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Griffygirl – Sorry. Updating now.

And thanks to all the others that I do not have messages to: elisagranger and kingofthefanfics.

With the whole letter thing from James to Lily, I just made that up. It was the first thing that I could think of when I had to make Mrs. Weasley give Harry something.

And I forgot to mention earlier, but this takes place between the summers of 4 and 5. And I do know that for that time, I got Harry's age wrong, but I am fixing that.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, any of the other characters, or most of the places mentioned. I only own the plot.

A Game Started it All

Previously:

Harry arrived at the Burrow with Ron yelling at him over a joke when Hermione and Ginny came downstairs to see Harry.

"Harry!" Hermione yelled.

"Hey, good to see you, Hermione."

Chapter 2 – The Game

After Ron settled down, they went upstairs to Hermione reading Hogwarts: A History for the umpteenth time.

"Doesn't that book get old?" Ron said.

"Nope," Hermione said. "Maybe someday: you will read it."

"Yah, right. Over my dead body!"

Hermione started, "That can be arranged. Avada –"

"Why don't we play a game or something?" Harry interrupted. Harry knew that Hermione wouldn't actually kill Ron, but still, even the thought of it wasn't the least bit funny.

"Sure. How about truth-or-dare?" Hermione suggested.

"What's that?" Ron asked.

"It's a Muggle game. The magical way is I say "truth or dare spin" with my wand, it will spin around for a second, and whoever it is pointed at will be asked "truth or dare." If you choose "truth," you will be asked a question that you have to tell the truth on. If you don't tell the truth, Rectusimpra will be put on you and you will be tickled for 30 seconds. If you choose "dare," you will be given a task that you must do, and I you don't, you will be tickled for a minute," Hermione explained.

"I'm up for a game." Ron said.

"Me too," said Harry.

"Me too," said Ginny, walking into the room.

"How d'you know what we're gonna play?"

"I don't, I'm just up for whatever y'all are gonna do."

With that, they all sat in a circle, Hermione took out her wand, said "truth or dare spin" and then her wand started to spin around and around. It then landed on Harry.

"Truth or Dare, Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Truth."

"Are you in love at the moment?"

"No."

Harry then started laughing and rolling all over the ground with Hermione's wand pointed at him in mid-air. After 30 seconds, he got up and said, "what, I'm not in love!"

"Who is it Harry?" Ginny asked.

"I don't know. Last time that I checked, I wasn't in love."

"Anyway, on with the game."

The wand started to spin around and around until it landed on Ginny.

"Truth or –"

"Truth."

"How many boyfriends have you had in total?"

"7." Ron's jaw dropped, as did Harry's. "2 as a dare, 1 in Kindergarten, 3 serious, and 1 I was just desperate. What? I hadn't had a boyfriend in like a week. I NEEDED A GUY!"

The wand started to spin again. It landed on Harry.

"Dare."

"Snog Hermione."

"WHAT!" Harry and Hermione yelled together.

"You heard. Snog her for at least 30 seconds."

"I am not going to…" Hermione started. But she was cut off by Harry's lips meeting hers.

It started off as just a regular kiss. But Harry's tongue was tracing her lips. She then opened her mouth and let his tongue in, allowing it to explore her mouth, as hers was his.

After a minute, Ron yelled, "she said '30 seconds!' "

Harry broke away from Hermione, who was blushing madly.

The wand spun for a minute and then landed on Hermione.

"Truth."

"Did you enjoy it?" Harry asked.

"Can I say maybe?"

"NO!" everybody yelled. She then got a 5 second blast of tickling from her wand for attempting to lie.

"Alright, I enjoyed it!" she yelled, clearly not wanting to get tickled, as she was very, very ticklish.

The wand span again but stopped and pointed between Harry and Hermione at Mrs. Weasley, who had walked in.

"Why is that wand pointed at me?"

"It thinks you are playing truth or dare," said Hermione. She grabbed her wand and said, "Finité."

"Harry, I think it is time that you went home. I have some food for you to take downstairs," Mrs. Weasley said.

Harry did not say no, because he did not want Mrs. Weasley to get mad.

"See you guys!" Harry said.

"See you Harry!" everybody said in unison.

"Hermione, can I borrow your owl to guide me home? That's how I found my way here," Harry asked, walking out of the room.

"Sure."

Harry got his broom, and Hermione came out with her owl. Harry and Hermione gave each other a hug, both blushing madly.

"Go to Harry's, OK?" Hermione said to her owl.

Then Harry put on his invisibility cloak and took off, following Hermione's owl.

I will put on another chapter tomorrow, maybe two if my reviewers are good. But then it may be a little while, because I am going out of town for a wedding, and I don't know if I'll have internet access, and even then, I won't have the floppy with the file. But I will update as soon as I get back!