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Chapter 3 I've Never…
"Ron! Hurry up; we are going to get caught! Oh honestly Ron!" Hermione said, trying to get Ron to move his feet and get back to the head's room as quick as possible.
"Hermione, chill out! The house elves want to give us food, don't you see?" Ron said lazily.
"I don't care Ron; we are not even supposed to be in the kitchens in the first place, it's just because of your infernal stomach…" Hermione got cut off by Ron, who was talking to the house elves.
"Yes, that will be fine, that is plenty of food for us. Thank you!" Ron said, and motioned to Harry to back out of the kitchens.
Ron, Harry, Draco, and Colin's arms were laden with food and snacks that the house elves had so kindly provided.
"Oh wait! I have something for you Dobby!" Harry said suddenly remembering something and he dumped his armload of food into Hermione's.
"Here you go; I bought them in Hogsemeade last weekend. Hope you like them." Harry said kindly and waited for the little creature's reaction.
"Oh Harry Potter sir, that is most gracious of you! Dobby love's his present and wishes to thank Harry Potter sir." Dobby squeaked excitedly and jammed his new present onto his ears.
"Umm, Dobby? Those are, oh never mind. I'm glad you like them then." Harry said, suppressing a hearty laugh.
He took back the food that Hermione had been holding with some difficulty and backed out of the portrait hole.
"Harry mate," Ron whispered in his friend's ear on the way back. "What were those?"
Harry chuckled and said in a low tone, "Those were socks my friend, Dobby just doesn't know it. Ugly little things aren't they?"
"They were quite ugly to tell you the truth. What was it that they had on there? The design I mean." Ron said after he was finished snorting with laughter.
"They were pictures of him. I found some old pictures in my trunk of him, and I went to a shop and got them put on the socks. I found the ugliest pair of green socks in the store the man said." Harry said and then stopped talking; they had reached the head's room again.
With some difficulty, Harry, Ron, Draco, and Colin managed to scramble inside and relieve their arms of their load.
"So… Truth or Dare shall we?" Ron said and looked evil.
"Naw…why don't we play this game that I've heard of at the Dursleys. It's called "I've Never" or something of that matter. Ever heard of it 'Mione?" Harry said.
"Ohh! Yes, why don't we! I'll explain the rules and then Vincent can go first, seeing as how he was the last one before we quit the last game." Hermione said excitedly.
Hermione explained the rules of the game and they started to play.
"So what you do is…oh right, well we will need some glasses….Draco, be a dear and go get some out of the kitchen."
"Be a dear?" I asked her.
She blushed but looked at him expectantly anyway.
"What we do then," Said Hermione, turning to the others, "is say something like, "I've Never…" and then you name something. If it is true, then you take a sip of your butterbeer, if it is not true, then you do not take a sip. The first person who drinks all of their butterbeer wins. The point of the game is to find out new stuff about your friends, and for your friends to find out new stuff about you. So don't be shy, dig down deep and say stuff you've wanted to say for years." Hermione said, explaining exactly how the game worked.
"Well why go get them, when I can summon them to us? Lets see, how many are there of us ….okay, right. Accio 17 cups!" Draco said, after listening closely to Hermione's instructions.
Well that would have worked well, had Mal-I mean Draco not used such a powerful summoning charm. All of a sudden the doors to the cabinets had flown open and there were glasses hurtling through the air at us with amazing speed.
"Duck!" yelled Terri. As we were all dodging glass pieces, I heard Luna ask him,
"Where?"
"Where what?" he screamed as a final cup hit him on the nose.
"You said there was a duck. Well, where is it?" she asked impatiently.
Terri looked as though he was about to strangle her, but Neville whispered in a barely audible voice,
"You don't hit girls mate." Terri looked very much like he wished to ignore this and go on about his business, but he said nothing and just sat down clutching his bleeding nose.
"Oh here, I know a spell for that, umm, Tonks did it for me when Malfoy broke my nose last year….oh what was it…"
Hermione gasped and pointed an accusing finger at me. "Hey, you knew he would say that! You wrote that he would call Draco by his last name…that's not fair!"
"You know, that is the second time you have used that phrase tonight and I still don't care."
She huffed for a moment longer, and then discontinued her mumblings of "Wrong…they have names…"
Draco, however, was staring off into space dreamily. "Good times...good memories. You did look rather ridiculous you know, and you aren't very god at sneaking around either."
Harry said nothing, but I could tell it affected him. Any way, he continued trying to fix Teri's nose.
"Oh I remember! Episkey." Said Harry smoothly.
"All right, now that Draco has single handedly managed to break all the glasses, what do we do for the game?" Padma asked.
"Oh must I always know what to do?" Hermione said in a know it all voice.
"Yes, you must, now what do we do?" said Parvati hurriedly. Hermione took out her wand, and muttered to the nearest glass,
"Reparo!" The glass instantly mended itself. The others caught on and each performed a reparing charm on their own cup so that all of them were fixed.
"All right, now who is ready to get back to the game?" Ginny asked impatiently.
"Ginny's right, let's get back to the game." Harry said.
"Goyle, go." Harry said.
"I've never….liked McGonagall." grunted Goyle and Hermione turned pale.
"Okay, my turn." Harry said who was sitting next to Goyle.
"For the last time, would you please call them by their first names?" Hermione yelled at me.
"No Hermione, get a grip. It's not like it's a criminal offense or anything!" I said angrily.
Hermione looked at me with tears filling her big brown eyes and immediately I felt bad for snapping.
"I'm sorry Hermione; I didn't mean to snap like that. It's just…do you always have to be so proper?" I tried to ask as nicely as possible.
"Yes… well, no. I'm sorry too; I'll try to be more unpredictable." Hermione said, and looked much happier.
Harry cleared his throat gently and said, "Can I go now?"
"Yeah, go Harry." I said, and looked at him expectantly.
"Okay, I've never….made out with anyone else except for one person" Harry said, and blushed, taking a drink at the same time.
Several people, after hesitating, took very small sips after Harry had spoke. Hermione grinned, she had taken a sip and she knew the game would be a good one.
"Hmm, oh it's my turn?" Colin said whose seat was next to Harry's. (A/N they are in a circle, so after one person goes, the person sitting next to them goes, it goes clockwise)
"Well then, I've never…been jealous of Draco, I always thought he was an arrogant git, until this year." Colin said and hastily took a drink. He looked like he was about to take back his statement, he didn't know whether Malfoy might hurt him or offer him mercy.
However, seeing Draco bow his head in shame, several people, including Ron, and Harry took a sip of their own drinks also. Harry noticed that Hermione declined from taking a swallow but decided not to make anything of it.
""I've…well, that is to say, I've liked Hermione Granger before," Draco said quietly, and everyone looked shocked when Draco took a sip of the drink. Hermione looked very pleased with herself on the other hand, and declined from any comment.
"I've never…drank fire whisky." Lavender said and nervously giggled. To her relief, she noticed that two other people, Neville and Padma took a gulp of the butterbeer.
"I've never swam in the Black Lake." Padma said and took a sip of the liquid; she saw that only one person took a drink from their glass, it was Crabbe.
"I've never slept in the same bed with a guy." Parvati said and was pleased when a couple of other girls took drinks from their cups too.
"Well Hermione, seeing as how you started us off, don't you think that it would only be appropriate if you finished us off in this interesting game?" Harry said, he was just dieing to hear if Hermione would say that she has liked Draco at one time or another, because he knew it was true and sure enough, Hermione said
"Are you sure everyone has gone?"
"Yep." Harry replied and waited.
"Oh very well." Hermione said, she seemed to be having an internal battle with herself, and finally, just when everyone was starting to get bored, she whispered something that several people went "Huh?" to and she had to repeat herself.
"I've liked Draco Malfoy before." Hermione whispered a little louder and everyone laughed. Everyone that is, except for Draco, he looked shocked, then angry, then finally pleased with himself.
Everyone decided that it was time for a bathroom break and Hermione and Draco told everyone to line up outside the head's bathroom and wait their turn nicely. They happily complied.
Harry sidled up to her and muttered out of the corner of his mouth "Bout time you confessed your feelings." he said and joined the queue outside of the restroom.
Hermione saw Draco headed towards her and tried to calm herself down before he approached but in a couple of seconds, it was too late.
"Hermione, what you said a couple minutes ago…well, do you still mean it?" Draco said in a low voice.
"Do you still mean what you said about me?" she replied in an even voice.
Oh, so she's going to play this game is she? Draco thought to himself. Fine. I'll play along.
"Yes I do." he answered honestly.
"I…I do too." Hermione answered his question, taken aback.
"Hermione…would you do me the pleasure of being my girlfriend?" Draco whispered huskily in her ear.
"Yes I will!" she squealed and hugged him. It felt so right to finally be in his arms that she didn't want to let go, and when she did finally let go, she found everyone staring at them.
"Draco and I are dating." Hermione said unnecessarily and everyone shouted at the same time, "Finally!" and burst out laughing.
"What game should we play next?" Ginny said.
"Oh, how about a little truth or dare?" Ron said evilly and everyone agreed, they finished their business and everyone sat down to play.
Well then, I think that this is the longest chapter yet! Go us! We'll update soon and let us know what you thought about the Draco/Hermione relationship. Review! Review! Review!
