Chapter 7
Farceuse Part Three – Truth or Dare
"This
is beyond me how two girls can be this smart." Dumbledore
commented after a few moments of silence.
"Girls! How the hell did they know about the shrieking shack, they prepared before we got here with spells and everything!" Harry yelled outloud.
"Potter cease your babbling before I end your insignificant life." Voldemort said. Malfoy rolled his eyes and went to the cabinet in the corner of the room named games. Opening it he found a bottle of Veritaserum and instructions to a game called truth or dare.
"Hey
Milord I found this game want to play?" Draco yelled at the arguing
three.
"Yeah!" Harry yelled.
"What
game?" Dumbledore asked eyes twinkling.
"Truth or dare with
Veritaserum." Draco replied. Suddenly four chairs were
conjured
and a table in the middle. The Veritaserum and instructions were
transferred onto the table and the guys sat down though somewhat
grudgingly.
"Okay,
glasses." Harry said. Courtesy of Rogue though the guys
didn't
know it glasses appeared and the veritaserum poured itself equally
into
the four.
"Well
drink up!" Artemis' voice said eerily from nowhere in the
room.
The four men grabbed the glasses and drunk.
"OK I'm first; Harry Potter, truth or dare?" Voldemort asked.
"Ummmm, truth," Harry replied drowsily.
"What is your greatest fear?" Voldemort asked. Dumbledore and Draco leaned in, in anticipation.
"I'm afraid of Artemis and Rachel." Harry said. "Who are they?" Voldemort asked.
"Well Rachel's this really, smart, powerful and beautiful girl who I have a crush on, she happens to be in Gryffindor though." Draco replied dreamily. Voldemort began gagging insanely while Dumbledore talked over the coughing.
"Rachel is a beautiful girl! Gryffindor just makes her better." he said. Harry answered the other half of Voldemorts' question.
"Artemis is a powerful and beautiful Slytherin who knows way too many curses for her own good." he replied. Voldemort stopped gagging.
"She seems ok do you think she'd turn death-eater?" he asked.
"I wonder which side there on anyways?" Draco asked.
"Well it's my turn so Dumbledore truth or dare?" Harry asked.
"Truth." Dumbledore said his eyes losing there twinkle.
"Ok what's the saddest thing that ever happened in your life?"
"Losing my grand-daughter."
"What; you have a grand-daughter?"
"Yes."
"Are you looking for her?"
"Of
course though all I know is her birthday, powers and eye color, she
was put up for adoption at the age of 2 weeks thus I don't know how
she looks. Her mother was my daughter."
"I have a
grand-daughter to you know." Voldemort cut in. "I only know her
powers, birthday and eye color too she was put up for adoption,
her mother
was my daughter and I don't know her father."
"I don't know her father either."
"Whatever; Dumbledore it's your turn!" Draco cut in.
"Yes well Draco truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"I dare you to French Harry."
"OK
I wanted to French Draco since first year! He's hot!" Harry said
and pounced Draco.
"Young love, so cute." Dumbledore
commented. Voldemort began gagging
insanely again as Harry and
Draco made out. Finally after ten minutes Harry
and Draco stopped
making out.
"OK
well since it's my turn, Milord, truth or
dare?" Draco asked.
"Dare!"
"I dare you to say that Dumbledore is a better wizard then you will ever be!" Voldemort gave Draco a death glare while Harry and Dumbledore were doubling over with laughter before Voldemort turned to Dumbledore.
"You are a better wizard then I'll ever be." he muttered grudgingly. At this Rachel and Artemis dissolved into giggles. Suddenly someone knocked on the door.
"Shit! Rachel here!" Artemis yelled running to her room and tossing a box of chocolates at her.
"What!" Rachel cried out. "Chocolate?"
"No eat the round ones and write a note saying we're visiting a relative signed by Dumbledore, throw the chocolates back, invisibility potion in them!" Artemis said in a hurry. She caught the box of chocolates that went flying at her face and ate one before putting them under her bed. Coming down she could see Rachel thanks to an adjustment she had made to the potion. Just as she got down McGonagoll and Snape walked in.
"Excuse me Minerva and Serverus, we are at a relatives who has come downwith a sudden illness, now will you Minerva please inform the school Dumbledore is also gone on important business along with Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. Oh yeah and Snape inform the mini-death-eaters to tell there parents that Voldemort will be missing for, um, twenty- three hours. Do not worry there all perfectly safe and we might let you view the tape another time now please leave while we watch out TV." Artemis said. She grabbed Rachel and the two sat down and turned the volume up and TV on which Rachel had turned off. Min and Sev did as they were told without comment.
"We better get to see the tape after." Sev muttered darkly and Minerva nodded before they both left.
"OK,
back to the video!" Harry and Draco were making out again while
Voldemort and Dumbledore were having an intelligent conversation.
"They actually get along well for enemies,' Rachel remarked thoughtfully.
"I
know I was hoping for a fight," Artemis asked eyeing her friend.
Suddenly a
shouting match broke out.
"No! It's: the boy who lived, don't add all that other rubbish!" Dumbledore yelled angrily.
"No
it's:
The-boy-who-lived-and-lived-and-lived-and-goddamnit-wont-he-die-though-ill-k
ill-him-eventually-muhahahahhahaha! That's how its goes!"
Voldemort yelled back. Artemis and Rachel began rolling and laughing.
Suddenly Artemis accidentally kicked the TV and a screen appeared in
the shrieking shack
showing the girls and with sound, though it
was hazy and mostly only a blur of
color.
The
argument stopped. Harry and Draco stopped and they all pulled
up
chairs and watched the screen.
"Is that the girls you're scared of Potter?" Voldemort asked. They stopped laughing.
"Shit I kicked the TV!" Artemis said, though she smirked.
"Oh well, so Potter your scared of us?" Rachel said with an identical smirk to Artemis'. Potter just stuttered.
"Girls your worse then the Marauders, but you will be in serious trouble once I get out," Dumbledore said. Artemis rolled her eyes.
"You can't prove it was us. It's our word against yours and though half the wizarding world won't believe us the other half will!" Artemis said.
"Trouble, he still is our headmaster!" Rachel intervened.
"The green-haired girl is worse then you!" Voldemort informed his enemy.
"Yeah well Trouble is worse then you! The staff knows who she is she just doesn't get caught! You performed all mischief behind our backs and didn't get caught, she performs it in front of us and gets out of it, Rogue reminds me of Remus Lupin though, trouble makers as friends though a good student!" Dumbledore said back. Suddenly it was an all out compare fight.
"Goddamnit! Stop it before I kill you all," Artemis said quietly. Her voice cut through the argument like ice and all sound stopped. Rachel looked at her in surprise as did Dumbledore, Harry and Draco. Voldemort on the other hand had other ideas.
"My dear would you like to join the death-eaters?" he asked.
"Well after extreme consideration I would have to decline. I thus decree I am neutral. I'm not picking sides!" Artemis exclaimed dramatically. She would never giggle or laugh in public, only when alone with Rogue.
"Pity, how about you… Rogue isn't it? You're rather powerful though too goody-goody," Voldemort asked Rachel.
"Nope; even though I'm the best friend of Artemis here," Rachel declared.
"Pity good help is hard to find these days," Voldemort said with a sigh.
"I agree look at Granger, you know the philosophers stone? She forgot she was a witch!" Dumbledore replied, with a sigh of his own.
"Yeah and she ain't much to look at either," Harry replied.
"Oh yeah, question what side are you two on?" Dumbledore asked looking hopefully at the screen. That caught everyone's attention.
"Well I'm gray and Rogue is," Artemis began but Rachel cut her off.
"Were both gray period."
"Gray; that means neutral right?" Harry asked slightly confused.
"You're
intelligence outstands me Young Mr. Prongs," Artemis said smirking
as Harry's jaw dropped and Rachel replied affirmative.
"How
do you know 'bout my dad?" he demanded angrily. "Prongs is a
good
friend, as is Moony, and Padfoot, very good friends,"
Artemis said teasingly.
"You stole my marauders map!" Harry
yelled.
"I deny it!" Rachel and Artemis said in unison.
"What's the marauders map?" Draco, Voldemort and even Dumbledore asked.
"Confidential!"
"Don't you dare tell them Harry or we'll kill you ourselves!" Any threat from Artemis Harry knew to take seriously.
"You bitch!" Harry said instead.
"You
call me a bitch again Potter and I'll show you just how much of a
bitch I could be!" Artemis snapped. Meanwhile Voldemort was
thinking. 'Hmmm, well both seem to hate Potter but the one loves
Dumbledore. Both stick to each other like glue and are very loyal.
Hmmm, well I can't have one without the other but
one loves
Dumbledore. I'll attack the school and see where there loyalties
lie.'
His thoughts were interrupted as Draco pounced on
Harry and they started
making out again.
"Okay, well it's about ten at night so you might as well have a snack since your still up and though two out of four can do wandless magic a password was woven into the spells surrounding you. It only will open when we say the password, standing at a certain place, and saying it in a different language," Artemis said smiling. Rachel waved her hand and four bubble gum pink sleeping bags were conjured.
"Nighty,
night!" Artemis exclaimed sarcastically, sounding suspiciously like
Pansy Parkinson. She lightly kicked the TV and the screen in the
shrieking shack disappeared.
"Wait one sec!" Rachel said
and lightly kicked the screen again. "Ok, don't
yell cause
people will come though I just warded our dormitory. Also were
going
to bed see ya later!" Rachel said and kicked the TV.
"We aren't going to bed?"
"Exacly!"
Rogue declared. The TV wasn't on and when it was just the
two
of them she was Rogue.
They
turned to the TV. "She reminds me of someone. The evil one, I mean.
I don't know who," Voldemort was saying.
"Rogue reminds
me of someone also," Albus said with a sigh.
"Will you two stop getting along your scaring us!" Harry called from across the room where he and Draco were huddled in a corner.
"Yo, Trouble I just realized something," Rogue said suddenly.
"Yeah
and what's that?" Trouble asked.
"Well we put the place
to stand and say the password in the shrieking shack
and the only
way to dispel it is from there," Rogue said. Troubles eyes
widened
for a moment before they went back to three normal catlike look.
"Well into the shrieking shack we go but we wait until there
asleep or at least
considerably drowsy," Trouble said
cheerfully. Rogue stared.
"You mean we go in there to let them out at the same time confronting two angry teenage boys plus two wizards who can do magic!" Rogue exclaimed.
"Why not? We can do wandless magic we have the power of fire and earth, we have surprise and advantage," Trouble said shrugging.
"You're insane!" Rogue said shaking her head.
"You mean you didn't notice before?" Trouble asked looking incredulous. At this Rogue cracked up soon followed by Trouble. A loud snore interrupted there giggling and they looked at the screen to see Harry asleep along with Draco. The other two looked like they'd be following soon.
"Come on time to go," Trouble whispered and went upstairs to get the chocolate. Both took an invisibility chocolate that would last at least 2 hours, unlike the others that were only supposed to last 15 minutes, and began walking to the front doors.
"We are so dead!" Rogue exclaimed.
"There is no possible way they can see us even with wandless magic so relax and lets do this!" Trouble replied. Rogue began taking deep calming breaths which made Trouble laugh. Finally they arrived at the shrieking shack. As quietly as possible they went through the whomping willow. They got into the room only to see two asleep teenage boys and the two wizards sitting sound talking drowsily.
They crept to the middle of the room. Suddenly Rachel tripped and fell hard onto her feet with a loud yelp. Successfully waking the two wizards from there near sleep though the teenagers slept on.
"Reveal yourselves!" Dumbledore said. Suddenly giggles were heard. Voldemort recognized them from the hazy TV.
"Them,"
was all he said. Rogue jumped to her feet as a rain of painful spells
began raining down on them. Both quickly cast shields. Both stood in
the
middle of the room and held hands.
"Nous sommes les Farceuses," in unison they said. No on heard as it was supposed to be. Suddenly a blinding flash of purple light went through the room. Les Farceuses took it as there cue to run. They heard yells after them but they had too much of a head start. They were gone.
