see you later.

Harry stepped out of the compartment and headed back towards his own. It had now been an hour since he had left Ron and Hermione alone and he hoped that they had finished greeting each other. As he steep towards the door he here muffled laughter however and paused.

"Those two never stop these days do they Potter?" Harry whirled around to see Malfoy smirking at him.

"They just haven't seen each other in awhile is all," Harry carefully replied. "They'll cool down eventually."

He watched Malfoy's smirk grow even larger at his comment and wondered where the two stood in terms of friendship. Harry had saved Malfoy not once but twice during the war and had also testified to keep his family out of Azkaban. Despite this, he wasn't positive that their long lasting antagonistic behavior towards each other was truthfully over.

"Yeah well, as long as I don't have to see it. I think I'd puke watching those two going at it. What a horrid sight." Malfoy half grimaced half laughed as he turned around and headed back towards the front of the train.

Harry sighed and knocked on the compartment door lightly instead of barging in on his two friends.

After a few minutes of shuffling the door flung open. "Oh Harry! Your back quickly!" Hermione smiled and stepped aside to let him in. Her hair was slightly messed up and Ron's face was flushed.

Harry looked at them both and laughed, "You both are going to end up making a mini Romione at this rate."

Draco sighed as he slid into an empty compartment and relaxed at last. In the past four hours he had dealt with three first years crying because they already missed their parents, a cat fight between two 4th year girls who had discovered they were both dating the same 5th year boy, and endless poorly attempted spells that needed him to come clean up after them.

He took off his shoes and leaned back against the window resting his eyes. If only it could be that easy for him to return to his fun antics on the train with his friends. However, he seemed to have lost all of his thirst for mischief making and really only wanted to be alone.

'Stupid Potter, and his stupid war.' He thought bitterly, 'If it weren't for that war making me grow up, I could still be as careless as I ever was in the past.'

At that moment his compartment door creaked open and he opened his eyes to see Pansy Parkinson sidle into the room with him.

"Hi Drakie! I thought you might need some company. Besides the rest of the guys were getting kind of annoying. Goyle and Millicent just wanted to play chess with each other, and Crabbe only wanted to make out. To tell you the truth I'm not that fond of making out with him. He really is a horrid kisser, slobbering everywhere. Unlike someone else I know." She winked at Draco suggestively and sat down half on top of his lap.

"Pansy Please!" Draco shoved her back over on to the her seat. "I just got off duty and I'm hot and exhausted. I really just want some peace and quiet right now.

"Oh poor Drakie! That stinks that you had to spend half of the right up here yelling at pesky kids! Don't worry! I'll make you forget all about them very quickly!" Pansy announced throwing her arms around Draco and Attempting to give him a kiss right on his lips.

"Ugh! Parkinson!" Draco ungracefully pushed her off of him and stood up moving as far away from her as the compartment would allow him to.

Pansy just stared at him, her eyes dancing between incredulity and anger at being rejected. After a few minutes the later seemed to win out and her pug face seemed to transform into a foll out glare.

"I can't believe you Malfoy!" she spat out his surname "I come to comfort you and all you do is shove me away like a smelly blast ended skrewt! I don't know what has gotten in to you, but I don't like it one bit! Now, I'll lave you alone for a little bit, but you had set your priorities straight here mighty quickly. If you don't… well… you don't want to know what I might do!"

With that Pansy threw him once last hurt look then turned and stormed out of the compartment slamming the door closed behind her.

Draco flinched as he watched her leave. He was used to her angry outbursts by now. He had been dealing with them for four years now. She refused to believe things between the two of them were over and hated that Draco tried to push her away. However, Pansy was nothing if not a true Slytherin, and she was true to her word. Draco would regret it if he pissed her off again in the near future.

He sighed sitting back down and trying to rest his eyes once again. But, after only five minutes the compartment doors slid open again.

"Really Pansy, I wasn't kidding when I said I wanted to be alone. Please, just don't leave me in here until we get to the school." He growled not even bothering to look the doors.

"Oh! Um, Sorry! I thought this compartment was empty. I'll leave you alone Malfoy."

Draco's eyes flew open as he glared at the raven haired Gryffindor standing at the entrance.

"Potter!" He snapped, "What are you doing in here."

"Well, Malfoy!" Harry replied with just as much venom in his voice, "I was actually trying to get some quiet. From Ron's arguing with Ginny."

Draco smirked. "What's the red haired slut done this time?" He snarled, knowing full well Harry had dated Ginny the year before.

"Ginny is not a slut! Ron is just being an overprotective brother thank you very much Malfoy!" Harry growled, narrowing his eyes and the blond haired boy.

At once Draco was tired of the confrontation. "Fine then, you can stay in here if you'd like. Just leave me alone. I'm trying to get some rest." He gestured for Harry to take a seat on the other side of the compartment.

Harry hesitated for a minute, but, seeing the smirk on Malfoy's face, he flopped down in the seat. "Fine by me."

Harry sat rigidly in the compartment staring curiously at the blond in front of him. He wasn't sure what had possessed him to accept the invitation and stay with Draco Malfoy of all people. They hated each other. Yet, here they both sat alone in a compartment, hidden away from the rest of the school.

Harry had been trying to escape the angry fight that was brewing between Ron and Ginny. Ron had walked into her compartment to find her heavily snogging and petting Just Finch-Fletchley. Ron had gone of on her and, since then, they two had been yelling at each other loud enough for half of the train to hear their argument.

Harry hadn't wanted to get mixed in with their fight, and quietly slipped out. He'd gone to the very back of the train to the only known empty compartment. Of course it hadn't been empty. But, here he stayed in the company of his life rival.

Malfoy seemed to have fallen asleep. He was now resting with his eyes gently closed his blond eye lashes just lightly touching the soft skin beneath his eyes. His mouth had fallen slightly open and he was sighing slightly every time he exhaled. Despite this, his arms still remained tightly crossed around him as he sat as far as he could from Harry.

Harry found himself studying the blond hair on the Slytherin curiously. He had never been able to understand why it was that Draco Malfoy's hair had always attracted him. It did though. He kept it longer than he had in the past. A small piece lightly fell over his face while the rest remained perfectly slicked back. Harry had never been able to understand why it was that Malfoy never seemed to have a piece of hair not glinting perfectly in the sunlight.

Suddenly the train hit a bump in the track and Malfoy jerked up. "What the hell was that?"

"Probably just some rough footing Malfoy, no need to panic like that." Harry replied smirking lightly at the panicked look in the steel gray eyes across from him.

"Stuff it Potter! I'm not panicking." Malfoy growled narrowing his eyes.

Harry just smirked even larger then stood up to leave. "You best fix your robes Malfoy. We'll be there in a few minutes and you seem to have drooled quite a bit during your nap."

He laughed as he heard Malfoy cursing under his breath and stepped out of the compartment to go find Ron.

"Hey mate! Where have you been? I needed you to help me tell Ginny off earlier." Ron snapped when Harry entered his compartment again.

"I was avoiding being dragged into your argument is all, Ron. Are we going to wait for Hermione or just go ahead and grab a carriage up to the castle and meet her there?"

"She said she'd be a while since she has to make sure all the first years get to their boats, so we can go ahead and just meet her at the castle." Ron's face immediately softened at the mention of his girlfriend.

"Okay, well lets head off then. I want to try to catch a carriage that's still empty."

With that the two friends joined the rest of the school standing in line to get off of the train as it slowly pulled to a stop. After about five minutes of pushing and shoving the boys stepped out into the fresh early fall air.

"First years! Follow me this way! All first years!" They turned at the familiar boom of Hagrid's voice and smiled. "Oh 'ello Harry and Ron!" Hagrid beamed at the two boys quickly before turning back to the tiny first year students milling around him as Hermione ushered them that way.

"Harry come on! I want to eat something I'm starving!" Ron grabbed Harry's arm and pulled him towards the carriages waiting for the older students at the top of the hill.

"Hi Harry! Ron!" Parvati and Padma Patil giggled as they ran past the boys batting their eyes at them flirtatiously.

"Um, hi girls?" Harry shot Ron a look as Ron pretended to be nauseous at the sight of the giggling twins.

"You know Ron, Lavender says she might give you a second chance if you asked her nicely enough. I think she's really missed you." Parvati smiled sweetly at the fuming red head boy before turning to prance off towards her friends.

"Now where does she get off saying something like that! Everyone who matters knows I'm completely in love with Hermione! I could go kick someone. Really Harry what were you thinking allowing me to date Lavender all that time?" Ron raved as he glared daggers at the girls retreating backs.

"I can't say I realized I was in charge of your love life Ron. Oh there's an empty carriage over that way." He and Ron headed towards carriage about fifty feet to their left.

"I sure hope the sorting goes quickly, I feel like I haven't eaten anything in days." Ron commented as their carriage set off towards the school.

A/N: Well that was fun. I know this chapter was a little bit short. But, it's kind of the prologue. I didn't want to start any of the meat of the story yet. But let me know what you think!! I love to hear from you!! Oh and ideas and such, those are very appreciated too.

Luna's Imoogi is adorable really. I read up on them. They were supposed to become dragons, but were cursed and couldn't make the full transition. Although movies usually make them out to be evil snake/dragon like animals. I'm going with the actual myths behind them that they are actually quite benevolent and friendly. Oh and they do grant good luck to those that see them too.

Give me some feedback and I'll love you forever! Don't worry, there will be more Draco/Harry soon!!!!!

Next chapter: The feast and returning to classes.