REDONE
Chapiter 12
Feast part two
"Grandma Rini is here."
Mr. Granger and Danny almost looked afraid. Grandma Rini had arrived. Not a good thing at all. The two hurried upstairs hoping to quickly dodge Aunt Rini and go get ready. Hermione looked to her friends with a pnicked expression. She quickly ran up the stairs and peeked her head out with only a small crack to see.
"Hurry up!" she called quickly urgiung them to fallow her. They were going to have to hurry if they were going to make it back to Hermione's room. If she knew Grandma Rini she was sure to be talking in the kitchen. Still looking absolutly and utterly confused, they fallowed Hermioneback to her room after taking in a deep breath and a deep sigh Hermione closed the door relieved they hadn't been caught.
"WTF? What is this whole Grandma Rini thing about?" asked Kari as she flopped herself onto the bed. Hermione hurried over to her closet and pulled open the door. She looked like a crazy woman.
"Grandma Rini is one of the craziest people you will ever meet. You know the whole Turkey thing I told you about Kari?" Kari nodded. "That's not half as bad as whatshe did two years ago." she said. Kari looked slightly scared at Hermione.
"Now. Put on the nicest convervative clothes you brought."
"Why?" asked Dom as hegrabbed a pair of slightly baggy black pants and pulled them on. Hermione sighed and took one of her old 'dress' clothe sout of her closet. Kari made a face at it so she threw it back.
"Because grandma Rini thinks that we should be dressed for the occasion." she rolled her eyes and continued. "Last time one of us wasn't she made Dad eat with the children." she laughed to herself remebering what happened. "She said if he wanted to dress like a child then he would have to eat with the...She's very strict. And then she gave him a talking to him afterwards for not being a polite son and sitting with his mother."
The three guests nodded in agreement. They had never met her before but they definitly would watch what they said. After ten minutes or so, they were ready. Harry wore a pair of black slacks and a white t-shirt. Dom wore black slacks and a blue striped dress shirt. Hermione had brushed Harry's hair and the two girls made them look...acceptable.
The girls however were dressed as conservative as they could. Luckily while shopping the day before HErmione convinced Kari to get one dress that didn't go higher than mid thigh.So the two girls slipped out their nice new dresses. Kariwore a nice red dress that had a little black ribbon around the waist and puffed out like a princess dress until it reached her knees.Since it was a stapless, Hermione advised her to put on her cute new black cardigan.
Hermione took out a nice black velvet dress thatflowed quite nicely. A few pearl necklaces and a soft black cardigan awell, made her lookjust as pretty as Kari.It wasn't much but atleast they looked good. The boys were sitting on the bed watching as Kari did Hermione's make up. Harry had to say he really liked her new look. Her hair was curly and boucy and looked very nice.
Finally it was time to go join Hermione's newly arrived relatives. She pulled open the door just a peek and looked through the small crack. Good grandma Rini was talking to Danny. She opened the door all the way and walked down the hall and into the dining room. Suddenly grandma Rini turned around and ran/walked over to her grand daughter.
Dom stared at the woman.She was half the size of his friend and was balding. Though the hair she did have was thining and a white colour. She was dressed in what he thought was the ugliest dress he had ever seen. It was a mixture of colors and almost touched the floor. Suddenly he was pulled from his thoughts when he heard a high pitched but raspy voice.
"What the hell are you staring at, boy?" It was grandma Rini...talking to...him...
"Uh...N-nothing..." he tried to say. Suddenly as if a switch had been pushed in her head shebecame nice and pleasent.
"Hermione dear, you never told me you had a boyfriend." Hermione looked at Dom with a sorry look. "Come here boy, let me have a look at you." Dom gave a whimper. It was clear he was scared of this strict and funny smelling old woman.
"No...grandma thats not my boyfriend..."
"Oh...then you must be her boyfriend." she said and pulled Harry down by the collar to examin him.
"No...no grandma he's just my fri-" Suddenly her grandmother gasped.
"Hermione! Don't tell me your one of those lesbiens!" she said staring at Kari. Hermione hung her head and shook it.
"No grandma...I don't have I boyfriend...or a...girlfriend for that matter."
"Than what the Hell are these people doing in your house!" she said. She soon began to yell and scream about the intruders. But then she switched over again and marched up to Hermione's mother and yelled at her for allowing theives to come intoher home and try to hurt her dog.The three 'intruders' took a few steps back in slight fear of the old woman as she came back over to them. She looked ready to beat them with her purse.
"Grandma! No! These are my friends!" Hermione cried trying to calm her grandmother. But suddenly, as if nothing happened, grandma Rini stopped her yelling and screaming and smiled warmly to the three.
"Well then. Ill see you three at dinner. And make sure you try some of my pea soup!" she said and gave them a wink before waddling off to talk to Danny. Hermione let out a long sigh and turned to her friends.
"Sorry about that. Grandma Rini has gone a little mad..." Harry nodded in agreement still shocked at the old woman's sudden outburst.
"A little mad?"
"Ok Ok maybe allot! But she's still my grandmother so no bad talking her." Hermione said. "Let's go meet my cousins..." Leading the three around to meet almost all of her relatives.
There was her mother's familly, which wasn't vey many. But then they went around to meet her father's family. Once finished with the relatives they all sat at one of the long tables in the dinning room. Dom sat beside Kari and to his greif, Grandma Rini. Kari was sitting beside Hermione's cousin Andy , who she could have sworn knew magic AND delt drugs. Harry sat beside a pretty girl that looked allot like Hermione, who sat beside her. Hermione smiled then turned to get up and help getting the food, leaving the three guests siting at the table.
One of Hermione's aunts, the one Dom reconized as Aunt Marlee, smiled sweetly at them.
"So, you three go to Hermione's school?" The three nodded hoping they wouldn't be asked any more questions again.
"That's nice..." said what seemed to be Hermione's other grand mother. Though slightly younger and not as crazy looking. Luckily before it could go any further, Hermione pranced in and set the juice on the table for the younger children before sitting in her spot and putting the red wine in the center of the table. The food then started coming up and being set on the table. There was turkey and ham, and a vegetarien lasagna for the main meals. There were also peas, carrots, beats and stuffing. And before the next thing was set on the table everyone was diging into their meals.
"That was a disaster..." breathed Hermione who had streatched out on the sofa ready to fall asleep.
"I'll say..." sighed Harry, whos shoulder Hermione had rested her head. The place looked that exact word. Disaster. There was still a line of gravy on the wall and the little kids table was lying in half on the floor. Harry closed his eyes and sighed. Hopefully he would never get invited to Hermione's house for supper again. And as Harry started to doze offhe recalled theevents that had just gone by.
After gobling down afew bits of turkey, peas and carrots, Harry looked up to see Hermione's cousin Sara, who would have been about the same age as Ginny, smile at him and start talking.
"So...how'd you get that sexy scare on your forehead? It looks like a lightning bolt or something. " she purred and brushed away some of his shaggy black hair so she could see it better. Harry looked at her as if she were crazy. Was Hermione's cousin hitting on him?
"Um...well you see...uh...I..." he cleared his throat and continued with his blubber very very uncomfortably. What would Ginny say?
"You know I have a scar too. You wanna see?" Sara said butsuddenly turned to Hermione who had whispered something to her. Sara blushed the darkest shade of red and muttered a sorry to Harry. He let out a sigh and mouthed a thank you to Hermione. Then Suddenly he felt a brush against his leg and looked over thinking it was Sara he gave her a look but it couldn't be her she was talking to Hermione. He peered under the table to see one of Hermione's 5 year old cousin staring up at him.
"Uh...Hello..." he said
"YOU!" screamed the littlegirl. Harry looked scared of this little girl and what she would do. "You take Herminony away!" she yelled again and gave his shine a goodhard punch. Harry let out a little yelp and the girl went scrurrying away. The rest of the table was currently looking at him with a funny expression.
The rest of the dinner passed uneventful for Harry but Dom's luck wasn't as good. He had been sitting next to Grandma Rini who kept spitting when she talked to him. Her moods swung at every other bite of her food and Dom had gotten most of her emotional outlets. At one time she had ended up flirting with him and saying he could come home with her, the next she let out a shreik and was complaning to Hermione's mother that Dominc was a horrible boy that should be locked up, but for why he was not certain. On top of that he hadn't got the chance to talk to Kari.Speeking of her...Kari had been sitting beside Andy.
"Hey..." he said catching her attention. He gave her a toothy grin and glanced down at his hands under the table. Kari did the same and looked at him questioningly. It was a bag of white powder. Suddenly Kari knew what it was. It was pot! Her eyes widened and he smirked shoving the bag towards her. Kari shook her head and desperatly tried to get him to put it away. But for the rest of the Dinner Andy had either tried to get Kari to smoke with him or try and get himself laid. But then to Kari's releif Dom had noticed and placed an arm around her shoulders and gave Andy a glare. Andy got the point. But what had happened next was quite a bit of a shock to the family.
Harry had stood up to go to the bathroom but the same five year old girl stopped him as he walked by the younger kid's table.
"STOP!" the little girl commanded. She crossed her arms and looked at the other kids only a year or so older than her. Harry had stopped and looked down at her.
"Wes has decided, that wes dosn't likes you!" she said and smirked. Harry gave her a questionning look. He had heard of the few survivors left from being hated by younger children. And the stories were quite awfull. He was almost as afraid of her as Grandma Rini. He had witnessed Dom's frightening conversation with the old woman.
"So you gotta suffer the concequenses!" shouted another boy who was about 6. He took up and handful of potatoes and hurled it towards Harry. It splattered all over his face and glasses. The little kids laughed and the little 'leader' girl threw her peice of turkey at him, but it missed and hit the wall sliding down leaving a trail of gravy along the white surface.
"ISABELLA!" shreiked Aunt Marlee who stood up and walked bruiskly towards her daughter. "Colin!" she said grabbed the other peice of turkey that Isabella was about to throw. But suddenly the tempermental boy named Colin gave an annoyed growl and ran right into Harry who was trying to get the potatoe off his face. Harry was taken by surprise and hopped on one foot and fell forwards onto the little kids table. The multicolored fisher's price table snapped under his sudden weight. He let out a groan and the little kids all began to attack him. Hermione along with all the other relatives jumped up.
"Isabella! Colin! Hannah!" yelled Hermione and the fight stopped immediatly. Theyoung children jumped off the Boy-Who-Got-Attacked-By-Five-Year-Olds and lined up infront of Hermione.
"Yes Herminony?" Isabella asked in her sweetest andcuteste voice.
"Why did you attack Harry?" she asked and helped her friend up. The other parents all stared down at the two little children.
"He was going to take you away to that stupid school Hermionony!" yelled Colin the Tempermental.
"Harry was not going to take me away." she said and let Danny lead Harry to the bathroom because he couldn't see since his glasses were covered in potatoe.
"Now go to the spare bedroom for a time out!" said Anut Marlee to the both of them. Isabella crossed her arms and pouted then stomped off with Colin.
"Oh I am so sorry..." Hermione, Dom and Kari heard Aunt Marlee say as they walked out to meet Harry in the bathroom. Within the next half an hour everyone had left, to everyone's releif. Harry got cleaned up and along with his other three friends flopped onto the couch promising Hermione's parents a clean house once they got back from the store to buy more milk.
