Harry James Potter woke up in a sweat, the 18 year old son of Lily and James Potter had been having the same dreams day in and day out for the past 6 months, the problem was that his best friend happened to be a very beautiful witch Hermione Granger.

This was because Harry was 100% in love with Hermione Granger, he loved the fact that she was beautiful but she wasn't egotistical to the degree that she believed herself to be only plain and didn't realise how much she was anything but plain. Also Harry loved her chocolate brown eyes and her laugh, her laugh could warm his soul he was so sure of the fact that he tried to make her laugh every time that he saw her. Hermione had gone to Hogwarts which was a school of magical students with Harry for the past 7 years. Now they were ready to go off to magical university together.

Harry and Hermione had grown up just miles from each other as the Potters had a house in London as did the Grangers and they had known each other from when Lily Potter and Emma Granger had gone to birthing classes together, Lily had gone with James and Emma had kindly agreed to go with a friend of hers when her husband was in work.

The two sets of parents had grown close to each other over the 17 years after the birth of their children. Harry and Hermione had gone to primary school together and then Dan and Emma were surprised to find that their daughter was a witch but Lily and James where happy to help their friends in any way that they could considering how they were both magical and so was Harry.

When Harry and Hermione had gone to Hogwarts together they were not sure what to expect but they had 7 years of good teaching and good friendships in that time. They had been sorted into 4 house dorms which they were told would be like a functioning family for them, Harry and Hermione had been sorted into the Gryffindor house which Harry' parents had been in and it became apparent that Hermione was quite a capable witch and that Harry was an extremely powerful wizard.

One of their best friends was Draco Malfoy, Draco' father was a business man that James Potter had made business deals with before and both had to do with the government and made the world safer for the wizarding world. Lucius who was Draco' father had originally believed that the magical world should have only allowed pureblood students was impressed by the muggle born Lily Potter and he quickly changed his mind on his decision claiming that he was wrong to believe that it was the blood that made the person but simply their magic ability made them all the same and someone else should not be able to decide if they were entitled to learn about the magical world which they had the right to do.

Draco had been a frequent visitor to the Potter house in his childhood like Harry was with the Malfoy's. Draco had been sorted into Slytherin house which was the rivals of the Gryffindor house which housed the cunning members of the school where as Gryffindor housed the brave supposedly but Harry been told he would have fitted in with both houses but he chose Gryffindor so he could watch out for Hermione not that he would ever tell her that.

A problem Hermione encountered was a male student called Ron Weasley who thought he was better than her because his family were purebloods back at least 10 generations and he had tried to get Hermione to his homework for him when they were in their first year but it turned much more sinister after that but luckily Harry and Draco had been able to watch out for Hermione during the time that Ron was around or they had someone that they knew that they could trust with Hermione at any time that Ron was around.

In their 7th year Harry and Draco claimed the joint head boy title as they could choose between neither head boy as they had tremendous results and they had both been prefects in their 5th and 6th years so the teachers had decided that having them share the responsibility would give them both the right to say that they were head boy at the school and would also enhance the links between the houses.

Draco had begun dating a beautiful girl called Allison Tate in their 7th year the only problem was that Allison had a very over protective twin brother called Mark who was the Ravenclaw quidditch captain and seeker which had caused a rivalry between the two all year but the rivalry had ended after the Ravenclaw / Slytherin game when they had nearly killed each other by them both falling off of their brooms and Allison had claimed that she would never speak to them ever again if they didn't put their stupid rivalry behind them as she loved Draco.

Mark had accepted this and himself, Harry and Draco had become almost better pranksters than the marauders but James Potter maintained the marauders were better than them. Ron Weasley was normally the target for their pranks or his little sister who had been sniffing round Harry and Draco since her first year claiming that she loved them and they were pretty sure that she was crazy.

However disaster struck the group towards the end of the year as Mark's girlfriend Sarah was killed by a vampire on their Easter holidays and Mark had been turned into a vampire, however despite his best efforts to get his friends and sister to kill him Allison refused and found a spell and a potion to allow him to walk in the sunlight and eat food, this meant that he only needed animal or human blood once a month and Allison was currently his donor as she refused to allow anyone else to do it.

They had also made a ring for him that allowed him to hide his vampiric features when he wore the ring and he had control over his vampire abilities however when he took the ring off he lost his human looks and looked like a vampire.

On Harry's 18th birthday Lily and James had bought him a house just around the corner from the Merlin university of Magic and Hermione, Draco and the Tate twins had moved in with him.

Harry went downstairs to see Mark and Hermione sitting drinking coffee whilst sitting watching the news on the TV.

"Anything new?" Harry asked sitting down next to Hermione.

"No," she said "well the premier league started and it looks like Manchester united may lose it for once but apart from that no,"

"How do you know about football Mione?" Harry asked his best friend in a teasing manner.

"My dad is an arsenal fan," Hermione said with a blush to her cheeks "so he has taught me pretty much everything about football."

"Oh," Harry said "that's pretty cool."

"Thanks," Hermione said with a grin "so we are going to the Merlin university of magic today are you excited?"

"Yeah I cannot wait to be treated like a freak," Mark said darkly and Hermione looked sadly at her friend it wasn't fair that he had to deal with this and not only was he a vampire but he had lost the girl that he had loved as well it simply wasn't fair for him at all.

Then Draco and Allison came downstairs together and they were both fully dressed.

"Draco," Mark said calmly "the fact I can smell you on my sister and blood on you both will be over looked but if you hurt her I will rip your throat out, just so you see where I am coming from."

"Duly noted," Allison said with a grin and then kissed Draco deeply but the young blonde man could feel Mark' dead brown eyes on the back of his head and pulled away from his girlfriend.

"Right," Hermione said wanting to change the subject "is everyone ready?"

"Yeah hang on," Mark said and then walked to the fridge and took out three packets of pigs blood.

"What are they for?" Draco asked

"In case I need them," Mark said with a roll of his eyes "I never know what is going to happen and if I have them at the school I have them there in case of an emergencies."

"Fair enough," Draco said.

"Right," Harry said with a grin "let' go see the university."