Don't Deal With Love
By: Malfoy-Amazing-Bouncing-Ferret
Chapter 17: Getting Help
A/N: This chapter is going to take us back to see how the plan had been put into motion by Harry and Ron.
As soon as the trio got back from Hogsmeade, Hermione went up to her bedroom while Harry and Ron had other plans for the morning.
"Ron, do you really think that Snape will help us?" Harry asked as they ran through the corridors, making their way down to Professor Snape's office.
"Of course he will, he's Hermione's uncle, isn't he!" he hissed back.
Severus Snape was sitting in at his desk, in his office, grading the third year students essays. But something was keeping him from grading…Hermione. Lucius had told him about Hermione and Draco. He was fuming because Draco turned around to propose to Pansy instead of Hermione.
'They love each other! She should just tell him how she feels! He should have just listened to her! I need to stop this wedding. But how?' Snape thought.
Just then, a loud knocking was at his office door. "Enter." he said.
Harry and Ron walked into Snape's office and Ron closed the door behind him and proceeded to follow him to Snape's desk. "Professor Snape, we need your help." Harry stated.
"What do you need my help with, Potter?" Snape turned to look at Ron. "Weasley?"
"We need to stop Malfoy's wedding!" it was Ron who spoke up.
Snape's eye browse rose in shock. "Why do you need to stop his wedding?" 'Do they want to stop the wedding for the same reason that I do?'
Harry stared at Snape for a minute. 'This is Hermione's uncle. Could he possible want them together too?' Harry stared at Snape for a few minutes. 'Oh, I hope this works.' Harry tried to reach into Snape's mind, to see what he thought of the situation. And there it was, Hermione and Draco at the altar, with Pansy out of the picture. Well, in the scene that Harry was witnessing, Pansy was off to the side somewhere crying. But this was good enough to trust Snape to help the boys.
Before Harry realized it, Snape was staring back at him, pushing him out of his mind. "Mr. Potter?" They looked at each other in understanding, but that was just for a second.
"Professor? Are you thinking what we're thinking?" Harry asked.
"Why, yes Mr. Potter, I am." he smirked in the most evil manner. "Follow me, both of you. I believe I have just what you may be looking for."
Harry and Ron followed Snape into his personal storage room. "What I have here, in this cauldron, is a potion known-"
"Best as the 'Double Trouble Potion'," Harry cut Snape short of his sentence.
"Very good Mr. Potter. This potion is similar to the 'Polyjuice Potion' but it's not the same. This potion make the user look like someone else to the person that they're fooling. That is, until they stand close enough to that person, it shows the users real identity. Our user in particular, Hermione, will look like Miss Parkinson to just Draco. Everyone else will see Hermione walking down the isle. This is the only alternative to the 'Polyjuice Potion'."
"We'll use it. Hermione's willing to do this. She just doesn't know that we've come to you about this. Now, what will we do about Parkinson? Do you have a potion or something to keep her from interfering?" Ron asked.
"I have 'Dreamless Sleeping Potion'. We can use that if you like? Put it in her morning coffee. It'll knock her out with in twenty minutes of consuming it. Keep her out for a good thirteen hours. She should come to by the end of the wedding. Put her in a broom closet while she's out." Snape explained. "So, do we have a plan?"
"I believe we do, Professor Snape." Harry said, extending his hand to Snape's.
"Good." Snape said, shaking Harry's hand then Ron's. "I think you should both go on to breakfast then. We'll proceed with this later around lunchtime." Harry and Ron were at the door when Snape stopped them again. "Oh, and Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley?" they both turned back to him. "Don't think that this changes anything between us."
"Wouldn't dream of it Professor." they said together before leaving the classroom.
They made their way out of the dungeons and into the Entrance Hall, across the hall to the Great Hall. Hermione was nowhere to be found.
"She must still be in her room." Ron said as they took their usual seats. But no sooner than they sat down and started to eat, did Hermione show up, sitting across from them.