Façade
By DracosDragon969
Summary: Ron meets a girl in Diagon Alley before he returns to Hogwarts for his final year. Who's the girl? Why the one and only Pansy Parkinson, although Ron doesn't know this. Pansy is dealing with having to lie to the one guy she wants to be with, Ron, and weather or not to receive the Dark Mark along side her best friends Draco and Blaise. The story goes through their final year at Hogwarts and deals with lies, deceit, love, and the final battle between Voldemort and Harry Potter.
Relationship Pairings: Pansy Parkinson/ Ron Weasley, Harry Potter/ Luna Lovegood, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy, and Blasie Zabini/ every girl at Hogwarts that will have him.
Rated: R (FOR A REASON PEOPLE)
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters. They all belong to J. K. Rowling.
Please Read and Review my fan fiction I would appreciate it... Plus it gives me the inspiration I need to continue writing.
Chapter Six
Potions, Projects, and Partners
After waiting outside in the dungeons for entrance into his least favorite class, Ron quickly heard the door swing open and proceeded to enter the class along with his fellow Hogwarts students. The dungeon seemed even colder and mistier than the previous years and Ron was more than thankful that this would be his last year. Every time he entered the classroom he kicked himself mentally for scoring high enough to be accepted into the class, although he did realize that he needed the class to become an auror or any other decent profession he could otherwise pursue. He surveyed the room as he took his seat in the middle with Harry and Hermione, his eyes came to rest on a blonde hair Slytherin who immediately turned around to catch him starring at her. He kicked himself mentally for allowing his eyes to linger on her more than necessary.
"Is that her?" Harry whispered to Ron drawing his attention away from Pansy.
"Is who her?" He whispered to Harry.
"The girl you met in the store." Harry stated quietly as he rolled his eyes.
"Where?" Ron whispered as he surveyed the room again trying to find the raven haired girl he had met over the summer.
"There." Harry said and tossed his head in the left direction.
Ron shifted his gaze and found a short stocky girl who at the moment was currently sniffing under her armpit as if checking to see if she was fresh. Ron eyes went big and began to pray to every God he could think of that his eyes were deceiving him now and that they had not deceived him over the summer.
Muffled laughter besides him brought him back to his senses. Ron looked over to find that Harry had his mouth clamped shut in an attempt to stop himself from laughing aloud.
Ron glared at him. "And I guess you think this is bloody funny don't you?" He inquired of Harry.
Harry just nodded his head in agreement.
"Stop laughing, besides I don't think it's her anyway." Ron said with a bit of uneasiness in his voice as he stared at the girl. "The girl I met was lot taller and better looking than that."
Harry stared at Ron. He didn't believe for a moment that the short Ravenclaw girl would be Rons' mystery woman. He just thought that it would be funny to see Ron disheveled a bit before he endured the hell that was called 'Professor Snape.'
The doors at the back of the class flew open and in walked Severus Snape. He glided to the front of the classroom with his robes billowing behind him and stood to glare at the students before him.
"I am sure that you are all aware that this will be our last year together." Snape stated dryly. "Pity." His students could hear the sarcasm in his voice. "And seeing how this is a N.E.W.T. level course you will be required to do a project outside of class this semester as well as the next." He stopped to await the groans that were beginning to form around the room. "SILENCE. I will not have you bicker over assignments, you all knew what to expect so quit your whining. How some of you managed to get into this class is beyond me." Snape said in a disgusted tone as he stared at Ron and Harry.
"However, you are here now and I expect you to do this project correctly and efficiently, I will not have you imbeciles going into our world without having learned something useful in my class." Snape stared down at the mousy haired Gryffindor before him.
Ron glanced at Neville who was now visibly shaking under the gaze of the professor. Out of all the students in his class Ron could not believe that Neville was able to scrape by with an O on his O.W.L. exam, he figured the boy had only done well due to the fact that Snape was not present at the exam and therefore was not able to share his insight on how incompetent he felt Neville to be.
"With that said this semester you will be making a potion that is similar in composition to Veritaserum and offers the same result… the truth."
Hermione gasped. "Your not talking about Verdadeiraminta are you?" Hermione stated aloud with a look of horror on her face.
Snape glared at her. "The one and only Miss Granger, however you will learn that speaking out of turn in my class is not tolerated ten points from Gryffindor."
Harry and Ron both looked confused.
"Now can anyone explain, except Miss Granger, exactly what this potion is capable of if it is brewed correctly?" Snape eyes rested on the boy who had been sorted into his house last night.
"Masenfer is it?" Kai nodded his head in agreement. "Do care to enlighten us." Snape stated dryly.
Kai glanced at Pansy as if waiting to see that she was indeed paying attention and would hear his intelligent answer. However, Pansy at the moment was whispering with Draco.
"Well sir Verdadeiraminta or Truthful lie as it is more commonly called, allows the drinker to consciously articulate and execute their wants and desires to others. The drinker is forced to act as if they were without a conscious, therefore the essence the drinker reacts instead of thinking things through. The dosage of the serum will determine how far the person is willing to proceed with their said desires. However, do to the fact the drinker would not have done so under normal circumstances gives the potion its name."
"Twenty points to Slytherin, now would anyone care to give an example of how this said potion could affect someone?" Snape said.
Draco raised his hand and was immediately called on by the professor. Draco shifted in his chair so that his eyes were locked with Hermione.
"If a person had feelings for another individual, but decided to think with their mind instead of their heart." He smirked. "After taking this potion the individual would be forced to let the other person know there true feelings. Unless…" He raised his eyebrows suggestively. "This person is willing to admit their feelings on their own."
Hermione gasped and quickly turned away from Draco.
"Yes well… the potion could be used for that. However, we will be using this potion in an educational manner and will be issued within the walls of this classroom where I can see. I refuse to allow a bunch of hormonal seventh years loose with a potion that could cause more harm than good. "
Hermione and many of the other girls in the class sighed with relief.
Snape cleared his throat and looked from Draco to Hermione. "This potion will take you a month and a half to brew and I will except no mistakes." His eyes lingered on Neville. "You will have a partner in which you will be working outside of class with and sitting with during class until this potion is turned in and completed."
Many students started to whisper to one another in hopes of snagging a partner they wouldn't mind working with.
"Tisk…tisk…tisk… now what kind of potion master would I be if I allowed you all to choose your partners? I will be assigning your partner and there will be no switching unless I see fit. Do I make myself clear?" The class nodded in agreement. "After the project is complete I will ask that you evaluate each other, so I would advise you all to pull your weight." He glanced at Ron and Harry. "And believe me I will know who did and did not make an effort. Today I will allow you to get started inside of class, but from tomorrow on you will be on your own. Your partners names are on the board, begin."
Abbott- Smith
Bones- Brocklehurst
Corner -Boot
Finch-Fletchley- Longbottom
Lee -Padma Patil
Malfoy- Potter
Masenfer- Weasley
Parkinson- Granger
Turpin – Parvati Patil
Zabini- Thomas
Pansy glanced at the board to find that her partner would be none other than the virgin bookworm. She grabbed her book bag and headed for the middle of the room before Kai could try to get her attention.
"Go and get the ingredients from the cabinet, while I get started with heating the cauldron." Hermione snapped at Pansy before she could sit down. Hermione could not believe that she would have to work with someone so incompetent.
Pansy quickly took her seat and removed her school robes so as none of the ingredients would stain. She looked at Hermione with the utmost loathing and crossed her arms.
"Didn't you hear me? I said get up and get the ingredients." Hermione said with irritation in her voice.
"Granger let's get one thing straight, I am not an animal, if you want me to get the ingredients you will ask me nicely." Pansy smirked.
Hermione was furious she couldn't believe Pansy Parkinson was giving her manner lessons. Hermione quickly got up and grabbed their items from the cabinet and Pansy stood up to help retrieve the items out of her hand before any of them fell.
Hermione gasped as she took in Pansy's uniform. "What the hell are you wearing?" She whispered quietly through clenched teeth.
Pansy glanced down at her outfit. "If I'm not mistaken a school uniform, Granger." Pansy quickly began to dice the parsley.
"I know what the school dress code is Parkinson and that is no school uniform." She said threateningly and began to cut the lacewings.
"I'm sorry bookworm, is the skirt to short for your liking? Maybe if you showed a little more skin, you wouldn't have to find comfort in a book." Pansy hissed.
"I'd rather be a bookworm than a dumb whore like you." Hermione stated angerly.
Pansy stopped cutting and glared at Hermione. She wanted to reach out and strangle her but thought against it, due to the fact that Snape would most likely give her detention. Besides she didn't want to upset Ron.
"Look Mudblood half the shit you hear about me is most likely made up by losers like you who wouldn't stand a chance with me on their best day. So I suggest you don't talk about things you don't understand. And as far as grades go I'm third in our class, closely tailing you and Draco so I say that makes me pretty damn smart." She quickly began chopping again as if nothing had happened.
"Look I was out of…" Hermione stated.
Pansy quickly cut her off. "Save it, I don't want your apologies."
Pansy felt eyes watching her and quickly turned to find a pair of deep blue eyes following her every move. Pansy smirked, and reached over deliberately so that her lacey black panties could be seen easier. Ron took in the view without batting an eye. He was really getting frustrated with the way his body ached for Pansy, but his head kept intervening.
"Enjoying the view?" Kai hissed.
Ron grinned. "As a matter of fact, I am Masenfer. Is that a problem?"
"Well don't she's doing that for my pleasure not yours." He smirked. "She's mine and I don't like to share my toys with anyone."
"Is that so?" 'Who did this guy think he was fooling?' Ron thought. "She didn't seem to be yours when she kissed me last night."
Kai immediately stop chopping his ingredient and glared at Ron "She kissed you."
"Yep and she liked it." Ron didn't know how Pansy felt about their kiss, if you could call it that, but he was sure as hell not going to let Kai know that.
"Well that's just a set back, but you can rest assure she is mine or at least will be very soon."
"Well when that day comes, send me a post card. Until then I'm free to enjoy the show." This guy was really starting to piss him off and this was only the first day.
"You stay away from her, she's a pureblood."
"A pureblood… well if I'm not mistaken I'm a pureblood as well so I see no problem."
"Weasley your family is about as pure as the bottom of my…"
WHAM. Ron punched Kai in the face and the boys found themselves on the ground swinging at one another. The class quickly gathered around the boys shouting for them to continue. Professor Snape restrained Kai as Harry restrained Ron.
"Imbeciles, fifty points will be deducted from both Gryffindor and Slytherin, plus you each will have a weeks worth of detention with me, starting tonight. Now both of you get upstairs to Madam Pomfrey now! Potter you take Weasley and Malfoy you take Masenfer."
The boys continued to glare at one another until they were out of earshot of the professor.
"This isn't over Weasel." Kai snapped.
"Truer words have never been spoken." Ron stated as he propped his arm around Harry.
"Class Dismissed." Snape declared after the boys had left the class. "Put away your potions and Pansy stay behind I have a mater to discuss with you."
Pansy nodded and waited until all of the students had left before she approached his desk.
"Yes Professor." She said sweetly.
"Tonight you are to meet me here for our meeting at Eight o'clock. That should be enough time for you to get your affairs in order for the night."
Pansy nodded her head in agreement.
"Good…oh and Pansy, I suggest you ware something less reveling if you get my drift." He stated with a smirk.
"Yes Professor." Pansy stated with flushed cheeks. She turned to leave the classroom.
The rest of the day passed without incident and Ron found himself sitting with Harry and Hermione in the Gryffindor common room. After returning from the infirmary during lunch, Ron was greeted by several questions from his dorm mates and other Hogwarts students as to why he would fight with the 'new kid'. He managed to avoid such questions from Harry and Hermione, but knew the questions would be coming in a mater of minutes seeing as Hermione was studying with them instead of at the library or in her new common room.
"I just don't understand Ron." Ron sighed. "Why would you fight on the first day of class?" Hermione stated. "I mean of all the classes you just had to fight in potion class." It wasn't a question it was a mere statement of the facts.
Ron sighed. "Just let it go Hermione, I am in no mood to hear your motherly advice or receive disappointed glares from you. I did what I did and Snape is punishing me. So just drop it."
"I'm not dropping anything. I want to know why you were fighting with the new kid."
"Would you have preferred someone old?"
"Don't go there. I wouldn't have preferred anyone." Hermione took a deep calming breath, she started again with less edge in her voice. "Ron what's wrong?"
"Nothing Hermione, Why does something have to be wrong!" He glared at her. "I just wish you'd leave me alone!"
"Fine!" Hermione screamed as he stood to gather her work from the table. "You want me to leave you alone. I'll do you one better and leave."
She turned and headed out of the common room.
"Good riddance." Ron mumbled.
"She's just concerned Ron." Harry stated from the opposite side of the table. "However if you don't want to talk about it I'll understand, but you…"
Harry's statement was interrupted by the soft tapping of a large black owl. The owl was obviously not a school owl and Ron hurriedly opened the window to avoid Harry's speech. The owl hooted and held out his leg for Ron to detach the letter. The owl gave one last hoot and departed back through the window.
Ron unrolled the letter in his hands:
Dear Ron,
I don't know if you remember me, but we talked this past summer in the Quality Quidditch Supply store. Well anyway I was writing to make sure you were ok, I know you were in a fight earlier and I didn't really want to bother you during lunch when you looked so annoyed. I'm sure Kai deserved what he got and believe me if I could have gotten past Draco in class I would have given him another reason to see Madam Pomfrey. Lucky Kai.
Wishing you well,
A secret worth keeping
P.S. The black owl that brought this letter to you is my own personal owl. Her name is Frewin, and if you ever want to talk to me just open a window and call her name. She has exceptional hearing and will know who to bring the letter to.
Ron reread the letter, he couldn't believe his eyes. She had written him and if this letter was accurate she was in his potions class. He quickly began to write a letter to the mystery girl.
Ron: Where were you? We thought you had abandon us
Dracos Dragon969: Sorry the holidays came and I found myself back at home without the internet (Happy Holidays Everyone)
Pansy: You can't take long breaks like that, people out there want to know how this story is going to end
Dracos Dragon969: Your right and I'm truly sorry, I hope to make it up to you all by posting three chapters.
Ron: Please let this story end with Malfoy's death
Dracos Dragon969: Uh… I'll see what I can do
Ron: That's all I'm asking
Next Chapter: First night of prefect duties for Ron and Pansy and you will find out just what Ron wrote to his secret admire (PANSY).
AmY FelToN: I hope you're not too disappointed. I know I promised to have Pansy and Ron snog, but I just couldn't get the idea to fit in. Maybe in the next chapter.
I hope everyone else will continue to read and review, it means a lot.
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