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Forgotten Memories

1. Truth or dare

It was two nights before the first trip to Hogsmeade that year – their last year. The eldest Gryffindors were alone in the common room. The party of eights was complete. There were, as fate would have it, four boys and four girls. All of them single, by the way. Which was a miracle in itself, seen as amongst them were a lot of the most desired persons in the castle. Of course, Sirius Black (girl-magnet first class, no restrictions) was there. Every girl who wasn't gay and every guy who was either swooned, drooled or fainted when he passed. Save for Anna Smith, who was coincidentally also present. She and Sirius had competed since their first year for single most desired person in the castle. But so far, no verdict had been placed.

Then there was James Potter, for whom a lot of girls also swooned, but unfortunately for him not the girl he himself swooned for, Lily Evans. They had won the award for most fighting couple in the history of Hogwarts. Lily didn't like this one bit, as it was insinuated that they were a couple, and she had started a fight over it.

Next, there were Remus Lupin and Maggie Richardson, a werewolf and a vampire. All though both of them were mythological creatures, they were not on very good terms. Whenever the occasion called for it, he would call her a bloodsucker, she would call him a kid-biter (which was really hypocritical, when you thought about it) and they would fight for hours on end. This didn't occur that much, as they were both quite tranquil.

And lastly, there were Peter Pettigrew and Susie Scamander, who were actually on friendly terms with each other.

Despite all the differences the other six had, the mood was friendly and quiet. None of them had classes the next day, the whole 7th year had been given a day off to recover from the tests they'd had in the passed week. Now that everything that had to be done was done, everyone laid back.

Sirius and James had gotten a few butter beers from the kitchen and everyone was having a good time relaxing. Except for Anna, who was seriously bored after 46 minutes of doing nothing.

'Let's play truth or dare!' she said so suddenly that Peter choked on his beer.

'Oh please, that's so childish,' complained Sirius lazily.

'More childish than making Snivelled eat his hat?' Anna retorted.

Sirius grinned at the memory, but didn't say anything else.

'I didn't think so,' said Anna happily, 'so, who want to go first?'

When nobody volunteered, she did it herself.

'All right, Lily, truth or dare?'

Lily, knowing how serious her black-haired friend took this game, answered truth.

'Could you, or could you not, ever fall in love with James?'

Suddenly everyone paid attention and Lily blushed vigorously. James stared at her with his mouth agape in anticipation. After a long silence, she answered.

'I could…'

James whooped, stood up and went to sit beside her.

'…IF he would grow up a bit.'

James' smile fell a bit, but he stayed where he was. Now it was Lily's turn.

'Sirius, truth or dare?'

'Dare.'

Lily grinned when she exclaimed her dare. 'I dare you to kiss James.'

If everyone hadn't already been paying attention, they were now. They all watched as Sirius stood up, pulled James to his feet and put his arms around his friends' neck.

'Are you ready for the snog of your life, Prongs?' he asked.

'No,' James said, but it was in vain.

Sirius had gone for the kill, and it was only after James had punched him that he pulled away.

'Bloody hell, Padfoot, nobody said to use your tongue,' James cussed.

'Black, that is just nasty!' it came from Anna.

'You're just jealous, Smith.'

'You wish!'

'Fine, Anna, truth or dare?'

'Dare.'

'I dare you to tell the truth about how you feel towards me.'

'WHAT!'

He shrugged, a cheesy smile on his face. 'A dare's a dare.'

Anna glared at him, but answered anyway. 'You're not half bad, and oh, I'm going to hate myself for saying this, you've got a nice body.'

Everyone except Anna laughed.

'My turn!' she said as soon as the laughter died out, 'Remus, truth or dare?'

'Truth.'

'Are you in love with someone?'

'Yes.'

All of the girls started squealing and giggling at once. Then they bombarded him with questions like 'Who is it?', 'What's she like?' and 'Is she in the room!'. Following that, James and Sirius did a rather good imitation of the girls, started braiding Remus' hair and telling him he could trust them with his secret. It wasn't until Remus told them to sod off that they burst out laughing and sat back down.

'Maggie, truth or dare?' he said when it'd gone quiet again.

She thought about it before saying dare.

'I dare you to go on a date with me sometime.'

Everyone was quiet and waited for her answer.

'You're on, kid-biter,' she said smiling.

While playing this highly amusing game, nobody had noticed Peter and Susie sneaking out of the common room, until Maggie tried to ask Susie truth or dare.

'Where are they?' she asked.

'Probably snogging each other senseless,' Sirius said dryly.

Anna snorted while drinking some butterbeer, which resulted in a mess and a lot of laughter.

'I can't help it,' she said, still half snorting, 'it sounded so funny!'

'Hold on, let me get this straight,' said Remus, 'you've told Sirius he's not half bad, that he's got a nice body and that he's funny in one night!'

They laughed again, except for Sirius and Anna. They just looked at each other, and because that was pretty obvious, Maggie took her chance.

'Sirius, truth or dare?'

'Truth.'

'How do you feel about Anna?'

He looked at her, and saw an emotion in her eyes that confused him – fear. He sighed and decided to…lie.

'I don't really like her. I mean, she's fun, but…that's where it ends, really.'

Anna didn't say anything after this, but looked away from them all. A few moments later, she excused herself and half ran up to her dorm. Lily went after her.

'You really didn't have to lie, you know,' Maggie said bitterly.

'How'd you – Damn mind reading tricks.'

'You lied, Padfoot?' asked James, astounded about the fact that his best friend seemed to like the one girl he always said he couldn't stand.

'Why?' asked Remus, just as astounded.

'Oh, come off it, it's only a game!' Sirius snapped suddenly and stomped up to his dormitory.

'Whoa, what crawled up his ass and rooted?' James commented.

Remus and Maggie sighed. James, oblivious to this, said he'd go up tot talk to him, and left them alone.

'So, little bloodsucker, are you sure about your dare?' Remus asked with a grin.

Maggie grinned right back. 'More sure than I've ever been.'

She paused.

'As long as it's during the night.'

Remus nodded.

'And no full moon.'

He nodded again. Then she stood up, walked towards the stairs, shaking her hips and said she needed her beauty sleep before she went to have 'a late night snack.'

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