Author's Notes: Oh my goodness! Thank all of you for the positive reviews! I'm so glad about how this story is being received! It truly astounds me! Now, I was trying to put this chapter up yesterday but document manager was down so don't be mad at me!
Two identical girls were walking, arms linked and heads bowed to Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology respectively. Their year mates passed them by, perhaps sending one or two curious glances their way but for the most part leaving them alone. One was the school's most notorious gossip, and the other, her sister was not far behind her. Between them, a heated debate was going on.
"No!" The Gryffindor cried for what seemed like the thousandth time, "That just can't be the truth!"
"I'm telling you Pavarti!" argued her twin, "It is so the truth. I can gave you names, dates, times...everything!"
"There is no way it could have happened!"
"But it so did!"
"It didn't! This has to be some sort of prank!"
"It isn't! I'm telling you Pavarti! You can ask Giania! She got it from Lyle who got it from-"
"I don't know a single Gryffindor who would have such a low sense of house morality and loyalty!" hissed Pavarti, "We only date our own kind!"
"Now, now." Padma said in a soothing voice, "No one said they were dating Pav. Maybe they are just secret friends or something."
Pavarti snorted, "Secret friends my arse. If this is true...which it isn't...may I remind you of the fact that we aren't nine any more...you're only just good friends with a boy if you're a lesbian."
"What about Hermione Granger?" asked Padma narrowing her eyes.
"Well..." Pavarti said trailing off, "She's Hermione for Chris sake. No one would look at her like that in a million years, least of all hunks like Ron Weasley or heroes like Harry Potter."
Padma smirked somewhat, "It wouldn't surprise me if she was a lesbian anyway."
Pavarti groaned, "She's not Padma, so don't even think about hitting on her you little lesbo!"
"Well how many boyfriends has the prude had?"
"Um...Well there was Victor Krum..."
"More like Victoria Krum." Giggled Padma.
Pavarti rolled her eyes, "She's straight and I know she still writes to Victor Krum."
"I am not a lesbo by the way!" cried Padma offended, "I am bisexual!"
"That's so not the point!' cried Pavarti. "Look I'm telling you Padi, that there's no way in hell a Gryffindor girl would hug a Slytherin boy!"
"I got it from Giania Peters, who got it from her brother Lyle who got it from David Eakny..."
"That sixth year Ravenclaw Richard Eakny's little brother?" interrupted Pavarti.
"Yeah, oh Merlin Richard is like the most delicious man I ever laid eyes on! And oh Merlin Pav! He was like so definitely flirting with me the other day....he said the funniest thing too...what was it now?"
Pavarti glared at her sister who was going off in a tangent. "Padma! PADMA! Back to the rumor please!"
"Oh sorry," Padma replied, "So...anyways David Eakny witnessed it with his own two eyes in the Charms corridor. He said it was after hours and they had to be like prefects or something cause they like weren't even trying to be sneaky or something like that." Padma finished.
"But none of the Gryffindor prefects had the Charms corridor to patrol last night! Ron told me before he went out to prefect duties!" Pavarti cried.
"Well...who had the charms corridor duty last night?" asked Padma.
"How should I know?" asked Pavarti.
"Look there's Ron! He'll know!" said Padma.
"Oh! Ronnie! Ron-IE!" Pavarti called flirtatiously.
Ron rolled his eyes and strolled over to the twins, "Can I help you?" he asked rolling his eyes somewhat.
"Totally." Said Padma, "Do you know who had to patrol the Charms corridors last night."
Without even having to think about it, he blurted out, "The heads. They had the Charms Corridor, the Astronomy Tower, and the Divination Tower."
"Oh my Gosh!" Pavarti said in an awed whisper, "I like so have to tell Lavender! Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy!"
And the twins split off in two different directions...spreading the rumor twice as fast and leaving a very confused Ronald Weasley in their wake.
By lunch that day, everyone was talking about it. The tale of forbidden love! A Gryffindor and a Slytherin! The rumor had become so large that even the Professor's had heard about it.
"There is no way." McGonagal huffed, "That one of my Gryffindors and your...your Slytherins were...ahem...love making in the Charm's corridor!"
"I believe Minevra." Snape said silkily, "That they were not love making as you so elegantly put it, but hugging, which is infinitely worse."
"Oh Bullocks!" replied the Scottish Professor, "How in Merlin's name is hugging worse?"
"It means that one of my Slytherins has actually gone soft and cares for one of your reckless half-blood little Gryffindors." He sneered.
Her nostrils flared, "What's worse I believe is that one of my Gryffindors touched one of your slimy little inbred-pureblood-death eater- twits!"
Snape leapt up from his seat at the staff table, wand drawn. He was about to Go off at Professor McGonagal again when Dumbledore intervened, frowning.
"I have been trying to stop these petty feuds between houses with my students, but I had thought it was not necessary to force my staff members to get along as well." He glared at the both of them over his half moon spectacles.
They both looked sheepish, or as sheepish as the strictest Professor in Hogwarts and the Cruelest Professor in Hogwarts could look.
"I clearly said at the staff meeting before the start of the school year that I expected all of you to be on your best behavior, and promote inter-house fraternization yet this is what I get from the both of you! It appears that the only students that are even trying to help out are our Head Boy and Girl."
And with that last comment he left them to their own thoughts.
Author's Notes: I know that Snape and McGonagal seem somewhat O/C but this is on purpose. I want to see who's putting all the pieces together.