Ok here is the latest chapter, its really long but i couldn't help it as i wanted to get the full game of truth into this one chapter so i could start on the nxt one for after they have left the room. I will warn they they all go through a dramatic change in this chapter so they will be OOC for most of it and for the rest of the story.
I hope that you all enjoy this chapter.
Disclaimer: Usual disclaimer applies, i don't own Harry Potter nor any of its characters and this chapter does include Quotes from the book - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Thanks to all of you that have reviewed and a special thanks to 'Moony's Fire' for her suggestions for some of the truth questions i did incorporate some of them into the story for you.
Chapter 3: Truth!
"Ok, lets get to the last game" Blaise rubbed his hands together,
"Who goes first to answer the questions?" Pansy asked,
"I vote Ron" Hermione stated,
"Huh, what? Mione!" Ron stuttered,
"Yeah you can go first Ron" Harry agreed. Ron opened his mouth to protest then shut it at the look from Hermione,
"Fine"
"Don't worry Ron, you get to choose who goes next, but I vote that we leave Hermione for last" Harry added,
"I'll agree with that, but Draco goes second last, that way they can't worm their way out of it for the simple fact that it will be up to them to let us out" Blaise agreed, Pansy and Ron both nodded, while Draco and Hermione both grimaced.
"Wicked, alright ask away" Ron stated,
"Alright, I'll go first, I've always wanted to know this as you seem to hate Hogwarts so much. Who was or is you favorite professor here at Hogwarts?" Pansy asked,
"Professor Lupin, he taught us what we needed to know and yet made the lessons fun in the process" Ron answered, Blaise nodded,
"I will admit that Lupin was cool, I always enjoyed his lessons, made things interesting, I was pissed when he left. Anyway, Weasley, since you are so overprotective of her, What type of guy would you think is the perfect one for your sister?" Ron scowled as he thought about it, irritated that Blaise had asked about his sister,
"I suppose one who loves her and treats her right, I may be overprotective, stubborn and have a foul temper that I don't always control, but as long as the guy loves her and treats her how she deserves to be treated that's all I care about, be it rich or poor"
"You don't care about having no money?" Pansy asked, Ron shook his head,
"No, I will admit that I used to, but since this whole thing with Voldemort sprang up again I have realized that money isn't everything. Sure it would be nice to be able to buy anything I want no matter the price, but in the end there are more important things in life. My family may not be rich in money but we are rich in other ways, like, love, compassion, loyalty, understanding and acceptance. I know, that no matter what I do my family will always support my decisions" Ron stated
"Even if you were to join the Death Eaters?" Blaise asked curiously, Ron blanched,
"Well that may be the one thing excluded, not that I ever would, I'd kill to protect my family and friends, but I wouldn't be able to do it just for fun" everyone nodded then Harry spoke,
"If you could date anyone in this school, who would it be?" the tips of Ron's ears turned red as he answered,
"Not really sure, possibly Padma Patil, I can't stand Pavarti or Lavender to giggly for me, maybe Pansy here, she's not so bad, well not as bad as I thought she was" Ron finished, his whole face going red at the sight of Pansy's blush.
"If you could do one thing you wished, without consequences, what would it be?" Hermione asked, Ron grinned evilly,
"Ohh that's a toss up, I would either throw Mrs Norris off the Astronomy Tower or, set fire to Snape's dungeons" he answered with gleeful relish at the thought of seeing the look on Snape's face when his dungeons went up in smoke. Hermione scowled at his answer but the rest laughed, then Draco cleared his throat and smirked at Ron.
"If you had to shag anyone in Slytherin who would you pick?" Blaise burst into laughter at the look on Ron's face, part disgust, part embarrassment,
"You have to answer Weasley, or pay the forfeit" Draco reminded him,
"Ugh, fine! Then it would have to be Pansy" Ron answered, his whole face turning red. Risking a glance to his left he saw that Pansy's face was also bright red but she was staying silent. Hermione and Harry remained silent, too shocked by Draco's question and Ron's answer to say anything, then Hermione finally broke through Blaise and Draco's laughter,
"Alright Ron, pick whose answering next"
"Yeah but remember that Hermione and Malfoy are going last" Harry added once he found his voice
"Alright then, I'll pick Pansy, and my question is this. How would you describe your childhood?" Pansy thought for a moment before she answered,
"My Parents spoil me rotten but they are also strict and unloving, it was lonely and I always wished that I could have a sister or brother to talk to, that's why I wanted the memory of my cousin's death gone, she was really the only one who I would class as a confidante, Draco and Blaise here were more just pals, I could play with them and stuff, but never really talk to them about things" Hermione went next,
"Why do you pick on all the other girls regardless of house?"
"Jealousy, its as simple as that, they have things that I could never have, sure I'm popular but that's more to do with the fact that I hang out with Draco and Blaise more than anything"
"Why do you hang off me all the time, call me stupid nicknames that I hate and what are your true feelings where I am concerned" Draco asked, taking the opportunity to get the truthful answer to a question that he had always wanted to know the answer to. Pansy blushed bright red but answered without hesitation,
"Pretty much for the same reason as Granger's question. Jealousy, I call you names like Drakie-poo and such because I am the only one who can get away with doing it, anyone else you would hex to hell and back, its sort of like proving to everyone else that I can do that and they can't. With why I hang off you, its for the same reasons, also to keep other girls away from you, if you were to ever get a real girlfriend then I'm afraid that our trio would dissipate and I would be left alone again. As to what I truly feel for you, truthfully you are like a brother to me, sure we have snogged a couple of times, but both times there was something missing, it felt weird and wrong, I love you, but I'm not in love with you, I love you like a brother, but I have only just realized that today" Pansy answered. Draco nodded and refused to comment, but he sent Pansy a small smile to show that he understood, then he changed his mind and said one thing.
"Now that I know the reason, if you continue to call me names like that and hang off me I will hex you to hell and back, but if you truly want me to be your friend then I will accept that" Pansy grinned and nodded in acceptance, Harry took his turn next,
"Alright Parkinson, Which Gryffindor guy in our year would you snog if you were given the chance?" Pansy scowled,
"Remind me again of who the Gryffindor guys are in our year"
"Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Neville Longbottom, Ron and I" Harry replied,
"Well out of all of those it would be a toss up between you and Weasley, but since you have a girlfriend I will say Weasley" Ron flushed bright red but stayed silent, not trusting himself to speak. Pansy turned to Draco and Blaise,
"And not a word out of you two or I will get you back, both of you have yet to take your turns" Draco and Blaise snapped their mouths shut, but their facial expressions showed their feelings on her answer. Then Blaise grinned wickedly,
"Who would you like to lose your virginity to?" Pansy and Hermione gasped at the personal question.
"I'm not going to dignify that with an answer, I'll take a forfeit!" Pansy declared as she selected a card and waited for the forfeit to appear. When it did Pansy blushed scarlet, before handing the card to Hermione silently. Hermione took the card from Pansy's trembling hand wondering why Pansy was handing it to her, then after she read it she realized that it was because she was the only other girl in the room,
"Oh dear" Hermione responded sympathetically, as she handed the card back to Pansy,
"What is it?" Harry asked, Pansy paled but read the card out aloud.
Deciding not to answer such a personal question is commendable indeed, therefore the penalty is somewhat softer than it might have been. All you must do is to kiss all members of the opposite sex that are not in your house. It is just a chaste kiss but must be performed on the lips.
(All forfeits to be paid must in no way be hindered by other members of the group. If another member has to participate they must do so for the forfeit to be paid properly. Any other group member who interferes with this forfeit will find themselves facing similar consequences but with a more embarrassing effect)
"What does it mean exactly? That last note on the bottom?" Ron asked as Pansy finished reading, he was red in the face again at the thought that Pansy had to kiss him and Harry.
"It means Weasley that no matter how much Blaise and I hate the idea of watching Pansy kiss you and Potter that we are not to interfere, we can do nothing or we ourselves will have to pay a forfeit of a similar nature but more embarrassing"
"Oh" Ron stated, then glanced at Pansy as she stood up and walked over to Harry,
"Might as well get this over with, sorry Potter I know you have a girlfriend but I'm sure if you explain it to her she will understand, she is in Ravenclaw and therefore should be intelligent" then in a swift motion she bent down and gave him a quick kiss, her lips barely touching his for a second. Pansy then moved to Ron and repeated the kiss, though her lips remained on his for a few seconds longer, then, blushing furiously she sat down and faced Harry, "Your turn Potter" Harry nodded in acceptance. Draco started the questioning,
"How do you manage to sneak around Hogwarts without being seen and while knowing where everyone is at all times?" Harry grinned before he bent down and pulled a blank piece of parchment out of his bag and his wand from his robe pocket,
"Alright as to how I'm not being seen, my father left his Invisibility cloak with Dumbledore before he died and on my first Christmas here, Dumbledore gave it to me"
"I knew it, I knew you must have had an Invisibility cloak, so that's what Granger meant when she said when she stated that if she didn't tell you something that you would go under the cloak to spy on her, but what map did she mean?" Draco asked,
"Well that map is how I tell where everybody is" Harry answered as he placed the blank piece of parchment on the table in front of the three Slytherins. Draco picked it up and unfolded it, looking at it in confusion.
"This is blank Potter!" he stated as he refolded it then handed it back to Harry. Harry took it with a grin then tapped it with his wand,
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good!" Immediately scarlet ink began to appear on the parchment, once it finished Harry handed it back to Draco who took it and looked at it in amazement, Blaise and Pansy leaned over in their seats to look as Draco read aloud.
"Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present, The Marauder's Map! What the?"
"Open it up and have a look, find the room that we are all in at the moment and then you will know how I know where everyone is at any point in time" Harry encouraged them. Draco laid it on the table and unfolded it to the third floor. He found the room easily enough and stared in shock. There in the room were six small dots all with banners floating next to them and each banner had their names written in them.
"Unbelievable" Blaise commented in awe,
"Keep looking, that map shows every secret passage, every room and every corridor in the whole of Hogwarts, and it also shows where everyone is in the castle at all times" Draco nodded then opening another fold of the map had another look,
"Your girlfriend and Weasley's sister are in potions with Snape" Pansy pointed out, excited about the map,
"Check that out, Crabbe and Goyle are in a room with Boot and Patil from Ravenclaw, and Longbottom and Brown from Gryffindor" Blaise laughed. The three Slytherins studied the map for another ten minutes, pointing and laughing at various things before they finally folded it back up and handed it back to Harry,
"Does the map disappear once its been folded up again?" Pansy asked, Harry shook his head then tapped his wand on the map again,
"Mischief Managed!" instantly the ink disappeared and once again it was a blank piece of parchment. Harry picked it up and placed it back in the secret pocket in his book bag, before he replaced his wand back in his robe pocket.
"Where did you get it?" Draco asked curiously, forgetting for the moment that he was addressing his enemy,
"Well as you know my dad and his friends wrote it, according to Lupin it took them nearly six years to finish it, what with all the charms and stuff as well as exploring Hogwarts to find all the secret rooms and passages, but I got it off the Weasley twins, the had nicked it from Filch's office in their second year, they gave it to me in my third year as they didn't need it anymore. How it got in Filch's office I have no idea" Harry answered readily enough. He wasn't entirely happy about showing the Slytherins the map, but he knew that they couldn't say anything about it to anyone else because of the charms that Dumbledore placed on the room that they were in.
"Well as interesting as that was, and I will admit that it was great, we should continue with the game" Blaise stated, Hermione nodded, she and Ron having stayed silent during Harry's explanation of the map. It was Harry's map and therefore his business on how much he shared about it.
"I'll go next. Alright Harry, How did you know that you were in love with Luna instead of just liking her a lot?" Hermione started, Harry thought about it for a moment before answering,
"Its hard to explain, but its like your heart beats a little faster whenever you hear their name, or you are content just to see their face, without any physical contact at all. Then when you do touch, even if it is as innocent as holding hands or giving a quick hug, you feel complete, whole. And yet when you don't see them you miss them but they are still with you there somewhere. Sounds mushy I know but that's how I would say that I know its love. Zabini you said your in love, anything different to add to that?" Harry answered then turned to Blaise, Blaise shook his head,
"Nah Potter, you summed up the feelings right" then he turned to Harry to ask his question, "Excluding your girlfriend, what are the names of all the girls that you have had a crush on since starting Hogwarts?" Harry flushed a little but answered readily,
"Well you already know about my small crush on Pansy in second year, I liked Cho Chang in fourth year, and finally before Luna I had a small crush on Ginny Weasley at the start of fifth year" something flickered in Blaise's eyes at the mention of Ginny but it was gone before Harry could recognize it. Harry turned to Ron as he asked his question,
"Did you ever snog my sister, and if so how far did it go?" nobody noticed Blaise's eyes flash, they were all too focused on Harry,
"No Ginny and I never snogged, I gave her a few brotherly hugs and a couple of quick pecks on the cheek but that's as far as it went"
"Ok. If you weren't with Luna, which girl would you sleep with if given the chance?" Pansy asked,
"Do you mean in Hogwarts or just in general?" Harry asked
"Hogwarts" Pansy clarified, Harry thought about it for a moment,
"I honestly don't know, I never really thought about it" He paused in thought for a moment, "I would have to say no-one, even if I weren't with Luna, she would still be the only one I would want to sleep with. Must be something to do with the whole I'm in love with her thing" Pansy nodded satisfied with that answer. Draco and Blaise weren't satisfied, but since Harry had answered truthfully there was nothing that they could do about it so stayed silent. Harry turned to Blaise,
"Your turn Zabini, Who did you go skinny dipping with?"
"I was eleven and it was with one of my cousins friends when I was on holiday in Italy, I can't remember her name now. Nothing happened, we just felt like a swim and since neither of us has swimming costumes we just went nude" Blaise answered with a shrug,
"If you had to pick anyone in this room to marry who would it be?" Pansy asked,
"Sorry Pans, but I would have to choose Granger, you are too much like my sister and I don't see you that way, so yeah, if I had to marry someone in this room it would be Granger" as Blaise answered Pansy's question, Draco felt a flash of something foreign in his gut at the notion of Blaise marrying Hermione.
"Thanks Blaise, its very flattering really, I hope you don't take it the wrong way if I don't share the same thoughts along that line" Hermione answered with a deep blush. Blaise grinned good naturedly at both Hermione's reply and her use of his first name,
"No problems Hermione, no offence taken" Hermione nodded in understanding to Blaise's silent acceptance of her friendship by using her first name. Draco hid a scowl at Blaise's and Hermione's uses of each others first names, not sure why it bothered him when an hour ago it wouldn't have worried him.
"Alright Blaise. When asked in the first game if you could change anything about yourself what would it be, you said your blood, and that you would give anything to be a half-blood right about now, why?" Hermione asked, Blaise sighed, then thought his reply over carefully before answering,
"If I was a half-blood then I wouldn't be accused several times a day of being a Death Eater, or a future Death Eater, I didn't drink in the I never game for the tattoo question because I don't have the dark mark, it's a magical tattoo. I don't want it either, I don't want to be a Death Eater. I hate Voldemort and all his bullshit ideas, I like the wizarding world fine just the way it is thanks, and if I was a half-blood then I wouldn't have the pressure on me from my family to become one of Voldemort's slaves" Hermione nodded, having guessed that that was the reason, Ron, Harry, Draco and Pansy however were shocked,
"You don't believe in Voldemort's crazy notions?" Ron asked aghast,
"Nope not at all, I think he's a crazy old bastard that should really take a look at himself, and now that I know that he's a halfblood as well it just strengthens my beliefs of the hypocritical bastards idiocy" Harry nodded,
"Well who would have known that there was more than one Slytherin who believed what you do" Blaise looked sharply at Harry,
"More than one?"
"Yeah I know another Slytherin, perhaps two that think the way that you do, but I'm sworn to secrecy and can't reveal the name of the one I know" Blaise nodded in understanding,
"Make that three you know then Harry" Pansy stated suddenly,
"Pansy!" Draco gasped, shocked not only at her declaration but also at her use of Harry's first name,
"Don't sound so shocked Draco, I have felt this way for a while now, but didn't want to say anything in case it got back to my parents. I don't believe in all that blood prejudice crap, haven't since first year here but I had to keep up with the act in order to prevent my parents from finding out"
"First year?" Ron asked
"Yeah, I was always told that mud.. er muggleborns, were dumb and stupid, that they were lower than us and that I would always be able to spot one because their magical ability was weaker than that of a pureblood and that their brains were dumber. But once I got here I noticed something, for one Crabbe and Goyle are purebloods yet they are both as dumb as a post, and yet Hermione here, is a muggleborn and yet she is the smartest in our year, most possibly the smartest of our age and her magical ability is as strong as, if not stronger, than all the purebloods in this school. Then there is Harry's mother, she was a muggleborn and yet she was the smartest in her year, Head Girl, and a very powerful Auror before she was killed. They can't have been flukes! I'm not as dumb as I act, and yes it is an act, an act I have put on for the benefit of my parents, the Slytherins and my reputation" Pansy explained, then she turned to Hermione and added "Sorry for all the insults Hermione"
"Apology accepted Pansy" Hermione replied then added " And I'll take it as a future apology for all the insults to come as you keep up your act"
"Oh that won't be necessary, I don't have to do it anymore, my birthday was last week and I turned 16 so now I have my own vault that I have access to and if my parents disown me then I will be able to support myself. I just didn't want to do anything until I knew if there were others that wanted out of our world as much as I did, but now that I know Blaise does as well then I'll go to Dumbledore this week and ask for his help"
"If you need someone to talk to, then I'm always here, that goes for you as well Blaise, and anyone else" Hermione smiled,
"Yeah so am I" Harry stated,
"And me" Ron agreed,
"Thanks" Pansy and Blaise replied. Draco scowled, lost in his own thoughts. Then remembering that they were still playing he turned to Blaise,
"Alright lets get on with it, I wanna get out of here. Blaise who is your girlfriend and how long have you been dating her?" Blaise blanched and sent a nervous glance at Ron,
"Well we have been dating for 18 months, and its Ginny Weasley"
"WHAT!" Ron shouted raising from his seat, his fists clenched and his face red,
"Ron calm down, honestly, you heard him in the game of I never, he said that he was in love and that he had a girlfriend, and he can't lie, so you should be happy that Ginny has a boyfriend that loves her" Hermione scolded as she pulled Ron back into his chair,
"But! He's a, he's a… a" Ron stuttered, as he allowed Hermione to pull him back down in his seat,
"A Slytherin? Yes. Death Eater? No!" Blaise finished for him,
"I have noticed actually, that Ginny has been awfully happy for a while now, glowing almost" Harry commented,
"That's why you asked me the question about my sister when it was my turn, and why you refused to give her name in the game of I Never!" Ron stated, putting all the puzzle pieces together. Blaise nodded,
"Yep"
"I can't believe that you are dating the Weaselette" Draco stated thunderstruck, Ron opened his mouth to retort, but, Blaise beat him to it,
"Don't call her that! Her name is Ginny" he snapped, Draco having never seen the usually grinning Blaise angry put his hands up in surrender,
"Alright, geez man, calm down. Alright so you're going out with Ginny, why the big secret?" Draco replied, stressing Ginny's first name,
"Because of the reactions of both our houses, and of course of our families, although Mr and Mrs Weasley know, but only because I went and visited Ginny one day over the summer and Mrs Weasley saw us together. But they both gave me permission to see her"
"Alright lets get on with it" Pansy interrupted,
"Ok in this case I'm glad that its my turn to ask a question, I had no idea what I was going to ask before but now I know. How far have things gone with my sister and what are your intentions where she is concerned?" Ron asked, unusually calm.
"We have gone no further than serious snogging and semi heavy petting session, I respect her too much for that and think she is to young to take anything further, and as for my intentions, well in the future, my intentions are marriage, and I'm not saying anymore on the subject, the rest is personal between Ginny and I" Blaise answered,
"That's fair enough, I can handle that, I won't interfere, but if you hurt her then I will break you" Ron replied, relaxing again.
"Alright" Blaise acknowledged, then he turned to Draco with a huge grin and rubbed his hands together, "Draco its your turn and I'm going to go last and ask you the question we all want to know, so everyone else find a different question to ask and take your turns, I wanna see him squirm until I ask mine" Blaise finished, then chuckled at Draco's pale face and loud groan.
"ok I'll go first. What are your true feelings on the whole pureblood versus muggleborn debate?" Hermione asked with a raised eyebrow in Draco's direction. Draco buried his face in his hands,
"You just had to ask that question didn't you Hermione" Hermione stiffened in shock at his use of her first name. Draco removed his face from his hands and looked quizzically at the five shocked faces staring at him,
"What?"
"You called her by her first name" Pansy replied
"Huh?"
"You called me Hermione"
"Did I?" Draco shrugged, "Well everyone else does, so I suppose I should, besides after you hear my answer there is really no point in calling you anything else" Hermione nodded,
"Alright then…. Draco, what is your answer?" Draco sighed,
"Like Pansy, I was told by my father that muggleborns were weak in magic and not very smart, and again like Pansy, I learned in first year that basically my father was full of crap. I learnt last year that my mother doesn't believe in all the blood prejudice stuff either and has been trying to show me for years that my father was a narrow minded stubborn bastard"
"If that's the case then why do you still continue to call me 'mudblood' and ridicule me?" Hermione asked gently,
"Same reason as Pansy again, if my father ever found out, he would beat me to within an inch of my life, just like he does everytime I question his word. And no I'm not going to say anymore about it, although I will apologize for any and all insults that I have called you or will call you in the future" Draco finished with a quick glare, letting everyone know that the subject was closed.
"Alright Draco, apology accepted" Hermione responded, Draco gave a curt nod.
"Alright I have my question. You have only slept with one girl, but how many have you snogged?" Pansy asked, Draco frowned as he thought,
"Well its not like I keep count, but I would have to say somewhere in the vicinity of thirty or forty, though not all of those were willing, some were when I got jumped by girls in the halls, or under that charmed mistletoe that Dumbledore puts up every Christmas" Draco grimaced at a memory from last yeah when a seventh year Hufflepuff caught him under the mistletoe and wouldn't let him escape with just a chaste kiss, he had had to brush his teeth three times after that, she had tasted strongly of garlic.
"Hmm, I would have thought that it would be up in the hundreds" Ron mused, though without his usual malice, Draco's anger flared up,
"We have been over this already, I'm not the male slut that everyone seems to think I am"
"Alright Malfoy, calm down I didn't mean anything by it, for once, I was just musing about it. Anyway, why do you pick on my family? Is it anything personal or just because of the feud between our families?" Ron replied,
"I could ask you the same thing Weasley, but I suppose that apart from all the little things that we have done to each other over the past few years here, I would say its mostly from the long running feud between our families, it was the way I was brought up, and we all know what a bastard my father is" Draco answered, everyone nodded,
"Yeah, that we do, alright then…. Draco" Ron replied, hesitating only marginally before saying his name. Draco smirked,
"No problem… Ronald" Ron grimaced,
"Don't you start, Mione already calls me that when she gets mad at me, which is practically everyday"
"Well I wouldn't have to if you and Harry would actually do your own homework for once instead of asking me to copy mine, or to read yours over so that I correct it for you. And yes I know about how you just write the essay and then ask me to proof read it so that I will give you the correct answers, why do you think I just started putting small marks next to the things that were wrong and making you look them up yourselves?" Hermione retorted, Harry and Ron flushed,
"We er actually wondered about that, but thought nothing of the marks and just handed them in anyway" Harry admitted,
"Harry James Potter! No bloody wonder your grades are slipping and I have to tutor you both" Hermione scolded,
"As entertaining as it is watching Hermione telling you two off, can we get back to the task at hand? Harry its your turn to ask Draco a question" Pansy interrupted, Harry sighed in relief and sent Pansy a grateful smile,
"Saved by the Slytherin"
"Now there's a sentence you don't hear everyday" Blaise commented,
"Alright Draco, what are your true thoughts on becoming a Death Eater? Do you want to?" Harry asked. Draco paled considerably, but answered,
"To tell you the truth I very nearly became one over the summer. After Lucius was thrown into Azkaban after your fight with him at the Ministry, Voldemort contacted me and said that if I wanted to redeem the Malfoy name and protect my mother then I was to take the mark and carry out his plan. I was going to do it, but then my mother found the letter and refused to let me go, instead she contacted Dumbledore and got herself put into protective custody, that way I didn't have to do what he wanted me to do. I suppose you can add another name onto your list of Slytherins that don't want anything to do with Voldemort Harry" Draco confessed, for the first time using Harry's given name "I never wanted to be a Death Eater and have that great ugly mark burned permanently into my skin, fearing for my life whenever something didn't go to his instructions, following orders that I didn't believe in. That's not me, like pansy and Blaise I like the world as it is, or was before Voldemort rose again"
"I thought so, you were the second Slytherin I mentioned that was against Voldemort, I wasn't sure though" Harry replied, Draco looked up at him in surprise then gave a small tentative smile,
"What was the task that Voldemort wanted you to do?" Blaise asked,
"Fix some old cupboard in the Room of Requirement that would allow the Death Eaters to travel through it into Hogwarts from an identical one at Voldemort's lair, and also to Kill Dumbledore" five gasps echoed through the room
"Voldemort wanted you to kill Dumbledore?" Pansy squeaked,
"Yes, but I declined so can we please change the subject?" Draco asked softly,
"Yeah Draco's right, lets get off the depressing subjects and back into the fun stuff, its time for my question and we all know what it is" Blaise grinned. Draco groaned and banged his head onto the table, this was the question that he had been dreading since he had admitted to having slept with only one girl.
"Alright, ask away I'm dying from curiosity" Ron chimed in,
"Draco, what is the name of the girl who holds the honor of having your virginity, the name of the only girl that you as the Slytherin Sex God has ever shagged and only once at that?" Blaise asked with glee, rubbing it all in as much as possible. Harry and Ron both laughed along with Blaise, while Pansy and Hermione blushed slightly.
"You guys are determined to find this out aren't you?" Draco commented, stalling for time,
"You betcha, like I said earlier, this is blackmail material for years" Blaise responded glibly,
"Well you'll all just have to keep guessing cause I'm going to take a forfeit!" Draco stated as he took a card off the top of the pack,
"Bloody hell! No fair!" Ron exploded,
"Draco man that's cruel" Blaise protested,
"Too bad, I never said that I was going to answer it, and I will pay the forfeit instead thanks. Then Draco watched as the writing turned up on the card and his cheeks turned a deep pink,
"Do you think that Dumbledore personally wrote these forfeits?" he asked warily,
"I doubt it, how would he know what type of questions that we would ask each other, its probably a randomizing charm that picks up on the questions and randomly picks a forfeit, why do you ask?" Hermione replied. Draco took a deep breath then read the card out aloud,
For not answering the question bestowed upon you, your task is such. For exactly two minutes you must French kiss the girl in the room to whom you would most like to do the things related to in the question.
(Remember the prior warning about interference in these forfeits)
Hermione and Pansy looked at each other, one of them was about to get seriously kissed by Draco Malfoy for two minutes.
"Just to clarify something, French kissing is snogging right?" Draco asked, unfamiliar with the muggle term,
"Yep man, that it is, open mouth, tongue's intertwining the whole shebang" Blaise answered with a chuckle,
"That's what I thought" Draco replied as he rose to his feet, "Alright Granger lets get this over with. Blaise get ready to time this" Draco stated as he walked to where Hermione was sitting. Hermione gaped,
"Me?" she squeaked,
"Well, we have already gone over this Hermione. Pansy is too much like my sister, and what she said was true, when we snogged in second year it was way too weird, besides the card also said that I had to kiss the girl in the room to whom I would most like to do things related to the question too and, no offence to Pansy but I definitely don't want to sleep with her, I never have" Draco answered as he pulled her to her feet and placed one arm around her waist and the other cupped her cheek. Hermione glanced nervously at Harry and Ron, and was surprised that they both had huge grins on their faces,
"You have to do it Mione, that's the rules of the forfeit" Harry stated,
"Yep, and if this is the forfeit then I hate to think what the penalty would be if you refused" Ron added,
"No offence Pans to what I said earlier"
"None taken Draco, I don't want to sleep with you either" Pansy replied,
"Blaise start the timer as soon as our lips touch" Draco instructed Blaise, who had his watch set and ready,
"No worries man" Blaise answered as Draco turned back to Hermione. Hermione's heart was already thumping wildly at the feel of Draco's arms around her. She closed her eyes as Draco lowered his lips to hers. At the first touch of their lips both felt a jolt in their stomachs then all they felt was the sensation of the kiss, the other people in the room faded away as their lips caressed each others. Draco lightly nibbled on her bottom lip with his teeth, then ran his tongue along it to sooth it, Hermione opened her mouth and Draco slipped his tongue inside, caressing her own tongue with his. Hermione melted into the kiss and wrapped her arms around his neck as she felt Draco's hand drop from her cheek and wrap around her wait, pulling her body in closer contact with his, 'Oh my god he is such a great kisser, I can't believe that I am kissing Draco Malfoy' Hermione thought as she responded to his kiss and deepened it even more. Draco felt a jolt go straight to his groin and felt himself starting to get aroused as Hermione deepened the kiss even more, his lips caressed hers in a sensual dance, 'I'm glad that my robes are hiding my reaction to this kiss, or this would be very embarrassing, this is the most mind blowing kiss that I have ever had, and that's saying something, it feels familiar somehow, but Hermione and I have never kissed' Hermione's scent of vanilla surrounded him with its intoxicating effect. His hands caressed her back with gentle strokes as Hermione wrapped her arms tighter around his neck. Both teenagers could feel the passion rising between them and both secretly hoped that they didn't have to stop. Just as Draco was sliding his hands down to caress her backside, Blaise's voice interrupted them,
"Times up!" Draco reluctantly broke the kiss and pulled away slightly, panting gently as he leant his forehead against hers. Once he felt more in control of himself Draco pulled away and guided Hermione back to her seat, before he returned to his own on shaky legs and flopped down into it.
"Whoa is it just me or did the temperature just skyrocket in this room?" Harry asked cheekily, Hermione blushed madly,
"Shut up Harry!" Draco grinned somewhat shakily,
"Damn girl but you sure know how to kiss a guy" Hermione blushed an even deeper shade of red and ducked her head, before answering,
"Your not so bad yourself you know" Draco smirked,
"Alright now that that's finished its Hermione's turn to answer the questions, we'll do the same thing that we did to Draco, leave the two questions that we really want to know the answers to for last" Harry broke into the conversation,
"Two questions?" Ron asked,
"Yeah, the when and then the who and where" Harry replied,
"Alright, since you and I know the most about Hermione I'll ask the when and you can ask the who and where, that leaves Draco, Pansy and Blaise to ask the questions that they have always wanted to ask" Ron replied,
"You guys ok with that?" Harry enquired of the three Slytherins
"Yep sounds good to us" Blaise responded
"In that case I'll go first" Pansy stated then turned to the still blushing Hermione, "Why do you try so hard to be the best at everything?"
"Being a muggleborn and having to deal with all the prejudice around, I try so hard mainly to prove that I belong here, that I was worthy of receiving that first letter from Hogwarts back when I was eleven" Hermione replied,
"I never thought of it like that, I always thought that you just loved being a know it all bookworm" Pansy responded,
"Well yeah, but I think that I have proven today that that is not all that I am"
"You certainly have" Draco grinned, then he winked, causing Hermione to blush again.
"Alright my turn, I'll ask a question that was asked of me since you said that your answer would be different. If you had to pick one person in the room to marry who would it be?" Blaise asked, Hermione once again blushed,
"It seems that my face is going to be perpetually red during this" She muttered then looked up at Blaise, "Well you already know that it wouldn't be you, you are just not really my type, that and the fact that your girlfriend is one of my best friends. I couldn't marry Harry or Ron because they are basically my brothers, so I would have to say that if I had to marry anyone in this room that it would be Draco" Draco felt happiness rush through him at her answer, but outwardly he only grinned, and spoke
"Merlin woman if you kissed me like that all the time I would gladly marry you" Hermione turned scarlet again,
"Draco stop embarrassing the poor girl and ask your question" Pansy scolded as she lightly slapped Draco on the arm,
"Alright Pans. Hermione, which type of relationship appeals to you more? A wild passionate one, or a quite calm one?" Draco asked,
"I have always wanted to be swept off my feet into a wild passionate romance that took my breath away and yet was comforting in its simplicity and commitment" Hermione answered as she raised her eyes and locked her gaze with Draco's.
"Alright down to business, when was it that you had sex?" Ron asked bluntly. Hermione sighed in defeat and answered,
"It was two weeks into the start of first term this year" Draco felt his heart stop for a second at her answer, Hermione then turned to Harry, "Go on Harry ask the question you are all dying to know the answer to, Harry nodded and grinned,
"With whom, and when did you have sex?"
"The where is easy enough to answer, I was walking back from the kitchens after getting something to eat as I had missed dinner while researching a potions assignment in the library. I was only about thirty meters from the kitchen when I saw Peeves up ahead picking on a group of first years, when I turned around to head back towards the kitchen to take the log route and avoid Peeves, I saw Mrs Norris round the corner and head straight towards me. I could hear Filch not far behind her so I ducked into the nearest door and after locking it behind me I cast a silencing charm so that they wouldn't hear me in case I crashed into anything. So that was the where" Hermione answered. Draco found himself sitting tense in his chair 'It can't be' he thought to himself, but said nothing just waited for her to continue,
"And who was it?" Harry pressed, Hermione sighed,
"To be frankly honest I don't know, we never swapped names. He was already in there when I went in and locked the door. We had a whispered conversation, as even with the silencing charm we could hear Peeves and Filch arguing outside the door. Because we where whispering I didn't recognize his voice and he didn't recognize mine. The next thing I know we were wildly kissing, one thing led to another and when we came to our senses we were both naked laying on our discarded clothing, covered in a thin film of sweat and breathing heavily. Once our heartbeats calmed down we rose, dressed, kissed goodbye and then left. Never knowing who the other was" Draco was shell shocked, 'Oh my god, I can't believe it, how is it possible that he could not know about this' Harry and Ron gaped at her in shock, while Pansy and Blaise just looked stunned, Harry recovered first.
"Hermione Jane Granger, do you meant to tell me that you lost your virginity to a stranger?"
"Yes" Hermione replied simply,
"What if it was a teacher?" Ron demanded,
"Honestly Ron, if it had been a teacher they wouldn't have been hiding in the closet in the first place, and secondly I know it wasn't a teacher just by the feel of his body, it was well defined but wasn't that of a fully grown adult" Hermione replied,
"But it could have been anyone from any house and any year" Pansy supplied,
"True that it could have been, but frankly I don't care, It was my decision, I could have stopped it at any time, but I didn't want to and I don't regret it at all" Hermione replied, the tone of her voice stating the end of the conversation. In the silence that followed the deck of forfeit cards, the empty butterbeer bottles and the half eaten platter all disappeared, then everyone heard the click as the door of their room unlocked.
Ok i hope you liked it, can you guess what Draco is thinking? its not that hard but how will Hermione react when she finds out?
PLease read and review, even those of you who have reviewed previously i would like to know what you think of this latest chapter. No Flames Please, its 5 am and i have been up all night writing this so if it sux thats why!!