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A/N: Sorry for the shortness, and for those of you waiting for an update on Life Altering Moments, it should be up later today =]
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Chapter 11: Return to Hogwarts
Adrian sighed as he settled himself in the great hall, the trip back to school had been rather uneventful, thanks to Theo, Vince and Greg, the three had done their best to make sure that Adrian was left alone. Startled at the sharp jab in his side, Adrian glanced at his twin, eyebrow raised as Draco gestured at the head table as Dumbledore began to speak. Adrian nodded in understanding, he had completely day dreamed the feast he hadn't even registered eating his food, which was a bit odd.
"Welcome back to Hogwarts" The headmaster started, before launching into a quick speech about them all having good holidays and refreshing a few rules, since people like the Weasley twins always seemed to forget.
"Good to be back" Draco murmured, sitting down on his bed and looking around at his friends and twin. Adrian was already curled very cat-like on his own bed, listening to his twin curiously.
"You look like Dumbledore Dray" Blaise commented, "About to launch into an incredibly boring, long winded story filled with some messed up words"
"I do not" Draco protested, flinging a pillow at Blaise, though he missed and it hit Greg instead.
"Oi" Greg shouted, tossing his own pillow at Draco and thus the epic pillow fight of fifth year began. Soon five giggling teenage boys were covered in feathers and lying in heaps, exhausted.
"Well that was fun" Blaise muttered, pulling bits of feather from his dark hair, though he was smiling.
"Imagine what the Gryffindorks would say if they could see us now" Draco muttered, while Slytherin presented a unified, dignified front to the rest of the school, in the safety of their dorms they were just a bunch of kids.
Morning came all to quickly for the students of Slytherin house, and the rest of the school. The enchanted windows in Slytherin dorm shone brightly, rousing the still sleeping boys from their beds in annoyance.
"You know we live under a bloody lake, they could at least allow us some sodding darkness instead of six am sunshine" Blaise growled as he tumbled out from behind his curtains. Murmurs of agreement were heard from both Vince and Greg as they also emerged, tousle haired, from their beds.
"I don't think it helps that it's a sunny scene with green fields in the back ground when it's obviously winter out" Adrian added, pulling back his hangings and glancing around.
"I mean they could charm them to be realistic" He muttered as he headed into the washroom. He had thankfully beat the others, because once Dray was in the washroom, no one else was getting in before class.
"I can't believe we have potions first thing" Ron moaned, looking dejectedly at his over filled plate.
"Ron, we always have double potions on Mondays" Hermione said, eating a piece of bacon daintily before flipping a page in her potions text. She had the large book propped against a jug of pumpkin juice and was studying the days' lesson.
"I know" Ron muttered, "I was just hoping that Snape would suffer from some sort of horrible accident over Christmas and then potions would be cancelled"
"Ronald" Hermione gasped, turning and staring at the red head. "I don't care how much you dislike Snape, you shouldn't wish harm upon any of our professors" She lectured, causing snickers from everyone sitting in the vicinity.
"Right" Fred piped up, "Because you haven't contemplated throwing Trelawny off of the astronomy tower numerous times"
"Shut up" Hermione snapped, "That's different, she's an uneducated old bat. Snape is brilliant,if a little tactless"
Snape swept into his classroom, his customary black robes billowing out behind him, despite the lack of airflow.
"I'd ask you all if you had a good holiday" He drawled, "But I found that I don't particularly care" He added, causing the Slytherins to chuckle, they had already had a discussion with Snape before breakfast about their holidays and his.
"Now, hopefully two weeks on holidays has not reduced you to incompetent dunderheads. But I have little hope for that, since you were all incompetent dunderheads to begin with" Neville gulped nervously, clutching a vial of centipede blood rather tightly.
"Now, Madame Pomfrey is in need of some special healing salve, which we shall be brewing today" He flicked his wand at the clean black board and the instructions appeared in Snape's tidy scrawl.
"Instructions are on the board" He gestured impatiently as no one moved and watched with barely hidden amusement as the Gryffindors all tripped over themselves to get to the ingredients cupboard.
"Miss Granger, Weasley is perfectly capable of brewing this potion on his own" He snapped suddenly, causing Neville to jump rather badly and dump some incorrectly chopped roots into his potion. -Bang- soot and goop from Neville's cauldron landed everywhere, throughly coating the entire room.
"What the-" Draco gasped, before cursing and rubbing his skin frantically where the potion had touched. Screams soon ensued as the potion began to burn the uncovered skin of whomever it touched.
"Adrian?" He asked, his brother was whimpering softly, his entire face was covered in the stuff, Draco had been lucky and it was only his arms.
"Damn it Longbottom" Snape was yelling at the front of the room. "Everyone, get to the Hospital Wing. NOW!" The potion's master bellowed, flicking his wand and vanishing the potions they had been working on. Some people were lucky, only having a few drops of Neville's explosion all over them, some like Adrian and Harry were covered in the stuff.
"Mr. Malfoy, you and Adrian shall take the floo, along with Granger and Potter" Hermione wasn't covered in the potion, but she was escorting Harry who was absolutely drenched in the stuff.
"Oh my goodness, what happened?" Madame Pomfrey gasped as the entire fifth year Potions class trooped into the hospital wing. She had already got Harry and Adrian situated behind closed curtains since they would be spending at least the night.
"Longbottom" Snape replied, the boy, thankfully hadn't been caught in the explosion as bad as the people sitting around him, though he too needed a few hours of recovery.
"I see" Poppy said in a tired voice, "Well as soon as I get them all cleaned up they should be able to go, with the exception of Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy" She added.
"How is Adrian?" Severus asked, Lucius was going to kill him, he was already dreading the conversation.
"Well the pain and shock triggered an attack, but it was a mild one. He's got some sever burns on his face however, and he'll need to stay here for a few days in order to recover and relax" She explained, "His twin is with him currently, though Mr. Malfoy will be well enough to return to classes this afternoon" Snape nodded, looking relieved, Draco could floo his parents and explain.
"And Mr. Potter?" He added, more as an afterthought.
"He'll be fine tomorrow, he has similar burns to Adrian, but more on his arms then anywhere else" She glanced at Severus, "Should I inform the Potters?" She asked curiously.
"No, there shouldn't be any lasting effects from this, I was just concerned because of my godson's medical history" Snape said, waving a hand, "Anyway, I'm off to clean my classroom" He glanced at Neville who was sitting on a bed looking shellshocked.
"Fifty points from Gryffindor for inability to follow instructions and endangering lives. Also detention, Saturday night with me Mr. Longbottom" He drawled, causing Neville to flinch as he swept out of the infirmary.
"Git" Ron muttered under his breath as he and Hermione tried to comfort Neville.
Draco stood in Severus' rooms looking hesitantly at the fire place.
"You know their in Italy right?" The blonde teen asked his godfather. "They'll kill us for disturbing them" He added, looking pleadingly at the man whom he practically worshipped.
"I know Draco, but we did tell them we'd call if something happened to your twin, and clearly something happened" Sev said, shaking his head and resting his hand on Draco's shoulder encouragingly.
"Fine, but you're his teacher you should be doing this. Not me" Draco whined, causing Severus to roll his eyes.
"Just call"
"Fine" Draco snapped again, before tossing the green powder into the flames of the fire and calling out the name of his parents hotel and room in flawless Italian.
"Draco?" Narcissa's surprised voice sounded as she looked down at her son.
"Hello Mother" Draco said stiffly, "Just calling to inform you that Adrian's in the hospital wing" He winced as his mother let out a shriek and yelled for her husband. Soon both Malfoy adults were bent over the fire place and looking intently at their son.
"Longbottom?" Lucius asked as Draco finished his story, "That child is a menace to society" He growled, his posture stiff with annoyance.
"I've been saying that for years" Draco muttered, "And so has Sev, no one listens though" Narcissa smiled softly, "Your brother is okay though?" She asked, arching an eyebrow at him.
"Here, Sev'll explain" Draco said, pulling out of the fire only to be replaced by the potion's master.
"Lucius, Narcissa" Severus said, smiling at his oldest and closest friends.
"Severus" Narcissa said warmly as Lucius nodded and smiled in greeting.
"Adrian's in the hospital wing, as Draco said. He sustained some serious burns on his face, though he'll recover without any scars. The shock and pain triggered an attack, but Poppy was able to catch it before it got extreme. He'll be in the infirmary for a few days, at Poppy's request, but he'll be fine in no time" Severus said, jumping into his explanation quickly.
"Well..." Narcissa trailed off, "Just keep an eye on him and update us if anything else happens" She finally said, running her fingers through her hair.
"I'll have a word with Dumbledore when we return, something about making sure our son is in a safe environment" Lucius added.
"Longbottom was punished, he has a detention with me and lost his house fifty points. Would have been more, but Poppy was right there" Severus said, shrugging.
"Anyway, Draco and I will update you soon and I'll have Adrian call you when he's free" He said before withdrawing from the fire place and letting Draco say his goodbyes to his parents.