"So how are we going to do this? I mean do you think that your friends
won't notice that you're a little different?" Ginny asked.
"We've already gone over this Gin. We both know about each other and our families, so all we need now is the potion ingredients. We already got the lacewing flies, leeches, fluxweed, and knotgrass," she said scanning the page. "We'll have to steal the powdered bicorn horn and the shredded boomslang skin. I really don't want to get into trouble doing this Gin, and how do we know that we can even make this? I mean, Polyjuice Potion is really hard to make, and you have to do it just perfectly or it won't work," Draco replied back.
Draco and Ginny got to be good friends the past year. It all started one day when Draco was being his usual git-faced-bastard-self. They talked and became friends with each other. Of course they love each other, but they aren't dating.
"Draco calm you ass down. All I have to do is sneak in there sometime and grab it when he's not looking. It's as simple as that. Besides if anything goes wrong, I'll tell Snape that it was all your idea and you can take all the blame," she joked.
"Ha ha very funny. Look lets put the ingredients that we have here with us in the potion now and get the other stuff tomorrow. Then when we have enough time we can figure out a way to make it last longer that an hour a serving, ok?"
"Gotcha. Lets get going; this might take a while to do so we better hurry up. I really would like to get some sleep tonight it you don't mind. I would like to sleep in my own room up in Gryffindor tower, and not down here in your room in the Slytherin dungeon. I don't think that you mind too much Draco. Do you?" She teased.
""Don't tempt me little girl. Look tomorrow I'll stop by your class in the morning and get Snape out of there long enough for you to get the stuff, okay? Can you make some sort of distraction for the students too, so they wont see you go into his private storage?" Draco asked.
"I'll try. I think I still got some muggle fireworks from this summer. I can light those off and then just hope nobody sees me go in there. What happens if somebody does see me?"
"You can just wipe their memory. It's not as hard as it looks. Or you can use this," he said pulling out an invisibility cloak.
"Wow, where did you get that? Is that Harry's?" Ginny asked running her hands over the soft silky material.
"So sorry to disappoint you but this is one hundred percent mine. I bought it with my own money and I think that it should be used a little more often. If I get caught with this thing than I'll lose my prefect badge. Do you want to hold on to this and put it to good use tomorrow?"
Draco dangled the cloak in front of her face and when she went to grab it he pulled it up so she couldn't reach it. He walked backward until he reached the wall.
"Give it here Mr. Malfoy before I have to result to desperate measures," Ginny threatened.
"And what will happen if I don't Miss Weasley? Are you going to get violent? I do like my women when they want to be in control, even though they never are."
"Don't temp yourself Draco. I'll never be one of your little one-night- stands. I'm not a whore like Pansy or Pavarti and Padma. I don't just sleep with anyone, unlike someone I know."
Draco put his hand up to his chest and said, "That hurts Ginny. It really does, and I think I'm going to cry now. See what you did? You're making me cry."
Fake tears were coming down his face and Ginny took the chance to tease him. Every since they became friends Draco has wanted to sleep with Ginny but she had refused because of all the girls that he seems to use. Ginny got right up into his face and brought her tongue lightly up his face where one of the tears had trailed. He shivered under her touch and reached around her waist and brought his head down to kiss her. She broke out of his grasp and started to laugh. Hard.
"Did you really think that I was going to fall for that trick? I've seen you do it so many times to girls and they fall right into your trap. I'm not like most girls Draco. You of all people should know that by now. Besides, think what it would do to our beautiful friendship if this happened," she whispered motioning to the air between them. "All would be hell and I wouldn't be able to do it. Trust me Draco, I could be the top priority on your list, but guess what. It will never happen, end of story. Would you be willing to risk our friendship over a shag and go? Because I know that you do that to girls. Shag them and then leave them, and I am not looking for somebody who is like that."
"You're right Ginny. I would never not want to be friends with you. As much as I want to shag you, I'll try and keep my hormones down when I see you. Now go to your room and go to bed. It's late and if you stay here any longer than I am going to lay you down on that bed right there…"
"Shut up I'm leaving. Night Draco."
She leaned up and kissed him on the cheek.
"Night Ginny. See ya tomorrow."
With that Ginny left Draco and went upstairs to her room with the cloak in her hand.
I shouldn't be thinking of her that way. She's my best friend for god's sake. I know, I know, I shouldn't think like that but I really love her and she thinks that all I want to do is shag her then break it off. I would never do that to Ginny. She is the one that helped put my father in Azkaban. She helped me discover that being a death eater is a bad decision and not one that I choose.
Draco put his head in his hands sighed.
"Why me? Why Her? Why do I have to be in love with my best friend? Nobody even knows that I like her as much as I do let alone loving her," Draco confessed to nobody. What he didn't know is that Ginny was standing at his door with the invisibility cloak on.
* * *
"Excuse me Professor Snape, can I have a word please?" Draco asked the next morning. He glanced over at Ginny, gave her a smile and winked.
"Yes Mr. Malfoy, let me just give out the directions. Class, please turn to page 223 in your potions textbook and collect your ingredients from the table up here," Snape said. He then walked over to Draco. "Yes Mr. Malfoy, how can I help you?"
"Well Professor, it's like this…"
* * *
"Hey what's that?" Colin Creevy asked.
Ginny had just set off her fireworks and they began whizzing around the classroom. Everybody was ducking under his or her desks trying to take cover. Ginny took her chance to slip on Draco's cloak and go into Snape's private storage. She got out the list she had in her pocket and scrolled down it.
Powdered bicorn horn and the shredded boomslang skin.
"Here it is! Good, I hope Snape's not back yet."
Ginny quietly stepped out of the classroom and got under a desk. She carefully made sure nobody was looking, and then took off the cloak. Professor Snape walked into the classroom and immediately ducked when the firework went right over his head. He pointed his wand at the object and yelled "Stupefy!"
He looked around the classroom at all the students and at the big mess that they caused.
"I step out for one minute, and you practically destroy my classroom? How pathetic are you people. You can't even last one day without causing a ruckus."
He looked at all the students when his eyes landed on Ginny.
"Well Miss Weasley, will you care to tell me what happened here?" Snape asked. "I trust that you know what happened here, even though you did hide like a little baby under the desk."
"Well everybody went up to get our potion ingredients and then that thing went off. It went buzzing around the room and nobody could stop it. A couple of them burnt out, but I think that the other one was charmed or something because it didn't stop until you stopped it," Ginny admitted. What she told was pure truth. Everybody did go up to get his or her ingredients and then the firecracker went off. She just wasn't in the room for most of the time he was gone.
Draco looked in the room right behind Professor Snape and saw the mess. He looked for Ginny and caught her eye and mouthed, "Good work."
"Thanks," she mouthed back.
"Mr. Malfoy, we will have to talk about this some other time, I hope you can work out your little ah… problem by yourself. If you need me, just talk to me during class this afternoon."
Draco turned and went out the door. Nobody saw the smirk that was plastered on his face.
"Now class, may I ask who did," he paused for a second and then said, "This?"
Nobody said anything, which made Snape even more impatient.
"Fine, class dismissed. Miss Weasley, will you please come up here for a minute," Snape asked.
Her fellow Gryffindors gave her words of encouragement and pleading looks.
"I know that you had nothing to do with this Miss Weasley and I am glad. Mr. Malfoy wishes me to give you this."
He handed her a rolled up piece of parchment.
"Thank you sir," Ginny said and quickly left the classroom. Once she was down the hallway a ways she unrolled the parchment and read it. It was short and to the point.
It said:
Ginny,
I hope that you got the ingredients safely. Meet me in my room at ten o'clock tonight. ~Draco~
* * *
"Did you get it?" Draco asked as soon as she arrived that night.
"Yes I did. Thanks to your spectacular distraction… and my fireworks display. Wait, all we have to do now is add this stuff in and then wait a little while, and then it will be ready to drink. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I found a way for the potion to last longer, but once you've changed, you can't change back for a week," Draco contemplated this idea.
"Well what do you have to do to make it last that long?" Ginny questioned.
"A couple drops of blood. It's stronger by far from a piece of hair. Okay, now that the potion is all together, all we have to do is wait, and then we can drink it up. Write out your schedule for me so I can remember what classes to take. This is going to be so much fun!"
Draco grabbed Ginny and swung her around in a circle before putting her back down. He gave her a quick peck on the cheek and said, "Go to bed and I'll find you when it gets finished. Until then." He gave her another kiss and then went into his bathroom and shut the door behind him.
* * *
"Ginny, where are you?" Draco whispered in her dorm room at one o'clock three days later.
"Draco? What are you doing up here? You can't be up here! I have roommates and if they see you they'll flip. Come over here quick!"
Ginny grabbed him by the hand and yanked him onto her bed. He was going to make a comment about her "wanting him there all along" but she covered his mouth with her hand and gave him a look that plainly said "shut up."
"Now what did you have to come up here at one o'clock in the morning to tell me?" Ginny asked very frustrated.
Muffled sounds came from his mouth and then Ginny realized that she still had her hand on his mouth. She removed it and mumbled a "sorry."
"I'm sorry that I woke you up, but I figured that you might want to know that the Polyjuice Potion is done, and I think that we should take it now before today's classes start. It'll give us some time to get used to each other's bodies. I know that I'm going to be walking funny because I'll be a half a foot shorter."
"Hey, I'm not short. I'm actually tall for my age," Ginny seethed.
"Get your knickers out of that bunch and shut up. I wasn't saying that you were short, just shorter than me. Now lets go. I want to hurry up and do this and get it over with so I can get some more sleep before we have to go to breakfast," Draco stated.
"Oh, okay let's go."
* * *
"What is this Draco?" Ginny asked.
There was a table set up with two shot glasses, a dagger, and two sets of clothes were next to it.
"What does it look like? The clothes are for after we change into each other so we can have something to sleep in. The dagger is to cut your finger so you can get your blood in the potion, and the shot glasses are just a stylish way to go into the lives of each other. Now sit your ass down and let me pour you a drink," he said with a wink.
He poured the potion into the two glasses the cut his finger with the long pointy knife. It cut him immediately and he winced in pain. He held his finger over the glass and let a couple of drops land in it before he pulled it back and put it in his mouth. He then handed it to Ginny who wiped it on her robes to get his blood off of it. She followed the same steps that Draco did and once she was finished they exchanged glasses.
"On three. One. Two. Three!"
"We've already gone over this Gin. We both know about each other and our families, so all we need now is the potion ingredients. We already got the lacewing flies, leeches, fluxweed, and knotgrass," she said scanning the page. "We'll have to steal the powdered bicorn horn and the shredded boomslang skin. I really don't want to get into trouble doing this Gin, and how do we know that we can even make this? I mean, Polyjuice Potion is really hard to make, and you have to do it just perfectly or it won't work," Draco replied back.
Draco and Ginny got to be good friends the past year. It all started one day when Draco was being his usual git-faced-bastard-self. They talked and became friends with each other. Of course they love each other, but they aren't dating.
"Draco calm you ass down. All I have to do is sneak in there sometime and grab it when he's not looking. It's as simple as that. Besides if anything goes wrong, I'll tell Snape that it was all your idea and you can take all the blame," she joked.
"Ha ha very funny. Look lets put the ingredients that we have here with us in the potion now and get the other stuff tomorrow. Then when we have enough time we can figure out a way to make it last longer that an hour a serving, ok?"
"Gotcha. Lets get going; this might take a while to do so we better hurry up. I really would like to get some sleep tonight it you don't mind. I would like to sleep in my own room up in Gryffindor tower, and not down here in your room in the Slytherin dungeon. I don't think that you mind too much Draco. Do you?" She teased.
""Don't tempt me little girl. Look tomorrow I'll stop by your class in the morning and get Snape out of there long enough for you to get the stuff, okay? Can you make some sort of distraction for the students too, so they wont see you go into his private storage?" Draco asked.
"I'll try. I think I still got some muggle fireworks from this summer. I can light those off and then just hope nobody sees me go in there. What happens if somebody does see me?"
"You can just wipe their memory. It's not as hard as it looks. Or you can use this," he said pulling out an invisibility cloak.
"Wow, where did you get that? Is that Harry's?" Ginny asked running her hands over the soft silky material.
"So sorry to disappoint you but this is one hundred percent mine. I bought it with my own money and I think that it should be used a little more often. If I get caught with this thing than I'll lose my prefect badge. Do you want to hold on to this and put it to good use tomorrow?"
Draco dangled the cloak in front of her face and when she went to grab it he pulled it up so she couldn't reach it. He walked backward until he reached the wall.
"Give it here Mr. Malfoy before I have to result to desperate measures," Ginny threatened.
"And what will happen if I don't Miss Weasley? Are you going to get violent? I do like my women when they want to be in control, even though they never are."
"Don't temp yourself Draco. I'll never be one of your little one-night- stands. I'm not a whore like Pansy or Pavarti and Padma. I don't just sleep with anyone, unlike someone I know."
Draco put his hand up to his chest and said, "That hurts Ginny. It really does, and I think I'm going to cry now. See what you did? You're making me cry."
Fake tears were coming down his face and Ginny took the chance to tease him. Every since they became friends Draco has wanted to sleep with Ginny but she had refused because of all the girls that he seems to use. Ginny got right up into his face and brought her tongue lightly up his face where one of the tears had trailed. He shivered under her touch and reached around her waist and brought his head down to kiss her. She broke out of his grasp and started to laugh. Hard.
"Did you really think that I was going to fall for that trick? I've seen you do it so many times to girls and they fall right into your trap. I'm not like most girls Draco. You of all people should know that by now. Besides, think what it would do to our beautiful friendship if this happened," she whispered motioning to the air between them. "All would be hell and I wouldn't be able to do it. Trust me Draco, I could be the top priority on your list, but guess what. It will never happen, end of story. Would you be willing to risk our friendship over a shag and go? Because I know that you do that to girls. Shag them and then leave them, and I am not looking for somebody who is like that."
"You're right Ginny. I would never not want to be friends with you. As much as I want to shag you, I'll try and keep my hormones down when I see you. Now go to your room and go to bed. It's late and if you stay here any longer than I am going to lay you down on that bed right there…"
"Shut up I'm leaving. Night Draco."
She leaned up and kissed him on the cheek.
"Night Ginny. See ya tomorrow."
With that Ginny left Draco and went upstairs to her room with the cloak in her hand.
I shouldn't be thinking of her that way. She's my best friend for god's sake. I know, I know, I shouldn't think like that but I really love her and she thinks that all I want to do is shag her then break it off. I would never do that to Ginny. She is the one that helped put my father in Azkaban. She helped me discover that being a death eater is a bad decision and not one that I choose.
Draco put his head in his hands sighed.
"Why me? Why Her? Why do I have to be in love with my best friend? Nobody even knows that I like her as much as I do let alone loving her," Draco confessed to nobody. What he didn't know is that Ginny was standing at his door with the invisibility cloak on.
* * *
"Excuse me Professor Snape, can I have a word please?" Draco asked the next morning. He glanced over at Ginny, gave her a smile and winked.
"Yes Mr. Malfoy, let me just give out the directions. Class, please turn to page 223 in your potions textbook and collect your ingredients from the table up here," Snape said. He then walked over to Draco. "Yes Mr. Malfoy, how can I help you?"
"Well Professor, it's like this…"
* * *
"Hey what's that?" Colin Creevy asked.
Ginny had just set off her fireworks and they began whizzing around the classroom. Everybody was ducking under his or her desks trying to take cover. Ginny took her chance to slip on Draco's cloak and go into Snape's private storage. She got out the list she had in her pocket and scrolled down it.
Powdered bicorn horn and the shredded boomslang skin.
"Here it is! Good, I hope Snape's not back yet."
Ginny quietly stepped out of the classroom and got under a desk. She carefully made sure nobody was looking, and then took off the cloak. Professor Snape walked into the classroom and immediately ducked when the firework went right over his head. He pointed his wand at the object and yelled "Stupefy!"
He looked around the classroom at all the students and at the big mess that they caused.
"I step out for one minute, and you practically destroy my classroom? How pathetic are you people. You can't even last one day without causing a ruckus."
He looked at all the students when his eyes landed on Ginny.
"Well Miss Weasley, will you care to tell me what happened here?" Snape asked. "I trust that you know what happened here, even though you did hide like a little baby under the desk."
"Well everybody went up to get our potion ingredients and then that thing went off. It went buzzing around the room and nobody could stop it. A couple of them burnt out, but I think that the other one was charmed or something because it didn't stop until you stopped it," Ginny admitted. What she told was pure truth. Everybody did go up to get his or her ingredients and then the firecracker went off. She just wasn't in the room for most of the time he was gone.
Draco looked in the room right behind Professor Snape and saw the mess. He looked for Ginny and caught her eye and mouthed, "Good work."
"Thanks," she mouthed back.
"Mr. Malfoy, we will have to talk about this some other time, I hope you can work out your little ah… problem by yourself. If you need me, just talk to me during class this afternoon."
Draco turned and went out the door. Nobody saw the smirk that was plastered on his face.
"Now class, may I ask who did," he paused for a second and then said, "This?"
Nobody said anything, which made Snape even more impatient.
"Fine, class dismissed. Miss Weasley, will you please come up here for a minute," Snape asked.
Her fellow Gryffindors gave her words of encouragement and pleading looks.
"I know that you had nothing to do with this Miss Weasley and I am glad. Mr. Malfoy wishes me to give you this."
He handed her a rolled up piece of parchment.
"Thank you sir," Ginny said and quickly left the classroom. Once she was down the hallway a ways she unrolled the parchment and read it. It was short and to the point.
It said:
Ginny,
I hope that you got the ingredients safely. Meet me in my room at ten o'clock tonight. ~Draco~
* * *
"Did you get it?" Draco asked as soon as she arrived that night.
"Yes I did. Thanks to your spectacular distraction… and my fireworks display. Wait, all we have to do now is add this stuff in and then wait a little while, and then it will be ready to drink. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I found a way for the potion to last longer, but once you've changed, you can't change back for a week," Draco contemplated this idea.
"Well what do you have to do to make it last that long?" Ginny questioned.
"A couple drops of blood. It's stronger by far from a piece of hair. Okay, now that the potion is all together, all we have to do is wait, and then we can drink it up. Write out your schedule for me so I can remember what classes to take. This is going to be so much fun!"
Draco grabbed Ginny and swung her around in a circle before putting her back down. He gave her a quick peck on the cheek and said, "Go to bed and I'll find you when it gets finished. Until then." He gave her another kiss and then went into his bathroom and shut the door behind him.
* * *
"Ginny, where are you?" Draco whispered in her dorm room at one o'clock three days later.
"Draco? What are you doing up here? You can't be up here! I have roommates and if they see you they'll flip. Come over here quick!"
Ginny grabbed him by the hand and yanked him onto her bed. He was going to make a comment about her "wanting him there all along" but she covered his mouth with her hand and gave him a look that plainly said "shut up."
"Now what did you have to come up here at one o'clock in the morning to tell me?" Ginny asked very frustrated.
Muffled sounds came from his mouth and then Ginny realized that she still had her hand on his mouth. She removed it and mumbled a "sorry."
"I'm sorry that I woke you up, but I figured that you might want to know that the Polyjuice Potion is done, and I think that we should take it now before today's classes start. It'll give us some time to get used to each other's bodies. I know that I'm going to be walking funny because I'll be a half a foot shorter."
"Hey, I'm not short. I'm actually tall for my age," Ginny seethed.
"Get your knickers out of that bunch and shut up. I wasn't saying that you were short, just shorter than me. Now lets go. I want to hurry up and do this and get it over with so I can get some more sleep before we have to go to breakfast," Draco stated.
"Oh, okay let's go."
* * *
"What is this Draco?" Ginny asked.
There was a table set up with two shot glasses, a dagger, and two sets of clothes were next to it.
"What does it look like? The clothes are for after we change into each other so we can have something to sleep in. The dagger is to cut your finger so you can get your blood in the potion, and the shot glasses are just a stylish way to go into the lives of each other. Now sit your ass down and let me pour you a drink," he said with a wink.
He poured the potion into the two glasses the cut his finger with the long pointy knife. It cut him immediately and he winced in pain. He held his finger over the glass and let a couple of drops land in it before he pulled it back and put it in his mouth. He then handed it to Ginny who wiped it on her robes to get his blood off of it. She followed the same steps that Draco did and once she was finished they exchanged glasses.
"On three. One. Two. Three!"