The three Russo's were held in a strange dilemma the truth was they didn't enjoy it in Hogwarts. Alex hated her house and wanted to go home to Dean but she really liked her new friends (although every time she looked at Hermione she felt guilty). They all liked that they were taught new and interesting spells and potions and that they could use them wherever they wanted inside the castle but they missed their dad teaching them. They missed their family and they wanted to see their grandfather. They just wanted to go home.
"Max?" Asked Ginny, "Is everything alright?"
"No" he replied, "I think I have to go home."
The young wizards wrote a letter back to their parents saying:
Mom and Dad,
We want to come home. We miss you, we hate it here and we are really worried about Granddad. Please let us come home.
Alex, Justin and Max.
They waited for a reply for days with no luck. Each day they became more nervous and anxious. Until one not so very special day a letter came through Justin's owl:
Alex, Justin and Max,
Of course you can come home, we miss you too. We will send a letter to the headmaster today and pick you up as soon as possible.
Mom and Dad
They smiled at the letter and saw Dumbledore open a letter of his own. He nodded and looked at the children he nodded at them too. He then turned to Ms McGonagall and whispered something her ear. She stood up and walked towards the children. "Professor Dumbledore wishes to see you after breakfast, he doesn't care what lesson you have. He likes liquorish snaps." She rolled her eyes and walked back to her place.
After the longest breakfast the children had ever had they walked to the headmasters office. Justin smiled at the door and announced "Liquorish Snaps." Alex raised her eyebrows at him but they fell again once the door started to revolve and they jumped onto the ascending steps. When they reached a door at the top they hoped off of the steps and onto a ledge with a door leading to the office. When they knocked on the door the Headmaster shouted "Enter."
The room was huge. It had pictures of every headmaster the school had ever had. There were thousands of ornaments and strange objects dotted around the room. Including the Sorting Hat. He suddenly said "I think I should have put you in Gryffindor, Alex." and went straight back to sleep.
The headmaster shook his head and laughed. His face became very serious and he said "I know of your circumstances and I am disappointed to say I am letting you return to your parents. I will only ask this once and I will take your answer as your final. Are you sure you wish to leave?"
Max, Alex and Justin all said "Yes."
He nodded "I have arranged for the train to take you back to platform nine and three quarters and have alerted your parents of this. Tonight you must say a final farewell to your friends." A strange twinkle came into his eye, "I have learnt that all of your friends are actually in fact in Gryffindor. Is this correct?"
They all nodded, "Then it would be a shame if you Alex and Justin couldn't say good bye to them wouldn't it?" He smiled, "Only this once will I allow you all to go in the Gryffindor common room. I will alert the other teachers for you." Alex had the sudden urge to hug the old man but resisted. "Go then." He smiled. They did have to go to their lessons for the rest of day though, to their annoyance.
When all three entered the Gryfindor common room a party had already begun and everyone knew that the Russo's were leaving. None of them were phased when they came in the room but turned the music up. After a few hours the party was winding down. Max had grabbed Ginny and was talking to her. After a few minuets he kissed her and he smiled she looked dazed and tried to explain something to him but Alex couldn't work out what it was. Max smiled sadly and went up to his room. "I better go." Announced Alex and Justin agreed. As she was going to walk out Ron ran to her and she kissed him on the cheek, "See you soon Ron."
She then left and his cheeks were the same colour as his freckles. Justin turned to Hermione, he tried to say something but couldn't find anything to say. He then said "I'm gonna miss you." she smiled and said "And I you. I always thought Americans to be brash idiots but you…"
Justin looked kind of hurt but happy it was a strange combination mixed up, with lust. "And I though English people were stuck up brats…" Her eyebrows raised as he left the sentence hanging. "Justin…"
He froze, she looked so angry. "What I'm trying to say is… I'm trying to… I'm trying to make you angry so this is easier for both of us but I really want to kiss you right now." her face softened and he looked shocked he had never said that kind of thing before. She leaned into his face and he into hers they had a long kiss knowing they would probably never see each other again. He left not noticing Ron's sudden hatred of him.
The next morning everyone waited at the platform newt to the school to wave goodbye. Before they got on Justin gave Hermione a last kiss and jumped onto the train. The train started rolling away and they realised there were tears on their cheeks and on all their friends cheeks too. They were silent on the way back even more so than usual.
When they arrived their parents were waiting to take them home a tearful hello took over them. They got on the flying carpet and flew home thinking only of their new friends they had left and old friends they were going back to.
Thank you for reading hope you enjoyed the last episode (yes it is finished GwenFan22)! I'm sorry I leave some things open but I wasn't sure if Alex and Dean stay together much longer. I've changed some areas of certain chapters (nothing too horrific) thanks to the con crit I got from satoz. Please keep commenting!
