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Spontaneous Combustion	By : astartelydianna Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 16780 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Author's Notes: In this chapter you will notice another character that I just didn't have the heart to leave dead and they haven't been mentioned before purely because I wanted it to be a merry surprise

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Spontaneous Combustion

Chapter Six: I dare you

"Have you got your lesson plans ready?" Hermione asked the blonde next to her. Luna smiled a nodded. "Are you really excited now?"

"Oh yes!" the younger witch grinned enthusiastically. "It's going to be very strange teaching solo..."

"You know I can't believe Draco is so set on avoiding me that he didn't even come to the staff meeting..." Hermione mused. "We can't avoid each other forever; we're working in the same building and we have rounds together tonight and I'm not looking forward to patrolling the dungeons alone again if he doesn't show."

"I think he'll show." Luna reassured her. "He won't risk you getting hurt because he's avoiding you again."

"I'm not sure, he might." She said doubtfully.

"Are you ladies still gossiping?" a cheery voice interrupted, they turned to see Remus stood behind them. "Nothing about me I hope."

"Well not now you're here..." Luna said mischievously.

"Yes, you've entirely spoilt our fun." Hermione grinned.

"Are you going to the burrow this weekend before term starts?" he asked.

"Ron's bringing his new girlfriend home to meet everyone, wouldn't miss it for the world." Hermione laughed. "Can't wait to watch him squirm, worrying about what we might say."

Ron's girlfriend left Hermione gobsmacked, she didn't know exactly what she had been expecting but this wasn't it. Serena Silverskin; the name had caused Hermione to imagine something of a British Fleur but the girl sat at the Weasley's kitchen table was no Fleur Delacour, now Weasley. Serena had golden hair certainly, but it was in two practical but scruffy looking plaits down her back, her skin was far from Fleur's smooth creamy porcelain instead she had rosey cheeks and freckles and glasses prevented Hermione from noting her eye colour.

Hermione nodded as the witch continued explaining her work on a new scar removal salve. Apparently she had started as an apprenticing healer at St Mungo's and was now a senior Medi-witch that did her own research into the field as well.

"So you teach Hermione?" the blonde asked, gaining Hermione's full focus.

"Yes sort of, I'm assisting this year before the current Charms Professor retires next year...which is good really because it allows me more time to complete my wizarding degree." She nodded.

"That's brilliant, I had hoped to do my wizarding degree myself but I got sidetracked by research instead." Serena enthused. Hermione continued her conversation with the witch and the more she did the more she was confused...this was the witch Ron chose after her? After the Lavender Brown incident back at Hogwarts Hermione had assumed someone similar to that but no; instead sat an incredibly accomplished and intelligent witch that Hermione could most certainly become friends with.

"Sorry 'Mione what's it like teaching with Malfoy?" Ron snorted, lifting another biscuit from the plate to his mouth.

"I don't actually teach with him you know." She shrugged, trying to act casual. "He's alright; I suppose we mostly just steer clear of each other." It wasn't strictly a lie since Draco was most certainly avoiding her.

"Probably best, I can't believe they let him back in a school." Ron muttered.

"Ronald! We've had this discussion before." Molly said as she firmly whacked him on the ear.

"It's not much of a discussion if it's just ended with you hitting me!" he protested.

"Ron he's really not that bad, I nominated him for Head of House." She admitted.

"You what?!" Harry, Ginny and Ron asked at once.

"I guess you'd have to see him to understand. Either way don't worry it's not like I'm best friends with him or anything." She brushed off.

Inside however she spent most of the remaining time of her visit thinking about Draco Malfoy. Clearly something about him made her body react in a way that it hadn't to Ron; was it just some kind of danger thrill, like a forbidden romance thing or was it just Draco? Not only that but how did she find out? It wasn't like there was anyone else she could just go and flirt with to see if some kind of attraction flared up... While thinking this she carefully surveyed the room and decided that perhaps kissing everyone in the room would help, it couldn't exactly hurt after all. When they all gathered at the Burrow it usually resulted in games and quite often kissing games or truth or dare and such things...normally Hermione sat out, although she had played once or twice so tonight if it came up she would agree to play.

Come up it did.

The group sat around the room some on the floor some on the sofa or chairs waiting for their turn.

"Who starts?" Harry asked.

"I think George first, may as well start with a bang." Ginny grinned.

"Alright dear sister, you may well regret that nomination." George smirked, rubbing his hands together like a villain.

"Go ahead do your worst you know I can take any truth or any dare." Ginny goaded.

"I can do one better than that." George replied. "Harry truth or dare?" Ginny groaned and covered her face with her hands.

"Urm...dare?" Harry replied uncertainly eying Ginny's horrified face.

"We'll start easy. I dare you to fly to the top of the house on Ron's boom..." George grinned, knowing that Ron's broom was in a bad way and difficult to fly. "Naked."

Harry flushed bright red but stood up none the less, and headed for the Weasley's broom cupboard.

"Hey! I don't want him touching my broom naked!" Ron suddenly exclaimed.

"Tough, I'm not turning up to work blue because I didn't complete a wizard's dare." Harry replied.

Everyone laughed as Harry stepped outside with the broom before reluctantly parting with his clothes.

"Hermione shut your eyes please." He pleaded.

"Way ahead of you." Serena pointed out, pointing to Hermione with her hands over her eyes. "And I think I shall join her since it's hardly polite to stare at someone you've only met a few times when they're naked."

"Ah come on it's no fun if no one looks." Fred pouted.

"Yeah, it's only a proper dare if he's properly embarrassed." George nodded.

"Fine, I shall peak when he's suitably high enough not to be embarrassing for me to look so that I can confirm he completed his dare. Happy?" the blonde asked.

"Not totally-" George replied.

"But it'll do." Fred added.

By the time Harry returned to the ground he was suitably embarrassed and the group headed back inside again to resume the game.

"I can tell you now; if anyone dares me to get naked I would rather go to work blue so I wouldn't bother." Hermione said sitting back down next to Ginny.

"Alright so are we going to go in a circle or just random?" Harry asked. They all decided random. "Alright, since Hermione just brought herself into the spotlight I'm going to embarrass her. Remus I dare you to kiss Hermione on the lips." Both Hermione and Remus just laughed and he leant over to give her a quick kiss. When Harry looked slightly surprised and suspicious they both laughed harder.

"Don't worry; we haven't been keeping any kind of secret relationship from you." Hermione grinned. "I got stuck under the enchanted mistletoe at Christmas."

"Harry you're so rubbish at this game! Remus is an older good looking wizard, how is that embarrassing for Hermione?!" Ginny said rolling her eyes.

"Harry I dare you to kiss Serena." Remus said, looking apologetically at the witch. Ginny laughed as Ron, Harry and Serena all looked awkward.

"See Harry that's how you do it!" she laughed loudly holding her sides.

Harry awkwardly went and kissed Ron's girlfriend as quickly as possible and returned to his seat.

"I won't make the same mistake twice." Harry said. "I dare Hermione to kiss Ginny." Hermione flushed as Ginny simply puckered up.

"Better Harry but if you ever want to embarrass me you're going to have to do better than that." She winked as Hermione shyly leant to kiss her. Ginny however didn't let Hermione just peck her lips, instead she went the full way and dove into a deep kiss. Hermione had to admit that it was a nice kiss, if she'd have been a lover of women then she would probably fancy Ginny herself but actually bedding a woman wasn't something she had ever found particularly appealing.

"Why did that have to be our sister?" George and Fred asked at the same time, cringing as they did.

"Hermione's turn." Ginny announced, ignoring the uncomfortable looking men.

"Alright, I'm guessing truths have pretty much been thrown out the window so just for a bit of revenge I dare Ginny to kiss Remus." Hermione said. Ginny nodded her approval as she moved to kiss Remus on the lips. Just as she had hoped, Harry looked unhappy and uncomfortable.

"See Harry, you're just no good at this game." George laughed.

"Nor's Ron." Fred agreed.

By the end of the game Hermione had managed to kiss nearly everyone with the exceptions of Serena and Ron and could say the none of them caused the stirrings that Draco had. She had been surprised by the slight spark she had felt kissing George but it certainly wasn't even close to the sheer rush that Draco had caused before he had even kissed her...

Harry's kiss had nearly repulsed her, not because kissing him as a friend was a problem but because Fred in his grand scheme of getting to Ginny had dared them to use tongues and that had been awkward and pretty disgusting. She hadn't ever thought of Harry that way, by the time they had grown up enough for her to notice him in that way they were already too close friends for her to fancy him so it was like someone had just asked her to thoroughly snog her brother and to be perfectly honest she would have rather snogged Ginny again than Harry. It did however achieve its aim of bothering Ginny.

On returning to Hogwarts Hermione thought over her "findings" so to speak.

Her next step would be to test her theory on Draco. She would have to kiss him again to check that it still have the same affect on her and then she would need to find a way of testing the waters further. So the question was; how did she get someone who avoided her like the plague and hated her to kiss her again? Somehow she didn't think a game of truth or dare would work.
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