//------------------------------// // The Day That Malfoy Changed, Immensely // Story: A Horse at Hogwarts // by ponygirl825 //------------------------------// Enchanted Hue was happier than she had been in a long time today. Today, she had been at Hogwarts for over a week. The smile on her face grew wider and wider as she thought about all the things she had learned, chemical reactions of certain plants if you put them in a potion, millions of different types of magical plants, spells and charms, how to defend herself against magical creatures, and more. Plus, she had made more friends. Fred and George Weasley, Ron's older brothers, reminded her much of Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, who often took her on prank runs with them. The Weasley boys were hesitant at first, seeing as she was pretty small, and had hooves, but they found her size helped when setting up some more complicated pranks, like when they had her squeeze into a hole in the wall they couldn't fit in. The look on stupid, Slytherin Pansy's face was priceless, she never expected her book to explode with fireworks when she opened it in the middle of the silent library, most people wouldn't have either. Neville, a boy who was constantly getting stuck in sticky situations, met Hue when he almost blew his face when he added a wrong ingredient to a potion. Hue knew the counter ingredient, so there was no explosion. They started talking and studying Herbology together after that. Ginny Wealsey was a sweet girl that asked Hue for moral support a lot when she was about to talk to Harry. Though Ginny wouldn't tell her why she was so nervous around Harry, Hue figured it out. But there were four people who's relationships hadn't changed with Hue, Harry, Ron Hermione, and Draco. He still hated her and she still hated him. He was a stuck up, rude, rich brat. And Hue hated him for it. He saw her as a low-class animal that shouldn't be allowed in the school. But her hatred for Malfoy couldn't ruin today. She was proud of her accomplishments, and the friendships she'd made, all in just a week! And to top it all off, today the champions for the Triwizard Tournament were to be chosen after classes. She felt bad for Fred and George, who wanted to be in the tournament, but were under the age of seventeen, and therefore, were not allowed to compete. All three of them thought it was rubbish. She skipped towards the wing where the champions would be chosen, but was stopped when someone from behind grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her upwards, as a mother cat would to her kittens. Her tormentor's face came into view and instantly her mood turned sour. "Where do you think you're going? The gamekeeper's house is where the filthy animals belong," Malfoy said, slyly. Hue kicked and kicked, but to no avail. "Let me go," "Or what? You'll have Potter come and save you?" he said, making her cheeks turn a bit pink. He always treated her like she was weak, she hated it. He put his free hand to his forehead and leaned back slightly, imitating a damsel-in-distress. "Save me, Potter! Save me!" he wailed. He dropped her, making her let out a small, "Oof," as the air left her lungs for a moment. Crabbe and Goyle laughed as she lay on the ground. They turned to leave. She stood up slowly, and started pawing the gravel with her hoof. She remembered a trick Apple Jack had taught her once, and set herself up for it. She ran, full speed towards them. Inches before running straight into Goyle, she spun around and lifted her hind legs, and bucked as hard as she could, sending the boy several feet in front of the other two. Draco and Crabbe turned around, after watching Goyle fly forwards, to look at Hue. She looked up at them, snarled, and they ran. She then walked over to Goyle, who was attempting to get back on his feet. He lifted his head, and was nose to muzzle with Hue. "Boo," she whispered, getting into the doggy "play with me" position. He scrambled to his feet and ran for it. Hue stood up straight and headed in after them. When she got inside, she found Harry, Ron, and Hermione sitting together and trotted over to them. Ron tousled her mane, and Harry nodded with a smile. Dumbledore said a few words, then the first name appeared out of the Goblet of Fire. He caught it out of the air and unfolded it. "The Drumstrang champion is, VIKTOR KRUM." There were cheers and applause and pats on the back as the worlds best seeker made his way to the front of the room. Another paper appeared, a frilly, nicely folded, paper fan looking paper. Dumbledore read this name too. "The champion of Beauxbatons is, Fleur Delacour!" There were cheers and applause as she too made her way to the front. The Goblets Fire produced a paper once more. Dumbledore again unfolded the paper. "The Hogwarts Champion, Cedric Diggory!" More cheers and applause as the Hufflepuff boy stood and walked to the front of the room. He reminded Hue of a vampire for whatever reason. "Excellent! We now have our three champions," Dumbledore started, "but in the end, only one will go down in history. Only one will hoist this chalice of champions. This vessel of victory. The Triwizard Cup!" he said pointing to an object covered with a cloth. It was yanked off so all could see the beautiful item. A trophy, a goblet with snaking vines etched into it and the cup made out of a glowing mineral, like enchanted ice. For all she knew it was enchanted glowing ice! The words TRIWIZARD were carved into the cup. She hoped Cedric won, so she could see that beautiful item next year too. There were more cheers and applause at it's magnificence. Professor Snape stepped forward, towards the Goblet, with a confused look on his face. Dumbledore turned to see that the goblet's flames were roaring again. Another name flew out of the cup. Dumbledore snatched it out of the air, and quickly unfolded it. "Harry Potter." he mumbled, almost inaudibly. "Harry Potter?" asked Hagrid, the game keeper and a close friend of Harry's. "No, no," Harry sank down into a seat from where he had been standing. "HARRY POTTER" yelled Dumbledore, surprising everyone in the room. Hermione pulled him out of his seat. They bickered in whispers for a moment, before Hermione pushed him forwards. He slowly made his way to the front of the room, as people started to yell things out. "He's a cheat!" "He's only fourteen!" "...not nearly of age!!" There were many things Hue didn't know about magic, but there was something about this that wasn't right, and not just the fact that harry never put his name in the Goblet. ~~~~~~ I was two days from the first Triwizard Tournament challenge, and Hagrid had showed Harry what they would be fighting the night before. "Dragons?!" Enchanted Hue asked, amazed at the thought of majestic dragons, infuriated that someone would make children fight full grown dragons, and terrified at what would become of Harry. "I have to tell Cedric, he's part of the Hogwarts team, I can't leave him in the dark." Harry said in reply. The further down the hallway they walked, the more people were wearing those stupid buttons. One moment they had Cedric's smiling face, the next they turned green and above a squashed picture of Harry's face it said in big bold letters, "Potter Stinks". "Part of the Hogwarts team indeed," Hue muttered, giving dirty looks to anyone wearing one. They eventually found Cedric in a common ground area on a bench with some of his friends. He jumped up when he saw Harry. "Can we talk?" he asked. "Uh, sure." he said, following Harry a few feet away from his friends. Harry told him about the dragons, and Cedric tried to then convince Harry that he told them not top wear the buttons. Harry acted like he didn't care. He walked away and saw Ron coming. "Stay here, I'll be back in a minute." Harry said, stopping hue. He and Ron had been arguing since Harry was chosen as a champion. Ron thought Harry really had cheated the system, but he hadn't. She trotted up when Ron and Seamus walked away. Harry met her halfway in front of a big tree. They began to walk before a voice stopped them. "Why so tense Potter?" It was snooty and rude, and it seemed to come from above. They both glanced up and sighed. Draco was sitting on a branch in the tree. Draco continued. "My father and I have a bet you see, I don't think you're going to last ten minutes in this tournament." Harry stopped and looked at Malfoy with a glare. Draco hopped down. He walked forward, his groupies following behind. "He disagrees. He thinks you won't last five." he said, smirking when his pets all laughed. "I don't give a damn what your father thinks, Malfoy!" Harry said, walking towards him and giving him a shove. "He's vile, and cruel. And you're all pathetic." He started to walk away. "How dare you!" Draco hissed, pulling out his wand, but he was too slow. Professor Moody came out of nowhere and uttered a spell. With a swirl of light, a ferret stood where Malfoy had moments ago, no, the ferret was Malfoy! He started to scold the ferret and insult it as he levitated it up and down in the air. Professor McGonagall came running up. "Professor Moody, Professor Moody, what are you doing?" she asked, panic in her voice. "Teaching," was all Moody replied as he continued to try to make the ferret sick. McGonagall stared wide-eyed as she realized what was happening. "Is that-is that a student!?" she exclaimed. "Technically," Moody started, "it's a ferret." Hue looked up at Harry and was happy to see one of his rare genuine smiles. A smile that meant, "he wouldn't be this happy again for a while, so make this moment last". Moody turned Malfoy back into a human and there was a bit of a chase around the tree. Then eventually, McGonagall ended the fun by scolding Moody for using transfiguration as a punishment. He then took Harry away to talk to him. So Hue was left on her own. She decided to head to the library. Where else? She was particularly engrossed in a potions book when she started thinking about Malfoy and what he had said earlier. It had particularly irked her today, the way he spoke of Harry. She smiled as she thought of what he looked like being turned back into a human. His usually neat hair had been sticking up at odd angles everywhere. It was kind of cute... Hue sat straight up, face almost as red as Big Mac's fur. Malfoy-Malfoy was a human, not a pony, Hue didn't even think that was legal! Able to speak or not, humans and animals weren't supposed to be in a relationship. And also, he was...DRACO! A stuck up jerk whose only interest was making sure people knew he was a rich pureblood wizard. She tried to think of how she could get revenge on him instead of how adorable he was. Then she remembered something. Her book. The one book of hers that she brought from Equestria. There was a recipe for a potion in it that could turn anything into a pony. It was usually used for pranks, turning your dog or a rock into a pony, but she realized how she could use it. She raced to the Gryffindor dorms. She dug through her belongings until she found it. The cover had worn away from years of use. She found the potion and realized that the ingredients would be easy to get and the potion terribly easy to make, she could have it done in an hour. The only thing she would need to ask for would be Harry's invisibility cloak. ~~~~~~ The potion was finished and she had it in her hooves. She had the cloak, and she was following a group of Slytherins to the Slytherin dorms. There she could complete her plan. The plan that no one knew about but her. She followed them and listened to the password. Pure-Blood. Of course that was the password. Hue silently slipped through the door, just before it closed shut. She watched the girls climb one flight of stairs and decided her best bet of finding Draco would be to go up the opposite one. She eventually found the door to the boys dorm. She searched around a bit before seeing a sign on a door. The gold plaque read "Malfoy" in swirled letters. Of course he has a separate room. Hue thought, annoyed at his spoiled ways. She slowly opened the door to see him sleeping in a four poster bed twice as big as all the others. She crept closer and closer to the bed. When she was right next to it she flipped the cloak off her head, making it look like her head was disembodied and floating. She held out the small bottle full of potion. Draco had made a jab at her a few weeks ago, about he could easily live for more than a month with hooves, but was amazed Hue could do it her whole life because she was stupid. It wasn't very original, but she remembered it and thus, brewed the potion specially so it would last exactly six weeks. Over a month. She took the bottle and carefully poured a drop of it into his open mouth. She decided to leave the bottle in his room, that way if she was suspected, then they would be totally thrown off guard finding the potion in the victim's room. Now all she had to do was sneak back to the Gryffindor dorms and wait for morning. ~~~~~~ Draco awoke early that morning. He felt different, but didn't know why. He tried to get out of bed and walk over to his mirror, but fell flat on his face. He opened his eyes and looked at his feet to see if he had tripped on something, but instead gave a horrified shriek. His feet weren't feet at all, they were hooves. "CRABBE, GOYLE!!" he shrieked again. As soon as he got to the Great Hall, he was going to have a little chat with miss Enchanted Hue. ~~~~~~ Hue was following Harry, Ron, and Hermione, chatting with Hermione about some interesting books she had read, when a snobby, but rather angry sounding voice called her from behind. "ENCHANTED HUE!!!" it bellowed. Hue turned to see a small (and rather attractive) pony being carried by Crabbe and Goyle. The colt's robes were five sizes too big, and his Slytherin tie. He jumped out of their arms and immediately regretted his decision because he, once again, fell flat on his face. "Crabbe, Goyle, what are doin' bringing that thing in here?" Hue asked "I thought the gamekeeper's house was where filthy animals belonged?" The colt struggled to get to his hooves. Hue wasn't far away now, he tackled her to the ground. "I know you did this to me!!" he shouted, muzzles inches apart. Enchanted Hue thought it was her turn to have some fun. "Draco? You look...different. Did you do something new with your hair?" she asked, batting at one of the dangling strands with her hoof. Ron, Hermione, and Harry were all doubled over in laughter. Draco turned red, this was a most undignified form to be in. Hue pushed him off her and got to her feet. "Hey, Hey Draco, why the loooong face?" Hue asked, jokingly. She turned around to see Hermione was crying she was laughing so hard. It would have gone on, had McGonagall not turned the corner at that moment. She gasped, stared for a moment, and finally spoke. "Mister Malfoy?" she asked, obviously very confused. "I-I woke up like this, miss," he said, giving the professor a look of innocence. "It was her!" he said, pointing a hoof at Hue. "She did this to me!" "Both of you, come with me, now." she turned on her heel and started towards her office. Crabbe and Goyle picked up Draco once more and followed her. Hue, worried she might get expelled, followed the lot. "Using a potion on another student," McGonagall said giving a diapproving look to Hue, whose head was lowered and ears were folded back against her head. "You are lucky I don't expel you." she stated very blatantly. Hue glanced over to see Malfoy looking pleased that she was being punished for her actions. That was when she lost it. "I only did it because he called me stupid!" Hue yelled pointing a hoof accusingly at Draco. He started to look nervous. "I-I don't know what she's talking about!" he lied. "He called me a dirty animal and told me he was amazed a stupid creature like me could survive with hooves. He said he could easily last a month so that's what he's going to do, the potion will wear off in six weeks and there's no cure he just has to wait it out and I'm sorry!" Hue took a deep breath after blabbering for so long. To her surprise McGonagall had listened carefully to every word. "Very well, you will both receive detentions and Miss Hue, you can help mister Malfoy with whatever he may need until the effect wears off." She explained. Hue decided it was best to accept her punishment gracefully. "Yes Professor." "Professor, could you repeat that, I could've sworn you said, "you will both receive detentions?" he asked, somehow confused as to why he was in trouble. "You insulted a student Mister Malfoy, it sounds like you have been insulting her for a while now," she said, shooting a questioning look at Enchanted Hue. She nodded quickly. Draco growled and glared at Hue. "You may both go." As they left the room, Draco stumbled and, once again, fell. Hue giggled. "Would you like to learn how to walk with four legs?" she asked, extending a hoof and blushing a bit. He unconsciously folded his ears back. He accepted the hoof but quickly let go of it. "No, I can walk just fi-" he didn't get to finish because he had fallen once more. Hue bit her bottom lip to keep from laughing. "Come on, look, it's easy it's just, front left, back right, front right, back left. See?" she modeled the walk cycle for him. He eyed her, then cautiously got up. His legs wobbled a bit, but he then put his front left forward. He then pulled up his back right and placed it on the ground forward a bit too. He repeated the process with his front right. He was walking without falling, walking very slowly, but nonetheless, walking. He quickly looked at the clock, and took in a quick breath of air. "Oh, no! We're going to be late for Potions! Snape'll have our heads!" he exclaimed. He tried to think of a faster means of transport. Crabbe and Goyle had left, no doubt to get themselves to Potions on time. Then he got an idea. "Carry me please," he demanded. Blushing a bit more than before, Hue looked at him surprised. "Come on, McGonagall said you had to help me whenever I needed it, did she not?" Hue finally gave up. She walked over to Draco and he climbed on her back so that their bodies made an "X". "You're-huff-heavier than I imagined," Hue barley managed to get out. "I'll feel bad for you later, when we're not about to be late to Potions." he assured her. "Now mush!" he yelled. Moving as fast as she could with a fourteen-year-old colt on her back, she started towards the Potions classroom. She started to slow down when she saw the doors. "Come on, come on!" Draco shouted. "We're already fifteen seconds late!" She got to the door and burst through it, seconds before collapsing. Professor Snape looked at the two ponies with a surprised look on his face. Draco jumped up and dusted himself off. "Bloody horse," he muttered under his breath. Snape recognized Draco's voice and his expression changed to one of confusion. Hue continued to lay on the floor, panting and sweating. Draco walked over to where Goyle was sitting and he hoisted him onto the seat next to him. Hue slowly got up and walked over to where Harry sat and took her spot next to him. Snape then spoke. "Mister Malfoy?" he asked, walking over to his spot. "Y-yes sir?" "Would you care to tell me why miss Hue and yourself were both late?" "Uhm, because I can't figure out how to work these blasted hooves?" "Care to tell me how this transformation happened?" "Psh, ask her." he snarled, pointing at Hue. "Well?" Snape asked, lokking up at the mare. "I, created a potion that turned him into a pony," she mumbled, lowering her head. Snape raised his eyebrows. "Rather advanced for your age," he said, making most students turn to stare at her. "Most don't learn transfiguration potions until their seventh year. How did you learn it?" "I-I read it in a book I brought with me," she said nervously. He nodded. "Impressive. Turn to page three-hundred and ninety-four." he returned to the front of the classroom. Hue let out a sigh of relief. She looked up and made eye contact with Ron who gave her two thumbs up. She smiled and shook her head. Day one of horse Draco was going okay.