#I think the fem version is also slightly different in personality being a very explosive woman

[vilochkaaa]

i did what i've been planning to do for a long time - a fem. version of Pierre..

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[my-writing-cluster-fluff]

A Change in Attitude Ch 5

Ch 1 , Ch 2 , Ch 3 , Ch 4 ,  Pairing: Fem!Harry/Draco Malfoy Word Count: 1516 A/N: As I promised, Draco is here! Yayyyy! I hope y’all enjoy. Btw there’s a lot of magical-plant talk today.

The entire break was spent in the library, pouring over the books that Hari had deemed possibly helpful. Two more of the books turned out to be close to useless, reading more like a fantasy novel than a history of the tournament, so Hari sent those back as well. Too quickly, however, the hour and a half passed them by, and they hurriedly packed up their things, books charmed to be near-weightless, and rushed to the greenhouses.

By the time they reached greenhouse two, nearly all of the other students were already in the humid warmth of the building. A few of the Slytherin students, Malfoy included, stared at the trio, who were still shedding their outer robes and putting on aprons.

Professor Sprout still had yet to show, as did Neville.

Hari looked around, trying to figure out what they would be doing today. While she didn’t have the natural talent with plants that Neville did, Herbology was somewhat similar to gardening, which she had always taken a silent comfort from.

Very soon, Neville and Professor Sprout entered the greenhouse, carrying many large boxes. They set them on the large table that divided the Slytherin and Gryffindor students, and Neville moved to stand by his housemates.

Professor Sprout addressed the class, waving her wand to distribute the plants. “Today, we will be tending to Surrexerunt, the magical version of what plant?”

Hermione raised her hand, and Sprout nodded to her. “Surrexerunt is the magical equivalent to a rose, and its properties depend upon the color of its petals.”

“Very good, Ms. Granger. Five points to Gryffindor. Now, for today, we will be pairing up with people that I have chosen for you, just to see if you can work well with people that you generally don’t work with in this course. So, find the plant with your name on it, and wait for further instructions.”

A few of the students groaned at the prospect of working with people not in their house, but Hari was fine with it, since generally Ron didn’t do much of the work. She walked up to the table, looking for her name, and quickly found it at the end of the table furthest from the exit. Her partner was Malfoy. Lovely.

“Hi, Potter. Looks like we’re partners.”

She turned to look at him, nodding her head. “Yep. We should just try and get our work done, okay?”

He smirked at her, and she thought that he was going to make the next three hours hell. “Sure thing, Potter. No need to make friends, but no need to burn the greenhouse down, Like Finnegan and Bullstrode are no doubt going to do.”

Hari looked over at her explosion-prone friend, and saw that his partner was an already annoyed-looking Millicent Bullstrode.

“They better not, otherwise we’re going to lose time to finish whatever it is Sprout is going to have us do.” She continued looking to see her other friends’ partners, and saw that Hermione was speaking quietly with Zabini, and Ron was standing in silence with Goyle.

“That would not be good, considering that you and your friends seem to have a hard time completing the tasks on time anyways,” Malfoy said teasingly.

“That is not my fault, I’ll have you know. Ron is just… Easily distracted,” Hari replied, giving a small smile.

This won’t be so bad. He’s being rather… Civil today. Hopefully it continues.

“Oh yes, I’ve seen the wa-”

“Alright, everyone, eyes front!” Sprout interrupted him, drawing their eyes to her. “So, Surrexerunt are rather temperamental plants, but if you use a gentle hand, they should give you no trouble. You will be tending the same plant for the next few weeks, with the same partner, and will be writing an essay on the properties of Surrexerunt and the differences that the coloring you have gives it. We will talk more about that later. But, for now, I would like you to pull on your light gloves, and start nipping off the thorns that have begun growing.”

Malfoy pulled his gloves on, while Hari grabbed the smallest pair of shears that were available to them.

“Potter, you’re going to need larger shears than that. You won’t be able to cut anything off with those.”

Hari shook her head, and started in on slowly removing the small thorns growing from the stem of the plant. “You can’t just remove the thorn all at once, otherwise the plant will shoot a slightly acidic fluid at you, which will only get more acidic the more thorns you cut off.” She gently stroked the plant around the area that she was currently trimming, which calmed the plant enough to allow her to trim it further.

“Where did you learn that?” Malfoy asked, genuinely curious. After all, Hari had never shown much expanded knowledge besides what they covered in classes, and this was a not as well known plant.

“I stumbled across a tome in the library explaining the differences between the magical and non-magical version of plants. It was rather interesting,” Hari replied as she pulled away from the plant, dropping the thorn that she had removed onto the small dish that Sprout had provided. She looked at Malfoy, who looked intrigued. “I could find it again for you, if you’d like,” She offered, then moved to trim another thorn.

“That would be nice.” Malfoy removed his gloves, and leaned onto the table. “So, why are you stroking the plant as you do this?” He asked with curiosity.

“Sprout said to use a gentle hand, so I figured that meant to calm the plant as we remove the dangerous growths. It would be painful if it were a human, and plants have some sort of sentience, so calming them makes sense, and also reduces the likelihood that the plant will attack.”

Malfoy nodded his head, obviously agreeing. Hari had already removed another thorn, her confidence having grown at dealing with this particular plant. He reached for another pair of the small shears, and moved in to remove a thorn. He slowly trimmed a small amount of the thorn, stroking the area around thorn, just as Hari had.

Within the hour, the two of them had removed all of the thorns that had grown from their plant. Hari took out her textbook, opening up to the page that described Surrexerunt, then pulled out her muggle notebook and pen.

Malfoy eyed the unfamiliar items warily, which Hari noticed.

She flipped open her spiral notebook, showing while not pointing it out that the paper was lined and much more convenient than rolls of parchment, and titled the page with ‘Surrexerunt notes.’

“Okay, so our plant has lilac petals, so we’ll need to know what that means…” Hari began, rattling off possible notes that they needed to take, while Malfoy listened to her and writing a few of the topics down in her notebook as well.

They spent the rest of the class making small notes from what could be found in the textbook, but knew that they would have to find a more detailed book if Sprout wanted more than twelve inches for the essay.

Before they knew it, Sprout was announcing that the essay was to be between 15 and 20 inches, and include the differences between a normal, white Surrexerunt, and their specific color, as well as the change made when the plant has its thorns removed.

“So, Potter, since we need the same information, we may as well meet in the library to do the research together,” Malfoy suggested, surprising Hari. While today had gone smoothly, she hadn’t thought that Malfoy would be willing to do research together.

“I suppose we could,” She agreed slowly. “Meet at Pince’s desk at 7 tomorrow evening?”

“Sure. I’ll see you there, Potter,” He said, turning to leave when Zabini called to him.

Hari frowned, still somewhat confused by what had just happened.

“Hey, Hari, how was class with Malfoy?” Hermione asked, bringing Hari her outer robes from where she had originally left them.

“It was… Surprisingly pleasant, I guess? I mean, we’re meeting tomorrow to do research in the library,” She said as they moved towards Ron, who had been standing and staring down at the table since class ended.

“That’s good. Blaise and I will be doing the same, except tomorrow morning. We both want to get a head start on the essay, since Snape will no doubt give us one tomorrow as well.” Hermione seemed rather happy, finally having someone as a partner who cares enough about schoolwork to go to the library in the morning. “Ron?” She asked, noticing that he hadn’t moved an inch.

“That was the worst class I have ever had.”

Hari quirked an eyebrow, thinking of a time when he had caused his cauldron to explode. “How so?”

“Goyle is… Somewhat intelligent!” He said, completely outraged.

“Honestly, Ronald, of course he is. He is a person, after all,” Hermione said as she pushed him out of the greenhouse and into the chill that signaled the beginning of winter.

Notes: Surrexerunt is Latin for ‘rose,’ or so google translate tells me. Don’t sue me if it’s wrong lol.