Firewhisky Frenzy
The next few weeks of school were loaded with work. They often did their homework on their free blocks, sitting in the common room, library or outside under their favourite tree.
When is the next Hogsmade weekend Hermione?" Ron asked her over their potions books. "Um I think in a few weeks" she said. "Good" he said to himself. Hermione rolled her eyes and sighed. "Why don't you just ask her already, and get it over with it?" Hermione said to him. "What are you talking about?" He asked as if Hermione didn't know. "Ronald its so easy to see that you like Lavender. I mean you goggle at her every moment she walks into the room." do you want me to ask her for you?" she asked. "No I can do it my self" Ron said in a huffy voice and went back to doing his homework.
That night in the common room Lavender and Ginny were sitting on one of the couches when the three came in. They dropped their bags on the floor and sat with the two. By the end of that night Ron and Lavender were going out, he found her to be really fun and so did everyone else. She was the new addition to their clan.
The days started to get colder as the month rolled into October and the Hogsmade trip was nearing.
Ron was already going with Lavender so Harry and Hermione were probably going to go together and maybe meet up with Ron and Lavender at the three broomsticks or something.
It was Friday night and the girls were up stairs changing into their pj's. They were going to go down to the common room and hang out there for a while. When the three came down the guys were waiting on the couches for them and Ginny said lazily, "So what are we going to do tonight people?" No one answered. "Um I have a suggestion," Lavender said to them. Everyone looked her way. "Why don't we play truth or dare?" she asked and shrugged. Everyone agreed and pretty soon they were all on the floor sitting in a circle. "Ok here are the rules." Ginny started. They all looked at her expectantly. "If you choose Truth and someone knows that your lying then you have to remove an article of clothing and the same applies if you choose Dare and you don't complete the task." They all nodded. "Well, ill start. Hmm ok Ron. Truth or Dare?" Ginny asked him. "Truth" He said. "Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?" she said. He looked around nervously and then said "no." Ginny smiled. "That's wrong," she said. "No its not" he insisted. "Well Harry you will agree with me he sleeps with a bear called Mr. Snuffles, am I right?" She asked Harry. Harry looked at Ron apologetically and said. "Well mate sorry, I have to agree with Ginny." Ron looked as if he was about to puke. "I'm never telling you anything ever again," He said to Harry as he removed his shirt. There was a considerable amount of whooting and whistling coming from the people in the circle as his shirt was coming off. "Ok Dean, Truth or Dare?" Ron asked him. "Dare!" he said. "I dare you to slow dance with Seamus for a whole minute." Ron said. Dean looked weirded out. "Well, its either that or you have to kiss Harry" Ron said and Dean jumped to his feet and into the arms of Seamus who was already up and waiting for him. They started dancing and Seamus' hands started going down to Dean butt. He winked at the circle of people and then Dean swatted his hands away. "Oiy! Get your hands off of me!" He said and Seamus just laughed along with the other people.
When their minute was up and they sat back down. "Hmm lets see. I pick Ginny. Truth or dare?" Dean asked her. "Dare" she said and Dean started to think. "I Know!" he proclaimed "You have to grab that first years textbook off of the table and write I love Severus Snape all over it." He said. "Who's got a quill?" She asked, and Hermione grabbed her book bag from beside the table and got out her inkbottle and quill and handed them to Ginny as she came back from getting the book. Ginny sat in the middle so that everyone was able to see and she opened it to the back. 'I love Severus Snape' she wrote in big letters. Then she opened it to a random page and wrote, 'Snape is the sexiest beast that ever walked the earth.' then to another page, 'I heart Severus' with a whole bunch of hearts around it. She waited for the ink to dry and then snapped it shut. "There" she said and handed the book back to Dean to put on the table, and the others were getting a good laugh out of what Ginny wrote.
"I chose Harry" Ginny said once they all formed the circle again. She didn't have to ask him this time because he had already chosen dare. "I dare you to go down to the kitchens and get us some Firewhisky." Ginny said. "Well I don't want to go down there alone, can someone come with me?" he asked. "Yeah sure, umm Hermione you haven't done anything yet, you go with him." Ginny decided. "Can we use my invisibility cloak?" Harry asked as he helped Hermione up. Ginny thought for a moment but then decided to let them use it, for it would be the rest of their year in detentions if they were caught.
He ran up to his dormitory, rummaged through his trunk and came back down holding the invisibility cloak in his hand. They went outside of the portrait hole to put on the cloak otherwise it would have been very difficult to see where they were stepping.
The two of them didn't talk their whole way down to the dungeons and stepped lightly. They almost ran into a few prefects on duty along the way, but one of the prefects was so tired that he mistaken Hermione's gasp and thought that his partner passed gas.
Once they were down in the dungeons the two almost got to the painting of the fruit bowl, but they didn't realize a dark figure moving towards them until Hermione pushed Harry into a corner and pressed herself quite forcefully into him. The dark figure turned out to be Snape, as Harry saw when he went by. Hermione came even closer as he briskly walked by, if that was possible. Hermione let out a breath that was obviously held in when Snape was far enough away that he wouldn't hear them. "That was close." she whispered to him. "You could say that again" Harry said, and looked into her eyes. Even though it was dark Harry could still see the outline of her face and a rough outline of her pretty features. 'But why does she still have to be pressed so close to me?' He thought to himself, but then added 'not that I bloody mind' He hardly had any notice when her soft lips brushed against his. Harry didn't get enough time to savour the moment. "I'm sorry Harry, I didn't mean anything by it" Hermione said almost as soon as she opened her eyes. "Its ok Hermione" Harry said almost instantly. He could tell that she was really embarrassed, the way that she was chewing her bottom lip gave it off. So he decided to take this embarrassing, intimate moment into a funny one. "Hermione how many times do I have to tell you, its two dollars for a look, 5 for a touch of this fine body and ten dollars for a kiss and at the rate your going you'll owe me a million galleons by the time the Christmas comes!" She started laughing but then covered her mouth or else Snape would come back. She shoved him against the wall. "That's another five galleons miss granger" he said, and she just grinned at him. "Come on you git" she said and they made their way to the fruit portrait.
They spent the rest of the night playing truth or dare, laughing, joking and of course drinking Firewhisky. Harry or Hermione didn't mention their kissing incident, they just told them about avoiding the numerous prefects and Snape.