Hermione sat in the library still studying for her NEWTs after five hours and exhausted from the revision; even for her it was just a little bit too much. She had barely seen her friends in the past couple of weeks apart from in class. It was all she could do but to pass her exams after she'd missed out on them fighting the war. Ron and Harry kept trying to convince her that they could get any job after fighting off Voldemort, but she wanted to do it fair a square with her exams under her belt.

Ginny didn't need much persuading to join her but it took a good couple of week to get the boys to agree to it. It had been wonderful having Ginny in the same year as her as some sort of buffer between her and Ron's idiocy. Hermione and Ron had a brief relationship after the war but they argued too much and eventually decided it was better to be friends.

Hermione's thoughts were interrupted by someone a giant bang coming from just behind one of the shelves. She hadn't seen anybody else in the library since she'd arrived so she rushed around to see what was happening. Hermione was surprised by the sight that greeted her; which was a certain Draco Malfoy in a heap on the floor covered in several books.

"Are you ok?" Hermione said tentatively; she hadn't even said hello to him since they had rejoined the school.

"Erm yeah, I was trying to get some books off a high shelf and I got distracted because I was about to sneeze. Before I knew it a whole bunch of books and fell on my head." Hermione couldn't help but laugh.

"Well did any of the books you want fall on your head?" She began to pick up the books from the floor and show them to Draco. "How about these; are any of these the ones you want?"

"Erm no, it's those two by your feet." Hermione looked down to see 'Muggles: they are like us too' and 'Muggles can also be magic'. She picked them up and handed over to see Draco's embarrassed face go red.

"I never thought this was your type of book a little too muggle." Hermione had never seen this timid side of Draco it was like a whole new person.

"Well I'm not the same type of person." Draco clutched the books to his chest and walked past Hermione hurt at the insult.

"Look Draco I'm sorry I didn't mean it like that; I'm sure you're a changed man after the war. Forgive me, however, if we're not best friends. You did a lot to harm my friends so it will take a bit more than a couple of muggle books, but I do have an open mind." Hermione wasn't sure why she was giving Draco an open door to change her mind about him.

The distraction of Draco knocking over a pile of books and taking muggle books from the library threw Hermione off her stride so she just decided to pick up her stuff and go back to the common room. For this year only Hogwarts had a special house for people who decided to come back after the war so there were former Slytherin and Gryffindors in the same house.

Professor McGonagall was the new head mistress and she didn't want to have the rivalry that was there before. Even after the majority of the year it hadn't worked for all the students and for obvious reasons Harry and Ron didn't want to talk to some of them.

"My God Hermione you're alive!" Ginny looked up from stroking Harry's hair.

"Yeah I decided to actually leave the library I was you know getting little lonely with all those books." Hermione plonked herself in the middle of her friends. "You'll never guess who I saw in the library getting muggle books; well you'll probably never get it so I'll have to tell you. None other than Draco Malfoy was under a pile of muggle books I think he's taking muggle studies."

"What would Malfoy want with muggle studies shouldn't his skin come up in boils if he does anything like that?" Ron sneered.

"I think he's trying to change you know."

"A leopard can't change his spots; I don't believe Malfoy could be a different person." Harry spoke up.

"You didn't see him in the library I think he has; anyway we'll have to wait and see I reckon I'm right though."

"Hermione for once I think this time you're wrong." Ron smiled at her.

After a few minutes with her long lost friends she had forgotten about the incident in the library and that the NEWTs were only six weeks away. It must have been at least two weeks before when they went to Hogsmead that she had sat and relaxed like this. Sometimes Hermione was too hard on herself and just forgot to relax.

"I think I'm going to head to bed." Hermione yawned as she stood up.

"It's only nine on a Saturday night you know we don't have any classes tomorrow." Ron looked at he confused.

"I need some rest to be honest I've read a little too much today."

"I never thought I would hear you say that." Ginny laughed.

"Sometimes even I can read just that little bit too much I mean I've been in the library all day." Hermione said bye to all of her friends before going up the stairs to bed. It had already been one year since the end of the war, but she still thought of it every night. She had only found her family two months ago after she'd removed their memory of her. It had taken a lot of explanation and a couple of weeks before they believed that she was their daughter. It wasn't the easiest with her being away at school, but she hoped that once she'd done her NEWTs things would progress. For now this is where she needed to be getting the grades so she felt worthy getting the job she wanted.