"What the hell is going on?" Ron asked in extreme annoyance as they were shoved into the great hall by Hagrid.
Hagrid didn't answer the trio, only shoved a letter into Harry's hand before slamming the doors shut.
"We think Dumbledore has something to do with it."
Turning they saw Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson and Blaise Zambini sitting on one of the tables lazily. The Gryffindors went to sit on the parallel table to them.
"Harry give me that letter." Hermione ordered. "Dear Harry, Ron, Draco, Blaise, Hermione and Pansy." She read aloud.
"How come they put us girls last?" Pansy pouted.
"Never mind that." Hermione turned back to the letter. "Seeing as relations between the six of you are still not improved we have decided that you have to get to know each other better. You will stay in here for two days. We think it unbelievable that you can survive a war together but you still can't stand to be civil to each other. Yes you are in rival houses but this has got to stop. You aren't that different from each other and we believe you have the potential to be good friends. Food will be provided. Yours affectionately, Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall."
"Put me down for a big I Told You So." Draco said. Hermione looked up at him and glared.
"We have to get along with them?" Ron and Blaise said together pointing at each other.
"Hermione, do you think we should let them know now?" Pansy asked.
"Hm, okay, couldn't hurt. Guys, we have a confession."
"We're already friends."
"Come again?" Draco looked blankly between them.
"Pansy is my best girl friend. We hang out and study together all the time. You're just too dense to notice it."
"Gossip about you lot in the bathrooms. Be each others ears in the common rooms."
"How do you do that?"
"Hang on, what time is it?" Hermione grabbed Harry's wrist and checked his watch. "Let's show them. Three, two, one." Before their eyes Hermione turned into Pansy and Pansy turned into Hermione.
"What the hell!" all the boys shouted.
"Status report." Hermione said.
"Ron has a girlfriend who shall remain nameless at the present time and yup you were right Harry fancies you." Pansy said chuckling and getting off the table. "How about on your end?"
"Draco's sexuality has been called into question and Blaise still believes in Father Christmas." Hermione reported getting down from the Slytherin table and meeting Pansy halfway.
"You mean I just asked Parkinson out?" Harry said looking severely shocked and annoyed.
"I do not believe in Father Christmas!"
"I am not gay!"
"Who says I have a girlfriend?"
"I'd say, mission well and truly accomplished." Hermione smirked at Pansy who sniggered.
"How long has this been going on?" Draco asked.
"About three years." Hermione said.
"Sometimes it takes Slytherin cunning to gain a confidence."
"And Gryffindor's charm can, on some occasions, discover things that most people wouldn't guess. After all, no one ever suspects the quiet ones."
They got back on the tables beside their friends.
"We take each others place all the time. And you never realised the difference, because our characters are so similar and we know how to be each other. But, we don't only do that. Right Hermione?"
"Oh indeed. We are quite busy, the pair of us. We have a constant supply of polyjuice potion and we can spy all we want. I also invented an invisibility potion so I wouldn't need to keep borrowing your cloak. We also live quite near each other and took acting classes together during the holidays and we're good at observing people and copying their mannerisms."
"Hermione this is a whole new side of you that I have never seen before." Harry said incredulously. "How come you never told us about this?"
"You never asked. We know everything that goes on at this school. Everything about our friends, our enemies, even our teachers. We might turn this into a business when we leave next year."
"It's a lot of fun. We have dirt on everybody. We know everybody's weak spots."
"What dirt do you have on the teachers?" Blaise asked curiously.
"McGonagall is not her last name. Her name is Mrs Minerva Dumbledore." Hermione smirked at Pansy who snorted with laughter,
"No way!"
"Yes way. And I know that Snape was, and still is, in love with Lilly Potter." Pansy smiled at Harry who paled.
"Snape was in love with my mother?"
"Yes. Imagine what would have happened if she had married him instead of James."
The all thought about it for a moment. Then, as one, they shuddered.
"Doesn't bear thinking about." Harry said looking thoroughly disgusted at the thought.
"You might be in Slytherin if that had happened." Draco said earning a glare from Hermione and Ron.
"Yeah right." Ron scoffed.
"Like I'd ever chose Slytherin to be my house." Harry scowled.
"Although…"
"Hermione I do not like that although!"
"What's the although part?" Pansy asked.
Hermione drew her away from the boys and further down the hall. A moment later Pansy squealed and then whispered something to Hermione, who also squealed.
"Girls." Ron muttered.
"I hear you." Blaise said grinning.
"Harry, I can't believe you nearly…" Hermione clamped her hand over Pansy's mouth to stop the words.
Harry's mouth dropped open. "Hermione I hate you!"
"No you don't, you love me." Hermione smirked.
Harry blushed. "Who says I do?"
"She does." Hermione pointed at Pansy.
Ron glared at Harry. "I have to compete with you for her?"
"Who says I fancy either of you?"
"Who do you fancy?" Pansy asked her friend.
"No one." Pansy noticed Hermione glanced at Draco as she spoke.
Pansy's mouth dropped open. "Really?"
"You saw that?"
"You know me, I notice everything."