Title: Ferret

Summery: When Draco's turned into a ferret it's up to him to find a way out of it. But when Hermione gets involved in something deeper then just the little spell that changed him, how does everything change? Why is his family changing for just one girl?

(A/n) I'm making Blaise a big part of this story, because I've fall in love with his character. I've made him a bit of a Drama Queen... I mean KING! I hope you enjoy his annoying hystarics! (Smile) (Bow)

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Draco growled in annoyance and walked up to Dumbledore's office. His parents were talking to Dumbledore and Blaise was petting Fawkes. Narcissa hugged him tightly as he stood by her chair. She kissed his cheek, "It's horrible! How is he going to survive all year?"

"Mrs. Malfoy. He'll be well taken care of. Miss Granger is-"

"A mudblood and I refuse to trust her with my son and heir!" Dumbledore looked irritated and rolled his eyes.

"No. Miss Granger is responsible and quite fond of Draco as long as he's a ferret." Draco let his mother lay her head on his arm. She shook her head.

"I never thought I'd be letting a muggleborn have my child. Oh Merlin, Draco. I can't let you do this." Draco smiled.

"I have Blay watching me."

"Hey! I will not baby sit you, Dray!" Dumbledore looked at them in question.

"We've been friends from birth."

"Probably longer! Our Parents were friends-"

"Sill are."

"So we see a lot of each other!"

"It's hard not to!"

"Exactly!" both boys finished taking and smiled at the same time. Snape and McGonagall ignored the boys, both use to it, but Dumbledore looked confused as hell. Narcissa took it into her hands.

"They were born within hours of each other. I think Draco is two hours older?" Lucius nodded, "But Blaise was born the day after Draco. February 21 and February 22." she pointed to Draco then to Blaise. They both smiled like idiots, "Just like their fathers. Only that's in March." Lucius glared at his wife who stopped talking.

"In other words, sir. Blay is the perfect caretaker for me." Blaise sighed.

"Sadly, I'm the only one who knows Dray well enough to keep him out of trouble." Blaise glared at his Prefect badge and became dramatic, "But, why, oh why did you curse me with this badge! I'm a trouble maker at heart and this feels like a cage! Please take it away! I don't want to die young!" the room was quite until Dumbledore broke down laughing. Draco shook his head.

"Don't laugh. He'll keep going." Lucius and Draco said it at the same time and ignored Snape as he said the ever famous 'Like father, like son.' Blaise looked betrayed.

"Some friend." Draco rolled his eyes.

"You're a Prefect, I turn into a ferret every night and get cuddled by Granger. I think your better off."

"I don't know. The way you-" Draco shot him a warning glace and Blaise zipped his lips and smiled innocently. Narcissa rolled her eyes and slapped her son upside the head. Dumbledore sighed and shook his head.

"Again. Miss Granger will be taking care of him so I suggest you show her some curtsey." the door opened, "Ah! Miss Granger… your early." Draco looked at her in horror and smiled at Dumbledore.

"I'll just go back to the Slytherin Common Room. Again, father. Sorry to have disappointed you." Lucius got a cold glare.

"If I hear of one more accident you better pray your not left alone with me." Draco bowed his head and vanished out the door. Hermione ran up to the desk.

"Can I have him, Professor? Please, please, please! I'll do anything to have him back." She smiled happily. Both Narcissa and Lucius shook their heads, but Narcissa had a sweet smile. Blaise smiled as a white ferret came crawling to him. He scooped it up and gave Dumbledore a thumbs up. The old man smiled.

"Your… pet. Is with Mr. Zabini. He seems to have become quite annoyed and taken him for hostage." Blaise looked at the angry girl and quickly handed her the ferret. Draco wiggled in his grasp causing Blaise to drop him then catch him. Hermione quickly took him away.

"Poor baby!" she cuddled the ferret and kissed it's head and glared at Blaise, "Have you ever heard of being gentle! You could have snapped his neck, broken an arm or leg, hurt his spine or killed him!" Narcissa got a look of terror on her face and Lucius looked ready to kill Blaise on the spot. Hermione meanwhile ignored him and went back to cuddling the little ferret. Draco purred lightly and climbed up to her shoulder.

"Miss Granger, he is to stay in you room. He will not be accompanying you to classes. Am I clear?" Hermione nodded and left the room. Lucius and Narcissa left soon after and Blaise stayed to beg for the responsibility to be taken from him.

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Draco again sat on the edge of the bath as Hermione dipped into it. He tried not look at her, but it was a little hard. She continued to ignore him and finished her bath in luxury. Draco decided that in this body he had to learn to swim or it would be bad if he fell into something that he might drowned in so he slipped into the water and regretted it. He couldn't swim very well. He found the soap shelf and got on it.

'Well this is embarrassing!' he tried again and got a better result. He swam in a little circle and back to the soap shelf. Hermione was resting on the other side of the pool sized bath. Draco looked at her and decided he wanted out of the water 'Lets see.' he jumped in and swam to her. She shrieked and jumped out of the water. 'Damn it!'

Hermione fished him out and giggled, "You scared me! I thought you were a rat!" Draco swallowed the little water that had gotten in his mouth. She wrapped herself in a towel and dried him off with a hand towel. He shook to get the water off of his fur and started licking it, not like it's density.

He looked up when she laughed, "Your getting weirder by the second!" she kissed his head, "He saw me with you last night. When I took a bath." she blushed, "I guess I should have checked better. Don't get me wrong, I like him, but I didn't want him to see… that." Draco turned his head. He didn't see what she meant. He was the only one in that bathroom that night!

He caught it 'She likes me?' he struggled in her hold and she set him down. He ran to her bag and pulled out a piece of parchment. She tried to stop him, but he was too fast. He dragged the paper to the closet that was his for when he would stay in the Prefects lounge and bath. He may have lost being a Perfect, but he was still Quidditch Captain. She glared at him, "Come here you silly thing!" Draco would have smirked at her, but he wasn't human so a playful flick of the tail would have to do.

"You cannot be a ferret! Not even a rat acts like a dog! Come here!" she grabbed the handle of his cupboard and it unlocked. Hermione froze, "Now you've gone and done it! God Malfoy will kill me for this." she opened it and gasped as he ran in, "No! Where are you!" she looked for him and found him in th pocket of a long coat. Draco held a silver chain in his mouth that led to a cross made of emerald with a silver out line. Hermione gasped and pulled him out, trying to get the cross away from him. She closed the door at the same time. When she turned to open it again it remained locked.

"Your going to get me in trouble! I'll give it to him in the morning. You are in so much trouble!" she dressed and ran up to the girls dorm room. Ginny was sitting on her bed talking to Lavender and Pavarti.

"That's sick! I can't believe Malfoy!"

"Yah, well, Pansy said that. I find it all stupid! She's just jealous-" Lavender stopped to smirk at Hermione, ", because Draco would rather have Hermione's body against his rather then Pansy's." Hermione froze and turned back to her friends.

"What?"

"Pansy's told everyone about your little meeting with Draco in the Perfect bath and that that's really why he lost his title as Prefect." Hermione turned crimson.

"S-so eve-every one th-thinks I-I've sha-shagged, Malfoy?" they nodded and Hermione turned a brighter red.

"She over did it though. She said you've been at it while. That you two met up after your rounds and shag all night, but that can't be true because Cho takes a bath after her rounds and she never saw you two, or heard you." Hermione set the ferret on the vanity the girls shared and change quickly into her nightgown. Draco noticed it looked like a giant white rose petal with thin, lace straps.

'Oh great! I get to hear girl talk all night.' Hermione sat down at the table and held up the cross to her neck. Lavender gasped.

"That's beautiful!" Hermione jumped and blushed.

Pavarti came to stand next to her and smirked, "That's Draco's cross. Why do you have it?" she blushed again.

"I found it."

"You shouldn't have it. The cross is how Lucius Malfoy found Narcissa Black!" Hermione looked at Ginny.

"What?"

"When a Malfoy is fifteen they get cross. This cross leads them to a true love. It will only let the girl chosen by it's owner to ware it. Narcissa found the cross while she was looking around in the Malfoy library. She thought it was beautiful so she put it on and it claimed her as a Malfoy. When Lucius saw it, he scooped her up and kissed her. A week later, their wedding night, Narcissa conceived and when Draco was born the cross vanished."

'Well… most of that is true. Except that my mothers vanished. She still had it, but she doesn't ware it cause the chain broke. Stupid Weaslette! That's not what the cross is for, but it's close enough.' Hermione rolled her eyes.

"That's ridiculous! It's probably given to the girl as a symbol of marriage!"

"Hermione?"

"What?!"

"What are you?"

"Huh?"

"Why are you here?"

"Because I'm a witch!"

"What do witches do?"

"Perform Magic?" Ginny gave her the 'duh' look and Hermione sighed.

"Alright. I'll bite." Draco watched as she put it on and smiled when it didn't turn back. He wasn't using it as a marriage symbol, just a thank you. Hermione blushed, "Oh god!" the other girls started to laugh. Hermione looked like Voldemort had just asked her hand in marriage.

"Chill! Just cause it excepts you, doesn't mean your distained to marry him. It just means you're a possibility. Besides. Your gonna marry Ron! I refuse to see my best friend marry a Malfoy mess up!" Hermione let out a slow breath and picked up her ferrety friend.

"Good, because I couldn't marry, Malfoy. I just know I'd leave him at the alter!"

"We thought you liked him!" Draco listened intently to Hermione's answer.

"Like doesn't mean I'll walk down the isle, take his hand, put on the ring and pledge myself to him. I like him in the sense that I'd date him, but not marry him. I don't trust his family."

"Oh." the three girls had a let down as did the little ferret. Hermione turned and lay down in her bed. She set Draco next to her and smiled at him.

"Maybe someday, but not in this life time." Draco thought carefully about what he'd heard. Hermione took off the necklace and set it on the bed side table. She quickly fell into a deep sleep and Draco ran himself into the Head's Office. He wouldn't be there when she woke up. It was time to vanish. Dumbledore was playing with a yoyo, the man smiled and spoke.

"If you are so unhappy about it… we'll say we caught the a Death Eater talking to you and that you and the Death Eater are in Azkaban. Or you can break this. Just think muggle fairy tails." Draco sighed and curled up on the chair his father had sat on. It made Draco wish for home.

He felt a warm sensation and noticed he was himself again, " I thought…"

"It's morning Mr. Malfoy. It took you a long time to get here." Draco sighed and grabbed the bag Dumbledore handed him, "It's best to look for the author: Grimm." Draco walked into the Great Hall and looked to see Hermione was crying. He looked at Blaise who was next to him.

"Her ferret ran away. She's heartbroken."

"Now I feel bad." Draco sounded sincere to his own ears, but Blaise's face made him think it had come out sarcastic. His mind dance as to how bad he'd really hurt her. He looked at Hermione again and smirked. She'd know Muggle fairy tales. Right? He walked over to her, "Hey, Granger." Potter gave him a cold stare and Ron looked annoyed, "Listen I'm failing a class and my dad wants me to learn more about Muggles. I was hoping you could help me." Hermione nodded and waved him away.

Draco rolled his eyes when he heard Ron say, "If he does anything stupid Harry and I will beat him to a pulp. I swear, Hermione. I won't let that git hurt you." she said something back, but Draco didn't hear what it was. Blaise looked at him.

"So?"

"I've gotten an assistant."

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A/n) Hm. I guess it'll have to do. I'm trying to make this more Romance then Humor, but Draco being a ferret doesn't help. Please Review. (bow)