The Polyjuice Plot

By

DoublePea

Disclaimer: I've tapped my computer with my wand [also known as a pencil] and no map with tiny little footprints has appeared. So it is safe to say that I am not J. K. Rowling. I am doing this for pleasure only, no money is involved, darn it.

Chapter 2 My Sister Stinks

"Bloody sister, I hope she pays for what she did to me!" Ron muttered to himself as he walked with his parents towards Hogwarts. Actually, he had been muttering since he woke up stuck to the bed. He nearly had a heart attack when he discovered a part of him was missing. Fortunately for Ron, he soon realized that other things were different. The long red hair was very annoying. It kept getting in his mouth. Finally he realized that the length and the color were more like Ginny than him. It helped when he remembered the Polyjuice.

By the time his mother came to check on him, the potion had worn off and he was back to being Ron again. "Ron, what are you doing here? Where is Ginny?" His mum frantically asked.

"How would I know? I'm the one she stuck to this bed. I'm the one who you should be worried about."

Molly Weasley ran out the door yelling for her husband as she went. "Mum, could you please unstick me? Wouldn't you know, she is more interested in poor little Ginny than me, the victim."

In a minute, his parents entered the bedroom asking, "Ron, what is wrong?"

"Wrong? Wrong? I have a sucky sister who changed me into looking like her and then she gave me a potion to make me sleep and evidently stuck me to the bed, because I can't get up! That's what's wrong! Please unstick me, so I can find Ginny and kill her!"

Arthur Weasley reached for his wand and soon had Ron free of confinement. Before they could say anything, Ron jumped up and ran out of the room. When they heard the bathroom door close, they understood his problem. After a few minutes, he returned. "Now let's talk about what you are going to do."

"We need to take you to Hogwarts, so you can be sorted and start school," answered his father.

"No, what are you going to do to Ginny?" demanded Ron.

"Son, that is for your mother and I to decide. Get ready to go to Hogwart's and come down to breakfast. You must be hungry by now."

Anytime Ron had a choice of what to do, food always came in number one. So, Ron rushed through getting clean and dressed and shortly was eating as if he had been stuck to the mattress for a week. When he had eaten all the food he possibly could, he stood up and they all flooed to the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade. Walking to the castle, Ron continued complaining about his sister.

"My sister really stinks!"

All heads in the Great Hall rose up from their breakfast to watch the trio walk over to the head table. Most of the Gryffindors recognized Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, and everyone had seen 'Ron' last night. The twins, George and Fred, were interested in seeing what was going to happen. They were wondering if they were going to manage to avoid any blame. Percy was relieved that his parents had arrived and could now handle the problem in person. Ginny was slightly nervous, and Harry was on the defensive, ready to protect and defend Ginny against all.

As they reached the head table, Ron looked around. When he saw Ginny sitting next to Harry, he turned very red in the face and looked angry enough to kill.

"Professor Dumbledore, our daughter came in place of her brother, Ron, without our knowledge. We need to take her back home, and Ron needs to be sorted," said Arthur Weasley.

"We can certainly sort Mr. Weasley into his house now, but Miss Weasley will have to stay here, because she was sorted last night."

"Professor Dumbledore, Ginny is only ten years old. She is not old enough to attend Hogwarts," explained Mrs. Weasley.

"We found that out last night after she had been sorted. I'm afraid her age doesn't matter since she was sorted, she must stay."

Dumbledore's phoenix was asked to bring the Sorting Hat, and soon it was placed on Ron's head.

"You seem to be very angry, that leaves out Hufflepuff. You aren't interested in studying. You are more interested in games, so that leaves out Ravenclaw. You are plotting how to get your parents to punish your sister, so the best house for you is…

SLYTHERIN!"

Everyone's mouth dropped open, even Dumbledore seemed astonished. Ron turned to him in shock, "I can't be in Slytherin, all my family have been in Gryffindor! I can't be a Slytherin." All the Slytherins and Professor Snape could be seen nodding their heads in agreement.

"I'm sorry, but the Sorting Hat has spoken. I think that you will find the Slytherin House is full of fine people. Please give it a chance. Please join your house. "

Ron walked off looking like a prisoner on his way to an execution. Slowly the students returned to their food.

"Arthur and Molly, would you like to join us for breakfast? We need to talk afterwards."

Slowly the students returned to their food.

Draco Malfoy, sitting at the Slytherin table, paused to think how this might work to his benefit. This Weasley seemed to be very angry with his sister who was Harry Potter's new best friend. Potter could have more than one friend. Wheels started to turn in Draco's head as he continued to eat.

After breakfast, Professor Dumbledore led Arthur and Molly Weasley out of the Great Hall. Stopping at the Gryffindor table, "Miss Weasley, will you please join us?" asked Dumbledore. They continued to the Headmaster's office.

The minute they reached Dumbledore's office, Molly Weasley turned on her daughter and hugged her. " I was so scared when I didn't know where you were." With the pleasantries out of the way, her voice rose several notches in volume. "What in the world were you thinking when you drugged your brother and came to Hogwarts in his place? Why would you do that?"

Facing her mother bravely, she answered calmly. "If I hadn't come, Harry would have made friends and next year I wouldn't have had a chance to get to know him. Ron said so. The only option that I had was to come this year. I knew that if I had asked you, you would have said no."

The three adults just stared at her. Put that way, it did make some kind of sense. Molly and Arthur remembered the scene at the breakfast table when they were looking at the newspaper account of Harry's visit to Diagon Alley. Molly looked at Arthur and gave a little nod, which meant that he should handle this situation.

"Ginny, we understand why you came, but it doesn't change the problem that you kept your brother from coming to school when it was his turn. We also understand that in a small way he started it by making you think that you would miss out knowing Harry Potter. You will have to be punished." Ginny nodded, knowing that there was no way she was getting off without a punishment. It was well worth it. "First, since we weren't prepared to send you this year, you will have to make do with hand me down books and the clothes you already own. When you come home for Christmas vacation, you will have extra chores and have to go to bed every night after dinner, except for Christmas Day." Ginny nodded.

Arthur looked at Dumbledore and he took over the punishments. "Ginny, you did come early to Hogwarts. That was the only thing that you did wrong here, but we can't have everyone coming when they feel like it. You will spend this week in detention with your head of house Professor McGonagall, starting tonight after dinner. You have chosen to start school early. We will still expect good grades from you. This should be the last time that I have to talk to you about your behavior. Ron's trunk will have been taken to his room by the house elves. Molly and Arthur, if you can send Ginny's things today, she'll be ready for classes. Fortunately, they start tomorrow.'

As they were leaving, Dumbledore asked "Please talk to Ron about what we have done. Try to calm him down about what's happened." The Weasleys walked Ginny to the Gryffindor dorm. They wanted to talk to Percy, Fred and George while they were in the building.

"Ginny, do you know the password?" asked her father when they reached the portrait guarding Gryffindor House.

"Yes, they told us last night that the password is 'Gryffindors rule'. The portrait opened and they entered. Once inside, they found the common room was full of students hoping to find out what had happened to Ginny. Some were looking for gossip, and others were really interested. Showing that much courage at age 10 was definitely a Gryffindor trait. Several people jumped up and ran to the Weasleys.

Percy was the first to arrive, since he had the longest legs and had been waiting near the door. "Mother and Father, I want you to know that I knew nothing about Ginny coming to school rather than Ron. I had no idea what to do last night when we all found out what Ginny did."

"Percy, we know that it had nothing to do with you, and you were not responsible for handling the situation last night," responded his father. With that cleared up, Percy turned and went back to reading his textbook.

George, Fred, and Harry approached. Harry looked at Ginny's parents. He pleaded, "I hope you let Ginny stay in school and don't punish her too badly." He glanced at Ginny who was giving him thumbs up.

"She is staying, because she has already been sorted," said Mrs. Weasley. "Arthur, this is Harry Potter. Harry, this is Ginny's father, Arthur Weasley."

"I'm happy to meet you, Mr. Weasley. I'm glad my new friend, Ginny, gets to stay this year."

"I'm happy that you've made a new friend this quickly. If we can do anything to help you, please tell Ginny and she'll send us a note."

"Goodbye Ginny and Harry. Please study hard in addition to having fun. Ginny, you have to prove to the teachers that coming a year early is not a handicap. Put studying first, then if you have time left, you can have fun."

Mrs. Weasley dragged the twins to a deserted part of the room. They looked at each other and waited for the questions to start. They were extremely shocked when their mother said, "Would you two watch Ginny and Harry this year? If they need any help, please help them if you can or ask one of the professors to help them.

"Sure, Mom we would have kept an eye on Ginny anyway. Did you ask Percy for the same thing?"

"No, he is more worried about people breaking rules rather than giving them help. I think that with him being a prefect, it would be better for him to work with other students instead of his brothers and sister." Giving them a hug, Arthur and Molly went out the exit. George and Fred gave each other a look followed by a high five.

"Can you believe it, she didn't even ask if we helped Ginny change places with Ron."

The Weasleys silently walked down to the dungeons. Since they had both been in Gryffindor, never of them knew exactly where the Slytherin house was located. So they went to the potions laboratory, asking Professor Snape, "We need to talk with our son."

"Wait here and I'll get him for you," replied Snape barely polite.

In a few moments, Ron entered the room, "Did you yank her out of school? Did you punish her? How bad did you hurt her?"

"Ronald, Professor Dumbledore already told you that Ginny had to stay since she had already been sorted. Ginny has detention for coming to school early and she will be using hand me downs for her school equipment. She will also be punished and under restrictions during Christmas vacation at home.

Ron turned very red in the face and his hands had become tight fists as he yelled, "Restrictions? Detention? How about spanking? How about thumbscrews? How about pain?"

"Ronald, that is enough. We told you this morning that we would handle her punishment. We have punished her. That is sufficient! She didn't do this to hurt you. She simply wanted to meet Harry Potter and try to become his friend."

"You're letting her get away with what she did to me."

"You started this by telling her that she wouldn't have a chance to become Harry Potter's friend if she waited until next year to come to Hogwarts."

"Well," explained Ron, "she's a girl. Harry Potter is a boy and needs friends who are boys. She doesn't know what to do with boy!"

Mrs. Weasley looked at Ron disgustedly, "Being the youngest with six older brothers and no other girls in the family, Ginny knows more about boys than girls."

"Ron," interjected Mr. Weasley before Molly got mad with Ron's attitude, "we are taking care of Ginny. You need to let it go. You have a big job ahead of you. It's your first year here and you need to study and learn as much as you can. Write us and let us know how you are doing. We love you," he said as they hugged him and walked away to return home.

"Let it go? Fat chance. She's going to pay. Pay big time. She'll be sorry that she ever messed with me."

Author's Note: This is an alternate universe story. I am assuming that you have read the original J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the (fill in the book). Therefore events may be skipped on that happened in the book or completely new events will happen.