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Crystal: ^^; shut up, Star. you KNOW I had writer's block.
Star: whatever ¬¬ anyway, since your being stupid I get to introduce this chapter!
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"As some of you may have noticed, Harry Potter is not with us this evening," Dumbledore's voice carried over the silence of the Great Hall during dinner time. "He is, in fact, at another school as part of a exchange program for a certain amount of time."
The students began murmuring to each other, and Dumbledore waited a moment before continuing.
"In his place, we have with us Miss Harmony Porter. She'll be staying in the Gryffindor house and following Mister Potter's schedule."
Harmony blushed as the eyes of the other students fell upon her, her own gaze on her empty plate to hide as much embarrassment as she could. Gulping, the 'new' girl looked up and somehow managed to lock eyes with Draco Malfoy. The Slytherin winked at her with a smirk, and Harmony's blush intensified.
After Dumbledore finished his speech for the evening, food appeared on the tables and the students proceeded to eat and talk with each other.
"It's so funny that your name is almost the same as Harry's, Harmony," Parvati said as she smiled at the emerald-eyed girl.
"You know, it is! What a coincidence!" Seamus exclaimed with a grin. "Harmony Porter, and Harry Potter. Kinda funny, isn't it." The Irish boy winced as Ron and Dean, both sitting on either side of him, stomped on his feet.
Harmony glanced at Parvati, alarmed and hoping she didn't catch onto what Seamus was hinting at. But the other Gryffindor was already talking gossip with Lavender. Harmony sighed in relief, then directed her gaze to the professor's table. She glared at Snape, remembering how he had snickered when Dumbledore had informed him and the other professor's about the situation at hand. Of course the sadistic bastard would find the whole thing funny, it was a damn given.
Harmony sighed, turning back to her food as she tugged at her skirt for the umpteenth time. The thing seemed too short, due to the fact that as a boy Harmony had of course *never* worn anything like it. The only time he showed off his legs was when he wore Dudley's old shorts, and those were so big that the ends were hanging about his knees, if not lower.
"Stop pulling on it," Hermione whispered. "The top's supposed to be on your waist, not your bottom."
"I can't help it, I feel naked with nothing between my legs except my underwear!" Harmony muttered back. "And another thing, my legs still feel weird."
"That's what happens when you shave for the first time," Hermione said with a patient smile. She knew it must be very hard to suddenly and unexpectedly switch genders, so she was trying to be serene with Harry-- er.. Harmony. Hermione had to admit that it was funny when she'd taken Harmony to the Gryffindor girls' dorm and told her she needed to learn how to shave the proper places. The Girl Who Lived's eyes had gotten amazingly wide as they were set on the blade. And then.. she had run. Or at least tried to. Still not used to her new body, Harmony had fallen rather sloppily onto the floor. Hermione had walked over and calmly sat on the other girl so she couldn't escape, explaining to her that she had to wear a skirt now as her school uniform, and that girls who wore skirts had to learn to shave. Needless to say, the task was done with much complaining and fear on Harmony's part.
Hermione was pulled from her thoughts as a glob of mashed potatoes landed on Neville's head. Immediately, the Slytherins burst into fits of laughter. Draco looked the most smug, so it was obvious that the mashed potatoes was his doing.
"You bunch of jerks!" Ginny yelled, standing, "why don't you grow up?!"
"Looks like the little fourth year is standing up for her boyfriend," a Slytherin girl mocked, "how sweet."
"Disgusting is more like it," said a Slytherin boy. "But what do you expect from trash like the Gryffindors?"
In response to that, Harmony stood and chucked a roll at the boy. The Slytherin ducked, the student behind him getting hit instead.
This student in turn threw a corn cob at the Gryffindor table, but it didn't quite make it and instead hit Cho Chang in the back of the head at the Ravenclaw table. Her fan-club of course retaliated, and before anyone knew it a full-blown food fight had started.
"*What is going on here?!*" Snape bellowed, the students immediately stopping at his voice, their wide eyes on him. The Potions professor looked positively outraged as he looked from student to student, food all over them, as well as the tables and floor. "Who started this?"
"It was Malfoy, sir!" Hermione said. "He threw mashed potatoes at Neville!"
"Porter's the one who threw a roll at the Slytherins," Draco retorted. "Those damn things are like rocks!"
"Be quiet, both of you!" Snape said. "Malfoy, Porter, detention." He looked at Harmony, a smirk on his face, "really Porter, being the *new* student I figured you'd have better sense than this."
Harmony glared at him. "Yes, sir."
After that, the students were told to go back to their common rooms.
"I cannot believe that Snape gave you detention!" Ron was saying angrily as he walked out of the Great Hall with his friends, "that git Malfoy started it!"
"You don't honestly expect him to leave Harry out of it, do you?" Hermione replied. "Girl or not Snape still has a grudge against him."
"Could you be a little more quiet about it?!" Harmony hissed.
"Oops! Sorry Harr-- Harmony."
"Hey, Porter!"
Harmony, Ron, and Hermione turned at the voice. Draco was standing across the hall with Crabbe and Goyle. Luckily he was far away enough that he didn't catch Hermione's slip-up.
"I want to talk with you for a second. Alone."
"No way, Malfoy. Get lost," Ron spat.
"Are you Porter's boyfriend or something, Weasley?"
"No."
"Then shut up."
"Go ahead you guys, I'll catch up in a second," Harmony said.
"But--!" Ron started.
"Sure," Hermione cut him off, then started dragging him away. "Come on, Ron. Let's go."
Harmony eyed Crabbe and Goyle, "I thought you said you wanted to talk *alone*."
Draco smirked, then looked to the other boys, "I'll meet you in the common room."
The two grunted in response, then walked off down the hall towards the Slytherin dungeons.
"I must say, I was quite impressed with you," Draco said once the two of them were alone. "Not many new students would just throw food."
"Yeah well, I guess you can say I already feel at home here," Harmony said.
"Oh really?" Draco stepped towards her, and smirked in amusement when the girl backed up at the same time. She let out a small gasp when she backed into the wall, and Draco kept coming until he was in front of her. "There's something.. familiar about you," Draco said, pressing his hands to the wall on either side of her head and leaning in. "I don't know what it is, but I know it's there."
Harmony's heart beat against her rib cage. He couldn't know, could he? She didn't like the fact he was this close, what if he saw the lightning scar that was hidden under her bangs??
Draco's eyes weren't on her forehead though, his gaze was locked with her own. Her breathing became rapid when he moved his face closer to hers, his own breath ghosting over her lips.
"I'm going to find out your secret," he whispered, his mouth almost touching her own, "I swear it."
Just when Harmony thought Draco was going to kiss her, he moved away and started off down the hallway into the direction Crabbe and Goyle had gone. Harmony watched him go, her breathing slowly returning to normal. As Harry, she had felt attracted to Draco. As Harmony, her feelings hadn't changed, only intensified.
Damn it. Detention with him wasn't going to be easy.
Star: well maybe if you'd actually sat down to think about it, it wouldn't have.
Crystal: ^^; shut up, Star. you KNOW I had writer's block.
Star: whatever ¬¬ anyway, since your being stupid I get to introduce this chapter!
Crystal: ::blows raspberry at Star:: Þ
Star: ENY-wayz, Crystal was SUPPOSED to have me in this fic, but she changed her mind. so, now I just help her write it and talk about it. how boring. Crystal's sorry this chapter took so damn long, but as she CLAIMS--
Crystal: STAR!
Star: ok, ok.. as she explained, she had writer's block. sucks, we know. anyway, we hope you like this chapter. yadda, yadda, yadda..
Crystal: ::smacks Star:: please review! ^_^
Thanks to: everyone who reviewed! love you guys! oh! and I won't be answering any reviews here, sorry. so if you have a question about this fic or my other works, please email me at crystalstarguardian@yahoo.com, and I'd be glad to talk with you there. domoarigatou! ^_^
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"As some of you may have noticed, Harry Potter is not with us this evening," Dumbledore's voice carried over the silence of the Great Hall during dinner time. "He is, in fact, at another school as part of a exchange program for a certain amount of time."
The students began murmuring to each other, and Dumbledore waited a moment before continuing.
"In his place, we have with us Miss Harmony Porter. She'll be staying in the Gryffindor house and following Mister Potter's schedule."
Harmony blushed as the eyes of the other students fell upon her, her own gaze on her empty plate to hide as much embarrassment as she could. Gulping, the 'new' girl looked up and somehow managed to lock eyes with Draco Malfoy. The Slytherin winked at her with a smirk, and Harmony's blush intensified.
After Dumbledore finished his speech for the evening, food appeared on the tables and the students proceeded to eat and talk with each other.
"It's so funny that your name is almost the same as Harry's, Harmony," Parvati said as she smiled at the emerald-eyed girl.
"You know, it is! What a coincidence!" Seamus exclaimed with a grin. "Harmony Porter, and Harry Potter. Kinda funny, isn't it." The Irish boy winced as Ron and Dean, both sitting on either side of him, stomped on his feet.
Harmony glanced at Parvati, alarmed and hoping she didn't catch onto what Seamus was hinting at. But the other Gryffindor was already talking gossip with Lavender. Harmony sighed in relief, then directed her gaze to the professor's table. She glared at Snape, remembering how he had snickered when Dumbledore had informed him and the other professor's about the situation at hand. Of course the sadistic bastard would find the whole thing funny, it was a damn given.
Harmony sighed, turning back to her food as she tugged at her skirt for the umpteenth time. The thing seemed too short, due to the fact that as a boy Harmony had of course *never* worn anything like it. The only time he showed off his legs was when he wore Dudley's old shorts, and those were so big that the ends were hanging about his knees, if not lower.
"Stop pulling on it," Hermione whispered. "The top's supposed to be on your waist, not your bottom."
"I can't help it, I feel naked with nothing between my legs except my underwear!" Harmony muttered back. "And another thing, my legs still feel weird."
"That's what happens when you shave for the first time," Hermione said with a patient smile. She knew it must be very hard to suddenly and unexpectedly switch genders, so she was trying to be serene with Harry-- er.. Harmony. Hermione had to admit that it was funny when she'd taken Harmony to the Gryffindor girls' dorm and told her she needed to learn how to shave the proper places. The Girl Who Lived's eyes had gotten amazingly wide as they were set on the blade. And then.. she had run. Or at least tried to. Still not used to her new body, Harmony had fallen rather sloppily onto the floor. Hermione had walked over and calmly sat on the other girl so she couldn't escape, explaining to her that she had to wear a skirt now as her school uniform, and that girls who wore skirts had to learn to shave. Needless to say, the task was done with much complaining and fear on Harmony's part.
Hermione was pulled from her thoughts as a glob of mashed potatoes landed on Neville's head. Immediately, the Slytherins burst into fits of laughter. Draco looked the most smug, so it was obvious that the mashed potatoes was his doing.
"You bunch of jerks!" Ginny yelled, standing, "why don't you grow up?!"
"Looks like the little fourth year is standing up for her boyfriend," a Slytherin girl mocked, "how sweet."
"Disgusting is more like it," said a Slytherin boy. "But what do you expect from trash like the Gryffindors?"
In response to that, Harmony stood and chucked a roll at the boy. The Slytherin ducked, the student behind him getting hit instead.
This student in turn threw a corn cob at the Gryffindor table, but it didn't quite make it and instead hit Cho Chang in the back of the head at the Ravenclaw table. Her fan-club of course retaliated, and before anyone knew it a full-blown food fight had started.
"*What is going on here?!*" Snape bellowed, the students immediately stopping at his voice, their wide eyes on him. The Potions professor looked positively outraged as he looked from student to student, food all over them, as well as the tables and floor. "Who started this?"
"It was Malfoy, sir!" Hermione said. "He threw mashed potatoes at Neville!"
"Porter's the one who threw a roll at the Slytherins," Draco retorted. "Those damn things are like rocks!"
"Be quiet, both of you!" Snape said. "Malfoy, Porter, detention." He looked at Harmony, a smirk on his face, "really Porter, being the *new* student I figured you'd have better sense than this."
Harmony glared at him. "Yes, sir."
After that, the students were told to go back to their common rooms.
"I cannot believe that Snape gave you detention!" Ron was saying angrily as he walked out of the Great Hall with his friends, "that git Malfoy started it!"
"You don't honestly expect him to leave Harry out of it, do you?" Hermione replied. "Girl or not Snape still has a grudge against him."
"Could you be a little more quiet about it?!" Harmony hissed.
"Oops! Sorry Harr-- Harmony."
"Hey, Porter!"
Harmony, Ron, and Hermione turned at the voice. Draco was standing across the hall with Crabbe and Goyle. Luckily he was far away enough that he didn't catch Hermione's slip-up.
"I want to talk with you for a second. Alone."
"No way, Malfoy. Get lost," Ron spat.
"Are you Porter's boyfriend or something, Weasley?"
"No."
"Then shut up."
"Go ahead you guys, I'll catch up in a second," Harmony said.
"But--!" Ron started.
"Sure," Hermione cut him off, then started dragging him away. "Come on, Ron. Let's go."
Harmony eyed Crabbe and Goyle, "I thought you said you wanted to talk *alone*."
Draco smirked, then looked to the other boys, "I'll meet you in the common room."
The two grunted in response, then walked off down the hall towards the Slytherin dungeons.
"I must say, I was quite impressed with you," Draco said once the two of them were alone. "Not many new students would just throw food."
"Yeah well, I guess you can say I already feel at home here," Harmony said.
"Oh really?" Draco stepped towards her, and smirked in amusement when the girl backed up at the same time. She let out a small gasp when she backed into the wall, and Draco kept coming until he was in front of her. "There's something.. familiar about you," Draco said, pressing his hands to the wall on either side of her head and leaning in. "I don't know what it is, but I know it's there."
Harmony's heart beat against her rib cage. He couldn't know, could he? She didn't like the fact he was this close, what if he saw the lightning scar that was hidden under her bangs??
Draco's eyes weren't on her forehead though, his gaze was locked with her own. Her breathing became rapid when he moved his face closer to hers, his own breath ghosting over her lips.
"I'm going to find out your secret," he whispered, his mouth almost touching her own, "I swear it."
Just when Harmony thought Draco was going to kiss her, he moved away and started off down the hallway into the direction Crabbe and Goyle had gone. Harmony watched him go, her breathing slowly returning to normal. As Harry, she had felt attracted to Draco. As Harmony, her feelings hadn't changed, only intensified.
Damn it. Detention with him wasn't going to be easy.