A/N: Okay... I've decided to draw Harriet until I feel at such time to write it out. It always works out better that way.. That's how I did this... well... sort of... I did that with fifth and sixth year. Seventh was only half done.
Anyway... I WANT THAT CoS SOUNDTRACK! AAAARGH! I can't wait 'till it comes out. Rargh.... -.-*
And yes... Draco is having fun messing with Astra like this... she puts up with it because she loves the guy, but that's the only reason. Harry's gonna have an interesting time.... Although, I think right now he could be called Harriet.....
Chapter Six
Bedding arrangements was a little awkward. Harry and Draco ended up sleeping in the girls dorm for the time being until they hiccoughed and changed back. Astra slept in the boys dorm, not for the first time.
Ginny and Hermione helped Harry figure out how to wear a bra and helped him with sleeping clothes. "Go ahead and barrow a set of my pajamas Harry." Ginny said as she handed him her pajamas.
Draco was no where in sight while this was going on. Harry briefly wondered where he had gone until Ginny got in his face. She was holding his head in a bracing manner. Harry stared back into her brown eyes. "Wha?"
"I was wondering...." she trailed off. Harry's brain went into overtime. He blushed as he thought about what she was wondering about with her face so close to his female face. "I wonder what would make you hiccup...." she said finally. Harry nearly fell off the bed.
"Oh that...." Harry said in a shaky voice as he got back onto the bed. "I don't know... I guess it'll happen when it does..."
Astra was having her own problems. Her male body was something she had to get used to. She was bigger and bulkier than she was as a girl. She still had a feminine look to her, though.
She put on Harry's pajamas and settled into bed. Seamus and Dean were already snoring away. Ron and Kennedy were asleep as well. Neville was the only one still awake aside from Astra. He sat on his bed, staring at Astra oddly.
"What's wrong, Neville..." Astra said in her now rather deep voice.
"It's just very odd... I'm so used to seeing Harry sleeping there." Neville said.
"Harry is having her own problems right now..." Astra had taken to using the female pronoun when talking about Harry now. "Mainly being in the same room as Draco....Go to sleep Neville... everything will be alright... eventually..."
Neville nodded and slipped under his covers. Astra sat up in her bed and stared around. She waited until everything went quiet and slid under her covers as well. She was tired from the day she had. All day she had been trying to avoid most of the girls in the other houses. Was she that desirable looking now, she wondered. She doubted it.
Something slipped under her nightshirt and held her close. Her eyes snapped open and she tried to move, but whomever had her, had a good grip. She struggled and finally sat up. Laying next to her was a girl with short silvery hair and a wide grin.
"Draco... you are going to get killed if you keep goin' like this!" Astra hissed at the female Draco. He just kept grinned.
"Yer screwed up, you know that... Are you some kind of closet queen, or something?" Astra huffed.
"I'm nothing of the sort... you are a boy now and I am a girl... there's nothing strange about that.... you are still mine..." Draco said as he sat up. He was wearing what looked to be Astra's own pajamas.
Draco pushed Astra back onto the bed. "Wha?" Astra managed to gasp as Draco covered her mouth with his. Astra responded by throwing Draco off of her.
Draco climbed to his feet. "I see... so it's going to get interesting isn't it... you're a little mixed..."
Astra just stared at Draco. He was slightly blurry because she didn't have her glasses on. Draco walked back to Astra and took a hold of her face. He held it close to his and smiled. "I think I better go back to bed before that Granger girl catches me in here... Good night.... Astra..." Draco kissed Astra's lips gently and walked out of the room.
At breakfast, Harry, Draco and Astra suddenly hiccoughed in unison. "This is good... this is really good..." Astra had mumbled.
"Everyone under the table before every one sees us...." Harry said quickly. The other tables weren't looking over at them.
Harry handed Astra the uniform he was wearing and Harry quickly put on his own uniform. Astra handed Draco his uniform Ron had handed her from his seat. "Is everything alright down there?" Hermione asked from above.
Harry climbed back to his seat beside Ginny. She blushed as he nearly came up between her knees. "Sorry about that, Ginny..."
"It's alright..." she said as she blushed to the roots of her hair.
"This is a rather interesting potion, Astra... who was it originally for?" Draco said mildly. There was a twinge of a sneer to his smile.
"Pansy... I didn't think Harry would go after you, Draco..." Astra said as she ate some eggs.
"Apparently...." he drawled as he ate some breakfast. He turned to Ron. "So, Weasley... where did you store my uniform? In that dilapidated bag of yours?"
Draco was suddenly hit by a book from Astra's hand. Ron smirked in satisfaction. "It was in Astra's bag... she was the one that was keeping it nice and folded for you...."
"Grand..."
Defense Against the Dark Arts was interesting. Sirius seemed to have the time of his life making people call him "Professor Black". Harry listened as Sirius told them about fighting against deatheaters, making a few of the girls gasp.
"No, no, no! Don't be afraid! They can't touch me!" Sirius said with a grin. "I helped the great Auror Mad-eye Moody with a few of them before You-Know-Who went away."
At lunch, Astra and Draco sat eating quietly. Harry talked with Ron, Hermione and Ginny. As Astra started to put some food into her mouth, Draco tugged on her arm. "Come on... I want to do something..." Draco said softly to her. That chill went down her spine again.
He dragged her to an empty classroom and closed the door. "Draco... I'm not going to be privy to your little games... well... not yet..."
"I have something for you." He said quietly as he walked over to her. He was inches away from her when he took out something. It was a small box. "Open it..."
Astra stared up at him in wonderment. She opened the box and it was a silvery cladough ring. The heart was made of a dark red stone that looked black in the lack of light. She gazed up at him again. "What's this about?"
"Wear it..." Draco took her left hand and put the ring onto her third finger. "It's a promise ring.... Wear it until it becomes something different.."
Astra stared at him. Then, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him fervently. He held her around her waist, holding her to his body. When she broke away from his mouth, she held his ear to her. "I love you...." she said as quietly as she could.
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Over the next few days, Harry had to deal with more than his share of switching. At one point, during Care of Magical Creatures, He changed into a girl right beside Susan Bones, who could've collapsed at the sight of Harry.
In another incident, Draco had turned into a girl right in the middle of Potions beside Astra. Pansy's gasp of surprise could be heard clear across the room. At the same moment, Astra turned into a boy and ended up listening to Professor Snape growl out Gryffindor losing points.
When the weekend finally came, Harry had become quite tired of constantly changing clothes. The changes had become rather frequent during the week, now they were becoming few in between. Harry wondered when the potion would wear off.
He was in his female body right now as he tried to fly his broom through a little Quidditch practice. His robes and padding were hanging off of him as he tried to make a grab for the snitch.
"HOLD ON!" Harry shouted as he grounded his broom. He walked over to Astra and nodded to her. She sighed and walked with him to the changing room.
"I hate this... I hate this... I really hate this...." Astra kept muttering as she made herself sneeze after she had taken off her quidditch uniform and robes. Harry watched as she suddenly grew into his uniform. It was bizarre to watch.
"There now... happy?" She growled in the now very male voice. She tied her hair back and grabbed her broom in a huff. "I hate this... I hate this....I hate this...."
They began playing again and Harry could function in Astra's robes. Directing his broom was an odd sensation. He much lighter now, so his broom was going faster than it had ever done in the past.
"Watch it, Harry! You nearly knocked me off of my broom!" Ron shouted as Harry rounded the goal post.
"Go Harry!" shouted Ginny from her place. Kennedy handed her the quaffle as Harry rounded beside her.
Harry stopped his broom when he suddenly heard something clicking madly in the stands. He looked down and saw Colin Creevy taking pictures. "Great Moves, Harry! Great moves!" He smiled and waved gleefully at Harry. Harry growled and swooped down to grab for his camera, but a sudden pain hit his head and he fell instead.
"Oh my god! Harry!" He heard Ginny scream. He was surrounded by everyone, he realized when he opened his eyes.
"Harry! Are you alright? Why did you just fall like that!" Ron said frantically.
"Wha...? Pain....pain in my head.... my s-s--" Harry stammered out. There was suddenly a high pitched scream. Harry snapped up dreading what he felt in his stomach. "Colin! Where's Colin!"
"Creevy? He was out here? I never saw him." said Nevaeh.
"Colin? He said he was going to take pictures of Hagrid's house for a scrap book." Dennis Creevy said.
"What? I s-saw him in the stands taking pictures of me!" Harry growled. He stood up and ran to the stands. He mounted his broom and flew up to the stand that he saw Colin in. He wasn't there. "Where?"
Then, he saw something over at Hagrid's hut. Something very still. "Oh God..." He said.
"Oh my God!" cried Astra as she flew up to Harry's level. "He's over there!"
Hermione, who had just gotten to ground level, was screaming. "Harry! Harry!"
Harry helped her onto his broom and everyone flew to Hagrid's Hut. Harry saw Colin come into view. Harry flew to the ground and heard Hermione gasp at the sight of him. He was bloody and battered, but his face was pale and frozen in shock. Like Cedric.
Harry suppressed a shiver as he walked over to Colin. He picked up his camera and looked at it. The lens was broken. "What the hell happened here..." He heard Ron say as the others touched down.
"Harry! Look! There is something on his forehead!" Ginny gasped as she knelt down next to the bloody mess that was Colin.
"Oh God.. Colin!" Denis could be heard next to Hermione.
"What is on his head, Ginny..." Harry said.
"New... what is THAT supposed to mean..." Ginny said.
"Huh? Let me see..." Astra knelt down next to Colin and gazed at his forehead. "Three letters... all upper case... easier to scratch into objects like that... N...E..W.." She said as she traced the letters with her index finger.
"You're a bit morbid, you know that?" Nevaeh said.
"New...." Hermione said.
"Ron... get one of the Professors... Hermione...? Help me with Colin..." Harry said. He lifted Colin's shoulders and Hermione picked up his feet. "Let's take him to the infirmary."
"But he's dead...!" said Ginny.
"It's better than keeping him out here!" Hermione snapped.
They took Colin to the castle. It was a sad journey. Denis kept crying into Ginny's shoulder as Harry and Hermione dragged Colin's body to the hospital wing in a strange funeral procession.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion. Harry and Hermione putting the bloody mess of Colin on the nearest bed. Denis crying heavily into Ginny's shoulder. Ron coming back with Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall. Madame Pomfrey coming out of her office and gasping at the sight of what was left of Colin.
Suddenly, everything came into focus. "Great Merlin! What happened here!" Madame Pomfrey cried.
"Ginny... give Denis to me.... both of you come with me..." McGonagall said hurriedly. Her long black hair wasn't up in a bun as it usually was, it was in a long braid that went over her shoulder.
Harry stared at Colin. The word "NEW" etched into his white forehead screamed at him. He could feel his lunch starting to come up. The smell, the blood... it covered everything.
"Harry? What happened?"
Harry was snapped out of his thoughts and looked up at Dumbledore. It took a few moments to realize why exactly he was looking UP instead of at him. Harry straightened the bra uncomfortably and nodded his head in a sort of bow to Dumbledore.
"What happened Harry...." Dumbledore said again.
Harry could feel tears starting to come to his eyes. He chocked them back and searched for his voice. "We... we found him by Hagrid's hut...." he stammered out.
"How did you know where he was?" Dumbledore said softly.
"We were practicing when I saw Colin in the stands taking pictures of me. He said something and smiled at me.... I was going to... to take his camera away when my head started hurting and I fell. When I came back, I heard a scream. I asked where Colin was and I said I saw him in the stands, but everyone said they never saw him in the stands and they were over in that direction as well... Denis said that Colin told him that he was going to take pictures of Hagrid's hut and that's when I flew up into the air and searched for Colin and found him at Hagrid's hut...." Harry said as quickly as he could.
Dumbledore stared at him in a glazed sort of manner. Harry felt empty. He saw Colin the stands, but why had he seen him there just seconds before he heard Colin scream. "A farewell, I expect...." said Dumbledore, snapping Harry away from his thoughts again.
"A farewell?"
Dumbledore nodded solemnly. "It is documented to happen sometimes. If the person doesn't come back as a ghost, sometimes their spirit shows up to the person they felt most strongly for in their life. Oh they admired, in the case of you Harry.... He felt that you were his friend and so he said goodbye to you before he died...."
Harry felt the tears trying to burst through. Astra came forward. She held Harry to her and whispered to him. "Shhh.... go on...."
Harry grasped onto her and cried hard into her shoulder. Everything seemed to swim away as he let the tears flow through. He listened to Astra's voice as she calmed him. He heard everyone starting to sniffle. Hermione was crying into Ron's shoulder. Nevaeh was crying as she was being held around her shoulders by Kennedy.
Astra led Harry out of the Infirmary and into the hallway. Harry gave a small hiccough and suddenly he was as tall as Astra. He let go of her and dried his eyes with his gloved hand. Suddenly, he sneezed.
"I guess it wore off... you didn't turn back..." Astra said. She was still in male form.
"Yeah... I guess..." Harry said. He looked down at the now too tight, blood stained robes. "Sorry about the stains..." he said.
"Nothing to worry about..." she smiled. She stood up and stretched. "I've got some business to take care of and a score to settle.... bye!" She walked off down the corridor and disappeared.
"Goodbye Colin, you strange little twit..." Harry said softly to no one.
Astra snuck up on Draco and tapped him on the shoulder. He was in male form now and jumped as he screeched like a girl. "ACK! Astra! Don't do that!" He shouted at her.
He backed away and straightened his normal boys uniform. "The potion seems to have worn off. Thank goodness..." He said.
Astra stared at him with her piercing eyes. "You look good in this form..." She said with her low male voice.
Draco stared at her. He looked distinctly ruffled. "What's gotten into you?"
"I just experienced something today that made me want to count my many blessings in life...." Astra said. Her voice was a low, seductive growl. Draco was backing away from her now. She smiled.
"Hey... wait a minute... not out in the hall like this..." he said shakily. There was a small crowd of Slytherin girls coming down the hall.
Astra took the tie out of her hair and her hair fell around her male shoulders. She rushed forward and pulled Draco to her, covering his mouth with hers. There was a small shriek from one of the girls, who sounded distinctly like Pansy. "I knew that you had to be gay!"
Astra felt Draco respond to her kiss. He kissed back passionately as she suddenly felt herself make a small hiccup and shrink. The crowd of girls had not gone away. "Great Merlin... so THAT was what it was..." said a voice that sounded like Millicent Bulstrode.
Astra broke away and grinned up at Draco. He gazed down at her in a dream like state. "Got you back..." she said.
"You know... you look kind of nice in the boy's uniform..." Draco said. "Maybe I am a .. How did you so put it... closet queen?" He said with a grin. Astra stepped on his foot hard and he winced in pain.
"Keep it up, Malformed... I can hit you all day..." she growled. Everything was back to normal.
Anyway... I WANT THAT CoS SOUNDTRACK! AAAARGH! I can't wait 'till it comes out. Rargh.... -.-*
And yes... Draco is having fun messing with Astra like this... she puts up with it because she loves the guy, but that's the only reason. Harry's gonna have an interesting time.... Although, I think right now he could be called Harriet.....
Chapter Six
Bedding arrangements was a little awkward. Harry and Draco ended up sleeping in the girls dorm for the time being until they hiccoughed and changed back. Astra slept in the boys dorm, not for the first time.
Ginny and Hermione helped Harry figure out how to wear a bra and helped him with sleeping clothes. "Go ahead and barrow a set of my pajamas Harry." Ginny said as she handed him her pajamas.
Draco was no where in sight while this was going on. Harry briefly wondered where he had gone until Ginny got in his face. She was holding his head in a bracing manner. Harry stared back into her brown eyes. "Wha?"
"I was wondering...." she trailed off. Harry's brain went into overtime. He blushed as he thought about what she was wondering about with her face so close to his female face. "I wonder what would make you hiccup...." she said finally. Harry nearly fell off the bed.
"Oh that...." Harry said in a shaky voice as he got back onto the bed. "I don't know... I guess it'll happen when it does..."
Astra was having her own problems. Her male body was something she had to get used to. She was bigger and bulkier than she was as a girl. She still had a feminine look to her, though.
She put on Harry's pajamas and settled into bed. Seamus and Dean were already snoring away. Ron and Kennedy were asleep as well. Neville was the only one still awake aside from Astra. He sat on his bed, staring at Astra oddly.
"What's wrong, Neville..." Astra said in her now rather deep voice.
"It's just very odd... I'm so used to seeing Harry sleeping there." Neville said.
"Harry is having her own problems right now..." Astra had taken to using the female pronoun when talking about Harry now. "Mainly being in the same room as Draco....Go to sleep Neville... everything will be alright... eventually..."
Neville nodded and slipped under his covers. Astra sat up in her bed and stared around. She waited until everything went quiet and slid under her covers as well. She was tired from the day she had. All day she had been trying to avoid most of the girls in the other houses. Was she that desirable looking now, she wondered. She doubted it.
Something slipped under her nightshirt and held her close. Her eyes snapped open and she tried to move, but whomever had her, had a good grip. She struggled and finally sat up. Laying next to her was a girl with short silvery hair and a wide grin.
"Draco... you are going to get killed if you keep goin' like this!" Astra hissed at the female Draco. He just kept grinned.
"Yer screwed up, you know that... Are you some kind of closet queen, or something?" Astra huffed.
"I'm nothing of the sort... you are a boy now and I am a girl... there's nothing strange about that.... you are still mine..." Draco said as he sat up. He was wearing what looked to be Astra's own pajamas.
Draco pushed Astra back onto the bed. "Wha?" Astra managed to gasp as Draco covered her mouth with his. Astra responded by throwing Draco off of her.
Draco climbed to his feet. "I see... so it's going to get interesting isn't it... you're a little mixed..."
Astra just stared at Draco. He was slightly blurry because she didn't have her glasses on. Draco walked back to Astra and took a hold of her face. He held it close to his and smiled. "I think I better go back to bed before that Granger girl catches me in here... Good night.... Astra..." Draco kissed Astra's lips gently and walked out of the room.
At breakfast, Harry, Draco and Astra suddenly hiccoughed in unison. "This is good... this is really good..." Astra had mumbled.
"Everyone under the table before every one sees us...." Harry said quickly. The other tables weren't looking over at them.
Harry handed Astra the uniform he was wearing and Harry quickly put on his own uniform. Astra handed Draco his uniform Ron had handed her from his seat. "Is everything alright down there?" Hermione asked from above.
Harry climbed back to his seat beside Ginny. She blushed as he nearly came up between her knees. "Sorry about that, Ginny..."
"It's alright..." she said as she blushed to the roots of her hair.
"This is a rather interesting potion, Astra... who was it originally for?" Draco said mildly. There was a twinge of a sneer to his smile.
"Pansy... I didn't think Harry would go after you, Draco..." Astra said as she ate some eggs.
"Apparently...." he drawled as he ate some breakfast. He turned to Ron. "So, Weasley... where did you store my uniform? In that dilapidated bag of yours?"
Draco was suddenly hit by a book from Astra's hand. Ron smirked in satisfaction. "It was in Astra's bag... she was the one that was keeping it nice and folded for you...."
"Grand..."
Defense Against the Dark Arts was interesting. Sirius seemed to have the time of his life making people call him "Professor Black". Harry listened as Sirius told them about fighting against deatheaters, making a few of the girls gasp.
"No, no, no! Don't be afraid! They can't touch me!" Sirius said with a grin. "I helped the great Auror Mad-eye Moody with a few of them before You-Know-Who went away."
At lunch, Astra and Draco sat eating quietly. Harry talked with Ron, Hermione and Ginny. As Astra started to put some food into her mouth, Draco tugged on her arm. "Come on... I want to do something..." Draco said softly to her. That chill went down her spine again.
He dragged her to an empty classroom and closed the door. "Draco... I'm not going to be privy to your little games... well... not yet..."
"I have something for you." He said quietly as he walked over to her. He was inches away from her when he took out something. It was a small box. "Open it..."
Astra stared up at him in wonderment. She opened the box and it was a silvery cladough ring. The heart was made of a dark red stone that looked black in the lack of light. She gazed up at him again. "What's this about?"
"Wear it..." Draco took her left hand and put the ring onto her third finger. "It's a promise ring.... Wear it until it becomes something different.."
Astra stared at him. Then, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him fervently. He held her around her waist, holding her to his body. When she broke away from his mouth, she held his ear to her. "I love you...." she said as quietly as she could.
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Over the next few days, Harry had to deal with more than his share of switching. At one point, during Care of Magical Creatures, He changed into a girl right beside Susan Bones, who could've collapsed at the sight of Harry.
In another incident, Draco had turned into a girl right in the middle of Potions beside Astra. Pansy's gasp of surprise could be heard clear across the room. At the same moment, Astra turned into a boy and ended up listening to Professor Snape growl out Gryffindor losing points.
When the weekend finally came, Harry had become quite tired of constantly changing clothes. The changes had become rather frequent during the week, now they were becoming few in between. Harry wondered when the potion would wear off.
He was in his female body right now as he tried to fly his broom through a little Quidditch practice. His robes and padding were hanging off of him as he tried to make a grab for the snitch.
"HOLD ON!" Harry shouted as he grounded his broom. He walked over to Astra and nodded to her. She sighed and walked with him to the changing room.
"I hate this... I hate this... I really hate this...." Astra kept muttering as she made herself sneeze after she had taken off her quidditch uniform and robes. Harry watched as she suddenly grew into his uniform. It was bizarre to watch.
"There now... happy?" She growled in the now very male voice. She tied her hair back and grabbed her broom in a huff. "I hate this... I hate this....I hate this...."
They began playing again and Harry could function in Astra's robes. Directing his broom was an odd sensation. He much lighter now, so his broom was going faster than it had ever done in the past.
"Watch it, Harry! You nearly knocked me off of my broom!" Ron shouted as Harry rounded the goal post.
"Go Harry!" shouted Ginny from her place. Kennedy handed her the quaffle as Harry rounded beside her.
Harry stopped his broom when he suddenly heard something clicking madly in the stands. He looked down and saw Colin Creevy taking pictures. "Great Moves, Harry! Great moves!" He smiled and waved gleefully at Harry. Harry growled and swooped down to grab for his camera, but a sudden pain hit his head and he fell instead.
"Oh my god! Harry!" He heard Ginny scream. He was surrounded by everyone, he realized when he opened his eyes.
"Harry! Are you alright? Why did you just fall like that!" Ron said frantically.
"Wha...? Pain....pain in my head.... my s-s--" Harry stammered out. There was suddenly a high pitched scream. Harry snapped up dreading what he felt in his stomach. "Colin! Where's Colin!"
"Creevy? He was out here? I never saw him." said Nevaeh.
"Colin? He said he was going to take pictures of Hagrid's house for a scrap book." Dennis Creevy said.
"What? I s-saw him in the stands taking pictures of me!" Harry growled. He stood up and ran to the stands. He mounted his broom and flew up to the stand that he saw Colin in. He wasn't there. "Where?"
Then, he saw something over at Hagrid's hut. Something very still. "Oh God..." He said.
"Oh my God!" cried Astra as she flew up to Harry's level. "He's over there!"
Hermione, who had just gotten to ground level, was screaming. "Harry! Harry!"
Harry helped her onto his broom and everyone flew to Hagrid's Hut. Harry saw Colin come into view. Harry flew to the ground and heard Hermione gasp at the sight of him. He was bloody and battered, but his face was pale and frozen in shock. Like Cedric.
Harry suppressed a shiver as he walked over to Colin. He picked up his camera and looked at it. The lens was broken. "What the hell happened here..." He heard Ron say as the others touched down.
"Harry! Look! There is something on his forehead!" Ginny gasped as she knelt down next to the bloody mess that was Colin.
"Oh God.. Colin!" Denis could be heard next to Hermione.
"What is on his head, Ginny..." Harry said.
"New... what is THAT supposed to mean..." Ginny said.
"Huh? Let me see..." Astra knelt down next to Colin and gazed at his forehead. "Three letters... all upper case... easier to scratch into objects like that... N...E..W.." She said as she traced the letters with her index finger.
"You're a bit morbid, you know that?" Nevaeh said.
"New...." Hermione said.
"Ron... get one of the Professors... Hermione...? Help me with Colin..." Harry said. He lifted Colin's shoulders and Hermione picked up his feet. "Let's take him to the infirmary."
"But he's dead...!" said Ginny.
"It's better than keeping him out here!" Hermione snapped.
They took Colin to the castle. It was a sad journey. Denis kept crying into Ginny's shoulder as Harry and Hermione dragged Colin's body to the hospital wing in a strange funeral procession.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion. Harry and Hermione putting the bloody mess of Colin on the nearest bed. Denis crying heavily into Ginny's shoulder. Ron coming back with Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall. Madame Pomfrey coming out of her office and gasping at the sight of what was left of Colin.
Suddenly, everything came into focus. "Great Merlin! What happened here!" Madame Pomfrey cried.
"Ginny... give Denis to me.... both of you come with me..." McGonagall said hurriedly. Her long black hair wasn't up in a bun as it usually was, it was in a long braid that went over her shoulder.
Harry stared at Colin. The word "NEW" etched into his white forehead screamed at him. He could feel his lunch starting to come up. The smell, the blood... it covered everything.
"Harry? What happened?"
Harry was snapped out of his thoughts and looked up at Dumbledore. It took a few moments to realize why exactly he was looking UP instead of at him. Harry straightened the bra uncomfortably and nodded his head in a sort of bow to Dumbledore.
"What happened Harry...." Dumbledore said again.
Harry could feel tears starting to come to his eyes. He chocked them back and searched for his voice. "We... we found him by Hagrid's hut...." he stammered out.
"How did you know where he was?" Dumbledore said softly.
"We were practicing when I saw Colin in the stands taking pictures of me. He said something and smiled at me.... I was going to... to take his camera away when my head started hurting and I fell. When I came back, I heard a scream. I asked where Colin was and I said I saw him in the stands, but everyone said they never saw him in the stands and they were over in that direction as well... Denis said that Colin told him that he was going to take pictures of Hagrid's hut and that's when I flew up into the air and searched for Colin and found him at Hagrid's hut...." Harry said as quickly as he could.
Dumbledore stared at him in a glazed sort of manner. Harry felt empty. He saw Colin the stands, but why had he seen him there just seconds before he heard Colin scream. "A farewell, I expect...." said Dumbledore, snapping Harry away from his thoughts again.
"A farewell?"
Dumbledore nodded solemnly. "It is documented to happen sometimes. If the person doesn't come back as a ghost, sometimes their spirit shows up to the person they felt most strongly for in their life. Oh they admired, in the case of you Harry.... He felt that you were his friend and so he said goodbye to you before he died...."
Harry felt the tears trying to burst through. Astra came forward. She held Harry to her and whispered to him. "Shhh.... go on...."
Harry grasped onto her and cried hard into her shoulder. Everything seemed to swim away as he let the tears flow through. He listened to Astra's voice as she calmed him. He heard everyone starting to sniffle. Hermione was crying into Ron's shoulder. Nevaeh was crying as she was being held around her shoulders by Kennedy.
Astra led Harry out of the Infirmary and into the hallway. Harry gave a small hiccough and suddenly he was as tall as Astra. He let go of her and dried his eyes with his gloved hand. Suddenly, he sneezed.
"I guess it wore off... you didn't turn back..." Astra said. She was still in male form.
"Yeah... I guess..." Harry said. He looked down at the now too tight, blood stained robes. "Sorry about the stains..." he said.
"Nothing to worry about..." she smiled. She stood up and stretched. "I've got some business to take care of and a score to settle.... bye!" She walked off down the corridor and disappeared.
"Goodbye Colin, you strange little twit..." Harry said softly to no one.
Astra snuck up on Draco and tapped him on the shoulder. He was in male form now and jumped as he screeched like a girl. "ACK! Astra! Don't do that!" He shouted at her.
He backed away and straightened his normal boys uniform. "The potion seems to have worn off. Thank goodness..." He said.
Astra stared at him with her piercing eyes. "You look good in this form..." She said with her low male voice.
Draco stared at her. He looked distinctly ruffled. "What's gotten into you?"
"I just experienced something today that made me want to count my many blessings in life...." Astra said. Her voice was a low, seductive growl. Draco was backing away from her now. She smiled.
"Hey... wait a minute... not out in the hall like this..." he said shakily. There was a small crowd of Slytherin girls coming down the hall.
Astra took the tie out of her hair and her hair fell around her male shoulders. She rushed forward and pulled Draco to her, covering his mouth with hers. There was a small shriek from one of the girls, who sounded distinctly like Pansy. "I knew that you had to be gay!"
Astra felt Draco respond to her kiss. He kissed back passionately as she suddenly felt herself make a small hiccup and shrink. The crowd of girls had not gone away. "Great Merlin... so THAT was what it was..." said a voice that sounded like Millicent Bulstrode.
Astra broke away and grinned up at Draco. He gazed down at her in a dream like state. "Got you back..." she said.
"You know... you look kind of nice in the boy's uniform..." Draco said. "Maybe I am a .. How did you so put it... closet queen?" He said with a grin. Astra stepped on his foot hard and he winced in pain.
"Keep it up, Malformed... I can hit you all day..." she growled. Everything was back to normal.