This is my first fanfic, so please don't be too harsh in the reviews. I am going to try and make this a really good romance story, and I will try my very best to update as often as I can!

A/N: Anything that you can see in the story that is and bold is an A/N.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, any of the other characters, or most of the places mentioned. All of that belongs to the very talented Joanne Kathleen Rowling.

And now to the Story:

A Game Started it All

Chapter 1 – A Friend's Invitations:

Just a few days into the summer holidays and Harry Potter, a boy of 15, was sitting in his room doing nothing except thinking of his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. He was almost asleep, as it was 11PM, when he heard a small tapping noise. He looked up, and saw an owl sitting in his window. He opened it and recognized as his friend Hermione Granger's owl. He took off the letter and opened Hedwig's cage to let it eat some of Hedwig's food. Hedwig moved to the side and allowed the owl to eat some of her food, and Harry was starting to think that Hedwig fancied Hermione's owl.

Harry opened the letter that Hermione had written:

Dear Harry,

I was wondering what you were doing. Sorry it came this late, I just can't sleep. How are the Dursleys treating you? Have you heard from Padfoot lately? If you want, you can come over here for a little while. I'm at the burrow. You are probably wondering how you will get here. Well me, being a know-it-all, can tell you that all you have to do is slip on your invisibility cloak, get on your broom, and fly over here. Come on over here. Mrs. Weasley just told me that she has something for you.

Your friend,

Hermione Granger

After reading the letter, he got his ink, quill, and parchment and wrote Hermione back.

Dear Hermione,

I wasn't really doing anything. The Dursleys are treating me fine. Padfoot hasn't written me since I told him about Voldemort. What are you doing at the burrow. Don't worry about writing me back. I can come over there for the night. Maybe we can play a game or something.

Your friend,

Harry Potter

With that, he tied the letter to the owl's leg, told it to wait, and he got his broom and invisibility cloak and took off, following the owl, because he did not know the way to get to the burrow.

Once he landed, he walked in the door and everybody looked up at him curiously. Mr. Weasley pulled out his wand and pointed on the direction of the door.

"Who's there?" Mr. Weasley demanded.

Harry then realized he did not take his invisibility cloak off, and with that he decided to play a little trick on Ron, who was easily frightened, and was sitting at the kitchen table.

He walked over to Ron, pulled out his wand, and stuck him in the back with it. Ron then screamed and then realized that there was a wand in his back, and then he pulled out his own wand and turned around.

Ron said the first spell that came to mind: "expelliarmus!"

He heard a large crash on the ground and then his friend, Harry Potter appeared. Upon falling, his cloak flew back over his head.

"WHAT THE BLODDY HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, SNEAKING UP ON SOMEONE LIKE THAT, JABBING THEM IN THE BACK WITH YOUR WAND," Ron yelled.

Harry just stood up and laughed. Mr. Weasley and Ron then put their wands away.

Ginny and Hermione came downstairs to see what all of the yelling was about, and then saw that it was just a joke, and thought nothing more of it.

"Harry," Hermione yelled.

"Hey, good to see you, Hermione."

OK, please review, tell me what you think of it. The game will be next chapter, if you decide for me to keep going with the story. If you vote yes, I will update tomorrow.