No, I won't do Ron bashing. He is one of characters I like actually...but Herimone I don't like for some reason. She isn't open enough for me...there is a reason why Luna is my favorite character. So, there is Mione bashing! Warning! (also because I am tired of only Ron getting bashed and Hermione looking like an angel).

The Burrow

"He's" George said.

"Arrived!" Fred said.

"Oh, you must be James. Welcome to our home. Ginny just can't stop talking about you, you know." Ginny went red at this. "Of course, the twins are talking about training you. Please be a good influence on them." Ron and Percy snorted. "Do you have a cold?" Mrs. Weasley said sharply. Percy and Ron stopped and stood deadly still. "I'm Mrs. Weasley, and I trust you know the others."

"Yes Mam." James replied. "I am friends with Ginny and the twins, I really don't know Ron all of that much, and I meet Percy occasionally in the halls."

"Yes, you get in more trouble than the twins, yet we can't pin any of it on you!" Percy complained. "Made my head boy year a nightmare I tell you. It was enough having the twins."

"Percy, stop being a prat!" The twins chorused.

"Yeah, James is a decent guy, once you get to know him." Fred said,

"He just has a bad reputation." George said.

"So, dinner anyone?" James began heading to the kitchen.

"Dear, you don't have to do that." Mrs. Weasley said.

"No, I am a guest. Besides, I do like to cook." James said. After his lovely meal, he got Ron to join his side. Something about if he made food that good, he couldn't be evil. Percy was mad he had one less follower, since Mr. Weasely seemed to like him as well (and his muggle information, which he willingly shared). Then he went to the twins, "What have you been doing this summer? Any new inventions?"

"Well, you do know us," The twins said, "and you would never sell us out. Plus you have cake."

"So this is how you guys got to be friends. I always wondered how you did the stuff you do. I never knew my brothers were that devious!" Ginny exclaimed.

"Well, what did you think we did during the summer with all the explosions?" The twins asked.

"I just thought you liked the noise." Ginny answered.

The next day, the whole group went to diagon alley. "Second-hand shops okay with you dear?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"I'm a scholarship student. I need to go to second-hand shops. It should be cheaper this year." James remarked as he looked on his book list. "Maybe I can get new glasses this year...I'll just convert the gallons to pounds. They are probably more cheaper in the muggle world."

"I can't believe I lost Scabbers. I know how I always complained he was a useless pet, but he's been gone for days." Ron moaned. Scabbers was gone even before James was there. He was disappointed. "He wasn't looking so good before he was missing. I hope he isn't dead."

"Ron, how nice to see you!" Granger chirped. James hated her with a passion, but Ron, Ron seemed to have a crush on her for reasons unknown to him. She always thought authority was right, she always accepted things in books, and she never questioned things: all things James hated concentrated into a single person. Also, the love of the Headmaster also played a role in that assessment as well. At least Ron questioned authority and the things he read in books, unlike miss annoying-reciting-bookworm. "Why is he with you?" She sneered.

"Nice to meet you to Granger." James said coldly back.

"What is wrong with you?" Ron asked to Granger.

"What? You do remember what he did, or did it slip your mind?" Granger asked.

"He's not that bad, Hermione. He was nice to us all the time he was here. He even cooked." Ron said surprisingly. James wasn't expecting a defense out of Ron. Maybe he was better than he thought. "You should give him a chance."

"A chance, huh? He's already invaded Gryffindor...what's next, Slytherin? He is undermining the whole house system." Granger stated or recited from the Headmaster.

"My Slytherin friend I think is still pending..." James answered.

"No, I guess I am your friend." Granger looked shocked at Draco's words. "We got along at the Longbottom Ball."

"What he means to say is that there weren't that many decent people there..." James interuppted. The twins snickered.

"Anyway, I was looking for you. Do you know where to find the muggle studies textbook?" Draco asked. The whole Weasely family was silent, while Mr. Weasely was clapping.

"Oh, it is just in this shop over here." Mr. Weasley directed Draco to a small bookstore with books on muggles. "So, where is your father?"

"My father wouldn't approve of me taking muggle studies." Draco said as he went in the bookstore and out of sight.

"Didn't see that one coming." Ron said.

The twins burst out in laughter. "How?"

"Did you?"

"Get him?"

"To take muggle studies?"

James replied, "It was Neville's idea."

"Always the quiet ones, always the quiet ones." The twins muttered.