Chapter one

{Grimmauld Place, With Ron, Hermione and Harry, a week after the end of the war}

Harry (Yelling): Ron, Hermione! Can you please come downstairs before you finish packing? I want to talk!

[Ron and Hermione hurry downstairs]

Hermione: Harry! What is it? Does your scar hurt again? But it can't be! Voldemort is dead!

Ron: Hermione! Let him speak!

Hermione: oh… Sorry…

[Harry smiles slightly]

Harry: It's OK, my scar doesn't hurt. But I'd like to thank you both so much for staying with me here at Grimmauld Place. Ron, I'd have thought that you would just want to go home… considering… what hap-

[Ron cuts Harry off]

Ron: Considering… Freds death.

[A single tear runs down Rons cheek]

Harry: Yes… considering that.

Hermione: Anyway, it's quite alright Harry! We would do anything for our friends!

[Harry remembers Collin and walks quickly to the couch and sits down]

Harry: We lost so many of them.

Hermione: We know we did, Harry. But you mustn't think of it that way. Think of it, that the friends we lost helped us, and the entire wizarding world, by helping to defeat Voldemort, but at a terrible cost, that they were willing to pay, for their friends and family.

Harry: Ron, you never told me how you are planning to get to the burrow, are you just apparating?

Ron: My mum's going to come here, and we will apparate together.

Harry: Oh, why can't you just apparate alone?

Hermione: Well Ron didn't exactly pass his apparition exam, now did he?

[Ron frowns]

Harry: I didn't even take it.

Hermione: well you should! You are turning eighteen in about three months!

Harry: Maybe I will.

Ron: We will take it together! I also want to know how to apparate.

Hermione: but the only problem is, Hogwarts is destroyed and the rest of the school year is cancelled, how do we even take the test again?

Ron: Easy! We find the ministry's apparition instructor!

Hermione: And how do you plan on doing that, exactly?

Ron: We ask dad to get us to the ministry, and then Kingsley will tell us where the apparition department is or whatever.

Harry: sounds good to me!

Hermione: Fine.

Ron: Great! Then Harry, You should come with us back to the burrow!

Harry: Really?

Ron: Of course mate! You're not seriously thinking that staying here alone with Kreacher is the better option?

[Hermione frowns]

Hermione: That's not nice, Ron! You know that Kreacher is… well… better now! And you know that I'm still going to continue working on S.P.E.W!

Ron: Sorry Hermione.

[Ron gives Hermione a kiss on the cheek]

Harry: but anyway, you're right! I will come with you!

Ron: Great!

[Everyone continues talking about staying in the burrow while walking upstairs to pack]