Hermione glared at Malfoy. It was all his fault. All his fault that she was in detention for the very first time. She hadn't even done anything wrong. All she did was try to make sure that they didn't argue and cause a massive catastrophe but unfortunately that was exactly what happened. Ironic ,right? She tries to avoid trouble but (Harry was probably right) but trouble just had to find her. And now she was in detention...with Malfoy...in a potions lab...down near the dungeons...around Snape. Life couldn't get any worse. Hermione was glaring so intently at Malfoy she didn't notice the identical expression on his own face.

Malfoy was frustrated. He hadn't done anything wrong this time. He hadn't even called her a... well that word. The moment he doesn't do anything wrong, he gets into detention. He should've known that something would go wrong when he was paired with Granger for the whole Potions year ,but he decided to ignore it and make sure that he didn't get on her bad side. But he did. I mean, he couldn't just stand there as Granger added the ingredients wrongly ,so he didn't. He told her exactly what she was doing wrong ,but the moment he started he knew he had touched a nerve. It wasn't his fault. He was doing the right thing. And now he was in detention.

'Listen up!' Snape called as he swept into the dungeons. 'You two are going to be brewing an adaptation of the polyjuice potion for me ,which I have created myself. It is the exactly same as polyjuice only it takes two hours instead of a month to prepare ,but it is dangerous and any mishaps with this potion and you can both forget about taking Potions any further' Snape waved his wand at the board. 'These are your instructions. I will come and check on you two in two hours which is more than enough time to prepare my potion' And with that, Snape swept out of the room.

'Well...' Hermione said as she started boiling water in her cauldron at top speed 'I think I can handle this ,Malfoy. If you could just...'

'I am not leaving my fate in your hands. Who knows what you could do? I am going to do this as well'

'Fine!' Hermione said ,understanding his pain 'But on one condition?'

'What?'

'We will perform a truce' Hermione said.

'But why'

'It will help us concentrate on our task at hand and anyway I believe our dormitory will be a much quieter place if we can agree on a truce' Hermione reasoned and was about to go on when Malfoy cut her off.

'Allright' he almost screamed and started gathering ingredients from the closet and sharing them between him and Hermione to slice and cube. Hermione smiled and did as he indicated. As they worked, she noticed the way he was cutting his ingredients. With wholly precise widths of each slice and when he cubed, each piece was identical. An unusual feeling occured in her stomach as she watched him cube the fig ,but she shook it away and carried on with her slicing. He was much faster than he and had almost finished his share of the ingredients.

'We should start to add the beetle eyes about...now' He said as Hermione sprinkled the powder lightly over their almost-finished potion. 'Now we stir the potion clockwise seven times' He instructed. The potion started to bubble.

'That isn't supposed to happen. Not with normal polyjuice' Hermione said as she watched the potion change to a dark shade of blue rapidly.

'Maybe it is a side affect of the adaptation' Malfoy said , starting to stir the potion as gently as he could. The bubbling increased.

'I seriously don't think that this is right' Hermione said again.

'Maybe not' Just as the bubbles increased and half the potion came toppling over their heads. Hermione's knees buckled and she fell straight on top of Malfoy. Soaked and drenched in Potion, they lay there for a few seconds.

After catching their breath, they noticed their compromising position and Hermione quickly pushing herself off of Malfoy ,blushing, and stood up gingerly ,covered in the glowing potion, as she inspected the damage.

'We need to get this cleaned up' Draco said. 'Before Snape comes ,or any chances of us carrying on with Potions is gone'

'oh my god, oh my god, oh my god' Hermione said ,flailing her hands in the air looking for her wand. When she found it, she starting muttering spells rapidly and the mess from the walls started to disappear. 'Thank goodness Snape left us our wands or this would take ages to clean up the muggle way'

'But how did this happen?' Draco asked ,inspecting the potion and noticing that only the top layer of the potion had exploded ,in other words the part of the potion that had touched the beetle eyes

'Must have been the beetle eyes' Hermione said ,finishing the walls and walking over to look at the beetle eyes pot. 'Yeah, look these don't look like beetle eyes'

'Then what are they?' Draco asked.

'I don't know but they certainly aren't beetle eyes. I don't know why we didn't see this before. It is a very common mistake ,mistaking one ingredient for another'

'This isn't our fault. Someone has been tampering with the ingredients.'

'Well, there is no point looking at that now. Let's just focus on our potion and clean up this mess.'

'Can you remove this stuff from our clothes?'

'I don't think so. I think we will need to get new robes.'

'I can get spare robes from the Slytherin store cupboard and we can transfigure the badges and the colour of the tie for yours' with that Draco went.

As Draco rushed out of the door, Hermione felt a tingling effect in her right hand but ignored it.

The next morning, Hermione awoke on the couch of the Head's common room trying to figure out how she landed up there. Ahhh, now she remembered. She had been so tired last night that she hadn't even made it to her bedroom. Hermione looked around the room for a mop of blonde hair but none could be seen. Draco must've made it to his room then. Lucky guy. Hermione got to her feet ,cricking her sore neck and stumbling slightly. Something felt wrong today. Adjusting her uniform, which felt much smaller compared to yesterday, she made her way towards her dormitory. Stumbling again as she got to her door she placed her thumb against the fingerprint scanner and pushed at her door. It didn't open. She tried again. And again. It didn't open. Frowning, she checked her thumb as if answers to her faulty scanner would be written there. It did look different. Paler and rougher. Panicking, she tried the door again and again before kicking the door.

'Granger, cut it-' Draco moaned ,yawning as he walked out of his room but cut his sentence short when he heard high-pitched female voice and saw Hermione. Where he expected Hermione to be, was himself wearing a Gryffindor girl's school uniform and looking very shocked.

At the same time, Hermione turned to look at him. Where Malfoy should've been was herself ,wearing Slytherin pyjamas and a shocked expression.

'Malfoy...what is wrong with us?' Hermione asked in Draco's deep masculine voice.

Draco just shook his head.

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