Chapter 11: Polyjuice Potion & Veritiserum

"Do you know if Harry talked to Ron, Gin?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know. He ran into the common room as we were leaving."

"Could you guys go find out? I don't think I can wait any longer."

"Yeah, sure. Let's go Sabrina, I'll get back to you as soon as I can," Ginny said, with a smile.

"Thank you so much, Ginny. It was wonderful meeting you, Sabrina."

Sabrina smiled and got up, her and Ginny walked to the portrait door and left. As they were walking down the hall, Ginny saw Blaise walking toward them with his friend Gabrielle.

"Hey, Weasley, is Draco in the common room?" He asked.

"Yeah, him and Hermione are," Ginny said, "Why?"

"I gotta talk to him."

"Oh, ok. I'll see you later then."

"See ya, Gin."

Blaise and Gabrielle walked by them to the common room. As Ginny and Sabrina continued down the hall, they walked by a closet and heard a bump against the door. Ginny stopped, and tried to open the door, but it was locked.

"Is someone in there?" Ginny asked.

"Yes, please, open the door," a male voice said.

"Alohamora!" said Ginny, and the door swung open, and the person fell right out. Ginny looked at the boy in shock.

"Ginny, isn't that...?" said Sabrina, pointing to him.

"Ron."

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Blaise and Gabrielle got to the picture and banged on it. Draco got up and answered it.

"Blaise? Gabrielle?" Draco said, surprised to see them both, "What are you two doing here?"

"Draco, we need to talk," Gabrielle said, sternly.

"About what?"

"My cousin, Pansy."

"Draco, who is it?" Hermione called.

"It's Blaise and Gabrielle," he called back, "come in guys, sit."

They came into the common room and went over to the couch and chairs and sat.

"What's going on?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know, they want to talk to us about Pansy."

"What about her?"

"Well," Gabrielle started, "she was talking to me about how you guys were dating"

"Apparently, she went to the restricted section in the library and found a book with the polyjuice potion in it" Blaise continued, "stole all the ingredients from Snape's closet, and took a vile of Veritaserum."

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Harry stared at Ron with shock and disbelief. Harry watched as Ron shrunk on the spot, his messy red hair turning black and growing shoulder length.

"Parkinson?!" Harry said.

Pansy turned and saw Harry staring at her, "Potter! Erm, what- what're you doing here?"

"This is my dorm, Parkinson. How could you do that?"

"Draco doesn't deserve that filthy mudblood. He belongs with me."

"Making Ron do something like that is not going to make Draco want you. Come on."

"Where are we going?"

Harry ignored her question as he grabbed Pansy's arm and pulled her along side of him as they walked to the Head's Common Room.

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"What did she end up doing?" Draco asked.

"Well what she told me," said Gabrielle, "was that she was going to find out how Ron felt about Hermione and try to use it against her. Pansy made some polyjuice potion and became Ron."

There was a knock on the door and Hermione ran to get it. When she opened it, there was Harry gripping Pansy's arm, hold her against him.

"Oh my, Harry, uhm come in." Hermione said, as Harry and Pansy climbed through the portrait hole. "Draco, guess who just showed up."

"Who?"

"Harry and Pansy."

"Gabrielle!" Pansy shrieked, when she saw her cousin. "I didn't know you'd be here."

"Don't try and be all 'I love you cousin' Pansy, you're such a dolt. I still can't believe you did that." Gabrielle told her, "I am so embarrassed to even call you my cousin. That was a terrible thing."

Draco got up and walked over to Pansy, "What were you thinking?"

Pansy looked up at him, with tears in her eyes, "I don't know Draco, I just don't want to see you with that disgusting mudblood. You're a pureblood, Draco, you don't need that filth."

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Ginny scrambled over to Ron and helped him up, "Ron, how'd you get in here? You were just in the common room with a bloody nose."

"Pansy locked me in here. So whatever happened, that was all her, I had nothing to do with it."

"What did she do to you?"

"I don't know, I don't remember anything."

Ginny looked at Sabrina, "Run and get Professor McGonagall."

Sabrina nodded and headed for her office. Ginny and Ron sat on the floor next to each other and wait for Sabrina to return with the Headmistress. About ten minutes had passed when Sabrina came back, Professor McGonagall following right behind her.

"What has happened here?" McGonagall asked.

"It's quite a long story Professor, but I will tell you that we must get everyone else that was part of this." Ginny replied.

"Very well, where are they?"

"They are all most likely in the Head's Common Room."

"All right, Miss Dumbledore, please go there and tell everyone to report to my office immediately."

"Yes, Professor."

"Now, Miss Weasley, will you and your brother please come to my office, and we will wait for the rest to join us."

"Yes, ma'am," replied Ginny as she and Ron got up. They followed Professor McGonagall to her office and waited.

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Draco hit Pansy, "You have no right insulting Hermione any more then I do, Parkinson. I don't care if she's a mudblood anymore. My feelings for her are to strong for blood history to get in the way."

"What will your father say about this, then, Draco? Surely he will not be pleased that his one and only son, is in love with a mudblood," she said, snidely.

"I will deal with my father, now leave him out of this. You, nor anyone else, will speak a word of this."

"But Draco I--" Pansy was interrupted by another knock at the door, Blaise got up and got it this time.

"Who are you?" Blaise asked.

"I'm Sabrina, erm Dumbledore I'm a friend of Ginny's. Please let me in."

"Draco?"

"Yeah?"

"Come here."

Draco got up and walked over to Blaise, "What?"

"You know her?" asked Blaise, pointing to Sabrina.

"Yeah, let her in. What up Sabrina?"

"Uhm Pro-fess-or Mc-Gon-agal" Sabrina sputtered, catching her breath, "wants everyone to come to her office. Immediately."

"Alright. Guys," Draco called, "We have to go to the Headmistress's office, immediately." All six of them got up from the couches, chairs, and the floor and followed Sabrina to McGonagall's office.

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Ginny and Ron sat patiently in the office for their friends to show up. Finally after about fifteen minutes, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in," said McGonagall.

"You wanted to see us, Professor?" Hermione said.

"Yes, I want to know why Mr. Weasley was locked in a closet."

"That would be the doing of my cousin, ma'am, Pansy," Gabrielle said, pointing to Pansy.

"Well Miss. Parkinson, please explain."

Pansy sighed and looked at the floor, "Well, a couple weeks ago, I kinda eavesdropped on a conversation Draco had with Blaise about how he, Draco I mean, was going out with that mudbl--"

"Language, Miss. Parkinson."

"Sorry, with Hermione, and I just couldn't take it."

"And what did you do to Mr. Weasley?"

Pansy opened her mouth to answer, when Professor Snape came barging in. He was shocked and embarrassed to see that the Headmistress' office was not empty. "Pardon me, Minerva."

"Yes, Severus, what is it?"

"Well, I was just in my Potions closet and someone was in there, most likely a student, and stole more herbs, and a vile of Veritaserum. It seems someone is making Polyjuice Potion," he said, looking at Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Harry and Ron glared at him, while Hermione looked at her hands on her lap.

"Yes, well it seems, we've found the culprit." She said, nodding toward Pansy. Snape looked at her with an eyebrow raised, Pansy smiled at him guiltily, "Miss Parkinson stole it?"

"Yes, Severus. She was just about to tell us what happened, when you came in. Please continue Pansy."

"Well, I knocked out Ron and brought him to a broom closet, when he woke up, I made him drink the Veritiserum. After he did I asked him about Hermione, hoping to get her and Draco to brake up, but it obviously didn't work."

"Obviously," Hermione said, rolling her eyes and her arms crossed.

"Miss Parkinson, I am absolutely appalled by this news!" Snape said. "Slytherin will definitely be losing house points for this!"

"What's my punishment?" Pansy asked.

"Professor Snape and I will decide that, while you wait outside my office. As for the rest of you, please go to your correct common rooms. Right now, I do not want students were they are not to be."

"Yes, ma'am," they all replied. They all got up and left the office and went their separate ways.

"See you guys at breakfast," Draco said to Blaise and Gabrielle as they walked away.

"Night, Ginny," Hermione said, hugging her friend. Hermione looked over at Ron, "Are you alright, Ronald?"

Ron looked at her, "Yeah, I'm fine. I'm so sorry, Hermione."

"It's ok, Ron," she said, smiling. She placed her hand on his shoulder, and kissed his cheek, "I'm just glad you're ok."

Ron looked at her, blushing, and gave her a hug. Ron, Harry, and Ginny walked back to the Gryffindor common room.

Hermione looked at Draco as they went back to their room, "What do you think they will do with Pansy?"

"Well, most likely expel her. That is about all they can do that will get her parents upset but once she explains why, she will be praised."

"Why?"

"She hit a mudblood, erm sorry, didn't mean that," he quickly said, after he realized what came out of his mouth.

She smiled at him and put her arm around his waist, "It's ok."
He smirked and placed his arm around her shoulders, "Pureblood can't stand half-bloods or muggle-borns. It's just the way we were raised to be."

"I can't stand that. How can you hate someone just because of their blood?"

"Well, look at our past. We hated each other, and why?"

"Because of our blood, but that still doesn't answer my question."

"Well Purebloods just believe that we are better that half-bloods and muggle-borns because we are full blooded wizards. No muggle in us at all."

"And luckily for me," Hermione said with a grin, as they reached the entrance to the Head's room, "you've been able to put it aside."

"I, unlike my family, don't mind change."

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure, equus," he said, looking at the portrait.

The portrait door swung open and they both climbed in, Hermione walked over and started the fire, Draco laid down on the couch watching, "Why does your family, well more your father, hate the Weasleys, if they are pureblooded?"

"My father says they are blood traitors, they don't mind being seen in public with half-bloods or muggle-borns. The Weasleys were brought up differently than I was," Draco said, as Hermione snuggled on top of him, on the couch, "they were brought up to like everyone, and I was not. I was to dislike anyone who was not a pureblood, everyone else was to be considered filth and unworthy of our company."

"Well, I'm glad you don't mind it any more."

Hermione looked up at him, smiling. She turned over, leaned up and gave him a loving, passionate kiss. Draco looked deep into her eyes as she pulled away, "Hermione?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you."

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