Title: School Trip

Chapter Name: Arrival

Rating: U

Pairing: Ron/Hermione, Ron/Lavender, Harry/Ginny & Neville/Luna

Words: 774

Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all related characters are the property of J. K. Rowling and Scholastic. I gain absolutely no money from the writing and posting of this fanfiction.

Everyone was sat eating dinner in the Greta Hall, 5th and 6th years were buzzing with excitement. Yes they loved the Hogwarts food but they couldn't wait to get away from it tonight. Tomorrow morning, all 5th and 6th years would be going to a muggle place called Whitby for 2 weeks. None of them had been on a school trip before, except to Hogsmeade.

Half way down the Gryffindor table, Harry Potter sat with his friend Ronald Weasley discussing the school trip.

"Remember your sitting with me, if the coach is anything like the Knight bus then I don't even want to think what will happen" said Ron, making Harry laugh a little. Ron had been nervous all week about the coach trip to and from Whitby, and Harry sort of understood since the only bus ride he had every endured was on the Knight Bus. The crazy wizard bus.

"Won-Won" someone said suddenly. Ron and Harry both turned to see Lavender walking towards them. Ron did his best to smile,

"So I wanted to talk about tomorrow. Im really nervous about the coach ride so will you sit with me?" she said with a look that said she'd choke him if he said no.

Ron looked at Harry and started stuttering

"Hey Neville, just they guy I wanted to see. Fancy sitting with me?" asked Harry getting up to greet Neville

"yeah sure" said Neville and Ron let out a sigh. Lavender had parched herself next to Ron by now, so Harry walked with Neville and sat down with him, Hermione and Ginny.

When Harry finally returned from dinner he found Ron on the comfiest sofa with Lavender snuggled in his side, Ron didn't look happy. Harry settled himself down at a table and went over the checklist Hermione had wrote out for him.

"Oh my, I was suppose to meet Pavarti 5 minutes ago. You don't mind if I rush of do you?" Lavender suddenly shrilled

"Of course not." Said Ron, and to Harry it looked like the first real smile he'd ever given her, or at least in a long time. Lavender got up from the couch and grabbed her bag heading for the Portrait hole as Ron settled down onto the sofa smiling.

Just before Lavender opened it, the portrait hole swung open. Smacking Lavender in the fac. She gave a screech of pain as both Harry and Ron jumped up to check on her. Hermione and Ginny emerged from the other side giggling; clearly oblivious of what had just happened. But soon stopped in the tracks when they saw Lavender on the floor crying with Harry and Ron stood around her.

"My nose, my nose" she was no crying, Harry was sure it had been her head 2 seconds ago. She then looked up to see Hermione and Ginny and her face started to turn red

"YOU DID THIS TO ME" she screeched making everyone who hadn't already stopped to watch, now stop and watch

"I'm so sorry Lavender, we didn't know you would be behind the portrait hole" said Hermione quietly, clearly scared at what Lavender might do.

"WHATEVER, THERES ALWAYS AN EXCUSE WITH YOU, BUT YOU'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET ME BACK SINCE THE DAY I STARTED DATING RON!" Lavender shouted, she tried to stand up, hopefully looking for Ron's assistance, put he didn't give her it so she just feel back down

"EXCUSE ME. THAT'S NOT TRUE. PLU I CAN'T SEE THROUGH PORTRAITS. NEXT TIME YOU SHOULD BE MORE CAREFUL." Shouted Hermione, now also turning red

"YOU JUST THINK YOUR SO CLEAVER, BUT YOUR NOT. YOU'RE JUST A STUPID LITTLE MUDBLOOD" Lavender shouted, she then managed to get to her feet and exit the common room.

Everyone was stood around clearly shocked at what Lavender had just said. Hermione looked slightly upset but just simply made her way to the girls stairs and took off towards the dorm; Ginny following. Harry and Ron both stood in uncomfortable silence for what seemed like forever, until Neville interrupted, clearly wanting to put it all behind them

"Have you got everything on the list Harry?" he asked. Harry shock his head and joined Neville at the table while Ron went and sat in the sofa he had occupied 5 minutes ago.

It had been half an hour since Lavender's departure and Hermione and Ginny were now making there way downstairs. Harry and Neville were still sat discussing there plans for tomorrows bus ride and Ron was sat on the sofa, although he was chatting to them as he was twisted around. Both Ginny and Hermione joined the boys at the table, Ron didn't so much as glance towards Hermione and turned round to face the fire.

"Got everything packed?" Ginny asked cheery. Harry glanced over to notice Hermione eyes looked slightly red as if she'd been crying

"yeah, you?" Neville said

"yeah" she replied still as cheery.

Harry woke up in the middle of the night, for some reason he couldn't sleep. The jug of water that lay near his bed was empty, so he decided to go refill it. He stepped out of bed, careful not to wake any of the others and tiptoed downstairs.

As he reached the bottom he could here voices; clearly people were still in the common room, although it was really late. But wait a second, he was sure he recognised the voice. He peeped round and found Ron Weasley talking to someone who was sat on the sofa.

"It wasn't my fault" he said, the person in the sofa replied

"You didn't stop her though!" it was a girls voice and it seemed quite, like there was something wrong with the voice. It had to be Lavender, she must have a sore throat after her screaming match. Why the hell was Ron apologising, he thought he didn't like her anymore.

"I could have done anything. Please forgive me." He said in a sort of pleading voice.

"Fine" came the girls voice. Ron looked happy with himself and sat down on the sofa, and from what Harry could see the two were cuddling up together.

Harry didn't bother asking about last night events to Ron, he didn't really want to know why he had been apologising to Lavender. They made there way to the common room to find Lavender waiting for Ron.

"Hey," she almost croaked, it sounded as if it had gotten worse over night

"What's up with your voice?" asked Seamus Figgin who emerged behind Harry with his friend Dean Thomas.

"The shouting last night" she replied, then took Ron's arm and dragged him out towards the great hall for breakfast.

When Harry, Seamus and Dean reached the great hall it was already packed, a lot of bags containing peoples stuff had been put in the corner. They left there stuff and made there way down the table to where Ron was sat with Lavender and Pavarti. Soon Ginny, Hermione and Neville showed up. they all came down towards them and Hermione was the first to speak.

"We need to go down and see the teachers since were prefects Ron." And to Harry's surprise her voice was croaky as well. Ron said bye then got up and followed Hermione, not even looking at her. Harry wished they would just make up already. But he wanted to know why Hermione had a bad voice. Lavender and Pavarti didn't seem to be listening so he turned to Ginny and asked.

"What! You didn't hear it? Hermione and Lavender had a massive argument when she returned last night. They were proper screeching at each other; I wouldn't be surprised if it's not permanent damage." She told all 4 lads at the same time .

Harry, Ginny and Neville were the first to join the bus, so thankfully they got the back seat. Seamus and Dean both clambered on the bus and sat down in the seats in front of the others. The Gryffindor's and Ravenclaws were to be sharing a bus, while the Hufflepuff's and Slytherin's would be sharing another. Soon enough the bus was almost full, Lavender had sat down at the front; Pavarti had went to sit down next to her but she had been shooed away by Lavender's croaky voice, which Harry actually found amusing, and was now sat behind her with her twin sister. Luna had joined them on the back row and both head's of house were sat up front. Now the only people that were left was the prefects. Harry was in deep conversation with Ginny, while Luna and Neville were chatting casually with Seamus and Dean. Ginny and Dean were both still ignoring each other, and as far as Harry was concerned they weren't on speaking terms either. However, everyone was getting pretty restless as they wanted to get to Whitby. Eventually Harry noticed the Hufflepuff prefects round the corner and join the other bus. Soon followed by the Ravenclaw prefects which joined there bus. The Slytherin's were next. Then Hermione and Ron came into view, Harry though he saw there lips moving and hoped with all heart that they weren't arguing; that would make this holiday even more intense. He noticed Ginny watching out the window and she seemed to be bitting her lip. However, as they both drew closer Harry and Ginny both noticed Hermione was laughing. Lavender also seemed to notice as she frowned and then turned around again to chat to Pavarti.

Hermione entered the bus followed by Ron, he immediately notice Lavender with her back to him so he quickly made his way down the isle and sat down on the last seat remaining on the back row, next to were Hermione had just sat. Suddenly the bus made a loud noise, meaning the engine had started, the doors swung shut, Lavender turned round looking panicky then noticed Ron sat at the back.

"Won-Won" she shrilled making most people look up, she then pointed at the empty seat next to her. He sighed, getting up he also whispered something in Hermione's ear which made her giggle again, and Harry saw Lavender turn slightly red. Harry turned to Hermione and mouthed

"You two friends again?" and she nodded simply.

"Ronald Weasley, how dare you move from your seat, this is a moving vehicle and you could seriously hurt yourself. You're a prefect you should no better, sit down at once" came Professor McGonagall's voice. Lavender's face grew even redder as Ron give her a sympathetic look then sat back down next to Hermione.

After half an hour Professor McGonagall stood up very slowly and carefully, then turned to the students.

"Now everybody; you will be in partners for the majority of this trip. The only time you won't be is when you have free time. We have created a list of names and your partners. Harry Potter you will be paired with Pavarti Patill, Neville Longbottom you will be paired with Lavender Brown, Ronald Weasley you will be paired with Hermione Granger…"

Harry had never seen anyone give a death stare as big as the one Lavender gave Hermione when it was announced she would be paired with Ron; luckily Hermione just ignored it and carried on chatting. Ginny was paired with some guy from her year, as was Luna. Both Seamus and Dean were paired with Ravenclaw girls since there was more girl than boys in there house and more boys in Gryffindor.

"I have putting you into pairs of boy/girl because boys will often mess around when placed together, as girls seem to just gossip instead of paying attention. The room arrangements will be just the same as Hogwarts. Meaning you will be sharing a room with the people you share with back at Hogwarts." She finished then sat back down in her seat.

It took them about 5 hours to reach there final destination, although to the pupils it only seemed like 5 minutes. As they pulled up outside the hotel Professor McGonagall got up to speak once again.

"Now remember this is a Muggle city, we will only be visiting the Wizarding part once during this trip, so please do not do any magic." She said, Harry wanted to tell her that Whitby wasn't technically a city, yet he thought it inappropriate and kept his thoughts to himself as the 6 of them pilled of the bus last.