THIS IS A PARTNER FIC!!!!!!!! im doin it with my friend Mg-Nashisko! its a CCS(Card captor sakura) and Hp(harry potter) so if u haven't read both... well, it'll be a tiny bit confusing. PLZ R&R! so evry1 keep in mind i didn't write all of dis!
Disclaimer: WE DO NOT OWN CARD CAPTOR SAKURA OR HARRY POTTER!!!!!! Although... Rei wishes she owned Ron Weasley, and MG wishes she owned Syaoran Li... :sigh: if only if only...
Chapter 1: Letters On ParchmentDear Ms. Mackenzie,
Hello! It's Hermione; it's been so long since I've seen you! My hair has gotten a lot straighter and less frizzy. I made two VERY good friends my first year in Hogwarts, we're still really good friends now. They're both really nice and sweet. Their names are Ronald Weasley (but everyone calls him Ron) and Harry Potter. Ron is especially sweet and very funny. He's got beautiful, fiery red hair and stunning blue eyes and some freckles. He's actually pretty cute and he's part of a really big family. He's the second youngest kid in a family of seven! And Harry is just as nice and kind of shy and very curious. He's got messy black hair and dazzling emerald eyes. He's very famous, here in the wizarding world that is. Harry is an only child; his parents were murdered and he lives with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. From how he describes them they sound absolutely dreadful, sometimes I feel terribly sorry for him when we leave school for the summer. He always comes back so skinny, but he's always very healthy. All three of us always keep in touch even though I don't have an owl. I might buy one if I save up enough, not sure how I will though...I don't have much wizard money. But I guess I'll save a lot of regular money then exchange it for the wizard kind.
Anyway, I really miss you Ms. Mackenzie! It's been years since I've seen you! I'm sending a wizard picture of Ron, Harry and me together. Don't be alarmed that it's moving, that's what they're supposed to do! I found it a bit scary myself when I first saw it but I've grown accustomed! I hope I can soon buy a magic camera too; a boy named Colin took this picture for us. That's a picture of the three of us before the last school year ended. I'm the one in the middle, Ron is on the side nearest the train, and Harry is the boy on the other side of me. They're the best friends I could ever ask for! They're so kind to me, well... usually. Ron and I always fight about the stupidest things. I have no idea why though. Well, that's all for now! Please write back as soon as possible.
Love from,
Hermione
Hermione examined the letter closely for any flaws it might have. She had used regular parchment and a quill and ink rather than a pen and a pad of paper. She smiled, as she had found no flaws in the letter whatsoever. She looked through her trunk and found a copy of the picture Colin Creevy had given her, Ron, and Harry and carefully put it in the envelope she had placed the letter in.
Hermione lifted a paperweight and her copy of Hogwarts, A History in search of a stamp.
She stood up and walked out her room and looked for her Mum. She walked into the kitchen and saw her.
"Mum, where are the stamps?" Hermione asked.
"In your desk drawer, dear," her Mum said.
"Thanks," said Hermione and she quickly ran up her stairs and back into her room. She scavenged a blue stamp and carefully placed it on the envelope. Hermione walked back down the stairs while licking the envelope, eager to catch the postman before he left. She tugged open the door just as the truck stopped in front of her house.
"Wait!" she called and ran up to the man and handed him the letter.
"We'll be sure to get this to this," he glanced at the letter, which she thought was against privacy code, "to Layla Mackenzie as soon as possible." The man nodded respectfully at her and got back into the truck and drove off, only to stop at the next house. She walked back into her front door.
"Who was that letter for?" her mother asked as she walked in.
"My old teacher Ms. Mackenzie."
He Mum said nothing, but continued to make lunch.
It was weeks until she got a reply which only made Hermione more excited to read it. Once in her room she quietly read aloud:
"'Dear Hermione,
"'I'm glad to hear you're well. I'm fine here. I'm so happy to hear you have such great friends! They both look very nice and rather handsome, and from your descriptions they sound like perfect boys and gentlemen. The picture startled me a little when I saw it, but it really makes you look so much happier than a still picture could do. You look so beautiful, your hair really has grown out of most of its frizziness.
"'Since it's been so long since we've seen each other, I'd like to invite you to my new mansion for a stay! If you'd like to, or would feel more comfortable, you can invite your two friends Ron and Harry. They seem like absolute gentlemen and I would be delighted to meet them. It would be great to see you again, and I've invited three other of my past students. They're very nice kids, I believe, if I remember correctly, they're only one year younger than you. I'd like you to meet them! But if you can't come I'll understand. My number is 548-2158 so when you find out if you can come or not, contact me by phone. Post takes too much time.
"'Farewell for now,
Ms. Mackenzie"
Hermione smiled and cried "Yay! She's inviting me over!"
She quickly ran down the stairs and said, "Mum, mum! Ms. Mackenzie invited me to her new mansion! Can I go? Can I please, please, go?"
Her Mum looked at her with a look of concentration. She had met Ms. Mackenzie when she was still her teacher and they became great friends.
"Hmm, I'm not sure..." Mrs. Granger started.
Hermione put her hands together and pleaded, "Please, please, please, please!"
"All right," she gave in.
"Thank you!" Hermione threw her arms around her mother. "I'll call her right now!"
Hermione ran over to the phone and lifted it off the charger. She held the paper in her hand and carefully punched in the numbers. It was four rings until a female voice answered.
"Layla Mackenzie here."
"Ms. Mackenzie? It's Hermione," Hermione said excitedly.
"Hermione! How are you? What did your mother say?" Ms. Mackenzie asked happily.
"I'm great, thanks. Mum said yes, she said I could visit!" Hermione cried. Her mother peaked out of the kitchen.
"That's wonderful. Can you give the phone to your mother so we can set up a time you can come?" Ms. Mackenzie said.
"Sure," Hermione said and quickly walked over to her mother and have her the phone.
"Hello? Oh, hi Layla! It's been a while hasn't it?" she heard her Mum say.
Hermione waited anxiously for her mother to put down the phone. It was at least ten minutes before she did.
"You better start packing, Mione. She's going to pick you up in three days," her mother said smiling.
"Great!" Hermione started to the staircase but stopped, "Wait, how long will I stay there?"
"I believe she said... three weeks."
"Wow."
Hermione quickly leaped up the stairs into her room to find the snowy white form of Hedwig perched upon her desk lamp.
"Perfect timing!" Hermione said as she walked over and stroked Hedwig's feathers. She took the letter Hedwig was carrying and opened it with one hand.
'Dear Hermione,
'Hey Mione! It's Harry. How're you doing? I'm awesome; the Dursleys are being a bit nicer than usual (probably because of the Order's threat.) Dudley isn't being as much of a bully anymore; in fact, he's been very quiet....
'Anyway, Privet Drive is very quiet. I'm bored. Suppose your already done with the homework? Its been giving me trouble. Oh well. That's all for now. Haven't heard from Ron, have you?
Harry
Hermione smiled, and got out a piece of parchment and quickly scribbled the letter to Harry.
'Dear Harry,
'Hello, it's Hermione. I'm great, I know this is out of the blue but would you like to come with me to my old teachers mansion? I told her about you and Ron and she invited me and said I could ask you two to come also. It's going to be for three weeks and she'll pick us up on Friday so if you can, make sure you pack a lot of clothes and your homework or anything else you might need. If you're having trouble with your homework I'll help. Oh, and you don't have to worry about letting slip about anything of the magic world, she already knows of it. I'm not exactly sure how she found out about it originally. MAKE SURE YOU SEND YOUR REPLY ASAP! If you can, tell Ron about it too, or tell him to owl me, or if it wouldn't be much trouble could you lend me Hedwig? If Ron can just get to your house or mine then we won't have a problem. I believe my dad could pick you up. He always has to drive by Magnolia Crescent to get to work so your home can't be to far away.
With love,
Hermione'
She quickly tied the letter to Hedwig's leg and said to her, "Be sure to get this to Harry as quickly as possible!" Hermione opened the window and Hedwig flew into the night.
Hermione fell onto her bed for a quick rest. She breathed deeply then searched through her drawers and closet for clothes. She took out her trunk and neatly stacked in ten pairs of jeans, two cloaks, one skirt, a few white undershirts and tank tops, four pairs of loose shorts, thirteen t-shirts, and five pairs of pajamas. She then walked over to her five-foot tall bookshelf and took out three wizard books and five of her favorite Muggle books. She took one of her old black school backpacks and carefully placed the books in as well as a notebook and a quill as well as a small pot of black ink.
She collapsed on her bed exhausted and awaiting for an owl to swoop into her room. Surprisingly, as Hermione thought this Hedwig swooped in again and landed on her stomach.
"Oof!" she said and looked at Hedwig. A letter was attached to her leg so she quickly tied it off and the owl perched on her lamp once again. The letter read:
'Dear Hermione,
'Sure, that sounds cool. Asked the Dursleys' and you wouldn't believe how happy they were! I'm going to pack after I send this to you, so when you get it I should be done. You can go ahead and borrow Hedwig, but you better let her rest for an hour or so, give her a bowl of water. She's really tired. Okay, so your father is going to pick me up, all right. See you then. You don't have to reply to this now.
Harry'Hermione quickly whipped out a quill and wrote the letter to Ron.
'Dear Ron,
Hey, it's Hermione. I know this is pretty out of the blue but I was wondering if you would like to come visit my old teacher's mansion. She's very kind and she's inviting some other old students of hers. I told her about you and Harry and she invited me and said you two could come, Harry is already going to come, my dad is going to pick him up tomorrow and he's going to stay here for the day until my teacher picks us up. If you can come, you better start packing quickly because she's going to pick us up on Friday. We'll stay there for three weeks. I suggest you bring some Floo powder to get home.... You can Floo to my house tomorrow and you and Harry can sleep in my living room or something. It shouldn't be any trouble. Here's my address (Hermione neatly wrote her address so he could Floo to it) so you can Floo to it. TELL ME IF YOU CAN COME ASAP. I'm already done packing and so is Harry.
Love from,
Hermione
Hermione placed the letter on her desk and went to the kitchen and took one of the glass water bowls that belonged to Crookshanks and filled it with fresh water and thought for a second and got another bowl out and filled it with water too. She carefully took the bowls up the stairs. She placed one on her desk and the other on her floor. Crookshanks happily pounced to it and lapped it down. Hedwig slowly came down and dipped her beak in the clear liquid.
Hermione stroked Hedwig's feathers softly. Currently, the time was 8 o'clock. She had started to pack at 6 o'clock.
She walked down the stairs, leaving her bedroom door open for the fat cat. Hermione's stomach growled and she just realized she hadn't had dinner yet. Her mother already had the food set out on three plates. One for her Mum, Dad, and herself, Hermione sat in her usual seat and so did her Mum and Dad.
"Dad, can you pick up Harry tomorrow on your way home from work? He lives by Magnolia Crescent," Hermione asked her father. She assumed that when she went upstairs her mother had called and told him about her trip, and she assumed right.
"Sure dear, but where will he sleep? And why so soon, you're not going to be picked up by Ms. Mackenzie until Friday," Mr. Granger answered her.
"I was thinking the living room. His aunt and uncle treat him horribly, Dad! They hardly even feed him," Hermione said about to scoop some food into her mouth.
"Alright..." her father said unsurely.
"And Ron is going to Floo here," Hermione added when she had swallowed her Cola.
"Floo?" Mrs. Granger asked.
Hermione shook her head, "This way of travel through fireplaces, it's much faster than a car and that stuff."
"Sleep in the living room with Harry right?" Mr. Granger said, Hermione nodded and they continued with the rest of the meal silently.
Hermione scraped the leftover food into the trash under the sink and rinsed of the plate under the faucet. She said "Thanks" to her mum then ran up the stairs into her room. She found both bowls of water halfway empty.
"Wow," Hermione muttered then attached the letter to Ron to Hedwig's leg.
"Send this to Ron as quick as you can, okay girl? But for the reply you can go ahead and rest first all right? Good girl," Hermione told the owl while stroking it. Hermione opened the window and Hedwig set off. Hermione looked for Crookshanks; he wasn't in the room so she assumed she had left. Hermione changed into some loose pajamas and ducked under the covers of her bed and quickly drifted to sleep.
Before Hermione's letter to Ms. Mackenzie arrived
'Riiing, riiing' rang the telephone, interrupting the soothing silence of the mansion. It stopped when Ms. Mackenzie answered it and the gentle quiet of the mansion returned.
"Hello? ... Sakura-chan? Oh, it is so nice to hear your voice again," Ms. Mackenzie said as Eriol came down the stairs with Spinel (a.k.a. Soupy-chan.)
"Who is it?" he whispered quietly and cautiously.
"It's Sakura-chan," Ms. Mackenzie whispered back as she covered the mouthpiece of the phone so Sakura could not hear. Eriol nodded.
"Sakura-chan, how have you been?" Ms. Mackenzie asked.
"I'm fine, thank you for asking. What about you, Ms. Mackenzie?" Sakura asked.
"I'm fine," she responded, "Eriol is great too.... Yes, I miss you too."
There was a silence between the two as Ms. Mackenzie watched Eriol take some food into the living room, with Soupy-chan sitting on the plate, and try to eat without spilling.
"Oh, maybe you can come for another visit again, it is summer there, is it not?" Ms. Mackenzie asked.
'Dingdong' the front door bell rang through the house. Eriol hurried to open it, it was the mail man. Eriol took the mail, said thank you, and looked at the mail he had as he closed the door. Most of the mail was addressed to him, some were for Akizuki, but one as addressed to Ms. Mackenzie. 'Such pretty and nice handwriting,' he thought as he walked quietly towards where Ms. Mackenzie, trying not to disturb her, and placed the letter on the table next to the phone.
'Yes, it's summer over here Ms. Mackenzie and I would love to visit!" Sakura squealed over the phone.
"Okay, that's great!" Ms. Mackenzie said as she opened the letter and read it.
"It's setteled then, this Friday!" Ms. Mackenzie declared then said, "oh.... Sakura-chan, would you like to meet one of my old students?"
'Umm...sure, okay," Sakura answered.
"Ok, then, I'll be looking forward to Friday then...oh and would you please invite Tomoyo-chan and Syaoran-kun over too...ok, thank you. Bye," Ms. Mackenzie said as she hung up the phone and hurriedly answered back to the letter she received, which was from Hermione.
She then picked up the enveloped to feel that there was something else in there too. She opened the enveloped and took the item, it was the picture that Hermione had told her about. The picture started to move and Ms. Mackenzie was startled for quite a while, but then remembered that Hermione was a witch.
She smiled as she looked at Hermione and her friends right beside her. "I'm so glad you have finally found true friends Hermione, I am so glad ... " she whispered. After she put everything away, she went and sat with Eriol and told him about the plan that will occur soon.
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