Memory Loss (Harry Potter Drarry slash)

19: [And so the Tables Were Turned 8] A Good Thrashing

One, two, three, four ...

No, this could not be happening, it was just a dream, just a dream ...

A nightmare! He had eight sisters, for fuck's sake! Eight! And they all looked the same! He did not even know which one of them was the real Piper!

Oh, man, I'm gonna faint, Draco thought miserably.

Thump.

He looked to his side. Why hadn't he fainted?

"Harry?"

Harry was lying flat on his back on the floor, a shocked expression on his face. Draco squatted beside him to take a closer look. "Harry, you fainted for me?" he asked, but of course there was no answer. Unsure of what you were supposed to do when somebody fainted-it was always him blacking out-he checked if Harry was breathing. With that done, he rose to his feet again and faced all of Piper's faces. "Okay, which of you is the real one?" he demanded.

"I am!" all of them shrieked, raising their arms like a certain Hermione Granger used to during their school days ...

So that did not work. Had to try another strategy, then. "Okaaay ... so maybe I should just go to Japan and get Yousuke so he can figure out who of you is his real girlfriend-'junsui no kanojo', isn't it? Great, I'll just do that ..."

One of the Pipers gave a shrill shriek. "Oh no! Yousuke! I have to tell him not to come here! What if he comes to visit and meets one of the clones?! There's no telling what could happen!"

Draco immediately pointed at the Piper speaking. "YOU! Three steps forward now! The rest of you, stay where you are until I tell you otherwise!"

One of the clones began to cry. "Wuuaaaah, Draco you're always so mean to meeee!" she wailed.

"Yeah, yeah, what else is new?" he said impatiently. He turned to his real sister. "Come over here, I have an idea."

She lightened up. "Oh, you do? What is it?"

He took out his wand. "We need to present them with different kinds of clothing. We have to decide on some sort of dress code or colour code in order to tell you apart from each other-especially the clones. So you stay here, and I'll decide who will be who, okay? Dress yourself up all in black, all right?"

Piper frowned. "Why black?"

"It's a neutral colour." He went over to the first clone. "All right. Do you know what just happened here? Because Piper over there tried to multiply her powers, not herself ..."

The Piper clone before him lit up like a light bulb. "Oh, oh, oh, I know this one! I know this one! Her spell backfired and instead of multiplying her powers she made all her personal qualities come alive in the shape of another Piper! You know, all the different sides to her personified ..."

Draco raised an eyebrow in bafflement and studied the clones one by one. "There are seven sides to my sister?" he asked.

"Oh, yes! She is multifaceted, you see! And I'm her gay self!"

Draco swirled around at the word 'gay.' His eyes huge with astonishment, he breathed, "What?!"

The clone laughed nervously. "Oh, sorry, I didn't mean gay as in 'homosexual,' I meant gay as in 'merry.' You know-genki!"

"Genki?"

"Yeah-genki! A Japanese word for someone who's very energetic, very merry, and very vital-you know, genki!" That annoying laughter again.