Chapter Twelve:

After a long and tiring Christmas vacation we returned to Hogwarts, but I was nervous, I wore a hat to cover my hair because I wasn't ready to be seen by students yet. After the family had seen the outcome of the potion they told me how beautiful I looked and that boys would fall at my feet when I turned thirteen, Scorpius didn't like that remark very much.

Claire and I were pushing the cart with our trunks, my owl and kitten and her kitten which she had bought at Diagon Ally, I had a large separate bag with all of my art supplies inside as well as we reach platforms nine and ten one by one we run through, we had actually gotten here early enough to not panic, when we run through the barrier I smile at the sight of the train and all of my classmates. I hadn't seen Scorpius since the last dinner at gram's so I was ready to see him.

After what seemed like thousands of goodbyes it's time to go, I pull Claire onboard and we find our seats with Albus, Rose and Scorpius.

"Why are you wearing that?" Scorpius asks frowning at my choice of winter head gear, "I'm not ready for everyone to see my changes." I say taking my cat out of her cage, she roams the carriage for a moment before finding her spot between Albus and me, I grab a new sketch book and a new pencil and flip it open and start a new drawing which was of all of our faces in a group with the words Gryffindor written underneath, I finish just in time to slip on my robe.

After a large feast we all make our way to bed and say goodnight to each other Claire and I chat for a while as the other girls make their way in, "You're still wearing your hate Sarah." Claire says frowning; I sigh and look at the others in the room who were already in bed "Fine, I'll take it off." I slip the hate off my head and she smiles, "I don't know why you want to hide it, you loved it when we were away, and now you an Al actually look like twins." Claire says before walking back to her bed and climbing under the covers, I follow suite and get under mine, "I don't know, I guess I'm scared what people will say." I tell her before falling asleep.

When I wake the next morning the sun is just rising and I'm tired, I can tell today will be a long day, I get up and go take a shower, after a get dressed I stare into the mirror for a few minutes, still trying to comprehend the new look, I leave the bathroom throw a pillow at Claire to wake her up before pulling on my school robes.

I leave the room after making sure Claire gets into the shower, I walk to the great hall to find I'm the only student that is up; I sit down and dig in as students start to file in slowly, I can feel their eyes on me but I ignore it until a second or third year Gryffindor walks up to me, "Hi, I've never seen you before, what's your name." I stare at him wondering if he was kidding as Albus and Scorpius walk in and notice him, "Is this guy bothering you Sarah?" Scorpius asks walking over, "Oh sorry, I didn't realize you were James Potters sister." He says before walking off.

I shake my head and continue to eat as Claire makes are presence known "So we have potions this morning right?" I ask trying to change the topic, Scorpius nods "Yeah, we should probably get going, dad said today's lesson was something big he's been working on since Christmas break started."

We make our way to the potions class room and find our seats in the front, Draco greets each of us and hands us a sheet with instructions on a potion we had never heard of before. He just grins and says, "Just wait you guys are going to love it."

Finally the rest of their class files in and finds their seats.

"Alright class today we will be working on a potion of my own creation today, it's called a walk in their shoes, it will allow you to spend a day in someone else's body now it takes about a month to prepare but first we will go over pros and cons but first I shall pair you up, the person who are sitting with will be who you switch bodies with."

Great, I think, I'm going to be in Scorpius' body for a day when this is all said and done.

After potions everyone was excited to start the project that McGonagall couldn't get our class to settle down in chatter, "Class, if you are not going to pay attention I will give each and every one of you detention." She says shutting them up.

But I was ready for this, I would be spending the day in Scorpius' body, which would be weird, thankfully it would wear off by the end of the day.

Sighing heavily to myself as I walked to defense against the dark arts I couldn't help but wonder if this potion would be a good or a bad thing.

The next day we start creating the potion, I steered it when needed and brought the heat up or down as Scorpius slowly added the needed ingredients, this took about two week to do because we had to leave them sitting after class, when the two weeks of adding the ingredients were done we put them into two separate vials and added hair to it, it was kind of like polyjuice potion except we would be swapping bodies instead of turning into the person.

Those had to set for another two weeks before we could drink them.

The closer the time to swap bodies for the day got the more nervous everyone became, I could even see Scorpius with beads of sweat sometimes, good to know I wasn't the only person scared and nervous to swap bodies, thing is we didn't know if we would have our own mind or if we would have the others, that was what worried me the most.

The day finally arrived, we had decided to do the body switch on valentine's day because we figured it would be funny, as we all filed into the potions classroom that day we were all wringing our hands together nervously, I picked up the bottle labeled Scorpius as he picked up the bottle labeled Sarah and we sat down to await our instructions.

"Alright class, the day has come, to swap bodies and walk in the other persons shoes until sundown, you aren't to tell anyone that you are someone else you are to act like that person, understood." Every nods and murmurs an agreement, "Alright class bottoms up." I swallow the lump in my throat and look at Scorpius, "On three?" I nod and we count together, "One, two, three." And we down the potion.