Chapter 6

The first thing Draco thought of when he woke up the next morning was his slip-up in front of Kris. 'I hope she doesn't tell him,' he thought. He didn't have time to brood on it, though, as Blaise pushed himself through the door.

"How many times have I told you to knock?"

"Don't be so grouchy, Dray, it's time for breakfast." Draco got out of bed to get ready, all the time thinking of how annoying it was for Blaise to be such a morning person. "Come on!"

"Oh shut up. You only want to go down so you can see Kris." Blaise opened his mouth to say something but instead smiled shyly when he couldn't think of anything.

"Just come on," he replied instead. "We don't have much time left and you know how McGonagall gets when we're late." They headed to the great hall, talking quietly about Kris and Harry, not paying attention and running into none other than the Golden Boy himself as they passed through the doors.

"Potter, what…?" He stopped as he noticed what everyone was looking at. It seemed that Kris had gotten into another verbal brawl with Snape.

"I know it was you that slipped that potion into my drink!"

"What potion!"

"The hair dye potion that just turned my hair pink!" Draco could not believe he hadn't noticed it before, and burst out laughing when he saw that Snape's hair was the brightest hot pink he had ever seen.

"I don't even know how to make that potion!" Draco stepped forward to point out an obvious fact to get Kris off.

"Proffessor?" Snape turned to Draco. "With all do respect sir, it takes a month to make that potion and Kris HAS only been here for two days." Snape looked crestfallen that he had pointed out this fact, but reluctantly agreed that Kris couldn't have done it.

"But rest assured," he continued, "when I find out who did do this, I will make sure they have detention every day for the rest of their lives!" With that, he turned and went back to the teachers' table.

"It really is a nice color on you, sir." The entire great hall burst out laughing as the ice caused by Snape was broken.

"50 points from Gryffindor and detention for a week on top of your month, Ms. Potter! I will not be made a mockery of!" Kris ignored him and turned to Draco.

"Thanks Dray."

"Don't mention it." Kris smiled and went back to her table and Draco and Blaise went to the Slytherin table.

"Malfoy must really be taking a liking to you," Harry said as they sat down to breakfast. "I've never seen him help a Gryffindor out of trouble."

"Maybe he wants to go out with you," Hermione added sheepishly. Kris laughed.

"No, he's got his eyes set on someone else."

"Who?" Ron asked quickly, hoping to get something on him.

"Sorry Ron, no can tell. I promised. And besides, he's not really my type."

"What is your type?" Harry asked.

"Blaise. He's really hot!"

Over the next few days, Lin, Drake, and Kris settled into their new classes and continued studying as much as they could, Kris especially since she also had detention with Snape to deal with. He even had the audacity on her first detention to make her write a thousand word essay on why she was wrong. She wrote it of course, her first line stating 'I do not believe what I did was wrong.' Snape wasn't pleased.

When Friday came, Kris woke up excited. Tonight was the party with Slytherin. She spent the whole day wondering whether it would be as exciting as she thought and if the other Slytherins were as cool with her as Draco and Blaise were.

That afternoon in potions, Draco took her aside to talk.

"The password is Chappell," he told her quietly. "Just come right over after detention.

"And you're sure you don't want me to bring Harry?" He glared as she giggled, but both were interrupted.

"50 points from Gryffindor for distracting Malfoy from his work!" they heard Snape scream. Kris was about to walk away when Draco grabbed her arm.

"On second thought, Kris, bring Drake, Lin, and the Golden Trio with you tonight. And tell them to pack an overnight cause you probably won't be going back to your dorm."

"20 more points for not listening to me the first time!"

"What do you mean by that?" she asked slyly, ignoring Snape.

"You'll see."

"Miss Potter, did you not hear me!"

"Yes I heard you, you point nazi! I'll get back to work!" Snape was shaking with anger as she walked back to Harry, whom she was partnered with.

"100 more points for speaking out of line," Snape said menacingly. Kris was about to tell him exactly where he could shove those points when Harry kindly reminded her that if she didn't shut up, Snape would give her even more detentions. She shut up.

The rest of the day went by pretty quickly. Kris still had yet to ask Harry and the others if they were going to the party that night. She caught up with Harry on the way to dinner.

"Harry, wait up!" Kris screamed. Harry stopped and turned around.

"What's going on?"

"I was wondering something. I was talking to Draco this morning in Potions, as you must have noticed, and he told me to bring you, Ron, and Hermione to the Slytherin party tonight. So what do you say, are you up to it?" Harry looked pretty green at the mere thought of going to the Slytherin party.

"He invited us? Why would he do that? He hates us!"

"It's one of these new things to promote inner-house relations. At least that's what we're telling Snape if we get caught." The thought of getting caught by Snape made Harry get even greener than Kris thought possible. For a moment she thought he was going to pass out but ended up just shaking his head violently no. "Come on, where's that Gryffindor courage I hear so much about?"

"I am not going to risk getting filleted by Snape just to get piss ass drunk before making a complete fool of myself at a SLYTHERIN party!" Kris tried another approach.

"Please Harry!" She looked at him with big sapphire blue eyes. " I don't want to go down there alone but I really want to see Blaise cause I have the biggest crush on him." Harry looked at her with his mouth pursed for a total of 45 seconds. Kris thought he was going to say no again until she finally heard "Fine, but if we get caught by Snape, you put me under a very powerful imperius."

"Yay! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Kris screamed while jumping up and down and hugging Harry. They walked the rest of the way to the great hall, Kris looking like her birthday had come early and Harry looking like he just found out he was going to be killed that night. 'That's exactly what's going to happen tonight should Snape crash the party' Harry thought.

"You look like you've seen a ghost, Harry," Hermione stated when we walked up to the Gryffindor table. Everyone within earshot minus Seamus and Dean stopped talking and looked at her with incredulous stares. "It's a muggle expression!" she continued, exasperated. "It means that Harry looks frightened about something."

"What would Harry be frightened about?" Ron asked Hermione, looking at Harry. Harry answered him.

"Kris talked me into going to the Slytherin party tonight." Everyone fell into complete silence at this proclamation. He looked at Ron and Hermione. "You two have to come with me." That broke Ron out of his stupor.

"Bloody hell, Harry! Are you kidding me! We can't go to the Slytherin party! We'll be killed!"

"Why would we be invited?" Hermione asked, looking at Kris.

"Draco wants to promote inner-house unity and what better way to do that than to invite Slytherin's worst enemies?" Hermione looked contemplative for a moment.

"I think we should go," she finally said. "As much as I hate to say it, Draco has the right idea and I think we should try to make it work." Ron looked godsmacked, but knew better than to argue with Hermione. He got up.

"Please excuse me while I go write out my will."

"I'll join you," Harry said.

"One more thing guys," Kris stated before they reached the door. They turned back to her. "Draco said to pack an overnight bag cause you probably won't get back to the tower tonight." With that said Kris ran to the other side of the long table before the mash potatoes could hit her.