A/N : Snape is a little OOC in this story in case you couldn't tell already.


Ch. 5 - Hair, Eyes, and Teasing from Snape

Melina walked into the common room behind her brother and friends after a surprisingly nice day at Hogsmeade with Draco and a delicious feast.

"I say we go see Hagrid before it gets darker." Ron suggested.

"Good idea Ron." Harry said. He, Ron and Hermione grabbed there coats and went back toward the portal, but Melina, instead of following them, sat down and started rifling through her bag. Harry realized she was following them and frowned.

"Aren't you coming Melina?" He asked, turning back to her.

"No, I can't." She answered, looking up at him briefly before looking back down and shoving another book into her bag.

"Why not?" Harry asked, still frowning slightly.

"I have to go do a project." She said, flipping through the pages of another book before shoving it into her bag as well. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be late." She got up and slid pass Ron and Hermione, who had stopped near the door, and headed down the stairs toward the dungeons. She checked her bag as she walked to make sure she didn't forget anything. She probably should have learned her lesson earlier to watch where she was going, 'cause bumped into someone else.

"Oh! Sorry professor. I didn't see you." She apologized when she realized she ran into a teacher.

"Seeing that you were looking down, I don't see how you could have seen me." It was Snape and he didn't look particularly happy about being run into.

"Yes, I know. Again, I apologize. It's just I'm going down to meet Draco down by the dungeons to start his lessons and I'm going to be late." She explained.

"I see. Well, I'm going to want a progress report by the end of the next week, of course." He told her.

"You want me to tutor him and write you a progress report?" She sighed.

"Yes. Now, run along. You don't want to be late." He told her. She moved without a word and walked quickly around him, not knowing about the amusement that danced briefly across his face.

Melina walked quickly down to the dungeons and into the classroom and dumped her books out of her bag onto the table. Draco hadn't gotten there yet so she took her bag and went to the potions room and got the supplies they were going to need. She re-entered the room and found Draco lounging in one of the chairs; his feet kicked up on the table and his arms behind his head.

"You know you could help me." She commented, trying not to drop anything.

"I could." He answered not moving. She glared at him and he felt himself crack. "Ok, ok." He moved over to her and took a few things from her.

"Alright. These vials," she said indicating to a group of vials after they sat down. "are for the color. The rest of this stuff are the other ingredients. You know you have to follow the directions very carefully in potions in order for it to come out right? You absolutely must put things in, in the order they are given in the book." Draco nodded. "When all the ingredients are put in, in the correct order, you can choose what color you want to use for me." The smirk he gave her made her a little worried. "Let's get started."

She watched him carefully while she made her own potion, making sure he was putting everything in correctly like she told him.

"Don't worry." He said as he turned the vials toward him so only he could read the labels. "I'm not going to choose a bad color." He selected two, looking in the book at the same time to read the directions. Melina turned the vials to her and grabbed two as well, pouring a little of one in, then a little of the other and then little more of the first one. Draco's caldron hissed and a wisp of grey steam floated up out of it and then the same happened to Melina's.

"I guess that means I did it right." He said.

"Yes, you did. Switch caldrons." She said. He pushed his over to her and pulled hers over to him. Melina took her ladle and poured some of the potion into a goblet and Draco did the same.

"Bottoms up." He said. They raised their glasses to each other and then gulped down the potions. "Ug! Is it supposed to taste this bad?" He asked after he forced it down and dropped the goblet on the table.

"Most potions taste disgusting." Melina said. She looked up at him and her disgusted look turned into a grin. She picked up a mirror and handed it to him without a word. His eyes widened when he saw his hair.

"Green and silver?" He stared at his reflection. Melina had turned his hair a medium green with a few silver streaks.

"Yeah. Slytherin colors." She told him.

"It's brilliant. Here look at yours." He handed her the mirror and watched her expression change. "Gryffindor colors. What do you think?"

"Also brilliant." Her hair was no longer raven black, but was now medium red with yellowish-gold highlights. "I think that was a bit to easy for you. We'll try something harder next time." She told him, fingering one of the highlights. "I can't wait to see the look on Harry's face when he sees this."

"I can't wait to see the look on his face." Draco said. "Can we try another on before it gets any later?"

"What kind?"

"Eye color?"

"Alright. Let me go get some more ingredients. I'll be right back." She turned and went back to the potions room and grabbed a few more things and rejoined Draco.

Somehow, halfway through making her own potion, Melina managed to fall asleep while Draco made his potion.

"Melina." He shook her awake.

"Draco. Sorry. I really didn't mean to fall asleep." She apologized as she brought her head up off the table.

"It's alright you weren't down for that long. Just long enough for me to finish this. Here. Try it." He said handing her a goblet of grayish looking liquid. She recognized the smell of it as the eye-changing potion.

"Oh, but I didn't watch you to make sure you did it right. It might kill me." She said, trying not to sound apprehensive.

"What? Don't you trust me?" He asked smirking. Melina gave him a 'do-you-really-want-me-to-answer-that?' look. "Oh, come on." She rolled her eyes but put the goblet to her lips and downed the contents. As was expected from that sort of potion, her eyes burned. She shut them tightly and rubbed them waiting for the burning to subside. She opened her eyes a moment later and blinked a few times to clear her vision. Draco grinned as she looked up at him and he handed her the mirror.

"Draco!" She shrieked when she saw what color he had turned her eyes.

"What? I said I wouldn't turn your hair hot pink. I never said anything about your eyes." He defended himself. Her eyes were indeed not longer green but a very bright hot pink.

"Draco," She said putting the mirror down and looking back at him. "the color will completely clash with my hair." She half-joked causing him to laugh for the first time since she met him. "Come on, Slytherin, you can help me put this stuff away." She told him, standing to her feet and gathering a few things into her arms. Draco shook his head but got up and helped clear the table. They finished cleaning up and he helped her pack her books back into her bag and, surprisingly, offered to walk her back to the Gryffindor tower.

"Well," Melina said as they stopped at the bottom of the stairs. "that was fun. I'm just hoping my eyes won't stay like this for to long."

"Nah. I only put enough in for it to last twenty-four hours. By this time tomorrow your eyes will be back to normal. I think your hair might stay like that slightly longer than two days though." Draco told.

"I think yours'll last a bit longer than two days as well. Well, 'night Mr. Malfoy." She said turning and starting up the stairs.

"Night Ms. Potter." He called after her.


Harry walked down the stairs the next morning and found his sister, again, asleep in the chair. At least, he thought it was his sister. It looked like her face but hair looked really wild.

"She was there when we got up." Hermione said from her place at the table next to Ron, who was trying franticly to finish his charms homework. "I was wondering why she didn't come in again last night. We should probably wake her up. It's almost time for breakfast and I want to know why her hair is practically the same color as our ties." Harry nodded and walked over to his sister and shook her gently.

"Melina. Wake up. It's almost time for breakfast." He said. Melina moaned and opened her eyes. Harry jumped back in shock at the sight of her bright pink orbs staring back at him.

"Sorry. I should have warned you before I opened my eyes that you were in for a bit of a shock." Melina said stretching her arms over her head.

"That would have been nice." Harry said sarcastically.

"I'm going to go change and then we can go. Or you guys can go ahead and I'll meet you there. That's probably best. I might be a while." She said standing up.

"Alright. We'll see you in the Hall. We'll be expecting a full explanation for your. . .colorful appearance." Harry said and he, Hermione and Ron gathered their things and left the tower. Melina went up to her dorm and changed into her robes. She went into the bathroom and brushed the slight potion taste out of her mouth and tried to figure out what to do with her newly colored hair. She pulled as much of it back as she could, which wasn't that much because it was short, leaving it so two gold highlights hung down on both sides of her face. She shook her head at her eyes before she went back out to the common room and refilled her bag with the rest of her class books and then left the tower.

She kept a straight face as she walked to the Hall receiving odd stares from Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws and ignored the snickers from the Slytherins she passed in the halls. Most of the students were already in the Hall when she entered and they all gawked at her. She pretended she didn't notice as she walked over to the Gryffindor table and down next to Hermione across from Harry and Ron.

"So, what's with your hair?" Harry asked. "And eyes?"

"As for the hair, look for yourself." Melina said nodding to her left at the Hall's doorway and the three others turned and saw Draco entering the room, acting the same way Melina did way she came in. He sat down at his table and winked at her.

Potions was their first class and Snape was, as Melina told Harry, assigning partners. Since she already knew she was going to be paired with Draco, she sat down next to him before class had started. Gryffindor, of course, lost points. It was usual for that to happen in potions class. But when Melina answered a question, the last thing the class expected to hear was:

"Correct Ms. Potter. Ten points to Gryffindor." Everyone in the room, with the exception of Snape and Melina, gasped. Ron and Harry's mouths were hanging open and Draco's eyes were wide at the words he just heard.

"I'm sorry professor. You meanfrom Gryffindorof course." Pansy Parkinson, a Slytherin, said, trying to change his mind.

"I meant what I said. And that's five points from Slytherin for speaking out of turn." Snape snapped at her. Another collective gasp and several Gryffindors nearly fell out of their chairs.

"Ms. Potter?" Snape said after he had dismissed the class. "I must say, pink is most definitely you color." He was teasing her.(A/N likeI said, OOC)Severus Snape, head of Slytherin house, was teasing her.

"Hahaha. Very funny." She said sarcastically before she turned and joined Draco who was waiting for her outside the door, and they headed toward DADA.

"You're not going to kill me for turning your eyes pink, are you?" Draco asked as they walked down the hall.

"Why would I do that when professor Snape is having such a good time teasing me?" She asked in a serious voice, which he took as a mostly 'no'.

"Ms. Potter. Mr. Malfoy. How nice of you to join us." Remus said without looking up as they entered the classroom.

"Sorry professor. Professor Snape delayed us." Melina told him. He finally looked up was able to take in their appearances better than he had been able to in the Great hall.

"Ten points to each to you for creative display of your house's colors. Though I must say Melina, the pink really clashes with the red." Remus told her. Several of the girls giggle in agreement and Melina glared at her "father".

"Yes professor. Draco and I already had that discussion after he turned them that color." She said as she sat down and Draco followed and sat next to her.

"On purpose?" Remus asked the now green and silver haired boy.

"Yes sir. She said not to turn her hair hot pink, she didn't say anything about her eyes."


Sorry for the wait. My computer has decided it doesn't want me to update any of my stories, so I have to do it at school or my brothers' house.

Anyway, let me know what you think.