Chapter Eleven:

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Friday morning came and Hermione awoke slowly. She dressed in a pair of baggy jeans and a tight, camouflaged patterned tank top. She pulled her hair back into a messy bun and walked out to the common room. Hovering in front of the couch was a scroll of parchment. She sat in front of it but there was nothing written on it. Realization dawned on her.

"Draco!" She called. Draco emerged from his room wearing khaki pants and a red v-necked sweater.

"What?" He demanded grumpily. She pointed to the scroll in front of her. He yawned as he walked over and sat down beside her. As soon as he did so, letter began to form on the parchment.

Welcome to the Camp Friendship Scavenger Hunt

You two are a team and will have to work this out together. The person who reaches the last question first will win. Winners get a very nice prize! Take the two packs under the table, they'll hold your lunch and water bottles. Here is your first riddle:

At the entrance of a churchyard the coffin awaits the arrival of the priest. Where is the coffin, a two-letter word. The first sound like a channel dug in the earth. Name the second part and your riddle is solved.

Best of luck to both of you!

            -Bon Bonchere

P.S.

I was wondering if you two would mind doing a reading to some of the younger campers tonight. Right your response below.

Hermione grabbed a no-ink quill and quickly scribbled yes. The response and the PS disappeared leaving them with the Welcome note and the riddle.

"Why'd you say yes?" Draco asked. Hermione glanced up from studying the riddle. She smiled.

"You said you love reading to kids, remember?" She asked. He stared at her and for a second she thought she was wrong.

"You remembered?" He said softly. She laughed and swatted his arm with the quill playfully.

"Of course, silly! Now help me out with this riddle!" She said. He smiled warmly and scooted closer.

"A channel dug in the earth…Oh! A ditch!" Draco exclaimed. Hermione bit her lower lip and nodded.

"What rhymes with ditch? Witch, cinch, pitch, pinch…hmmm…" Hermione muttered. Then her eyes widened. "A lich! A lich is a dead body."

"But it's a two letter word…" Draco said then he grinned. "A lich gate." He said and Hermione nodded enthusiastically.

"So the second word is gate. It must mean the front gate." Hermione said. "Let's go." She said, they grabbed the packs, and set off.  They found the second roll of parchment waiting for them near the gate.

A mouth opens wide but no sound is emitted. A loud dong is heard from a large hollow object. Put these together and follow the trail. Eureka the second is solved.

Hermione and Draco exchanged a confused look before sitting down on a rock nearby to puzzle it over.

"Let's see the fist part could be silence." Hermione suggested. Draco shrugged and reread the part.

"Or mute." He proposed. "The second part…what emits a loud dong?" He wondered out loud. He met Hermione's eyes.

"A bell." They said in unison. They laughed together before Draco took the parchment again.

"So a silence bell, a mute bell a voiceless bell." Draco drawled thinking of all the synonyms of mute.

"A dumb bell, a dumbbell." Hermione said. Draco grinned at her. "So I guess that means we have to find the gym?" They set off. It took them longer to find the gym that they had expected but soon they came in. The looked around for the next clue and found it in the dumbbell rack.

An eye in a blue face saw an eye in a green face. "That eye is like this eye, but in a low place not a high place."

Draco took the parchment and reread it. He frowned and turned away and his eyes settled on a small daisy.

"It's a sunflower. I saw a sunflower garden out back." Draco said but Hermione shook her head.

"But it's a riddle from 'The Hobbit' so the next clue could be in the library." She said.

"We have to choose." Draco said logically. Hermione nodded and folded up the parchment.

"Let's go with the sunflowers." She said. Draco nodded and they walked away. Draco grinned at her.

"What with you being a book worm, I expected you to pick the library." He mocked, and was rewarded by a sharp tap on the shoulder. The rest of the day Hermione and Draco ran around the large camp following clues. Every once in a while they would run across other campers but it seemed every group had it's own course to follow. At midday they opened up their packs and ate the sandwiches as they walked. It was well past mid-day when they came to their second to last clue.

You have done well so far. Here is your last clue:

The black eight rolls into the hole. The game is over, go on go home.

Hermione was completely baffled. How could an eight roll into a hole and how did that end the game? She looked at Draco but he was just as confused as she was.

"A black eight…hmmm…" She said. They sat there in silence. Hermione's thoughts wandered away from the clue. It was blistering hot outside and all she really wanted to do was fall into a nice, cool, deep… "Pool." She said and then she grinned. Draco looked at her like she was crazy.

"Pool? Hermione! Concentrate!" He chastised. She laughed and shook her head waving the parchment.

"No, you git! Pool is a game! The game ends when the eight ball, the black one, falls into the hole. It's the last one to go in!" She cried.

"So the clue leads to the pool!" Draco said. Hermione nodded. They stood up and ran to the other side of the camp where the pool was. Bon was waiting for them their. He clapped his hands.

"I had a feeling I'd see you first." He smiled. They sat down to wait while the others got there. Hermione rolled up her pants and let her feet soak in the water. Draco did the same smiling at her slowly. They talked quietly. Soon they noticed that all of the campers had arrived and Bon clapped his hands for attention. They moved to sit before him. Bon smiled at the group assembled before him. Hermione watched Draco out of the corner of her eye. He had been so nice to her the whole day.

"Congratulations on all of you on completing the Scavenger Hunt. I'd like you all to join me in a round of applause for Hermione and Draco who completed the challenge first! Here is your reward." He said and handed them a large bucket of candy each. Hermione realized that it was Honeydukes candy and she grinned. "Well, I'd like to announce that tomorrow night is the Farewell Dance. You will have the morning free to go into town and buy your clothes. It's going to be formal so boys, you'll have to wear suits. Ladies, dresses!" Bon said cheerfully. "Well you're dismissed."

"What's a suit?" Draco asked softly as they stood up. She smiled and patted his arm comfortingly.

"I'll show you tomorrow. You do have muggle money don't you?" She asked. Draco nodded. They got to their suite where they sat on the sofa and talked a while and Hermione tried to explain what a suit was. There was a knock on the door and the man who had unlocked them stepped inside.

"Ready to go to the reading?" He asked. They nodded and followed him out. He led them up to the third floor into a large room where about twenty kids were sitting on the floor. Hermione and Draco went up to the front of the room.

"So what story would you like our to guests to read?' Bon asked. The children glanced at each other then the leader stood up.

"Beauty and the Beast."