A/N: The first chapter has been posted. The second chapter is being posted. I think I might actually get throught this re-write unscathed. (Then again, I made all of my mistakes the first time 'round. Those that read the un-edited versioncan atest to thisthis.)
Disclaimer: Who reads these anyway? Hey, how about this? If you read this, you have to put the word "duck" somewhere in your review. Oh, and I don't own Harry Potter. (Doesn't mean I can't dream, though.)
Game Night"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Chapter Two:
The Rules
"If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun."
Katherine Hepburn
"Truth or Dare, Spin the Bottle, and I've Never." The third game had been a split-second idea. Originally, there'd only been two groups, Truth or Dare and Spin the Bottle, but when the house elves had come up, she'd noticed what looked suspiciously like Firewhiskey in one of the crates. When she'd entered the room, her suspicions had been confirmed. She'd been worried about it at first, but then that weird part came back. 'You told yourself you were gonna have fun, what's fun with rules?' Then there was that annoying mantra from her younger days, 'Rules are made to be broken,' which popped into her head unheeded. She had no chance arguing herself. She sighed deeply and came back to earth, where many people where staring at her.
Draco was genuinely surprised. "Didn't know Granger had it in her." A couple of people turned toward him confusedly; they'd obviously never played I've Never.
Hermione sighed again. She knew she'd have to explain the rules to a few people when she started, why was she so exasperated now? "Okay, truth or dare is pretty simple, except I've taken the liberty of changing it a bit. Someone asks you "Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Double Truth, or Rainbow?" and you pick one. If you pick truth, you have to answer a question truthfully. If you pick dare, you have to do something the asker tells you to do. Double dare- Well, I've never really gotten this one, so you just have to do two dares. Double truth is usually Promise to Repeat, but I think that's pointless, so you just have to answer two truths, or answer a two-part truth. Rainbow, you have to take off all the clothing you are wearing of a certain color. Got it?"
Most everybody nodded and she continued. "Now, spin the bottle. This bottle spins itself and it has a...sense of humor." 'Of course it does, I got it for my birthday from Fred and George,' she thought. "You roll a dice, which has L, C, and F on it each twice, standing for Lips, Cheek, and French, then you spin the bottle and kiss that person that way."
She gave them a few seconds to mull over that, and then skipped quickly to the next game. "As a few of you know, I've Never is a drinking game. The house elves have been nice enough to grant us with some Firewhiskey. So...basically, the group sits in a circle and goes around saying something they've never done. All the people that have done it drink." She smiled. "So, by the end of it, we should all be drunk and half-naked."
She flicked her wand and conjured a Muggle magicians' hat with papers. "There are eighteen of us, so we'll be separated into three groups, each playing a game, for the first two hours. We'll switch games every forty minutes. You can leave at any time, but remember, once you're gone, you can't come back."
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Coming up: Ron in a tutu and Neville going drag! (Sort of.)