Title: My Lemon Drop Frog Prince

Rating: PG-13 for language, abuse in one or two later chapters, and crude humor

Summary: Draco and Ginny switch bodies. Why? Because he supposedly has everything and she supposedly has nothing. One of Dumbledore's more brilliant plans to promote welfare and friendship between houses…Get read for a bumpy ride ^.^

A/N: In this fic, Ginny is in sixth year and Malfoy in seventh but there is no second war because I don't feel like dealing with serious issues in this fic. This story is meant to be a light, comedic fic about friends, family, and how having nothing could actually be having more than having everything if that makes sense to anyone besides me O.o And besides, I haven't finished the fifth book yet. ^.^;; I don't want to write anything that might go against anything that was in the fifth book. I still might do that but you'll all have to bear it because I haven't finished the fifth book. Been too busy to. But there will be a bit of angst and seriousness when…well it deals with abuse and such so it will be a bit more serious at one point, but it'll mostly be light and humorous.  

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My Lemon Drop Frog Prince

Chapter I

She was going to be late for Potions again and Snape would be livid! It was only about three months into Ginny Weasley's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and she had already been late for Potions five times. Well, it was a very long run from the Magical Healing classroom to the Potions dungeon. She leapt over the last few stair of the main stairwell in the Entrance Hall and whipped around the end of the banister only to collide into something very solid where Ginny could've sworn there should've been air.

After stumbling back a few steps from the force of the impact, Ginny looked up into the smirking face of Draco Malfoy and any apology she was about to spill died on her lips.

"Well well, looks like I've caught myself a rodent," Malfoy drawled.

"You know, that gets funnier and funnier every time you say it Malfoy. How many times have you called me that same name now? Three, four, five hundred times now? Doesn't it ever get old?" Ginny asked.

"You have pretty big words for someone whose family doesn't have two sickles to rub together to make a fire and more children than they can afford," Malfoy sneered.

The words hurt but Ginny wasn't about to let a git like Malfoy know that, so she glared.

"You may be able to buy anything Malfoy, but that doesn't give you the right to look down on people!"

Malfoy mockingly placed a perfectly manicured finger to his chin and rolled his eyes toward the ceiling as if carefully considering her words. Then he looked back down at her, smirking. "Mmm, yes, I think it does actually."

"Money can't buy a loving family!" Ginny told him, immediately embarrassed she had mentioned something like that to Malfoy, and Malfoy just snorted.

"I already have a family, remember weasel? I don't need to buy one."

"Maybe you should ask yourself if you're truly happy and if you find the answer to be that you're not, which I'm fairly certain you will, then you should maybe rethink your life since you're obviously missing something," Ginny informed him and then walked past him towards the door to Snape's dungeons. Then she looked back over her shoulder and added, as an afterthought, "Oh, and weasels aren't rodents. They're just mammals." With that said, she reached for the handle to the wooden dungeon door and then changed her mind, opting instead to go outside and out into the gardens. She didn't feel like dealing with Snape at the moment after that little conversation she had had with Malfoy. She took a seat at one of the many benches in the gardens, placing her book bag down at her feet.

She couldn't believe she had said something like that to Malfoy. He didn't care about any of her ideals. And who did he think he was, insulting her family like that? Well, he did it often enough so Ginny shouldn't have been so surprised but it was one thing to insult her and a completely different thing to insult her family!

"Strange things these Muggle lemon drops are, hmm?"

Ginny jumped and whipped her head around to see the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, standing behind her, looking amused and placing a lemon drop in his mouth.

"Oddly sour on the outside but amazingly and surprisingly sweet and soft in its core. Amusing hmm?"

'Well,' Ginny thought, 'at least he doesn't seem angry that I'm skipping Potions class.'

"Y-yes sir, very amusing I'm sure," Ginny agreed, though she had never had a Muggle lemon drop.

"And even more amusing still: I just ran into Mr. Malfoy, almost literally since he seemed so deep in thought and didn't see me at all. And I thought that since you were out of class and he was out of class, that you may just have had something to do with Mr. Malfoy's pensive mood, though it may be sheer coincidence."

Ginny looked down at her hands in her lap sheepishly. "Well, I think I may have a little bit to do with it but when I said it, I didn't think he'd take it so seriously. I thought he would just brush it off as ludicrous."

"It didn't seem to me like he found it ludicrous as he seemed to be thinking very carefully about whatever you said," Dumbledore said, taking a seat beside her on the bench, and Ginny guessed that he wanted her to continue.

"He was…he upset me so I said that he couldn't buy a loving family and that if he thought about his life and found himself to be unhappy, he must be missing something."

Dumbledore smiled and chuckled softly. "Miss Weasley, you may have-as the Muggles like to say-'hit the screw on the nose' about Mr. Malfoy though he may not think so now. He is missing somethings indeed, some very important things which I believe you already figured out: love and friendship, two very essential parts of life."

Ginny thought about all of this for a moment and then frowned. "But sir…Why are you telling me all of this instead of Malfoy?"

Dumbledore was silent for so long as he looked out over the gardens that Ginny didn't expect him to answer and so jumped when he finally did speak. "Perhaps I'm telling you instead of Mr. Malfoy because you seem to understand Mr. Malfoy better than even he himself does."

Then he stood and gripped her shoulder comfortingly before going back into the castle.

A bit less than an hour later, Ginny, still in the gardens, saw students beginning to leave their classes and head to their Common Rooms to drop off their books and bags before going to the Great Hall for dinner.

Walking back into the castle, pushing the strap of her book bag up on her shoulder, Ginny saw Malfoy walking towards her and she decided to ignore him and head up the main stairwell towards the Gryffindor Common Room. Now this plan would've worked just fine if her feet didn't decide to take her right towards him.

"What the-?" Ginny muttered as her feet totally disregarded her efforts to turn to the main stairwell. It was as if her feet were ignoring any signals her brain was sending down. She was still walking right towards Malfoy. She kept trying to make herself turn, but she was still pulled right toward him. So her next idea was to stop completely and that didn't work either.

"Malfoy, move! I can't change direction or stop!" Ginny shouted, waving her arms and gesturing for him to move aside.

"I can't do anything either, Weasley!" Draco shouted back, utterly perplexed.

The way things were progressing, Draco and Ginny inevitably collided, Draco muttering curses. As Ginny passed by Draco after their collision, she thought nothing had really happened, but then with a sudden surge of panic, Ginny realized that certain body parts essential to the female gender were missing and that she had gained certain body parts essential to the male gender.

Draco was also noticing the same thing except that had gained female body parts and had lost his male ones. He also felt considerably shorter.

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A/N-Can't you already tell where all the crude humor will come in ^.^ Anyway, I love this story so far. I've been a big Ginny/Draco fan but I never really wrote a Ginny/Draco fanfic of my own so I'm excited. From here on out, things start to get bumpy as Ginny and Draco try to juggle pretending to be each other around each other's friends (and Draco doesn't like Ginny's friends too much…) while trying to get along with each other at the same time.