THE VANISHING GLASS:

"BREAKFAST!" Ron's mom shouted.

Ron grumbled and stood up from his bed at the sound of food. He slowly descended the stairs, sitting down at his usual wooden chair next to his sister, Ginny.

"Morn', Ron." Ginny said yawning.

"mone, 'In." Ron said groggily. Ginny rolled her eyes, and served herself some eggs. Ron took some after her, and slapped the them in between the two pieces of toast he had. He gulped down a bite, before bill asked for the juice. Ron grumbled again and was about to push the pitcher over before he heard someone yell

"It's gone! Where'd it go!" bill shouted.

"dear, what's gone?" their mom asked.

"my glass! Where'd it go? I just had it! Just barely…and then it vanished!" bill was also tired, he was a little grumpy, too.

"my, well, ron, did you do that?" their mom asked. Ron only shrugged. How was he supposed to know.

"'might have, I didn't want to pass the juice." Ron said.

His mom raised her eyebrow.

"What?" he asked defensively. "I'm tired."

"no, your lazy." His mom corrected. "you, Ginny, fred, and George better de-gnome the garden today, or there's no lunch for you." She said as a punishment.

Ron, Ginny , Fred, and George grumbled.

"your lunch, not mine." Their mom said. "Charlie, bill, and Percy, you've got to do the laundry."

The three other boys only nodded. "now, see, why couldn't you be more like them?" their mom asked.

The four youngest trudged into the deathly hotness of summer.

Fred and George finally brightened up, "hey, I bet you a knut, I can throw this little git over that fence over there." Fred put up a competition.

"your on." Ron said. As Fred swung, Ron stared at the gnome so hard his eyes might have fallen out. He willed it to stop and come back about ten feet. It did so, only it came back about 5 feet and landed just before the fence.

"Dang it!" Fred said.

"cough it up!" Ron said holding out his hand. Fred dug through his pocket and found a small knut. Ron smiled and placed it in his own pocket.

They all swung and threw the poor little gnomes over the fence, before a visitor came.

"Ron! You've got a letter!" his mom's voice shouted from the house.

Ron bolted inside to see the letter in her hand. It had green writing was addressed to him

Mr. R Weasley

The attic under the goul

The burrow

Ottery ST. Catchpole

Devon, England

Ron's insides jumped.