(A/N: Change of Season is by Matthew Good Band. It’s funky and cool and seven minutes long.
*nods* You must download it. NOW!)

(Even though Fearless by the same band is better)

Change of Season

by Jiwwy
 
 

Chapter 2
In Which Ron Gets One Up
 

Remus was dropping Draco off at King’s Cross to go to Hogwarts.

Vernon and Petunia were taking Harry, as far as Hermione knew.

Bill was bringing in Ron and Ginny, he was still on vacation to help the younger kids.

Hermione sat outside, bundled in a thin fall trench coat, waiting for someone to come. Her parents

had had to drop her off early on their way to the office, and trusted her to wander around by herself
for about two hours. Of course, there wasn’t much trouble to get into, especially when one only had
a pocketful of sickles and a few galleons in one’s suitcase. She’d mainly just wandered around, and
when she felt no one was looking, she’d sneak into Nine and Three-Quarters to see if anyone had
gone past her without her noticing.

She was just starting to get hungry when a small blue sports car sidled up to the curb.  In the front

was Sirius, looking quite dashing in muggle name-brand sunglasses and newly-choppily cut hair that
made him look much younger, not at all like the ex-convict she’d met back in third year. He winked
at her as Draco got out of the passenger side and went to the trunk without noticing her. He, on the
other hand, looked exactly as he always had, except for only earlier that summer, when his hair
hung around his eyes and down to his chin and swayed around in such a handsome, carefree fashion.
He’d gone back to gelling it, and the silver-blond locks were swept back in classic vampire fashion.
Blegh. Thought Hermione as he started up the steps, then, halfway up, finally noticed her.

“Hey!” He called and grinned.

She smiled back, a very, very fake smile, and when he got close enough—

“Hermione!” He yelled as she brought her hands up to his hair and ruffled it with a vengeance.

“What the hell!”

“There. That looks better.”

“Wh- what… You… You suck!” he got out of his pocket- she couldn’t believe it- it was a mirror.

He brought it up to his hair and moaned, then went to flattening it back down. “I look like Sirius on
crack with a bottle of peroxide!”

“I’m sorry, you just looked so stupid… So old Draco.” She giggled a little. “Come on, I’ll set it

straight…” she got up on her tiptoes and flattened his hair back down, then sighed. “There you are,
nice and horrible.” He glared at her.

“Well, I’ll be getting a seat now, are you going to stand there mourning your poor hair all day?”

She set off without an answer.

“Yes. Yes I am,” He mumbled, but followed her into the station after stuffing his mirror back into

his pocket.
 

***

Half an hour later Ron and Harry arrived. Hermione was dragging her suitcase into the compartment

with help from Ginny when Draco coughed, wanting her attention. “Yes?” She asked, giving the
suitcase a little kick just as Ginny hopped over it into the compartment.

“Hermione- I’d really… rather not. Sit in there.”

“Draco, where else are you going to-” She stopped as she looked up, see the look on his face. He

looked quite sick, actually, and was jutting his chin into the compartment, where Ron sat in the opposite
seat, bouncing an eraser against his leg and glaring at Draco. Hermione looked back at Draco with a
sympathetic look.

“Well, I’m not sitting with Crabbe and Goyle, if that’s what you mean.” She crossed her arms over

her chest and leaned against the wall, a piece of chestnut covering her eye.

Draco sighed heavily. “Do we absolutely have to sit together?”

“Yes. We agreed on this Draco. We treat it just like any other kids going out. We have to make

sure people know, and they know it isn’t a big deal…”

“I’m not sitting with them though.”

“Okay, I’ll see you tonight.” She made a move to jump over the suitcase herself, when he finally let

out another melodramatic sigh. “I’m not promising I’ll be nice.”

“I can settle for a lack of open hostility.” She held up her hands in compromise. “Now help me get

this in here. You’re being severely disagreeable today, you know that don’t you,”

He mumbled something under his breath. “What was that, Draco Aidan Malfoy?”

“Nothing, mother.”

She glared. Draco turned to Ron and Harry, pointing his finger at them as if they were doing

something very wrong. “I’m warning you. Me going with Hermione does not equal me liking you
two.” They each raised an eyebrow, Ron still bouncing the eraser.
 


***

About thirty minutes into the train ride, Ron had transfigured his eraser to be white. He still

bounced it incessantly against his leg. Harry had been staring at it the entire train ride, hoping
to take his mind off of the uncomfortable silence Draco caused in their normally chattery
compartment.

Ron now got out his wand again. The eraser grew short little legs and bits of fur. Draco glared

contemptuously at Ron, now realizing what he was alluding to. Ron glared back.

Ten minutes later, it was a full-fledged miniature ferret. “Hermione!” Draco suddenly yelled,

making Ginny jump out of her sleep and Harry snap a bit back to consciousness. Hermione
looked barely disheveled, she was immersed in Hogwarts: A History.

“Yes?”

“He’s… he’s taunting me!”

Hermione closed her eyes and heard a scuffle. “Hermione!”

“Yes Ron?”

“He stole my eraser!” Ron pointed at Draco, outraged. Draco tried to open the window,

obviously hoping to throw the eraser out.

“You don’t even need an eraser, Weasley, you use ink!”

“Yeah! But it’s my eraser!”

Hermione finally looked up, shooting both boys venomous glances. “Draco, give Ron his eraser.

Ron, turn it back into an eraser and put it away.”

Ron smirked at Draco as he reluctantly handed him the ferret. “Whipped, fwi-chew!” Ron

murmured under his breath.

“Ronald!” Hermione warned. The rest of the train ride was relatively peaceful.
 
 
 

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