A/N: Ok Thank you for your reviews. We are at least getting somewhere with that. SOOO…(') PENGUIN!!!! I want to dedicate this chapter to Gunther123!!! Woo! Woohoo! Gunther123 has reviewed several times and has given the first suggestions towards the story… may Gunther123 be an example and I hope you all will follow suit!!!
Anyway… I NEED NAMES!!!!!!!! I don't care what they are even if they are STUPID!!!! Remember something smart and clever sounding… That was a bit oxymoronic… DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW!!!!!! Now please enjoy the 7th chapter to 'Live, Laugh, Love'…
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I OWN HARRY POTTER!!!! I FINALY BOUGHT A PIECE OF THE FRANCHISE!!! AWESOME! Okay no I didn't =( I don't own any of Harry Potter. WHAT?! You didn't buy Harry Potter?!? Where's my $5 then?!?!?! If I had enough money to do that I'd but a laptop…so I could write Chapters EVERYWHERE! But I can wish all I want about owning Harry Potter and it is never going to actually happen…
When we last left our beloved characters: The golden trio signed chocolate frog cards for two little boys. And after searching online for information on Hermione's Parental Units, to no avail, the group returned to their suite for some rest.
They woke up late the next morning, except Harry who had gone and gotten some donuts for his two best friends and Ginny. Ron was surprisingly the next to wake up. He got ready for the day and entered to find Harry watching the muggle television, eating a donut. He too grabbed a donut from a box lying on the coffee table by the couch and sat silently next to his friend.
After a few minutes of watching Ron interrupted. "What exactly are we watching?"
"Eh? I think it's called Nightlight or something…"
"Well this is stupid! Vampires don't sparkle! Who was the idiot that thought of this?!"
Harry didn't respond but grunted in agreement, before changing the channel.
Hermione and Ginny both stirred a few minutes later. Noises could be heard from the room that the girls shared. The door clicked open and in the doorway stood a sleepy looking Hermione. She rubbed her eyes before speaking.
"Can I use your guys' shower? Ginny is going to use ours," she said. Ron could tell that she was still not fully awake. Both boys nodded in approval.
"Yeah go ahead, Ron and I are already set for the day. Donuts are waiting for you when you get out," Harry said to Hermione.
She turned around into the room she and Ginny were sharing, only to appear moments later with a towel and clothes in her arms. She entered the boys' room and closed the door behind her, shortly after the water being turned on. Hermione came out of Harry and Ron's room ten minutes later, dressed but not completely ready. Afterward Ginny came out of the girls' room fully dressed and ready to go. Hermione went into her room and finished up getting ready before emerging. They each grabbed a donut before leaving for a nearby library, Hermione secretly wishing that it had been easier to find her parents.
While at the library, Hermione continued searching for her parents, looking for information online and about nearby dentistry offices. After awhile of searching Ron thought of something.
"Hey Hermione?"
"What Ronald?" she said testily, though she was not frustrated at him but at the fact that she couldn't find anything on 'Monica and Wendell Wilkins'.
"I know I don't know much about muggles, but would you be able to find their phone number and address in the teley-phone book?" he asked, ignoring her anger and trying to answer nicely and supportively.
At the mention of this from Ron, Hermione leapt from the roller chair, which sped backwards hitting a muggle in the knees hard making the muggle cry out in pain. She grabbed him around the neck just she had the night of the battle, just a few months earlier. During this happening a lot of noise was made and the four of them got stern looks from a nearby librarian, while the muggle who had been hit by the chair limped to the checkout isle.
"Ronald Weasley you are the most brilliant wizard I know. Why didn't I think of that before?" she said while Ron looked straight at her, beaming.
"Well do we want to check it out? They may not be in there but, I sure hope they are."
Harry went and found a telephone book and began slowly flipping through the pages, one at a time. Ginny, who had quickly become impatient, took the phone book from him and in a matter of seconds found one address and phone number that belonged to a Monica and Wendell Wilkins. Hermione quickly became very excited.
"Mione. Why don't you get a teley-phone and call them?" Ron suggested.
"You think I should? I don't know. Maybe they're happy where they are at. I don't want to make them unhappy by having them find out they have a daughter," she said much less excited before, the smile on her face fading.
"Hermione," Ron said putting his hands on her cheeks, forcing her to look him in the eyes, "Weren't your parents proud when you got your letter?" Hermione nodded, "They loved you then and they still love you, they just don't know it, well because you made them not know it. Hermione, they're your parents. You need to do this."
"It may not even be them; I mean it is Sydney, Australia. I mean there have got to be loads of people with similar names, right? And well Mum and Dad haven't been gone that long. Is a year really that long?"
"Hermione stop talking and call them," Ron said gently yet firmly. She nodded.
They exited the main part of the library to find a lobby with a pay phone. After inserting a few coins Hermione held the phone to her ear before dialing the number. A buzzing noise followed. After a moment the phone was picked up and answered.
"Hello, Monica speaking. May I ask who is calling?" the voice asked. At the sound of her mother's voice, the phone slipped out of her hand and dangled at the end of the line. The small voice could be heard saying, "Hello? Is anyone there? Hello?"
Hermione just stood there, staring into nothingness.
"Hermione are you all right?" Harry asked carefully laying a hand on her shoulder. Hermione swallowed and nodded.
"It was- it's my- mum."
Ron nodded. "Yeah Mione. It is."
At this simple comment from Ron, which made no sense to the others, she picked up the phone just before hearing a click on the other side of the line. Her smile faded from her face and tears could be seen forming in her eyes. The phone was dropped once more. Hermione threw her arms around Ron's neck before bursting into tears.
"Mione, it's okay," Ron cooed, "We have there address, we will just have to pay them a visit."
She looked up into Ron's big ocean blue eyes sniffed and nodded. Hermione wiped away a tear from her eye and took a quill and a piece of parchment from her beaded bag, scribbling the address of her parents quickly on it.
Before she finished a man came into the building and began staring at the two redheads, the boy with a weird looking scar, and the sniffling, bushy haired girl with a feather in her hand. He stepped forward to say something to her before Ron got up in his face and told him to, "Buzz off." He quickly went inside and told the front desk something that the trio and Ginny couldn't hear. A security guard came out of the main part of the library and confronted them.
"Ma'am, are you okay? Are they bugging you?" he asked. Ron stood between Hermione and the man, not trusting him.
"We're fine thank you," he growled. He didn't like the security guard, something was odd about him.
"I want to hear that from her. Miss, are you okay?" he called around Ron.
"Yes I'm fine. Ron back down," she said. Upon this request he backed up and grabbed Hermione by the hand before pulling her out of the library, with Harry and Ginny in tow.
"Ronald! What was up with that?!" Hermione asked stopping Ron in his tracks. He turned around.
"What?"
"Why did you confront him? He was only checking to see if I was okay. And why did you tell that man to 'Buzz off'?"
"The man was staring at you like you were a freak Hermione! You were crying while writing with a quill. Muggle don't use quills any more, according to Dad."
"But why did you confront the security guard?!"
"Number one: He accused us of hurting you!"
"He did not Ronald! He was seeing if I was okay! He did a perfectly reasonable thing and-"
"Everything is about reason and logic to you isn't it!? Did you ever stop and think that maybe logic isn't all that logical?"
"Ron now you don't know what you're saying-."
"Maybe so, but I'm not accusing you of hurting anyone!"
Harry and Ginny's heads bobbed back and forth, trying to follow the argument going on before them. Ginny turned to Harry and whispered, "Are you following any of this?" Harry only responded with a shake of his head still watching the bickering pair.
"Ron he didn't accuse you of anything!"
"Okay so asking you if we were bugging you isn't accusing?!"
"No!"
"Oh really?"
"Yes!"
"Fine, but he still was odd!"
"How so!?"
"I don't know I only wanted to protect you!!!" he yelled before slouching to the ground, "Harry has always been the one to save and protect people; The Hero! What if he hadn't stopped You-Know-Who six or how ever many times it was!? What if he hadn't saved Ginny in second year or Dad in fifth or me in sixth? Half of my family owes him their lives. The whole world owes him their lives. "
Harry interrupted the two, "Ron, your family and the whole world owes me nothing. You owe me nothing. You saved my life remember? You helped kill the Horcruxes. You helped kill Voldemort, you won the chess game, you helped in the Department of Mysteries. I didn't actually kill Voldemort, his lack of knowledge and ignorance killed him. Plus I should really owe your family, on account of them taking me in," Harry told him.
"Ron you're the hero. Harry couldn't have done any of it without you. You were there for him when very few others were," Ginny said trying, for once, to help her brother. Hermione nodded in agreement.
"Ron, listen to us. We know what we are talking about when we say these things," she said standing and helping Ron up, "Now how 'bout we go and find my parents?"
A/N Key: In the A/Ns, bold is me, Lil' Llama, and italics are my Story Collaborator, LlamaiiiiXlovesXSeddie. Who is totally awesome. Oh Shush. =P
A/N: How was that? I think it was a little short, not a whole lot happened... but good none-the-less, but if you disagree…or agree…REVIEW!!!!! Come on Guys!!! I need the readers input! You don't get that with any other type of 'book'! Only on FanFiction does the writer ask for story ideas from the readers! This is why I am writing chapters one or two at a time and then posting them, not writing the whole thing then posting it! So pleeeease review? And I need names!!! Anyway, now that I'm finished begging on my knees… Do you guys picture the actors (and actresses) now? I can see it a bit more… I have been watching the movies over and over from our DVR and getting a good idea of the personality, more so than reading it off of Harry Potter Wiki…Thanks to those who have reviewed (which includes a total of seven people, one being my co-author) That's Me! =D Oh! And before I forget… I want to thank R.W. plus me for letting me use some ideas from one their stories. Yay for R.W. plus me! THANKS!!!
