If you recognize it it's not mine.
One the first of September the four woke early and met in the common room. The past two days Hermione had been getting a lot of dirty looks for 'betraying her house' as Ronald had put it. She was starting to get scared of what people would be thinking by the end of the year, she was playing with a Slytherin after all.
"Okay, for starters I have a question. Are we doing one dare a month? Because I think we should do one big dare and like two little ones that aren't that bad; I mostly ask because I have a big one for you and a little one." Draco sat on the couch next to Blaise facing the girls.
"I think we could do it one big and a few smaller ones. The big ones we need to exchange immediately but the small ones don't need a set date or immediate retaliation. Now give me my two dares and say which is which."
"Okay then, for the small one I want you to go into the great hall singing a rocky horror picture show song and you can't sit until you've finished the song. You can have music if you want."
"I accept. Your main dare is to go to the kitchens and get cookies from the elves. Bring one to each professor; if they ask you have to say: 'I can't accept nor deny your claim of it being a dare.' Even if they only ask what kind of cookie it is." He nodded
"Fair enough, now your main dare is to goof off in Snape's class. You can choose when but make it a lab day and make it good. Try not to do it the same day I do the cookies. They might get suspicious."
"Deal, this will be fun; I need time to prepare though." Blaise looked slightly scared at her proclamation.
"So Hermione, what song will you be singing?"
"I think you mean 'we'. I'm not letting Hermione have all the fun! And I think one that will get the boys looking." Luna smirked and nodded to Hermione's questioning look, Hermione joined the smirk fest.
"Today?" Luna nodded "Can we start the song on the way if we do it during the time when everyone goes to breakfast and the teachers are in the hallway outside? We will make sure it draws plenty of attention." Hermione asked, she had a plan, Draco nodded.
-o-o-
Twenty minutes later Hermione and Luna were standing by the wall waiting for the rush of students when Dolohov and Snape approached them.
"When I looked through the responsibilities book for head students it said nothing about waiting for other students to enter the hall."
"They're up to something; what are you up to? Is it a dare?" Snape asked suspiciously. Draco had told them to meet him in the hallway outside the great hall before the student rush and he had a sense of fore bonding with the two girls seemingly waiting for something.
"Nope." Luna said
"Nope what?" Snape asked while Dolohov stared at Hermione who was looking down the hall.
"Just nope." Hermione muttered. "They're coming, get ready."
"Who's coming?" Dolohov asked curiously
"The student body; if you don't want to be the center of attention I suggest you go to the other side of the hallway." Luna told him knowing Hermione would be too tongue tied. They did as was told and Hermione conjured a crate big enough for the two small witches to stand on.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of Hogwarts!" Hermione started
"Prepare for an epic song to be sung!" Luna shouted; everyone had stopped and looked wide eyed at a lucid Luna. The opening notes of Time warp started playing.
(Luna, Hermione, both)
It's astounding
Time is fleeting
Madness takes its toll...
Ahh...
But listen closely...
Not for very much longer...
I've got to keep control.
I remember doing the Time Warp.
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me.
And the void would be calling.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
It's just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
With your hand on your hips.
You bring your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust.
They really drive you insane.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
The girls were really going all out with their performance and doing the correct dance moves; it did indeed get the boys looking.
It's so dreamy
Oh, fantasy free me
So you can't see me
No not at all.
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention.
Well secluded I see all...
With a bit of a mind flip...
You're into a time slip...
And nothing can ever be the same.
You're spaced out on sensation.
Like you're under sedation.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Well, I was walking down the street
Just having a think
When a snake of a guy
Gave me an evil wink.
Well it shook me up
It took me by surprise
He had a pick-up truck
And the devil's eyes
He stared at me
And I felt a change
Time meant nothing
Never would again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
It's just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
With your hands on your hips.
You bring you knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust...
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again
Ah! Oh! Oh! Yeoooww...
Ahhhh.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
It's just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
With your hands on your hips.
You bring your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust
They really drive you insane.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
By the end of the song they had made it into the great hall and were by their table. They had danced their way down the hall and up the aisle, bringing the entire student body following after them along with a few professors. They bowed once, sat down, and began serving themselves like nothing had happened; Draco and Blaise sat there laughing their heads off.
"Nice performance girls." Dolohov commented as he passed. The girls smiled while looking at their plates. At the end of breakfast their schedules appeared in front of them and the girls made sure theirs were the same before stealing the guys out of their hands. All four shared potions and transfiguration but only Luna and Hermione had matching schedules. The boys were taking easy classes that they would get straight O's.
"See you in potions boys; we're off to charms" Luna said. All the teachers and students left the great hall for their first period classes. Charms was boring for the girls as they had learned all this over the summer, so they spent the time plotting against Draco. When asked to perform the charm on the board they did so with ease and got to leave class early. They spent their free time gathering ideas and supplies for Snape's class in two weeks when Hermione would perform her dare. They made sure none of what they were doing could get her a detention which would make Snape furious.
Life continued like this for a week until Draco decided to do his dare. He had been asking low key questions about all the teachers' preferences all week and had collected the cookies. The only job he had to do was levitating them to the teachers table and drop them, Hermione had never specified they had to know it was him; he had a feeling a few would anyways.
Dinner had finished and the other students had just left when Draco covertly delivered the cookies to the teachers. They all looked surprised but only three ate them, the rest put them aside, and Dolohov and Snape glared at Draco. He had doodled a little smiling face on them and wrote 'you need to smile more' in pink frosting.
"What did you do to their cookies?" Hermione asked
"I just told the truth." Draco said as they approached with the cookies. They pulled up chairs and sat on either side of Draco placing the cookies on the table in front of him.
"Why did you get cookies that everyone else would like and give me this sugary crap?" Dolohov asked, Snape glared at him.
"He means why did you do this in general?" Draco winced while saying:
"I can neither confirm nor deny you claim that this is a dare." He said
"So it's a dare?" Dolohov asked.
"I can neither confirm nor deny you claim that this is a dare." He repeated. Hermione was only just containing her laughter at this point and Luna wasn't doing much better. Both were smiling broadly and red in the face when Dolohov looked at them.
"What's so funny?" Snape asked noticing what his friend was looking at.
"I can neither confirm nor deny you claim that this is a dare." Draco repeated again in a whiny voice pleading for them to stop asking questions. Blaise hadn't the reservations the girls had and was openly laughing at this point. He got up and left the great hall when tears came to his eyes; this broke the girls who fell to the floor in a pile laughing.
"So a dare, nice one Hermione; next time make sure to specify good cookies." Dolohov said dragging Snape after him as he left. Draco looked at the girls on the floor and left the room. It was a long while before they returned to the room with big smiles.
"Hey Dray, I'm doing my dare the last week of September, but I have a small one for you. Make four other Slytherins do the electric slide in the great hall tomorrow at lunch; have fun." She said in passing.
-o-o-
Three weeks later the four Slytherins still were angry with Draco, but everyone else was happy for him and praising him for his work. Today was Thursday and the 30th of September; it was also the day Hermione would be pulling off her dare. Interestingly enough she wasn't nervous. To prepare she watched Snape all through breakfast and lunch before going to double potions.
He had glared at first, when she just smirked he looked unsettled and kept glancing back at her every few seconds. Dolohov was laughing at him until he'd seen who it was looking, then he just looked angry that her attention seemed to be on Severus. If he was honest with himself, something he rarely was, he'd say he had a crush on the girl; but that was wrong. She was only like 18 or 19, he was 31, and it was wrong. He kept telling himself; it didn't work.
Potions started when Snape strode in and put the potion instructions on the board, he told them to start, and Hermione just looked at him. Ten minutes later he walked over to her and looked at her empty cauldron. His eyes narrowed and he looked at her.
"Are you trying to fail?"
"Nope."
"Why aren't you doing the assignment?"
"I already did."
"Doesn't look like it."
"But it is, after all everything isn't always as it seems. Weren't you a spy for 20 years? Shouldn't you know this kind of thing?"
"Do the assignment."
"I did."
"Fine then fail the assignment and leave if you won't work; you're distracting the class."
"Actually I think it's you doing that by asking me questions and such." She told him as he went back to his desk. After loudly dragging her cauldron over to the storage area she dropped of her finished potion on the assignment rack and left the room, standing in the doorway watching.
"Miss. Granger, I told you to leave."
"I did. Now I'm just watching you to see if my potion is satisfactory for you." She told him. He looked at the potion rack expecting to see an empty vile but instead saw a perfect finished product. He knew she couldn't have bought it, when would she get the chance?
"It's perfect." He growled, she smirked and left the dungeons. On her way to her dormitory she ran into Dolohov who was walking the other way, towards the dungeons. He wouldn't look at her and wouldn't even say hi, he just kept walking. Usually she could count on him for small conversations in the hallway, now he was ignoring her. She wondered what had happened.
'What if he knows I fancy him? He was a spy for like 10 years he could pick up on that! Oh no, he knows and doesn't feel the same; maybe he thinks I'm just a silly school girl.' All the worst thoughts were coming to Hermione.
So much was it worrying her she didn't notice Ron approach her. She certainly noticed him when he shoved her into an alcove and up against the wall. He pinned her with one hand on her neck closing off her airways and the other over her mouth.
"Look you little brat, you are nothing in this world. You are useless and a mudblood. You will not tell anybody about this and if you do or if you try I will ruin you. Do you understand me?" He whispered into her ear, she nodded and he dropped her to the floor and left. She stayed there and cried for a few moments before running to her common room, not understanding how things could go wrong already; it was only the end of September.