A/N: I hope you understood everything I was trying to get across. The main point was that Hermione Polyjuiced Draco. Remember I'm recounting the story, so if you forgot some parts of the story, you may ant to go back and refresh at some point.. I know I had to, and I wrote it, lol :)

Disclaimer: R-O-N: Really Original- Not. These character and places and all that other stuff belong to JK Rowling.

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Still Ron's POV

And so I started telling everything that happened. Draco seemed amused by Hermione tripping the Azkaban guard, and even more amused that I stepped in front of the guard to stop him from hitting back.

"I missed Weasel, having to protect me, that would've been a humorous tale to tell." He drawled.

"Can't you at least call him Ron?" Hermione asked.

"I'm perfectly aware that technically Weasley saved my life multiple times, but it still wasn't me, was it? I'll decide if I should call him by his name or not, Hermione." Draco answered.

"Fair enough." Harry said evenly.

I saw Hermione seeming to debate this. I could care less, she ought to just be happy I'm not killing him for being the reason of all this, let alone calling him Draco.

I continued the story, telling them about how Dawlish explained what was going on to us and how Hermione had started off doing a really good impression of Draco by treating me like crap-

"Hey, when you were treating me like something you find on the bottom of your shoe that was you acting as Draco right? That wasn't real, was it?" I stopped explaining to ask.

"All acting Ron, but when I asked why weren't there more people, I was more concerned about you, but I tried to do it in a way that wouldn't attract attention." Hermione explained.

"Can we get on with this?" Draco drawled.

I continued with the story, explaining that we headed towards the steps for the first leg of our journey-

"So you already knew we were going that way?" I stopped to ask.

"No. Kingsley thought it would be better for me that way. The real Draco wouldn't know, so why should I?" Hermione said.

I talk about what happened on the steps.

"I still can't believe you didn't believe me." Hermione interrupted.

"I didn't 'not believe' you, I didn't believe Draco-" I started.

"And that's supposed to make it better is it?" Draco asked smirking. Obviously knowing he wasn't helping the situation.

"Alright, I'm sorry. In fact I'm sorry for everything that comes up that annoyed you." I said seriously.

"Oh no Ronald Weasley, you're not getting off that easy. You should have taken me more seriously." Hermione said.

"Stop saying you, it wasn't you. We all know Draco is a whiner, how was I supposed to know he didn't stumble?" I said defensively.

"He's got a point Hermione, Draco does whine." Harry said smiling.

"I don't whine." Draco whined.

Ignoring him, I continued with the scene on the steps-

"Wait a minute, no wonder you kept calling me Ron, I should've known something was wrong." I said thinking about it.

"How thick can you get? That should have been a dead give away Weasel." Draco drawled.

"I just thought Azkaban made you mental." I said simply.

"Ha, Azkaban was a breeze." He said.

"Yeah, because you were only in there for safety reasons." I replied.

"The staff didn't know that Weasley, I used my charm to keep myself above what usually goes down in there. I'll thank you to remember that." Draco spat.

"Touchy" Harry said.

I finished telling them about the steps, and then started on the bathroom. I looked at Hermione as I got to this part and she started blushing-

"That's right… no wonder you didn't want to use the bathroom." I said grinning.

"I didn't think it was necessary to become that familiar with Draco, thank you very much." Hermione said still blushing.

"Afraid you'd see something you like, and have to leave Weasley for me?" Draco asked smirking.

"Watch it Malfoy" I said standing up.

"Don't flatter yourself Malfoy. I promise that I didn't have to look to know that nothing about you was… worthy enough to replace Ron" Hermione said grabbing my wrists.

"Too much information… just… ew… can we please just continue with the story." Harry said shaking his head, even though a smirk was playing on his lips at Draco's 'yeah right' expression.

"Yes, that's enough. Please save all sexual references for all personal retellings of the story please." Kingsley advised.

I sat back down and smirked at Draco, who didn't look so smug now, and continued on. I explained how the toilets started acting up. And how the water attacked us-

"Us? You had a wand, it nearly drowned me." Hermione stated.

"Not that again." I said shaking my head.

Harry started laughing.

"How did the toilet almost drown you?" He asked.

Hermione explained what happened. Even hearing it from her point of view didn't change my opinion; she wasn't going to drown… though I did feel bad hearing about how scared she was. Harry still laughed.

"I still don't think you would have drowned, but I'm sorry you had to feel that way, honest I am." I said sincerely.

"No you're not, you said I was 'over reacting' if I recall." She replied.

"I said… wait a minute, no wonder you told me to stop saying that. I thought Draco was losing it for sure, I had never told him to stop over reacting, but I've told you that loads of times." I said realizing.

Hermione quickly pulled her hand from mine, and hmphed.

"Oh wait, come on, I already said I was sorry for everything that happened, don't be like that." I said.

She refused to look at me. It was Draco's turn to laugh.

"Glad to see that's how you repay a person who just saved your life." I said to him.

"All I've heard so far is that you stopped toilet water from attacking me, as unappealing as Hermione described it, I don't believe it was that life threatening." Draco said.

I quickly finished the bathroom scene, telling him about how the water started to boil, and how if I hadn't broken down the door, he'd be nothing but one big burn mark in St. Mungo's. That effectively shut him up.

"You don't really think it was a Fred and George product, do you?' Harry asked.

"It wasn't. I heard my father tell tale of something like that before, I didn't know what he was talking about though, now I know." Draco answered for us.

"You know, I couldn't it say it then, because I was still Draco and I had already slipped a few times, but watching you run through the door was amazing." Hermione said, though she still wasn't looking at me.

I felt my cheeks redden at the compliment, I don't know the last time she complimented me on something. I could see Harry smiling, and decided to continue before this was the topic of discussion at one of our next boys' night out.

I explained that we left the bathroom, and then I put a charm on it-

"Which you wouldn't have done unless I told you." Hermione interrupted.

"Hermione you were terrible at being me, as if I would care." Draco spoke.

"That's what I said." I replied.

"It was harder than I thought to hold in the Hermione, and only be Draco." She admitted.

"Actually, the whole thing made me realize how much the two of you are alike if anything." I admitted.

"What? We're nothing alike." They both said.

And Hermione went back to not looking at me, while Draco looked thoroughly insulted.

"Come on, I didn't mean-" I started.

"Just let it go mate. You can't win." Harry said smiling.

I decided to believe that Harry was right for the time being and continue with the story. I explained about telling Draco the plan for walking through the International Department when Hermione turned around and hit me upside the head-

"Ouch, what was that for?" I asked rubbing my head furiously.

"Because you hit me extra hard with your wand when putting the Disillusionment charm on me that's why. And I know you thought it was Draco, but after what had just happened in the bathroom, you think you would have been a bit more understanding toward his feelings." Hermione scolded.

"Erm… I'm sorry." I said lamely.

"And getting sorrier by the minute." Draco added.

"Just shut up Ferret." I said annoyed.

I continued on about the guard, and waiting for the elevator, when something struck me- no, not Hermione-

"Hey, you tried to get me to talk to you about you? What type of person does that?" I asked.

"I don't what you're talking about." Hermione answered, and though I couldn't see her, her voice wavered.

"All that 'so how's Granger' stuff. You were trying to get me to talk about you, to you." I said.

"That was something I would have done just to annoy you Weasley." Draco drawled. "Hermione's always been a sore point for you."

"Exactly, I had to get back on track before you figured out it was me," she said.

"Yeah right, you just wanted to hear what I would say about you. In fact you said, 'something for you to use later' were your exact words. I think that the was you talking, not Draco." I said truthfully.

"Acting Ron" she replied.

"Yeah right." I remarked.

"Enough, get back to the story." Kingsley interrupted.

I was beginning to think that this plan may have saved Draco's life, but was ruining mine.

I explained how the lifts were taking to long, and we started walking-

"I'm glad to see you listen." Hermione said quietly.

"What?" I said confused.

"When we were walking to Percy's office for Plan B, you admitted you listened to me. I was even more surprised that you could regurgitate the reason I gave for coming up with back up plans." She explained, still not looking at me.

"What? Ron? You can't be serious?" Harry asked dumb founded.

"That was just one rule, I don't know them all and I won't pretend I will either." I replied.

"But you can't pretend like you don't listen anymore at home, I know now that you're really listening." She stated.

"The way you two are arguing, you won't have a home to go home too." Draco proclaimed.

There was an eerie silence that met those words, and I didn't like it. So I continued as if nothing was said. So I told them about the brief meeting with Percy in his office.

"I can't believe you didn't tell me you and Percy were on speaking terms." Hermione muttered.

"Because I knew you'd tell the rest of the family, and neither of us wants anyone else to know, that's why." I admitted.

"Why?" She asked.

"Because you know how Fred and George are, Bill and Charlie still haven't forgive him for not coming to their weddings, and mum would be relentless in trying to get me to get him to come home, that's why. And neither of us thought it was worth getting anybody worked up over as it's not like we hang out or anything. We just can manage to say hello to each other if we cross paths." I explained.

"And you really thought I would tell if you asked me not too?' she asked actually looking at me, sounding a bit hurt.

"Yes. Every time you see Percy, you tell me how different he is, and nag me about talking to him… how I can be the one to make everything right with the family. And I couldn't bring myself to tell you that we started speaking, and then tell you not to tell anybody because it seemed so important to you. I'd rather go on letting you think I was being a prat then disappoint you." I said truthfully.

"I… I didn't know you felt that way." She admitted.

"Because you don't listen either sometimes. You're to busy worried about doing the right thing, or setting a good example, or just plain thinking I don't know what I'm talking about to listen to me." I said.

And as soon as I said it, I wished I could take it back. I meant every word of it, but I never meant to say it, the look she gave me before turning away from me again was breaking my heart.

"I think perhaps you two shouldn't interrupt the rest of the story," Harry said looking uncomfortable.

"Yes, even I'm not enjoying this little display of how relationships work- or don't work; as the case may be." Draco said.

"Shut it, would you Draco? Ron, go on mate." Harry said giving Draco a glare.

I continue explaining about taking Percy's secret Floo, and then how we walked through the Auror department. I thought I saw Hermione turn to say something, but she didn't. I remembered that was where she put me on point about being lucky or not. How she made me feel bad for Draco Malfoy… and I remembered that's actually one of things I love about her, how she can make me think about things I wouldn't… but I didn't think now was the time to mention it-

"Er, Ron, you ok mate?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, sorry."

I said simply, and went on explaining what happened with the Troll-

"I'm sorry did you say Troll?" Draco asked aghast.

"Yeah, your father managed to let one loose in here somehow." I explained.

Draco paled at the thought. I continued talking about how I tried to tell Draco to leave, but he didn't. And how I jumped on the Troll's head-

"Ah, following after me, hun mate?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, a bit," I replied with my first smirk in some time.

"And you stuck around to help him Hermione?" Draco asked.

"Well, I couldn't just let him kill himself could I? I didn't care that I was supposed to be you, I was worried for my boyfriends well being." Hermione admitted.

"She saved me actually." I admitted trying to get her to open up.

"Really?" Harry asked.

Hermione explained how she got the Troll to hit itself in the head.

"I'm impressed. Does that mean technically we should be even from you saving me from the toilets then?" Draco asked.

I ignored him and started explaining that I gave Hermione my extra wand, when I remembered something I had to say-

"That's why you were so upset I didn't tell you about my spare wand. That's why you gripped it naturally, and not like someone who just spent three years in Prison. And that's why you couldn't work it. I thought Draco would have had a decent chance with the wand as his wand is Unicorn hair too, but it didn't work at first." I said looking in her direction, even though she still wasn't looking at me.

"Too bad you couldn't have put all these little things together before now, hun Weasley?' Draco drawled.

"Yeah…" I said leaving the sentence hanging.

"It's not his fault. It's not anyone's fault. It was a brilliant plan, we're all just acting this way because it seems obvious now, but hindsight is 20/20. We can't forget that. You two can't forget that." Harry said looking at me and Hermione.

She finally looked up at me but didn't speak. Harry seemed to be thinking of ways to get us to talk.

"What I want to know is, what made you trust Draco enough to give him your wand?" He asked.

Hermione's eyes looked into mine harder waiting for the reply.

"I'm curious as well." Draco admitted.

"Well, Hermione had already made me feel bad for you when we were talking about families; how I might have been luckier than you in at least one way because I wasn't born into a Death Eater's family. And then I remembered what Kingsley said about giving someone a reason to do anything. And I thought about everything we had been through in just that little span, and… you gave me reason" I said.

"I did?" Draco said.

"No, not you git, Hermione did. If it had really been you, the situation probably would have been extremely different, but as it was, Hermione had given me reason to trust you." I said to Draco, and then looked at Hermione and added, "And I know I said that you don't listen sometimes because you're caught up in doing the right thing, but I love that about you… I love you"

I said all that very quickly, but Hermione caught it and beamed at me before standing up to hug me.

"Thank Merlin" Draco drawled.

"Oh shut up Draco" Hermione said after she finished hugging me.

"Now that everyone is back on good terms can we finish the story of what happened? I'm really interested to get to Lucius Malfoy's part in this." Kingsley stated.

So the both of us explained what happened next. How we walked back to the steps, and before I could see what was behind the door Lucius had grabbed Hermione in a choke hold.

"A very unpleasant feeling, wasn't it? I bet you didn't find that on any file about me, did you?" Draco said.

"Er… Draco is there something you want to say?" Harry asked looking concerned.

"What? No, sorry… continue, father had you in a choke hold then?" He remarked.

We continued talking after a bit of a pause, then three voices all yelled the same thing-

"You didn't read the file did you?" Harry, Hermione and Kingsley said.

"I read it… I just sort of skimmed over most of it…" I admitted feeling the blush creep over my face.

"I saw your face; you didn't even know I was innocent." Hermione pointed out.

"What did you pay attention too, then?" Draco asked.

"That's not important, the point is, I must have read it because I remembered eventually, didn't I?" I pointed out.

"Thank Merlin for small miracles then." Draco said sarcastically.

Hermione and I told them about what Lucius said; about how he escaped from jail with Narcissa's help-

"Mother helped him?" Draco asked.

"That's what he said, but he also said she didn't know he was going to come kill you" Hermione stated.

Draco just seemed to take that all in. We told them how he said he was responsible for the toilets, the staircase incident and the troll. We started explaining how I tried to reason with Lucius-

"You tried to reason with my father, Weasel?" Draco asked.

"Yeah… figured I might be able to reason with him if I tried… I mean you are his son." I said.

"There's no reasoning with that man." Draco said almost absent mindedly.

"I noticed." I said.

Hermione and I continued with the explanation-

"You offered your life for mine? But why?" Draco asked.

"I told you, after everything that happened, I was beginning to see you in a whole new light… plus you were still in my care. As an Auror I had to do everything in my power to keep you alive, and I've never failed a mission before, and I didn't plan on starting with you." I stated.

"And what did my father say?" Draco asked.

"He was surprised, he wanted to know why? I made up a story about if I was dead, he didn't have to kill you, and he could just take you away or something." I replied.

"But I cut in, and told him to just kill me." Hermione added.

"You what?"

This time the voices were Harry, Draco and Kingsley.

"Hermione, that was not apart of our agreement, I specifically remember telling you to get out of this alive." Kingsley stated.

"Erm… sorry, I-" Hermione started.

"I'm joking, but seriously, what if he had killed you? I… it would have been quite an unfortunate thing to come to pass." Kingsley stated, in what could be best described as a concerned voice.

"Forget that, I would never tell my father to kill me. Forget Weasley's ignorance, my father should have known something was up." Draco remarked.

"I think he did notice, but then Hermione said something that I think caught him off his guard." I said.

"Oh yeah, and what was that?" Draco drawled.

I told him how she proclaimed her love for me… to say Draco's reaction was unexpected is an understatement- he laughed. The rest of us sort of stared at him until he calmed down.

"So you admitted your love for a man, and not any man, Ronald Weasley?" Draco said.

"Yes, I was under the impression that Lucius may actually kill me, and I wanted to tell Ron I loved him one last time-" Hermione started saying.

"Save the romantics Hermione, it was Brilliant, and it saved my life." Draco said.

"You're taking this really well Draco" Hermione said.

"Thank you, but proceed with the story, we are getting to part where he gets captured right?" Draco asked.

I finished out by telling them that Hermione's words had caused Lucius to shift enough to take a shot at him, then falling down the stairs. And Hermione told him about how she used the wand- the one she'd forgotten she was holding; to hold Lucius off, and how the wand didn't work when she attempted to use it, and the scramble before blacking out.

"You forgot you were holding the wand?" Draco quizzed.

"I didn't really forget; it was more of a last resort really… I was pretty sure there was a chance it wouldn't work if I needed it too, so I was delaying trying to use it, but Lucius was really pushing my buttons." Hermione answered.

"Yes, he does that doesn't he?" Draco replied absent mindedly

"And that's when we came through the door blasting spells, right?" Harry asked.

"Right… one question, who used Protego? Surely they weren't using it to block the Killing Curse?" I asked.

"No, that was me, I ran in the door just as you fired Reducto, wanted to make sure it was just Lucius who was hit." Harry said.

"And so you fired Stupefy then?" Hermione asked Kingsley.

"Yes." Kingsley answered.

"So is that everything I needed to hear?" Draco asked.

"Not everything, there is one more thing you might like to hear." Harry said smirking.

"And what's that?" Draco said standing up.

"Yes Harry, what else is there?" Hermione asked.

"What was the first thing you did when I revived you?" Harry said smirking.

"I… oh" Hermione said as she started blushing.

"You what?" Draco asked.

"I hugged Ron and kissed him." Hermione said not looking at Draco.

"You did what?" Draco asked loudly.

"It was a natural reaction to knowing that we were both alive-" Hermione started.

"Yes, a natural reaction for you… I would never kiss Ron. Wait… did my father see it?" Draco said.

"Probably not." Kingsley stated.

"Then there could have been a redeeming chance in there for you Hermione, as it is, I'm just disgusted." Draco drawled.

"I wasn't too thrilled either Draco, especially when it started to feel familiar." I announced.

"Familiar?" Draco and Harry both said.

"Yeah, Hermione may have been you, but she still kissed like Hermione, that's when I pushed away. I didn't like thinking that I liked kissing you." I admitted.

"I don't like you thinking that you liked kissing me either Ron, something we can agree on, then. But I do have one more question, how long did all this take?" Draco asked.

"A little more than an hour, why?" I replied.

"Than how did Hermione manage to be me without drinking anymore Polyjuice?" Draco quizzed.

"But I did drink Polyjuice." Hermione said smiling.

"No you didn't, I would have seen you." I replied.

"But you did see me; remember when I asked for something drink? Dawlish summoned a cup of Polyjuice potion." Hermione answered.

"Er… right" I replied.

"Well, I believe that covers everything. I'll need this all in writing and on my desk by tomorrow morning. Good Job everybody. And Draco, the Ministry thanks you for your help, and I'm sorry you had to spend three years in Azkaban for safety reasons." Kingsley said.

"I guess better safe than sorry, and I'm really free now, I don't have to worry about anything." Draco replied.

"Especially not your father, I'm pretty sure at the very least he'll spend the rest of his days behind bars under maximum security, it's just a matter of how many days it will be." Kingsley added.

"Good. I'm off then. Good Day Kingsley, Harry, Hermione and Ron." Draco said and turned around.

"You called him Ron." Hermione said beaming.

"Well it is his name isn't it? Besides it's not like I'll call it all the time, don't get too excited." Draco drawled.

We followed Draco out of the office and walked down the hallway.

"So what are you going to do now Draco?" Hermione asked.

"Well the Manor is probably empty. If mother really did help break father out of Prison she's not coming back… she knows they'll be after her." Draco replied.

"Blimey I forgot about that." I responded.

"I'm sure Kingsley could put in a word or something, so she wouldn't have to be there long, maybe not at all if she agrees to testify against him." Hermione offered.

"Mother wouldn't do it. A Malfoy isn't supposed to betray family; she won't speak against him…" Draco replied.

"Can't you convince her? I mean you did it…" Harry asked.

"And what makes you think I know where she's at?" Draco quizzed.

"Of course you know." Harry replied.

"Maybe I do, maybe I don't, but I won't go looking for her. I may be free with my innocence but I'm pretty sure the Ministry at some point in time will expect me to do just that, and I won't be the cause of mother's capture." Draco explained.

"But if you just convince her-" Hermione started.

"I'll do no such thing. We've all betrayed each other once, and that's enough." Draco replied.

"I know about your father's betrayal, and even yours, but what's your mom's?" I asked.

"Come now Ron, you didn't really believe my father when he said my mother didn't know what he was planning to do, did you? That was just for the benefit of your ears, so he wouldn't betray her again. But she knew that by helping him, he would set out to kill me," Draco stated.

"That's horrible." Hermione said.

"That's my family." Draco said simply.

We continued to walk down the hallway. The lifts and hallway were now fixed, and there was no sign that a Troll had walked through here only hours ago.

"I still can't believe you kissed Ron. He's probably the last person of you three I would kiss." Draco said as he was waiting for the lifts.

"I said I'm sorry Draco." Hermione said.

"Why do I have to be last? Why not Harry?" I said jokingly.

Harry paled at my words, Hermione smirked. I expected Draco to laugh too, but instead he was blushing furiously.

"Because," he said stepping into the empty lift. "I'd kiss him first."

And before anyone could say anything else the lift doors closed and he was gone.

"Er... Harry, what exactly were you and Draco doing until the trial started?" I asked.

"Just chatting really. He wouldn't shut up. He thinks he's like invincible or something. He didn't seem to think anything was going to happen him... really." Harry replied blushing.

"Yeah, because his crush Harry Potter was his bodyguard." I said smiling.

"Shut up, Ron" Harry said cheeks red.

"Are you sure that's all that went on?" I ask.

"Do you really want to know the answer to that?" He said defiantly.

"I think Ron, that perhaps, we should leave Harry alone." Hermione said.

"Er… right" I replied.

I didn't ask Harry anymore questions about Draco, but I knew they still hung out sometimes- they seemed to have a lot more in common than I realized. With Harry's persuasion, Kingsley said the Auror's wouldn't look for Narcissa as long as she stayed out of our jurisdiction, but if they found out she stepped even one foot in, they would go after her. Soon afterwards Draco started looking a lot more happier. I'm sure it's because he can finally go see her, but Harry won't say.

As for me and Hermione, we're still together. I asked her to marry me and she said yes, the weddings after the Quidditch season. We still fight, but not as much. After that whole incident we both made sure to try and listen more, and pay attention. Try and Polyjuice one of us now and see if we don't figure it out… come on, try it, just give me a reason...

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Do all the weird moments from Draco make sense now? How everything from asking for a drink, to calling someone by there first name, to saving their life, wound up being part of a clever cover up that went south fast? Hope so.

And is that a challenge from Ronald Weasley at the end?? Well I don't know if I'll take him up on it or not, but at least now it's an option. As for Draco and Harry, one of my friends thinks I should tell the tale of what was happening during their wait for the trial to start. If you didn't realize, the 'Somewhere in the Ministry' scenes were those two. I may do it, I don't know.

I hope you enjoyed this story. I had fun writing it. Thanx for reading, and please review. I mean, if you got this far, surely I gave you a reason... :)