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Chapter 13

The Polyjuice Potion was nearly complete. We were missing only one ingredient.

"We're going to have to get a piece of the person that you're turning into," I said.

"What do you mean a piece?" Ron asked. "Like an arm or something?"

I rolled my eyes and said, "No, like a piece of hair or something."

We had already decided who all we were going to become. It had to be a person that was fairly close to Draco so we could get some information out of him. Ron and Harry said that they were going to become Crabbe and Goyle - we were going to have to get them out of the picture for a while considering that they were staying behind - and Hermione was going to become some other Slytherin girl. I decided that I was going to be Pansy Parkinson, much to my own disgust.

Hermione already had a piece of hair that she was going to use, but Ron and Harry had to go get their part now. I decided that it was best that I also go get a piece now, which might not be too much of a struggle.

I found Pansy in the hallway alone. I stood around the corridor, waiting for the perfect moment. I managed to put a strong sleeping spell on her and I quickly ran to get a piece of hair from her. After getting my piece, I hid her in a nearby closet and went back to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.

When I got there, everyone else was already there.

"No trouble?" I asked Ron and Harry.

"None at all," Harry smiled and handed over the hair.

Once I placed each piece of hair into seperate cauldrons, they immediately began to bubble and turn into a mud-like liquid. It looked disgusting.

"Well..." I muttered. "Bottoms up!"

I drank all of the potion in one horrific gulp and felt the effects only seconds after I drank it. My skin felt bubbly and I quickly ran into one of the bathroom stalls. Everyone else followed suit.

I felt my hair slowly shorten and my body began to become slightly larger. My uniform began to feel a little tight and my face felt like it was stretching. After a few minutes of this odd sensation, I felt almost normal again. I changed into the Slytherin uniform that we managed to find in an old supply closet and I stepped out of the stall.

"Ugh," Harry, now sounding strange, said. "I feel disgusting..."

I turned to see Harry, but was stunned to see Goyle standing before me. Beside him stood Ron, now Crabbe.

"Ew!" Ron said looking at me. "You look hideous!"

"You're telling me," I muttered. "Hermione are you ready?"

"Um, no," she said sounding worried. "You all go without me."

I shrugged my shoulders and turned to the others. We only had an hour, so we hurried along towards the Slytherin common room. Then we ran into a problem.

"Does anyone know where the Slytherin common room is?" Harry asked.

"Uh..." I thought. "No..."

Just before we could say anything else, a familiar person came into view.

"What are you three doing out here?" Draco asked. "Pigging out again Crabbe and Goyle?"

Harry and Ron looked at each other, dumbfounded.

"Why hello, Pansy," Draco smiled at me. He sounded strange, almost flirtatious...it was weird. "Haven't seen you in a little while."

He walked over to me and grabbed me by the hand. I snatched it away from him without thinking.

"What's the matter with you?" Draco asked.

Then I thought about who I was. I was Pansy Parkinson, the girl that Draco had some kind of fling with or something. Why did I have to choose her?

"Um...I just don't feel well..." I mumbled.

He looked me up and down and then began to walk in another direction.

"Are you all coming or what?" he said back to us.

We all looked at each other and immediately began to follow Draco. We weren't really sure where he was going, but it didn't really matter. As long as we could question him...

We headed down towards the dungeons and then entered the common room after Draco gave the password. When we got in there, we saw that the entire room was filled with Slytherin banners and all kinds of antique looking furniture.

We all sat down on the couches, Draco sitting a little too close to me for comfort and Harry and Ron sitting on the opposite couch.

"Did you hear about Weasley's father?" Draco laughed. "Apparently he's getting fined for that flying car that Potter and Weasley flew into the school. I think that the damned Muggle lover should just be fired."

I looked at Ron who looked as though he was going to kill Draco if he continued any further, but Harry elbowed him to try to get him to stop. Draco didn't really notice because he was too busy complaining about other people.

"Then there are the Potters!" he said, all of our attention was directed at him instantly. "Harry Potter just thinks he is so fantastic, giving out autographs all the time. Famous Potter just can't escape it! His sister is almost as bad-" I shot a look at him, ready for the insult. "-but she's hot enough that it doesn't bother me..."

A look of disgust went across my face as I backed away.

"Jealous, are we?" Draco said eyeing me flirtatiously.

"Uh...sure," I muttered, trying to recover from what he had said before.

He grabbed onto my arm and pulled me a little closer to him. He put his arm around me and started talking again. I was very uncomfortable...

"And people think that they are the heir of Slytherin!" he said. "It's patheric!"

We all were silent, waiting for him to finally tell us who it was.

"I wish that I knew!" he said. "Then I could probably help them get rid of the Mudbloods in this school!"

"You must have some idea on who it is," Ron said hopefully.

"You know that I don't Goyle," he snarled. "Father won't tell me anything except that it was opened fifty years ago and that someone was killed last time...it's only a matter of time before someone is killed here. I hope that it's Granger..."

Ron's fists slowly became white as he clenched his fists in anger. I suddenly felt Draco's hand rubbing my leg in a flirtatious kind of way that made me feel even more uncomfortable than I already did.

Then I saw something appear on Harry's forehead that warned us of our time limit. His scar slowly began to show and Ron's hair was slowly turning red. I watched as my hair began to grow and change back to red.

"We have to go," Ron said as he all but ran out of the room.

I started to run out of the room too and I heard Draco following behind me, fruit to make me stay.

"Trying to play hard to get?" Draco asked me. "When did you get green eyes?"

"I...used a spell..." I mumbled.

"Stay back here with me," Draco said. "We could have a little fun."

He winked at me and I had to keep myself from gagging at that comment and tried to stay in character.

"I'll be right back baby," I winked at him.

He smiled deviously at me as I left the room. I quickly caught up to Ron and Harry who were waiting for me in a nearby corridor, both were almost back to their normal selves. When we reached the bathroom, I almost looked normal again.

"That was close," Harry said as he put his glasses back on.

"You're telling me," I muttered.

"Getting cozy with Malfoy, Emily?" Ron snickered.

"You're hilarious," I said with a straight face. "Hermione, what are you doing?"

We all looked over to the stall that Hermione was in and saw Myrtle floating nearby.

"I'm not coming out..." Hermione cried.

"What's the matter?" I asked.

"It's really bad," Myrtle laughed. "Wait until you see!"

Hermione stepped out of the stall and I saw what Myrtle had been talking about. Instead of the Slytherin that she had intended on turning into, she stood in front of us looking like a cat.

"She had a cat," Hermione cried. "That wasn't her hair that I got."

Hermione started sobbing. Ron walked over to he and hugged her. I walked over towards the book that we had for the potion and flipped through the pages to find what I was looking for.

"Well, the effects should wear off soon, right?" Harry asked.

I frowned as I read through the instructions and everything else about the potion. It wasn't good.

"Right?" Harry repeated.

"The potion was only intended for human use..." I frowned. "It says that the results can be dangerous if you use anything else..."

Hermione cried even more when she heard me. We weren't sure how long it was going to stay in effect, do she could be like that for a while...

How were we going to explain this one?

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