For your information:- Wizard Edition Trivial Pursuits TM
Colour Key= Blue- Ancient Runes, Yellow- Curses/Hexes, Green- Potions,
Pink- History of Magic, Brown- Magical Creatures, Orange- Divination
Chapter 8- The A Team
As expected it was a massacre.
Hermione and Snape had won the first game quickly before Draco and Ginny even had one "cheese" in their wheel, so Ernie suggested that they change the rules. Snape would not let them swap teams, insisting that they had picked their partners fairly and would stick with them, so Ernie and Hannah put their heads together. It was decided that the green team would have to answer two question correctly to move on, if they got a question wrong they would miss a turn and the white roll-again spaces would be 'questioners choice'.
Hermione started to protest at this but stopped when Professor Snape put his hand reassuringly on her arm and declared loudly that they would still win.
The next game was a lot closer and lasted a lot longer. Terry quickly spotted that both Hermione and Snape's weakest subject was Divination, so whenever they landed on a white space took great delight in quizzing them about tea leaf patterns and how to decipher images in the crystal ball. Hermione found that she was enjoying herself immensely. It was a delight having someone with a similar mind partnering her and she found that even on questions where neither of them knew the answer they could discuss the problem logically and more often than not came up with the correct response.
Hermione also discovered lots of new and interesting things about her friends. Ernie, not surprisingly was strong in most subjects, but she learned that every summer he went to visit his parents who worked alongside Bill Weasley in Egypt as Curse Breakers. That explained why he was so good at the Blue (Ancient Runes) and Yellow (Curses/Hexes) questions. Hannah surprisingly was very good at History of Magic, and admitted a passion for muggle history as well. Ginny was also very strong on pink questions. Draco shocked them all by getting most of his Magical Creature questions correct in spite of having behaved horrendously in most of Hagrid's lessons, before he had dropped the subject at the beginning of last year. He had, as he told the room, been taken to more than his fair share of wizard zoo's.
The game was drawing to a close when Hermione rolled a two and landed them on another white space. Signing in frustration she collapsed back onto the sofa as Terry grinned and pulled a new card from the box.
"Well I guess you know what's coming next... Divination!" he chuckled maliciously. It was well into late afternoon by this time, and Hannah and Ginny had just finished transfiguring candles and setting them into the sconces on the walls. The candlelight seemed to make it appear darker than it was outside, and cast eerie flickering shadows across the players as they sat round the table.
Terry put on his best Professor Trelawney voice and breathed spookily "In your dreams last night you were visited by a tall, dark man who proceeded to take of your clothes with his teeth then lick whipped cream off your body. What is the significance of this dream?"
Hermione felt herself stiffen and blood rushed quickly to her face. She hoped it was too dark for anyone to see that she was as red as a beetroot, but thankfully it didn't look like anyone else had noticed. Padma was falling about in fits of laughter with Ginny, whilst Draco looked on in amusement and Ernie and Hannah were busy congratulating Terry on the day's best impression of the fraudulent Divination teacher. Hermione drew in a deep breath and turned to face Professor Snape. He was looking down at her strangely, and she knew it was too much to hope that he had forgotten what he had seen earlier.
"Well," she said to him, her voice trembling. "I...er...I...um...I'm not too sure..." her voice trailed off as she stared up into his eyes and found herself falling into their black depths. She could see that he now knew about the whipped cream, Damn, but instead of seeing ridicule or loathing in his eyes they seemed to be burning with desire, and he moved his hand quickly to her arm, gripping it tightly.
"I am afraid we have no idea what the dream would mean." he said briskly, wrenching his eyes away from Hermione and looking sideways at a still hysterical Padma "You will have to enlighten us."
"I haven't got a clue." Grinned Terry as he started laughing himself, "I made it up- it just came to me. Divine-ation inspiration you could call it." This very bad joke seemed to set Ginny off again and in a minute everyone was rolling around crying with laughter.
Everyone except Hermione and Snape. Hermione tried to sink backwards into the couch, cheeks still burning as she took several deep breaths and told herself sternly to calm down. Oh man, why did everything have to happen to her? Being stuck in a room with, quite literally, the man of her dreams- whom until 2 minutes ago she thought despised her but now she wasn't quite so sure– was turning into one of the most embarrassing days of her life. All it needed now was a round of Truth or Dare, or all her clothes to suddenly fall off and her embarrassment would be complete.
Professor Snape still had his hand on her arm and its presence reassured her. She took two more deep breaths, sat up straighter and gently touched her fingers to the back of his hand He looked down at her, his eyes questioning and she gave him a small, shy smile. He relaxed his grip and smiled back, which made her smile even more. Leaving his hand resting comfortingly on her arm they turned back to the game. Terry wiped his eyes on the sleeve of his robe and pulled out another card.
"You can have your proper question now."
The game ended 15 minutes later and the green team won again.
Chapter 8- The A Team
As expected it was a massacre.
Hermione and Snape had won the first game quickly before Draco and Ginny even had one "cheese" in their wheel, so Ernie suggested that they change the rules. Snape would not let them swap teams, insisting that they had picked their partners fairly and would stick with them, so Ernie and Hannah put their heads together. It was decided that the green team would have to answer two question correctly to move on, if they got a question wrong they would miss a turn and the white roll-again spaces would be 'questioners choice'.
Hermione started to protest at this but stopped when Professor Snape put his hand reassuringly on her arm and declared loudly that they would still win.
The next game was a lot closer and lasted a lot longer. Terry quickly spotted that both Hermione and Snape's weakest subject was Divination, so whenever they landed on a white space took great delight in quizzing them about tea leaf patterns and how to decipher images in the crystal ball. Hermione found that she was enjoying herself immensely. It was a delight having someone with a similar mind partnering her and she found that even on questions where neither of them knew the answer they could discuss the problem logically and more often than not came up with the correct response.
Hermione also discovered lots of new and interesting things about her friends. Ernie, not surprisingly was strong in most subjects, but she learned that every summer he went to visit his parents who worked alongside Bill Weasley in Egypt as Curse Breakers. That explained why he was so good at the Blue (Ancient Runes) and Yellow (Curses/Hexes) questions. Hannah surprisingly was very good at History of Magic, and admitted a passion for muggle history as well. Ginny was also very strong on pink questions. Draco shocked them all by getting most of his Magical Creature questions correct in spite of having behaved horrendously in most of Hagrid's lessons, before he had dropped the subject at the beginning of last year. He had, as he told the room, been taken to more than his fair share of wizard zoo's.
The game was drawing to a close when Hermione rolled a two and landed them on another white space. Signing in frustration she collapsed back onto the sofa as Terry grinned and pulled a new card from the box.
"Well I guess you know what's coming next... Divination!" he chuckled maliciously. It was well into late afternoon by this time, and Hannah and Ginny had just finished transfiguring candles and setting them into the sconces on the walls. The candlelight seemed to make it appear darker than it was outside, and cast eerie flickering shadows across the players as they sat round the table.
Terry put on his best Professor Trelawney voice and breathed spookily "In your dreams last night you were visited by a tall, dark man who proceeded to take of your clothes with his teeth then lick whipped cream off your body. What is the significance of this dream?"
Hermione felt herself stiffen and blood rushed quickly to her face. She hoped it was too dark for anyone to see that she was as red as a beetroot, but thankfully it didn't look like anyone else had noticed. Padma was falling about in fits of laughter with Ginny, whilst Draco looked on in amusement and Ernie and Hannah were busy congratulating Terry on the day's best impression of the fraudulent Divination teacher. Hermione drew in a deep breath and turned to face Professor Snape. He was looking down at her strangely, and she knew it was too much to hope that he had forgotten what he had seen earlier.
"Well," she said to him, her voice trembling. "I...er...I...um...I'm not too sure..." her voice trailed off as she stared up into his eyes and found herself falling into their black depths. She could see that he now knew about the whipped cream, Damn, but instead of seeing ridicule or loathing in his eyes they seemed to be burning with desire, and he moved his hand quickly to her arm, gripping it tightly.
"I am afraid we have no idea what the dream would mean." he said briskly, wrenching his eyes away from Hermione and looking sideways at a still hysterical Padma "You will have to enlighten us."
"I haven't got a clue." Grinned Terry as he started laughing himself, "I made it up- it just came to me. Divine-ation inspiration you could call it." This very bad joke seemed to set Ginny off again and in a minute everyone was rolling around crying with laughter.
Everyone except Hermione and Snape. Hermione tried to sink backwards into the couch, cheeks still burning as she took several deep breaths and told herself sternly to calm down. Oh man, why did everything have to happen to her? Being stuck in a room with, quite literally, the man of her dreams- whom until 2 minutes ago she thought despised her but now she wasn't quite so sure– was turning into one of the most embarrassing days of her life. All it needed now was a round of Truth or Dare, or all her clothes to suddenly fall off and her embarrassment would be complete.
Professor Snape still had his hand on her arm and its presence reassured her. She took two more deep breaths, sat up straighter and gently touched her fingers to the back of his hand He looked down at her, his eyes questioning and she gave him a small, shy smile. He relaxed his grip and smiled back, which made her smile even more. Leaving his hand resting comfortingly on her arm they turned back to the game. Terry wiped his eyes on the sleeve of his robe and pulled out another card.
"You can have your proper question now."
The game ended 15 minutes later and the green team won again.