"This is impossible." Hermione said to Pansy. "They'll never get on."
"I don't know about that." Pansy replied as they watched the boys fighting. "They're quarrelling like an old married couple."
Hermione snorted. "We have to do something about them. I dread to think what Dumbledore would do to us if this doesn't work."
Hedwig fluttered into the hall as she spoke. She delivered a letter to Hermione before flying out again.
"What's that?" Pansy asked. The boys hadn't noticed.
Hermione opened the letter and read it through. She laughed in disbelief. "Dumbledore is officially crazy."
"No surprise there. So what's it say?"
"Here's a little something to help establish some friendly feelings between the two houses. I feel that if you knew a lot more about each other you would get on a lot better. A few surprises about each other may inspire a détente, perhaps even closer friendship." Hermione read.
"What's he asked us to do?"
"That old codger has asked us to play 'I never'. Eight turns, so four each."
"'I never'? Like that's gonna help."
"It might. You guys don't know our secrets and even Harry and Ron don't know some of mine. Do Draco and Blaise know all of yours?"
"God no. But I thought I knew all of yours?"
"Not quite. Just like I don't know all yours. Boys!"
No one listened.
"Boys!" Hermione shouted again.
Still they continued to fight.
"I think this calls for two lungs." Pansy said.
"BOYS!" they yelled together.
That shut the boys up.
"Thank you." Hermione said shortly. "Dumbledore suggests a game of 'I never' to get to know each other better. Shall we start? I think you've fought for long enough. Sit down and we'll start."
They sat on the benches and chairs on one table facing each other and a dozen butterbeer bottles appeared on the table between them. They each took one and decided that the Slytherins would start them off.
"I'll start slow because of you goody Gryffindors who never misbehave." The Gryffindors in question snorted with laughter and Draco looked very confused. "I have never got a piercing somewhere that isn't my ear." He waggled the little dragon tooth dangling from his left ear.
All three Gryffindors and Pansy drank, much to Draco's surprise.
"Where are you pierced?" he asked them curiously.
"Do we really have to show you?" Hermione frowned. Draco nodded so she stuck out her tongue and showed the long stud down the middle of it. She then stood and raised her shirt showing the belly button ring. "I also have one more, but I'm not showing that one."
"Really?" Ron said.
"You have another one?" Harry asked.
"Yeah. It's the same place as yours." She retorted making Harry and Ron blush.
"Where's his?"
Harry unbuttoned his shirt and showed the small ring through his nipple. Ron then did the same.
"Hermione you have one through your nipple?" Blaise asked.
"It's not like it hurt." Pansy said.
"You have one there too?" Draco asked.
Pansy nodded. "Contrary to my reputation I have never had sex." It surprised everyone when Hermione, Ron and Harry drank when Draco did.
"Hermione you've had sex?"
"Yeah. Surprising isn't it."
"And that's all we need to say about it." Harry said quickly.
"You two?"
"No!" Hermione squealed. "I don't actually know who he is. It was in a dark closet and I didn't recognise his voice. I vaguely remember glasses and messy hair. He also had a scar…on his forehead!! It was you!" Hermione shouted at Harry as the realisation hit her.
"I knew it was you in the closet. I'm sorry for not saying anything before. Just bear in mind that I was completely in love with you at the time."
"Dude, even I wouldn't stoop that low to get Hermione." Draco said.
"Ron has obviously slept with Luna and Draco sleeps around anyway." Hermione said still looking angry with Harry.
"I have never had a tattoo done." Blaise said. Once again the trio drank as did Pansy and Draco.
"Hermione again. You really aren't as demure as you appear." Draco said looking pleasantly surprised.
"I actually have more than one tattoo." She stood up and turned around raising her shirt revealing a red and gold Gryffindor lion at the base of her spine. She then lifted her hair and showed a Chinese symbol on the back of her neck. She turned and rolled down her sock to reveal a butterfly on her ankle and a lizard on her upper arm. Finally she drew her shirt back revealing a phoenix above her right breast.
"We have similar." Harry and Ron turned around and showed that they too had a Chinese symbol on the back of their necks.
"What do they mean?" Pansy asked curiously.
"Mine means Wisdom, Harry's Bravery, and Ron's Loyalty." Hermione said. "Our three best traits. They also have the Gryffindor lion and the phoenix."
They got up and Harry shrugged off his shirt to reveal the phoenix on his left shoulder blade and the lion on his right upper arm. Ron had the lion on his forearm and the phoenix on his upper arm.
"Pansy what's yours?" Draco asked looking shocked that the Gryffindors had tattoos.
"I have the lizard same as Hermione. It's our disguise chameleon. And yours is your dragon one, for your namesake."
"I have never seen my best friends naked." Blaise said. All three Gryffindors drank again as did Pansy.
"Did you have to bring that up?" Hermione frowned.
"You've seen each other naked?" Draco said sniggering.
"They walked in on me changing at the Burrow." Hermione shrugged.
"She got us back and shut us outside in the snow nude." Harry said.
"And Hermione and I always see each other without clothes on."
Everyone except Hermione stared at Pansy with mouths gaping open. Hermione blushed a little.
"When?" Harry managed.
"Bath night. After we've spied on people we need to wash up so we go to the prefects bathroom and scrub up and give our reports. What? You try turning into a member of the opposite sex."
"Yeah, guys are disgusting. We feel horrible afterwards." Pansy added.
"Our turn. Shall I start?"
"Yeah, I'd like to know what you haven't done." Draco said approvingly.
"I have never gone to other houses dorms." Her friends drank as did Blaise and Pansy.
"I know why we've gone to other dorms, but when did you?" Pansy asked curiously.
"I go to my girlfriends all the time. She's in Gryffindor."
"Who is she?" Ron asked. "How come we've never seen you sneaking in and out?"
"Polyjuice potion. And my girlfriend is your sister."
"Ginny!" the others exclaimed.
"I have never given a blow job." Harry said to change the subject, since Ron looked ready to explode. Both girls drank.
"You had to didn't you?" Hermione glared at her friend.
"What? It was the best night of Ron's life."
"Hermione you gave him one?"
"I am going to murder Fred and George one of these days."
"They gave you the sweet too then?" Pansy asked sympathetically.
"I have never snogged a member of the same sex." Ron said with a snide look at Harry.
"One day I really will murder you." Harry growled as he drank, noting that all the others did too. "Since you're gonna ask anyway I might as well tell you. I kissed George in a game of truth or dare."
"Same for me except I kissed him." Draco said pointing at Blaise.
"What he said." Blaise looked sickened.
"Who've you kissed Hermione?" Ron asked.
"Pansy, Parvati…and Ginny."
"You kissed Ginny?" Ron and Blaise said together.
"Well someone had to teach me how to kiss, and I wasn't going to come to either of you."
"So that's what you were doing when you two hid in her room during the holidays." Harry said, looking very surprised.
"Are you done drooling over that? Last round. I have never made out on the library."
Harry, Draco and Blaise drank.
"I took Ginny completely by surprise in there." Blaise chuckled to himself.
"I would have thought you would make out in the library Hermione." Draco asked.
"Are you kidding?" Ron said. "The library is sacred to her."
"Yeah, it's like a temple for her." Harry interjected.
"A temple of learning."
"Thank you boys." Hermione said sternly, then she grinned. "So, looks like it's you who are the goody two shoes, not us." she told Draco smirking in a way which he thought was very sexy. "We oh so innocent Gryffindors have less in our bottles than all of you Slytherins. Well, not Pansy, because she's done almost everything I have."
"What haven't I done that you have?"
"You haven't had full lesbian sex, so far as I know. And you haven't been felt up by two guys at once in the quidditch changing rooms."
"When did that happen?" Pansy asked.
"Did you two do that?" Blaise asked Harry and Ron.
"No! We would never!"
"Yeah, she'd castrate us if we even attempted to." Harry said. "Wait, who did feel you up in there?"
"Fred and George. But I will get them back for it."
"Please don't tell me you had lesbian sex with Ginny." Ron shuddered.
"Her and Parvati. At the same time." Hermione smirked again and all the boys' mouths dropped open again. "See, I'm not nearly as innocent as I look, wouldn't you agree
Pansy?"
"Oh yes darling." Pansy winked at her.
"Are you sure you're not a lesbian Hermione?" Harry said.