This story set in the summer between Harry's 5th and 6th years was intended to be one of seven short (10 -15 pages) stories; one for each summer in the Harry Potter series. Not only did it get away from me (it is now over 100 pages in ten chapters and still going ) but to make the other stories of the series fit in with the ideas I came up with for this story I had to go back to previously written Life In Grimmauld Place, set between the 4th and 5th year and rewrite it as two stories Ginny's Life In Grim Old Place and Hermione's Life In Grim Old Place which are already on line along with a third story in the series, Ginny's Thank You which is set between Harry's 2nd and 3rd years. Other summer stories are in the works.

Summer at the Burrow

Chapter I – Something to Remember

Harry Potter woke to the banging of his bedroom door at the home of his friend Ron Weasley. Ron and another friend Hermione Granger came into the room. "Mom just told us you were here, when did you arrive?" Ron asked.

"About one this morning." Harry answered as he continued to lie in the bed stretching to help wake up. "You lot were asleep and your mom put me in here for the night so I wouldn't wake everyone up."

Harry visited the Weasleys every year but he lived with his aunt and uncle since he was one; when his parents were killed by Lord Voldemort the most evil dark wizard ever. Harry only recently discovered the full story. A prophecy made Voldemort believe that Harry was the only person who could defeat him so he came to kill Harry as a baby before the prophecy could be fulfilled. Harry's parents tried to protect him so Voldemort killed them. Then something went wrong. As Voldemort cast the spell to kill baby Harry it was reflected back by the protective spell left behind by the love Harry's mother placed on Harry as she died trying to shield him.

Voldemort vanished; his power broken and for ten years there was no sign of him. Then when Harry was eleven, Voldemort tried to return in another attempt to kill Harry but was again thwarted. Voldemort tried to kill Harry unsuccessfully several time since and finally he decided he needed to learn more about Harry and the prophecy so he could discover why he was unable to kill Harry all those times.

Voldemort tried to get the full record of the prophecy from the Ministry of Magic and a group called "The Order of the Phoenix" vowed to stop him. Just three weeks ago Harry and five of his friends, including Ron and Hermione, along with members of the Order fought a battle prevented Voldemort from hearing the prophecy; but Harry's godfather Sirius Black was killed. Knowing how it affected Harry everyone who knew him was pretty much afraid to bring up the subject.

As Harry was thinking of how nice it was to be back with his friends he noticed there was a silence. They're afraid to ask me anything Harry thought. Harry was debating with himself about whether he should tell them what he learned about himself and the prophecy since the battle when Ron's sister Ginny came in the room. A year younger than Harry, she also was at the battle fighting against Voldemort's followers called "Death Eaters."

She smiled and said, "Hi Harry, I'm glad to see you." Her eyes seemed to sparkle.

"Hi Ginny," he said. He turned back to talk with Ron and Hermione but suddenly a rush of emotions came over Harry and he looked at Ginny again. She had long red hair and was quite pretty. Harry continued to look at her for a moment and thought, she is so very pretty. Why didn't I ever notice that before? Harry had spent a month with the Weasley family at Grimmauld Place the headquarters of the Order last summer. He had seen Ginny every day that entire month but he didn't remember ever thinking of Ginny as pretty.

When they first met he simple thought of her as Ron's younger sister. In Harry's second year at Hogwarts Voldemort had possessed Ginny using his old enchanted diary; getting her emotionally entwined with it. Harry and Ron went through the entrance of the Chamber of Secrets to rescue her but Ron became trapped behind a rock fall and Harry had to go on by himself to destroy the diary and save Ginny.

After that they became casual friends. But it wasn't until last year, as a member of Dumbledore's army, when she fought with Harry at the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, that she became one of Harry's close friends. Harry also became close friends with the others who were at the battle, Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood. Still Harry considered Ginny just a friend; he never looked at her as a pretty girl.

Ginny had on a green tee that was a little tight on her and Harry could see the outline of her bra underneath. The combination made her small breasts stand out. She had tan shorts on which were also too small and tight on her and as she sat on the edge of Harry's bed he could clearly see the outline of her ass cheeks. Also Harry could see an inch of her skin around her waist where the tee and the shorts failed to meet.

Harry rarely saw Ginny in muggle clothes. At school she almost always wore the school uniform and Harry knew it was because the Weasley family didn't have a lot of money. With seven children hand-me-down clothes was the norm for the boys and even Ginny wore some of Ron's old shirts. Lately with the five older boys gone on their own, the family had a little more money; but with Voldemort and his Death Eaters roaming about, Ginny couldn't go out shopping for new clothes. Harry knew the things she had on were from last year and they were small on her because she had grown so much; still she did look good in them.

As he looked at her he felt himself getting excited; he got the feeling that there was more about Ginny he couldn't quite bring to the front of his mind. He wanted to be alone with her; to ask her something. He wanted to take his and her clothes off and have her get under the covers with him. He didn't know why but he thought he could sense that she wanted that too as she smiled at him. He wished Ron and Hermione would leave.

They were interrupted by the arrival of Fleur Delacour and Ron's mother with a breakfast tray. Harry had met Fleur two years ago when they were both champions in the Tri Wizard Tournament. Fleur and Ron's oldest brother Bill had gotten engaged over the summer and she was visiting to meet his family.

After Fleur, Ginny, and Mrs. Weasley left, Harry talked with Ron and Hermione telling them the prophecy which they never got to hear during the battle and what he had discovered about himself. But his mind kept going back to Ginny. Finally they also left and he got dressed and went down to the kitchen to return the breakfast tray. He wanted Ron help him move his things up to Ron's bedroom which they always shared when Harry stayed at the Burrow.

Then he saw Ginny helping her mother, and again he got that same feeling that he should remember something important about her and couldn't. As he looked at her she came over and said, "Harry, when I walked into your bedroom and first saw you earlier I got excited. I got a sort of thought that I wanted to tell you but I couldn't say it with Ron and Hermione there. Since then that thought keep going around in my head; there is something I want to tell you but I can't do it here either. Could you come up to my bedroom so we can talk?"

Harry looked at her with hungry eyes. He very much wanted to go with her to her bedroom and he said, "I think I'm having the same feeling about you. Let's go now so we can be alone."

But Ron and Hermione arrived that instant, and asked Harry to go up to Ron's room because they had been talking after they left his room and decided they had something important to tell him. Harry told Ginny quietly, "I better go with them but I'll come to see you as soon as I can."

When they got to Ron's room Ron closed and locked the door. Harry though it was odd that Ron stood behind Hermione rubbing her shoulders as he spoke. Harry never saw Ron and Hermione touching each other like that. "Harry, Hermione and I want to tell you something odd. We weren't sure it's important but after what you told us earlier about you and the prophecy we decided you should hear it.

When Hermione got here a few days ago after visiting her parents and I saw her for the first time I got a funny feeling that there was a secret I wanted to tell her but I couldn't remember what it was. I didn't want her to be away from me for a moment in case I remembered what it was I wanted to say. We're together every minute every day and at night when she goes to Ginny's room to sleep I can't wait till morning so I can see her again."

"When Ron told me that I realized that I had the same feeling when I first saw him." Hermione said. "We just saw each other a week ago at the end of school and we didn't feel like this. I can't imagine what I needed to tell him but I felt it is something important. Every morning when we see each other that feeling gets stronger.

In the week since I got here neither of us has remembered what we want to tell each other but we both know there is something."

Harry frowned and said, "Ginny and I just realized the same thing. When she first came into the bedroom this morning we both had a feeling of forgetting something important. I didn't get that feeling when saw you two; did you when you first saw me?"

Ron and Hermione looked at each other then both said "No, not seeing you, just when we see each other."

"It seems that Ron and I had something happen to us that we can't remember," Hermione said "and you and Ginny had something happen to both of you. We need to think of the last time that we were together without you; and you and Ginny need to think of the last time you two were together without us."

"You two could have been together without me loads of times all last year." Harry said "I can't remember ever being alone with Ginny; in Gryffindor common room or practicing for Dumbledore's Army there were always other people around. Maybe at Grimmauld Place last summer but I don't remember it. When Ginny mentioned it I told her I would talk with her later; maybe she'll remember being with me sometime when nobody else was around."

Ron's mother called everyone to eat and as they went down the stairs Hermione said, "I think this is important; all four of us couldn't just happen to have the same feeling of forgetting something important. We need to find out if someone erased our memories. If it was a Death Eater at the Department of Mysteries during the battle three weeks ago it is probably important to find out what was erased."

At the kitchen table Ron and Hermione sat next to each other and as they ate they kept touching. Sometimes it was Hermione reaching to touch Ron's arm as he rested it on the table; but sometimes Ron would reach under the table and Harry could tell he was squeezing Hermione's leg.

As he was watching Ron and Hermione he realized that Ginny, who sat next to him, was doing the same; touching his arm casually as she ate. The odd thing was he started to touch Ginny without thinking about it, brushing her arm as he reached for bread or juice. He didn't realize he was doing it until he became aware that he had his hand on Ginny's thigh under the table. He looked at her and she smiled at him. He badly wanted to leave his hand on her thigh but forced himself to remove it.

After they finished eating Ron and Hermione left which made Harry happy; it left him with Ginny. Harry tried to get Ginny up to her bedroom but Mrs. Weasley had work for her to do and he had to talk with Ginny in the kitchen. As she worked he would get behind her so his body was up against hers and he would whisper to her as Mrs. Weasley kept walking in and out on them. He explaining what Ron and Hermione had told him. He took exceptionally long to tell her this as he kept rubbing his body against her.

Ginny didn't seem to object to Harry's touch in fact a couple of times she turned quickly so they were against each other face to face. Harry was tempted to kiss her each time but Mrs. Weasley always seemed to be right there before he could act. Ginny eventually told Harry she couldn't ever remember being alone with him either. Though they tried to get time alone Mrs. Weasley was always there with some task that kept Ginny busy.

Occasionally during the day Ron and Hermione came through the kitchen which Harry and Ginny had never left and one of them would have an idea. But nothing made sense or brought back any memories by the time Mr. Weasley and Bill got home from work. With Dinner approaching Harry pinned his hopes on getting Ginny alone for at least a little while before bed time; but with everyone eager to talk to him he ended up going with Ron to their bedroom without seeing Ginny in private. He had no hope of sneaking out of Ron's room to be with Ginny in the middle of the night but he did give it a lot of thought which made him dream of Ginny when he finally fell asleep.

The next morning dawned warm and sunny and Ron suggested to Harry a trip to the pond beyond the tree line from the house. "We always went down there on warm days to swim when we were kids." he said "Last year we were at Grimmauld Place and didn't get in the water at all. You and Hermione were never here long enough or at the right time to swim before. Ginny might like to go and we can talk about our memory loss without my mother listening in."

At breakfast Ron suggested it to the girls. Ginny was excited but Hermione only reluctantly agreed. Instead of lunch Mrs. Weasley said she would put together a hamper of food and some dishes while they went to change.

Harry didn't have a bathing suit but a baggy pair of his Cousin Dudley's old pants cut off above the knee would serve. They took an old blanket to sit on and at noon they headed down to the pond. It was just under an acre in size with a swamp full of reeds and water lilies at the shallow end but near the deep end there was a small lea of soft grass to spread a picnic blanket. Nearby, a rope hung from a big branch of a tree over the edge of the pond. Ron promised it would give a fun ride out over the water.

Ron and Harry had only worn tees and the shorts they were going to swim in so each kicked off their trainers, quickly pulled their tee over their head and they started to spread the blanket while Hermione and Ginny took longer to get off their tees and shorts that they wore over their bathing suits. Ginny had on a rather small yellow two piece bathing suit that showed off her figure nicely.

Hermione, who was more into muggle fashions, wore what the muggles called a string bikini that she bought when her parents had taken her to the French Rivera. It covered just enough of her to make it legal to wear in public. When they had been getting changed back in the bedroom and Ginny remarked about how skimpy it was Hermione told her, "All the boys like it and I don't normally swim. When we go to the beach I usually sit in the shade and read. Occasionally I walk in the surf up to my knees."

When the boys turned around and saw the girls the reaction from Ron and Harry was instantaneous. Ron dropped his end of the blanket and grabbed Hermione in a passionate embrace and kiss. Harry who was on the far side of the blanket almost tripped as he ran to Ginny to hold and kiss her as passionately as Ron had Hermione. Both girls kissed back just as passionately for several seconds until Ron yelled, "Oi, that's my sister you're snogging."

Harry stopped kissing Ginny and suddenly realized what he was doing. He couldn't remember even thinking of kissing Ginny before yesterday in the kitchen yet here he was not just giving her a kiss; but kissing her neck with his hands on her breasts. The smell of her perfume excited him to the point of getting an erection which he could feel Ginny rubbing. That made him realize she had slid her hand into his shorts.

He took his hands off her breasts and said, "Sorry." as he let go of her.

"No, you're not sorry." Ginny said loudly with her hand still in Harry's shorts. "Neither am I. Kissing you is what I've wanted to do since yesterday but my mother wouldn't even give us one minute alone to do it." Then she pulled her hand from his shorts and wrapped her arms around Harry's neck to began snogging him again."

Ron let go of Hermione and tried to take a step toward Harry and Ginny but Hermione held his arm. "Stop Ron," she said "can't you see Ginny was right. You never kissed me before but just now you ran your hands under my bikini all over my breasts and you kissed me as if we were madly in love. And I didn't stop you; I wanted to kiss you so badly it hurt, I couldn't control myself either. This is what we wanted to do for a week now make love to each other.

We need to figure out why. What happened to the four of us? Fighting with Harry won't help us discover that. Neither Harry nor Ginny could control what they did or what they're doing now." Then Hermione grabbed Ron around his waist and said, "Kiss me again Ron I need you to make love to me."

Ron kissed her but after about twenty seconds Hermione pulled away from him and yelled, "Stop! Ron, Harry, Ginny stop! We have to get control of ourselves! This is not normal; we must have been hexed by someone and we can't let whoever did it control our lives."

Harry and Ginny, who were lying on the blanket by this time, their hands all over each other, broke apart and Ginny said, "Hermione is right we have to stop this." She refastened her bathing suit top, which Harry had unhooked, grabbed her shorts and tee and pulled them back over her bathing suit.

Harry got a grip on her arm and said, "I don't care who hexed us or why, I want to make love to you Ginny. Stay here with me."

Ginny answered, "I want to make love to you to; but we have to fight it. Look away from me." Then she turned her eyes away from him and he turned from her. In a minute they had both calmed down and began to act normally.

Hermione backed away from Ron, got her shorts and tee back on; then turned to look away from him. He did the same and soon they too returned to normal.

Still looking away Hermione said, "What made us go bonkers? We've been seeing each other since yesterday morning without losing control. What happened just now?"

"We had our clothes off." Ginny said. "Since yesterday the feeling that I wanted to be in bed with Harry has gotten stronger in me. I've fancied him for a long time and thought the feeling was just stronger this year; but when I turned around and saw him without his shirt I couldn't control myself any longer. I wanted to get totally naked and have sex with him. If you two weren't here to stop us we'd be doing it right now."

Ron looked at her and Harry and for a few seconds and Hermione though he was going to go after Harry again; so she said, "You thought the same about me Ron so don't do anything you'll be sorry for. Then Ron said, "Yeah, Ginny's right. I've had the same feeling for Hermione since she got here, and it's been getting stronger to." He turned red but continued, "Hermione, last night I dreamed about you being in bed with me and when I saw you in that bathing suit I wanted to…" He couldn't finish saying to her what he wanted to do but everyone knew.

Hermione said, "I have to admit I've been feeling the same about Ron but the odd thing is I had the same dream about being in bed with him last night."

They all looked at Harry and he said, "Me too; except about Ginny I mean."

Then Ginny added, "I already admitted I wanted to be in bed with Harry while I was awake; but yes I had a dream about him to."

Hermione turned around and looked at Ron. "I feel in control again." she said. "I still want you Ron but not so badly I can't control myself. Let's sit here and hash this out before we start acting out on our feelings and get into deep trouble."

They sat on the blanket and gradually began looking at each other again. For now everyone seemed okay. Hermione started with, "It seems somebody placed false memories or maybe false emotions in us sometime in the past week. They seem to want me and Ron to be insanely in love and the same for Harry and Ginny. Why? What would someone get out of that situation?"

"If we were seen by mom and dad it would get us all in trouble." Ginny said. "It would distract us from other things; maybe from discovering another plot against Harry. Being fixated on each other might prevent us from defending ourselves in case of another attack."

"It would be another problem for your parents." Harry said. "That would take away from their time fighting Voldemort and helping Dumbledore. If we got you girls pregnant it could get us expelled from Hogwarts taking us away from Dumbledore's protection."

"But when could we have been hexed?" Ron asked. "At the ministry during the battle? After the battle we went to Hogwarts which is well protected; then Ginny and I came directly here and we haven't seen anyone but family since."

"From Hogwarts I went to my parents for this past week but I didn't go out anywhere and no strangers visited because of Dumbledore's warning last year about a possible Death Eater attack on me or my parents." Hermione said.

"I went from Hogwarts to my aunt and uncles," Harry said "and didn't go out of the house until Dumbledore came to bring me here. So it must have happened at the ministry during the battle."

"Fleur!" Ginny said. "She's not family; at least not yet. Maybe she's under the control of someone's Imperious Curse. She could have hexed us."

"No," Harry said "I had my feeling about you when you first walked into the bedroom yesterday morning; before I saw Fleur or even knew she was in the house. It can't be her."

"Well, maybe it's not a hex maybe someone put the Imperious Curse on all of us." Ron said.

"It's not the Imperious Curse." Harry said. "Don't you remember what it felt like when Barty Crouch Jr. tried it on us in class two years ago; that feeling of euphoria? I don't feel like that at all. Hermione, is there a love potion that could do this?"

"Several," she said "but that leads to the same question; how would someone get all four of us to drink it. We just said none of us have been anywhere but Hogwarts and home."

"Maybe it's not a spell or potion that's making us act this way." Ginny said. "Remember yesterday we all thought someone erased our memories. Maybe we were right about that, maybe nothing happened recently. Maybe something happened a long time ago and it was erased from our memories but the spell is weakening and our memories are starting to come back."

"Memories of us being madly in love?" Ron said. "When could both Hermione and I and also you and Harry have been madly in love?"

"At Grimmauld Place last summer." Harry said. "It's the only possible time. The four of us were locked in there together for almost a month; more than a month for you and Hermione. We didn't see anyone our age but each other. Is it possible that being so close together for so long we fell in love and someone erased our memories of it?"

"Dumbledore!" Hermione said. "Ginny just said acting like this would distract us; make it harder to see another plot by Voldemort and to defend ourselves. Then Harry just said it would be a problem for Dumbledore if your parents had to deal with us. If we were acting like this last summer he might have erased our memories of it to avoid all that and to keep our minds on fighting Voldemort."

"I know this was my idea, but why didn't we remember it all last year?" asked Ginny. "We saw each other every day at school why would we start remembering now?"

"Because Dumbledore is hurt." Harry said. "When he came to get me two nights ago I saw he had an injured hand. And he doesn't look healthy; he's been working twenty hours a day and he looks old and tired. He must have been hurt sometime between the end of school and three days ago. If he is sick on top of the injury maybe a spell he cast might be getting weaker as he gets weaker.

Also we are farther away from him. Snape once told me magic is limited by distance. When we were at school Dumbledore was close and his spell would have been strong on us. Between him being hurt and being far away we are breaking free of his spell."

"That makes sense." Ginny said.

"No it doesn't." Ron said. You're saying Hermione and I; and you and Harry were madly in love last summer at Grimmauld Place and we've forgotten all about it till now." Then he asked. "If we wanted to shag each other so badly just now, does that mean we were shagging last summer to? I think I would remember if I ever did it with Hermione."

"No you wouldn't;" Hermione said "and neither would I. Not if Dumbledore erased our memories. The only way we may ever know is if Dumbledore continues to get weaker and more of our memories return."

"Can't we ask him?" Ginny said. "Tell him what we think and just ask if he erased our memories."

"If he did he must have believed it was important to do so." said Harry "Dumbledore doesn't change his mind easily and if we ask he may just erase our memories again. Then we won't even remember this conversation. Hermione, do you know anything about memory spells and how they work?"

"Not much," Hermione said "erasing memories it taught in seventh year; but maybe I can look up the theory and see if what we said makes sense."

"How would you do that," Ron asked "you can't go to the library while you're here and we can't ask anyone because they might tell Dumbledore."

"Do you suppose Fred and George left their seventh year text books at "The Burrow" rather than taking them to their loft?" Hermione asked.

"I bet they did." Ron said. "They left a lot of things in their room. At least we can look."

"Basic theory at least will be in those texts." Hermione said. "Perhaps I can get some information."

"So now what?" Harry asked. "What else do we do?"

"I don't know what else we can do but I know what we can't do." Ron said "We can't swim. I don't want my sister shagged by Harry or anyone else whether they can help themselves or not."