Sybil and Severus went to Diagon Alley. The snow was soft on the ground. Christmas was coming soon. The couple needed to find a present for Mary, Carolyn, and their friends. Sybil and Severus were sitting out by a frozen lake. Severus looked and smiled at her.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" she asked.

"Looking at you like what?" Severus acted confused, though he really knew what she was talking about.

"You were... oh, never mind." There was a brief pause. Severus looked at Sybil again. "What is it?" she asked again.

"What's what?"

"You were..."

"I swear, I don't know what you're talking about."

"Uh huh, sure." He smiled, looked at Sybil again, and, without thinking, pushed her into the frozen lake. Lucky for Sybil, the ice was thick, so she didn't fall into the water. But she was still mad at Severus. "What the hell was that for?" she yelled to him.

"Just having a little fun," Severus said, trying to keep his laughing down. Sybil got up, walked all the way back to where her boyfriend was sitting, and sat right next to him. "You wanna know what I think about that?" she asked.

"What?" All of a sudden, Sybil had a snowball right in her hands and threw it right at Severus' face. For the next five minutes, the couple were having a snowball fight. After it ended, the two went back into Diagon Alley to get the gifts.

"Check mate." That was the third time that Mary beat Ron in chess. Noone could believe it. Not Ron. Not Harry. Not Carolyn. Not Hermione. Not Ginny. Not Seamus. Not Colin. Not even Mary herself.

But they kept on playing. Ron couldn't believe that he was getting beat at chess... and by a girl! "Okay, just one more round," he was begging.

"Nope," Mary answered. "Ron, I've beaten you three times already. If that isn't enough, maybe kicking your butt one more time will be the cherry on top of your ice cream."

"Forget it."

"Okay then. Does anyone else want to play against me?" Right when Mary asked that, everyone stepped back. "Are you guys afraid or something?"
"Mary, my brother has won against every single person he played against," Ginny said. "Everyone, except you. If you can beat my brother, you can surely beat all of us."

"It was just three games of chess. No big deal."

"It is a big deal!" Hermione said. "If the chess game was a world championship, you'd win!"

"What about you Carolyn? Do you want to play?"

"No, thank you," Carolyn answered her sisters question. "Every time you've played me against chess, you won." Mary gave up. It was true, she beat Ron Weasley at the one thing noone had ever beaten him against before... chess.

Mary was having fun. She tried her best for someone to play against her. But for some reason, she didn't want Ron to be the one she played against. "Come on, guys," she assured them. "I'll go easy on you."

"Can't we go do something else?" Hermione asked. "Like hanging out in the Gryfindor Common Room or something?" Everyone agreed. They all went into the Common Room. They all sat down and waited for Hermione to announce what they were going to do.

"Why not play a little game of truth or dare?" Hermione asked. Everyone had a look of confusion on their faces. Hermione groaned and explained. "Truth or dare is a game where someone picks one person and asks them truth or dare. If they say truth, you've got to ask them a question and they have to tell the truth.

"If they choose dare, then you have to dare that person to do something humiliating. After that person does the truth or dare, then he or she gets to pick someone to ask truth or dare. Does everyone get it now?"

Everyone nodded and smiled. "Okay, I'll do it first," Hermione said. "Mary, truth or dare?"

"Dare me, sucker," Mary said.

"Okay, I dare you to drink a gallon of Dr. Pepper."

"What's that?"

"Uh, I dare you to drink this gallon of soda."

"Okay." Mary grabbed the gallon of Dr. Pepper away from Hermione and started to drink it. Everyone stared at Mary to see the results. And they had a result. A big one.

Mary started to jump up and down, do back flips, and running around the room. "Mary, dear, how are you?" Seamus asked.

"I'm fine," Mary said in her hyper voice. "No, I'm not fine. I'm not! I'm not! I'm hyper! Hyper, hyper, hyper, hyper! I'm hyper... and have a bladder problem! I-I- Aye yi yi yi yiiiii." She collapsed on the floor.

Carolyn looked at everyone and asked, "Did I mention that my sister gets really hyper whenever she has soda?"