Disclaimer: I think everyone already knows that Harry Potter does NOT belong to me...enough said.

AN: I am sooooooooooooooo, soooooooooooooooo, sooooooooo sorry! I know it's been a long time and I think I've lost people (that I've never had...(.;;)) but for everyone who is following this fic, I swear that it will be finished. Eventually. I hope.

Chapter 6

So far, Operation Get-Harry-And-Malfoy-Together (aka Get-Draco-To-FINALLY-Admit-His-Repressed-Feelings-For-The-Bloody-Boy-Who-Wouldn't-Die) was a complete failure. Blaise was practically growling as she reviewed the events of the day.

-Potions Lab-

The boys and girls sat in the Potions Lab glaring at each other, the boys enraged at the underhandedness of the girls in pulling the first prank. Yet, they WILL get EVEN! This was the one time that Slytherin and Gryffindor seemed to be getting along. Blaise couldn't help but wonder if Hell has frozen over yet. 'If an irate Devil was going to be after them, it'll completely ruin everything!' was all she could think. Everyone started when the door slammed open and Severus stormed in, his robes flaring around him. He had been dreading this class because it will force him to play nice to "the insufferable Potter and Weasley duo." Yet, for the sake of men everywhere, he shall do it. He shall award points (gasp!) to...Potter. Even if (and it probably will) it kills him.

"Listen up. I shall be placing you in groups to complete this next potion. Whichever pair wins first, will receive 30 points to his side. What Miss Granger?" He barked glaring at the girl since she had her hand raised. Hermione was a bit intimidated but didn't let that affect her.

"Don't you mean her side?" she asked bravely. "Or at least their side. There's gender inequality when you automatically assume that a male pair will win." Severus sneered at her before returning to his list.

"Fine Miss Granger. Their side. Happy now? Back to the pairings! And don't interrupt me again unless you want to loose 15 points from the Girls." Severus snarled. "Weasley and Goyle. Crabbe and Nott. Granger and Patil. Brown and Parkinson. Thomas and Finnegan. Longbottom and Worthington. Potter and Malfoy. Zabini and McDougal." He listed all of the pairings, determined to get this over with. "Today we are to make a simple Attraction potion that is sold in stores for blithering idiots who can't ask a person out normally. Instead, she has to rely on the Attraction potion to catch a man." At this, Hermione looked murderous at how Snape was being so biased--and this timefavoring the boys! "Now get to work!"

Harry was quite delighted, though he tried not to show it, that he had Draco as a partner. He didn't know why he couldn't tell the beautiful blond but any moment he had with him was heaven. "So Draco. Shall I get the ingredients then?" he asked rather shyly. Draco stared at him, a bit confused as to how Potter was acting, and just nodded. Draco assumed that Potter wanted to win the competition and that's why there's an unannounced truce going on. Harry beamed before heading towards the cupboard to gather the ingredients needed to make the potion.

Blaise watched the proceedings with great interest, barely noticing that Morag, her partner, was creating the wrong potion. But that didn't matter to her. After all, the interaction between Draco and Potter was far more important than making an Attraction Potion. Unknown to her, Hermione was plotting to disrupt Harry and Malfoy's potion. Everyone knew that Malfoy was an undisputed master at Potions making and she was determined that they did not finish it. Hermione's Slytherin side, one hidden quite deep for shame of being found out, was emerging and it was not boding well for the boys. The two boys seemed to be getting quite well as they worked on the Attraction Potion, actually having a pleasant conversation, when Hermione sidled her way up to their cauldron and tossed in some ground fairy wings. Of course, adding ground fairy wings before the pixie dust was a big no-no so the cauldron went BOOM! and showered the surrounding people with goop. Unfortunately, the goop was a bright pink and stained whatever it touched. And again, unfortunately Snape was in the vicinity when it went BOOM!.

"POTTER! WHAT DID YOU DO NOW!" came the bellow from the enraged Potions Master. Harry was confused as to what happened. He had been following the directions from Draco quite diligently.

"Um, I don't know Professor. I followed the instructions," Harry said defensively. Before he could get blasted by Severus and slapped with a month's worth of detention, Hermione gave a delighted shriek as her potion turned a delicate pink and puffed out a pink smoke heart.

"I believe Professor that we finished first," she said smugly. He was not happy but he couldn't go back on his word. And he thought awarding points to Potter would be gruesome. This was 1000000000000000000000x worse.

"Thirty points to the Girls," he said grudgingly. He was not happy that they won. After all, the boys side was supposed to show them who's boss. Instead, they're sitting around with donkey tails and ears, painted a bright pink. Draco was beyond angry. He glared at the hapless Harry and was quite close to attacking him.

"You idiot! You put in the ground fairy wings before you put in the pixie dust!" he snarled. "Now look what you did! My hair is pink! PINK! I HATE pink! My beautiful hair is PINK!" Harry could only watch dejectedly as Draco stormed away, furious at the Boy-Who-Lived. Blaise winced in sympathy even as she was rolling around the ground laughing at the bright pink boys. She then noticed the cat-got-the-canary smile on Granger's face and guessed what happened.

"Well, well, well Granger. Didn't know you had it in you." Was all she could say at the victorious girl. "But, you ruined part one of Operation Get-Harry-And-Malfoy-Together (aka Get-Draco-To-FINALLY-Admit-His-Repressed-Feelings-For-The-Bloody-Boy-Who-Wouldn't-Die). At least there will be part two!" She beamed and bounced away to the Great Hall for lunch. Sadly, part two, three, four, and five would all be fruitless as Draco was still very angry at Harry and would stay angry all day long. So none of the parts were put into action. After all, it is rather difficult to initiate her plan when one person was missing from the equation.

"I blame Granger." Was all she said as she glared at the fire. The fire couldn't help but quiver in fear at the thought of being the focus of all that anger. "It's her fault Draco's mad and he'll stay mad for a bit. Doesn't anyone know that Draco can hold grudges like no other! And he's putting his avoidance technique into action!" She huffed and went back to glaring into the fire. "Stupid Granger and her stupid idea. Now they'll never get together!" came the wail.

-in the Boys side-

Harry was sitting by the fireplace as he stared forlornly at the flames. The boys had finally managed, all to the efforts of Terry Boot, to get the donkey ears and tails off them but that didn't matter to Harry. Unfortunately, they were still pink and would remain pink for a couple of days. But Harry didn't notice. Oh no, he was too depressed at how he managed to get Draco mad at him again. And things had been going so well during Potions! But after that incident, Draco had avoided him like crazy. "He hates me Ron." was all he could say. Ron just grunted, distracted by his chess pieces and his 'plan'.

"Buck up mate," Seamus said, consolingly. "I'm sure he'll come around. After all, it wasn't your fault. It was Hermione's. And I'm sure he'll forgive you when he finds out. At least you still have dinner so you could work things out. After all, he can't avoid you there." Seamus felt rather bad for Harry. Ron was too into getting revenge against the Girls, Dean was too busy wondering how his relationship with Ginny would fare after all this, and Neville was moping because Trevor was missing again. No one was able to help Harry except for him. Before he could suggest a plan of attack, he was interrupted by the jubilant bellow of a happy Ron.

"I got it! I have the perfect plan to get back at those Harpies! Now all we have to do is put it into motion!" Ron yelled excitedly. "Gather around all of you. This is what we're going to do..."

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