This is my new story, it is primarily a Draco/Hermione but there are other couples and people involved. The storylines are made to trick you so bare with the story plz.
The main characters are: Draco, Hermione, Blaise, Harry, Daphne, Ginny, Theo, Ron and Luna. Although other characters are mentioned.
This happens in Seventh year, Voldemort is dead and the following people are still alive: Dumbledore, Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, Mad-eye, Hedwig, Snape and most importantly DOBBY!
Chapter One: c
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses."- George Bernard Shaw
*Friday*
***** Training room-Hogwarts*****
Theo sprang from his previous position on the floor and kicked the head of the dummy he was fighting. Theo saw the stuffed head fall across the wide floor, and roll towards the darkened corner of the room.
He hopped a little on both feet before swinging his hand under cut and grabbing the right arm of the dummy and flipping it over. Its headless body now hit the floor with a thump and Theo breathed heavily.
Theo liked the fighting just as much as he loved Quidditch, both appealed to him for different reasons, reasons he was none too sure of, but he didn't delve on too much.
Hands came around his waist and he smiled inside, knowing exactly whose hand they were. As he pulled the girl around to face him he first saw he beautiful violet eyes which were looking exactly into his own brown one.
"Have fun?" She asked letting go and going to sit on the chairs, he gladly followed.
"Much, how long were you there?"
"Long enough, I now know I never what to be on your bad side."
"But you like my bad side." He commented, taking a swing of his bottle.
"Not as much as you like mine, we better get to class." Daphne said pulling Theo up, but he pulled her back down and into his lap.
"I'm sure Snape wouldn't mind if we were late for five minutes."
"Theo, where have you been living these past six years? I thought you knew you get punished when you're late."
"I'd be late everyday if you were to punish me." He said slyly.
"You could have told me you wanted punishment." She said and lightly put her lips to his. It was soft and sweet to start with but then turned more passionate and yearning. Her hands were in his hair and he had his hand around her waist moving up slowly. Before anything more could happen, she pulled away with a smirk on her face.
"Punishment." She said and hopped of his lap and started to walk away swaying her hips, something she knew would drive him crazy. And it worked.
"I want more." He whined trailing after her.
Before he could reach her she fell backward into him and he landed on his rear. "I know I said I wanted more, but Merlin Daph that hurt." He said getting up.
"Someone threw this at me; well actually it fell from the sky." She said turning around holding two envelopes.
"I didn't think two pieces of paper could make you fall over." He said and her face changed into anger. "Sorry." He said quickly before she could inflict damage.
She handed him the envelope with his name and his smirk grew wider the further he read on.
"This is just what we need." He said looking at her, wide-eyed.
"Theo I'm not sure." She said chewing her bottom lip; he wanted to kiss her right then. But he was a Slytherin and if it was one thing they knew it was patience.
"Secret and Lies Revealed, do you know how great a thing that is. Imagine if the Gryffindorks are there. It would excellent black mail material."
"I'll think about it." She said turning around, "See you in potions." She said before stepping into a run.
Theo continued to read the rest and suddenly he remembered he had to get changed into his uniform before going to class.
Snape was so going to give him a detention. He thought as he ran the other way then his girlfriend.
***** After Potions class*****
Harry knew something was wrong with Snape as the professor took another thirty points from the house due to Lavender; apparently her potion was lime green instead of yellow.
Nott had still not come to class and Snape was most probably pissed that the third most adapt potion maker from Slytherin, after Malfoy and Zabini, was absent. Somehow it ended up being the Gryffindors fault. Again.
"I want two rolls of parchment by next week." Snape said turning away. Harry heard Hermione sigh loudly while putting her books away in her bag. She had started dating Ron in April, and they'd been together one month. She decided to give him a chance after he kept asking her every week.
Ron had come to Harry for advice, which was a bad idea given the latter's track record. He'd been at Hogwarts for seven year and not had one girlfriend while other people, like Malfoy, had relationships for one night.
"Hurry up Harry." Hermione said, and impatiently tapped her foot.
"I'm coming." He said, but her eyes were looking at the door.
"I have to go, I'll see you at lunch." She said and ran out of the classroom, as quickly as she could.
"Where'd she go?" Harry asked Ron as they walked out of the classroom but Hermione was nowhere in sight.
"I have no idea. She doesn't tell me these things." Ron admitted.
Harry stayed silent thinking over the past times Hermione had mysteriously gone missing. It normally happened at night when she thought no one noticed but Harry did. He never told Ron though, the last thing he wanted was a Ron exploded in the girl's face and she becoming even more distant.
Ron was oblivious to the small details that happened around him. For example the fact that Malfoy now stopped looking for them around the school just to taunt. Luna was hanging around with them less or that Colin Creevey was following Ron at every possible moment to get any news to the relationship.
According to the rumours, Ron was more likely to commit something to end the relationship then Hermione.
"I can't wait until we get to the great hall. I need something before I fall over." No longer had Ron said that that the two of them fell onto the floor. Harry was just happy that Colin's class was on the other side of the school at this moment.
Harry looked down to his chest and picked up the small white piece of paper while getting up. "What do you think this is?"
"Open it Harry." Ron said excited.
"You have your own." He observed.
"Oh, yeah. Guess I'm used to everything coming only for you." Ron admitted as the two of them broke the seal on the envelopes.
Harry skim read the words and found that he wanted to visit this weekend interlude in the room of requirement.
"Who do you think sent it?"
"I don't know." Harry admitted seeing no name at the bottom of the invite. "Maybe we'll meet them when we get there."
"Were in a school, unless some third year or younger wants to see us, I'm sure we know them." Ron said.
"Well isn't someone the social butterfly." Lavender commented as she went past, leaving Ron with a blush on his cheeks.
"I trust the two of you are going to the great hall and not walking off somewhere you should be." Snape said in his one toned voice. Harry nodded to the teacher and walked off.
*****Room of Requirement- Lunch Time*****
Hermione laughed as she looked up from the book she was reading.
"What's so funny?" Blaise asked from his seat across from her, using his finger as a bookmark to his own book.
"It says that Ron and Malfoy are distant relatives." She said stabilising herself.
Blaise walked around to her chair, and closed the book looking at the title. "That's what you get for reading a book about Pureblood History." He said taking the book off her and setting it down on the table.
"How was I to know it would show me, well that?" She said pointing a finger at the offending book.
"It's all in the title." He said laughing a little before stopping until her glare.
"Books should have warnings." She said.
"This is from the girl that spends every moment she's not studying reading."
"I'm here aren't I?"
"That's because you're curious." He observed and she cursed quietly that he knew he that well.
"Did I just hear you swear?" Apparently it was a bit too loud.
"Don't get used to it." Blaise chuckled before going back to his book.
Hermione got up from the chair knowing that the boy would not help her anymore. Her life had changed so much since the start of the year. She liked the year, but it had its upsets.
It wasn't that she didn't like Ron, he was a really good friend to her, but that was all she felt. They had been dating a week but they gotten less done in that time then in her other relationships. She hoped it wouldn't go further then holding hand. She saw him as a brother, but he saw differently.
Looking at the clock on the wall she saw she only had five minutes until the end of lunch. "We better go." She said picking up her bag from the chair.
"It's time already." Blaise asked looking at the clock. He closed the book and put it into his bag.
Before they could leave the room, they were both thrown back into the chairs by envelopes.
"Merlin's shorts. What was that?" Blaise shouted as she opened the envelope.
Hermione began to read the invite;
Dearest Hermione,
You are cordially invited to a weekend where everyone's secret and lies will be revealed. Room will be provided as well as food, however you are asked to bring clothes and any personal items you would like. Meet the nine other people involved in the devious game and watch as everyone unites together. It is hoped that you can make it.
You are required to bring; formal wear for the first night (dresses for women, smart clothes for men), casual wear for the Saturday and Sunday. Nightwear will be required as well as anything else.
Meeting at the room of requirement at 8.00pm on Friday.
Thank-you.
"We are so going." Blaise said with a big smile on his face.
"Alright." She said getting up again.
"Are you going?" He asked, as she cussed again.
"What makes you think I'm not?"
"The fact you didn't answer." He stated.
"Well what does that tell you."
"But it would be fun." He said.
"Excuse me Blaise, but I do not want my secrets told to a group of people that there is a high possibility I do not know or do not like."
"But you hear their secrets."
"You really think someone will willingly tell their secrets. They'll want something in return." She said her voice reaching a very high note.
"Calm down Hermione. You can't have that many secrets."
"Well this is a secret." She said.
"It doesn't have to be." He said and she sighed before opening the door and walking out into the corridor.
'Her life would be so much easier if she didn't have so many secrets and didn't lie so much' she thought as she walked towards her next class.
*****School Library*****
Pansy sat on one of the tables opposite Draco, who looked engrossed in a book since his face was covered and all she could she was the spine and covers of said book.
Pansy turned her attention back to her Herbology book. Professor Sprout had given so much homework and she didn't get a word of it. That was why her and Draco were currently sitting in the library in the only lesson of the day they had no subject.
"Can you explain question three. I don't remember doing this in class." She said turning the book to face him but keeping the finger in position. The head boy opposite closed his book and looked at the sheet.
He sighed before starting, something he was doing a lot now a days, she noticed "That's the roots we learnt last lesson. Remember and you said about how the brown of the dirt did not go with the green of your nail polish."
Realisation dawned on the green-eyed girl and she frantically started writing about the work. Pansy knew what everyone thought of her. That she was a stupid girl that didn't care about anyone. That she was in love with Draco and thought about nothing else but him. She knew that people always thought she thought they were better than her.
But that didn't bother her as much as she thought. She didn't like Draco now, before when she was younger and naive she had had feelings for him but now she'd grown out of them, but obviously everyone else hadn't.
'It's amazing how ignorant people are.' She thought and one of those rare smiles came to her lips.
And as to the reason she was wanted to pass her exams. She wanted to make something of herself and didn't want to be told to be the girl that lived of her parent's wealth and the wealth of whoever her husband would be.
She knew that that would never be Draco and funnily enough when she had found out her dreams were not crushed, in fact it was liberation. She now had the freedom to do whatever she wanted and wasn't tied down to thinking 'what would Draco think'. She was her own person but that sometimes made her feel selfish.
"Hey there, you busy today?" Pansy looked up to see a blonde seventh year Hufflepuff sitting down next to Draco. 'They did that a lot', she noted.
"I'm fine. So why don't you stop acting like a whore." He said back coldly. 'He did that a lot too', she noted again.
"Excuse me?" The girl sounded offended, like he had asked her.
"You don't paid, just a slut then." He said and opened the book to show the conversation was over. The Hufflepuff walked away.
Pansy noted that he sighed again and closed the book. "Did you finish the question?" he asked and she gave him her book. "It looks alright. Merlin you actually got something right Pansy." He joked but it didn't reach his eyes.
"You really liked her didn't you?" She found herself asking, he glare from him made her shrink back.
"I have no idea what you're talking about Pans."
"You know exactly what I'm talking about Draco, don't pretend. When you broke up, it hit you. Hard." She voiced her concerns and what she noticed and he didn't seem to like it.
"Just leave my business to me Parkinson. Don't you have your own problems that you want mine too." He said quietly. It was quiet Draco you wanted to watch out for. It was like a hunt, you go all still before the attack.
"You can tell me you know." She said before she could stop.
"JUST LEAVE IT THE FUCK ALONE PANSY. WHY CAN'T YOU GET THAT THROUGH YOUR MASSIVE HEAD AND SMALL BRAIN? I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT." He shouted, and she nearly fell over the chair in surprise. He didn't shout often. In fact she'd never heard him shouting at all before.
This must really have been a sore subject for him.
"There's no need to shout Draco." She said calmly as she put the books into her bag, since their free was almost over.
"No need to shout. I told you to shut up, you didn't." He said calm again and sitting back in the chair.
"Believe it or not, not everyone bend to your whim." She said.
"You're right I don't believe it." He said raising an eyebrow in challenge; she gritted her teeth in return.
Before either of them could comment a strange force knocked her backwards. Luckily the chair was near the shelf so she would have fallen over, Draco didn't fare so well.
"You tell anyone about this, and you would need to sleep with both eyes open." He threatened and she mock shook.
Pansy opened the cover in return and was very happy at its contents. It wasn't everyday that someone allowed her to know the secrets of other so easily. She normally had to get it out of people in ways she wouldn't repeat.
"It seems like so much fun." She said looking at him. She had deduced that both were invites and to the same thing.
"I'll see you at eight, if we don't meet earlier." He said and she nodded.
They walked out of the library there past argument forgotten.
*****Outside Transfiguration- corridor*****
Ginny walked along side Luna as they went along the corridor. They had both had Transfig, the only lesson on the red heads timetable that wasn't with the Slytherins. Today one of the Ravenclaws whose name Ginny never learnt had turned himself invisible, and went around scaring everyone.
Professor McGonagall spent half the lesson trying to find him, and when she did he was given ten days detention. And the funniest thing was Ginny was sure he had turned invisible accidently.
"Can I talk to you?" A voice said Ginny stopped and stood against the wall waiting for Luna to finish her conversation with Blaise Zabini.
The two of them had started dating about a month ago and Ginny thought they suited each other in a weird and twisted way.
"I can't make it today." Blaise was saying, "Something's come up and I can't miss it."
"That's alright. I'll see you when I see you then." Luna said in her dreamy voice.
"We really should reschedule. I know you wanted to see those Thestrals." He said, were Ginny's ear deceiving her or did a slimy Slytherin just sound sorry for something.
"But there always there, but I would like to see them." Luna said.
"Great, Monday?" he asked, and she nodded. He smirked and bent down to give her a quick kiss before waving goodbye to her.
"Finished?" Ginny asked, once he was out of earshot.
"With him. Not yet, he's really nice."
"I meant are you finished so we can carry on walking."
"Oh, yeah I'm finished."Luna said and the two started walking. Or tried to as soon as Ginny moved two steps from the wall an invisible force sent her back against it. With her back aching she bent to see the white envelope on the floor.
"It seems very interesting." Luna said reading it. Ginny ripped of the top and read it quickly; it was times like this she was grateful that Hermione made her read book. Sometimes.
"You've been spending too much time with the Slytherins." Ginny said.
"I disagree." Luna said instead of some smart comment. "I'll see you there." Luna said running off towards the Ravenclaw Tower.
Ginny looked down at her watch and saw she only had three hours until she had to be there.
'Run. Quick." She told herself.
Finished.
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Remember this is a Draco/Hermione with other couples, and the story has lies and secrets so it was meant to confuse you a little.
