Title: Herbs
Author: Hila
e-mail: hilapeer@h...
Homepage: well, I'm on FF.net
Rating: I'd say PG-13 but I wouldn't know.
Category: Humor, cross over (not much), AU
Couple: will be Harry x Lucius or Harry x Lucius x Draco not sure yet
Disclaimers: see intro
Herbs - Part 1
It was a week until school started again, three weeks since their
unfortunate soak and five minutes before they would face Dumbledore. Harry
and Draco had had to take several different portkeys in order to make it
back from China, not a pleasant thing by any means. They were both
exhausted and would have gladly crashed right after handing those infamous
herbs to Snape and held off the meeting with the Headmaster until the next
day...except that they wanted revenge, and revenge they would get.

Dumbledore was rather shocked by the ice-cold glares that he received from
both boys when he had asked them how their 'trip' went. After all, they
have obviously not killed each other and were even standing rather close as
if…protecting one another?

It was Harry who spoke first, he and Draco had discussed this before: they
weren't sure who to go to and after some persuasion from Harry's part

(Draco: I will tell my father –
Harry: that his son turns into a silver piglet when he touches cold water.
I'm sure your father will be delighted)

they had decide that the headmaster was the best person to turn to. After
all, he was the one who was responsible for this and even if he didn't know
how to reverse the curse he surely deserved to be forced to listen to Harry
and Draco's whining about it!

"Professor, have you ever heard about the Jusenkyuu springs?"

"An old legend, yes." He saw where this conversation was going and, while
amused to no end, he decided to let the boys talk before deciding what to
do.

"It's not a legend Professor."

At the very moment when Harry uttered those words a house elf bearing a huge
bucket full of water (melted ice cubes, to be more precise) appeared above
the boys and spilt the whole bucket on them.

"Ah, I see that the unnatural attraction of cold water was not a legend
either."

Harry glared at Dumbledore, whose eyes were twinkling like Christmas lights
by that point, and went to coax Draco out from under the sofa.

"Draco, come on! We're in Dumbledore's office, he is not going to try to
eat you. I promise, ok? Remember what I did to the last person who tried?
Please come out, we're on Hogwarts grounds, I can just conjure some hot
water. It will be fine."

The silver piglet slowly crawled out from his hiding place and shot into
Harry's arms. The hiding was a reflex he had had to develop since someone
had tried to cook him every time when was in that form. Apparently silver
piglets were a delicacy in that region of China and were considered to bring
good luck to the person who caught and ate them. Although the last person
that tired, a fat woman who had managed to throw Draco into a pot of water
(not yet hot), now looked more like a goblin than a woman.

When they had discussed the incident later, they figured that they could
always claim self-defense but they still refrained from using magic while in
China. After that they had vowed to defend each other while still under the
curse.

They did no see the necessity of disclosing any of this to their
almost-giggling Headmaster.

Through his quite laughter, Dumbledore determined that he was quite pleased
with the situation. Yes, what happened to the boys was rather unfortunate
but, on the other hand, they seemed to have developed a strong friendship,
which was the goal of the trip in the first place.

"I'll see what I can do about this curse you are under, boys. I am sure
that you will not mind if I discuss this unfortunate event with Minerva and
Severus as, I am sure you understand, they are the most likely to be able
help you."

Harry nodded holding Draco a bit tighter.

"I am sure you would like to go change now and rest from your trip."

Just as Harry tuned to leave he barely stopped himself from saying how, in
his cursed form, arry looked so much like his mother, especially with those
eyes and his female form's red hair.

~*~*~*~*~*~*
oh, my this seems to have grown a plot all on its own...or kind of a plot, let's not get down to technicalities, shall we? ^^;;;

Yeah, more soon ^^ I swear it will ne Harry x Lucius soon!
on a totally different subject: say people, what would you say about a
HP/F.Compo fusion? I mean, it probably won't be HxL (although it could,
with Harry and Lucius being the parents and Draco being Shion ^^....I can
already see Lucius asking Draco to go buy him tampons ^^) but since it's
just a vague project right now...do you think it would work? and do you
think that Draco can get away with the one year a girl/one year a guy thing?