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The majority of Hogwarts were woken up by a loud, unmanly shriek of "Granger!"

The small minority that were not woken up by that shriek were woken up by the one that followed, a high pitched scream. The teachers, knowing at once the people shrieking had to be Hermione and Draco trying to kill each other, made their way as fast as possible to their rooms, what they saw in Hermione's room, apart from Draco trying to kill her, horrified them.

Draco Malfoy stood in front of them physically unchanged, his cheekbones still high, his height still past six-foot, but, his skin was no longer pale, and his hair was no longer fair, instead his hair was pitch black, and his face was drenched in soft, muted shades of black and dark grey, his eyes though were the same colour, but the thing that made the teachers gasp was the pure white streak that ran down the right side of his face, it was blinding white and none of the teachers could look at it for too long.

Hermione on the other hand, had a face in soft shades of white and cream, her hair was the pure, blinding white colour of Malfoy's streak, she too had a streak going down the right side of her face, but hers was black, pitch black.

The teachers gaped at them for a few seconds then tried to stop Malfoy from killing Hermione.

"Look what she's done to me, just look, I'm ruined, I'm never going to be able to hold my head up in public again. I. WANT. TO. KILL. HER!."

"It wasn't supposed to work like this," Hermione cried, "It wasn't supposed to alter me!"

"I know," Malfoy said with a smirk as he looked at her through half closed eyes, not being able to look at her properly because of her hair, "I have a spell on me, if anyone curses me, the curse affects them too."

"But why would have such a stupid spell on you?"

"Because," Malfoy said grinning at her, "Revenge would never be so sweet."

"But..." Hermione cried,

"That isn't the worst of it..." Draco finished,

"We can hear each others thoughts!" They shouted together.

"You don't know how painful it is listening to her think, her mind is always on the go, she's doing it now, for God's sake STOP THINKING!"

"You think I want to know which girls you think are hot and the ones you think are not!"

"Headmaster, please tell me you can fix this." Professor McGonagall said looking distressed.

"Of course I can. Hermione can you give me the spell you used on Draco?" Dumbledore said with a smile.

Hermione said the spell quietly, "I picked it up from a book I was looking at for potions." She lied. "I changed it slightly because it was meant to be used on your soul mate to check that he was who he said he was, and me and Malfoy are so NOT soul mates!" She said blushing slightly.

"Now, I can tell you why you can hear Mister Malfoy's thoughts, because instead of 'show me all he seeks to hide,' you said 'TELL me all he seeks to hide.' Thankfully, I can change that in a moment. I want you and Draco to sit opposite each other and look at each other, just for a second, without speaking or fighting, that should stop the sharing of your thoughts.

After a great deal of protest they eventually complied and followed Dumbledore's instructions. Hermione looked into Draco's eyes, rather scared that she could see nothing in their silver depths, that can't be right, everyone has something in their eyes, pain... happiness... anger... something.

I can hear what you're thinking, and just 'cause you can't see anything in my eyes doesn't mean there's nothing there, anyway, I thought you hated me. Slightly disturbed at the intensity Hermione was looking at him with, Malfoy returnsed the gaze, hoping to make her squirm, she didn't, It's like she can see what's under my skin. She's got muggle X-ray eyes!

Just then in that second she saw everything, everything he tried successfully to hide from everyone, his past. She saw him as a little boy, being bullied into doing things he didn't want to do by his father, she saw him two years ago discover his father had had his mother under the imperius curse for years, and that she could do very little for herself without his father telling her what to do. Then she saw why he had changed over the summer holiday, he now longer lived with his father, his father was now in Azkaban serving his time for killing his mother, trying again and again to break free.

Malfoy, on the other hand was seeing all the things Hermione tried to hide, fear that she didn't even know she had, her fear for Harry and her worries on how he was coping without Sirius, her fear of being left out by Ron and Harry, her fears about not being good enough, not being clever enough. He saw her memories of her last school and how she had been bullied for being smart.

Then the images flashing through their eyes stopped and they could no longer hear the other's thoughts.

What has she seen? When he saw her eyes he knew exactly what she had seen, his past. He refused to react to that discovery,

"I had a really fun past." He said sarcastically, enjoying looking at the confusion in her eyes, "When will I be back to normal?" He asked Dumbledore.

"Just after I've said the counter-curse. 'Aspectus commutatus'"

At once their appearances changed back to normal, the teachers left, all rather shocked,except for Snape and Dumbledore.

"Headmaster I really must protest, Granger needs at least three weeks of detention with me, she could have severely mentally scarred Mister Malfoy forever, he might not have been able to turn back, she has to be punished!"

"I think Miss Granger has been punished enough by her own spell, go now, both of you."

They left without talking, and went into their own rooms to think about what they had just learnt about the other.