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All characters, unless otherwise stated in either mine or Jack's variation of the story, are that of JKR :)
Read Jack's version here: s/8598321/1/Ravenclaw-Misadventures
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It was a week before Halloween, and decorations were being placed around the Great Hall. Hagrid was bringing in pumpkins that he'd grown himself; He looked very proud. A few of the Hufflepuffs were helping decorate, but nobody from any of the other houses were present, other than myself. I recognised one of the girls helping as the girl I almost knocked over on my way to the dungeons. She had dark hair, very nearly black, with hints of red in random places. She was small, and had very delicate features.
I arrived back at the common room, carrying a few books I'd borrowed from the library. I dumped them on the table and slouched on the sofa. One of the books I'd borrowed was on Metamorphmagi; I wanted to train up a little, and work on a disguise for Halloween. I was thinking a snake face, to work with the tongue. I could scare the hell out of people with this.
A few hours later, I'd managed to shrink my nose, but that was it. I heard footsteps, and slammed the book shut, covering it with a pile of homework.
"Why are you looking so guilty?" Draco raised an eyebrow, looking at the pile of 'homework'.
"Oh, it's you. You scared me half to death!" I took up the book again from under the pile of parchment, and set back on reading it.
"What's that for?" Draco threw himself next to me on the sofa.
"Halloween," I grinned evilly. With a little hesitation, I shrunk my nose until it was two slits, similar to a snake's. He gasped, and fell off the sofa. I laughed and changed back, pulling him up off the floor. He started to laugh as well.
"Halloween." I repeated.
"That's brilliant; you're really getting the hang of that!" Draco smiled. "Worked on any more hair colours yet?" He teased, knowing that it would slightly irritate me.
"Yes actually," I closed my eyes for a second, and when I opened them, my hair was a bright shade of green. Draco laughed.
"That'd fit perfectly with your snake face, if you could change your skin colour a little," He suggested.
"Great idea!" I replied, picking up the book again.
Another few hours passed, I was slowly getting the hang of changing more than one feature at once. It took a lot of concentration, but eventually, I managed to muster changing my nose, tongue, and hair all at the same time. Draco helped, making observations and suggestions as to how I could improve. After hours upon hours of practise, we finally decided to call it a day. Especially because people were starting to come back into the common room and we didn't want to give it away. At the end of the day, I went to bed, not to sleep as such, but to think. A lot had gone on in the past few weeks.
The next day I woke up early, due to falling out of bed. I got up, looked around to make sure nobody had seen, and walked into the common room. Sitting in my usual spot on the sofa by the fire, I contemplated whether or not it would be a good idea to tell everyone now, or leave it as a surprise at Halloween. The fact that I'm a metamorhpmagus, that is. I waited for Draco to wake up, knowing for a fact he wasn't awake already, and we went to the Great Hall for breakfast. It was only 4 days until Halloween, and I still had work to do on my 'costume'. We hurried breakfast, and ran back to the Slytherin dungeon. Once there, I changed my nose, tongue, and hair colour all at the same time, to make sure I still could. It worked. And now we had to work on the rest of it. First off, eyes. I left the rest of my face in the incomplete snake form, just so we could see what worked. I tried a couple of different colours; yellow, green, grey etc. and Draco finally came to the decision that yellow looked best. I then worked on getting my pupils to turn narrow and long, which took a few hours to perfect.
Hearing footsteps in the corridor leading to the common room, I changed as much as I could back to normal. Draco had a small look of panic; apparently the shape of my pupils didn't change back, but it was too late to do anything so I just hoped whoever it was wouldn't notice. It was Jack.
"How did you get in here?" Draco stood from the sofa, and attempted to walk towards Jack. I pulled him back.
"Don't start. It'll draw attention to me," I pointed out, as Jack strode further in.
"The password wasn't difficult to guess, since you're all racists." Jack indicated. He was right; the password was pure-blood, so it may have been a little obvious.
"Go away," I mumbled.
"Did you hear that, Jack? The lady wants you to leave," Draco smirked.
Jack looked hurt, and slightly taken aback. It wasn't anything against him, I just didn't want him to notice…
He turned and left, leaving us alone again.
I changed my face back to my Halloween 'mask' bit by bit; I didn't want to risk doing it all at once because it was quite difficult anyway.
"It looks brilliant," Draco beamed, handing me a mirror.
"It looks… odd…" I speculated, tilting to mirror to all possible angles. "I know what it's missing. Oh wow we're so silly."
"What?"
"My skin's still normal, duh." I added.
"Alright, let's try changing that then," Draco looked excited.
After hours of trying, I'd worked out how to change the colour of my face. Now we had to work on some kind of texture. An hour later, I'd perfected the scales, and it was almost complete.
"It's still missing someth- Teeth!" Draco exclaimed.
I grinned and then opened my mouth, changing my teeth so they were razor sharp, with two long fangs that slotted perfectly to fit under my bottom lip. It was perfect.
