The Contrarium Potion

Chapter 3:

Harry saw the two older boys hiding behind Snape's classroom door. He walked next to them and saw through the crack of the slightly open door that Snape was in there. Harry was surprised to see that Snape was watering some gorgeous white lilies that were radiating like the low candle light in the room. Actually, the lilies were glowing. That's something you don't see everyday; Snape watering lilies. He wanted to laugh out loud but he didn't want to get caught, so decided against it.

After about what seemed like five minutes but really it was actually only one, Snape left the flowers on his desk and left the classroom with the door locked. He didn't notice the twins quickly ran to a corner and that they were hiding behind it. Once Snape turned down a different corner the boys ran to the door, used the unlocking charm and opened it slowly so it wouldn't creak letting Snape or someone nearby know that they were there.

When inside the dreary classroom the sweet smell of the lilies hit Harry's nose making him take a deep breath in. The lilies smelt of, well lilies but also smelt like magic; if that was even possible. Fred and George first walked over to check out the lovely luminous lilies that Snape obviously cares for. The twins poked the flower a couple of times to see if anything would happen. After about thirty seconds of waiting for something interesting to occur; to their dismay nothing did, they both shrugged simultaneously and walked off to the shelf of miscellaneous potions.

The two mischievous redheaded boys skimmed through a wide range of unique potions. Harry went to look at the potions as well and noticed a concoction Hermione made. Hermione always studies so hard; he tried to study but he never had the best attention span. Then Harry turned to the twins once again. "Hey Georgie, smell this." Fred said, handing George a bubbling lime green vial, with a label on the back that had bad handwriting, almost as bad as Harry's. The label was slightly coming off but the twins didn't seem to notice it. George took the vial to his hands, without looking at the label he opened the bottle and took a quick whiff.

George gagged and said "Eww, that's disgusting Freddie." The identical brothers laughed but after a few seconds George started to grow long nose hair from his nostrils that went all the way to the ground . Fred started to laugh even more. George was confused by this, he was about to say something until he caught his reflection on a swirly white potion vial in front of him that was on the wooden shelf.

"Wow, I never looked better. Do you think Angelina would like it?" George asked.

Fred answered "Maybe if she's into people who look like Snape." Harry couldn't help but snort. The no longer identical twins looked to where the snort had come from. Uh, oh Harry thought I'm caught. The tall redheads both raised their eyebrows. "I think we should speed this up. Don't you think so George?" Fred asked his brother with the extremely long nose hair.

"Exactly what I was thinking Fred." Both of them turned back to the shelf to look for the potion Malfoy wanted in exchange for the Slytherin password. After about five more minutes passed Fred found an electric orange potion. Fred held it up for George to examine it to see if it was the strength potion that they needed. "The strength potion is orange right?" George asked this brother with the normal nose hair.

"I believe so... wait there is a label." Fred turned the bottle so he could read the label. Harry recognized the potion from earlier, it was the one that Hermione made. The label was new so she must have made it recently. The label had very delicate and neat handwriting. "It says Contrarium. Do you know what that means?" asked Fred.

"No but I got an idea." George answered back with a devilish smile playing at his lips. Fred was intrigued by this. "We don't actually have to give Malfoy the strengthening potion instead we can take the label off this one and give it to him, he won't see the difference."

"I like it but we can make another label that says strength and put it on the bottle" Fred said. Both their eyes twinkled with mischief. Fred ripped off the label that read Contrarium then George took the orange bottle and his wand to magically put on the label that says strength.

Harry worried if Malfoy could tell the difference and what would happen when he drinks it, will it hurt him? He couldn't bear the thought of Malfoy crying, it tears his heart apart. He knew that Malfoy is extremely good at potions, almost as good as Hermione. So it will be fine, right?

Fred magically burned the old label to destroy the evidence. "I wonder what will happen to Malfoy when he drinks it?" George asked his brother.

"I hope it's something hilarious but nothing too bad or Harry will kill us." Fred answered.

George said "Right, Harry won't like it if we did something bad to his future husband." Harry blushed at what George said and repeated "future husband" in his head. He liked the thought of Malfoy being his husband. Having a life away from all the people who expect him to be "The chosen one." He also liked the thought of living in a home where he is loved, cared for and someone that he can love/care for as well. The future is uncertain but one thing is certain, Draco Malfoy will always be in Harry's heart whether he knows or not. Harry blushed even more at the thought. Thank Merlin no one can see him turning into a tomato. Wait, something clicked in Harry's head. Fred and George knew about his crush on Malfoy? How? Was it that obvious? Does Malfoy know? Probably not or he would tease him relentlessly.

"So what are we going to do with this?" George asked as he waved his hand around his lengthy nostril hair that was the same color as the hair on his head but just a bit darker.

Fred smiled. "It looks good on you." You can tell that George was asking Fred, are you serious from his facial expression. "Ok, Ok I'll use the cutting charm but don't move" Fred said, trying not to laugh. George stood very still, he did not want to get cut in half. Fred did the spell flawlessly and the long nostril hair fell to the ground like a leaf dancing in the wind, gliding downward to the floor.

George bent down, took the hair neatly to put it in his pocket on his robe while saying "I'm keeping this."

"Sometimes I wonder how mum can live with us," Fred said. George laughed and agreed. When Harry went to spend Christmas with the Weasley's last year he was surprised but mostly grossed out from what he saw and smelled in the twins bedroom. It was a mess, a magical mess. He was pretty sure there might be something living in that mess. The only reason He went into the room in the first place was to get the quaffle so he could play with the Weasleys. Harry felt kind of sorry for Mrs. Weasley that she had to deal with not only the twins' constant pranking but their awfully messy and smelly room.

Fred held up the potion, "Time to give this to Draco Potter." The twins smiled at Harry's direction and then headed out the classroom.  Harry had to make sure that the cloak was still on. Did the twins know that he was there or did they just coincidentally look at his direction? It's just the twins being the twins he guessed. Then Harry thought about what Fred said. Harry Malfoy or Draco Potter? Harry thought that Harry Malfoy sounded better.

Harry got out of the classroom right before the twins could close the door on him. He walked right behind them, smiling and blushing like a fool under his invisibility cloak thinking about a certain blonde bad boy. Why did he have to fall for a hot bad boy, especially one that despises him?