Exchanged Love

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The five Hogwarts students walked towards the Potions dungeon, where Professor Snape would be strict as usual. Harry warned Ron and Jenny that Snape hated Gryffindors, so they had to be careful not to make him mad. Ron and Jenny understood, and they reached the Potions dungeon. They went to the back of the room and sat down. When class started, Snape stepped into the room.

"We have three exchange students in this class," he informed the class. "We have Jack, from France, who is in Slytherin. And," he said, slightly sneering, "we have Ronald and Jennifer from the United States. They're in Gryffindor. Now, for today's lesson. We are going to start the Dubloslango Potion. With this potion, you can speak so only your partner can understand you. Get out your cauldrons. Here are the ingredients: A half cup of water, 2 pinches of crumbled Mountain Troll skin, 1 Monarch Butterfly wing, 4 Antarctican Mushrooms, 1 pine needle, and one piece of your partners hair."

Ron and Jenny started to get out their ingredients, but Snape spoke up again. "I will be choosing your partners," he said. Ron and Jenny looked bummed, but Ron thought maybe he would put him and Hermione together. "Malfoy, you can be with Jennifer, she looks like she needs help. Jack, you can be with Miss Granger over here. Weasley and Millicent you'll be working together. Miss Brown, you'll be with Ronald. Potter, get with Goyle. Crabbe and Longbottom. Pansy, you'll be with Zabini..." he continued on, and Ron went over to work with the pretty Lavender Brown.

"Hi," she said, "I'm Lavender. And you're Ron right?" she asked. At least she didn't call him Ronald like Snape was calling him.

"Yeah," Ron said. "Are you in Gryffindor or Slytherin?"

"Gryffindor," she answered.

"Cool... So are you ready to start this potion?" Ron asked.

"Yeah." She looked down at the ingredients list. She poured a half cup of water into her cauldron, and Ron did the same to his. Next they each put in the two pinches of Mountain Troll skin, which they had to get from Snape since it wasn't a common ingredient. Then they put the Monarch wing in their mixture, and then Ron added the 4 mushrooms. "Oops," Lavender said. "Can I borrow some mushrooms from you? I forgot to buy some."

"Sure, here you go," Ron said and handed her 4 mushrooms. They put the second to the last ingredient, the pine needle, into the conoction. "Last step," Ron said. They each pulled out a hair and gave it to their partner. Just then Snape was walking past. He stopped at their table.

"Put in the hairs now," he instructed and waited. They did. Ron's turned a pink color, and Lavender's turned red. "The color of the potion should be the favorite color of your partner. If not, you messed up. Don't do anything else with you potion until I give further instructions to do so." He walked away.

"Is your favorite color pink?" Ron asked, hoping he did the potion right.

"Yeah, is yours red?" she asked.

"Yep," he said, happy he did it right. He didn't want to be on Snape's bad side.

After about five minutes, all the students were finished, so Snape told them what to do next. "Now drink your potion. You should feel it going down your throat, it should be ice cold. Drink the whole think, and for five minutes, you should only be able to hear your partner, everyone else's voices should be garbled."

Ron and Lavender picked up their potions and drank them. Ron felt the cold potion sliding down his throat.

"Hello?" he said to Lavender.

"Hi! This is cool!" she replied, as the other students were talking and their voices were messed up. They talked for five minutes. And right before the time ran out, Lavender asked Ron if he'd go to the Halloween Dance the next month. Afraid he wouldn't get another date, especially Hermione, he agreed. The class ended, and the potions were all worn out. Snape put a list of grades for the potion up on the wall. Everyone got A's, except for Neville Longbottom and Vincent Crabbe. (They had each drank the potion with their own hair in it, so they could only hear themselves talk, not anyone else.)

The rest of the day went by pretty smoothly for Ron. At the end of the day, Ron was in his dorm with Harry, the other Ron, Neville, Dean, and Seamus. Dean brought up the subject of the following month's Halloween Dance. "You guys should start getting dates, last year I almost didn't get one because I waited so long."

"Oh yeah Dean, well you better start too," Seamus said.

"For you information Seamus, I have a date already," he said.

"Who?" Harry asked.

"Parvati," he replied.

"Well, I guess that leaves the rest of us searching for dates," Seamus said. "Unless... Ron, do you have a date yet?" Everyone looked at Ron.

"Yeah," he said.

"Really? Who?" the other Ron asked.

"Lavender Brown," he answered.

"Woah, getting the babes already?" Seamus commented and laughed. They talked for a few more minutes and then went to bed.

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In the morning, they awoke to screams of Parvati. Ron, Harry, and the other Ron rushed into the 5th year girls dorm, where a few people were already gathered, including Professor Mcgonagall.

"What is it? What's happened?" Mcgonagall asked.

Parvati pointed to Hermione, Lavender, and Jenny's beds. There was traces of blood on them.

"Oh my," the professor said. "Alright everyone, get out, this is serious. Out, now," she ordered. Everyone except Parvati and Mcgonagall left. Ron, Harry, and Ron waited in the common room. They saw Mcgonagall rushing out of Gryffindor tower, and then come back with Dumbledore a few moments later. Dumbledore came into the common room to explain what was happening to everyone.

"We aren't sure where these three young ladies are, but the small amount of blood was still wet, so it wasn't too long ago that they dissapeared. If anyone has any information, please come to Professor Mcgonagall or myself at once. Thank you," he said, and left with Mcgonagall. Almost all of the students went back to their rooms in fear. The two Ron's and Harry, however, stayed in the common room.

"We've got to go find them," Harry said.

"Harry," Ron Weasley said, "We always get in trouble when we go out for this kind of stuff."

"We can't just let them be gone Ron, we can do it. Just like we always have in the past," Harry replied.

"I'm all for it," Ron said "How 'bout you Ron?" he asked, looking at the red haired boy.

"Fine," he finally agreed. The three boys snuck out of Gryffindor tower with the help of Harry's invisibility cloak. They noticed a few very small drops of blood on the floor. They wouldn't even have noticed them if Ron hadn't had to stop and tie his shoe. They noticed a few other drops along the hallway and followed them. They reached a classroom which the door of was closed. They opened it, looked around to make sure nobody was inside, and closed the door and removed the cloak. The room was empty except a large hole in the center of the floor. At the edge of it was a piece of torn off fabric from a nightgown. It was Hermione's.
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A/N: A little more productive, still needs a little help.