Authors notes

Hello again! This chapter is somewhat shorter than the past ones, but fear not I will update sooner as compensation!

This chapter will highlight topics that will be discussed in upcoming chapters. Some of the topics are either controversial, or intended for mature audiences.

Once again, I own nothing!

Game two

Third person POV

Congratulations on finishing the first game! If everyone would make there way back to the common room, we will continue with the second.

Everyone paused looking towards the hall Hermione had left through. After a couple of minutes of awkward silence Harry stood up to go get her. Just then she stormed back in and headed straight for the bar. Grabbed a tall glass filled it about halfway with ice tea, and the rest with whiskey. She threw her head back drinking it all, and refilled her glass with two ice cubs and a straw before returning to her seat.

Well, now that everyone is settled, time for the rules. In front of you a paper and pencil will appear. Pick them up.

After a slight hesitation Hermione picked it up, and everyone followed quickly feeling uncomfortable.

You are going to write your deepest secret on this sheet of paper, and then put the paper in the hat on the table.

Everyone felt a compulsion in their hands when Dumbledore mentioned their deepest secret, and before anyone could stop themselves they had written the thing they'd never told anyone before. Panicking a few tried to rip the paper in half but the slips wouldn't tare. In the end all the papers ended up in the hat, and most everyone had a look of disbelief.

Each one of you is going to pick a piece of paper out of the hat and read the secret aloud. Should anyone want to confess that the secret is theirs you may, but if you do not then the secret will remain anonymous.

The students sat in utter silence, no one willing to reach in. They knew that if they ever wanted out of this room then they'd have to read all the cards. And even if no one knew it was their secrets being shared, no one could stand the idea of their secrets being heard.

"Okay." Hermione said with her arms out. "Lets just all pick a card, read it out loud, nobody comments on what's said, we don't look at each other. Just read it and move on."

Hermione looked around the room making eye contact with everyone. "Sound fair?"

Without saying a word Malfoy reached into the hat and pulled a slip out. Following his lead, one by one each person in the circle took a slip of paper without reading it.

"Okay, I'll go first. And we'll go in a circle like we did before." Terry looked at his piece of paper and said, "I am an alcoholic."

Hermione took a deep breath then flipped the sheet over. "When I-I was preg-" she stumbled took a deep breath in and started again. "When I was pregnant, I threw myself down a flight of stairs, beat my stomach with a broom, I tried anything I could think of. Eventually, I had accepted my situation and I went to tell the father, but I got hit by a car and had a miscarriage."

Without missing a beat Harry picked up his card and said, "I'm gay."

He looked to Blaise who picked up his card and read, "Everyone I've ever loved is drifting slowly away, and all I'm left with is a couple of one night stands I can't look at anymore."

"I have doubts." Malfoy said before dropping the card in his lap, "Vague much."

"No comments!" Hermione said from her place on the couch, ringing her fingers and nibbling on her lip. "Pans your turn."

"I have cancer." Hermione gasped from her spot on the couch, and Pansy raised an eyebrow in challenge. Shaking her head Hermione sat back in her chair and took a drink.

"I'm terrified I'm going to end up like my mother." Daphne said quickly.

"Here here!" Pansy said lifting up her drink in toast, and was met by a number of cold glares from around the room. "Sorry. Luna your turn."

"I'm afraid of what I'm capable of."

without missing a beat neville raised his card, "I can't look in the mirror anymore. I hate what I see."

Picking up the last card Ron took a deep breath and paled. "I was raped."

The owners of each secret will be revealed in the upcoming chapters, so please don't hate me! Feel free to post your guesses!

Hope you enjoyed! R&R