Silver and Gold // Dramione

Execution

6th Year, September 13th

The four of them spent the two hours before supper cramped in the Slytherin Common room on one couch. They couldn't risk a younger student coming up unexpectedly and hearing the plan.

Theo spent his whole afternoon slaving over the cauldron in the boys bathroom, adding the final charms and animal hairs that Blaise had his older sister mail in via owl the night before.

They had six variations in total: a bird's feather, which would produce a beak; the pig's hair, would give the injester a piggy snout; Chipmunk nose and expandable cheeks; cat whiskers. Last was Theo's personal favorite, the elephant trunk: which took considerable charm work as it would stand that elephants do not have hair or feathers, and Draco had to shave away sections of a tusk.

They were light-hearted animals, and Draco hoped that would help their hope to not get expelled; by making it seem like a harmless prank that went haywire when Blaise tried to "kidnap" the Mudblood.

Pansy and Theo had racked their brains on how to distract Potter and Weasley in order to separate Granger from them. They very quickly decided that pretending to be amused by Quidditch strategies would not work in their favour. Taking a note from potions class earlier in the day, they decided the best course of action would be to bombard them with questions about the Liquid Luck, and how they intended to use their prize.

Pansy would act flirtily towards Weasley in the hopes of distracting him from Granger particularly. They assumed she would be wonderful at it, given all the years of practice she had with Draco.

That was when Blaise would slip in and ask Granger for help brewing Draught of Living Death after his failed attempt in class earlier. He would ask to excuse her and confess at being poor potions students in need of a tutor. They anticipated Granger's Gryffindor pride would run equal with her over-friendly personality, and she wouldn't refuse helping another student.

Meanwhile in the Great Hall, Pansy and Theo would turn themselves in after the positions kicked in, and would offer to distribute the antidote to McGonagell once Blaise had successfully taken Granger away, and the plan that involved Draco had started.

Draco had to maintain his image of innocence, pretending he was not involved in the prank on the Great Hall would ensure the professors' trust in him. He wasn't even going to go for dinner, instead he was going to wait outside the corridor of the Room of Requirement to see when Blaise brought her in. Then he would intercept him right as he put her in the Vanishing Cabinet.

He would act shocked and confused to see Blaise, and Granger who would be stunned.

The plan from there was to "argue" with Blaise for a few seconds, then levitate him, unstun the Mudblood, and turn his friend in. It was a simple plan in his head, but he could think of a million ways it could go wrong.

Nott's potion could backfire and not work, or the antidote could not be strong enough to cure so many people inflicted. That would surely end in harsher punishments for Pansy and Theo.

Potter and Weasley could see through their distractions and Blaise wouldn't be able to get Granger out of the hall before the potion kicked in. Or Granger would be intrigued by their conversation and would simply tell Blaise she could tutor him later.

Lastly, Draco was worried that someone on the other side of the Vanishing Cabinet would sense that an object, or in this case a person, had been placed in and send them over. They had decided to not actually send her through due to the unknown possibilities, but Draco still wasn't sure how the Cabinet's magic worked.