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Draco and Hermione both glanced at each other, throwing questioning looks and pondering whether they should help their teachers out
or not.... if they do, they might get points and detention for using the potion without Snape's permission. But, if they don't, who knows
what will happen if they don't? What if this were really doing of dark wizards? They'll (Hermione at least) will be doomed.
Suddenly, Hermione stood up and marched towards Dumbledore's office. Draco, snapped out of his string of thoughts, turned to her
and chased.
"Where are you going Granger?"
"Dumbledore's," Hermione replied shortly.
"Have you gone daft? Snape's going to take points off and don't' forget detention too," Draco was afraid that he might have to clean bed
pans.... "Besides, you're going to be a guinea pig for their so-called in depth research," he finished petulantly.
"Look Malfoy, if we don't tell them, god knows what will happen? You already heard Snape, Filch saw dark wizards inside Hogwarts!"
Hermione answered, nearly screaming.
"Dark figures doesn't mean dark wizards you idiot!" retort Draco.
"Oh and how do you know? Your father told you that huh? Merlin knows that your father may be behind all this."
"Keep my father out of THIS, mudblood!" Draco defended his father.
"You're a death eater Malfoy, and a good-for-nothing filthy git," Hermione hissed as she raised her voice a tone higher. A faint sign of
hurt displayed over Draco's face as he heard this, but then, he concealed it with another smirk. Then, he replied her with some of his
nasty taunts again.
Oblivious to their surroundings while quarrelling, the door of Dumbledore's office creaked open, and the 3 professors stepped out the
room. Professor Mc Gonaggal looked slightly angry with such a sight, but after a while her expression tendered with worries. And Snape
wore a very irritated look, with his eyes opened wide and an arched eyebrow, not believing what he had just saw. At the same time,
Dumbledore was looking at his two students who are arguing amusingly. Maybe he found it interesting for students to quarrel over
such petty things or maybe he was just amused by the reaction of both his employees. Or maybe, it was both reason? God knows,
Merlin knows?
When the both of them are still in quarrel mood, and when Snape can no longer hold his tongue, he spoke, "Now what are you two
doing right here at this time?" He sounded cold, and his voice echoed even though there were students screaming every now and then.
The vibration of those echoes had a hard impact on Draco because it was directed to him(he's in Hermione's body) and it made him felt
horrible. For the first time he felt how the Gryffindor's was feeling when Snape treated them this way. It made him bitter with hatred
towards the way Snape was talking right now.
Hermione(who is in Draco's body) turned to face him and she blushed a little. While Snape looked at her cooly, with his right hand
fidgeting his lower chin, arched an eyebrow as if demanding for an explanation. It was rare to see Snape with such expression on his
face and it made her blushed even more. Draco caught sight of a pinkish blush creeping up Hermione's neck, afraid that it made him
look bad, he butted in.
"Um... nothing Professor we will go now," he said obediently. Then he pulled Hermione away while she still has that dreamy gaze on
Snape.
"What were you thinking Granger?" he paused and turned to look at her, she still had that dreamy gaze on. "Looking at Snape like
that?" he asked, there was a mocking tone blended with his dictating voice. She still wasn't listening. "Granger, do you er... have a
crush on him?" he asked again, sounding somewhat uneasy. It was hard for anyone to believe that the greasy potion master had a
student who liked him, for Draco, it was different, he liked him for he is the head of his house. But for Hermione's case, it made his
hair stands to even think about. Severus Snape has an admirer?! How bizarre!
The last question hit Hermione hard on the head, and she snapped out of her dreamy thoughts and stopped moving. What was she
thinking? She should've told Dumbledore the truth and help out, but instead, she was dreaming about her potion teacher? She can't
deny the fact that he appealed to her in many was. He was sexy and charming, and the cold stare he used to give other students made
him looked dashing. Oh and don't forget his hair, how many guys nowadays have such greasy shoulder length hair, (A/N: XD) besides
he's bloody slender! HEY WAIT! What is she thinking about? She snapped back to reality again. Draco was looking at her like some sort
of weirdo, sometimes she seems like she's talking to herself, others she seems to blush profusey, especially near Snape.
"Wait for me here," she suddenly told Draco.
"Huh?" said a very confused Draco. He saw her marching towards Dumbledore's office and got the idea of what she is going to do.
"Hey Granger!" he shouted as he followed closely behind her.
Hermione ran back to Dumbledore's office, she called out to her professor before he re-entered his office. "Professor Dumbledore, I
have something urgent I need to tell you!" said Hermione, panting for breath as she stopped right in front of the old man. Draco went
pale, no doubt he was in Hermione's body, but he was so pale that his skin showed lesser sign of blood than usual.
The three professors stopped too and looked at her. "Ah... um... it's that actually.. actually...."
"Actually what Mr Malfoy?" She heard a very impatient Professor Mc Gonagall, leaning forward and eager to know.
The three adults were looking at her with demanding looks, so she plunged up her courage and took in a deep breath, close her eyes
then open them again. "Actually professor," she paused, trying to speak firmly, "I and Malfoy are currently in the effect of the PolyJuice
Potion II, it was an accident," she finished with her shaky voice.
Both Professor Mc Gonagall and Snape gave her disbelieving looks. "So this is you miss Granger?" questioned Professor Mc Gonagall.
Hermione nodded but she dared not look at her. "I've never imagined it!" Professor Mc Gonagall continued, then she turned to Draco,
"so Mr Malfoy, you're in miss Granger's body?" she asked again with that disbelieving look. Draco was very reluctant to agree to that,
but after a while, he too, nodded.
"We was thinking if we could be any help...." Hermione's voice trailed off.
"Well well, haven't I told you not to touch that potion without my permission?" Snape started off silkily but then he voice coarsen and
became louder and deep with raging anger. "100 points off Gryf..." before he finished his sentence, Dumbledore held up his hand in
sign that he stop.
"Now now Severus, they came here admitting their mistakes and volunteering to help," Dumbledore spoke soothingly as he looked at
Snape with a smile. Then he turned to Hermione and said, "yes thank you Hermione, we needed your help," Dumbledore sounded
calm, he wasn't furious with them, even if he was, he's not showing any sign of it.
Suddenly, a dark figure could be seen on the wall behind them. It looks like a shadow but it hadn't a body. At the same time, it seemed
to be muttering some sort of curse or other things beneath it's breath. Unaware of what was behind them, they kept on talking. Snape
seems to detect some uninvited presence behind him and turned around, looking cautiously at the pale walls, but caught nothing. The
dark figure submerged itself back into the wall within a flash, just like disappearing into the midst of thin air....
Soon, Professor Mc Gonagall became delighted with the idea, she looked much more relieved. "Using the potion without our permission
is against the rules but we really do need your help. So meet me after lunch at my office. Now back to the hall."
"Professor Mc Gonagall?" Draco called out beneath his breath.
"Yes Mr. Malfoy?"
"I was thinking what are we getting for detention?" Draco asked. He was too afraid to scrub bed pans and floors or polish trophies
because it will be a shame thing for him, no doubt he was no longer afraid to patrol the night with Hagrid.
Dumbledore turned to face both his students, "well, if you manage to help us out and cooperate well, both of you are free from
detention and no points will be taken off." He looked at both of them with his eyes twinkling, then turned to his fellow employees for
approval. They approved. "I suggest we need to know how you two got into this situation, now into my office," said Dumbledore. The
two students entered their headmaster's office together with their other two professors. They explained everything including how they
got the potion poured onto themselves, but left out the part where they planned to steal the antidote and the difficult times they were
in each other's dorm.
Draco and Hermione stayed in Dumbledore's office for the rest of the day until schooling time was over because they told him that they
didn't wanted to return to their chaotic dorms filled with traumiced students thinking that Lord Voldermoth has made his comeback. It
was pleasant inside his office, being separated from the noisy classrooms and the chattering of their fellow students about the dark
Lord's return.
After having dinner with Dumbledore, they returned back to their 'dorm'. But before both the students could leave the office,
Dumbledore called out to Hermione and ask for her to stay.
"What is it professor?" chirped Hermione. She was thinking that Dumbledore may have some good news for her.
Dumbledore didn't answer her for a moment. He was looking at the piece of faint blue coloured paper an owl had just dropped him.
Hermione was still standing in front of the old professor, waiting for his answer. Dumbledore looked at her face for a while and then
turned back to the piece of paper.
"Hermione," he said, "here's something for you, may you take it calmly," Dumbledore answered firmly.
He passed her the
paper and have her to read it. It read:
Dear Hermione and Professor Dumbledore:
Hermione, I know it's hard to tell you this, but, you father has gone missing since yesterday. As what I've heard from Professor
Dumbledore, there are muggles that are kidnapped by some dark wizards that had just escaped from prison, and he suspects that
you father may be one of their hostages.
Professor Dumbledore, I hope that you will be willing to help me find my husband as me and my daughter really needs him. Please
help me take good care of Hermione too. I know I may be asking too much, but for now, none of us can really care for her. Tell her
we both love and miss her very much. Thank you.
Please write back soon.
~Alexandra Westerhoff Granger
The letter was short but it broke bad news to Hermione. She can't believe what she've just read, it took her quite a while to register
what her mother wrote.... her father... kidnapped by dark wizards? No, it couldn't be possible, maybe he went to Granny's but forget
phone mom, maybe mom forgot that she received the phonecall, maybe this was just a prank... but wait, the handwriting, it was her
mother's. Could someone forged it? Hermione lost herself in the swirl of thoughts of what ifs and or maybe.... she was in a daze....
if her father's being kidnapped by dark wizards, he's in grave danger and she MUST something about it! She quickly snapped herself
out of the daze, stood up and asked Dumbledore for a solution.
"Calm down child," Dumbledore tried to calm her down. "The minister is trying their best to rescue all the muggles that are being
kidnapped. Besides if you take rash actions, who know it may land you into trouble too, so please stay here and let the ministry carry
on their duties," explained Dumbledore. "Now go back to your dorms, we will do suitable arrangements for you to stay back at the
Gryffindor's tomorrow, is that alright with you?" Dumbledore asked sounding friendly. Hermione nodded.
After that she proceeds and walked back to the Slytherin's dorm. Noticing she hadn't take a bath, she filled the bath tub with warm
water, then dropped a few drops of essential oil on the shelf nearby. She didn't care who they belonged too, but figured it mostly
belongs to that vain blonde Slytherin. Then when the tub was half full, she poured some lavender bath foam into in so that it foamed.
Then with her clothes on, she jumped into the bathtub, slowly peeling pieces of clothes off but left the boxer on. It was hard but she
tried not to look. She remembered that Lavender and Parvatil always told her that Malfoy had a sexy body, well um, he did have an
impressive ass, she could feel it. (A/N: OMG! I wrote this one! O.O) Today was exhausting as well, and she couldn't care much more
than to clean herself.
After cleaning herself, she got up quickly and dried herself, put on fresh smelling clothes and got out of the bathroom. She then went
in front of a standing mirror to get her hair done when she saw a piece of note on the bedside.
Meet me beside the lake at 6.10pm. I'll be waiting there.
It was Malfoy's handwriting, she wouldn't mistaken it, untidy and slightly scratchy. But why wasn't it signed? She thought for a while,
maybe he didn't want anyone to know. He said to meet there at 6.10pm, so she checked the
clock at Malfoy's writing table, it reads 7.30pm. God, 7.30pm already? 'Damn, I'm late then,' she mentally slapped herself. With
the piece of note on her hand, she rushed to the lake right away with that towel still clinging on her neck.
At the lakeside, Draco was found standing there, walking around in circles at the same spot impatiently. The sun had already sank
itself and the skies are darkening. 'Damn, what's taking her so long?' He then read again the piece of short note he got, and
it says : Meet me beside the lake at 6.10pm. I'll be waiting there. It was her handwriting, nope, no mistake, neat, tidy and a
little curvy. But the weird thing is that it wasn't signed. 'Oh well, mudbloods are like that,' he thought. Then he saw, a figure
like his body running towards him. 'She finally showed up.' So he moved forward to meet up with her.
"Hey, what took you so long?" Draco demands a reasonable excuse to why is she late.
"Um.. sorry I've just took a shower, and I only saw the note after that..." Hermione said breathlessly, she ran all the way here.
"Took a bath? You... you lowly mudblood, you saw me NAKED????"
Hermione didn't answer, she was very exhausted already, and the news of her dad had a great impact on her, and so she didn't need
to quarrel with Malfoy to get any 'excitements'... "So why do you want me here?" she asked flatly, looking tired and energyless.
"I asked you out Granger? You are the one who did!" He handed her his piece of note. Hermione looked at it and analyse it for a while,
then open her mouth to speak. "I've also got one too, and with the same thing on it, the only difference is that it's your handwriting,"
as she handed him her piece of note. He read it carefully, not missing one word, analyse the handwriting and gave it some thinking. He
was first surprise to see this but then his expression solemned heavily. Who ever that sent this notes out are playing a prank on them,
and they chosen a time like this - at night. But why? Who? He doesn't know.
He teared his eyes off the note and lifted his head to face Hermione. There, behind her he saw a dark and slender figure emerging from
the dark. The skies have already darkened and only source of light they both had is the stars and a distant ray of light from the
Hogwarts building. The dark figure came nearer but Draco can't see it anymore, it was wholly swallowed but the darkness. But later it
emerged again, this time with something which seemed like an old runner(?).
"Watch out Granger!" Draco yelled towards Hermione, he went forwards and pushes her down in order to avoid the dark figure.
Just before they both land on the solid ground, a puff of green smoke emerged from nowhere. And seconds later, all Draco could see
is complete darkness as he and Hermione loses their conscious.....
A/N: Ok so this one was pretty uneventful. Anyways still hope you guys enjoyed it! And er, there's one little thingy here that I needed help for you guys, yea the reader. You see, there's another fic with the same concept, Hermione and Draco changing bodies when a potion goes wrong, it's by WeasleyGirl. And yes she started before me, so I guess this fic isn't that original no doubt I didn't copy nor read her fic before I started. So if any of you think that I should stop or keep on writing, please tell me. Thank you!
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