Body Switch
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot.
Author: This is the second chapter, I hope you like it, and it's dedicated to A Nona Mouse on ArtisticAlley. Hope you get better soon. Again, please review.
Once the two were out of the great hall, Pansy drew herself up to Hermiones full height and said:
"Give me back my body, Right now!"
"Believe me Parkinson, I would if I could, but I can't. If you want to be of any help, follow me."
"Where are we going?" Pansy snapped as her body began to walk away.
"Library!"
Hermione sat down heavily in the chair at the trios' usual table in the library.
"Hey! Be careful with that!" Pansy screeched in Hermiones voice.
"Only if you stop screeching like that with my voice. Geez, I didn't even know my voice was capable of such things."
She immediately got up again and began looking through the potions section of the Library. She took several books off the shelves including Advanced Potions, Solutions to Magical catastrophes using Potions, What to do when your body's on a rampage around the world without you, and Moste Potente Potions.
She set the pile of books on the table and took a book off the top of the pile. She began clumsily flicking through it. She found herself wanting her long slender fingers back; because Pansy's short Stubby ones were making it hard to do what she wanted to.
Not one of the tomes contained what she wanted, so she decided to go to her most favorite teacher and see if she could get into the restricted section.
The two made their way through the halls to Professor McGonagall's office and Hermione knocked on the door.
It opened to the frazzled looking professor but her expression turned from one of urgency and panic to one of confusion.
"Parkinson? What are you doing here?" She said quietly.
'Oh gosh… I forgot… I'm not in my body' Hermione thought as she tried to come up with a reason.
"Erm… I wanted to know if I could have your permission to get into the restricted section of the library."
"Shouldn't you talk to professor Snape bout this?"
"Erm, I tried to find him, but he wasn't anywhere to be seen."
Hermione could have sworn that McGonagall blushed and looked around behind her, and that she heard a manly cough from inside the office.
"Well, yes, I suppose I can get you into the restricted section, but just this once, this is a job for your house Teacher."
She signed the piece of parchment and the girls ran back to the library. Madam Pince let them in begrudgingly and they immediately began their search for books.
"Look, this will be a lot quicker if e do different jobs. You go look in the charms section." Hermione ordered and watched herself stomp away, muttering incoherently.
Hermione again took a pile of books to a table near the only window in the restricted section and began to flick through them.
Concoctions and Cures had nothing but a useful recipe for a shield Potion which she copied out and shoved in her pocket.
Journeys through Dark Magic and Potions had nothing nor did Browns Guide to Advanced Potions, Opal and Ruby Dark Magic and Potions, Finellus' Theory or The Ultimate Guide to Everyday Potions You Need To Know And A Few You Could Do Without.
But Hermione was surprised when she opened to page 237 of Full Moon and Moonshine. The potion was called: Body Swap and the caption read: When someone doesn't understand you, put them in your shoes for three days, and see how they cope, then you can make their body do horrendously horrid things to get them in trouble.
"Pansy?" Hermione called.
Pansy appeared around the corner staggering under the weight of ten or eleven books from the charms section.
"Yes?" She snapped.
"I think I've found something, but if you're going to be like that, I'll tear the page out and eat it… Being in your body could be fun, you know, turn all your friends against you and that horrendous boyfriend is a bit of a turn-off…" Hermione trailed off.
"Okay! I get it, I'll be helpful… I promise."
The girls were happy to find out that the ingredients were very east to find and they could easily get them from the student store room. The one bad thing about the potion and how it had to be brewed was that it has to be left to boil for three months.
"I guess I'm stuck like this for a while then… " Pansy sighed.
"YOU? WHAT ABOUT ME? I'm not the ugly one." Hermione muttered the last part to herself before going off to the Eye of Newt and spiders legs from the potions store cupboard.