Summary: Harry is suddenly acting very weird – in both universes. Yeah, you guessed it. This is a parallell universe-fic, and the two Potters are switched, causing a lot of confusion, especially for Harry Potter himself.

Genre: Romance/AU – Rating: PG

Warning: apart from the AU and slight OOC, nothing major. This is obviously slash, but nothing graphic I think. At least not so far.

Pairing: Harry/Draco (also Hermoine/Ron, Ginny/Neville, Sirius/Remus, Narcissa/Lucius – but only in the background)

Change of Reality

Part Eight – But I'm in Slytherin!

Snape's lip curled and he drew a slow breath, just about to speak, when they were interrupted by the sound of footsteps. Both of them looked up, Snape turning attentively toward the corner which he'd rounded himself not a minute ago, just in time to see Draco Malfoy appear from behind it.

"Professor!-" the blonde called, he looked flustered even though his pale complexion remained immaculate, but he sounded out of breath and had a wild look about him. He stopped dead in his tracks, and fell silent immedialtely though as he spotted Harry Potter sitting on the ground next to the Slytherin Common Room Entrance, and his eyes widened further still.

"Draco?" Professor Snape murmured smoothly, eyeing his pet student passively, regretting not having had the chance to tell Potter off.

"You!" Draco said as he stared at Harry, all but taking a step back, "Again!"

"Draco, will you be so kind as to inform me what...-"

"Professor, I swear Potter's stalking me!" Draco frantically cried, cutting the Potion Master off mid-sentence, something that made the older man scowl, but the circumstances forced him to put aside his displeasure and focus on what the young Malfoy was saying.

"He's been acting wierd ever since he got on the train! He tried to molest me, I swear!"

"Oh, Shut your face, Draco, you pathetic dramaqueen!" Harry snapped, startling both Slytherins, "I don't know what's happened to spring this on, but at least cut the dramatics and be mature about it! What did you do, lose your heart over the holidays, what's wrong with you!"

"Wha... Me?" Draco spluttered.

Snape stifled a sigh and rolled his eyes, "Okay that's enough" he hissed, "You, Potter, will remove your sorry self from my dungeon at this very instant and go see Madamde Pomfrey. You, Draco, will come to the Great Hall with me and have supper with your housemates after the Sorting is done...-"

"Severus!" Harry objected, "Don't tell me you're on his side in all of this!"

"I, as an Hogwarts Professor, Mr Potter, am on nobody's side in trivial disputes between students such as yourself, but if I were to be, rest assured it would not be yours..."

"Wha, what have I, I don't understand!"

"How brave of you to finally admit it, now get up from the floor and pull yourself together, before I am compelled to remove points from your House for trespassing..."

"Trespassing! My Common Room's down here, how will I get to my dormitory if I can't be in the dungeon!" Harry demanded. As long as he was angry, he didn't feel like crying, and as long as he was talking to Severus, he didn't have to look at Draco. That's why, when any other student would have flinched at the glare the Potion Master sent him, Harry only stared back in defiance.

"Your... Common Room... Mr Potter... Is in the Gryffindor Tower, as it has always been..." Snape murmured extra slowly, with that silkily exaggerated clarity that always made student blush with embaressment at their own supposed stupidity, a voice he never hesitated to use when addressing Neville Longbottom for example. Harry however was so geniuinely confused now that he didn't realize he should feel embaressed.

"Gryffindor? But Sev– I mean Sir, Professor– I'm in Slytherin!"

TBC

A/N: Yes I know it's short. So shoot me! – No please don't, I was only joking! I'll make it up to you, I'll make next chapter long as all hell, I promise! meep