The Switch (or The Switcharoo)

ANOTHER chapter!

HIT THE FLOOR - chapter 12

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Hermione went to the potions room after she finished her last class. She found Snape’s class still full, so she quietly sat down in the back in the class.

“Professor, what is the potion supposed to do?” a small kid in the front asked, looking though the book in front of him.

“It’s supposed to help you not be so confused.” Snape walked over to the small child’s table and looked at what he was reading. “You have the wrong book. Ten points off. You will wait until class is over to talk about your detention.” Severus walked away, leaving the boy to slouch in his chair.

Hermione moved a seat closer up from where she was. Snape didn’t see her move. She motioned to the Hufflepuff girl beside her to be quiet. The girl just nodded and kept going through the directions in her book.

Since Hermione knew Severus ended up in the front of the room by the end of class, she kept moving every time he would turn around. He didn’t notice her moving around the class, because she wasn’t sitting in the seats at the tables, she would crouch down and just make sure no one would say anything.

As she got to the front, Severus turned around to make sure everyone cleaned their messes and to assign homework. He jumped back and made a small frown. “Miss Granger, what are you doing in my class? Do you not have one of your own to be tending to?” Severus snapped at her.

“Well, actually, Professor, this is my free period. You said to come down after my classes were finished. I didn’t mean to make you jump.” Hermione nonchalantly stated. Some of the other students were trying not to laugh for fear of having more points taken away.

“Make sure you don’t leave anything behind and go. You’re dismissed.” Snape roared to the first years who got their stuff as fast as they could. He motioned for the boy to leave, “I expect you at 8 o’clock, sharp, Smith.”

“No need to be so mean. I was only following orders. Are we going to start on that potion or not?” Hermione asked, almost like a demand.

“You saved the Smith boy from having to stay after class, his detention will interfere, next time points will be taken off, a lot. Now, if you can get the potion Longbottom ruined started, I’ll get the control potion started. Also, try to warn me when you go to make it explode. I don’t want to be you any longer than I have to be.” Severus walked over to the potions cabinet and got the ingredients out, while Hermione set up the cauldrons.

As Hermione was putting the first ingredient in the cauldron, she asked, “So are we going to be in here all night?”

“Have somewhere to be?”

“No, I was just asking, so I could start something myself. I have other things I could do, like homework, instead of being here all night any ways.” Hermione stirred the potion six times every two minutes.

There was a silence after that. Severus was so engrossed in the potion that when Hermione spoke to warn him, he jumped.

“Okay, now’s time to take cover. I’m going to add the ingredients like Neville did.” Hermione waited for Snape to protect his own potion and crouch behind his table. She dropped the lacewings into the potions and barely made it to the floor before the potion exploded.

“Well, I guess that’s it, then. What do we do now?” she asked Snape, who was cleaning the mess the explosion had made again.

“Put a stasis on our potions, go to dinner and come back to analyze what made the potion explode.” Severus was putting a stasis as he answered her question.

They walked to the Great Hall together, talking about their clothing and how odd it looked with them being together.

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Dumbledore noticed Severus and Hermione walk into the Hall. He smiled and made a mental note to ask about it, next time he went to see Severus.

When Severus sat down, Dumbledore twinkled at him and asked about his day.

“It’s as if it was any other day you may ask that. It’s boring and nothings special has happened.” Severus answered like he would every other time Albus asked.

“Well, seems a wardrobe change has come into the picture, Severus. What made you change your mind?” Minerva asked from the other side of Dumbledore.

“If you must ask, Minerva, it was that bloody Gryffindor of yours. She said she could out do me. It was something like a dare. Unfortunately, we’re in the same boat of misery with our clothes.”

Minerva smiled proudly and left Severus to eat his dinner.

Draco and Harry noticed Pansy wasn’t at dinner, Draco felt sick. He really did know how much he messed up. Everyone looked at him and he knew that he was going to be called on later by his father.

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When 8 o’clock came around Severus had everything prepared for the night detention. Devon was at the door when Hermione opened it to leave.

“The potion is on a stasis and whenever you need me back down here, you know where I am.” she turned around and seen Devon waiting, “Oh, hello.” She whispered, “Don’t worry about Snape, he’s a big ol’ softy.”

Severus only heard her murmur and didn’t like it. He had seen the boy try to hide a smile. “Come on, or do you want to continue getting detentions?” Snape demanded. He told the small boy to clean the tables and cauldrons manually.

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Harry and Ron went looking for Hermione after dinner and when they didn’t find her in the library, they found her walking to her rooms.

“Where have you been?” Ron asked.

“I’ve been working on my extra credit stuff. Is there a paper I need to help with?”

Harry interjected, “Hermione, we thought you would like to go down to Hagrid’s. We haven’t been down there in a while.

Hermione stopped before her doors, “I have to work on some more stuff. Tell Hagrid I’ll be down this weekend, please.”

“Ah, Hermione, can’t school wait for a little bit? It’s not like were asking you to kiss Snape!” Ron exclaimed.

“Ron, my homework comes before anything else. Now, I have lots to work on. Please tell Hagrid I said hi.” Hermione walked into her rooms and went straight to work.

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Draco looked in the mirror after lunch, he could see his clothes just fine. What was everyone else seeing though?

‘Harry, What did you do to my clothes? They look just fine.’ Draco thought.

Harry sent him a vision of himself in his boxers that he was wearing today at lunch. Draco couldn’t see anything on his body but his boxers.

‘Draco, you looked fine. A natural model for something like Madam Malkins. Maybe next time you could go a little riskier and try those nearly clear briefs. Those would be nice to see our Slytherin Prince in, a hot muscular.... Oh, I’m getting ahead of myself.’ Harry laughed.

Draco wanted him to go on, though. He wanted to know more of what Harry thought about him.

Draco, himself, wanted to see more of Harry. He liked seeing Harry in his girl clothes. The fact that he had to wear his robes made the wearing of girl’s clothes pointless, because he could cover himself up.

Draco’s thoughts were interrupted when there was a knock on his door. When he went to open the door, Pansy came in, ranting.

“Draco!! What were you doing? Why were you hanging out with Potter? Where are your clothes? What’s happened to you?” She went on with more questions that Draco didn’t quite catch.

He moved over to her and took her into his arms, quieting her, “Pansy, why are you so worried ablut all of my things? What happened to worrying about yourself? I have plenty of clothes on, Harry just put a charm on them, I guess.”

Pansy looked lost, “Harry?? Why... Since when are you on first name basis with Potter? Why would he charm your clothes?”

“Well, you remember the detention Snape gave the Gryffindors? Well, something started and I got dragged in and well... We did a few dares. We have to get along. Snape basically demanded we get along.” Draco told Pansy. She had walked to his wardrobe and looked in at his clothes.

“So, if you put any of these on, only your boxers will be seen? What about teachers? What about word getting to your parents?”

“Well, only Snape can see, maybe Dumbledore. I haven’t gotten a letter from dad yet, so he doesn’t know.” Draco hoped she caught his look, the look that said you say anything and you die.

Pansy went to Draco and wrapped her arms around his neck. “Draco, I won’t tell your parents. I’ll tell everyone else not to send a letter home about it, also, for you.” She kissed Draco, passionately.

She started talking his robes off and unbuttoning his shirt. When his clothes hit the floor, Pansy led Draco to the bed. “I think you can be under my control this time,” she went on to take her own robe and top off. Draco, going along with her, reached up and unclasped her bra, letting it fall off her shoulders. He kissed her again, in the moment.

Then there was a bang that signaled Harry had come in to the common room. Draco stopped kissing Pansy and sat up, making Pansy drop into his lap. Her legs were wrapped around him, “Pansy, you need to go. I can’t do this any longer. I... I just can’t.”

Pansy looked affronted. She hadn’t heard the door down the stairs open or close. “Why, Draco? What’s wrong? You can’t do what any longer?” Confused, she got up and gathered her things.

“I can’t go out with you, Pansy. I can’t pretend any more.”

“Pretend about what? Tell me!!” Pansy screamed at him as she was getting dressed.

“Pansy, I’m gay! I can’t pretend I’m in love with you. We’re only together because of my parents. I’m sorry.” Draco moved to the edge of the bed and waited for Pansy to scream and yell at him.

Pansy didn’t do either, she just said, “I’m sorry, too, but I’m more sorry for falling for you. I don't think I’ll be able to talk to you, or hang around you anymore, Draco. You have no idea how this hurts me.” She walked out his door and left it open, when she was in the common room she just glared at Harry, who just looked at her red rimmed eyes and tears freely falling. She went to her room in the dungeons and wasn’t seen for the rest of the day.

Draco put his pants back on and walked slowly down the stairs and fell on to the couch.

“What happened? I seen Pansy walk out of here, crying.” Harry sat down opposite Draco on a chair.

“I hurt her. I finally broke off everything we had and told her I was gay. She was trying to seduce me and then I heard you come in and was brought back into reality. She said she wouldn’t talk to me, or basically not have anything to do with me ever again.” Draco looked at Harry and seen the sympathy and pity on his face.

“What did I have to do with anything?”


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So, Hermione didn't say negative things about kissing Snape, huh? And Draco told Pansy he was gay... At least she didn't go crazy. :D