A/N: Ello' everyone! I'm back and I brought you a brand new chappie! -holds up the pretty paper with the words on it- I tried to make this chapter fun and exciting. This is what you all have been waiting for. The weird thing that Jon and going to come up with for the group to do! WOOT! Lol, ok, anyway. The trues of the day: My friends and I LOVE Man hunt and we do really ran around singing the wizard of oz. Ok, I think that may be it. And please don't hurt me with torches and pitchforks for not updating!

Disclaimer: Who ever said I owned HP? Oh yeah I did...But would you believe a lying thief!? (Inside joke)

Chapter 9

"So, what adventure are we going on?" I asked Jon and Ed who had defiantly had something insane in mind.

"Not sure yet." Jon said merrily. "We could annoy someone, play a game of hide and seek in the castle, wander the corridors until we find something to do or-" I cut him off.

"Wait, what was the second one?" I asked, strangely interested in the subject.

"Hide and seek?" Ed asked and I nodded. Brandon chuckled, probably remembering a memory of the last time they had played the game. "Ok, wanna play?" His smiled stretched across his face evilly. I nodded, wanting to kick their asses at the mad game.

Brandon spoke up. "Ok, a fine game of Hide and Seek, but you guys, we first need to go get Jen, Alisha, and Karissa." Jon lit up.

"You guys know Alisha and Karissa?" I asked and they nodded.

"We were all buds before Hogwarts but the gang was kind of split between houses." I nodded as Brandon explained. "Ok, here's the plan." He said as we all stopped. "Jon, you go and get Jen from Gryffindor tower. Ed, you go to Hufflepuff and retrieve Karissa. You have a lot of friends from that house so it should be easy for you to get in." Ed nodded, agreeing with the plan quickly.

"What about you two?" He asked and Brandon said that we would go and get Alisha. We all would meet up at the doors to the Dining Hall. We all then split, Brandon and I heading towards the Slytherin common room. I shook a little, hopping I would not have to see Robert.

"Are you ok?" My friend asked, noticing my sudden shaking. I nodded, nervously.

"So, are we there yet?" I asked and Brandon pointed to the stairs, leading us downward and into a dark corridor with a dungeon feel to it. There was a Portrait down at the end of the corridor with a handsome man in the moving portrait for the door. We approached the man in green and asked to be let in to retrieve a friend. He denied us entry until an actual Slytherin came along. We leaned against the wall, knowing someone had to be close by.

We waited some minutes, leaning and pestering the portrait. I then saw, at the end of the corridor, a pale boy in green and silver robes. His hair was blond and sleeked back with gel. Brandon's eyes widened at the appearance at the boy and pulled me into the classroom nearby. "What?" I asked, worried a little. "What is it?"

"That's Draco Malfoy. One of the most hated students in the school, even among the Slytherins he is hated. We shouldn't go near him." I shrugged, not worried.

"Well, we should be nicer." I said cheerfully and pushed past my friend and into the corridor again. "Hi!" I said nicely and waved at the blond haired boy. He only glared at me and walked past me. "You're Draco right?" I asked and he nodded, walking up to the portrait. "Wait, before you go in, could you do us a small favor?"

"I guess. What do you want?" Draco said in a very monotone voice.

"Well, either you could convince the portrait to let us in with you or go and find a girl by the name of Alisha Mallon." I smiled nicely.

"And what do I get in this?" He crossed his arms and glared for the answer.

"You can copy my Divination homework for the next month if you make us regular visitors." I remembered seeing him in my class and how much he had struggled at staying awake in the class today.

He paused, considering the deal. "You guys are Ravenclaws right?" We both nodded and he paused again.

Brandon added some information so we could make the deal. "She is very smart in that class. Genius, I swear it." Draco nodded.

"Ok, make it two months and we may have made a deal." I nodded and Draco smiled, holding out a hand that he had spit into for the agreement. I made a disgusted face and then reluctantly spit into my own hand and shook hands with the Slytherin. I saw Brandon make a disgusted face from the corner of my eye. "Ok, the Slytherin password is you-know-who." I shrugged and saw Draco use it and then enter the portrait hole, disappearing all together.

"You-know-who." I said to the man in green, proud of my work.

"Incorrect." He said and I stomped my foot, swearing under my breath.

"You have got to be kidding me?!" I almost screamed and I swore I could hear Malfoy snickering from behind the portrait. Brandon snickered and I knew he knew what was up.

"Hannah, you don't know about you-know-who, do you?" I shook my head and he continued, still snickering. "Well, a long time ago, there was a Slytherin named Voldemort. He was pure evil and wizards call him you-know-who for the fear of his true name."

"Oh." I said. I walked up to the portrait again and said "Voldemort." The portrait opened this time, letting us threw.

Inside was the Slytherin common room, draped with many green and silver tapestries and cloths. I saw Alisha in a corner, on an armchair. We walked over to the girl reading a comic and dressed in a sweatshirt and jeans. She looked up and smiled at us, probably recognizing Brandon more than me.

"Hi, I'm not going to ask how you got in here but, what's up?" She smiled happily.

"Wanna play hide and seek, like old times?" Brandon asked and Alisha jumped up, excited.

"I knew I wore green for a reason." I smiled, glad that my friend had accepted to join and we literally jumped threw the portrait hole.

We met up at the Dining Hall like planned, everyone being there and ready to play hide and seek throughout the castle! I recognized Karissa but not the girl with the brown hair. "Ok, before we begin, Hannah, this is Jen Patten, Jen, this is Hannah Millard." She smiled at me and waved hyperactively. "Don't mind her, she had a little bit of coffee earlier and may need mental help." She punched Jon for saying that.

Ed spoke up first. "Ok, lets get this going." He smiled evilly and continued. "We will split into groups. Hannah and Brownie, Jon and Jen, and then Alisha and I. Karissa, you can be the seeker." I saw her sigh a little. "You can hide anywhere in the castle except the house towers. If Karissa does not find you in the next two hours then we all meet back here." We all nodded, agreeing the reasonable rules. Ed then blind folded Karissa and spun her in a circle five times. I could tell she knew the rules of the game when the groups split and ran off in all certain directions. I heard her yell down the corridors. "1. 2." I heard her yell even though Brandon and I were two corridors away. "3. 4. 5." I could tell we didn't have much time left.

"READY OR NOT! HERE I COME!!" Karissa hollered down the halls and my adrenaline sped up. Brandon grabbed my wrist and we ran faster, trying to find a good spot to hide.

He stopped when we couldn't hear the seeker's voice any longer. "Ok." I huffed, crouching down on my knees, trying to catch my breath. "Do we have a strategy or something?" I asked and my partner nodded, trying to catch his breath as well.

"Our strategy is duck and cover." I raised an eyebrow, somewhat confused. "We run when she is close enough to be heard and hide when she is far away. As long as she doesn't catch us then we are safe."

"Good plan. But, how will we know if she is near?" Brandon dug into his pocket, pulling out a folded piece of parchment. He handed it to me and smiled. "Paper? We are going to hide with paper?" He rolled his eyes and pulled out his wand.

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." Brandon whispered and pointed at the parchment with his wand. The paper splattered with ink and opened, revealing a detailed map of Hogwarts. My mouth sprung open, for I had never seen anything like this before. There were footprints on the map and a name next to each one, representing a person. "This map shows everything one and everything that moves in this castle and well, anywhere else you may be at the moment."

"Wow." I said, amazed by the map. "Where did you get this?"

"I bought it off a merchant in Diagon Alley when I came to Hogwarts my first year. He said it could be useful to me seeing I was just starting school at the time. I still find it useful because I hardly know half of the castle by heart and it is really great for these types of games." I smiled and took the map, looking for Karissa and the others. I laughed when I saw Jen and Jon hiding in the Kitchens with the house elves.

Karissa was on our tail so we decided to walk down a another corridor and just watch the map while we leisurely crept down the halls. We were in silence for a while, enjoying each others company and watching our friends strain for a hiding place. I saw Alisha and Ed searching and searching for a good spot, hesitant on each new one they found. It took them thirty minutes until they finally settled on a broom closet in which they were squeezed into. I heard Brandon chuckle at their desperate searching.

"So," I started, trying to make conversation after the first half hour had past. "What else do you guys like to do besides playing an off version of man hunt in the castle?" I heard him laugh again and I smiled, still looking down at the map and my feet.

"Well, I personally enjoy writing music. I play the guitar." I nodded as he continued. "I also enjoy reading and other laid back hobbies."

"Cool." I said. "I'm more of an artist though. I love to draw what the muggles would call fantasy and what we would call still life." Brandon smiled and I continued. "I also enjoy writing and reading as well. I'm pretty much like you. Laid back and hate sports." We came around a bend and were approaching the broom closet of Ed and Alisha.

"Hmm." I said, thinking of evil ways to attack them. I folded up Marauder's Map for now and slid it into my back pocket. I turned the knob of the door but found it to be locked. I then sighed, pulling out my wand. "Alohomora." I whispered and the wand lit, unlocking the door.

Brandon pulled the door open and saw the two crotched teens stuffed in the closet. Their eyes were closed, scared of if it was the seeker or not. "Hey, numbnuts." I said sarcastically. "Come on, your hiding place isn't good enough." They wearily opened their eyes and saw it was us, sighing in relief.

"Wait, where are you guys hiding?" Alisha asked, pointing a finger at me. I rolled my eyes.

"We are hit and run." My friend answered for me and started on the trail ahead. We followed reluctantly and I skipped ahead happily. Alisha did the same and skipped beside me. We heard Brandon and Ed smack their foreheads because of our stupidity.

I then stopped and whispered to Alisha. "Want to embarrass them even more?" I asked and she nodded evilly. "Follow my lead." We began skipping again and linked our arms. "OH!" I tuned my voice and my friend followed. "OH! WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD! THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ! BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS HE DOES!" I could hear the ranting from Brandon and Ed of how much they wanted to send us to a mental hospital. But, we had to stop our beautiful singing because Alisha and I were laughing so hard. I coughed, catching my breath. "You ok?" Alisha asked, choking between her words.

I nodded and leaned against a wall. I heard the portraits mumbling, probably about us. "Hey, you two should be in Azkaban for being insane." One said and I rolled my eyes.

I looked at my watch as the four of us wandered the halls and the boys watching the map the whole time. It had been and hour and a half. We had still not been found. Ed then cooed at us and we stopped, looking at the map. Jen and Jon had been found by Karissa. We laughed a little until we realized the three of them were on our trail immediately. We dashed down the corridors, trying not to laugh hysterically. We needed to reach the dining hall before they caught us and we were pretty far off.

"How long do we have to get there?" I asked as we ran full speed ahead.

"Fifteen minutes. We can make it." Brandon said over the excitement. "We're on the third floor. If we can run down the stairs without them moving then we might be able to make it to the dining hall before them." Alisha nodded fiercely and grabbed a hold of Ed's wrist and almost flew down a flight of stairs. I stopped at the top, looking at the moving steps.

"Um, why do I have this feeling that we can't make it!" I shouted as Brandon grabbed my wrist and yanked me down the moving staircase. "Are you mental?!" I shouted over the sounds of the grinding marble. My friend chuckled and I growled as we jumped from the stair we were on to another flight. They spun around to where Alisha and Ed had ended up and Brandon tossed me, landing on top of my black haired friend. "Sorry." I mumbled as I got up, dusting off myself.

Brandon was soon at my side again and we ran down the last corridor, ending up at the doors to the Dining Hall. We all panted, hands on our knees. "We made it." Ed said between breaths.

Karissa then appeared from behind the door with Jon and Jen. "No. We beat you." She said devilishly. Alisha and I groaned, not caring if we won or lost, just wanting to be able to take a long nap. The two of us then fell to the ground comically in defeat. The cold, stone floor felt good against my hot face.

"Come on." Brandon said, kneeling down in front of me to help me up.

"Can't I just sleep here tonight? It's far more comfortable than that bed." I asked, not wanting to be defeated again.

"I don't think it would be approved." He said, chuckling at my joke.

"Please?" I asked and he shook his head. He then picked me up by my arms, forcing me to stand up. "No." I whined pleadingly. "Let me sleep." He then swung me around onto his back, holding my legs so I wouldn't fall off. My arms hung around his neck and my friends laughed as I snoozed on my best friends shoulder.

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