A Dangerous Game of Truth or Dare
So if you're like me, you hate it when (even in fiction) things start happening that don't seem realistically possible or probable. So things such as the amount of people in this story that turned out to be bisexual or the lack of sexual control between everyone are just some of the things that bother me. But I thought of this when I first started this story and this is the part when I thought it would be best when I could describe why. Also, I think this one might be one of the more fun chapters for me to write.
Summary: It's the final year at Hogwarts and the Golden Trio want to have some fun. While researching in the library, Hermione stumbles across a book that contains old games with magical tricks. When she decides on a school-wide game of truth or dare, she doesn't realize how quickly things begin to become out of hand. How far will things go before secrets begin to spill?
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these character or places; they are owned and copyrighted to J. K. Rowling.
Chapter 11: Duel of the Ages
Harry woke slowly to a silent dormitory for the second day in a row. He smiled brightly at this as he sat up and put on his glasses. He slowly crept out of the dormitory to avoid any awkward questions from his friends. He went down into the common room to find it completely empty. He didn't want to walk down to the Great Hall to find no one there so he laid down on the couch to wait for another one of his friends to show up. He kept looking up at the stairs to the dormitories to find no one there. He started thinking of who could have gotten the dare today and what it was. He knew that Luna had it the day before and she was completely unpredictable so Harry had no idea what it could possibly be. Just then, he heard a soft yawn come from the stairs and he looked over to see Hermione coming down the stairs. He smiled when he saw her and she smiled back.
"You want to head down to the Great Hall for breakfast?" Harry asked.
"Ok," Hermione said and the two walked out of the common room. The proceeded down the stairs towards the Great Hall and Harry started to feel a warm sensation coming over his body. He grabbed Hermione by the arm and pulled her into a corridor on the fifth floor. Luckily for him, the corridor was completely empty and he kissed Hermione. He could feel the heat in his body rising and his kiss became more desperate. Hermione then broke from Harry with a face of excitement.
"I remember why I went to the library yesterday!" Hermione exclaimed, "I'm sorry, Harry. You'll have to go alone; I have to get to the library." She kissed Harry before she took off in the direction of the library, leaving Harry to stand in the corridor confused. He leaned back against the wall and run a hand through his hair to calm himself down.
After a few minutes, Harry was about ready to head down to the Great Hall when he heard the door at the other end of the corridor close. He turned to see Draco Malfoy whisper something as he pointed his wand at the door. A small light shot from his wand into the door and Harry felt a small force shoot down the hall in his direction and pass through him. The door to the corridor on his side closed and Harry tried to open it. Harry turned around to Draco after he found he couldn't open the door and saw Draco rolling up a black piece of parchment and slid it into his back pocket.
"What did you do Malfoy?" Harry yelled and Draco sighed.
"It seems kind of obvious Potter," Draco said coolly, "I locked the doors." Harry growled.
"That's not what I meant!" Harry retorted, "Why are you doing this?"
"I want a duel, you and me, no outside influences, to find out who is really the better of us," Draco said as he got into his duelling stance. Harry stumbled back in shock.
"Really?" Harry asked.
"Get ready Potter," Draco commanded.
"And what if I refuse?" Harry responded.
"Well, we'll just see how this ends," Draco said. "Expelliarmus!" Draco twirled his body as he shot a white light at Harry. Harry quickly pulled out his wand and pointed it at the white light.
"Protego!" Harry yelled just before he was hit by the light. It fired back at Draco who quickly dove behind one of the gargoyles that were along the corridor. "Reducto!" Harry yelled as he flicked his wand in the direction of the gargoyle Draco was behind. The gargoyle exploded and knocked Draco down onto his stomach. He quickly climbed to his feet and spun around to Harry.
"Incarcerous!" Draco said and rope shot from his wand at Harry.
"Accio gargoyle!" Harry yelled as his twirled his wand and one of the gargoyles flew out in front of him and got caught by the rope. The rope wrapped around the gargoyle and tightened around it as it crashed to the floor in front of Harry.
"Come on Potter!" Draco taunted, "You aren't going to win this by just defending against all my attacks. Do something!"
"Levicorpus!" Harry said with a smirk as he shot his wand out at Draco. Draco was confused by the spell and was hit by the spell. He was lifted up into the air by his ankle and was hanging upside down. Harry started walking towards Draco with his wand pointed out at him. "Give up yet Malfoy?" Harry asked.
"You wish, locomotor mortis!" Draco said as he spun his wand up to point at Harry. Harry's legs quickly locked up and he fell over onto his stomach. He tried to stand but his legs stayed locked so he rolled over onto his back.
"It looks like we're both stuck now Malfoy," Harry said.
"Yeah, but I got something left up my sleeve," Draco said with a smirk.
"Let us see what you can do then Malfoy," Harry responded.
"Aguamenti!" Draco said as he pointed to the floor. Water started to pour out of Draco's wand onto the floor and started to slowly fill the corridor. "You'll be underwater long before I am Potter!"
"You honestly think that's going to work?" Harry taunted. He flicked his wand up towards his head and a bubble formed around it. He splashed his head around in the water a bit, laughing at Draco to anger him. "This is how you duel Malfoy! Wingardium Leviosa!" Harry said as he flicked his wand at one of the chunks of exploded gargoyle and moved it below Draco. Draco looked down to see what Harry was doing. "Ascendio!" Harry yelled and the stone chunk rose rapidly and crashed into Draco's forhead.
"Fuck Potter!" Draco yelled as he held onto his forehead and blood seeped through his fingers. Draco growled deeply. "Time to finish this Potter!"
"Stupefy!" the two yelled as they pointed their wands at each other. Two red lights shot out and each collided with one of the two and both boys were knocked unconscious. Harry laid completely still while Draco rocked back and forth in the air hanging from his ankle for a few seconds before two bright lights shone from the doors of the corridor. Draco came crashing to the floor and Harry's legs twitched to life. The two boys woke up slowly and sat up looking at each other.
"Does that mean it's over?" Harry asked.
"I don't know Potter," Draco responded, "it was you and your stupid friends who decided to do this whole game thing. Shouldn't you know what this means?"
"I don't even know what the dare is!" Harry retorted, "How am I supposed to know whether you've done it or not?"
"Then read it!" Draco angrily growled as he tossed the black piece of parchment at Harry.
Dear Draco Malfoy,
I dare you to duel your fellow player Harry Potter to find out who is the better wizard once and for all. This dare must be completed in a corridor and the incantation 'Colloportus Maximus' must be casted on a door in the corridor if any to seal all exits. Upon the loss of consciousness or the impending death of either duellist will end the duel and they are coined the loser. Any and all spells that were cast during the duel will be reverse upon the completion of the duel. You have until tomorrow morning to finish this dare or you will face severe consequences.
Sincerely,
ToD
"Can you not read Malfoy?" Harry said, "It says right here that when one of us loses consciousness, they lose. It seems that we both lost consciousness at the same time so we both lose. Which means you're done your dare."
"Is it really that simple?" Draco asked.
"I guess yeah," Harry said as he shrugged his shoulders. He stood up and put out his hand from Draco. He didn't realize what he was doing until Draco had taken his hand and he had pulled him up. He felt that sudden heat rising in his body again and could see Draco's face starting to get red so he thought he must be feeling the same thing. Slowly the two leaned in and caught each others lips in an awkward kiss. The two were rigid and didn't let any part besides their lips touch but slowly melted into it and relaxed. Just then they heard a girlish laughter from behind them and they quickly broke apart. Hermione stood in the doorway of the corridor.
"I leave for a few minutes and you've already moved onto someone new, huh?" Hermione joked and Harry was speechless. "Don't worry about it Harry," Hermione explained, "I know what's going on now. You both just felt this weird heat rise in your bodies before that happened right?" The two nodded and Hermione continued, "Well, the part I didn't read on the page was what that's about. It's supposed to make the players of the game more comfortable with each other so everyone who had been dared will go through these spurts of lust after the closest player that is signalled by a weird hot sensation. Thing is, the more times you're dared, the worst the temptation is.
"So you're saying that we're going to start making out with each other at random times because of this game?" Draco asked and Hermione nodded.
"How long does it last?" Harry questioned.
"Until the game is done, so until the school year is over," Hermione answered.
"Do we only uh, lust after those who have been dared as well?" Draco asked.
"No, it's after anyone," Harry answered.
"How would you know Potter?" Draco retorted and then saw Hermione blush, "So there's been fun going around the golden trio." Draco smirked.
"I'd watch your mouth Malfoy," Harry taunted, "just a second ago, you were kissing the boy-who-lived and you have to go back to the Slytherin common room with the risk of lusting after one of them and are they going to believe you when you try to explain it's because of a game?"
"Point taken Potter," Draco replied, "Now if you'll excuse me, my friends will be wondering where I am." Draco left quickly out of the corridor and Harry and Hermione left shortly after towards the Great Hall to explain to everyone else what was going on.
Hermione explained to all the Gryffindors and Luna about what was happening with everyone who had been dared before and this caused a few blushes to appear. Some were expected and others weren't.
"I must apologize then Harry," Luna said and everyone turned to her.
"Why is that Luna?" Harry asked.
"Well the dare I mailed last night would have left you alone for quite some time with Draco Malfoy and if what Hermione's saying is true, then you two must have experienced one of those lusting moments," Luna explained and Harry paled.
"Oh, god, Harry, did you kiss Malfoy?" Ron asked.
"Yes," Harry said uncontrollably, still feeling the effects of Ginny's Veritaserum.
"How was it?" Seamus asked with a mischievous smirk on his face.
"Awkward, you really enjoy taking advantage of this Veritaserum crap, don't you Seamus?" Harry retorted.
"Did you like it?" Fred asked and Seamus started laughing.
"I'm not the only one," Seamus said.
"Kind of, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be," Harry answered and slammed his head down on the table.
"Would you do it again?" Hermione asked.
"Yes," Harry replied and glared at Hermione as she started laughing with Seamus, "you're in on it too now?"
"Even I like to have fun sometimes Harry," Hermione said and the bell rang for the students to head to their first classes.
So I wish I made the fight scene a little longer but I placed it in a bad place. A corridor doesn't have much to work with and not much room to do things in. I think if I do have another duel, it'll be somewhere like the Great Hall where I've got lots to work with. And I would like to add that all the spells, except for Ascendio and Colloportus Maximus, are all spells from the books. Ascendio is used in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie where Harry uses it to propel himself out of the water and Colloportus is spell that is used by several members of Dumbledore's Army during the battle in the Department of Mysteries in Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix book to seal a door so I added Maximus to it to make it so it would seal a room. That's the extent of my improvisation. Please review whether you liked the fight scene or not. That way I know if I should do another one later in the story and if you think there is anyway to make it better, be sure to say so! I'm writing this story for you readers so if you don't like something, say something about it so I can make the story the best it can be for you guys and girls.
