It was a chaotic morning in the Great Hall. Everyone looked frazzled because classes were about to start in exactly 2.5 minutes. There were drinks being spilled everywhere, there was hasty eating of the rather delicious treats made by House Elves and there were some spectators sitting on their respective house benches like Harry, Hermione and Ron.

"I wonder why Dumbledore asked us to stay.." wondered Hermione for the 10th time this morning.

Ron was looking agitated. "No idea, Hermione! This might as well be the tenth time you've said the same thing this morning!"

"Alright then! I'll stop talking!" Even she looked irritated now, then started muttering incoherently under her breath..'something about voicing out her questions'..

Harry sighed. He had enough of those two squabbling. By the time those two looked like they'd made up, the Great Hall was pretty much empty, except for the sixth years. At the breakfast speech, Dumbledore had specifically requested them to stay back.

"Alright, students. I am sure all of you are wondering why I requested you all to stay back. I have a very important announcement, as a matter of fact. This announcement is about an activity only four sixth years will do, however, everyone else will be involved as well. It is an activity all of the teachers came up with this very summer, to promote house unity."

A collective groan could be heard.

"As I was saying," Dumbledore continued with an amused look, "This activity will involve every single sixth year. It is very simple. One member from each house would leave the comforts of his/her own house and go stay with the other house for a whole term, which is, until the Christmas holidays."

By now, you could see the look of either delight or/and shock on everyone's faces.

"What!?" a girl yelled, looking completely outraged.

"You can't make us!" someone blubbered.

"I'm running away!" spluttered a frazzled looking Hufflepuff.

Dumbledore raised his hand. Silence. " So, the staff members and I have together voted for the individual transferring to another house for a term. So, a certain member of Slytherin house gets transferred to Gryffindor."

The wave of outrage broke amongst students again.

"Nooo!"

"Never in a million years!"

"Silence!" Dumbledore said calmly. "The certain member will be Mr. Draco Malfoy." Dumbledore, being very clever, never gave his audience any time to react and continued. "Mr. Ernie Macmillan from Hufflepuff house shall move to Slytherin house. Ms. Cho Chang from Ravenclaw house will move to Hufflepuff. And lastly, Mr Seamus Finnegan shall be moving from Gryffindor to Ravenclaw."

There was silence. Chatter broke out. Meanwhile, Ron, Harry, Hermione and Dean were comforting Seamus.

"At least you're not moving to Slytherin." Ron helpfully said.

"Yeah! Its Ravenclaw. You'd better be with someone when you try getting into the Common Room, otherwise you might be locked out for the rest of the night." Harry chuckled.

The other snickered.

"Alright, thanks guys. See you around!" Seamus spoke in a very Irish accent and scurried to Prof. McGonnagal for his instructions for a 'very smooth transition'.

The Golden Trio soon brought up the point of Malfoy being in the same house with them, when the boys realised, horrified that they would have to share the same dorms as Malfoy, where he would sleep, in place of Seamus.

"Hey Potter, Weasley, Mudblood", a very Malfoy-ish voice drawled behind them.

A/N: Hey guys! Its.. Me! This is my first story, so please don't be too harsh! Criticism is appreciated, but nothing too rude please, even I have feelings! :) Hope you like it! Read and Review!