Author's note: These characters belong to J.K. Rowling.

Chapter Two: A Place For The Summer

While the rest of the school was discussing how they did on their N.E.W.T.s, Harry had a more pressing question on his mind - where he was going to stay for the summer? He certainly wasn't going back to the Dursleys, and Ron said that the Burrow was just too crowded, "Sorry, mate".

This predicament did not last long, however, for a day after Ron had told him he could not go to the Burrow, Harry had a great idea. He raced to McGonagall's, the acting principal's office.

"MayIplzsteaforthasammir?"

"Harry, calm down, and say that about five times slower".

"May I please stay for the summer?".

''Well, I don't see why not".

So, it did seem that Harry had "A place for the summer", but only for a few days.

Harry, Ron and Hermione were sitting in the tower when they heard it. "Grawpy, come back!" They all raced outside, wands in hand. Sure enough, the giant was racing around the area by Hagrid's Hut, Hagrid in pursuit.

"Can we help?" Harry asked fretfully.

"Yeah!" Hagrid yelled over Grawp's stomping. "Just need to nip him back in the forest! Aragog's great niece, Arachne, was both - "

"HERMY!" Grawp picked Hermione up in his giant fist.

"'AAUGH!" Hermione yelled. She started to try every spell she knew short of Avada Kedavra on the giant, but nothing worked.

"Grawp's fist flailed, knocking over the Gryffindor Tower, fortunately, nobody was in it, everybody had already gone to breakfast.

"Uh-oh". Grawp finally set Hermione down as he went to try to fix the tower. Alas, all his clumsy hands could do was break the fallen tower into two clumsy pieces. A bed fell out of the wreckage.

Grawp, looking dejected, sulked back into the forest.

It took until lunch for Harry to realize what the Gryffindor Tower's destruction meant - that he couldn't stay for the summer. At first, he'd just been relieved that the tower could grow back magically and that it would definitely be grown back by next year's start. It was the second to last day, so Gryffindors could sleep in the Great Hall for one night.

While in sleeping bags in the Great Hall, Harry recounted this series of mishaps to Hermione.

"Hmm…" Hermione said after he was done. "I'll think it over". In fact, Hermione did have one of her great ideas, but she decided against saying it lest Harry get too excited and wake everybody.

At the same place next morning , this time while eating breakfast, Harry brought up the subject again.

"Well?", he asked. "Have you thought about it yet?"

"As a matter of fact", Hermione said, "I have an answer for you".

"What is it?"

"Well, I talked about it with my parents and they said it was OK if you stayed with us over the summer. Apparently, they want to get 'better acquainted' with you".

"Really? That's AWESOME!"

Harry was jubilant - Hermione thought he looked ready to throw a parade celebrating her and her parent's decision. This summer was going to be an interesting one.

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