It took a long time, but Hermione had finally managed to start a fire without any magic, light, or heat.
"Wow. That was…impressive…" Ron said after she had created the flames.
"Thanks! So…who wants to continue the game?" Hermione asked the group, who were huddled in another circle around the fire.
"Oh, I do!" Neville called out, and put his hand up in a Hermione-esque way. Ron laughed at this…thinking Neville was just making fun of her…he wasn't.
"Okay…who did we end off with?" Ginny asked.
"Hermione had just dared me to act normal…so I guess it's my turn," Luna answered. She was leaning against her new boyfriend, Neville.
"Um…Draco…truth or dare?
"Truth," he answered, as he had already tackled a dare.
"Okay…oh! I know! Are you a Death Eater?" Luna asked him.
A few people gasped at this question. Malfoy started to stutter out a few consonants, but couldn't piece an answer together.
"Honestly?"
"Um…yeah, duh!"
"Okay…no. I'm part of an organization…against Mullets. That's why I've been so secretive lately…I've been going out to public social events and cutting people's Mullets off so they can be destroyed forever," Malfoy hung his head in shame, waiting for the embarrassment. Nobody laughed.
"Yeah…um…I'd like to thank you personally for that one, dude," Ron said to him. "My hair in the fourth movie was absolutely whack!"
"Yeah…um…thanks, man," Harry also said.
"When did you two start talking like that?" Ginny asked, completely confused at their new found lack of grammatical skills.
"Since when did you become my mother?" Harry asked her. Suddenly, he had a thought. He thought and thought about it, then twiddled his thumbs to pretend he hadn't been thinking.
"Hey, it's my turn now!" Draco yelled out, killing the awkward silence. "Okay…Potter! Truth or Dare?"
"Truth, Malfoy."
"Ha, ha! Scared, Potter?"
"You…WISH!"
"Why do they always have to use lines from the movies in order to sound macho," Hermione asked Ginny. Ginny shrugged.
"Hey, I say lots of not macho things in the movies!" Ron yelled to Hermione. "Like…'Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies!''"
(Wow…weirdest…punctuation…EVER!)
"Good for you, Ron," Hermione told him, bored at his attempt at being…well…I don't know what he was trying to be actually. Non-macho?
"ANYWAY," Malfoy interrupted, "Potter, who in this room would you…muhahahaha…marry?"
Harry smiled. Why had he enjoyed this question so much? Well, remember the thumb twiddling…he, he!
"I want to marry Ginny Weasley!"
Ginny stared at him, horrified at his answer. "Why?"
"Because…you are like my mother. I am like my father. Destiny says we should get together, which is something JKR has been foreshadowing for years and years!"
"Hey, Harry?"
"Yes, Ginny, my love?"
"Are you high?"
Everyone laughed at this, especially Malfoy.
"Well…hmph! It's my turn anyway," Harry said, folding his arms. "Neville, truth or dare?"
"Um…dare!" Neville answered, trying to sound macho for Luna.
"Okay, I dare you to…dye your hair yellow!"
"What…NO!" Neville yelled. "I don't accept!"
"You know, when somebody at my house doesn't do a dare, they are put under the Imperius curse!" Malfoy laughed. Nobody else did. They inched away from him. Quickly.
"Nobody is performing any illegal curses!" Hermione yelled.
"Well, then what is the punishment for not doing a dare?" Luna asked her.
"Honestly?" Hermione asked.
"No, lie to us," Ron said, sarcastically.
"Well…the punishment for not doing a dare is…" everyone leaned in. "Dying your hair yellow," she shrugged.
"You're kidding," Neville said, his face completely annoyed.
"Hey man, yellow hair is super cool!" Malfoy told him, running his fingers over his own, practically yellow hair.
"You're only saying that because you left the blonde dye in for too long, Malfoy," Harry said, flicking him in the head.
Neville shrugged and pulled out his wand. He muttered a spell and his hair turned a Malfoy-esque shade of yellow. Luna looked up at him and stared for a moment. Soon, they had pulled each other into a passionate kiss, leaving the others to…well…stare. Harry flicked Neville.
"Hey, ouch! Oh…my turn…" Neville caught his breath. "Um…Luna, darling…truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"Okay…I dare you to dye my hair back to black!"
"Sorry, Sweetie, but I can't do that. You look so…lovely with that new hairstyle…I couldn't bear to see you lose it," Luna told him, and put her wand to her own head, turning her hair a similar color. Suddenly, they started smooching again. Everyone was left in disgust, until Harry flicked Luna too.
"Ouch! Harry, why do you keep flicking us?" Luna asked him.
"Because it's fun."
"Oh. How very interesting," Luna said back to him, in an oddly interested tone. "Hermione, truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"Great…now will you FINALLY kiss Ronald already?" Luna said to her.
"Oh, fine! I mean…what do you mean…finally…?" Hermione said, and she walked over to Ron. She gave him a huge kiss - ON THE CHEEK!
"I meant on the lips, Hermione," Luna said to her.
"Well, you never specified."
"Granger, do you want yellow hair," Draco said to Hermione.
"But, technically I did the dare!"
"Trust me, Granger, this hairstyle can be created by more than just you! I didn't go to fashion school for nothing!"
"Oh, fine!" Hermione yelled out, and gave Ron the biggest, most passionate kiss you could ever imagine. She pulled away and sat down in her spot. Ron looked perplexed.
"There. Are you happy?" she asked Luna.
"YES! I mean…NO! That was…awful…" Ron replied, instead of Luna, and Luna giggled happily.
"Anyway, Ron, truth or dare?"
"Um…truth."
"Did you honestly enjoy that?"
"Actually, yes."
And Hermione crawled over to Ron and gave him another, yet smaller, kiss on the lips. They snuggled.
"It's about time!" Harry called out, finally relieved of the burden of trying to stay out of their 'old married couple' conversations.
"Um…Ginny…truth or dare?" Ron said to Ginny.
"Oh, dare me!"
"Okay…I dare you to close your eyes for a minute."
Ginny did so. While her eyes were closed, Ron and Hermione shared another passionate kiss. Everyone who was not told to turn away did so intentionally, except for Luna and Neville, who began snogging also, and Harry, who was looking at Ginny longingly. Which means that only Malfoy actually turned away, so I just told a huge lie in the above sentence. Go me. Ginny opened her eyes after one minute, yelled "Ew!" and Ron and Hermione stopped kissing.
"Gosh, I'm getting so bored right now," Malfoy complained to all of them. "Can we please have another break from this stupidity?"
"Sure," Hermione answered. Besides, Ron and I have some…important business to settle."
"Yeah, so do Neville and I," said.
"Ew, guys," Harry said to them. But he was thinking about Ginny…how could he get her to love him?
"Why am I so alone?" Draco called out, as he took out a quill and a notebook and began writing down more of his schemes against the Mullet population.
And they all took a well deserved break.
To be continued…
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