The next day was apparently a Saturday, so I just wandered the castle, finding myself in the west tower multiple times looking for a certain tangle of black curls. He must have been trying to avoid me. I thought of using Accio, but decided it was probably illegal to use it on people. Not that I was planning on following the rules much the rest of this year. Besides, we had never learned whether Accio would even work on people. I ultimately decided against it, and spent the rest of the weekend occasionally eating some oatmeal or something else soft and easy to keep down.
Monday in Potions, Potter didn't say a word to me, and I noticed dark circles under his eyes, as though he hadn't slept at all over the weekend. I ignored my concerns, and just focused on whatever Potion we were learning about. All I knew about it was that it looked like mud, but changed colour when a hair was dropped into it. Today we had to drop our hairs in a beaker of the substance and take notes on the colour it turned. When Potter dropped his hair in, it turned to liquid gold, with small swirls of green and black. How suitable. The Golden Boy with his green eyes and black hair.
When it was my turn, Potter said, "The colour it turns reflects your personality. Let's see what kind of person you are. Probably shit brown with hints of piss yellow."
I ignored him and carefully dropped a few strands of hair into the churning brown substance. For a long moment nothing happened, and Potter started to laugh.
"You don't have a personality!" he chortled.
But just then, I saw a red glow appear in the center, pulsating outward. It finally filled the entire cup, blood red, fire orange, and yellow as the sun, all sworling around in chaos. A pale purple, olive green, and a shade of blue I had never before seen in my life trailed in thin lines amongst the maze of heat. The blue was the most beautiful shade of blue I had ever seen. I glanced at Potter, who was gazing open-mouthed in astonishment. He had evidently never seen anything that looked like this either.
I glanced around. Blaise's was a flat forest green. Nothing else. No movement. Avery's, who was a fifth year, but so advanced she was in our class, was a pale, dark burnt orange. It was a dark burnt orange, but you could see the silhouette of Avery behind the colour. Hers had a complicated pattern of movement, far different from Blaise's stillness or me and Potter's chaos. I looked at Ron and Hermione. Hermione was chattering about something during second year, while Ron was staring at her potion. I could see why. It was the exact colour of Ron's hair. If this potion reflected your personality, then Hermione was more besotted with Ron than I had previously thought. Ron's was a swirling black and white, with patches of silver and shades of grey. A tinge of rusty red laid over the entire thing.
Potter was still gaping at my potion of whatever when I looked back at him. He turned to look at me as though he had never seen me before. I decided that once I found out what the fuck this potion was, I would figure out what my colours meant.
Slughorn clapped his hands, and said, "Alright kids, tomorrow, we'll be drinking each other's Polyjuice Potions!"
"Wait! You mean I'll have a dick for an hour tomorrow?" called out Avery.
"Well, you could say that, yes," Slughorn blustered.
"Do we have to be in class when we do this then?" she simpered.
Slughorn looked extremely uncomfortable. I figured I should spare the poor soul, so I turned to Avery. "If you were paying attention, you'll be able to make it yourself," I drawled. I felt a twinge of annoyance as Potter, Weasley, and Granger all looked at each other and shifted in their seats, grinning. They always had some inside joke going between them.
Of course, if this would really turn me into Potter for an hour… the possibilities of this potion were endless. It would be befitting of my take some more of Potter's hair to… experiment with the possibilities. It was very unlikely to work out though. Tomorrow would have to be enough.
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