AN: Okay, now that I've tortured you all long enough with the evil cliffie and you have had plenty of time to offer me suggestions as to what the heck happened (i.e. polyjuice potion, voice switching spell, etc.), which were all WRONG, I can let you get on with the chapter after some shout-outs!
feltonisahottie - yeah, I'm gonna have Harry and Ron be in this story a little more. And I love that border, I used to use it a lot, but ff.net doesn't allow me to have asterisks or little squigglys in my stories anymore. And did you say "please" enough times?
Draco's Winged Heart - not sure on that yet, I gotta think about that . . .
Satan Barbie - I really like reading your reviews, they're very entertaining.
AlanPatty07 - Well, I got 31 reviews (not including mine, lol), so wanting 30 wasn't so drastic after all, was it?
Hippie1212 - you have to wait a couple more chapters before you can see what house Emily will be in!
HPFanatic04 - your pretty smart to be able to figure out my plot before I can . . .
yaminy-grint - see respose for Hippe1212
And now, THE LIST of all the reviewers I didn't have a coment for!
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Okay, I'm sorry if I spelled anything wrong in someone's penname, but I'm doing the shout-outs at 2:30 in the morning, so cut me some slack, okay? And you won't be getting an update for a week or two, since I'll be on summer vacations. I'll be home for 4th of July weekend, so I'll try to update then, okay?
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Hermione looked on in shock as she saw herself answer "What?" and then herself sit bolt upright and open her eyes.
"Hermione? Is that you?" asked herself, which she presumed was Draco in her body.
"Yes . . . I suppose that I look like you?" she asked herself who was Draco. This was weird.
"Yes, and it's extremely confusing. You were right when you said something was up. I think we need to have a talk with our daughters," said Draco in Hermione's body. "What do you think they did?"
"It was probably a switching solution, but Amanda is only in second year, how could she manage the talent to do that?" mused Hermione in Draco's body.
"I don't know and I don't much care right now. I want Amanda and Emily in here this instant!" he said.
Hermione sighed and then magnified her voice so it carried through the whole house. "EMILY CASEY JENKINS AND AMANDA KATHERINE MALFOY, GET INTO THIS ROOM RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE THE NEXT INGREDIENT IN DRACO'S NEW POTION!" She giggled in spite of herself, judging on the fact that she was sort of talking in third person, since she was in Draco's body. He worked in the Potions section of the Ministry of Magic. (Shocking, isn't it? NOT!) A minute later, both Amanda and Emily came shuffling into the room, heads bowed.
"What did you do to us?" demanded Draco, who was in Hermione's body.
"Well, mummy, we – we were just having some fun . . ." started Emily.
"I'm not your mummy, as you well know, I'm your step-dad. Don't you play dumb," said Draco again.
"Right, well, dad, we – we just wanted to – to have a little fun – like – like Em said, we – we didn't think you'd get this mad . . ." stuttered Amanda, speaking to Hermione's body which contained Draco's mind. {AN: scary thought . . .}
"Amanda Katherine, you know well enough what your father's temper can be like, and mine as well, when tested," said Hermione, who to an innocent bystander could be mistaken for Draco.
"We're sorry, mummy," said Emily, looking very small and humble, and, indeed, very sorry. Hermione wanted to get up and hug her and say everything was all right, but she knew too well her daughter's tactics.
"I'm sure you are, and I'm sure you're never going to do it again in the near future, but just to be sure, you're both grounded for a week," said Hermione.
"A WEEK!?" shrieked Amanda.
"It'll be two if you keep that up," said Draco. Amanda shut her mouth immediately.
"What are we grounded from?" asked Emily meekly.
"Well, for Amanda, I'd say no Quidditch," said Draco.
"WHAT?!? Dad!" started Amanda.
"No buts."
"And for Emily . . . well . . . Em, what part did you play in this? I'm sure your sister did most of the scheming and the actually potion or spell or whatever it was, so what did you do?" asked Hermione curiously.
"I helped with the potion, like, I got stuff that 'manda needed for it, and I helped with a little bit of the planning, and I went along with it . . ." said Emily softly.
"Well, that merits a slightly less harsh punishment, since it was your sister's idea, I presume?" said Draco, and Amanda nodded, looking at her shoes as if they could get her out of her punishment.
"Well, then I suppose we can ban Emily from seeing or talking to any friends for a few days. That seem reasonable to you?" said Hermione to Draco, who nodded his – er, her, head. "That's settled, then. Now, we'd very much appreciate it if the two of you gave us the name of the potion you used so your father can brew an antidote?"
"It was just a simple switching solution, Mya," said Amanda.
"Okay then. You're dismissed," said Hermione. Once Emily and Amanda had left the room, Hermione turned to her husband. "How long does the antidote to a 'simple' switching solution take to brew?"
"About an hour, we should be back to ourselves before lunch," said Draco, smiling.
"Good. What an anniversary present. I hope they have some fairly more decent ones waiting for us downstairs."
"So do I. Now, we'd better get down to the potions lab. Between Hogwarts' two best potions students, we might even be able to brew it before the hour's up."
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Once Draco and Hermione were back to their normal selves and Emily and Amanda had been given one of Draco's famous lectures on good behavior {AN: like my dad does to me, yuck . . .}, the two girls presented Hermione and Draco with a small mountain of gifts.
"Oh my! Where in heaven's name did you get the Galleons to buy all these?" said Hermione, eyeing them suspiciously.
"From a . . . reliable source," said Amanda.
"Or two," added Emily. They were both smirking. Emily had picked up the Malfoy smirk from Amanda, and you'd think they were blood related if it were not for Emily's brunette hair and blue eyes in contrast to Amanda's blonde hair and hazel eyes. Hermione eyed them, but started on the pile of gifts anyway.
Many paper scraps and a pile of presents later, Hermione and Draco were looking like two little kids who were just given sacks full of Honeydukes best candy. Hermione had to say that they must have gone to some lengths to get the things they did. Rather than the typical anniversary presents of cards and hearts, they had gotten them a multitude of things that they had loved from their childhood, including boxes of their favorite candy, muggle or magic, several books and eagle feather quills for Hermione, and a pack of exploding snap cards and a wizard chess set for Draco, plus matching locket-pendants that had their names inscribed on the outside, then on the inside left a picture of the two of them, and on the inside right an inscription of their Hogwarts house.
"I must say, had the two of you not slipped a switching solution into our breakfast drinks, this would have been the best anniversary of the ten we've had," said Draco, smiling.
Even Amanda and Emily cracked small smiles. "Thanks, dad," said Amanda.
"Or should we say 'you're welcome'?" said Emily playfully.
"But I'm still curious, where did you get the money – and the knowledge – to get these gifts?" said Draco.
Amanda and Emily glanced at each other. "Well, we went around to a couple pf your old school friends . . ." started Amanda, and Draco flinched.
"Please tell me that you didn't go to anyone from Slytherin house?" he said.
"Oh, no, Amanda knew better than that," said Emily, looking fondly at her sister.
"I did ask Professor Snape a few questions, though," said Amanda. "Anyway, your old school mates, like Uncle Harry and Uncle Ron, told us a lot of the stuff you liked as teenagers."
"And what about the money? Your allowance certainly didn't go this far, you'd have to have been saving up since last September!" said Hermione.
"Like we said: reliable sources," said Emily.
"You do know that we can ground you again if you don't tell us?" said Draco.
"Daddy! That's not fair!" said Amanda. Emily, however, looked fearfully at her stepfather.
"Okay, okay, we'll tell you!" she said. Amanda glared at her. "Well, I'll tell you anyway. Uncle Harry gave us a good bit, since he's rich, but most of it came from a rather – unexpected – source."
"Apparently, Uncle Harry told two other people about our surprise for you two, and they, of course, insisted on assisting Hogwarts' next pranksters," said Amanda, with a slight twinkle in her eye.
"Wait a minute, did the Weasley twins help you out?" said Hermione.
"Well, in all honesty, yes. They gave us a lot of the stuff we needed – including the idea – for the switching solution, and they gave us quite a good bit of money to buy the gifts for you," said Emily.
"Wait a minute, Fred and George Weasley came up with this crazy scheme?" said Draco, sitting up a little straighter. Amanda and Emily nodded. Hermione heard Draco mumble something that sounded a lot like "no good Weasleys" before she turned to Emily and Amanda.
"Well, I'll have to have a little chat with Gred and Forge and see how they thought this would be a satisfactory anniversary present," she said with a smile. "Your punishments are not lessened, however." Emily and Amanda, who had been looking hopeful, looked sullen again.
"I have no doubt in thinking that the Weasley twins are very hopeful that the two of you will follow in their footsteps and become Hogwarts' next generation of pranksters," said Draco.
"Did you know that your Uncle Harry's dad and three of his friends were considered the best Hogwarts pranksters of all time?" said Hermione. Emily and Amanda looked at her wide-eyed.
"Really?" they said in unison.
"Yes, they most certainly were. They all had codenames for each other, too, because they were Animagi. Harry's dad, James, was called Prongs, because he turned into a stag, Harry's godfather, Sirius, was Padfoot, as he turned into a Grim, Peter was Wormtail, since he turned into a rat, and Remus was Moony because he was a werewolf!" said Hermione spookily. Emily and Amanda gasped.
"A werewolf?" said Amanda.
"Really?" asked Emily.
"Yes, really. They created a map, a map for all future generations of magical mischief makers . . ."
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AN: Sorry, it's a TAD bit shorter than normal, but I think it was rather good! How'd ya like their "funds" for Hermione and Draco's presents? The only way I'll know is if you REVIEW!! LOTS AND LONG! (I like long reviews!)