Severus Potter and Harry Snape

Chapter 1: To Polyjuice or not to Polyjuice…

 

 

It was breakfast time in the Great Hall and Harry was busy stuffing his face with everything in sight. He was very hungry, as he had spent the previous night training for hours in preparation for the up-coming Gryffindor versus Slytherin match.

"Harry," Hermionie said slowly, "people are going to think that this is the first time you’ve seen food!"

Harry just grunted in reply and carried on trying to spoon as much porridge as he could into his mouth. Hermionie raised an eyebrow and turned to look at Ron, who had spent the last ten minutes in deep conversation with his two brothers Fred and George. The three of them looked as though they were up to something and from what Hermionie could see they were pointing to a glass beaker filled with something that looked suspiciously like…

"Polyjuice Potion!" Hermionie exclaimed, drawing the attention of half the Gryffindor table and Harry, who spat out his porridge all over Colin Creevey’s face.

"Ssshh!" Ron hissed, as he and the twins looked nervously around them. "Do you want us to get caught?!"

" Sorry, it’s just that, well…what on earth are you doing with that?" Hermionie demanded.

Fred smiled evilly and got to his feet, pulling his two brothers with him. He leaned forward towards Harry and Hermionie, so that none of the other interested Gryffindors could hear what they were saying.

"We are going to pull the biggest prank of all time on two teachers!" He said gleefully. "Do you remember how Snape reported us to Mcgonagall for that explosion in Potion’s we had nothing to do with?"

Harry nodded; it had been about two and a half months ago, right at the beginning of the new term. During Fred and Georges Potions lesson an explosion had occurred, it had destroyed almost the entire classroom and a few students had been injured. Snape had not bothered to question anyone about it; he had gone straight to Mcgonagall reporting that it had been the Weasley twins. Professor Mcgonagall had agreed, as the twins were well known for being pranksters and had deducted 60 points from them each, given them a weeks detention and promised that if either of them so much as sneezed at the wrong time, they would be out of the school for good. Ever since then they had both been biding their time, thinking up different ways of getting revenge on the two Professors.

"Look, come up to the Common Room so that we can talk without anyone else listening in." Fred continued, shooting a meaningful stare at a small group of First years who were pretending they were talking amongst themselves.

The five walked quickly up to the Gryffindor Common room, through the Portrait hole and quickly sat down in the nearest chairs.

"We are going to make Snape and Mcgonagall switch. We have their hairs; it took us ages to get them!" Ron said, looking very excited.

"How exactly did you manage to get their hairs…and why didn’t you tell us?" Harry asked, feeling slightly hurt that he hadn’t been included.

"I’m sorry about not telling you." Ron said looking guilty, "It’s just that we thought it would be better if we kept it to ourselves, and trust me when I say…you really don’t want to know what it took to get their hair!"

George and Fred both grimaced as Ron said this, and Harry privately thought that it was probably better that he didn’t know much about it. Hermionie meanwhile, was wearing an expression that rather scarily resembled Professor Mcgonagall when she was very angry.

"You haven’t even planned this out have you?" she said in a very haughty voice, "How exactly do you plan to get them to drink the potion? And since Polyjuice only lasts for up to an hour, before you turn back into yourself again…how do you plan to get them to drink it regularly?"

Harry thought that those were good points. He could remember using Polyjuice in his second year when he was trying to find out who the Heir of Slytherin was. He, Ron and Hermionie had suspected Draco Malfoy, so he and Ron had changed into Crabbe and Goyle, Malfoy’s thuggish cronies. They had managed to get into the Slytherin Common room and talk with Malfoy, but after an hour they had started to turn back into themselves. Polyjuice was also quite dangerous. Hermionie had also tried to change into a Slytherin but instead of getting a hair from the person she wanted to change into, she had gotten a Cat hair. She had spent a long time in the Hospital Wing after that.

"You underestimate us Hermionie. We have a plan about how we can give them the potion, and we have made this Polyjuice a little different to the normal one. It will last up to a week before it wears off and by then we will have had our fun!" George said triumphantly.

"Guys, how did you manage to make it last for that long?" Harry asked. George opened his mouth to answer but Hermionie cut him off.

"I don’t think that they should tell us Harry. The less we know about this the better!"

"Lighten up Hermionie!" said Ron exasperatedly.

"Yeah! It’s going to be so great! Can you guys imagine it?" Fred asked them, trying to control his laughter, "Mcgonagall would walk in being her usual self…only she’d be in Snape’s body…and…" Fred couldn’t carry on; the image of a camp Snape was too much for him. He burst into fits of laughter, drawing curious stares from other people in the room.

"Well, I’m having nothing to do with it!" Hermionie declared as she stood and started walking towards the Portrait hole.

"Where are you going?" Ron asked

"To class…Transfiguration to be precise. And I’m warning you that if you don’t stop this foolish plan…then…then…I’ll tell Mcgonagall!" she said shrilly.

"You wouldn’t!" Ron said rising and looking at her angrily.

"Yes I would! I wouldn’t tell her that it was you but I’d say that I had heard people talking about doing it. It’s for your own good!"

Before Ron or any of them could argue with this, Hermionie turned and flounced out of the room.