Summary: Professor Snape makes Draco and Hermione Potions partners. But due to their lack of cooperation, their potion backfires and explodes all over them, causing awful results. They both shrink back to babies, and then start growing extremely quickly. So quickly that they will die within a week if Snape doesn't come up with an antidote.

Chapter One

Hermione couldn't believe it. She really couldn't. She always knew the Potions Master was a 'slimy git' (as Ron would say) but she never knew he despised her this much.

She glared up at him and stared into his dark, cold, empty black eyes. This man didn't have a heart, she was sure of it.

"Is there a problem, Miss Granger?" Snape asked, smirking.

Hermione gritted her teeth. How could she have defended him once before, in her first year? This man was obviously incapable of feeling. "Of course not, Professor."

The Potions Master glared down at her. Why was she always so annoyingly polite? "Such cheek! Five points from Gryffindor." He walked off, his ever-present black-cloak billowing.

"Class," said Snape when he reached the front of the class. "I am going to test you. You learned the Shrinking Solution in your third year, and should have memorized the ingredients off by heart by now. Complete the potion and I will grade you on them. For those of you who were never, shall I say, gifted in the art of potion making—" here he glared at poor Neville "—I suggest you say goodbye to your grades."

Hermione wished she could help poor Neville. If only she was paired off with him. Instead, Neville was paired off with Pansy Parkinson, a pug-faced Slytherin girl who wanted to switch places with Hermione just as much as Hermione wanted switch places her.

But no, poor Hermione was left with her selected Potions parter. Snape had deliberately paired Harry off with Goyle, Ron with Crabbe, and Hermione with –urgh –Malfoy, arrogant, self-centered, Muggle-born-hating prude of Hogwarts. Snape knew that Hermione could easily shut Crabbe or Goyle up with a witty comment, and also that his favourite student enjoyed teasing and taunting the Muggle-born most of the Golden Trio.

Draco Malfoy knew it too. He loved making fun of her disgusting, impure lineage, and seeing that look of utter resentment of her face. It was great satisfaction.

"Look," Hermione said angrily. "Let's just get this over with quickly. I want an O, and you better not mess with the potion to make me get any lower than that."

"Shut up, Granger," he spat at her. "This is my potion too, and therefore, my grade. And what makes you think I get anything other than Os? I'm just as smart as you are, Mudblood, if not smarter."

"Yes, that's why you're top in the year, isn't it?" retorted Hermione sarcastically. Usually she never gloated like this, but Malfoy was always an exception. She hated his self-absorbed attitude, and felt that if he was put down more, his ego would be deflated a bit. "Anyway, we shouldn't be wasting time. Let's get started."

She started work immediately.

Draco, who was very annoyed with her Know-It-All attitude, started to add in some ingredients as well. The both of them were acting as if the other wasn't there; as if they were working on the potion all by themselves.

After a few minutes, where their bright, acid green potion was supposed to be, was a bright red potion, bubbling and fizzing.

"What have you done to my potion, you witch!" bellowed Draco. This caught the attention of the rest of the class.

"I've done! What have you done!"

"I added the ingredients, what else, Mudblood?"

A few people gasped. Harry and Ron leapt up off of their seats. Hermione ignored the comment. "What! I added the ingredients!"

Snape made his way to the two of them. He was about to tell them to keep quiet when Draco yelled back, "You're saying we added two times the amount of ingredients? How thick are you, Mudblood!"

"Me! You should have been paying attention! Look at our potion! It's all wrong! We're not getting Os, and it's all your fault!"

"Miss Granger, I will not tolerate this display of immaturity and irresponsibility," said Snape icily. "Twenty points from Gryffindor and two week's detention. As for you, Mr Malfoy, I am very disappointed. Ten points from Slytherin." Snape walked away.

Harry, Ron and Hermione were outraged. Hermione just couldn't help but think, 'Ten points from Slytherin? That's it! I got lost twenty points for Gryffindor and got two week's detention! This is a clear sign of favouritism! It's unfair! This man is unbelievable!'

Draco, however, was smiling smugly. Then he saw their potion, which was bubbling and fizzing more than ever. It was making hissing and spitting noises.

"Malfoy, you insolent—"

"Forget that, Granger!" said Draco, in a voice so urgent that even in her temper Hermione was inclined to listen. "The potion's gonna blow!"

Just as he said that, their Shrinking Solution gone-wrong exploded and splat all over the both of them.

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"Blimey!" exclaimed Ron as he and Harry to where the potion had exploded all over Hermione and Malfoy. "Hermione!"

"Hermione?" said Harry softly.

A crowd quickly gathered around where Draco and Hermione should have been. Some people gasped, some people swore. Everyone was in shock.

Where Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger should have been, were two very small, very tiny babies.

A/N: Ooh, cliffy! Once Again, I apologize for deleting 'Anonymously Yours'. But I hope you guys enjoy this one too. I know it's a very short chapter, but I promise if I get lots of reviews, I'll update soon and submit longer chappies. So review!

Thanks a bunch! windsinger257.