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Pairing: Harry and Draco
Rating: R
Summary: It's just another plot to turn Harry into a girl. He's possessive and depressive. It took a Snape, and the whole bunch of Malfoys to change her.
Disclaimer: It's not mine, trust me, I'm telling the truth. It's own by JK Rowling.
Warnings: Depressing but not dark, comforting, slash
Warning: It's unbeta-ed.
Chapter Seven
It was difficult for Harry, especially with her new height, to look for her friends. There were just too many people in the Hogwarts Express, students and parents, blocking her view.
Harry decided to find an empty compartment, thinking that her friends would come and find her. She had her things sent to Hogwarts along with Severus', and she had already changed to her school robe so she didn't have any luggage but a small casual bag. Sitting alone she was wishing that she had brought her cuddly friend with her.
It was ten minutes before the departure that Ron and Hermione finally found her. They were laughing at something. Suddenly Harry felt left out. He knew Hermione spent the last two weeks of the summer holiday at the Weasleys. She always did.
"Harry, it is so good to finally see you again." Hermione ran to her, leaving Ron to take care of her luggage and the pets' cages.
"Me too, Hermione." Harry stood up to hug Hermione.
"And how about me?" Ron playfully pushed Hermione aside to hug Harry.
Ron handed Harry Hedwig's cage.
"Thank you." Harry smiled. She opened Hedwig's cage and gently patted her out. "I missed you, Hedwig." The owl eyeing her before she gently nibbled Harry's hand.
"Hey, you have your eyes fixed." Hermione pointed out, as if it was the first time she saw her.
"Severus made me brew potions I like, so I might made something useful."
"Severus? Are you that close to him?" Hermione chose to sit next to Harry.
"No wonder you didn't owl us." Ron teased her, "How was you summer?"
"Fine. I guess."
"You guess?" Ron raised his eyebrows. "Oh come on. Tell us or you won't get your birthday present." Ron grinned, ignoring Hermione's stern face.
"Yeah, something happen and…" Harry stopped mid sentence when the door was opened and revealed the Slytherins, Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini.
"What are you doing here, Malfoy," Ron asked in a boring tone.
"What do you mean?" Draco faked his confusion, looking at Harry, "Didn't you tell them, Harry? They are your best friends, so they have the rights to know."
"What it is that you know and we don't?" Hermione looked at Draco then Harry.
"Relax, it's just a happy news," Draco pulled Harry on her feet before he lifted her and spun around with a shock Harry in his arms, "Harry and I are engaged."
"WHAT?!"
Draco lifted Harry's right hand to show the disbelief duo her ring. It was a simple white gold band with H and D crafted in an old elegant cursive letter.
"You could at least give him a ring that would fit him better," Hermione pointed out after she was out from her stupor.
Draco also noticed the ring that had slipped through Harry's slender finger but it didn't fall. "It would fit," Draco scowled a little, "once Harry feels any affection toward me."
"You really engage to him, Harry, why? I mean, if you do like boys, you could engage to me." Hermione smacked Ron's head. "Hey, I was just kidding. No need for this brutality."
"It's OK Weasley, if you like boys that much," Zabini smirked at him, his eyes studying Ron intensely, stopped at certain places that made the red head boy blushed, "You could try your luck with me."
"Stay out of it, Zabini." Hermione stood for her friend.
"Jealous, huh."
Hermione ignored him completely and turned to Draco who still hadn't let Harry go. "Explain, Malfoy."
"Are you sure you want to know?"
"Just spit it out. You didn't plan anything to harm him, right?"
"It's simple actually. Harry is a she, and I as a gentlemen," Draco jokingly bowed his head a little, "took full responsibility on her."
Hermione and Ron lost their voices.
"You, shut up." Harry told Draco quietly when he finally let her go. Harry turned to her friends, "Are you two all right?" Harry search in her bag and pulled out chocolate frogs, "Here."
Ron looked at Harry dumbfounded. "So, that's why you looked smaller." He shook his head, "I thought I had another grow spurt."
"What had happened, Harry? Did they do this to you, or… or used you for their secret experiment?" Hermione hugged Harry.
"No." Harry turned to Draco. "He gave me the wrong potion."
"How long have you been a girl?" Hermione looked concern.
"A month." Harry didn't look at her friends.
"Wait a minute, when I hugged you, you don't have breasts." Ron got himself another slap on his head.
"Be careful Granger, you might make him more stupid."
"Thank you for defending me, Zabini."
"My pleasure." Blaise smirked at the flush boy.
Hermione tried to smile at Harry, "May be we could be roommates, Harry."
"Yeah." Harry smiled back. Half of her worries were erased by her best friends' acceptance. She had assured Severus that she need to cut her hair a little and tied it in a simple ponytail so she won't raise any attention.
"Oh no, now I have one of those three as a room mate." Ron looked terrified.
"Well, you've been his… her roommate for six years, Ron. She deserves someone better as a roommate."
"Oh, please." Ron moved to sit back.
"Hey, they won't be that bad." Hermione gave him a big smile. She pulled Harry to sit next to her.
They were completely ignoring the Slytherins when the door opened again to show the other two Slytherins of their year.
"Draco, Blaise. There you are. That Parkinson pestered us to look for you. Damn annoying girls."
Draco moved to sit next to Harry, "Vince, and Greg. What a good timing. I want you to meet my…" Harry's hand cupped his mouth to stop his words.
Blaise was sitting next to Ron; too close to the redhead's comfort but he said nothing.
The room was now quiet. It was a strange sight between Slytherins and Gryffindors that it frightened the latter Slytherins.
"Er…. I guess we better go. It's almost time to change."
"Yeah. Bye."
"Why they leave?" Hermione smirked to Ron. "Did we scare them?"
"Aren't you going to change too?" Ron glared at Blaise.
"Draco and I have changed, if you have failed to notice." Blaise grinned when red started to tint Ron's face.
"Well, I think we better change." Hermione stood up, decided to help her friend. She looked tentatively at Harry, "Will you be okay with those two?"
"Don't worry." Draco put his arm around Harry. "Nothing would happen to her."
"Beside Harry and I were friend, right Harry?" Blaise smiled innocently at Harry.
Harry stared blankly at Blaise but then she ignored him completely. Apparently Harry was still angry with Blaise for his offer for a race game.
"Yeah, I can see that." Ron laughed and took Hermione's hand in his.
"Why don't you like me?" Blaise asked Harry when her friends were not in hearing zone.
"She probably tired." Draco looked amuse, he lifted Harry and cradled her in his arms. "We've promised Grandma that we'll take care of you." When Harry smiled, Draco continued. "Then you have to treat Blaise nicely. I don't remember him doing anything terrible to you."
"Hey, maybe she doesn't like her present." Blaise said.
"I like it. Very much." Harry blushed a little when she realized that she had been rude to Blaise. "Thank you."
"Have you finished it?"
"Nope. I have to practice that music instrument every day and night for Grandmamma and I still have to study for Potions. I haven't started at all."
"No wonder you didn't make me any chocolate cake." Draco pouted. "If it's too difficult, I could buy you other book."
Harry stared amazedly at Draco. 'So, he really did want me to cook for him.' Harry shook his head.
"What?" Draco looked puzzled.
"I thought those little comments were meant to make it a personal gift." Harry rolled her eyes. She smiled at Draco. For the last month, she had visited Malfoy manor everyday, but she had never left alone with those two. There were always the adults who would accompany her.
"It is." Draco grinned wickedly. "And then you would know which ones I like better."
"Hey, maybe we could help you with those puzzle." Blaise tried to befriend with Harry, again.
"You would?" Harry looked at Blaise inquisitively.
"Yeah, if you agree." Blaise shrugged his shoulder. "It took all the summer holiday to finish it with my sister and Draco's help. Oh, Vincent and Gregory help too." Blaise sniggered at the last two names.
Harry giggled. "They helped too?"
"Yeah. It was a big mess. We need a big room." Draco looked warmly at Harry. "Maybe we could do it at Severus'."
"Do you think he would let me… I mean I'm a Gryffindor." Harry looked worried.
"He would still love you. Right Blaise?"
"Yeah."
Draco put Harry back to her seat and put his arm around her so that she could put her head at his shoulder. "You look tired. Tried to get some sleep."
Harry gratefully obey him and put her head on Draco's chest before she closed her eyes.
When she opened her eyes hours later, she found Hermione and Ron were back at their compartment. Hermione was sitting next to her, reading a book. Ron had Hedwig's cage and Pig's cage put between him and Blaise.
"Time to wake up, Sleeping Beauty." Hermione grinned at Harry.
"We met Seamus and Dean. They asked if we had seen you." Ron noticed Harry's face paler. "We didn't tell them about you."
"Don't worry." Draco squeezed Harry's shoulder. "We've promised Grandma, remember?"
Harry nodded her head.
"Well, we better get going Blaise." Draco gently pulled his arm, feeling the blood rushed back through his arm. "We'll see you at the feast." Draco winked his eye.
~Ô~
When they arrived at Hogwarts, the trio Gryffindors split up from their friends and housemates. They stood outside the Great Hall while the sorting was taking place. Serious looks upon their faces.
"I guess we better wait till the feast started before we went in." Ron looked at Harry, understanding in his eyes.
"Yeah, I won't want to be in there when the Head Girl was announced." Hermione sighed.
"Why?" Harry looked confused.
"Because she," Ron pointed at her, "Had declined to be one."
"It's your fault. If I am a Head Girl, I would be forced to took all points off of our house with all the rules you break." Hermione looked sternly at her friends.
Harry just gave the 'Who? Me?!' look innocently while Ron shoved her playfully. "Hey! Just too bad you can't take points off of the Slytherins either."
Hermione crinkled her nose, "If my guess is right, the new Head Boy would be glad to take points off of our house."
They could hear the sudden burst from the Great Hall. Opening the door slightly, they could overhear that Professor Dumbledore had told the students that the Head Girl would be chosen in two weeks and due to something that had happened in the summer, Harry Potter had changed a bit. He requested the students not to regard Harry differently before he let the feast began.
"I guess it's save now," Hermione took the lead to the Great Hall.
They had to walk pass the other houses table to reach theirs.
Draco, seeing that Harry had finally came to the feast, stood before her. "Sit here, Harry." Harry looked at Draco, then Ron. She noticed that Hermione had headed closer to the Gryffindor table.
"You too, Weasley." Blaise nodded to two empty chairs between him and Draco.
Harry and Ron looked at each other. They didn't really know what to do. Hermione, apparently noticed this, but only shrugged her shoulders.
"Come on. Or you choose to sit around your housemates and be interrogated."
Ron shoved Harry a little to sit with the Slytherins. "Believe me, better than Seamus or even Ginny."
"I guess so."
Draco smiled secretly when Harry sat beside him. He took her hand and spoke to his shock housemates. "Ladies and gentlemen, meet my fiancée."
Harry lifted his head to the staff table and caught Severus' eyes. Harry couldn't be sure whether it was laughter or amusement that dancing in the older man's eyes.
"No way." Pansy Parkinson's squeak was audible when the Slytherins were silence.
"Quite a show, Malfoy." Ron grunted lowly while he filled Harry's plate. When he moved to fill his own plate, he noticed that it was full. But when he looked at Blaise, the Slytherin was talking to his housemate.
While the other Slytherins accepted the announcement silently, Pansy still tried her best to protest.
"But why, Draco. Your father couldn't have agreed. Besides he… he's Potter."
"Sweet little Harry." Draco, quoted his Grandpa, glared at Pansy who recoiled back to her seat, with determination in her eyes.
Draco smiled when Harry gave him a side-glance. Sighing, Harry looked at the food in front of him. But coming back to school, to the place that reminded her all her bad memories brought away her good mood, and her appetite. She just kept silence the whole dinner.
When Harry caught Severus' worried look, she tried to smile at him and slowly lifted her spoon.
Before Ron took her back to their dorm, Harry gave another smile to Severus, to greet him good night who nodded in return.
~Ô~
As predicted, Harry shared the room with Hermione. When the news spread, the seventh years Gryffindors were the first to find out, and many had come to their room.
It annoyed Hermione more than it did to Harry. Feeling protective to the other girl, Hermione had slammed the door rudely to their housemate who came only to ask why.
"It's so tactful of Professor Dumbledore to tell them that you had changed a bit rather than telling them that you're now a girl." Hermione shook her head.
"Are you okay, Hermione?"
"Hm?" Hermione barely lifted her eyebrow.
"Maybe you want to change roommate?" Harry sat on her bed. Her eyes didn't leave her feet.
"And why would I?"
"They would come again and if you feel bother…" Harry let her sentence unfinished.
"Oh, come on, Harry. I'm glad I have you as my roommate. Can you imagine if I had one of those girls as a roommate? I will go crazy."
Harry smiled at her. She eyed the presents piled on the head of her bed and decided that she didn't need Hermione lectured her tonight. She should unpack before she could unwrapped her presents.
Another knock on the door and Hermione was on fire again. She walked to the door in four long paces, "I've told you not to…"
"Hey, relax. It's just me." Ron cried defensively.
"What are you doing here?" Hermione question him, not at all feeling guilty for yelling at his face. "You're not supposed to be here."
"You scared them all so they came after me. They scared the hell out of me." Ron walked into the room and sit comfortably at Hermione's empty bed.
Unwilling to let Ron stay but too pity him to push him out, Hermione decided to ignore him.
"Let me help you unpacking, Harry." Hermione pulled Harry's trunk to her bed and opened it. "You might need something. You know, girl stuffs."
"Er… I think I have all things I need."
"Oh. I don't know that Snape could be very sensible and supply you with these useful things." Hermione was holding girly muggle clothes and spread them out on the bed.
"Nope. It was Grandmama Kathy and Aunt Nisa."
"Who?" Ron voiced Hermione's question. They didn't know that Harry had any relatives that would treat her good.
"They are Malfoys." Harry filled them in softer tone.
"Okay." Hermione looked at Harry. "Let's finish unpacking and you could tell me from the beginning, whatever had happened. I want to know."
"OK." Harry looked a little worried but do as she was told.
For minutes they worked in silence until Hermione found the beauty case Harry got from Narcissa.
"It's so beautiful. And it has your name crafted here."
"That must be expensive." Ron moved to sit on to Harry's crowded bed.
"I don't know." Harry still had her eyes on her trunk, searching for her Prongs under piles of clothes. "Aunt Nisa gave it to me. Oh, she is Draco's mother."
"They must really love you." Hermione looked around Harry's things.
"We could try it sometimes." Harry smiled happily when she found her cuddly toy. "Aunt Nisa tought me how to use it. Although I don't really like my face coloured."
"Yeah, we could do it sometimes. It might be fun." Hermione laughed at Harry's description of makeup. "And what is that you're holding?"
"Oh, this?" Harry lifted the stag. She spent the next hour telling Hermione and Ron what she got and from who, purposely left Lucius' gift out of it.
~Ô~
19 July 2003, 11:50 am
Sorry if this came out late. I have idea for new fic called 'Call Me Mr. Potter'. And if you interesting but can't found it here at ff.net try to look at my page, 'kay? Its www.geocities.com/pokkangel. Or click at my author profile.
Thank you to you all who read and review. ^__^
To athenakitty : Will Harry change back? Probably not but it might changed, depends on the reviews. Sirius? Unfortunately you have to wait for that. (Oh, I can be evil sometimes.) Harry would want to stay with Severus and Severus love to have her around, so, yes. Harry will stay with Severus. What kind of bonding? (I thought it was clear that this is Harry and Draco fic.)
To zeynel :Thank you and good idea. But you see, knowing Draco he won't put the mark but he would write down his own comments. Just wait when Ron and Hermione find out.
To Prophetess of Hearts : Thank you. Hope you like this chapter.
To WingZero : Thank you. *grins*.
To sami_ame : Thank you for supporting me. J And thank you for your compliment. English isn't my first language.
To sariel : Yeah, I know. I'm waiting for my beta. Pity her, she have to beta from chapter 1. And I know there too many mistakes that need correction.
To Lily Evans Potter Black Lupin : Thank you. I think she will get better.
To lillie chan : Thank you. I have a beta fixing my grammar now, but I thank you if you pointed out my mistakes. (I wish to improve my English). J
To Michelle : Thanks. I was thinking to make her quiet not shy and make her enjoy the attention she got (not acting like a 5 year old girl *blush*). Anyway, hope this chapter would satisfy you. I'm planning a more interactive between Harry and the Slytherins.
To Shadow : Thank you. Keep read and review.
To Challanging_fool : I think they had known it from Harry's name. But I think they get over it very soon because Harry didn't act like a boy. Well, more of the Malfoys then. J
To Jaded Green : Thanks.
To lil : Hehe. Maybe she used to be a feminine boy? (Terrible excuse, I know).
That's all. Sorry if I miss out someone.