A/N- Welcome to another chapter of the one and only Blind Date Harry Potter Style! Coming up next chapter is a continuation of what's going on here, plus some Ron/Hermione action! R/R because reviews rock my socks!
"So Ginny, tell me, how did you happen to have an Ace of Hearts in your bra?" Harry asked, his voice dropping to almost a whisper as he said the last word. Ginny shrugged. "Coincidence," she suggested, not particularly wanting to mention that she had only just learned about Suck and Blow yesterday or the day before from Angelina, Alicia, and Katie at an impromptu Quidditch practice. It had been Katie's idea for her to keep a card in her bra and try and get Harry to play, because at least in her experience it often led to better things. She hadn't bargained on the crowd in the Astronomy Tower, though.
While Harry and Ginny were talking, Sirius had taken the liberty of arranging everyone into a circle. When he was finished, the result was: Pansy, Draco, Harry, Ginny, Sirius, Lupin, Cissa, Lucius, Oliver, Katie. "Yes, I am an evil genius," Sirius smirked, taking a bow and sitting down in between Lupin and Ginny.
Draco rolled his eyes. He had always found Sirius Black a little too cocky for his own good, and also a little too much competition as far as sexiness went. The difference was that Sirius's arrogance was all in fun, where Draco honestly felt that as a Malfoy he was just that much better than everyone else. "Could you be any more annoying?" he drawled, but there was not enough malice in his voice to draw even a flicker of shame from the Marauder.
"Probably, I wouldn't ask," Lupin warned him, sober enough to know that Sirius could, and would, be more annoying if provoked. Sirius nodded. Lupin was, of course, right. Draco shook his head, still wondering if there had been truth to Sirius's shocking revelation about his lust for Lupin. He hoped not. He had already been scarred enough that night.
"Are we going to play, or should Cissa and I go back to our corner?" Lucius asked impatiently, eyeing Ginny Weasley with distaste. As much as he wanted to play Suck and Blow, he did not quite relish the thought of sharing the stage with a blood traitor such as Ginny. "Alright, let's get started then," Ginny said calmly. Ignoring the icy glare the blonde was shooting her, she sucked the card to her lips and passed it easily to Sirius. When the three Gryffindor Chasers had told her about the game, they had not neglected to teach her some technique, and she was pretty damn good.
Sirius, on the other hand, was not so good. He had had more champagne than Remmie, in addition to having a real susceptibility for getting and then staying drunk. Seeing as he tended to act drunk even when he was sober, it didn't really matter. But this tendency didn't exactly help him in a game like this.
"Ah shoot, I dropped it," he said as the card slipped from his lips before Lupin could take it from him. "That means you have to kiss Professor Lupin," Ginny explained, even though Sirius was of course well-versed in the ways of Suck and Blow. Lucius Malfoy rolled his eyes and glared at Sirius. "Exactly what we need, more of Black and Lupin sucking each other's face," he remarked, sure that this would not be the last time he saw the two of them snogging.
"Like Remmie said, we can't keep our hands off each other," Sirius admitted, grinning as he and Lupin had what had to be their tenth snog of the night. Harry and Ginny looked as disgusted as they had the first time. Pansy actually looked somewhat interested, much to Draco's dismay. "Yeah, okay, I could snog some other guy too if I wanted," he said, not enjoying sharing the spotlight with two sexy old Gryffindors, "Let's get on with the game."
"Fine," Sirius sniggered, removing his tongue from Lupin's mouth and handing him the Ace of Hearts, "You better not mess this one up, Remmie, who knows where Cissa's mouth has been tonight." Lupin raised his eyebrows at his best friend in a visible attempt to show the circle he was sure he knew where Cissa's mouth had been, and didn't want any part of it.
Luckily for him, he passed the card to Cissa without a hitch, and she did the same to Lucius. Lucius had a little more trouble with Oliver, who looked so shocked at being up close and personal with Lucius that the icy blonde almost laughed and sent the card flying across the room. The thought of having to snog the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain, though, let him keep a straight face and pass the card off to Oliver successfully.
Oliver, though, had less success with Katie. "Dammit!" he exclaimed as the card dropped from his lips before it met Katie's. Harry was pretty sure that his disappointment was only half-hearted, though, and that he had really just wanted another snog from Katie. He got what he wanted, then, when Katie pulled him in with an intense kiss that looked like it was meant for a situation much more private than this.
Harry couldn't help noticing that Ginny was watching the kiss intently. He wondered if she was trying to pick up tips. Not that she needed them, but the littlest Weasley had been getting an awful lot of advice from Angelina, Alicia, and Katie recently. That was the only problem with being the only girl in a family with six older brothers and an extremely over-protective mother, and of course, a Muggle-loving dad who didn't know the first thing about Ginny's romantic interests.
Harry wasn't supposed to know this, of course, but Katie had let it slip to Oliver, who had 'accidentally' told Harry after Quidditch practice once. He couldn't say he minded, though, considering whatever Ginny was learning was working pretty well as far as making him want her went. Not that he was stupid enough to try anything more than a good snog here or there. She was Ron's sister, after all.
While Harry had been musing over Ginny, the card had made its way from Katie to Pansy to Draco, and it was now Harry's turn to take the card. He immediately resented Sirius's placing him next to Malfoy. He had no desire to be that close to Draco Malfoy's face, period. He only hoped that neither of them dropped the card trying to pass it.
For that round, at least, he got his wish, and was able to suck the card from Draco without a problem (other than the look of disgust he got from Draco when their faces were almost touching). Harry was also able to pass the card to Ginny successfully, although he wished that he could have cheated just to taste those strawberry-colored lips again.
The next failure to pass the card came, not surprisingly, with Sirius. Ginny was perfectly competent at the game, but Sirius seemed to be struggling with the concept of not dropping the card. "Argh!" he yelled when he was unable to take it from Ginny, and it fell to the floor.
"Sirius, you really aren't very good at this game," Oliver commented while Sirius was laughing at his most recent failure. Sirius nodded like it was common knowledge. "I know it," he said, shaking his head exasperatedly, "I'm excellent at sucking and blowing, but I can't make it through a damn round of Suck and Blow. Go figure."
"Sirius, you have to kiss her now," Lupin reminded him, obviously very entertained by his comment. "Oh yeah!" Sirius said, having momentarily forgotten. Ginny blushed, and Harry eyed his godfather suspiciously. "Don't get carried away now," he warned him, sweetly protective of his newfound source of happiness, "She's my girlfriend, remember that."
"Harry's right," Lupin agreed, giving Sirius a look that clearly said don't do anything stupid. Lucius sneered. "You just don't want him kissing anyone other than you," he said coolly, leaving Lupin to laugh to himself while Sirius leaned in and kissed Ginny. Harry looked in a distinctly less good mood when they broke apart a minute later, but he had nothing to worry about. From his godfather's wink he could tell that he wasn't now, nor would he ever be, trying to steal Ginny from him.
"Sirius, you have to pass the card to Lupin now," Ginny reminded him. It seemed like he always needed reminding. He definitely had a short attention span. "Oh right!" he said, and promptly dropped it before Lupin even had a chance to get it. Lucius Malfoy had been right about not having seen the last of Sirius and Remus snogging. "You are so bad at this," Remmie shook his head at Sirius's inability to suck and blow the card. It was so funny.
But when Lupin attempted to get Cissa to take the card, it seemed that Sirius's incompetence at the game was rubbing off on him. "Shoot," he muttered, giving her a quick kiss, "Sorry, won't happen again." Cissa nodded, but she didn't look too upset, having already kissed him once this evening.
Lucius, on the other hand, looked extremely angry. "What? It's not like he did anything crazy," Sirius assured him, trying not to laugh and make Lucius even more furious. Unfortunately, anything to do with Sirius Black tended to make Lucius more furious. "Sick. That is sick," he said, looking horrified, "Now if I kiss my own wife, it's like I'm kissing…effing…Sirius!"
"Whoa, you're effing Sirius?" Oliver asked. No one was sure whether he was trying to make Lucius mad, or just missing the point. "NO," Lucius said through gritted teeth, "But Sirius has been snogging Lupin all night, and now Lupin snogged Cissa, so if I snog Cissa, it'll practically be like I'm snogging Sirius!"
While Sirius was finding this particularly amusing, Draco made a great suggestion, "Why don't you just not snog her then?" Lucius looked put out. "Why don't you just shut up?" he retorted, unable to think of a better comeback.
Luckily, Cissa passed Ginny's Ace of Hearts to Lucius without a problem. Lucius, though, wasn't so lucky while passing to Oliver. "Great, just what I need. I feel like Black and Lupin," he said before he quickly snogged Gryffindor's pretty-boy Quidditch Captain.
Oliver looked at him seriously when they broke apart. "Lucius. Can I call you Lucius? Well, Lucius, you don't put enough tongue into it when you're snogging another man. I mean, don't feel bad, you probably haven't done it in awhile, but you have to be more intense, you know what I mean?"
If Lucius looked mad before, that was nothing compared to the fury etched on his face upon hearing Oliver Wood give him advice on kissing other men. "I'll have you know that I am excellent at snogging! No matter who I'm snogging! Just ask Sn— I mean—forget it! Just pass the stupid card," he relented, seeing that no matter what he said, he was going to look like an idiot.
After the episode with Lucius and Oliver, though, the Ace of Hearts made it safely from Oliver to Katie to Pansy, and then to Draco. But as Draco was passing it to Harry, he was unable to hold back a hiccup, and the card fluttered to the floor. Hard as it was to believe, Harry, who had faced more dangers and triumphed than everyone else in the room combined, couldn't catch the card.
"Ouch. I feel for ya, Harry," Sirius consoled him, doing his very best not to laugh at the disgusted looks on both Harry's and Draco's faces, "And mini-Malfoy, you were right. You too can snog some other guy." Draco glared at Sirius. The man couldn't remember to pass the card when it was his turn, but he could remember something Draco had said fifteen minutes ago.
Draco looked at his dad. From his eyes it was clear that he was silently asking, "Do I have to?" Lucius nodded, though he too looked horrified at the idea of his son kissing a Gryffindor, or worse, a Gryffindor boy. But he would have been more horrified if his son came off as a pansy in front of two of his worst enemies from when he was at Hogwarts.
"Pucker up, Potter," Draco drawled reluctantly. Harry rolled his eyes, and Draco put his hand on his jaw and gave him what was, disturbingly enough, one of the better snogs he had had in his life. "Let's never talk about this again, right Potter? And don't tell me you enjoyed it," Draco added, "Because it was the worst snog I ever had in my life."
Anyone who had been looking could have seen that Draco was downright lying, and he had actually enjoyed the kiss quite a bit. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that it was Potter, a Gryffindor, and a boy, he would have gone in for a second. Luckily, no one was looking, and since he certainly wasn't going to tell anyone, no one had to know.
"Don't worry Malfoy, it was my worst snog too," Harry agreed, though he too was, to his horror, lying. Sirius and Lupin exchanged pointed looks, and Harry was sure there was a story he didn't want to hear just waiting to be told. "Okay, let's get on with the game," he said, and picked up the Ace of Hearts from the floor. "Aw but Harry, I have the best story to tell!" Sirius exclaimed, only to have Lupin clap a hand over his mouth, and Harry purposely miss in his attempt to pass the card to Ginny.
The way he grabbed her and started kissing her, it seemed as if his life depended on her. She was his oxygen, and he had to be in her mouth to breathe. "Whoa there, tiger," Sirius sniggered, very obviously proud that his godson seemed to have picked up some of his technique, "Let's give them a little space, all, I don't think they'll be surfacing any time soon."
"If only Weasley could see his sister now. Not so innocent, is she, getting more action than he's got in his life," Draco sneered, moving a few steps back from the happily snogging couple. Harry would have defended his best friend, but he was honestly too engrossed in the kiss he was involved in then, and trying to forget the one he had just experienced, to care.
It was a shame Harry hadn't stopped to answer Malfoy, because just as he was on top of Ginny and things were really getting hot, Fred, George, Angelina, and Alicia stumbled into the Astronomy Tower, a near-empty bottle of rum in Fred's hand, and a glazed look in each of their eyes.
"H'lo, all," George slurred, swaying a little where he stood, "Harry Potter, good to see you having a ball, mate." He and Fred did a double take though, when they saw just what Harry was doing, and who he was having a ball with. It was too perfect to be planned when the twins said, in unison, "What the hell are you two doing?"
