'Hermione. Can we first go to my common room for some clothes?' asked
Malfoy.
'Yeah sure Draco, let's go.' And they both changed direction to go to the Slytherin common room.
True Wizard blood
'True wizard blood?' Asked Hermione.
'Yep.'
Malfoy and Hermione walked up then Slytherin stairs and into Malfoy's dormitory.
'Hermione.'
'What?'
'Um, I kind of do need to get dressed.'
'And what I haven't already seen you naked today?' retorted Hermione.
'Is this your bed?' asked Hermione after looking around.
'Yes, and I think I'll get dressed with the curtains now.' Draco stepped inside and went to pull the curtains closed. Draco finished pulling the curtains closed and pulled the towel off that was around his waist and put it on the bed.
'Draco, someone's coming.' Hissed Hermione.
'Get under the bed then.' Replied Draco.
Just as Pansy walked in Hermione managed to get under the bed.
'Draco. oh Draco. Draco, are you here? I thought I saw you come in here ages ago.' It was Pansy Parkinson.
'Yes Pansy, I'm here.' Said Draco, biting on his lip.
Draco, realising that Pansy wouldn't wait for Draco to come out, he tried to get some clothes on.
'You are? Oh thank god!' said Pansy, and with out even waiting for Draco to come out, she ran behind Draco's curtain and ran into a half dressed Draco, who was still buttoning his shirt on.
'Oh, Draco!' Pansy squealed and then put her hands on Draco's face to check if it was real.
It felt real enough but she still wanted to make sure so she started touching everywhere else just to make sure. Everything was real enough so she was happy.
'Did you hear about what that filthy little mudblood called you during potions?' asked Pansy.
'What? That I'm actually a human?' asked Draco, slightly pissed.
'Well. yeah. how did you know?' asked Pansy, a little disappointed.
'I heard it.' Said Draco.
'Well. She had no right to call you human.' Said Pansy.
'Well, I don't hear you calling me human now do I?' retorted Draco.
'So what? She's a mudblood.'
'And I'll put mud into you too if you don't call me a human sometime soon.' Said Draco.
'Well. you're human then.' Said Pansy.
'So, why did you come here?' asked Draco.
'Oh, just to tell you what a bitch Granger is for being a mudblood and for calling you a human.' Said Pansy simply.
'Well, she's one of the only people who does call me human.' Retorted Draco.
'Well. sorry!' cried Pansy.
At this Pansy ran off crying.
'Is it safe to come out now?' asked Hermione from under the bed.
'Yes.' Said Draco.
'All right, you're dressed now. Let's go to the library.' Said Hermione.
'You were serious?' asked Draco.
'Well, yes. I do still want to know what's going on' answered Hermione.
'Oh fine then.' Said Draco, a little upset.
Hermione got out from under the bed with the help from Draco and they both headed down to the library.
'Draco, I'll go in first, then you follow.' Instructed Hermione.
'Ok.' Said Draco.
Hermione walked in and a few seconds later Draco followed. They both walked to the potions section of the library.
'Let's see. potions and their effects. no. accidents with potions and how to reverse them. that could be it. Draco, keep looking, I'm going to go through this book.' Said Hermione, lifting the heavy book off its shelf.
Hermione walked off to a corner and started flipping through the book.
'Drinking unfinished potions. no. eating food with potions in them. drinking a incorrectly made potion. oh come on. ah, here we go. falling into unfinished potions and their effects. ok now. what's this say?' mumbled Hermione to herself. Hermione quickly read through the opening paragraph to see what would be in the chapter.
It mentioned something about Falling into unfinished potions and what the signs are for any side effects. Hermione flipped to that. It said:
There are many side effects to unfinished potions. The main effect is that whatever the potions purpose was (example: - turn back time) will only partly happen (for turning back time- your brain will become very slow and you will only take notice of anything after it has occurred). As these potions are unfinished you must create a potion that reverses the effects of a finished version of that particular potion.
The signs to see whether any side effects that could have happened are usually: -boils
-Burns
-Headaches
-Unusual behaviour
The list of signs went on for the next two pages and Hermione just couldn't be bothered to read them.
// That's it! Harry and Draco were making Polyjuice potion. That switches appearances, voices, etc. Their personalities must have switched! //
'Draco, I've figured it out! Yours and Harry's personality must have switched. That's why you are kind of acting like Harry, and Harry's being a total jerk.' Said Hermione.
'So in other words, I'm a total jerk and Harry's a saint and you're not really pissed at Harry, you're pissed at me!' concluded Draco.
'Who said I was pissed at anyone. I'm just saying that you, who usually calls me Granger, is calling me Hermione and Harry, who usually calls me Hermione, is calling me Granger. Does that make sense?' asked Hermione.
'In a way, yes. So you're saying that I'm acting like Harry and he's acting like me?' asked Draco, who in his head was still fixing the puzzle pieces together.
'Yes.'
'So what do we do now?'
'Go to Professor Snape.'
'Why?'
'To tell him about what's going on. That's why.'
'Is there anything he can do?' asked Draco.
'I don't know.'
'What do you know about the polyjuice potion?' asked Draco curiously.
'Well, it's not for human-animal transformations. And then it's only supposed to last for a short period of time. And that personalities should not switch. Something happened, maybe before that potion is finished that's one of its properties. I don't know' shrugged Hermione.
'Ok then. Lets go get Harry and then go to see Professor Snape.'
'Yep, let's go.'
Hermione and Draco walked back up to the Griffindor common room to get Harry.
'Harry! Are you still here?'
'Where do you expect me to go?' asked Harry who was sitting in front of the fire chatting to Sirius.
'Oh I don't know. But anyway, I need you to come with me for a second Harry.' Said Hermione.
'You alone?' asked Harry.
'Of course not! Draco has to come too!' said Hermione.
'Oh so Draco is your new best friend now is he?' said Harry.
'No! You are and you always will be. But I need you to come as well as Draco because it concerns you and Draco.' Said Hermione.
'Well I'm not moving.'
Accio Harry Potter
Harry flew towards Hermione and stopped just as she grabbed hold of him.
'Hermione! What are you doing?' asked Harry.
'I told you. You're coming with me!' repeated Hermione.
Hermione dragged Harry out of the common room and started making the long journey to the other side of the castle to see Professor Snape. After ten minutes of just dragging Harry there Hermione couldn't go any further.
'Draco, could you please drag Harry along now. I can't do it any more.' Panted Hermione.
A thought just occurred to Draco.
'Hermione, you're a witch.'
'Took you long enough.' Said Harry.
'Yes so?' said Hermione, ignoring Harry.
'Can't you do wingardium leviosa on Harry?' suggested Draco.
'Oh, I never thought of that. But hang on. how am I going to keep Harry still for long enough for me to do the spell?' asked Hermione, her eye full of curiosity.
'Um. er. how about that full body binding curse. er. what was it. oh yeah. petrificus totalus.'said Draco with triumph of remember the spell from first year.
'Good thinking Draco ('that's a first' said Harry.)' and with that Hermione let go of Harry, stepped back and while Harry was trying to run in the other direction-
Petrificus totalus
Harry's arms hit his sides and his legs joined together.
Petrificus Totalus was a pretty easy curse to cope with if you were standing still. It would particularly hurt if you were running full speed when the curse hit you. The worst bit is if you were running when you hit with the spell you most likely lose your balance a lot quicker and you'd fall over face first onto the ground. And you couldn't even yell in pain because your jaws were stuck together.
Bang
Harry fell face first into the ground and just as he was falling, Peeves had been chucking helmets at him. Harry fell and just as his head ricocheted off the floor three helmets hit him square on the head on after the other.
'Harry!' cried Hermione, running to his side.
'Harry. wake up please. Harry.' said Hermione, shaking Harry to see if he would wake.
'Hermione, even if Harry was awake he wouldn't be able to open his eyes. Harry, grunt if you're alive.' Said Draco
Harry gave a grunt.
'Oh, thank god. no thank you Draco. thank you so much.' so Hermione, hugging Draco.
'Um. Hermione. what is there between you and Harry anyways?' asked Draco.
'Nothing. we're just best friends. why?' asked Hermione.
'Oh. well. oh. it's nothing. Don't worry about it Hermione. Let's go.' Said Draco.
'Draco. do you mind lifting Harry up with the spell for me? The walk down to here just tired me out.'
'Sure. Wingardium leviosa.' Said Draco, swishing his wand around.
Harry floated up into the air and Hermione and Draco made their way down to Professor Snape's quarters.
'I'll knock.' Said Hermione.
Knock knock.
'Yes Miss. Granger? What do you want now? Having trouble getting Master Malfoy's nude body out of your mind and hoping for a potion that will help?' sneered Professor Snape.
'No Professor. Um. this afternoon. in potions class. I noticed that. something wasn't right. I mean that. Draco and Harry were acting like. well. each other.' Stumbled Hermione, shuffling her feet.
'And your point is?'
'Well. Professor. I went to the library. sir. and I found out that it was a side effect to the unfinished potion.' Said Hermione, handing a piece of paper to Professor Snape, which had obviously been torn out of the library book where she got the information.
Professor Snape quickly skimmed through the piece and stared at Hermione and said- 'What do you want me to do? You of all people should know that polyjuice potion cannot be reversed. it has to wear out.' said Professor Snape, with a grim smile.
'Yes, I realise that sir but I was hoping sir. that maybe, um. another polyjuice potion at the exact same stage could do the exact same thing and could give them each their personalities back?' suggested Hermione.
'Be quiet Granger. This accidental magic is for the ministry's accidental magic reversal squad. Got to them if you want help.' Snapped Professor Snape. Hermione walked off, Draco trailing behind her with Harry coming right behind him.
'If he won't give us permission then it's back to moaning myrtle's bathroom' grumbled Hermione.
'Moaning Myrtle? Who's Moaning Myrtle?' asked Draco, slightly confused.
'A ghost that haunts the girl's bathroom on the first floor.' Shrugged Hermione.
'She haunts a girl's bathroom?' asked Draco.
'Long story.' Said Hermione.
'Fine. So why are we going there? Won't we get caught?' asked Draco.
'Because Moaning Myrtle haunts the bathroom, no one goes there, so we're perfectly fine.'
'Ok' said Draco, still trying to digest everything.
'Yeah sure Draco, let's go.' And they both changed direction to go to the Slytherin common room.
True Wizard blood
'True wizard blood?' Asked Hermione.
'Yep.'
Malfoy and Hermione walked up then Slytherin stairs and into Malfoy's dormitory.
'Hermione.'
'What?'
'Um, I kind of do need to get dressed.'
'And what I haven't already seen you naked today?' retorted Hermione.
'Is this your bed?' asked Hermione after looking around.
'Yes, and I think I'll get dressed with the curtains now.' Draco stepped inside and went to pull the curtains closed. Draco finished pulling the curtains closed and pulled the towel off that was around his waist and put it on the bed.
'Draco, someone's coming.' Hissed Hermione.
'Get under the bed then.' Replied Draco.
Just as Pansy walked in Hermione managed to get under the bed.
'Draco. oh Draco. Draco, are you here? I thought I saw you come in here ages ago.' It was Pansy Parkinson.
'Yes Pansy, I'm here.' Said Draco, biting on his lip.
Draco, realising that Pansy wouldn't wait for Draco to come out, he tried to get some clothes on.
'You are? Oh thank god!' said Pansy, and with out even waiting for Draco to come out, she ran behind Draco's curtain and ran into a half dressed Draco, who was still buttoning his shirt on.
'Oh, Draco!' Pansy squealed and then put her hands on Draco's face to check if it was real.
It felt real enough but she still wanted to make sure so she started touching everywhere else just to make sure. Everything was real enough so she was happy.
'Did you hear about what that filthy little mudblood called you during potions?' asked Pansy.
'What? That I'm actually a human?' asked Draco, slightly pissed.
'Well. yeah. how did you know?' asked Pansy, a little disappointed.
'I heard it.' Said Draco.
'Well. She had no right to call you human.' Said Pansy.
'Well, I don't hear you calling me human now do I?' retorted Draco.
'So what? She's a mudblood.'
'And I'll put mud into you too if you don't call me a human sometime soon.' Said Draco.
'Well. you're human then.' Said Pansy.
'So, why did you come here?' asked Draco.
'Oh, just to tell you what a bitch Granger is for being a mudblood and for calling you a human.' Said Pansy simply.
'Well, she's one of the only people who does call me human.' Retorted Draco.
'Well. sorry!' cried Pansy.
At this Pansy ran off crying.
'Is it safe to come out now?' asked Hermione from under the bed.
'Yes.' Said Draco.
'All right, you're dressed now. Let's go to the library.' Said Hermione.
'You were serious?' asked Draco.
'Well, yes. I do still want to know what's going on' answered Hermione.
'Oh fine then.' Said Draco, a little upset.
Hermione got out from under the bed with the help from Draco and they both headed down to the library.
'Draco, I'll go in first, then you follow.' Instructed Hermione.
'Ok.' Said Draco.
Hermione walked in and a few seconds later Draco followed. They both walked to the potions section of the library.
'Let's see. potions and their effects. no. accidents with potions and how to reverse them. that could be it. Draco, keep looking, I'm going to go through this book.' Said Hermione, lifting the heavy book off its shelf.
Hermione walked off to a corner and started flipping through the book.
'Drinking unfinished potions. no. eating food with potions in them. drinking a incorrectly made potion. oh come on. ah, here we go. falling into unfinished potions and their effects. ok now. what's this say?' mumbled Hermione to herself. Hermione quickly read through the opening paragraph to see what would be in the chapter.
It mentioned something about Falling into unfinished potions and what the signs are for any side effects. Hermione flipped to that. It said:
There are many side effects to unfinished potions. The main effect is that whatever the potions purpose was (example: - turn back time) will only partly happen (for turning back time- your brain will become very slow and you will only take notice of anything after it has occurred). As these potions are unfinished you must create a potion that reverses the effects of a finished version of that particular potion.
The signs to see whether any side effects that could have happened are usually: -boils
-Burns
-Headaches
-Unusual behaviour
The list of signs went on for the next two pages and Hermione just couldn't be bothered to read them.
// That's it! Harry and Draco were making Polyjuice potion. That switches appearances, voices, etc. Their personalities must have switched! //
'Draco, I've figured it out! Yours and Harry's personality must have switched. That's why you are kind of acting like Harry, and Harry's being a total jerk.' Said Hermione.
'So in other words, I'm a total jerk and Harry's a saint and you're not really pissed at Harry, you're pissed at me!' concluded Draco.
'Who said I was pissed at anyone. I'm just saying that you, who usually calls me Granger, is calling me Hermione and Harry, who usually calls me Hermione, is calling me Granger. Does that make sense?' asked Hermione.
'In a way, yes. So you're saying that I'm acting like Harry and he's acting like me?' asked Draco, who in his head was still fixing the puzzle pieces together.
'Yes.'
'So what do we do now?'
'Go to Professor Snape.'
'Why?'
'To tell him about what's going on. That's why.'
'Is there anything he can do?' asked Draco.
'I don't know.'
'What do you know about the polyjuice potion?' asked Draco curiously.
'Well, it's not for human-animal transformations. And then it's only supposed to last for a short period of time. And that personalities should not switch. Something happened, maybe before that potion is finished that's one of its properties. I don't know' shrugged Hermione.
'Ok then. Lets go get Harry and then go to see Professor Snape.'
'Yep, let's go.'
Hermione and Draco walked back up to the Griffindor common room to get Harry.
'Harry! Are you still here?'
'Where do you expect me to go?' asked Harry who was sitting in front of the fire chatting to Sirius.
'Oh I don't know. But anyway, I need you to come with me for a second Harry.' Said Hermione.
'You alone?' asked Harry.
'Of course not! Draco has to come too!' said Hermione.
'Oh so Draco is your new best friend now is he?' said Harry.
'No! You are and you always will be. But I need you to come as well as Draco because it concerns you and Draco.' Said Hermione.
'Well I'm not moving.'
Accio Harry Potter
Harry flew towards Hermione and stopped just as she grabbed hold of him.
'Hermione! What are you doing?' asked Harry.
'I told you. You're coming with me!' repeated Hermione.
Hermione dragged Harry out of the common room and started making the long journey to the other side of the castle to see Professor Snape. After ten minutes of just dragging Harry there Hermione couldn't go any further.
'Draco, could you please drag Harry along now. I can't do it any more.' Panted Hermione.
A thought just occurred to Draco.
'Hermione, you're a witch.'
'Took you long enough.' Said Harry.
'Yes so?' said Hermione, ignoring Harry.
'Can't you do wingardium leviosa on Harry?' suggested Draco.
'Oh, I never thought of that. But hang on. how am I going to keep Harry still for long enough for me to do the spell?' asked Hermione, her eye full of curiosity.
'Um. er. how about that full body binding curse. er. what was it. oh yeah. petrificus totalus.'said Draco with triumph of remember the spell from first year.
'Good thinking Draco ('that's a first' said Harry.)' and with that Hermione let go of Harry, stepped back and while Harry was trying to run in the other direction-
Petrificus totalus
Harry's arms hit his sides and his legs joined together.
Petrificus Totalus was a pretty easy curse to cope with if you were standing still. It would particularly hurt if you were running full speed when the curse hit you. The worst bit is if you were running when you hit with the spell you most likely lose your balance a lot quicker and you'd fall over face first onto the ground. And you couldn't even yell in pain because your jaws were stuck together.
Bang
Harry fell face first into the ground and just as he was falling, Peeves had been chucking helmets at him. Harry fell and just as his head ricocheted off the floor three helmets hit him square on the head on after the other.
'Harry!' cried Hermione, running to his side.
'Harry. wake up please. Harry.' said Hermione, shaking Harry to see if he would wake.
'Hermione, even if Harry was awake he wouldn't be able to open his eyes. Harry, grunt if you're alive.' Said Draco
Harry gave a grunt.
'Oh, thank god. no thank you Draco. thank you so much.' so Hermione, hugging Draco.
'Um. Hermione. what is there between you and Harry anyways?' asked Draco.
'Nothing. we're just best friends. why?' asked Hermione.
'Oh. well. oh. it's nothing. Don't worry about it Hermione. Let's go.' Said Draco.
'Draco. do you mind lifting Harry up with the spell for me? The walk down to here just tired me out.'
'Sure. Wingardium leviosa.' Said Draco, swishing his wand around.
Harry floated up into the air and Hermione and Draco made their way down to Professor Snape's quarters.
'I'll knock.' Said Hermione.
Knock knock.
'Yes Miss. Granger? What do you want now? Having trouble getting Master Malfoy's nude body out of your mind and hoping for a potion that will help?' sneered Professor Snape.
'No Professor. Um. this afternoon. in potions class. I noticed that. something wasn't right. I mean that. Draco and Harry were acting like. well. each other.' Stumbled Hermione, shuffling her feet.
'And your point is?'
'Well. Professor. I went to the library. sir. and I found out that it was a side effect to the unfinished potion.' Said Hermione, handing a piece of paper to Professor Snape, which had obviously been torn out of the library book where she got the information.
Professor Snape quickly skimmed through the piece and stared at Hermione and said- 'What do you want me to do? You of all people should know that polyjuice potion cannot be reversed. it has to wear out.' said Professor Snape, with a grim smile.
'Yes, I realise that sir but I was hoping sir. that maybe, um. another polyjuice potion at the exact same stage could do the exact same thing and could give them each their personalities back?' suggested Hermione.
'Be quiet Granger. This accidental magic is for the ministry's accidental magic reversal squad. Got to them if you want help.' Snapped Professor Snape. Hermione walked off, Draco trailing behind her with Harry coming right behind him.
'If he won't give us permission then it's back to moaning myrtle's bathroom' grumbled Hermione.
'Moaning Myrtle? Who's Moaning Myrtle?' asked Draco, slightly confused.
'A ghost that haunts the girl's bathroom on the first floor.' Shrugged Hermione.
'She haunts a girl's bathroom?' asked Draco.
'Long story.' Said Hermione.
'Fine. So why are we going there? Won't we get caught?' asked Draco.
'Because Moaning Myrtle haunts the bathroom, no one goes there, so we're perfectly fine.'
'Ok' said Draco, still trying to digest everything.
