Hey there! I decided that it's been a while since we did the earlier books so here's a moment from Chamber of Secrets! I hope you're entertained!
By the way, so far in the poll it is one vote for Dean and two for Lonnie. I expect more voters soon! Please and thank you!
Sigh…I can't think of anymore unique disclaimers at the moment…Why don't I let a couple of the characters take over?
Disclaimer: Harri: Me first? Alright. Hi, everyone. Willow here does not own my canon counterpart or his world…I wonder if things are easier as a boy? Me: Nope.
Harri woke up with a start to the sound of a surprised grunt and something clattering.
"Oh, bother!" a voice that Harri was too sleepy to recognize said.
"Ronnie," Harri said as she went over to the girl and shook her awake.
Harri didn't have to worry about keeping her voice down so as not to wake her dorm mates. There was no one else in the dorm. Most of the students of Hogwarts had gone home for the holidays, due to the fact that everyone was scared about the attacks on students.
So many people believed that Harri was the Heir, or Heiress if you preferred, of Slytherin. They thought that she was summoning Slytherin's beast to attack Muggleborn students. She was more than tired of the accusation and wanted to put an end to them by getting Slytherin's true heir to confess…
Draco Malfoy…
"What, Harri?" Ronnie said groggily when Harri finally woke her up.
"I heard someone," Harri replied, "C'mon, let's check it out."
Ronnie sat up slowly and scratched her short hair lazily. Harri saw her look at the stack of presents at the foot of her bed.
"Can't we open presents first?" she asked.
Harri sighed and grabbed her arm, tugging her out of bed. Ronnie grumbled as the two of them went over to the doorway and saw that the stairs had turned into a slide. Harri and Ronnie exchanged somewhat confused looks before sliding down.
When they made it to the bottom, Harri saw Hermes standing there, picking up a couple of brightly wrapped presents that were on the ground.
"Happy Christmas, Hermes," she said as she and Ronnie stood up. She spit a few black locks from her mouth, having forgotten to tie her hair back in a ponytail, "So, it was you we heard."
"Happy Christmas, Harri, Ronnie," Hermes said as he put the gifts in the girls' hands, "Sorry about the noise. It was an act of stupidity on my part, really."
"Hermes Granger did something stupid?" Ronnie said in mock horror, "What is the world coming to?"
"I don't appreciate the cheek, Rhonda," Hermes said, glaring at the redhead, who was muttering about being Ronnie, not Rhonda, "I can't believe I forgot! Boys aren't supposed to go into the girls' dorm. There's an enchantment on the stairs."
"Why?" Ronnie asked with a yawn.
"Honestly, don't either of you read Hogwarts, A History?" he retorted when he saw that Harri was equally confused, "The Founders thought boys were far less trustworthy than girls, meaning that girls can get into the boys' dorm just fine. But that's not the point. I've been busy adding lacewings to the potion for the past hour."
He leaned in close and looked up at the taller girls with a smile.
"It's ready."
"You sure?" Harri asked, all traces of exhaustion vanishing from her body.
"Positive," Hermes replied confidently, "If we're going to do this, then I say it should be tonight."
Harri shot Malfoy several glares during the Christmas feast as he made loud, snide remarks about the sweater Mrs. Weasley had sent Harri for Christmas. If luck was on her side, then Malfoy would get his comeuppance in just a few hours.
Hermes led her and Ronnie out of the Great Hall so that they could go over the final stages of their plan for the evening.
"Alright, ladies," he said once he made sure the coast was clear, "You still need a bit of the people you're changing into."
While Ronnie muttered her disgust at this part of the plan, Harri shook her head at the way Hermes said it, as though he was simply sending them out on an errand to the supermarket.
"It would be best if you could get something from Crabbe and Goyle," Hermes continued, "They're Malfoy's best friends, he'll tell them anything."
Hermes then went over the plan he had concocted so that Harri and Ronnie could get something from Crabbe and Goyle, as well as keep the two from bursting in on them during Malfoy's interrogation. By the end, Harri was stupefied and Ronnie's jaw was wide open in her shock.
"Seriously, Hermes?" Ronnie said incredulously.
"So much could go wrong…" Harri added with a gulp.
Hermes gave both of them a steely look that reminded them so much of McGonagall. Honestly, Hermes was like a male version of the stern professor.
"Fine, we'll do it," Harri said, "But what about you? Whose hair are you going to rip out?"
"I've already got mine," Hermes said unenthusiastically, pulling out a small bottle with a single hair inside, "Unfortunately…"
"What's so unfortunate about that?" Ronnie asked.
"…Well, it's…It's Millicent Bulstrode's…"
Ronnie let out a loud laugh while Harri held back her own snicker. Harri remembered Bulstrode, who had been paired up with Hermes at the failed meeting of the Dueling Club. Harri had watched Hermes try so hard to be a polite gentleman to the large, somewhat hag-like Slytherin girl. And then, when the meeting had become chaotic, Harri had watched as Bulstrode put poor Hermes in a headlock.
"It wasn't funny!" Hermes cried, his face a bright red.
"Says you!" Ronnie said brightly.
Harri sighed as the two began yet another argument with one another.
"Hermes?" Harri called as she and Ronnie entered Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
Hermes emerged from the stall where they were hiding the Polyjuice Potion, which they would use to impersonate Slytherins and get answers out of Malfoy. His face was shiny and he looked more than anxious. Harri sighed, knowing half of his anxiousness was due to being in a girl's bathroom, something he still couldn't get over.
"Did you get them?" Hermes asked.
Harri and Ronnie showed him Goyle's and Crabbe's hair respectively.
"Those two were so thick!" Ronnie exclaimed as she looked at the hair in disgust, "But it was bloody hard to stuff them in the closet."
"So long as you got it done," Hermes said, handing the girls some robes, "I sneaked these out of the laundry. You'll need bigger sizes once you're Crabbe and Goyle."
The three of them went into the stall and stared at the cauldron with the Polyjuice Potion. It looked like thick, dark mud and was bubbling. Harri stepped back to prevent her gag reflex from acting up. Hermes quickly read through the recipe in Moste Potente Potions and said that it looked just like it did in the book, warning the girls that they had exactly one hour until the potion wore off.
Hermes separated the potion into three glasses. Hermes took out Millicent Bulstrode's hair and added it to the potion, which turned a sickly yellow color.
"Well, doesn't that look delicious?" Ronnie said sarcastically as she and Harri added the hairs to their own glasses.
"Wait!" Hermes said suddenly, "Can I switch with one of you?"
"No way am I looking like that Bulstrode woman!" Ronnie said, "Crabbe's just barely better!"
"But, me becoming a girl…" Hermes said with a shudder, "It's so improper…"
"I would switch with you, Hermes," Harri said sympathetically, "But you don't know Crabbe and Goyle like Ronnie and I do. The two of us have the best chance of impersonating those gits."
"If it makes you feel better, we're all changing our genders today," Ronnie said as she grimaced at the potion.
"Oh, very well," Hermes said reluctantly.
The three of them went into separate stalls. Hermes had the sense to warn them to change into the larger robes first. After changing, Harri counted down from three and then gulped down the foul tasting potion.
A writhing sensation, as though there were live snakes inside her, started up. Harri let out a sharp gasp as pain coursed through her. She felt her body being stretched upwards and out as she became as tall and wide as Goyle. Her hands grew and her fingers thickened. She felt a strange sensation as her hair grew shorter and shorter and an even stranger one between her legs that she did not want to think about…
After a few moments, the transformation was complete. Her vision was clouded, so Harri removed her glasses and pocketed them. She stepped out of the stall and slowly walked towards a cracked mirror, mouth agape.
Goyle was staring back at her with the same expression.
"Bloody hell," came Crabbe's deep, grunting voice.
Harri turned and saw Ronnie, well, Crabbe, staring at her, his, hands with astonishment.
"This is unbelievable," Ronnie said as she too stared in the mirror.
"We'd better get going," Harri said in Goyle's low rasp, "We have to find out where the Slytherin Common Room is…Hopefully, there's someone to follow."
"It's so bizarre seeing Goyle thinking," Ronnie stated as she gazed at Harri.
Ronnie walked over to the stall Hermes was in and banged on the door.
"Hermes, hurry it up!" she called, "We need to go."
"I…I don't think I'll be coming with you, ladies…" Hermes said in a high-pitched tone.
Harri raised an eyebrow. Bulstrode hadn't looked like the type of girl to have a high voice like that.
Harri and Ronnie tried to convince Hermes to come out, but he insisted that he should stay. Hermes assured them that he was fine. With time passing fast, the girls had to leave him behind.
"Oh no," Ronnie said as she and Harri left the bathroom.
"What?" Harri replied.
"I have to go to the bathroom."
Harri shot Ronnie a look, causing a sheepish expression to appear on Ronnie's, Crabbe's, face.
"Make it quick, then!" Harri said.
Ronnie looked down at Crabbe's body.
"…I can hold it."
"Well, that wasn't a complete waste of time!"
Harri and Ronnie panted heavily as they ran back to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Harri had to try hard to keep from tripping over her robes as her body changed back to normal. Ronnie didn't have that concern, since she was already rather tall to begin with. When the girls made it inside the bathroom, they checked in the mirror to make sure they were truly back to normal.
"I'll write Dad and tell him about the room under the Malfoys' drawing room," Ronnie said excitedly as she walked over to the stall Hermes was in, "Ooh, I can't wait to see the look on that little ferret's face! Hermes, come out! We've got loads to tell you-"
"Go away!" came a squeaky voice.
"What's wrong?" Harri asked worriedly, "You should be back to normal by now."
Moaning Myrtle happened to glide in, looking positively giddy.
"Ooooooh, wait till you see," she said, "He looks awful!"
The stall door opened and the girls stepped back as Hermes slowly stepped out, the robes he was wearing pulled over his head.
"What's up?" Ronnie asked in an uncertain tone, "I know being a girl must've been weird but-Bloody hell!"
Ronnie backed away a few steps and Harri let out a gasp. Hermes' face was covered in black fur, his eyes were a bright yellow and there were cat-like ears pointing through his bushy hair.
"It was cat hair!" Hermes said in a humiliated tone, "The potion isn't supposed to be used with animal transformations!"
As Myrtle told Hermes he'd be teased and Harri reassured the boy that Madam Pomfrey would be able to take care of things without anyone else being the wiser, Ronnie walked up to Hermes and patted his shoulder awkwardly.
"Well," she said in hesitant voice, "Think about it this way…You said before that you love cats, right?"
"Ronnie…" Harri said as Hermes covered his face with his hands.
"Yeah?"
"Don't help."
And we're done! I was laughing so much as I was thinking up this chapter. When I got about ten chapters into this story, I started rereading Chamber of Secrets. The second I got to this chapter, I thought it would be great to do. And the poor girls, having to become boys. At least it was only for an hour!
Thank you for reading and please review!