Surprise!

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Draco Malfoy comes out of a boring charms lesson when he notices that his fellow Slytherins seem to be avoiding him a lot today. He approaches Crabbe Goyle and Pansy Parkinson, who either said, "Sorry, man, I'm busy." Or raises their hands as if trying to say, "I can't talk now." Frustrated, Draco scowls with a down cast face and kicks the ground. He looks up again to see that the Slytherins are heading the same direction somewhere. He follows them and discovers that they are headed towards an empty classroom in the dungeons. He tries to see what is going on but the other Slytherins upon seeing him approach, shoves him far away from the room and blocks the entrance before he could even ask what is going on.

Draco throws his hands up in frustration and shakes his head. He decides to head back to the common room when he passes by Snape's office. A smile curls up on his lips as he pulls out the tube and pops a Mentos into his mouth.

Making sure that nobody is around, he looks both ways before sneaking into the office. He scans the shelf of potions for the bottle of Polyjuice potion and opens the cupboard where Snape keeps his comb and other things, finds it and pulls out a strand of hair. Looking both ways again Draco darts out of the office without anybody seeing him.

Draco who is now Snape walks down the corridor leading to the 'secret' room, knocks on the door and is admitted in by one of the Slytherins. Snape is apparently involved somehow because the students are happy to see the head of their house. The room is decorated with shiny green and silver streamers and almost all of one side of the room is covered with a black curtain. They are rapidly confiding in him about some sort of plan and final arrangements while Draco nods and gives the occasional "Oh, I see" in agreement while he is still curious about what is behind the curtain. After he finishes talking to a group of first years, he silently sneaks to peek what is behind the curtains when everybody gasps. The real Snape enters the room and in a panic, Draco hides behind the curtains without notice. While everybody frantically looks around for the Snape imposter, Draco accidentally trips over a pile of boxes, rips both curtains in the process of trying grab them to prevent himself from falling and crying out as he stumbles out in front of the crowd.

The crowd gasps as Draco, now back to himself in Snape's oversized robes, looks up at the crowd and a scowling Snape. He chuckles and waves nervously. Pansy sighs and pulls him up by the arm, smiles and points to what the curtains were covering. On the wall are a big banner saying, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY DRACO" with a pile of presents and a big birthday cake on a round table. Draco sighs in relief and starts to laugh as the Slytherins and Snape greets him "Happy Birthday".

Draco in a green and silver party hat turns around at us, smiles and holds up the Mentos.