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Chapter 7: The Change of Heart

It was Filch, the caretaker, who was behind Ron and Ellie.

"Great, as if things couldn't get any worse," Ellie muttered.

"You two come with me, the headmaster's awaiting you," Filch said.

Reluctantly, Ron and Ellie followed Filch into the castle and then to the gargoyles that guarded Dumbledore's office. Filch said the password that made them jump from their place, so they could pass through the staircase. Before Filch knocked on the door, Dumbledore's voice called out, "Come in please."

Filch lead Ellie and Ron into the office and said, "I found the two runaways outside kissing."

Ellie gave Filch a look of hatred as he left Dumbledore's office.

Dumbledore spoke as soon as he left.

"It is my understanding that you both caused a class disruption and you Mr. Weasley spoke ill to your teacher," Dumbledore said.

"I'm sorry Professor Dumbledore, I lost my temper," Ron said.

"And the disruption in class?"

"We all ready resolved the problem," Ellie said.

"Good, I see no further reason to keep you," Dumbledore said.

"Thank you, Professor Dumbledore," Ellie and Ron said in unison.

"Also, I see there are only five minutes left until class is over. Why don't you take that time to get ready for you next class," Dumbledore said.

Ellie and Ron left Dumbledore's office and went into a deserted corridor.

"That went easier than I thought," Ellie said.

"Of course it was, this is Dumbledore we're talking about," Ron said matter-of-factly.

"Ron," Ellie called.

"Yes?"

"About what happened earlier, I want to make it clear that you're not the one I like and…"

"I know, I know"

"Just to remind you…"

At that moment class was over, and Harry made his way toward the two, looking extremely enraged.

"Harry before you say anything it was my entire fault," Ron said modestly.

"Yeah, what he said," Ellie added on.

Harry eyed the two suspiciously before he talked.

"What were you guys thinking?" Harry asked with frustration.

"Well I went too far with the spider thing which in turn made Ron mad…" Ellie said as she was cut off by Harry.

"I know all that but…" Harry said as he was cut off by Hermione calling out to them.

"Hey guys," Hermione said as she reached the trio.

"Hi," the three said in unison.

"How was Divination?"

"It was interesting," Ron said.

"Yeah, real interesting," Harry said.

"I'll go ahead to class, as you know I can't be seen with you," Ellie said as she walked off to class.

"You know, when she says it like that you can't help but feel insulted," Ron said.

At this Harry, Ron, and Hermione laughed as they made their way towards Potions.

On the way Harry walked in closer to Ron and whispered, "I'll talk you later."

Ron nodded in reply as they walked into class.

As soon as Professor Snape came in, the class had immediately silenced.

"Today we will be making Veritaserum. The instructions are on the board. Get started."

Everyone had begun working on the potion. The class went pretty well, excluding random scoldings Neville had received from Professor Snape. At the end of class, only three people had completed the potion successfully; Hermione, Draco, and Ellie. Out of the three, only Ellie's potion had achieved the complete clear color the potion was supposed to be. Each student had brought up their work in a vial and placed it upon Snape's desk.

"Class went unusually well," Harry said as he, Hermione and Ron emerged from Snape's classroom on their way to the Gryffindor common room to drop off their stuff.

"Yeah, usually Snape makes snide comments on almost everyone's potions," Ron said.

"True, today he only picked on poor Neville," said a voice behind them.

It was Ellie. She walked alongside Hermione, when Ron asked, "What are you doing?"

"Walking," Ellie replied.

"No, what I mean is, what you are doing walking with us, after all you did say you couldn't be seen with us," Ron said.

"I did say that but no Slytherins walk in this direction, so I thought I'd walk with you guys," Ellie said.

"Won't your boyfriend go around looking for you?" Ron asked mockingly.

"Ron, Draco is not my boyfriend, and no he won't go around looking for me," Ellie replied.

"Why is that?" Ron asked.

"As if I know, but he's been acting weird lately," Ellie answered.

"I might know why," Harry thought.

They had reached the portrait of the Fat Lady, and the trio recited the password and entered the common room. Ellie had decided to wait outside for them. Inside the common room, Hermione had gone to the girls' dormitory, and Ron and Harry to the boys'. To Harry's luck the common room was empty, as he came in he locked the door behind him. Ron who had noticed put his stuff away and sat on his bed waiting for Harry to talk.

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you kiss Ellie?"

Ron had seen this question coming, but didn't know how to answer it.

"I don't know"

"What do you mean I don't know?"

"It's just that…"

"You know that I liked her!"

"Harry, you never said you liked her," Ron said with a look of malice.

Harry instantly blushing said, still holding his ground, "Don't change the subject."

"But Harry if you don't like her, why are you mad about the kiss?" Ron asked.

"Because…"

"Even so, she clearly told me I'm not the one she likes."

"Really? She said that," Harry said with a feeling of relief.

"Yes. All I wanted to do was to see if she'd fall for me. If she did, she obviously isn't good enough for you," Ron said.

"I see. You're lucky the whole school hasn't heard about this," Harry said.

"How do you even know if that's true, Pavarti and Lavender were in that class if something like that happened you know they would've spread the news around the school as soon as class was over," Ron said.

"They would've, but you see in order to protect Ellie I obliviated everyone's mind to prevent her and your reputation from spiraling downwards," Harry explained.

"Harry…I," Ron said trying to put together his thoughts.

"It's ok, thank me later," Harry said smugly.

"I'm truly sorry," Ron said with a feeling of remorse, but that quickly changed. Ron had a sly smile on his face and turned to Harry who in turn was surprised at Ron's new expression.

"Thanks to you, now I know where your true feelings lie for Ellie," Ron said maliciously.

Harry looked at Ron in disbelief.

"I'm sorry mate, but wait till I tell Hermione," Ron said leaving the room.

"Yeah, I'm sure she'll also like to hear about the kiss as well," Harry said with a grin.

"You wouldn't," Ron said staring at Harry with disbelief.

"That's exactly what I thought about two minutes ago," Harry said.

"Fine I won't tell your secret, if you don't tell mine, Ron said admitting defeat.

"Fine with me," Harry said unlocking the door leading to exit the room.

At the bottom of the stairs was an impatient Hermione, who glared at the pair as they emerged from the stairway.

"Honestly, what took you two so long?" Hermione said.

"Ink spill," Harry said simply.

"Yeah, it was everywhere," Ron added on as they made their way to the entrance.

"I'm not even going to ask how," Hermione said.

As they exited the common room, they saw Ellie who had apparently been pacing back and forth waiting for them.

"Well it's about time," Ellie said.

"You actually waited for us," Ron said in disbelief.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I, don't you trust me," Ellie replied.

"Nope, and I never will, completely," Ron said with a wink as he passed by her.

The four had been walking down to the Great Hall, when Hermione suddenly asked, "Ellie, I've been wondering, why did your eyes start changing color?"

"Accident" Ellie replied simply.

"How did it happen?" Hermione asked.

"Well, it was one Christmas when my cousins came over, and the eldest thought I would look better with blonde hair," Ellie said smirking.

"I bet you would," Ron said.

"That's brain cell number 10,000 dead. If you wanna keep going, I'm guessing you'll be dead by next week," Ellie said with a smirk.

Ron silenced himself, when Ellie said, "As I was saying, she wanted to try a hair color changing spell, and it went horribly wrong. I won't go into details, but after she cast the spell, my eyes were flashing all sorts of colors and then weirdly they went back to normal after a minute."

"That is weird," Harry said.

"It truly is," Hermione said.

"That's no fair, why no sarcastic remark for them Ellie?" Ron asked.

"They're normal, that's why," Ellie answered.

At this everyone laughed as they finally reached the Great Hall.

"We'll this where I leave you guys, see ya," Ellie said as she went in first, and the trio a little bit after.

Ellie had made her to the Slytherin table, and evidently the only seat available was next to Malfoy.

As Ellie sat down she said, "Is it me or is it every time I come here the only seat available is next to you."

Malfoy smirked and said, "It's just you."

"I see," Ellie replied.

"Hey Ellie, about quidditch practice tonight?" Malfoy asked.

"Yeah," Ellie replied.

"You can skip it if you want to," Malfoy said.

"Why?" Ellie asked.

"There's no need for practice for those who are perfect," Malfoy said who surprisingly blushed at this.

Actually, it's so you can say good-bye to Potter, before you become mine.

Ellie sardonically asked, "But aren't you perfect? You are a Malfoy after all."

"Unlike you, I have some flaws that I need to work out, and besides who wants to be perfect at everything," Malfoy replied.

"I don't want to be perfect at everything," Ellie said.

"Then don't be," Malfoy advised.

"I just am," Ellie said.

"Well, well, aren't you becoming quite the Slytherin," Malfoy said.

"Haven't I always?" Ellie asked innocently.

Malfoy remained silent.

"What's wrong?" Ellie asked.

"Ellie"

"Yes?"

"Are you sure you don't like Potter?"

"No, why do you keep asking"

"Because of everything that happened this morning since you entered the Great Hall"

Ellie was silent.

"I knew it," Malfoy said disgusted with the very sight of Ellie and got up to leave until Ellie got up and stopped him.

She was on the verge of tears and she said, "I told you, I don't like him."

"I'm not convinced," Malfoy said as he left the Great Hall.

Ellie sat back down and began thinking angrily to herself.

"Why do I even care what he thinks? Why does he care even I was to ever like Harry?"

Ellie got up and decided to look for Malfoy to talk things out. Ellie went the common room, and searched frantically for Malfoy. After seeing he wasn't there she left to continue in search of him. She left the dungeons and began walking down a corridor. She kept walking down this corridor until she heard voices. She looked to see to whom those voices belonged to, while taking the cover of a nearby pillar. It was Malfoy and Harry.

"I'm warning you for the last time Potter, stay away from Ellie!"

"Fat chance," Harry said.

"How about a proposal then?"

"I'm listening."

"The upcoming quidditch match. If Slytherin wins, you stay away from Ellie."

"And if Gryffindor wins?"

"That's not going to happen," Malfoy said as he left.

"We'll see about that," Harry said as he also left.

"Why does Malfoy want Harry to stay away from me so bad?" Ellie thought.

Ellie decided to call it a night and left to the common room. When she entered the common room, Malfoy as sitting there apparently waiting for her. He stood up and walked straight towards Ellie. Ellie stood there paralyzed with fear. Malfoy finally reached her and pulled her into a deep embrace.

"I'm sorry," he said.

Did he just apologize?

"I don't care if you like Potter"

I don't really like him

"Just promise me one thing."

"What?"

What?

"Stay away from him until after the quidditch match."

"Why?"

Why does he keep bringing up the quidditch match?

Malfoy didn't reply, he pulled back from the hug and held her around her waist. This made Ellie blush, a lot. His face moved closer to hers, so their faces were only an inch from each other.

"Oh no! He's going to kiss me! What am I going do? " Ellie frantically thought.

Malfoy pulled away.

Thank goodness.

He saw Ellie's expression of relief and smirked. He then kissed her upon her forehead and said, "Please, stay away from Potter until the quidditch match is over."

After that he left to go up into the boys' dormitory.

Meanwhile in Gryffindor Tower…

"I told you so, Harry," Hermione said.

"Who would've believed that Malfoy would like Ellie," Ron said.

"I had already started to notice this morning," Harry said.

"What do you mean?" Hermione asked.

"He instantly got jealous as soon as we made eye contact," Harry said.

"But why should that matter to you, Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Well because…"

"Could it be…that you like her?" Hermione asked with a mischievous smile.

"Or that you love her or want to marry her." Ron added on.

Harry blushed and said, "I don't know."

Harry now looked depressed.

"Why not?" Hermione asked worried.

"Well…I don't know and if I don't act soon, Malfoy might…no will take her away from me," Harry said.

"How are you so certain Malfoy will take Ellie away?" Hermione asked.

"He's trying to separate us. He said if Slytherin wins the upcoming match, I have to stay away from her," Harry said.

"And if Gryffindor wins?" Ron asked eagerly.

"He said that won't happen," Harry answered.

"We'll see about that," Ron said.

"That's exactly what I said," Harry said.

"So, Malfoy knows you and Ellie have been interacting?" Hermione asked.

"Yes"

"Don't worry mate, I won't let that slimy git have his way," Ron said encouraging Harry.

"Thanks Ron"

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