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The girls walked quietly down to the dungeons, each step filling them with growing dread at what they were about to do.
'A lap dance with SNAPE!!' Ginny grimaced at the thought, glancing sideways she checked on how the others were doing.
Lavender was extremely pale and wide eyed while Parvati was inspecting her nails, she didn't look nervous at all, more bored than nervous.
Parvati turned her head away from her nails to look at Ginny, she was looking quite shocked, and so was Lavender.
"Oh come on guys!" she grinned taking them both by the hand and squeezing them hard in a comforting way.
They both gave her looks that clearly said to 'shut up' but Parvati was going to have none of it.
"Listen we'll just go in there do a little dance and then go back to the boys, no problem!" she grinned cheerily again and was about to skip into the dungeons which now loomed in front of them until Lavender stopped her.
"What Lav?" she asked trying to keep the annoying pitch out of her voice.
"I've just had a brilliant idea!" she gushed, her eyes gleaming in the darkness with some unknown plan.
"What?" Ginny asked, her arms were crossed and she was tapping her foot impatiently.
Lavender pulled both girls over to a corner just outside the door.
"Why don't we just wait outside the door for a while and then go back, they won't know that we didn't actually do the dare, if were gone for a significant amount of time they won't notice"
The other two girls murmured their consent and sat down against the cold stone wall shifting slightly to get comfortable.
"Ugh...This...is...So...Uncomfortable" Parvati groaned
"This is going to be a long night" whispered Ginny as she checked her watch before leaning back against the wall.
Back at Gryffindor Tower.
Ron sat on the couch, watch in hand staring at it watching the minutes tick by.
Grinning, he turned around to the others.
"That's 20 minutes they've been dancing with Snape!!" the boys fell into laughter again. They had decided to start counting how long the girls were taking when Seamus had suggested it, because he thought they should know and because he was extremely bored.
"This is perfect!! They asked to play and we gave them the worst dare ever!" Dean shouted.
"Can you imagine it..." all the boys looked at him and gave a collective shudder.
"Imagine what?"
Ron stopped laughing immediately, he knew that voice, the smile he was wearing slid gracefully off his face and slowly but surly he turned around, dreading the person he was about to face.
There she stood in all her prefect glory, eyebrows raised, arms crossed, and her prefect badge pinned proudly to her dressing grown.
Harry and Ron swallowed hard.
Hermione Granger was not in the best of moods and boy did her two best friends know it.
Back in the dungeons
"Right I think we've been down here long enough" Ginny announced and gathering her things together, she stood stretching out her cramped legs.
"Yeah I guess your right" Lavender replied and she too stood, helping Parvati to her feet.
Just as they were about to leave Parvati heard something coming from the dungeon door behind them.
Her eyes widened in terror as she grabbed Ginny and Lavender and pulled them back against the wall, Ginny gave out a yelp of surprise and Parvati leaned across and thru her hand roughly over Ginny's mouth to keep her quiet.
Out of the darkness from where they were standing they could see a silhouette, lighted by the moonlight flooding through the one window, just a few meters above there heads, conveniently keeping them in shadow.
A very familiar long hooked nose and greasy hair swarmed into their view, Parvati gasped.
The shadows head whipped around to face them and each girl flattened themselves as much as they could against the wall, each holding their breath.
It stared at them for a few minutes before reaching out and taking hold of the edge of the door.
Ginny squeezed her eyes shut and held her breath. She could feel Parvati and Lavender squeezing her hands until they went numb.
Peeking one eye open she was came face to face with shadow Snape, her heart was pounding in her ears as she willed the shadow with all her might to disappear.
Snape stepped further out of the dungeon, coming closer towards the girls.
Lavender could not tear her eyes away.
The ray of moonlight wavered slightly as he slowly stepped into view. His black eyes swept the corridor and he took another step forward, so that his robes fluttered slightly at the girls' feet, almost teasingly.
With one more sweeping glance he moved backwards, plunging himself into darkness and disappearing back into his den.
The door slammed behind him, creating a booming echo throughout the corridor.
All three girls let out a sigh of relief as they each slumped against the wall and slid their way down, bumping the bottom of the ground as they sat sprawled on the floor.
"Oh" Ginny gasped "My" Lavender followed "God" Parvati concluded, taking deep breaths.
Pushing themselves off the floor they each took off down the darkened hallway, not looking back.
Parvati hoped that they had been down their long enough for the boys to believe they'd done the dare, or they'd be toast.
A/N: hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I am really sorry this one took so long. I'm really sorry all my faithful reviewers! But don't fret; Chapter 7 has already been started.
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