I don't own Harry Potter, or anything from that universe, the AMAZING Joanne Rowling does. I cannot claim ownership of any of it :'(


I woke up refreshed, and it was only 6am! I was surprised to find that I had a few letters waiting for me at the windowsill, but I expected to get replies, yes, just not that quickly.

The first letter was from my brother.

Dear Rory,

Kitty insists on sleeping in your bed still, and she misses you already. I'm going to send your present along on Thursday Evening because I don't think I'll have time on Friday. Besides, I'm not sure Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon would allow it. They hate when I send Hedwig out, in fact, I wasn't allowed to let her out of the cage at all last summer! Until, course, Ron, Fred and George came in the car, and you know the rest. Glad to see you're doing well! Hope you don't have to join me and the Dursleys too soon.

Your brother,

Harry.

The second was a reply from Luna.

Aurora,

Make sure the nargles don't steal your presents before Friday or in France either. Father says that there are many nargles in France this time of year. I'm also going to send you some spectrespecs along later, so you can see the wrackspurts in people's brains. They're quite fun, plus you can see people who don't want to be seen. You never know what you'll find! It's a shame that Hermione's house isn't connected to the floo network really, because I'd love for you to come over later this week. Is there any way you could come? Please reply soon, even with all the wildlife here, it can get terribly boring very quickly.

Your friend,

Luna.

That was sweet of her. Now I thought about it, it would be possible for me to go visit her. Of course, I'd have to take the knight bus both ways, but that was okay. Maybe on Thursday? That was in the middle of our birthdays. After I had read the rest of my letters, I would reply, telling her that.

The third letter was from Neville.

Aura,

I'm glad you wrote to me earlier, otherwise I would have worried that you had gotten yourself into trouble again. Not long till you're 12 now, is it? I would write more, but Gran thinks I'm asleep. I don't want her finding out that I'm not. Please keep me updated.

Neville

The fourth and final letter was from my three older sisters.

Rory,

Hope you're doing well, Aunt Debbie was so pleased to hear that we found our other sisters, but she didn't have much time to chat, she's got far too many children to look after. Uncle Toby tries to help, but he has too much work to do. Mum doesn't even consider helping, and she lives with us! She never looked after us very well either, but at least Aunt Debbie does her best. I'm glad we live with her. Debbie is genuinely sorry that you couldn't come live with us, but she can barely cope as it is. It's quite obvious at who got all the motherly genes in the generation above us, we managed to find Chris on the train home, but she said no. The invitation's still open to you, though. Reply soon.

Lexi, Buffy, and Bella.

It was very sweet of them all to write, and I decided to reply after breakfast, when I would ask about the visits on Wednesday and Thursday. I was sure it would be okay, though. But between 6am and breakfast, I could reply to Neville, informing him about the visit Luna and I had planned, and inviting him too. Well, we were all best friends, so it would be fine with Luna, I was sure of it.

Neville,

Don't go sneaking around your Gran's back just to write to me! I'm not worth you risking getting into trouble with her. On the positive side, I've been invited to Luna's on Thursday, so, do you want to come too? I'm sure it would be okay with Luna, so if your Gran says yes, I'll owl you will the details. Well, Hermione should be waking up soon, and hopefully you'll get this before long, so owl me back as soon as you can.

Aurora Potter

I was right. Not five minutes after I had sent Quinn along with the letter, Hermione did wake up. Well, sort of. She was awake, but she was tired, so she stayed in bed for a while.

"Hi, Hermione. Sleep well?"

"No, not really, but it will all be better soon. In a while, mum and dad will be up, anyway. Mum's probably up already; she has to go to work this morning. That's how it normally works, they alternate shifts, so they don't have to leave me alone for too long. Obviously there's time when they're swapping over, so I'm alone then. When I was little, they would take me along for their change of shifts, so I wouldn't be alone for a second. Apparently, when I went there as a toddler, all the other staff there would pick me up, take me away and show me off. I was a cute baby." She seemed happy to reminisce about that, and she smiled.

"You sound like you were a very loved child." I said.

"Yeah. Of course, school was different. I was one of the only children who insisted on bringing her book to the playground. I didn't really... fit in with the muggles. I guess I know why now. "

"It was almost always just Christabelle and I when we were in primary school. It was more of the fact that I didn't fit in. She would have, but I just needed her. I did have a few friends, though, but the only one who was almost my best friend died tragically after being hit by a car... the car which also hit Chris, but she was only put into in a coma. I however, wasn't so lucky. I saw it all. Not pretty." I shuddered at the memory. I didn't like bringing it up very much. In fact, other than my mentioning it to Luna in my first year of Hogwarts, this was the first time I had brought it up in conversation since I was either 8 or 9.

Hermione understood that it was a touchy subject, so she tried to think of a good subject that we could change the conversation to. To do this, she first got up, and put her dressing gown on.

After a short while of silence, Hermione finally seemed to have something to say. "What about if we go downstairs for a while? I mean, we can have breakfast or something and just... well, relax. We can read or watch a film or see if there's anything good on TV, which I doubt seeing as it's just after 6am. We could even go for a walk if we were having one of those lovely insane moments."

I smiled. She had succeeded at cheering me up.

We went downstairs, and we each had a bowl of cereal. I didn't always have breakfast, but for some reason, I was craving cereal that morning.

I really couldn't wait much longer to ask about the trips to see my friends and my sisters over the following 2 days, so I was relieved when both Mr and Mrs Granger came into the kitchen.

"Um, excuse me, I know this is terribly last minute, but I've been invited out to see friends and family tomorrow and Thursday, and I was wondering if I could go. I can get myself there and back, and Hermione can come too, so I don't have to leave her alone. But, you see, I need to know now so that I can owl back Buffy, Bella and Lexi for tomorrow, and my friend Luna for Thursday. Tomorrow, I'd be meeting my aunt for the first time, and Thursday I'd be celebrating both mine and one of my best friends' birthdays, so, you see, they're hard for me to miss. I only found out this morning."

Mr and Mrs Granger looked at each other for a moment, pondering whether I could go or not. Finally, after a minute or so of silent deliberating, Mrs Granger finally spoke up.

"Well, I don't see why not, but you'll have to call us when you arrive at these places and before you leave, so we know you're safe, of course. And you're right; I would like Hermione to go with you. That is, of course, if you want to. I won't force you to, honey."

"No, its fine, I don't mind." Hermione said. "But are you sure it's okay with your sisters and Luna?" She asked me.

"I don't know... but, if it isn't, I will make it okay, Hermione."

"I wouldn't want to impose..."

"Hermione, don't worry! You won't be! Now, if you'll all excuse me, I have some friends that I need to send letters to."


Well, yeah, that's it. School tomorrow, and I'm in the middle of my homework. Please review so I know that my time was not wasted. I'll keep it pretty short, and quick. I'll be going over the trips, but skipping the rest of the holidays. We'd all be bored to tears if I went over France and everything over the summer holidays.

Also, on a completely unrelated subject, I have this friend, who I really don't want to be friends with anymore, but it's so hard not to be friends with her. What should I do?

Thank you.

Review away :)

Kaisha :)