Body Switch
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Author: Chapter four! Man I love writing this story. Now a new character will start to come into the plot a bit more now. Her name is Trish and she's dedicated to my good friend who is coincidentally called Trish. So yes. If you read the word Trish anywhere or the story talks about her… that's her… This whole chapter is from Pansy's POV and has a big impact on the story… please read and review as always and no flames… although I could use a bit of warmth… 'Tis quite cold in Australia right now… but enough of my pointless ramblings… On with le story!
Pansy had heard what Hermione had done for her and she was confused as to why she had been so nice, after all, Hermione and Pansy hardly knew each other. She had also been quite rude to Hermione in her body. She assumed she was just being moody because she wasn't used to being so pretty. She loved the thinner body as opposed to her pudgy old body. That one was ugly and gross but she didn't care. In a way she still missed it.
She maneuvered her way through the crowds to Gryffindor tower. She had survived her second day at Gryffindor lessons. The first had been somewhat of a blur.
She sat down on the couch by the fireplace, and almost immediately Harry Potter came to sit down next to her.
"Hi Hermione, How's it going?" He asked, looking at her intensely… and she wondered if he always looked at Hermione this way. If so, she was very jealous.
"It's alright… I guess." Pansy answered honestly.
"Only alright… is something wrong?"
"Kind of, yeah… I just don't feel like myself at all."
Harry nodded and she doubted that he understood that she meant it literally.
"Anything I can do?" He asked.
'Only if you know where I can find a body switching potion… oh, that reminds me, its time too stir it again!' she thought to herself but she said: "Erm… no, thanks anyway, Harry." She gave him a kiss on the forehead and ran to the bathroom where she met Hermione.
"Hi Pansy… seen Harry?" Hermione said sadly.
"Yes, I just had a quick chat to him in the common room."
"About what?" Hermione replied absent-mindedly, while making her way to where the potion was bubbling.
"He asked me if I was alright… I said I didn't feel like myself." Both girls laughed and both noted that they were interacting like real friends, laughing and talking civilly.
"Give him a kiss for me when you see him next okay?"
"I did, on the forehead."
"No, Pansy, a real kiss, one that will make him believe that I love him more than anything. Just don't go falling in love with him." Hermione smiled warmly.
"You really love him don't you?"
"Yeah, I do. It's so upsetting, that I can't talk to him until this potions finished… or else he'll think that you're crazy."
"Tell him."
"What are you on about?"
"Tell him, that we're switched bodies."
"He'd be very scared…"
"Forget it then, it was a dumb idea… could you tell Draco something for me though?"
"Sure… what is it?"
"Tell him that I saw him with Trish-"
"Trish?"
"Seventh year… she's in love with him. Its pathetic really"
"Oh, I see…"
"Anyway, tell him I saw him with Trish and that maybe he should rethink our relationship."
"Alright then."
Both girls got up, they had to go to dinner now and they couldn't be late or seen walking in together. Hermione left first and Pansy followed two minutes later.
After both girls were gone, Trish came out from the end cubicle in the row, exactly opposite to the one the potion was in. She wore her Slytherin robes and had long dark hair, with clever dark eyes. She approached the cauldron apprehensively, as if it would jump out and bite her if she made a wrong move. She looked inside and smiled slightly.
"Pathetic am I?" She muttered to herself, "I'll show them who's pathetic!"
She searched through the pockets of her robe and found some sugar cubes she was going to feed to the unicorns, but hadn't yet gotten a chance due to her detention from Professor Flitwick.
She leaned over the bubbling cauldron and dropped three of the small white cubes into the thick blue liquid.
It fizzed and turned the colour of tar. Trish raced down to dinner and arrived at the Slytherin table to see Hermione and Draco Malfoy kissing, and when she looked across at the Gryffindor table she saw Pansy leaning on Harry Potter.
Ah… revenge was going to be sweet!
Authors Note: I didn't really mean for Trish to be so mean, she was going to befriend the girls and help them with her formidable potions ability… so sorry Trish! This is no reflection on your personality! Hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I hope you will review… Please review?