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Chapter 3: Pansy

"Professor Snape?"

"Yes, Miss. Bullstrode?"

"Um, I know class ends in a few minutes, but, may I PLEASE go to the bathroom? It's an emergency!" To make it look more believable, Millicent was actually doing a little dance in her chair.

"Fine. You may go."

"Thank-you Professor!" With that Millicent took off.

That was the start of the next prank. While Millicent did have to leave class early, it wasn't so she could go to the bathroom, it was so she could drink some Polyjuice Potion to turn into Pansy, then to go see Professor Dumbledore while the real Pansy was doing her prank.

When class was over, Pansy was one of the first people out of the class room. Looking at her watch, she saw that Millicent should have been with Professor Dumbledore for about five minutes already. So, she waited another ten minutes before going back into the potions classroom, which was slowly filling with Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff first years.

At then end of the ten minutes, Pansy took a deep breath and took something from her pocket. 'Ok, Millicent has been with Dumbledore for fifteen minutes, so that way, there will be no questions about the period of time…'

Just as Snape was about to start his lesson, Pansy barged through the door, looking wildly around the room.

"MISS. PARKINSON! What do you think you are doing?" Snape yelled in surprise.

When Pansy heard his voice, she ran up to him, grabbed his left hand, and shoved something on his ring finger of his left hand. She then faced the class, with a wild look in her eyes, lifted Snapes hand up, showing the engagement ring she just put on his finger and screamed:

"You see this! HE'S MINE! Stay away from him! THIS means he's MY PROPERTY!"

If possible, Snapes face got even more pale and looked quite queasy. It was difficult to tell if he wanted to run and hide himself, or just throttle Pansy.

Before he could decide which, Pansy took another deep breath to psyche herself up for what she had to do next. She turned back towards him, grabbed his face, and planted a huge kiss right on his lips. It wasn't a very long kiss, but it was long enough for the first years to believe something really was going on with this student and their terrifying professor.

When Pansy's lips met Snapes, he froze. He couldn't move, and couldn't think. Just as he was coming back to his senses, she had already broken the kiss and was making a sprint for the door. Just as she was about to close the door behind her, Snape found his voice and yelled out:

"DETENTION MISS PARKINSON!" and she froze. Snape took a look around the classroom and saw the looks his students were giving him. He then realized why. "WITH FILCH! Not me! ONE WEEK! AND 30 points from Slytherin!" He didn't want any students to think he wanted to be alone in detention with this student now.

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Now with the most embarrassing part of her prank over with, she had to wait until she was supposed to arrive for detention with the Hogwarts caretaker, Filch.

Pansy was sitting with Millicent in the Slytherin common room at 10pm, when Snape and Filch entered.

"MISS PARKINSON! I thought I gave you detention with Filch for this evening and every evening for the next week. Now, do you think you don't have to listen to me? Or is there another reason for you disobeying me?" Snape asked.

Now came the hard part. She had to make sure she put up a good act. So, with the most innocent look on her face she could muster, she replied to her teacher.

"Professor Snape, I don't understand. I didn't get any detention from you."

For a moment Snape was speechless. But, only for a moment.

"I believe I gave you detention after this afternoons potions class when you barged in on my first year class to put an engagement ring on my finger and proceeded to kiss me." He replied.

Putting a look of shock on her face she said, "But, professor, I wasn't in your classroom after potions today! After I left, I went to see Professor Dumbledore. I, uh, needed to speak with him about something private."

"Nice try Miss. Parkinson. Why don't we go on up to the headmasters office then, shall we?" He stood outside the common room waiting for her to break down and admit she was trying to weasel out of detention, but was very surprised when she calmly walked out and proceeded to the Headmasters office.

At the entrance to the Headmasters office, Snape turned to Pansy, "This is your last chance to come clean and not look like the idiot you apparently are. Now, did you, or did you not give me an engagement ring and kiss me?" Snape asked with his trademark glare.

"Sir, you must not be feeling well, after I left class today, I came up here to speak with Professor Dumbledore." She replied calmly, "Anyway Professor, even if I did, where's the ring?" She asked while pointing to his ring finger.

Snape looked down in surprise. Indeed, there was no ring on his finger. But, someone could easily do that if they only conjured it, and had it only last an hour or so.

"Yes, well, that is easy to do, as I'm sure you are aware, Miss. Parkinson. So, lets have a chat with the Headmaster, yes?" and with that Snape and Pansy rode the winding staircase, and Snape knocked on the door.

"Come in, Severus" was Dumbledore's reply. So with that, Snape opened the door and allowed Pansy to walk in ahead of him, then followed, slamming the door behind him.

"Headmaster, it seems we are having a… slight problem with Miss. Parkinson's ability to tell the truth. You see after her potions class, and during my Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff first year class, she barged back into my classroom, where she put an engagement ring on my finger, and then kissed me in front of my entire class. Then, when she did not report to Filch for detention tonight, I sought her out in the common room, where she came up with this story that she was here with you, and not doing what I, and my class, saw her do. Now, would you kindly tell Miss. Parkinson that she was NOT in fact here with you today?" With that Snape turned towards Pansy with his normal smirk. Only when the Headmaster spoke, did he lose his smirk and turn to face Dumbledore again.

"Well, Professor Snape, I could tell you that she was not here," Dumbledore started, "but not only would Miss. Parkinson get into trouble, but I would be lying. So, yes, she was here after her potions class and was here for perhaps twenty minutes afterwards. Which, if she was doing what you are telling me she did, she would not have been here."

"But- But.. Headmaster! My entire class…" Snape began before Dumbledore cut him off.

"Severus, are you calling me a liar? Is my word not good enough for you? Miss Parkinson was, in fact, here, when she 'supposedly' did what you are saying. At any rate, Professor, I have noticed no ring on your finger during our entire conversation." Dumbledore finished with that irksome twinkle in his eyes.

"Fine." Snape spat at the headmaster, "Miss. Parkinson, allow me to walk you back to your common room." He said through clenched teeth.

Just as Snape was about to go through the door, Dumbledore called him back for a moment. He heard Snape tell Pansy to wait for him at the bottom of the stairs, and he walked back in to stand in front of Dumbledore's desk.

"Severus, this has me worried. Are you feeling alright? Would you like to take a short vacation?" the headmaster asked with concern clear in his blue eyes, which had lost a little of his trademark twinkle.

Upset that the headmaster must think him insane, he clenched his jaw and said, "No thank-you headmaster, I'm fine." Then he turned and left.

Once outside the headmasters office, he started walking towards the Slytherin common room with Pansy, when he grabbed her arm a little roughly and said,
"I don't know what you're up to, Miss. Parkinson, but you wont get away with it, and I WILL be the one to catch you. Do not play with me."

With that, they walked the rest of the way to the common room in silence. Pansy was quite relived to get back, then after saying goodnight, closed the common room entrance and went to up to bed. She couldn't wait to tell the girls about this tomorrow.