Chapter Thirty-Two: Transformation
Shortly after they got back to Hogwarts Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, and Patches and Tickle all gathered inside the girl's lavatory on the second floor of the castle so that Hermione could work on brewing the Polyjuice Potion.
"Call me crazy but do you think it's rather strange to be up here in broad daylight brewing a potion in the middle of a girl's lavatory?" Ron wondered.
"No." Hermione began. "Nobody ever comes in here." She finished.
"Why not?" Draco inquired.
"Moaning Myrtle." She replied.
"Who's Moaning Myrtle?" Harry questioned but just at that moment his question was suddenly answered as a ghostly figure of a young girl with pigtails and glasses flew out of one of the stalls.
"I'm Moaning Myrtle!" She cried. "Of course I wouldn't expect you to know me, after all,.. who would ever talk about ugly, miserable, moping Moaning Myrtle?" She questioned them before letting out a rather loud screech and soared back inside the toilet and the dogs started to whimper.
"She's a little sensitive." Hermione told them.
"No kidding." Draco said while widening his eyes in shock.
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"Come on Tickle go get the stick boy!" Draco exclaimed while picking a stick off of the ground and then threw it for him to fetch and patted his knees repeatedly with a grin as Tickle grabbed the stick inside his mouth and trotted back over to him with his brand new (bright blue) collar jingling as he wagged his tail to and fro. "Good boy you're my best friend." He said as the puppy dropped the stick at his feet and then Draco picked it up again and threw it once more for him to chase.
That's when suddenly a girl with her tied back into a ponytail and really dark skin, icy blue eyes and wearing Hufflepuff robes started walking towards him. "Draco, Hermione Granger asked me to give this to you." The girl said before handing a note over to him.
"Thank you." He replied as he looked down at the note and saw that it said for him to meet her and Harry and Ron in the girl's lavatory on the second floor at seven pm that night. As he glanced up at the girl he suddenly noticed that she was glaring at him.
"By the way, just in case you didn't know this already Rilly's still petrified." She told him.
"Who?" He questioned.
"Rilly! That's my nickname for April!" She cried and that's when he remembered that April was her best friend.
"Gee Amber, I'm really sorry." Draco told her but that's when Amber quickly turned away in a huff.
"You're the one who said that you would petrify her in the first place!" She snapped as she started heading back towards the castle and Draco simply just heaved a sigh because he knew that she was right.
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"Alright so the potion is nearly finished." Hermione began at supper that night. "All we need now is a bit of who we're changing into. So, in your cases you would need the hairs of Crabbe and Goyle." She explained.
"Alright then whose hair are you ripping out then!?" Ron demanded to know.
"I've already got mine." She began before she slowly revealed a tiny vial. "Millicent Bulstrode. I got this off her robes. Now all you have to do is make sure that Crabbe and Goyle find these." She finished while placing two chocolate cupcakes on top of the table. "I filled them with sleeping draught. Simple, but powerful." She explained before Harry took them and then he and Ron went to go out into the hallway. Harry sat them down on the ground and then he and Ron went to go hide.
That's when suddenly Ron withdrew his wand and cleared his throat. "Uh Ron, maybe I better do it." Harry suggested.
"Good idea." Ron replied with a nod.
"Wingardium Leviosa." Harry whispered with a swish and flick of his wand and the cupcakes rose into the air and Harry grinned proudly because that was the first spell that he had cast on his own not including homework. That's when suddenly sure enough a few moments later both Crabbe and Goyle had found the cupcakes and after one bite their eyeballs rolled back into their head and as they fell to the ground, they also instantly fell fast asleep.
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Draco and Tickle waited for Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the lavatory where thy had brewed the potion. Harry secretly yearned to have Patches with him as well, but he knew that if he did it would give his identity away. They all added their hairs to their glasses and made looks of disgust on their faces. "Eww,.. essence of Crabbe." Ron said before they clung their glasses together.
"Well here goes nothing,.. cheers." Hermione said before all three of them drank a bit of their potion.
"I think I'm going to be sick." Ron said before dropping his glass down onto the ground and smashing it and ran off to the nearest toilet that he could find.
"Me too." Hermione said before dropping her glass and running after him. Harry dropped his glass as well and Tickle watched with wonder as he looked up at him and panted and wagged his tail while Harry's body began to change, and Draco scooped up the tiny puppy inside his arms. That's when Harry Snape's reflection in the mirror instantly turned into Gregory Goyle's and then Draco had to silence Tickle from barking at him.
"Shh! Be quiet! It's only Harry!" He whispered and the puppy slowly began to calm down.
A few moments later Ron stepped out of his stall. "H-H-Harry? I don't know about you but I'm just a tad bit freaked out." He said with a gulp. "I mean bloody hell." He added.
"Ron? We still sound like ourselves. You need to sound more like Crabbe." Harry told him and as they started working on their voices together Draco went over to the stall that Hermione was in and knocked.
"Hermione, it's Draco. Are you alright in there?" He asked her.
"Just go ahead and go without me!" She cried. "I don't think I'm going, I'm still not feeling too well." She told him.
"Alright, are you sure?" He questioned.
"Yes just go you're wasting time!" She cried out making Tickle bark again.
"Tickle stop it! That's enough!" Draco exclaimed before the three boys (four including Draco's puppy) left the restroom together.