belle âme // d.m.

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Aurora stirs awake in the infirmary. She sees Hermione waiting by her.
"You're awake!" Hermione exclaims and engulfs Aurora in a hug.
"Hermione... Can't... Breathe!" Aurora exhales and Hermione immediately releases her.
"Sorry! It's just we were so worried! When that Bludger hit you in the head-" Hermione is cut off by Aurora.
"Wait, a Bludger hit me in the head!?" Aurora shrieks, sitting up on the infirmary bed.
"Yeah, and you fell off your broom!" Hermione adds.
"How am I alive?" Aurora furrows her eyebrows.
"Draco... He was chasing the snitch against Harry..." She trails.
"And?" Aurora asks softly.
"And he stopped, basically threw the game, to save you," She states.
"What?" Aurora's eyes widen. "Why would he do that?"
"Your guess is just as good as mine," Hermione shrugs her shoulders.



Aurora speeds through the hall and then finally spots the bright, platinum blonde head of hair that she's been looking for.
"Malfoy!" She shouts. Draco turns around and sees the blonde girl walking up to him.
He looks to Crabbe and Goyle, whom he was walking with, and tells them to go on.
"Watson?" He asks as Aurora finally gets close enough so they don't have to shout at each other.
"I just wanted to say thanks for saving my life... again," Aurora chuckles at the last part.
Draco softly smiles, but then suppresses it. "It's fine. Just stop putting yourself in situations where you need to be saved."
"If I could help it I would," She laughs softly, and Draco can't help but laugh too. Aurora was shocked that he was laughing with her, but she hid her surprise.
"So, yeah, thank you, Draco. You're not as bad as people say," She states. Then she contemplates something. She wraps her arms around his neck and pulls him into a hug. Draco tensed up. But then he slowly relaxed and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Thanks, Aurora," he exhales softly.

"Did you get it?" Hermione asks.
"Yes, I had to wrestle the wild beast to get a piece of her hair," Aurora chuckles as she holds up a strand of Pansy Parkinson's hair. Harry and Ron also hold up their strands of Crabbe and Goyle's hair. Hermione hands the three of them Slytherin robes.
"I snagged those out of the laundry," Hermione states proudly. She then turns to the potion behind her. "I'm sure I've done everythingright. It looks like the booksaid it should. Once we've drunkit, we'll have exactly one hourbefore we change back intoourselves."
"Now what?" Ron asks.
"We separate it into four glassesand add the hairs," Hermione replies. Harry and Ron grimace.
"That seems a bit... unsanitary," Aurora sneers as she looks at the Pansy hair in her hand. Hermione pours the potion into the vials. Aurora, Harry, and Ron change into the robes Hermione glass. Everyone puts the hair strands in their vials.
"Ugh. Essence of Crabbe," Ron mutters, disgustedly. Everyone drinks their bottles. "I think I'm gonna be sick!" He sprints into a stall.
"Ditto!" Aurora shouts and sprints into the stall next to Ron. She feels her face move around and her features change. She looks down and sees that she gets a bit taller.
"Harry?" Ron asks as he walks out.
"Ron?" Harry's eyes widen.
Aurora slowly opens the stall door and walks out.
"Bloody hell..." Ron trails. "You looks just like Pansy."
"We still sound like ourselves.You need to sound more likeCrabbe, and you need to sound more like Pansy," Harry tells the two.
"Bloody hell," Ron states, in a lower voice.
"Dracy poo! I missed you so much! I love you!" Aurora makes her voice higher and sound more annoying.
Harry and Ron laugh. "That's spot on!" Ron cackles.
Aurora turns around and see's Hermione hasn't left her stall. "'Mione, you okay?" She asks.
"I- I don't think I'm going. You go on without me," Aurora states.
"Hermione-"
"Just go! You're wasting time!" Hermione exclaims.
The three of them leave the bathroom and start heading towards the Slytherin common room, but they come across Percy Weasley.
"What are you doing here?" Ron asks in his low Crabbe voice.
"I happen to be a prefect," Percy scoffs. "You, on the other hand, have no business wandering the corridors at night. It's not safe these days."
"You can't tell us what to do," Aurora scoffs in her Pansy voice.
Percy opens his mouth to speak, but then they hear Draco's
"Crabbe. Goyle. Where have you been? Pigging out in the Great Hall all this time?" Draco scoffs as he walks towards the four people. He then looks at Aurora, whom he thinks is Pansy. "Pansy."
"Hey, Dracy," Aurora smiles and links her arm with Draco's. Draco shakes his head and shakes her off. He then turns to Percy.
"And what are you doing down here, Weasley?" Draco asks with a glare and his iconic Draco sass.
"Mind your attitude, Malfoy," Percy growls. "You want to show a little bit more respect to a school Prefect!"
"Come on, guys," Draco scoffs. "Weasley thinks he's going to catch Slytherin'shair single-handed." Draco then walks off in the other direction and Harry, Ron, and Aurora follow him. Once they get into the common room. Draco grabs a Daily Prophet newspaper and falls backwards on the couch. Aurora sits right next to him and snuggles next to him.
"Pansy, you smell different," Draco squints his eyes at the girl. Aurora's eyes widen.
"W-What?" Aurora stutters.
"You smell like... Watson," He scoffs.
"Excuse me? How dare you compare the way I smell to that lame excuse for a witch. She's a filthy half-blood!" Aurora cringed to herself as she said this, but didn't let it show.
"I'm probably going crazy," Draco shakes his head. He then looks at the front page of the newspaper. "Listen to this..." He begins to read the front page. "'Arthur Weasley, Head of theMisuse of Muggle Artifacts Office,was today fined fifty Galleons for bewitching a Muggle car. "Weasley has brought the Ministry intodisrepute," said Lucius Malfoy, agovernor of Hogwarts. "He isclearly unfit to draw up our laws and his ridiculous Muggle Protection Act should be scrappedimmediately."'" Malfoy grins widely and then looks at Harry and Ron. "Arthur Weasley loves Muggle somuch he should snap his wand inhalf and go join them. You'dnever know the Weasleys werepurebloods, the way they behave.Embarrassment to the wizarding world. All of them."
Ron growls lowly and Harry elbows his side. Draco furrows his eyebrows at the two of them.
"What's up wrong you, Crabbe?" Draco asks.
"Stomachache," Ron mutters.
"Well, go to the hospital wingand give all those Mudbloods a kickin the arse for me!" Draco exclaims. "You know, I'msurprised The Daily Prophet hasn't reported all these attacks yet. I suppose Dumbledore's trying to hushit all up. He'll be sacked if itdoesn't stop soon. Father alwayssaid Dumbledore's the worst thing that's ever happened to this place."
"You're wrong!" Harry snarls.
"What? Did you say that I waswrong?" Draco huffs. "You think there's someonehere who's worse than Dumbledore?"
"Harry Potter," Harry states, cooly.
"Good one, Goyle," Draco chuckles. "You'reabsolutely right. Saint Potter.He's another one with no properwizard feeling, or he wouldn't goaround with that Mudblood Granger."
"Don't forget Watson! She's the worst witch out there!" Aurora scoffs.
"Pansy, would you stop going on and on about her. It's like every day now! You're just jealous of her," Draco scoffs.
"Jealous!" Aurora shrieks. "Why would I be jealous of her!?"
"Because she's actually pretty," Draco rolls his eyes.
"How dare you!" Aurora exclaims. She then turns away from Draco, but the thought didn't leave her mind. Did Draco actually think she was pretty?
"And people actually think Potter's theHeir of Slytherin," Draco continues the conversation from before. Harry then looks at Draco.
"Then you must have some idea who's behind it all?" Harry asks.
"You know I haven't, Goyle. Howmany times do I have to tell you?" Draco rolls his eyes. "But my father did say this much:It's been fifty years since theChamber was opened. He wouldn'ttell me who opened it--only that they were expelled--but I know this: the last time the Chamberof Secrets was opened, a Mudblooddied. So it's only a matter of timebefore one of them's killed thistime. As for me... I hope it's Granger." Aurora begins to growl, but Draco doesn't notice because Ron starts to get angry, but Harry holds him back.
"What's the matter with you two?You're acting very... odd," Draco furrows his eyesbrows. Aurora then sees that Harry's scar is coming back Then Ron's hair turns red again. Ron and Harry see Aurora's nose go from Pansy's back to her.
"I need to go to the restroom!" She yelps and runs out.
"Same!"
"Me too!"
The three of them dash tho the girl's bathroom and they change back into their normal selves.
"That was close!" Ron sighs with relief.
"Hermione, come out. We've gotloads to tell you!" Harry exclaims.
"Go away!" Hermione shouts.
"Ooh, wait till you see. It'sawful!" Moaning Myrtle giggles. Hermione unlocks the door and slowly opens it, but not all the way.
"Do you remember me telling you thePolyjuice Potion was only forhuman transformations?" Hermione asks. She then steps into the light. She's like a half-human, half-cat.
"It was cat hair I plucked offMillicent Bulstrode's robes! Lookat my face!" Hermione whines.
"Look at your tail," Ron's eyes widen.

-Two Weeks Later-

Draco sneaks into the infirmary late at night and goes past the other petrified students. He then finds Aurora and sits in the chair next to her bed.
"Come on, Watson," He sighs. "I thought you were smarter than that. You better hope they get a cure for this petrification or else my father will hear about this."
He then shakes his head. "Why am I even here?" He asks no on in particular. "I mean I'm risking getting caught and for what." He then looks down at her face that's staring off into nothingness. He lets out a soft breath. "Please get through this, Rora."
He then leans his head down and places a soft kiss on her temple.