Chapter Seventeen

"We will be making an Animagus Potion today," Snape's silky voice flowed over Harry, making his cheeks pink. Draco held back a snigger. "This potion needs four people to make, so group up. One of you get your ingredients. Make it quick."

Draco grinned as Harry and went to get the ingredients while Ron and Hermione made their way over.

"This is going to be bloody brilliant," Ron smiled as Draco came back.

"Ten galleons says Hermione's a bookworm," Harry cracked.

"Ha, ha," Hermione laughed sarcastically.

"I say Draco's a ferret," Ron grinned.

"Weasel," Draco sneered.

"Now we just need to decide what Harry's going to be," Hermione said, cutting one of the roots Draco'd gotten.

"Stag," Draco and Ron replied at once.

"C'mon you guys, I'm not my dad," Harry told them, adding things Hermione handed him to the cauldron. Snape, who was passing by, snorted lightly, but only Draco heard.

Draco gave his godfather an odd look, but the older man didn't notice.

"Your potions should be plum in colour. Should be," Severus sneered as he looked into Neville, Seamus, Dean, and, surprisingly enough, Blaise Zabini's potion.

Throughout the class, Severus made no comments on the Quad's potion. Ron and Hermione where miffed, but Draco and Harry figured they knew why. Near the end of the class, the Potions Professor ordered, "Everyone, dip out a ladleful and drink it."

Draco grinned at Harry and gulped down his potion. The entire class watched as he got smaller…

"He is a ferret!" Ron laughed. The rodent tittered and climbed up the table. Draco-ferret scurried over to Ron and up the red-head's arm. Harry reached over and grabbed the animal before he could go beneath Ron's robes.

"Everyone! Drink your potions!" Severus barked. Harry smiled slightly at him as he let the Draco-ferret loose. Severus gave a slight no to him as he walked by. Harry suppressed a giggle as he gulped down the Animagus Potion.

As he changed, Harry saw as Hermione and Ron changed into their Animagus forms. Had he been human at that moment, the Boy-Who-Lived would have laughed. Hermione began flying around the room as an owl, and Ron pounced on Draco, his cat's tail twitching.

Watching Neville's group, Harry saw as Neville became a guinea pig, Seamus turned into a fox, Dean into a dog, and Blaise Zabini into a zebra.

Harry tried out his new body by walking around on the cobblestone floors. He padded around on four paws and found his way to the Potions Professor. Severus smiled down at him slightly and let his hand rest on the panther's head. Harry purred as the Slytherin man scratched behind his ears. Harry-panther nuzzled his hand a bit before going back to his table.

As he changed back, Harry found Draco snickering at the wide grin on the Gryffindor's face.

"Oh, shut up, ferret-boy, before I make you bounce off the ceiling," Harry muttered.

***

"Can you believe it? You're a panther!" Hermione grinned at Harry.

"I still can not get over the fact that Draco's a ferret!" Ron started laughing again.

"Ron, it you don't shut it, right now…" Draco warned.

"Oh, come off it, Dray. You thought it was funny, too," Harry shook his head.

"Dray?"

"Sorry. I get lazy when I talk sometimes. Two syllables is just too much work for my jaw," Harry grinned.

Hermione and Ron looked at him like he was crazy.

"You spend way too much time with him," Hermione pointed at Draco.

"I know," Harry said distastefully.

"Bitch," Draco didn't even try to lower his voice.

"Not yours."

"No, his," Draco sniggered.

"Ooh, Harry's got a boyfriend," Ron chanted as his friend hit Draco.

"So, who is it?" Hermione asked slyly.

"Uh…er…"

"It's nobody. I's just teasing him," Draco grinned.

"Hey, why the hell was Blaise Zabini working with Neville, Seamus, and Dean?" Harry changed the subject.

"Heh. You didn't head it from me," Draco grinned. "Blaise has a crush on Neville."

Harry burst out laughing. "Does he know that Neville is dating Ginny?"

"I don't think so," Draco smirked.

"That's…What is it with everyone in Hogwarts being gay?" Hermione asked suddenly.

"What's with the sudden freak out?" Ron asked his girlfriend.

"I'm not freaking out. I just want to know," Hermione defended herself.

"Wizards believe that there is one person for them. You know, a soulmate," Draco explained. "Basically we think that souls are split up and put into different bodies, and the other person is literally our other half. And we don't care if that person happens to be of the same gender or not. Really, me and Harry, and Seamus and Dean are actually bisexual."

Harry shrugged in agreement. "Yeah, but usually you can tell which sex your mate is. It's almost like a pull."

"You're weird when you do that," Hermione told him.

"Do what?" Harry raised an eyebrow.

"Explain things like that. You just look weird and sound weird. And your goes all monotonous," Hermione explained. "You remind me of my second grade teacher."

"You know, you're the weird one," Harry replied, shaking his head at the Head Girl.

"What ever you say, Harry," Hermione grinned at him.

***

"He said Friday. He'll meet you in the same room," Draco told his godfather.

"Friday. Okay," Severus exhaled. Draco grinned. He'd never seen the Potions Professor nervous before. Even the night before when he'd been getting ready to meet Harry the first time he hadn't been nervous.

"That was so cute, seeing you petting him as a panther," Draco teased.

"Stupid ferret," Snape muttered, making the blonde scowl.

"Hey, have you ever taken that potion?"

"Yes. When I was in my seventh year," Severus told him.

"What where you?" Draco asked, thinking bat.

"A panther. A black panther," Severus smiled slightly.

***

"Hey, Sirius. Guess what animagus I am!" Harry grinned as he walked through the portrait.

Sirius glanced up guiltily at him from beneath Remus.

"Oops. Sorry guys," Harry grinned, covering his eyes as Sirius pushed the werewolf off of him and pulled up his jeans. Thankfully, Harry hadn't walked in a few moments later when Sirius would have had his boxers down as well… "I should have knocked."

"Yeah. We were in the middle of a perfectly good snog," Remus pouted.

"Don't mind him, Harry. He gets a little moody before and after the full moon," Sirius said as he motioned for Harry to sit in the chair across from him.

"Okay. Anyway, guess what animagus I am?"

"Stag," the two Marauders said as one.

Harry scowled. "Why does everyone say that? No, I'm a panther."

"Really? Not many people are panthers," Sirius said to him.

"Wasn't Snape one, when we took that Animagus Potion?" Remus asked. Sirius scowled at the mention of the Slytherin and Harry's ears turned pink.

"Anyway, I was a panther, Draco was a ferret, Ron was a cat, and 'Mione was an owl."

"He's a ferret?" Sirius laughed.

"Yeah. Even the Slytherins laughed when he changed. Then, he tried to climb into Ron's robes, but I stopped him. So Ron pounced on him when he changed into a cat," Harry grinned.

"Are you going to try to become Animagus?" Remus asked his husband's godson.

"I dunno. That'd be pretty cool to be able to change into an animal at will."

"It is. And you can do lots of things as an animal. Being an Animagus has saved my life several times," Sirius told him.

"Yeah, I'd bet. Eh, I'll talk to the others," Harry shrugged. "Draco prolly won't agree if he's going to be a ferret."

Sirius and Remus grinned at him.

End Chapter Seventeen

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