libaka: Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns Harry Potter and I based the fic off of IcyPanther's Parenting Class. (With her permission!) It's really good and I definitely suggest it!
Draco: this chapter is embarrassing...
Missy: I concur. May we erase it?
Blaise: I think I'm going to hide for awhile. Tell me when the reviews come in...
Leah: I love me. -hugs self- Aren't I the best?
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POLL again!!! Please answer!
The poll answers from last time tally as: LeahHarry- 2
MissyBlaise- 1
PansySeamus- 4
HermioneDraco- 1
MillicentNeville- 1
RonHermione- 1
HarryHermione- 1
LeahDraco- 1
MillicentRon- 1
DeanDaphne- 1
Very interesting...I'm partial to a few of these pairings, but we'll have to see, as the characters are writing themselves...
On with the show!
Kids Say The Darndest Things
CHAPTER 11: The Biggest Surprise of Them All
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The girls shrieked.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" The two boys screamed back, Blaise leaping backwards to avoid whatever catastrophe was threatening them that would make the girls scream so.
Missy screamed again, but this time at the fact that Blaise had collected his bravery and run across the room to hug her as tightly as he could, shouting, "Don't let them get me Missy!!!!!"
Leah continued screaming, and as Draco began walking toward her, she leapt off the couch and jabbed her pointer finger at him at the same time before tumbling out of sight with a loud yelp as her leg gave out unexpectedly.
"Leah! What happened? Are you alright? Speak to me!" Draco jumped over the couch and knelt next to the girl sprawled out across the floor.
Simultaneously, Missy shouted, "Leah?.! Are you okay?"
Leah sat up quickly, her eyes wide. "AHHHHH!!!! Why are you all big again?.! And why can't I feel my foot?.! My foot is NUMB!"
Draco and Blaise looked at themselves, and then looked at each other. "Whoa…we're tall! Cool!"
Blaise turned to Missy and said, "Hey! Missy, I can see over your head! That's so cool!" With that said, he threw his arms around Missy, his six-year-old mind thinking 'Yay! I'm Missy's height!'
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Leah began screaming again, as Draco poked her foot. "Don't touch the foot! Whatever you do, DON'T. TOUCH. THE FOOT!"
At her scream, both Blaise and Missy began screaming again, Blaise grabbing onto her arm and Missy trying the get the boy off her, as he was quite a bit stronger than he had been. Draco joined in and at his scream, Leah began again, continuing the vicious cycle.
"AHHHHH!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Get OFF OF ME!!!!"
Snape paused outside Gwen's portrait, and his eyes widened at the sound of screams inside the dorm. He quickly ordered Gwen to open the door, thinking, 'Thank Merlin I decided to check on them! Something must be terribly wrong!'
Snape paused again as he took in the scene. One Miss Pasline was sprawled across the floor, screaming her head off and pointing at a full-grown Draco, while the other was screaming and trying to push a full-grown Blaise off of her as he clung tighter and tighter to her arm, searching the room for whatever was making them scream as he screamed even louder. Snape waited for one of them to notice him, and when none did, he thought, 'Might as well get their attention' and did something that every single one of his students would pay to see: he screamed.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Leah whipped around to see the professor standing in the doorway, screaming for all he was worth. She merely began screaming louder, scared out of her wits, and pointed at him instead of Draco. Draco turned and screamed louder as well, not realizing that in doing so, Blaise stopped screaming and began shouting, "MISSY! LEAH!!! WHAT'S GOING ON?.!" And then he proceeded to grab onto Missy and cling even tighter, causing her to scream even louder as she pointed at the dark professor in the doorway.
"I didn't think I was that frightening," Snape said calmly.
Draco abruptly stopped screaming and quipped, "Hi Uncle Sev? How ya doing?"
Leah stopped screaming and yelped, "Professor?.! Why are they big?.!" Before she could start her next question she cried out, "OW! Ow ow OW! Not so numb anymore! Pins and needles, PINS AND NEEDLES!!"
Draco shouted, "Oh no! Where?" and grabbed onto her foot to find the offending objects, only to let go in fright when Leah yelped and shrieked, "Don't. Touch. The. FOOT! That hurts!" and then jerked her leg out of his reach, wincing as it hit the floor with a painful thud.
Snape sighed and walked over to pick the girl up, ignoring her shouts of "OW OW OW!" and then placed her on the couch. Snape turned to look at Blaise, who was still holding tightly onto Missy (around her head), and advised him to let go of her, as she was turning an unflattering shade of blue.
Draco asked plaintively, "Uncle Sev, what's wrong with her? Is she gonna die?" At this innocent question Blaise shrieked and began panicking, thinking Leah was going to die.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Blaise began screaming again, which started off another round of Draco-Missy-Blaise screaming with Leah yelping in between screams as she rubbed her foot to get the blood back into it. Snape nearly began shouting at them before-
"SILENCE!" Everyone turned to look at the doorway, where Dumbledore was standing. "What is going on here? We could hear you down the hall!"
His question was answered by a whimper from Missy, who looked like she was panicking. Snape merely sighed and leaned over to pick up Leah again, as she had fallen off the couch in fright when Dumbledore entered.
"Headmaster, it appears as though the Infans Mundus potion I created stopped working on Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Zabini, causing them to grow older again. I am not sure if they have regained their memories or not, but I feel it is obvious that they have given both Miss Paslines quite a fright."
"And I have really bad pins and needles in my foot…" Leah added plaintively.
Dumbledore smiled and said, "Ah, now that is something I can fix." He walked over to where Leah sat and tapped her foot as he muttered a spell.
After seeing Leah relax and hearing her say "Ooooo, that's better. How'dja do that?" Draco asked, "So Leah's not gonna die?"
Dumbledore shook his head no, and then turned to Snape. "It would be prudent to get the antidote to the Infans Mundus potion, don't you think?"
"Right away, Headmaster." Snape spun and left the room to go to his dungeons and get the antidote.
"Now you're gonna poison us?.! Blaise, we gotta get outta here!" Draco ran over to Blaise and began pulling him towards the door, fully intending to run at the first sign of danger. His grey eyes quickly scanned the room for other get-away routes.
Leah and Missy ran over to stop the boys, but it was too late. Blaise had started up another round of screaming, and Draco joined in.
"SILENCE!" A long moment of silence reigned before Dumbledore said stiffly, "No, we are not poisoning you. We are…er…"
"Getting you juice!" Leah laughed mentally at the boys' surprise as she smiled nervously and fluttered around trying to find an explanation. "That's right, juice! You see, I told Professor Snape a few days ago that when someone has gotten extremely stressed out, juice is the best remedy." Leah took a deep breath and then continued, hoping that the Slytherins would not realize that she was lying through her teeth. "A-and…that's why he called it an antidote, you see, 'cause it calms people down. So just drink it when he gives it to you, okay? Besides, Draco you trust Uncle Sev, right? He would never hurt you!"
Draco nodded at the logic and then sat down next to Leah to wait for Snape to return. Missy led Blaise over to the couch and sat him down on Draco's other side before removing herself to the chair on the other side of the common room. She didn't know about Leah, but Missy felt quite stressed out from this ordeal…Why did it have to be her that a six foot tall boy was clinging to? Missy discretely fanned herself, struggling to calm down as Leah began telling the Headmaster what had occurred.
None of the adults noticed Draco look around, pick up a deck of cards and turn to Blaise. "Wanna play?" At Blaise's nod, the two six-year-olds in sixteen-year-old bodies plopped themselves on the floor to play a relaxing game of Exploding Snap.
A few minutes later…
"Gosh, Headmaster, I don't know what we would have done without you. What on earth was that spell you used on my foot? I mean, that would be so useful, 'cause I'm always sleeping funny and getting pins-and-need—"
FOOM!
The girls whipped around to see Draco and Blaise sitting on the floor facing each other, covered in soot, with a cards filtering down through the air and landing on the floor. Both boys had looks of surprise on their faces, which slowly changed into grins. "WOOOOOOW! That was so cool!" Draco giggled happily, clutching a burnt ace-of-spades in his hand.
"Yeah…but we worked so hard on that castle…" Blaise pouted as he looked at the remnants of his hard work: four cards lying flat on the carpet, singe-marks all over, and a few cards still crumbling from the sudden explosion.
"Do I have to ask what just happened?" Snape commented wryly as he took in the soot-coated boys, the shocked looks on the twins' faces, and the sparkly smile on the old Headmaster's face.
Leah quickly asked, "Do you have the…er…juice?"
Snape, with a look of confusion on his face, held up the two small vials of purple liquid.
"Oh, it is juice!" Draco crowed triumphantly. "I'm parched!" With that, he scampered over to Snape, snatched the vials out of his hands, tossed one to Blaise who popped the cork out to sip the "juice" politely, and then knocked the vial back like a professional. "That tasted good! Do ya have any more, Uncle Sever—"
Draco and Blaise gasped simultaneously, enlightenment clear in their eyes.
"Merlin, what on earth have I been rolling in? This is filthy!" Draco complained nasally, a horrified look on his face as he took in his robes that were formerly worth 150 galleons.
"I didn't really do all of that stuff…did I?" Blaise asked, horrified that he could feel his cheeks beginning to turn a bright shade of red.
"One, it was your fault, you were playing with exploding cards, and two, yup! You did! And I got it all on camera!" Leah announced, answering their questions quickly.
"Dear god tell me you're kidding." Missy spat out, clearly not amused as she glared at her twin.
Leah, completely oblivious to Missy, Draco, and Blaise's horror, shook her head. "Negative. I set up a camera last week during the dance party and just never took it down. Here in the Wizarding World, it never runs out of film so unless one of you turned it off it is still running as we speak…" Leah then looked around the room, noticing the three identical glares, one innocent smile, and one amused smirk. "I shouldnae 'ave toldja that…shouldnae have toldja that…" Leah muttered Hagrid-style as she slowly removed herself from the couch and began inching towards the door. "Uh…I'll be going now!" Just as she leaped for the door, Draco and Blaise ran towards her screaming "Erase it! Erase it! NOW!" and Missy took out her wand and swung it around screeching "AGH! I'll kill you!!!!!"
Leah booked it. Running towards the door she yelped, "Thanks for your help Professors! See you later!" Shouting at Gwen to open the door, Leah leapt over the threshold and ran down the hallway, inwardly repeating, 'Always keep your mouth shut. ALWAYS KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!'
Watching Draco, Blaise, and Missy stumble out after the girl, Snape turned to the Headmaster, "Should we help her?"
The Headmaster shook his head, smiling fondly. "No. She got a good head-start. If she has any brains she'll find Harry as fast as she can and Draco will drop out of the race. Then she'll probably beg Harry for a hiding spot, he'll lead her to the Room of Requirement, and she'll be safe. If she doesn't do any of those, well… she's in good shape. She can run fast. And I've heard from the Defense teacher that she is quite handy with spells."
Snape half-smiled before he turned it into an amused smirk. "I'll be going then, Headmaster." With that, he swept out of the room, leaving the older man to think.
Grinning, the Headmaster stood. Shaking his robes out, he left the room muttering, "And not one of them tried to use Accio on that camera. Interesting." As he left, he spoke quietly to Gwen, asking her to, if Leah reached the room first, refuse to let the others in until they calmed down a bit. After all, he didn't want the girl hurt, did he?
Neither of the men noticed the brown-haired, blue-eyed girl hiding in the shadows down the hall. The girl poked her head out, skipped over to the portrait, greeted Gwen, gave the password, waltzed into the common room, checked the video camera to see that it was, in fact, still working, and then barricaded herself inside her room. Sighing happily, she plopped herself down on the bed, picked up a book, and commented aloud, "I'm glad I mastered that doppelganger spell! Now Missy, Blaise, and Draco will be chasing a fake-me around the castle for ages! Until it runs out of course. And thanks to Headmaster Dumbledore, I'm totally safe in here!"
Leah felt, all in all, it hadn't been that bad of a morning!
Somewhere, deep in the stomach of the castle…
"Get back here Leah!!!! You know you deserve this!" The three misguided students chased after the errant girl, ignoring, or not noticing, the stares of the other students they passed.
"Mental, they are…" muttered Seamus to Harry as they strolled to their class, their fellow caretakers and children close behind. "It must come from living together…." Harry snorted, and then reached down to pick up his charge when he heard the whining start.
Suddenly Draco stopped short and glanced around. "Guys…why would she go to the dungeons, of all places? You think she'd go looking for a hiding place where she knows the area…"
Blaise and Missy looked around, gasping for breath as they took in the area, and then both yelped and said, "We've lost her! Come on!" With that, the two dashed off, asking anyone they met in the hallways if they had seen a girl running through.
Draco looked around again, and then backpedaled to where he had last seen Leah fully. Pausing next to the statue, he caught sight of a flash of brown hair and grinned. Leaning around the statue, he looked down at Leah, who was smiling sheepishly, and commented quietly, "Found you."
The entire hallway jumped when they heard Draco gasp and shriek, "Damnit! It wasn't her! It's a doppelganger!" Then they stared, shocked, as Draco dashed off yelling, "Missy! Blaise! It wasn't her! Back to the dorm! Now!"
Colin Creevey turned to Ginny Weasley and said quietly, "I think Malfoy has gone mad…"
Ginny shrugged, and peered behind the statue to see a small note reading, "Haha! Gotcha! It wasn't me! You've been chasing a doppelganger!" and then saw the small cartoon of Leah dancing a victory dance. Turning back to Colin, the redhead remarked, "I think you might be wrong on that. Take a picture of the note and give it to Leah. She'll get a kick out of his response." With that, the two snapped a picture of the note and continued on to class, both wondering why the seventh years weren't in class themselves.
Late that night after dinner…
"Open the door Gwen!"
"I am not supposed to, Miss Missy."
"Aw, come on. Please Gwen?"
"No Mr. Draco sir. I was told not to open it until you've all calmed down, and I don't think you have yet."
"Oh? What gave you that idea?"
"Aside from the angry muttering and random tantrums along with the vows of revenge during dinner? I think, Mr. Blaise, that it was making the effigy of Miss Leah that tipped me off."
"Darn…I knew we should have hidden that!"
The next morning…
The professor stared down at the three students, an eyebrow raised in amusement. The blond boy was sprawled out across the hallway, a light snoring emanating from his nose. Snorting slightly, he rolled over, curled into fetal position, and childishly popped his thumb into his mouth. The dark-haired boy was sleeping sitting against the wall, head lolling on his chest and legs blocking the hallway. The girl was curled up like a cat, head on the dark-haired boy's leg and a small frown on her face. Sneering slightly, the professor shook his head and moved to continue down the hallway. However, he looked up at the sound of the portrait squeaking open and a giggle.
"Ooooo, they are asleep. Here I've been thinking they were faking it. Oh goody, now I can leave and they won't know."
"Ah, Miss Pasline. I see you did get away."
"Oh pish posh Professor Snape, it was nothing. Just a little bit of wand-waving and the like. Please, do call me Leah, Miss Pasline makes me sound like such an old prune."
"Er…alright Leah. Interesting…wording, if I do say so myself."
"Hee hee, I have been told before that I say things in such a weird way. Shall we?"
Leah quickly took out a camera, snapped a photo of the group sleeping and skipped off to the library with a large grin on her face, reminding Gwen to keep acting as if she was still barricaded inside the dormitory as she went.
Snape sighed. Looking down at the three dozing students, he muttered, "What dunderheads. You think as Slytherins the boys would know better than to sleep at the same time." Shrugging his shoulders, he continued, "Pity. Miss Pas-er, Leah has much more finesse than they do. Five points to Ravenclaw for sheer cleverness and cunning, Leah." Shaking his head, he continued patrolling the hallways, reminding himself to inform Leah that it would be prudent to not engage a patrolling professor in conversation in the wee hours of the morning when all students should be in bed.
A/N Okies, that's chappie numero once (eleven). Like?
I think I tried to be funny too hard, but it was so much fun to write that I couldn't help myself. Don't worry, Leah will live…I think…
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