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"Regular talk"

"Ssnake talk"

'Thoughts'

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Slithery Transformation

"Mr. Potter, may I ask why is your potion green instead of blue?" asked Professor Snape as he stared frowning into Harry's cauldron.

Harry sighed as he looked down at the swirling green liquid that he was currently adding ingredients to.

"I don't know sir," was all the seventeen year old could say.

Snape sneered as he looked at the student.

"Five points from Gryffindor," he said as he strode back to his desk. Harry sighed as he continued to add ingredients, trying to salvage his potion, if he could.

Hermione leaned over toward Harry.

"What did you do wrong this time?" she asked him.

"Nothing, I don't know why my potion is green instead of blue. I followed the instructions correctly, I used the right ingredients, what did I do wrong?" Harry asked himself.

Hermione looked down at the ingredients that were laid out beside the cauldron and frowned. She reached over and lifted up a small bottle filled with dry green scales, her eyes widened in shock.

"Harry! You weren't supposed to add serpents scales to the invisibility potion!" she exclaimed, causing Harry to look away from his work, neither noticing when a boy with blond hair dropped a wizard firecracker into the cauldron.

When Harry turned back to his potion, he noticed that it had started to smoke, his eyes widened in realization.

"Oh, no…" he murmured aloud.

Hermione leaned over again and looked.

"What…now what did you do?" she asked horrified.

Harry threw his hands into the air.

"I didn't do anything! I just turned back and saw tha-!"

KA-BOOM!!

Suddenly the potion exploded, sending up a cloud of green smoke that surrounded both Harry and Hermione. Professor Snape pulled out his wand and banished the smoke, he then glared at both shocked Gryffindor's.

"Ten points from Gryffindor! I will see you, Mr. Potter tomorrow for detention. And you miss. Granger, get back to your cauldron!" he snapped at them.

A snicker from his right turned Harry to face a smirking Draco Malfoy, who was pretending to act innocent.

"Well, Potter, can't seem to make a potion like your supposed to, can you?" he sneered.

"Stuff it Malfoy!" growled Harry.

Malfoy sneered back and then returned to his cauldron. Harry went back to trying to save his potion when there was an explosion from Neville's cauldron, forcing professor Snape to take more points from Gryffindor and to dismiss the class early.

"Mr. Potter, remember to come here tomorrow for you detention at seven!" called Snape.

Harry sighed as he walked out of the classroom and followed Hermione. As both of them reached the stairs Hermione suddenly began to swoon and hold her head.

"Hermione! What's wrong?" asked Harry as he latched onto her arm to keep her from falling.

The girl shook her head and looked at Harry.

"I don't know, just then I felt dizzy and now I am fine…Harry!" she exclaimed as she looked at her friend who also began to swoon.

Harry grabbed onto the wall for support and rubbed his forehead with his other hand. Hermione placed a steadying hand on his shoulder, a worried look on her face.

"I'm fine 'Mione, just a little dizzy, like you said," said Harry.

Hermione sighed with relief and then helped Harry to stand up.

"Come on, let's drop off our books in our dorms and go visit Hagrid while we have the time," she suggested.

Harry smiled and nodded his head. They arrived at the portrait of the pink lady and said the password. Just as they both stepped in they ran into a boy with red hair on his way out. The boy looked at them both and smiled.

"Hey Harry! Hey Hermione! What are you two doing here, don't you still have potions?" asked Ron Weasley to his best friends.

Harry smiled and shook his head.

"Neville blew up his cauldron again, causing the classroom to be filled with smoke. Snape ended class early and so here we are!"

Ron's cheerful manner left and he sighed as he rubbed the back of his head.

"You two are really lucky, you know that? Because right now I have to be in charms. I wish that we had all managed to get the same classes like all the other years," said Ran.

Hermione put a hand on his shoulder and smiled slightly.

"Don't worry Ron, we will see you at lunch," she said trying to cheer him up.

"Yeah mate, we will see you then and afterwards you and me hit the wizards chess board?" asked Harry.

Ron instantly brightened and he smirked at harry.

"Your on! And you know I am just going to beat you, again!"

Harry smirked back while Hermione rolled her eyes and left the two boys to their discussion. Ron looked at his watch and his eyes widened.

"Crud! I need to get going, I will see you later Harry! Latter 'Mione!"

"Later Ron!" called Harry after his friend.

Suddenly Harry's vision went blurry and his head felt light. He leaned against the wall and waited for the dizzy spell to pass. The feeling of someone's hand on his shoulder made him jump and spin around to see a concerned Hermione.

"Are you alright Harry?" she asked.

Harry nodded.

"Yes, thank you. But what about you did you also have another dizzy spell?"

"A small one, though it did last a little longer this time. Harry, I'm worried do you think the potion did something to us? Should we go see Madame Pomfrey?" asked Hermione.

Harry though for a minute and shook his head.

"I don't think anything serious is happening to us. These just might be a side effect of a bad potion, maybe some of Hagrid's tea might help," said Harry as he led the way back through the portrait.

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Harry and Hermione were just reaching Hagrid's hut when they both had another dizzy spell only this time it didn't go away.

"What is…going on?" asked Hermione as she began to stumble.

Harry rubbed his head and leaned against a tree as the world began to spin in front of his eyes.

"I…I don't…know!"

Hermione tried to step away from the tree and ended up stumbling into the edge of the forbidden forest.

"Hermione!" cried Harry and he stumbled in after her.

He found her leaning against a tree, her face starting to turn green.

"I think…I am…going to be sick!" she said and then leaned over, emptying her stomach of its contents.

Harry ended up throwing up as well and when he started to stand back up and rub his head, his hand came away with a few strands of his hair.

"What the?" exclaimed Harry as he reached back and grabbed a whole handful of his hair.

A scream from Hermione caused Harry to look and see her holding a bunch of her brown locks in her hands, while more were scattered on the ground around her feet.

"What's happening, why is our hair falling out?" asked Hermione in fright.

"I don't know! Maybe the potion had more of an effect than we thou- Ahh!" cried Harry as he doubled over in pain and fell to the ground.

"Harry are you alr-Uhh!" cried Hermione as she also fell to the ground, doubled over in pain.

Harry groaned and grunted as he felt his body begin to shift and change. He bit back screams of pain as his bones seemed to lengthen and his muscles seemed to grow. Harry opened his eyes and stared at Hermione, when he noticed that he was staring at her without his glasses and he was seeing her clearly. Hermione's body looked the same, only it was beginning to be covered in green scales, her height appeared to have increased because her uniform had ripped apart. Her head and face began taking on the shape of a snake's head and as she opened her mouth to scream Harry noticed two fangs had appeared.

The pain then spread to his own face and he cried in pain, just as his skin began to itch. He bit his lip as the tips of his fingers flared with pain. His vision began to go black and he felt faint. As he lost consciousness he could hear Hermione shouting at him through her own pain.

"Harry… What is happening to uss…Harry can you hear me? Harry ansswer me…Harry!" and with that Harry's vision went black.

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The feeling of someone shaking his body and the chill of the wind, brought Harry back to wakefulness.

"Harry wake up! Ssomething hass happened to uss, Harry pleasse I am sscared!" said Hermione's voice though it sounded a little different.

Harry opened his eyes and his eyes widened at the sight of his friend. Instead of a seventeen year old girl leaning over him, there was a tall, green, humanoid snake that was holding a much to short robe around a very curvy frame. As Harry looked closer he noticed that there were tears sliding down the creatures cheeks as it stared at him.

When it noticed he was awake it gave a strangled cry and wrapped its arms around him and Harry began to panic, until it spoke.

"Oh Harry, thank goodnesss that you are okay! I wass sso worried!" she sobbed, wait she?

Harry pushed the crying creature away from him and looked into her eyes. He saw two brown orbs with slit pupils filled with fear and worry staring back at him. Harry gasped.

"Her-Hermione? What happened to you?" the boy asked, not even noticing he wasn't speaking English.

Hermione started to cry again as she looked at the ground, she placed her snakehead in her now clawed hands, releasing her robe. Harry quickly reached out and pulled it closed before he could see her body, when he stared at his own, clawed hands.

His hands were covered in the same scales as Hermione's only his were of a darker green. Harry looked down at the rest of his body with wide open eyes. His body had apparently increased in height as well, his body, which had been of a slight build his whole life, was now of medium build and covered in the same scales as his hands. His chest was bulging slightly with muscle, as well as his arms and legs. He felt his face and head, realizing that it was also snake shaped and when he let out a sigh, his tongue slithered out of his mouth and wiggled it around his mouth feeling two fangs.

For a few minutes Harry sat there in stunned silence, listening to Hermione's sobs as she wept into her hands. Finally Harry crawled over to her and pulled her into an embrace. Hermione wrapped her arms around Harry and cried into the folds of his robe on his shoulder. Harry placed a hand on the back of her head and rubbed it gently.

"Sssh, it'ss okay Hermione. We will figure thiss out, don't cry, it'ss alright," whispered Harry.

He stiffened when he realized that the whole time he had been talking he was speaking in snake tongue. He then pulled back and held Hermione by her shoulders.

"Hermione, what language are you sspeaking right now?" Harry asked her.

Hermione wiped her eyes and stared into Harry's slit green ones.

"E-englissh, why? Am I sspeaking ssomthing elsse?" she asked with a worried tone in her voice, which still sounded strange.

Harry nodded while he pondered why her voice sounded a little different.

"Yess, Hermione, you are sspeaking ssnake like me, right now!" as he spoke Harry listened to his own voice and he noticed that it sounded a little deeper.

"I-I am? I-it musst be becausse we are now part ssnake! Harry, thiss iss what the potion did to uss!" exclaimed Hermione in realization.

Harry slowly nodded as he continued to try and figure out why their voices were different, when he suddenly smacked himself in the forehead.

"How could I have not noticed thiss before?"

Hermione raised an eye ridge at Harry's statement.

"Noticed what?"

"Hermione, have you noticed anything different about the way my voice ssounds?" asked Harry as he looked over at her.

Hermione cocked her tearstained face to the side and gasped.

"Y-your voice ssounds deeper, almosst as if you are older…Wait a minute! Harry you do look older, like you are twenty-one yearss old!" she exclaimed.

Harry nodded his head.

"Sso do you 'Mione, I believe that the potion not only turned uss into humanoid ssnakes but made uss older as well! I think it made uss both twenty-one!"

Hermione stared at Harry with growing dread.

"But, Harry, what are we going to do now? We obvioussly cant go back to Hogwartss, they wouldn't recognize uss. For one we are older than the resst of the sstudent body, another iss we cant sspeak englissh anymore, and finally we don't ressemble what we used to look like! I mean Harry, that your sscar iss gone!" Hermione stated with shaking hands.

Harry quickly slid his claws across the spot where his scar used to be, but felt nothing. He then grabbed Hermione's shaking hands with his own and pulled her close, she leaned her head against his well-muscled chest and sighed.

"We will find a way Hermione, we will! Right now all we can do iss find a better way to cover ourselvess and then find a sshelter for uss. I will protect you!" said Harry as he released one of her hands and held her head to his chest, while she placed her hand on his chest.

Hermione relaxed at the feeling of his touch on her head and closed her eyes while she ran her hand over the scaly, green skin of Harry's chest, feeling the muscles underneath tense at her soft touch, she smiled to herself.

'I know you will my mate, wait! Where did that come from? Why am I thinking of Harry as my mate? I am not an animal, well maybe to some extent but, Uhh, he is not your mate!' Hermione thought to herself as her body tensed.

Harry looked down at her with worry in his eyes.

"Hermione are you alright?" he said as he flicked out his tongue, he could sense feelings of embarrassment and nervousness coming off her in waves.

Hermione sighed as she calmed herself down.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine Harry, jusst a little cold, that'ss all!" she said as she shivered from the breeze.

Harry stared at her with concern for a minute and then smiled. He stood up, pulling what remained of his robe around him, and helped Hermione to her feet.

"Come then, let'ss ssee if we can find uss ssome sshelter from the wind!" and with that he grabbed his cloak that had ripped off of the clasp and wrapped it around Hermione's shoulders.

He wrapped an arm around her and led her farther into the forest. As they walked Hermione laid her head against Harry's shoulder and pulled the cloak tighter about herself, for some reason this felt right to her and she was comfortable with that. Harry looked down at her head and smiled, he liked the feeling of her bare skin touching his arm.

'Wait now where did that thought come from? Seesh, pull yourself together Harry!' he shook his head and continued to lead them into the trees.

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Well what did you think of this first chapter? I know I don't remember much about Harry Potter, but I am at least willing to try! Please Review I would like to know what you think of this story so far!

-Dune

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