'What the hell is going on here?' Hermione thought. Why were they grinning at her like idiots. It was Draco who would be performing the dare. . .unless. 'Of course, they had made the bet together. Draco must have let Harry in on the details.'

Hermione took a quick look over at Ron and Ginny and noted that they were as confused as she was. They had no idea what was behind the smirks. Either that, or they could hide it really well.

Focusing back in on the game, she listened for Draco's dare.

"I double dare you to. . ." Harry had a glint in his eye, and winked at Hermione. Just as he was about to say the dare, he motioned for Ron and Ginny to come forward. He whispered the dare to Draco in the small group, low enough so that all Hermione heard was murmuring. A few moments later, the group broke apart; Draco and Harry grinning madly, while the Weasley's were blushing furiously.

"What's going on?" Hermione finally said out loud.

Draco and Harry continued to grin at her like idiots. There was no way that she was going to get any information out of them without a lot of hard work. She turned to Ron.

"Ron? What?" Ron just shook his head and refused to say a word. She finally set her eyes on Ginny. Before she could ask, Ginny ducked behind Harry.

"This is not fair, guys. I thought you wanted my involvement in this game." She said.

"It's plenty fair." Draco said. "Harry has witnesses as to the dare, which involves you, by the way." Hermione glared at him suspiciously. "And I have witnesses that I agreed to go through with the dare. You don't have to know what it is."

"If I'm a player in this game, I do."

"A game that is about to end abruptly." The group heard from the door. They turned and found Snape, once again, standing at the entrance in the middle of their game.

"I seem to remember that I have already spoken to you about this." He drawled. "Is my recollection faulty? Miss Granger?"

Hermione turned guiltily to the potions master. "No, sir."

"20 points from Gryffindor, and 5 from Slytherin. Now I suggest that you all get to your common rooms."

"But it's not after curfew. . ."

"5 more points from Gryffindor, Mr Potter." Snape snapped. "You are participating in a lewd game. Don't think for a minute that I don't know what was going on the last time." At this, Ginny blushed, Harry and Hermione stifled giggles, and Ron and Draco were turning green. The group left and said their goodbyes.

~@~

Indeed he did know about what had happened before. Draco knew that; Draco told him. Snape made his way back down to the dungeons. Thinking about the two boys eating sweets off each other made him shudder. But when he replaced the two with himself and a certain Gryffindor. . .

'And than the banana.' He thought with a smile. That memory shall be one that was constantly brought up. In fact, he was thinking about it when he heard her voice coming from that room. The room he found them in before. He had seen the game from near the beginning; just as they took away her book. Than to see her demonstrate what she would do to Draco. . .that was good. He chuckled at the idea of what Hermione would do to the boy. She was such a tease.

It was while they were keeping Draco's dare away from her that he decided it was time to put a stop to it. It was bad enough that the images from the last few days were starting to affect him when he was in public. Now he had new images of what Hermione could do to him. He didn't need to look down to know that a cold shower would be in order. He didn't mind too much though. It was dark. Who would know?

~@~

Draco watched Snape walk down the corridors. 'Looks like I'm not the only Slytherin with a soft spot for a Gryffindor.' He thought, knowing that the potions master looked a little less pale than usual. Draco wasn't surprised that Snape would find them there. Harry apparently didn't think that they would get caught a second time in the same place, but Draco had an idea that they would. Slytherin thinking.

Watching Snape closely the past few days has paid off. He had something to get him back with. Somehow, he would need to get Hermione to put on another show. Somewhere that only Snape could see her, but would be unable to act on it. Something to absolutely tease him with. That would be. . . SWEEEEET!

~@~

Hermione was a little sour on her way to the common room. None in her company would tell her what the dare was. They all flat out refused. She would try to speak with Ginny alone, where there was no Harry and Ron to hide behind. Hermione was determined to find out.

Her plan would not work though. Ginny refused to talk. When Hermione tried to play 20 questions to hopefully go by the amount of blushing that occurred (somehow, Hermione could tell the difference between the blushes that were just for the thought, and the blushes that meant she struck gold), Ginny made a hasty retreat.

She didn't have much information to go by to figure this out. All they would tell her directly was that the dare involved her. It may even involve some sweets. Probably something inappropriate, considering the dual trademark Weasley blushes it got. She was worried before; now she was very concerned. Dreading the following day, she didn't want to go to sleep for fear of the coming morning. The time spent trying to fight off sleep, she began to brainstorm some ideas, just for safety measure. If the dare ended up being rather. . .vulgar, she would probably not go through with any of it just to prevent a repeat occurrence.

Before she knew it, sleep had caught up to her and it was morning. She woke up and had to peel her quill off her face. She checked the mirror to make sure she didn't have any ink on her face, and debated whether or not she should leave her room. . .ever! This was cut short by the sudden knock on her door. "'Mione?" She heard Harry's voice call. "You coming to breakfast?"

"I don't think that would be wise on my part." Hermione called through the door. Her door opened, and Harry walked through it. "Come on 'Mione. It's harmless." The grin on his face was almost vicious.

"I'm not coming. You can't make me." She said, turning to her desk, hiding the parchment with her brainstorming on it.

"All right. Suit yourself." Harry said as he left the room and closed the door behind him. After hearing the door shut behind him, she thought, 'I will than.'

~@~

Harry made his way down to the Great Hall for breakfast. On the way, he was suddenly pulled into a dark hallway. After composing himself, he looked to see a smirking and expecting Draco Malfoy.

"Well, Potty?" Draco said.

"Stop calling me that. Or the game is up." Harry replied. Than with a playful, evil glint, he said, "She's completely paranoid."

Draco began to chuckle merrily. "So, she's trying to avoid us now, huh?"

"Big time." Harry smiled. "Refused to leave her room this morning."

Now Draco was laughing. "I don't know what I'm going to do dare-wise, but it will be fun to play with the paranoia for awhile."

"How are you going to keep this up?"

Draco looked at the clueless Gryffindor. "Why, with the power of non- verbal communication." He stated as if it were completely obvious. "Why go through all the work and energy when she'll just serve up my revenge for me?" Harry still looked confused. "Potty, use that lump three feet above your ass a moment."

Harry glared at him. "I'm not a mind reader, ferret boy."

"Oh, never mind. Just follow my lead. . . if she ever decides it's safe to come out."



A/N: Again, sorry about the delay. Exams will be over in a little over a week, and than I can give my full attention to this.