When McGonagall had informed Hermione that she would be tutoring Draco Malfoy for the next six months, she was horrified. Nevertheless, she prepared her belongings and met with Malfoy in the library the day of the lesson. She was embarrassed to see him after the Saturday breakfast, and she wondered if he had caught her looking at him. She hoped not. But she was sure she could trust him to keep the secret to himself if he had.
"Er-hi, Her-Granger," Malfoy said as Hermione sat across from him at a table in the library.
"What happened to Mudblood?" Hermione said cooly, determinedly searching around her bad for her textbook.
"Mudblood," Draco said, almost teasingly. Hermione couldn't help but smile a little.
"Okay, so we should begin," Hermione said hurriedly, in case he had noticed her smiling. "So human Transfigurations...." As she explained the lesson, she couldn't help but notice that Draco was actually a very attentive student. He focused on work and took notes. Not once did he mock or tease her. The lesson went relatively quickly, and they spared an extra forty minutes. Hermione suggested a few books for Draco to read in order to improve his Transfiguration marks. She suggested they look for them in the library together, and they quickly found most of them on the dusty shelves with them both looking.
"He-Granger! I can't see....Is this the Transfigurations Through the Centuries one?" Hermione heard him shout as she scanned the shelves for Figure to Falter: A Study of Failed Human Transfigurations.
She followed Draco's voice to a thin aisle of books. The book he pointed to was positioned particularly high up in a shelf, but if she squinted, she could just make out the label.
"Yes, it is, but I can't reach," she said.
"I can't either." Neither of them were particularly tall. "Maybe Madam Pince?"
"She's helping a student. We shouldn't distract her." Hermione furrowed her brow. Draco couldn't help but notice how cute she looked when she did this.
"Maybe I could lift you and you could get it?" he suggested.
Hermione winced. "We can ask her next time. We've found enough for this lesson. Just read them before the next, okay?"
Draco nodded. Hermione still had her brow furrowed, thinking hard. She suddenly noticed him looking at her. "What?" she demanded.
Draco blushed. "Nothing." He could tell she was blushing too.