Truth or dare in a locked room

A/N: I am SO sorry of the lack of updation! (yes, I know that's not a word) I am just TOO BUSY lately to do ANYTHING! GRRR! Well, anyway, thanks for the reviews, (YAY!) and I'd better get on with the story before you suspect I quit writing it! (WHICH I DID NOT!)

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Luna looked around the room in her dreamy, mesmerized way, when suddenly, her eyes fell on Pansy Parkinson, and narrowed into tiny cracks in her face.

"Truth, or dare?" she said slowly.

"Dare!" said Parkinson confidently.

Luna thought for a few seconds, this time without the usual dreamy look on her face, and said,

"I dare you to give me back the golden necklace my mother gave me that you took from me last year."

Everyone looked at Luna, surprised, except for Harry, who turned to look at Parkinson in disgust. He knew that Luna's mother died, and that at the end of every year, Luna would put up lists of all her missing stuff, asking for the people who took the items to bring them back to her. He assumed that Parkinson must have took her necklace, and ignored her lists, and just the thought of Parkinson doing something so horrible to Luna made him feel a rush of hatred towards her, since Luna helped Harry feel better last year when Sirius died (A/N: why, I ask you, WHY? WHY SIRIUS?).

"WHAT!?" yelled Parkinson. "That's not a dare, you're just trying to get your stupid necklace back!"

"Actually," said Harry, to everyone's amazement, "that IS a dare. You see," he continued, in a calmness that reminded everyone of Dumbledore (A/N: did I spell that right?), "It is a challenge. I mean, you have to sneak out of here, go past Filch, get into your dormitory, get the necklace, and sneak right back past Filch, don't you? Sounds like a dare to me."

"Well," said Parkinson, still a little taken aback by Harry suddenly standing up for Luna, "I'm not doing it anyway."

Harry looked at Parkinson with more hatred than ever.

"Oh, I understand..." he said with a slight grin, "You're afraid, aren't you? What's wrong, afraid you'll break a nail?"

This really ticked Parkinson off. Suddenly, her face turned bright pink and her expression was more like a bulldog's than ever.

"Alright, I'll bring the little twit's necklace! But I am NOT giving it to her!"

"Oh yes you are." said Luna, who was now a lot more confident. "You better, or else I'll tell everyone what I read in your diary at the prefect dormitories (A/N: Luna and Parkinson were prefects)."

Suddenly, Parkinson turned from pink to pale and said quietly, trying to hide the panic in her voice, "Alright, I'll give you your stupid necklace, but just because you dared me."

After Ginny gave Parkinson the coin and Parkinson left the room, Ron whispered, "Hey Luna, what did you read in her diary?"

Luna smiled, and said in a mischievous voice much unlike her regular one, "I saw her diary on the floor, and picked it up to give it back to her. Then she saw me with it, and she STILL thinks I actually read it."

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After a few minutes and a few narrow escapes from Mrs. Norris, (A/N: dunno if that was spelled right) Parkinson came back with a necklace that had a golden cat on it. Luna grabbed it from her, kissed the cat on it, and put it around her neck. Harry then felt sorry for her just like the way he felt sorry for Neville when he found out about his parents.

"Hmmm..." said Parkinson, looking around the room. "Abbott, truth or dare?"

"Truth." said Hannah immediately. "You can even put a truth spell on me, I've got nothing to hide."

"OK then," said Parkinson, while Hermione put a truth spell on Hannah. "why were you wandering around the school in the middle of the night?"

"I... I..." stammered Hannah, as if trying to fight something. She kept trying to fight that thing, (which was obviously the truth spell) when suddenly, she ran out the door and said something they couldn't hear, probably the answer to Parkinson's question that she didn't want anyone to know.

"I-uh-gotta go..." mumbled Ernie, and ran after Hannah.

"What was that all about?" asked Ron, surprised.

"How should I know?" said Parkinson angrily. "Anyway, since little Miss Oh- I-can't-even-tell-why-I-am-here-'cause-I'm-such-a-little-goody-goody-two- shoes is gone, I need to truth or dare someone else... Hmmm... Let's see... I dare-"

"QUICK! LETS HIDE IN THERE!"

The purple door suddenly opened and revealed Cho Chang and Roger Davis (A/N: dunno if he's still a student, lets just say he is), two Ravenclaw students. Harry's stomach didn't do it's usual back flip at the sight of Cho, since he stopped liking her ever since Sirius's death (A/N: for the last time, why, Sirius, WHY?), but Cho's face went a deep scarlet at the sight of him, while Roger asked,

"What are YOU doing here?"

Everyone looked at one another and sighed. That was about the third time that someone came bursting through the door, and asked that question, which was really not wanted to be answered.

"Long story..." said Harry dully. "Anyway, are you two hiding from Filch?"

Roger and Cho looked at each other, surprised, and Roger said, "Yeah, yeah... We are... Could you let us hide here? Please? We really don't want to loose our Quidditch privileges, which might happen if we get caught..."

"Uh, sure..." said Hermione, glancing sideways at Harry, who nodded slightly. "We're playing truth or dare to pass the time until it's safe to get out. Want to join?"

"Uh, OK." said Cho, also glancing at Harry. He looked at her, expressionless. She crossed the room and sat beside Roger, a small frown on her face.

"Well then," said Parkinson, an evil grin much like Malfoy's on her face, "Chang, truth or dare?"

A/N: well, that's it! Hope you liked this chapter, even though it was a little short... Anyway, please continue to review, and I'll try to hurry up with the next chapter! BYE!