Hermione's pov

It all started with the accident. Or rather a large collection of accidents.

Picture it, Harry and Malfoy are as usual having a duel in a hallway at night. Nothing out of the ordinary, I hear you say, well that may be true but the corridor they happen to be in is lined with antiques and tapestries etc. It's a disaster waiting to happen.

Ron, Ginny and myself happen to be there supervising and Crabbe came for Draco's support. Pansy Parkinson and Parvati Patil were on guard at opposite ends of the corridor.

Spells are flying everywhere…a) because they keep deflecting each other's spells…or b) they both have appalling aims. The latter seems the more likely.

I might have known they were going to hit the things in the corridor, not to mention us.

Tapestries and paintings tore, loudly and we only just caught the vases that were precariously close to smashing onto the ground. But none of us could catch the three suits of armour that they hit and sent clanging to the floor.

Suddenly Pansy and Parvati are running towards us and say in perfect timing.

"Filch is coming."

"Snape is coming."

Great. Snape and Filch. It's a dream come true. I hope you noted the deep sarcasm.

"Quick!" I exclaim and drag Harry down the corridor and into a classroom. The rest of the group bundle in after us, including the Slytherins.

"Everyone hide!" Harry hisses.

Several people scramble under desks but Draco and I somehow find ourselves squashed into the big cupboard at the back of the room.

We hear Snape and Filch examining the damage in the corridor and Filch's wheezing voice declaring that it was Peeves, while Snape immediately blamed Harry, as usual. Then their footsteps died away and we burst out of our hiding places.

"That was way too close." Ron said panting.

"I agree, let's get back to our common rooms." Ginny said wiping her forehead.

But when she got to the door she discovered that it wouldn't open. It had sealed itself shut, like those doors in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic.

This could not get worse. Who knew how long we would be stuck in there?

The boys lounged on the desks and talked about Quiddich. Pansy and Parvati were already friends since Pansy is actually quite decent once she warms up to you, and they were now gossiping and Ginny looked as though she was in two minds as to which group she should join. Gossip or Quiddich? I saw her weigh the two options in her hands before she went to the gossip side.

I went back to the cupboard and examined it. Maybe there was something inside it that would help to get us out of this situation. Barring that, I hoped I might find a book or something to read.

On my first dig through the contents of it I found nothing of interest so I wandered back to the girls and listened to their meagre gossip about some of the prefects dating each other.

About half an hour later I was bored as hell so I stopped Parvati in mid flow and suggested we play a game or something.

"Ok." Harry said. "What game do you have in mind?"

"Anyone know how to play Truth or Dare?"

All the people from wizarding families shook their heads except Ginny and Parvati.

"Ok, so the basics of the game are that you pick someone and that person has to pick truth or dare. If they pick truth then they have to answer your question truthfully. If they pick dare then they have to do the dare you tell them to do. Understand?"

Blank faces all around.

"Ginny and I will show you how it's done. Ginny, truth or dare?"

"Hm, truth."

"Okay. Is there a person in this room that you fancy?"

"Yes."

"We all know that!" Ron cut in. "Everyone knows about Ginny's crush on Harry."

"It's not Harry. Not anymore. Okay, Hermione, truth or dare?"

"Since you picked truth I shall pick dare in this demo."

"I dare you to…kiss Harry."

"Ok."

I slid off the desk and kissed Harry on the cheek. He didn't look perturbed. We always greeted each other with a peck on the cheek anyway.

"I meant snog him!"

"You didn't say that. You just said to kiss him and I did. You didn't say to snog him. If you want that then you should have said snog Harry."

Ginny pouted and the rest of the group looked eager to start so I told them to get into a circle on the desks.

"Shall I start to kick us off?" Parvati said looking at me.

"If you like."

This was going to be interesting…