Title: Harry Potter and the Lost Ones (1/?) Response to July Challenge at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HermioneGinny
Author: Chosentwo4381
Email: chosentwo4381@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: Do I look like a middle aged blonde woman? Do I sound remotely British? I think not. So unless something odd is going on, I don't own these characters. I do own the situations that I'm putting them in, but I promise I'll put them back in Jo's toy box when I'm done.
Pairings: Multiple. Hr/G, H/D, R/N, SB/RL and a few others
Summary: The summer before 6th year and the year itself make life interesting for the trio and their friends.
Author's Note: The title comes somewhat from watching Lost and Delirious yesterday. There will probably be a couple of references to that movie in here. I'm not sure where my fascination with everyone that is gay having a beard came from. Must be a side effect of being in my Southern Bible Belt hometown too long. Also, in my story Blaise Zabini is a girl. Everything else will be explained in the story.
Challenge:
So the basic plotline is 'a spell gone wrong' you
can use this anyway
you like and of course, it has to be a Hermione/Ginny story.
The fic MUST include the following
~someone confessing love for a person of the same gender that's not
Hermione or Ginny
~Someone begging Harry to use the invisibility (sp?) cloak
~A new and suspicious defense against the dark arts teacher
~A triwizard tournament contestant returning to Hogwarts for some
reason (so Fleur or Victor, or maybe a Zombie :P )
And at least 2 of the following
~ someone other than Ron, Harry or Draco confessing love for a person
of the same gender
~ a discovery of a secret part of Hogwarts
~ a sex ed class (surely even wizards and witched need to know)
~ a broken wand
~ someone overhearing a private conversation
~ an explosion
~ a visit to the forbidden forest
~ Someone other than Gryffindor (sp?) winning the house cup
~ A horrible quidditch 'accident'
~ Ginny on the Gryffindor Quidditch team
"Ginny hon, you've got to wake up," Hermione urged the sleeping red head.
"Don't wanna," the girl mumbled as she rolled away from the brunette.
Hermione laughed, "Come on love, Neville will be here soon. Aren't you excited about seeing your beard?"
"You really aren't going to let me sleep are you?" Ginny whined.
"No, sorry," Hermione grinned. "Besides, if you are asleep I can't do this," she said as she leaned down and kissed her girlfriend.
"Wow," Ginny breathed when the kiss broke. "Definitely awake now."
Her brunette lover bounced off the bed smiling. "Good, now shower and get dressed. Your mum would like for you to look nice for your 'boyfriend'"
Ginny grinned hearing the stress that the older girl out on the last word. "Speaking of boyfriends, where's ickle Ronniekins?"
"Cleaning his room before Nev comes."
The youngest Weasley child laughed, "Hmmm… funny he doesn't do that when Harry comes to visit," she said her voice full of mock speculation. With that, she went into the bathroom to freshen up.
Hermione went downstairs into the sitting room to do some of her Potions summer reading. She had been at The Burrow since the second week of vacation. Her parents had been a bit surprised at her apparent haste to leave home, but they attributed her desire to spend her summer with Ginny as a need for teenaged female bonding. The Grangers and the Weasleys had no idea that their daughters were not dating Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom respectively, but each other.
It was a good system really, the four of them plus Harry who was ostensibly dating Blaise Zabini of Slytherin and Draco Malfoy who had Lavender Brown as his cover. Harry and Draco had been the biggest surprise, but time had shown that without the influence of his father, who had been sent to Azkaban their fifth year, Draco was quite an enjoyable person to spend time with.
The girl was shaken from her thoughts by the crackling of the now green flames signaling the impending arrival of Neville. The now sixteen year old boy, while still possessing his baby face, had lost the puppy fat from his first couple of years and come rather svelte. The boy in question tumbled from the fireplace, his trunk flying out with him.
"Ginny, Ron, Neville's here," Hermione yelled.
Ron came barreling downstairs and if Neville hadn't already been on the floor, he'd have been knocked over by the sheer force of Ron's embrace. The girls smiled indulgently at the display, with their arms draped about each other's waist. Then they heard the front door open and close. Mrs. Weasley was back from the grocer's.
Thinking quickly Ginny, as she moved away from Hermione called out, "Oi, Ron, get off my boyfriend you great prat!"
Molly bustled in with her arms full of bags. "Ronald Weasley, you get off our guest right now!" Her eyes softened as she turned to Neville. "Hello dear, glad you made it. How's your Grandmum?"
Ron untangled his limbs from Neville, and stood up, offering his hand to Neville. "Sorry mum. I was just mucking about with Nev. Need any help with those bags?"
The unexpected offer of help from her youngest son distracted Mrs. Weasley from the odd position in which she had found the boys, and it was completely forgotten as the two males helped Molly with the bags while Neville gave greetings from his grandmother.
After the boys finished bringing in the groceries, the foursome headed out back to the orchard. As soon as they were out of sight of the house they switched so they were holding hands with their real partners. Ron and Ginny had their brooms and they ran races while the two less quidditch playing inclined teens sat in the shade and watched their significant others.
Neville turned to Hermione and asked, "Where's Harry? Isn't he usually here?"
"He usually is, but he's spending his first summer with Sirius since he was exonerated. Not to mention the fact that even though Draco isn't a bad bloke, Harry knows that everybody but the four of us would be fairly twitchy about having him here. Besides, they wouldn't have an excuse. Anyway, he, Draco, Sirius, Remus, Narcissa, and Arabella are all off in the South Pacific somewhere on a wizarding cruise. I had a parrot from Harry a few days ago. Apparently the adults rooms are connected, so no one sees the switch going on."
Neville sighed, "You'd think that with so many wizards thinking that they were better than Muggles, that we'd be more tolerant of gays than they are. If anything, it's ten times worse."
"I know Nev. I know." They both paused lost in their thoughts for a moment. "There is a good thing though. We're all invited to Harry's birthday party on the 31st and then we're invited to spend the remainder of the hols at Black castle."
There had been much speculation about the amount of money that Sirius Black had when they found that he had been the one to send Harry the Firebolt during third year. But when he was cleared they found out that he was easily one of the most affluent wizards in Britain. Then in addition to his original wealth, he had the money that came with his settlement with the Ministry of Magic. Suffice to say everyone that lived in the castle never had to worry about needing anything.
Hermione looked at her watch, one of the only vestiges of her muggle life that she kept. "We'd better get them down and get back for dinner."
Neville nodded and shouted them down, then they ambled lazily toward the house.
TBC…