Chapter 10: Wisdom of the Heart
Disclaimer: Oh, Gosh, not again, they are not mine. No, believe me, they aren't ¬¬
Author's Note: Now we go… 6 months forward :) Nothing important has happened during those times, so don't worry :) You won't miss a thing ^_^ Now, this is dedicated to,obviously, Debbie, all of my readers and my wonderful beta reader, who, even though she hasn't corrected this chap, is always doing it, so thank you! Oh, and by the way… Katie, are you ok? Don't you reciebe my mails? Strange! :p
Sorry if there's ANY mistakes, it's just that my beta didn't sent my this chapter (corrected) and I didn't want to make you wait any longer! :)
BEFORE I FORGET! MERRY X MAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! HAPPY 2003!!!!!!! YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DID YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME? I DID! IT WAS MY FIRST XMAS AND NEW YEAR CELEBRATION ON WINTER, BUT IT WAS REALLY COOL! WHAT DID YOU GET FOR X MAS? I GOT A CD, CLOTHES, SOME THINGS TO DECORATE MY ROOM AND A PORTARETRATO (THAT THING WERE YOU PUT YOUR PICTURE, DUNNO HOW IT IS CALLED IN ENGLISH) I HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD TIME! :)
JeRu: Hola Jeru! Sos de Chile? Yo soy de Argentina! Pero ahora estoy viviendo en España (o sorpresa) Vos de que parte de Chile sos? Yo siempre estoy ligada con Chile! Tengo un gran amigo mio que (llego este año a Buenos Aires) y entro en mi colegio y yo me hize re amiga de el! Y aca tengo una amiga que es chilena por parte de madre, y que ahora mismo esta en tu pais! Y antes tambien tenia una amiga chilena.. siempre estoy ligada con Chile! Me alegra que te guste la historia, pero no te pongas nerviosa, que calculo que el final te va a gustar :)
Jake I: Sorry it took me YEARS to update! But here's the chap, so enjoy! And I can't answer your question, sorry :) But it would reveal the whole ending! :)
Potty For Potter: Ooooh! You are good at french? I would love to study french! As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to start next year or so… who knows! :) Oh! And if you want to know ANYTHING in Spanish, just let me know! :) I also found Molly and Arthur lovely, although… in the books. In the movie Molly was great… but I didn't like Arthur :( Well, I'll leave you alone now! Disfrutá el capitulo! (Enjoy the chapter!)
ronniekins8: Hi you crazy! I'm about to answer your e-mail now :) I hope you had a nice time in Las Vegas.. I always wanted to go there! You are sooo lucky! Anyways, I'll tell you this in my e-mail! Update soon your fic! And let me know! :) Ooh, and as for your question, well, I wrote "Peter is just to dangerous… and Sirius as well" just because Sirius can't be let alone with Peter P. because he hates him sooo much that, if he was left alone with Wormtail, he would kill him in two seconds. That's why :) Hope you understood my explanaition… :P
headgirl: Here's chapter 10!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Mijuju: Hi there! :) I think that if I were in Hermione's position, I would also do the same ^_^ I mean, I wouldn't be able to forgive the father of my baby… at least not so soon :P So I'm an awsome writer? Thanks! *Blushes * Enjoy the chap! :)
Queen of the Jungle: Hi there! Glad you liked chapter 9! As for your question… it's not "hasta manara" but it's "Hasta Mañana" and it means "Until tomorrow" we say that when someone goes to bed, instead of saying "Good Night" (in spanish it would be "Buenas Noches" we use both of them, Buenas Noches and Hasta Mañana) we also say "Until Tomorrow". Understood? I hope so!! Tell me if you didn't :) And if you have more spanish questions.. let me know! :) Kissex!
Silver Dragon Princess: Hi there! Here's the new chapter! Although, you said that you felt sorry for Hermione, 'cause her baby won't have a father… maybe it will, maybe it won't :) You'll have to wait and see :) Kissex! Oh! Have one question for you! Didn't you have a fic which was called "Fallin'" and it was about Hermione being pregnant? If it was yours… you HAVE to continue it! I loved it! :)
Well, people, now… chapter 10!!!!!
Enjoy and don't forget to review! :)
ML
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Dear Ron:
How are things going? I hope they are fine. I've heard about you the other day, you are the new sensation in Australia? I couldn't help but smile when I saw the Daily Prophet the other day, and I read your answers. Gosh, Ron. Ginny was crying from laughter. You sure knew how to shut that reporter up!
Things here are pretty much the same. Nothing out of the normal. Oh! Yes! I know you may have heard it, but I'm telling you this, just in case. Sirius is oficially free! Yes! He was set officially free last week! They finnaly put Wormtail in Azkaban, and the Dementors will kiss him in about two weeks. Sirius couldn't be more happy, although Remus doesn't seam to happy. I know why. It gives me the creeps to know that the dementors are going to kiss him. And I remember that even when we thought that Sirius was guilty (on our third year) I once talked to him, and he didn't agree with the Dementor's Kiss… even though we didn't talk to much about it, you could see he didn't agree with that.
To tell you the truth, I don't know either. I'm happy for Sirius, because now he's officialy free, you knew that before he was free, but was in the trial, so there were lots of things he couldn't do, right? Well, , he's finnaly free now. He was so happy he even organized a party! It was the best. It was on his house, Remus and Ashley went, toghter along with Emma and Kevin! Kevin is really grown up. Can you believe it? In 3 years Emma is going to be at Hogwarts! And in 5 Kevin! Obviously, Sirius and Debbie were there, and of course Leila was there as well. Emma, Kevin and Leila are so cute! Leila and Kevin, being 7 year old, are so mischief as Sirius and Remus. Believe me.
Oh, well, back to the party. Sirius invited all of the Hogwarts teachers (believe it or not, he invited Snape either! I think he only did that to show Snape that he wasn't guilty and all that) and some of his school friends. Well, now to the good part… Sirius got drunk!! He was sooo funny! And Remus got a bit too happy! I don't think I've ever laughed so much in my whole life! Dumbledore too… a little bit, while McGonagall kept on doing sounds with her mouth, and Trelawney was looking around nerviously, with her constant paranoia face. Ohh, but Sirius and Remus were the best. What a shame you weren't there! You would have died from laughter, believe me!
Well, apart from that, here things are just normal, nothing out of the ordinary. I'm practicing a lot. Ginny is working. So are your parents. And Hermione as well…
Oh! The twins opened a new shop! This one is in Diagon Alley! They can't be more happy! Believe me! And all of the pranks they have there.. gees, it's like a paradise! Sirius is there ALL the time, well, not really, but believe me! He's the number one customer of their shop!!
Well, apart from that I don't have many things to tell you, and I have to get going now. Ginny and I are going to Diagon Alley.
Write me soon!
Love
Harry
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"Hi Hermi!"
"Hi Gin, Hi Harry!" she greeted them happily. She was sitting on a nice muggle restaurant, eating French Fries and meat. Some bags were in the chairs next to hers. Harry and Ginny put them on the floor and sat in front of Hermione.
"Eating again?" Harry asked grinning
"Can't help it" Hermione said as she took a sip of water. "I just ordered it. Why don't you order it yourself? It's really good!"
"What is it?" Ginny asked with a funny face.
"Uh… Frech Fries and meat. I recommend you to order it. Especially the meat, it's the best I've ever had in my whole life"
"Really?" Harry asked.
Hermione nodded. "It's meat from Argentina, now I understand why they say Argentina has the best meat in the whole world! It's amazing!"
"Give me a bit, I want to prove it now!" Ginny said taking the fork and grabbing a small piece of meat and french frieds. She then put it in her mouth. "Oh mm god!" she said as she eat "Whis 's 'maizing!"
"See?" Hermione said as she continued eating. Soon Harry and Ginny were eating meat and French Fries as well.
"So…" Harry started. "How are you doing, Herm?"
"Really good!" she said smiling. "I just got back from Dr. Richard's appointment… she says my baby is fine, and that there's nothing I should worry about. My last two months, she sais, are going to be great if I continue like this"
"I'm glad to hear that, Herm!" Ginny smiled at her friend.
Hermione smiled back.
"And… do you know the sex of the baby?" It was Harry's turn to ask. Hermione blushed a little bit. "Harry..! I've told you I would wait until the baby was born to know the sex..!" Her cheecks were reder now.
"Boy or Girl?" Harry asked, knowing his friend.
"Girl, I'm so happy!!" Hermione exclaimed smiling brightly.
"Oh! I'm going to have a niece!!" Ginny said jumping up, making Harry laugh. "Do you have any names yet? Have you started preparing her room? Any toys? Cloths! Oh! I want to see baby clothes! My niece's baby clothes!!"
Harry laughed. "Gin, calm down!"
"I've got the clothes!!!" Hermione exclaimed totally ignoring Harry. She grabbed the bags that Harry and Ginny had put in the floor when they arrived, and took out some baby clothes. The first one was a pink dress, with white flowers. She then took out a white, one-pieced baby pijama(A/N: I mean those things that are what babys wear the most! Well, if you don't' know… then imagine your own baby costume! :p) and then another one, the same, but in a soft pink.
"Oh they are so cute!!" Ginny exclaimed happily, grabbing the clothes Hermione was handing her.
"They are lovely, Herm" Harry said smiling.
Hermione smiled and kept on showing them what she had bought…
That night, Hermione changed herself in her purple pijamas. She was surprised she still could fit on them. Her belly was just huge. She was 7 months pregnant, and had, now, the belly of a 7 month old pregnant woman (A/N: Duh!)
Before she entered in her bed, Hermione went to the bathroom, to brush her teeth, and then went to her wardrobe. She opened it. In the door, in the inner part, she had a full body mirror. Hermione stood in front of the mirror and started looking at herself. She had changed so much in the last few months… Her morning sickness was now gone, thankfully, but her food apettite was amazing. She hadn't eaten so much in her whole life! But after all, she couldn't complain, she had had a wonderful pregnancy.
Molly, Ginny, Penelope and all of the Weasley women have been helping her, and so have the Weasley men and Harry. They all respected their desition of not telling Ron, even tough not all of them agreed with it.
Her baby was great, as the doctor had told her. It was a girl, and as the exams showed, she was a really healthy baby.
Hermione looked at herself, but only this time she did it form the side. She loved to see herself from the side, and see how big she had grown to be in the last months. She used to stay there only looking at herself, and touching her belly. Imagining the moment when her baby daughter would come out, and take her in her hands for the first time… Secretly, Hermione wanted her baby to have the Weasley hair. She would have loved to have a red-haired baby. She had always found red hair to be really atractive and cool.
To think of the tipical red hair that made the Weasleys so unique, was to think also of the father of her baby. What was he doing now? Hermione was glad he still didn't know anything about him. She was perfectly fine alone, even though sometimes she hated to sleep on an empty bed.
While Hermione entered slowly in her bed (she had to move more carefully because of her big belly) she thought of Ron, and what was he doing now.
Without even knowing it, on the other side of the World, a readheaded boy, called Ron Weasley was doing the same right now
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Author's Notes: Hi ya there! I particulary didn't like this chapter. Dunno why, but it's so.. .empty. It says nothing! But I needed to make it, because there I explain somethings about what our characters are doing now, how's Hermione, everything.
Oh! About Sirius, when you saw him (well, he didn't really appear, he was just mentioned in the story) Let me explain: Peter was captured when Harry was in his fifth year, but, what happened? The ministry of Magic had Peter in jail for some time, and that's when Sirius's trial started. But then Peter escaped, and that's when the trial was posposed. Sirius then was told that he should be under control until they found Peter. On Harry's seventh year Peter was found, and was put in jail. That's when the trial started, but then, after Harry graduated, the trial started to go slowler,until he was 20, because that's when Voldemort was defeated. The trial kept it's normal curse, and now, when they are 21 years old (Sirius is 41) the trial ended and Sirius is officialy free! :)
AUTHOR'S NOTES II, PLEASE READ!
A month ago (a month and a week, more or less) a ship, the Prestige, sinked in the coast of Galicia, a state of Spain, but that ship was an oil ship. Ever since that day, the oil has started to come out. 125 tons of oil come out of the sinken ship (which is more than 1500 meters under in the sea) Now the whole Coast of Galicia is covered with Oil (and the oil has just arrived to France, two or three days ago), lots of animal species are dying day by day, and the worst thing is that the Spanish government has done nothing usefull about this. Lots of people are depressed, lots of them are also job-less… Galicia, right now, is a mess. I know that it's really hard for you to ask, but I would like you to do something for them. Go to this website:
http://www.leliadoura.com/default.asp?404;http://www.leliadoura.com/prestige.asp
and please, leave a small message, no mattter the language, but for the people from Galicia, receiving a message from you, makes them feel supported. That's what they need right now. Nobody wants to do anything about this, and the people from Galicia are doing more than what they should. A few days ago I received an email, of a girl from Galicia, describing everything… believe me, it's horrible the effect of the oil, and everything that is causing. If you want to know more about this go to this link:
http://www.leliadoura.com/
and to know what the Civile Plattform "Nunca Mais" (never more) go to this link:
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/ies-leliadoura/nunca_mais.htm#English
Please, people, this is really important, and think that you wouldn't like to be in the same sittuation. Those people are suffering right now. Just one tiny support message is enough to make them be more confident about this. Please, it's not going to take you more than 5 minutes, please. Thanks to all :)
CATASTROFICA, XA!
And for those who understand Spanish, I'll leave you here the e-mail of this girl of Galicia. Just read what she tells. It's horrible.
"Se están recibiendo llamadas de voluntarios de TODO EL MUNDO pidiendo
venir a colaborar y desde la
Xunta les están diciendo que no vengan, que no hace falta.
Aquí, todos los medios existentes son particulares. La Xunta todavía
no ha gestionado la recogida de los residuos con ninguna empresa y los cubos que se sacan de la playa,
con mucho esfuerzo,se depositan en los puertos y en rincones de los arenales sin que nadie venga a por ellos. La gente está limpiando sin mascarillas ni guantes y ya hay asociaciones que han analizado (por su cuenta, por supuesto) el combustible y advierten de que puede ser CANCERIGENO por inhalación, debido a los
gases que desprende y al elevado contenido en azufre. Os puedo asegurar
que después de dos días en la playa el sonido que produces al respirar es como el de un silicoso. Los
mocos salen negros.
Se están muriendo decenas de alcatraces en las playas porque la gente
del centro de recuperación de fauna no da a basto.Yo he estado
ayudando a recoger pájaros en Barrañan, llevándolos en MIS cubos y en
MI coche porque nadie se hacía cargo de ellos.
La gente de protección civil no está en las playas. No hay ni un sólo
técnico evaluando la situación. NO SE VAN A LIMPIAR LAS ROCAS porque según
la Xunta, "ya se lo llevará el mar". Tenemos la costa asfaltada como
si fuese una carretera y ya se ha solidificado.
Greenpeace ha estado en Ferrol limpiando CON SUS PROPIOS MEDIOS y la
policia les ha echado de la playa para que no los viesen los medios de
comunicación.
No se va a pedir la declaración de zona catastrófica porque según el
ejecutivo NO HAY MAREA NEGRA.
La compañía a la que pertenece el Prestige ha fletado otro barco con
la misma cantidad de carga para realizar el pedido que se ha perdido, claro. Este barco hará la semana
que viene el mismo recorrido
que el Prestige y recalará en A Coruña, si nadie lo impide. Este barco
estuvo retenido más de una semana en un puerto europeo (no recuerdo el nombre) y se le impuso una
sanción al armador por las
graves deficiencias que presentaba. Es de UN SOLO CASCO y lleva 26
AÑOS navegando por ahí cargadito de crudo. Con un poco de suerte, la ría de la Coruña, que es la única
que se ha salvado esta vez, se
puede asfaltar en un par de semanas.
Portugal ha puesto balizas vía satélite para controlar la evolución de
las manchas e insiste en que se está liberando más crudo en la
zona del hundimiento. La Xunta dice que es mentira sin aportar ninguna
prueba, mientras los portugueses están publicando fotos vía satélite.
Los barcos que salen a faenar en la zona autorizada están sacando los
parejos: TODOS, los de superficie y los de arrastre llenos de
petróleo.
Se está acusando a los perceberos de que no ayudan, siendo ellos los
que mejor se manejan en las rocas. No es así: el presidente de la
cofradía de percebeiros ha declarado (en la SER, dónde si no) que se
han ofrecido a limpiar desde el primer día, pero piden que la Xunta se haga cargo de los más que
posibles accidentes que pudieran
suceder durante las faenas de limpieza. Tal y como están las rocas de
impregnadas y resbaladizas necesitan cuerdas de seguridad y arneses de protección, Y NO SE LOS VAN
A DAR. El mar está muy mal
porque, qué os voy a contar, ya han empezado los monzones, y nadie se
va a hacer cargo de ellos si se rompen una pierna o si se matan en los
acantilados. Ayer hicimos una pancarta de 12 m de largo con el CATASTRÓFICA,
XA!" y la colgamos en Riazor, aprovechando el
Depor-Juve y que la prensa extranjera está aquí. Al llegar a casa estuve viendo
un rato el partido en
diferido por TVE. LAS
TOMAS PANORAMICAS DE LAS GRADAS SE CORTABAN AL LLEGAR A LA ZONA DE LA
PANCARTA. Mi madre me ha dicho que vio el partido por Canal+ y NO ENFOCARON LA
PANCARTA y os
aseguro que se leía desde todo el
estadio. El día 1 de diciembre, domingo, está convocada una manifestación
en Santiago para pedir la declaración de zona catastrófica.EN LA TV NO SE HABLA
DE ELLO. Los que estéis en Galicia, por favor, manifestaos. Si no se logra que
haya un movimiento popular fuerte, en cuanto deje de ser noticia y se vaya la
prensa extranjera (en Londres, las portadas de los periódicos insisten en que
es LA CATASTROFE ECOLOGICA MAS IMPORTANTE EN LA HISTORIA DE
EUROPA)esto caerá en el olvido. LA gente YA ESTA EMIGRANDO. El aire de la costa
es irrespirable. Y
mientras tanto, Fraga de caza con Cuiña y
el CONSELLEIRO DE MEDIO AMBIENTE. Y aquí no dimite nadie. Se les llena
la boca hablando del medio ambiente, de la protección de la naturaleza, de Kioto, Río, etc, y luego ¿qué?
Y lo que es peor, se
les llena la boca hablando de eficacia y de democracia y lo que han
hecho es lo más antidemócrata que se puede hacer: HAN ABANDONADO AL PUEBLO.
No sé si habréis llegado hasta aquí. Yo estoy tan cabreada, tan
decepcionada y con tal sensación de impotencia que hasta me cuesta
escribir. Os aseguro que una cosa es verlo en la tele y otra estar
allí, tocarlo, olerlo, y ver las playas desde la arena, ver los pájaros completamente llenos de crudo sin
poder moverse y ver a los
pescadores, gente curtida y con una vida muy dura, LLORANDO al ver el
mar. La plataforma "Nunca MAis" está pidiendo dinero para comprar el material que no da la Xunta y ponerse a limpiar..."