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Chapter 6

Strange Feelings

The blonde boy opened his eyes. He quickly straightened himself and his gray eyes locked with emerald orbs. He automatically reacted pushing himself backwards, but the girl kept staring at him. Her voice came raspy as she had developed a sore throat: "You... saved me. Why?"

"I didn't save you... I saved 'them'... from getting expelled and arrested... for murder... Potter! Put on some clothes!", Draco had been making up an excuse for having saved his nemesis, but had noticed that Larissa, wearing nothing, was calmly kneeling on the floor.

"Why? Why should I cover myself? You know who I am..."

"Because you are a bloody girl and you are naked!"

Larissa yawned and then stuck her tongue out at Draco: "I thought you were perfectly aware that I am Harry Potter, and thus, a boy by all means."

"Not now you aren't! You have boobs! See?" Draco actually placed his hands on Larissa's breasts and found himself squeezing the pack a bit. "So soft... and squeezable..." The blonde reddened as he registered what he had just said.

Larissa gave Draco a curious glance: "You do know that you are acting like a pervert, right?"

"I am not a pervert!"

"Okay then, I will decide that you are not a pervert if you get into your head that I am not really a girl."

"That is impossible, Potter! How do you expect me to do that?"

"Well, first of all, by stopping what you are doing to my chest."

Draco stopped and stepped back, while Sa looked at the boy curiously and got into a crawling position in front of the blonde Slytherin.

Draco stared at her, enthralled, and then he spoke very seriously: "Potter... if you don't cover yourself I might do something stupid. I'm a man, you know... And right now you have a girl's body. That is a fact."

Sa laughed: "What kind of stupid thing would you do?"

Draco got angry: "Are you taunting me, Potter? I might attack you. I might even rape you and no one will come to your rescue as we are well hidden! Is that what you want to hear?"

Larissa understood and quickly covered her body with the blankets, but her naked image was still torturing the blonde boy in his mind. The way she had been in that crawling position had been too much and he couldn't stand the heat between his legs. "I'm already aroused, Potter."

"You cannot possibly mean that, Malfoy! You cannot like me like that! I am not a real girl! You know that!"

"I DON'T CARE RIGHT NOW!"

Draco stood and walked to where the raven-haired girl was. She looked at him confused, but he soon lowered himself in front of her and without any warning locked his lips with hers. At first, she tried to fight it, but he grabbed her arms and forced her to the floor. She could feel his hardened member against her body through the blankets, and a strange sensation crept through her. She could feel her body actually reacting to the kiss, but bit him, causing him to yelp in pain.

"Sorry Malfoy, but no way!" Larissa kneed him, but not too hard, where she knew it would hurt, she quickly grabbed her wand, which was between her clothes, summoned the clothes to dress her, and ran to the door. She then looked back at the boy and took a deep breath before speaking: "I'm sorry about that. Hope I didn't hit you too hard. I wanted to say... Thanks... for saving my life out there. I do want to talk, but later, when you are more in control of your senses."

Draco made a gesture for her to leave, understanding what the girl had said to him, and with that, Sa closed the door.

XxXxX

Sa was quickening her pace towards Gryffindor Tower when a teacher stopped her. The Faculty meeting was obviously over. "Mr. Potter! Exactly the student I wanted to see!"

Larissa was startled, but gave a fake smile. "Prof. McDowell! You do know you shouldn't address me by that name in the middle of a corridor, right? And what's that about wanting to see me?"

"Sorry, Miss McGonagall." The man winked at her making her want to retch in repulse. "It's about breaking that curse! Come to my office as I want to try something on you!"

The girl started to shake her head from side to side and looked scared, but as if he hadn't noticed, Ralphus grabbed her by her left arm and started escorting her through corridors to his office.

"Here we are! Please close the door, Mr. Potter." Larissa obeyed and looked at the teacher. "Now, I am going to use this spell I have recently found out about to see if it works."

Larissa imagined herself being turned into a chair, a ladybug, or even a weasel. Being a girl was at least human... The teacher was already pointing at her with his wand when she stopped him: "Sir! First of all, err... I want to see a demonstration."

Ralphus looked at her curiously. "What kind of demonstration, Mr. Potter?"

Sa cleared her throat. "Can you transfigure this cup that's here on your desk into a butterfly?" Ralphus smiled and easily did as told. The cup was a yellow butterfly flying through the room. "Sir, that day when we practiced Patronuses, you never showed us yours. Can you really do one?"

Sa noticed the teacher reddening a bit, but the man smiled nodding: "Very well, Mr. Potter. I will show you my Patronus, but this will not leave this room, alright?" Harry nodded. "Expecto Patronum!" A tiny fluffy silver bunny came out of Ralphus' wand, but soon grew quite a lot and the fluff was floating throughout the office. Harry covered his mouth trying to stifle laughter, but couldn't hold it. He removed his hands and was laughing hysterically. "Why do people always react the same way when they see my Patronus? You already promised, Mr. Potter." The girl that was Harry nodded, still laughing. "Now, to the spell I wanted to try." Ralphus was pointing at Larissa again and just as he was about to start chanting, the door opened.

"Ralphus! I needed you to... What are you doing to Mr. Potter?"

"Hi auntie!"

"Very funny, Potter. Ralphus?"

"I was just trying to break the curse, Minerva!"

"Let me see that!" McGonagall quickly took the parchment Ralphus was reading from and smiled. "Albus already thought of this, Ralphus. I don't think it will work. You can try though."

Ralphus concentrated on the chant and a yellow sparkling steam came out of his wand and entered Larissa's body, but nothing happened. Larissa wondered if she would have changed by morning, but then she thought it couldn't be this easy. The magic was simply not strong enough.

"We can wait until tomorrow, but Albus has already rejected that spell. That spell would have worked if the transformation hadn't been too perfect. Potter, you may go now. Ralphus?"

Larissa gave a last glance to their teachers and left the room. Just then, a hand touched her back and she jumped looking back. "Malfoy! You almost gave me a heart attack!"

"What were you doing in there with that guy?"

Sa was definitely alarmed. "What do you mean by that?"

Draco took Larissa's hand and escorted her to an empty classroom, locked it, and placed silencing charms. "What did he do to you?"

"He was trying to break your curse!"

Draco was thoughtful for a second and then spoke: "He won't be able to break it. Snape already has the book I got the spell from, has had it for a while, and hasn't figured anything out. That amateur cannot even kiss Snape's shoes."

"You don't have to be so arrogant, Malfoy. He was just trying. Look, about... You know..." The girl sighed. "What really made you save me? Why have you been helping me in Potions for goodness sake?"

Draco was very silent. He couldn't answer those questions.

"Malfoy?"

"Look Potter, I... Just leave it, okay?" Malfoy was going to leave, but Sa stopped him.

"What about that kiss? What was that?"

Draco sneered: "You enjoyed it?"

Sa found herself turning involuntarily crimson and Draco's eyes glinted as he saw the chance to have power over the other one. "I... How can you even say..."

The blonde's lips were on hers again and Sa found herself responding quite enthusiastically to the feelings that were overpowering her. She couldn't repress the feelings and Draco was the one to break it. Power was something Draco enjoyed and with that power, he could indirectly state what he wanted without really having to confess his inner feelings. The power would simply intimidate. He whispered in Sa's ear: "Mark my words, Miss McGonagall. I'll make you mine."

Emerald orbs opened wide, but the girl was able to answer: "Are you mad, Malfoy? I am not..."

The boy quieted the girl with a hand gesture and smirked: "Scared, Potter?"

Larissa glared: "I would never be scared of you!"

"Then you won't be scared of me taking you?"

"You wouldn't dare!"

"You are scared, Potter."

"And you are sick, Malfoy!"

Larissa was going to leave, but Draco grabbed her by the waist and spoke in an honest whisper this time: "I like you. I really do." The girl closed her eyes relishing in the whispered words. The arms embraced her even more, but she was confused.

"Malfoy... This is wrong. I'll go back to being a guy, you know? What will you feel then? How will you feel then? Will your feelings stay the same as they are now? I'm glad you are being honest and that is definitely a good reason why you would save my life, but..."

"You always smell like raspberries. I've noticed in Potions..."

Sa controlled the urge to laugh. Tonks had bought her the same stuff Hermione used so Hermione had to smell the same, but Malfoy would have never fallen for that girl because she was Muggleborn. "You've been smelling me in Potions?" Sa raised an eyebrow.

Draco started to kiss her on the neck and Sa closed her eyes again feeling weak. She almost wanted to curse herself. Was that feeling like a girl? A sensation of wanting more was starting to creep through her and she stopped Draco. "What?" he asked.

"We'll talk about this later. I... I really have to go."

Draco saw the girl leave, but he wasn't sad, and he didn't regret seeing her leave. He actually managed to smile as the girl was obviously weakening. He didn't care that it was Potter anymore. He only knew that he wanted that girl badly.

XxXxX

Larissa arrived in the Gryffindor common room and soon found herself telling her two best friends about what a group of Slytherins had tried against her, but Hermione knew Sa was omitting an important detail. "Ha, Larissa... Okay, so they tried to murder you as there is no other word for that, but you simply walked back into the castle?"

Ron tried to think of an answer: "You levitated yourself or something?"

Sa shook her head. "Malfoy saved my life."

There was a sepulchral silence between the three and Ron was gaping in horror, but Hermione smirked. "I knew it."

"Hermione, you look like Snape."

"Oh please, Ron!"

"What did you know, Hermione?" Sa had been taken aback by the bushy haired girl.

"Nothing, but at least we know that Malfoy won't be bothering you for a while and that's the important thing."

Ron and Larissa looked at each other and then sighed at the enigma that was Hermione Granger.

Author's Notes: In case someone is wondering. No. McDowell's spell did not work.

Thanks to Menecarkawan for beta-reading.

Additional thanks to:

smiles002: You made me blush...

hpfan0055: So desperate! lol

Shadow Eclipse

Lily-Rose DeMarco