Chapter 43 - 44

There was a Christmas party going on in the Great Hall and it looked magnificent.

There was beautiful silver looking Christmas trees, and mistletoe and holly decorated the ceiling. The ceiling was enchanted to make dry and warm to the touch snowfall.

Evan and Harry had just finished their third pudding. Hermione led them out of the great hall to start their plan.

It wasn't difficult getting Crabbe and Goyle's hair

With two cupcakes laced with a sleeping potion, those two were at their mercy.

But the hard thing was Evan and Harry hiding them in the closet of the hallway, making sure no saw them, and finally pulling out a few hairs and taking their clothing.

The trouble was Hermione, Evan insisted that the black hair in her hand wasn't McGonagall's hair, but a cat's hair.

"Impossible, Evan!" said Hermione stubbornly, "This is what I got from her clothes."

"But her Animagus form is a cat, you have the hair from that form since it's is almost identical to it, so be careful."

Finally, after Evan's insistence, the three had to return to the great hall to look for an opportunity to get another person's hair.

When they saw Pansy Parkinson stand up from the table and go towards Snape, Hermione hurriedly headbutted her. And pulled some hair from her before the other had a chance to say anything.

When Hermione apologized to her, Evan and Harry saw Snape look at them with a hostile sneer, the two of them stood up and hurried to the bathroom without a second to spare.

"This is the best opportunity since students will begin to return after Christmas."

"It says after the user drinks it they will have exactly one hour before they change back to themselves. Our plan is fool proof, people will just see Crabbe, Goyle, and Parkinson."

Hermione then scooped up the potion and poured it into three goblets.

Her hands trembled as she put the hair of Parkinson in the goblet.

The Polyjuice potion made a bubbling noise and a second later it became an ugly brownish black colour.

"It's up to you," said Hermione

Harry hastily threw in Goyle's hair and Evan threw in Crabbe's hair.

The two cups started bubbling and hissing. Goyle's became an earthy yellow while Crabbe's became a dark brown.

"Well what shall we do now?" asked Harry

"Of course, we shall drink it," said Hermione nervously

"Hopefully the taste isn't too bad, cheers" Evan took the goblet, and chugged it down in a single gulp, he then turned and ran to the nearest toilet.

The Polyjuice potion tasted horrible, when he swallowed it, he felt a burning sensation spread through his stomach, finger, and toes, he felt like he was going to melt.

His skin felt like bubbling hot wax which made him drop to the ground, he watched as his hands began to grow, his finger grew thicker, his nails widened, and his knuckles bulged like bolts.

As Evan's shoulders stretched, he began to fell an acute pain.

A tingling sensation on his forehead told him that his head was changing, and as his chest swelled his robe burst.

Everything happened quickly and quickly stopped.

Although in the book he read about this countless times the feeling of becoming Crabbe is an indescribable feeling. Evan effortlessly took off his small uniform and put on Crabbe's clothes. He then heard Goyle's voice shout out.

"Are you two all right?"

"I'm ok!" answered Evan in Crabbe's voice.

Evan went to the mirror to look at himself, he looked exactly like Crabbe.

Harry and Hermione have also become Goyle and Parkinson.

"Are you done looking, we have already wasted over five minutes of precious time! We better go to Slytherin's common room and hope that Malfoy is there."

They then carefully opened the door of the bathroom and saw that no one was there.

They then mimicked the movements of the person they were supposed to be.

Under Hermione's leadership, the trio went toward Slytherin's common room, but they stopped when they saw the person standing in front of them, it was Snape.

"Good evening, Parkinson, Goyle, and Crabbe." said Snape in in a slow and low voice, "What are you doing here?"

"I, we..."

Evan and Harry looked at each other, they didn't know what to say.

But Crabbe and Goyle seemed to be like this normally, Snape then ignored them and watched Hermione with interest.

"Professor, we're going back to the common room," said Hermione cautiously.

"Oh, why?!" said Snape softly, "Miss Parkinson, please come to my office before that, I think it is worth discussing a bit about the party."

"But, professor..." said Harry, he couldn't go any further he didn't have a reason to stop Snape from taking Pansy Parkinson.

Evan and Harry watched as Hermione was taken away by Snape.

"Is this also called fool proof?" asked Harry anxiously, "I wonder if she will be alright."

"I think we should follow the original plan, and when we are finished with Malfoy, then we try to save Hermione," said Evan

"That's easy to say, but do you have any idea where the Slytherin common room is?"

Evan shook his head when he realized this problem.

The empty dungeon corridor is like a maze, after a quarter of an hour they were back where they started.

They came to a hallway with three ways they could go, one was toward Snape's office, the other was where nearly headless nick held his birthday party, and the other was one where they have never been down before. But Evan saw a painting of a silver bowl of fruit which should be the secret path leading to Hogwarts' kitchen.

"Not here, I remember this mirror, we just saw it, maybe we should go to the left," said Harry while being unsure.

"No that leads to the Hufflepuff common room."

Just as the two were full of despair, they saw Draco Malfoy walking toward them, this was the first time Evan has ever been happy to see him.

"What are you two standing here for, I thought you'd be back already?"

Evan and Harry just nodded, and Malfoy took them to the right side of an empty damp stone wall.

"What's the new password?" said Malfoy to harry

"well...?" Harry faltered

"Oh, yes, it's pureblood!" said Malfoy

As soon as his voice fell, they saw an opening slowly form in the wall, and Malfoy strode in, followed by Evan and Harry.

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Slytherin's common room was big, the walls and ceiling were made out of rough stones, and green lights hung from the ceiling. There was a beautifully carved fireplace, that was surrounded by several Slytherin students.

"You two wait here, my father just sent me something" Malfoy instructed them to sit in two empty chairs by the fire.

They didn't expect to see what Lucius Malfoy had sent him without asking.

They wondered if what Lucius sent was related to the chamber of secrets.

A moment later Malfoy returned holding a newspaper clipping and stuffed it under Harry's nose.

"Goyle you will laugh when you see this."

Evan saw Harry tremble slightly; he could see what was written on it.

The ministry of magic investigation of Mr. Weasley, head of the misuse of Muggle Artifacts, was fined fifty-plus galleons for his enchantment of a muggle car today.

The enchanted car reportedly smashed into the whomping willow at Hogwarts earlier this year, and Lucius Malfoy has asked Mr. Weasley to resign.

"Mr. Weasley has destroyed the ministry's reputation. Mr. Malfoy has told me that he was clearly unfit to write laws for us and his ludicrous muggle protection law should be abolished immediately."

Mr. Weasley didn't comment, but his wife told reporters to leave or she would let the ghoul out to bit them.

According to an article published earlier in this newspaper, it asked the ministry to pay attention to the safety of underage wizards, the author of the article was a twelve-year-old named miss Granger.

"How about it?" asked Malfoy when Harry handed the clipping back to him, "Do you find it funny?"

"Hahaha," Evan and Harry smiled dryly.

"I wonder what the Weasley family expressions looks like since it was an article written by the conceited mud blood, Granger"

Evan wasn't sure how Mr. Weasley would feel but he was glad Hermione hadn't followed them, or she would have been sad.

"We must find a way to make her read the Daily Prophet tomorrow morning."

"Well I'm not surprised to hear the Weasley's are being attacked." said Malfoy contemptuously, "Look at the behaviour of the Weasley family, they are a disgrace to pureblood wizards."

Evan tried to hold on to Harry so he wouldn't try to kill Malfoy.

"Let's not talk about the Weasley family anymore. You must know who has opened the chamber of secrets and who is the heir of Slytherin."

"You know I don't know, Goyle, how many times do I have to tell you?" snapped Malfoy, "Dad wouldn't tell me the details of the last time it was opened, he wasn't born yet, but he knows everything. He told me it was a secret and if I knew too much it would be suspicious. But the last time the chamber of secrets was opened a mud blood died."

"We know that it was Moaning Myrtle," added Evan

"Of course, I told you." said Malfoy, "It is only a matter of time, I hope it's Granger or Mason, he is also an excellent choice."

Harry violently trembled while Evan took a deep breath to restrain himself from beating up Malfoy.

"Did you know that the man who opened the chamber last time was caught?"

"It was said he was caught and expelled." said Malfoy, "You can check and see, whoever it is, they are probably still in Azkaban."

Evan remembered when they learned that the expelled student was Hagrid but Hagrid was actually innocent.

"Malfoy your father must know something." asked Evan cautiously, "Can you tell me who he has been in contact with recently? Maybe this can be a clue to help us figure out who the heir is."

"What do you mean, Crabbe?" Malfoy glared at him and said loudly, "are you doubting my father's taste in friends, unlike the Weasleys, my father is in contact with genuine pureblood wizards."

"But...."

"Although I want to help the heir, dad told me not to be in the spotlight." said Malfoy, "But you know the daily prophet hasn't reported on the attacks yet, which surprised me."

"Maybe it isn't worth reporting since they are only petrified and Dumbledore will cure that soon enough."

"Yeah it must be Dumbledore who is hiding everything." said Malfoy, "I hope everything will be exposed soon. My dad said that making Dumbledore the headmaster was the worst thing that has ever happened to the school. Dumbledore likes muggles, a decent headmaster would never let people like Mason and Granger come to school."

"Dumbledore is the best headmaster, Granger is first in her grade, and Mason' spells are great."

"That's a typical Gryffindor, that rude house is simply horrible," said Malfoy viciously, "Especially that damn mud blood Mason, he dared attack me, I will make him pay sooner or later."

"In addition to spells, he also runs a newspaper..."

"I guess the mud blood knelt down and licked Potter's shoes so Potter would agree to let him put Potter's mother's article in that poor newspaper." exaggerated Malfoy, "It was to attract people with Potter's mother's death, and the only thing that woman can do except give Potter a ridiculous scar is to show off."

I have to admit Malfoy is a pain in the neck.

When Harry heard Malfoy insult his mother, he turned as red as an apple.

"What's wrong with you tonight?" asked Malfoy while looking at them strangely

"Nothing, I just.... I just have endured you for too long," said Evan as he cracked his knuckles and looked at Malfoy with an evil look.

"Crabbe, what are you doing?" Malfoy suddenly had a bad feeling.

"That's simple, I'm going to beat you up," as soon as Evan finished, he threw a punch at Malfoy.

Harry paused for a moment before he threw a punch out to, with the two of them punching, Malfoy didn't even get a chance to fight back.