Honestly, he acted all mighty and cocky with Potter and Parkinson, but he wasn’t sure if he could do it. Hermione Granger wasn’t one of the girls that would easily fall onto his lap and he had no idea how to approach her, especially since she had been untouchable since their first year. And, well, he’d been kind of a jerk back then, and the war didn’t help either. However, it was a challenge, and he always loved those. He wasn’t going to disappoint. He just needed a decent plan to make her swoon–and he could use the Runes project to his advantage. Maybe he could just start small, with some gift and being nice, then move onto bigger cannonballs when she started to warm to him.