Harry Potter and a Better Future
Chapter 14 Hogwarts Letters
They arrived at the Burrow and parked the car in front of the garage. Harry and the twins opened the boot and pulled Harry's trunk and owl cage out of the car. Harry looked up at the familiar building and smiled. It had always been his second favourite place in the wizarding world in his other life and didn't look like that was going to change anytime soon.
Harry entered the house with the twins and Ron, Mr and Mrs Weasley followed closely behind.
"Welcome to the Burrow Harry" Mr Weasley beamed.
"You have a nice house Mr Weasley" Harry complimented.
"Thank you Harry, now, Ron, why don't you show Harry where he'll be sleeping" Mr Weasley suggested.
"OK, Come on Harry, it's up the stairs" Ron explained pointing in the direction of the stairs.
Ron led Harry up the stairs, passing Ginny's room on the way. Harry took a look at the room as he walked passed. He noticed the familiar wooden plaque with 'Ginny' sculpted into it. The door also had a flowery pink design to it, exactly the same as it was in his other life.
"Come on Harry, you can talk to Ginny soon" Ron ushered. Harry laughed and followed Ron up the stairs to his room.
They entered Ron's Chudley Cannon themed room. Harry had forgotten how bright the room was.
"Whoa bloody hell how much light do you want" Harry joked. Ron laughed and turned the lights down a little bit.
"You can tell I'm a fan of the Chudley Cannon's then Harry" Ron stated.
"Yeah you wouldn't shut up about them in my other life" Harry explained.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that Harry" Ron replied.
Harry and Ron talked about the next year at Hogwarts. Harry explained what happened last time around. He also explained that it might not even be Lockhart teaching now that Dumbledore knows Lockhart was a fraud. Harry said he would obtain the diary when get their Hogwarts supplies from Diagon Alley and would hide it in the fifth compartment of his trunk until he got a chance to go and see Dumbledore. He told Ron he would go into the chamber of secrets and kill the basilisk if he had to.
Harry left shortly after finishing his talk with Ron to go pick up Hedwig and talk to Ginny. He left Ron's room and walked down the stairs. He stopped in front of Ginny's door and took in a deep breath. He gave the door a light tap with his knuckles. He opened the door when he heard a voice inside.
He walked in to see a room covered from floor to ceiling in pink wallpaper, carpets, quilt covers and even a pink chair. Hedwig was perched on the open window sill and flew over to Harry when she saw him. Ginny obviously hadn't realised that it was Harry that had entered her room as her face went bright red when she saw him.
"Hi Ginny" Harry greeted. Ginny stayed silent for a moment, obviously not knowing what to say to the famous Harry Potter, who was in her room. He knew she was probably thinking 'Oh my god, Harry Potter is in my room'.
"Hello Harry" She replied, albeit quietly.
"How are you Ginny, and how has Hedwig been" Harry asked as he stroked Hedwig.
"I'm fine thanks Harry, and Hedwig was brilliant, such a cute owl" Ginny replied.
"Thanks for looking after her, I didn't fancy having her cooped up in her cage on the way here" Harry explained.
"Are you looking forward to Hogwarts this year" Harry asked.
"Yeah, I can't wait" Ginny exclaimed "Do they really make you wrestle a troll".
Harry laughed and shook his head "No they don't, Ron thought you had to wrestle a troll too" He explained.
"I knew it, I am going to kill Fred and George" Ginny snapped.
"What spell are you going to use first" Harry asked although he knew what spell she had in mind.
"I think I'll give them a taste of my bat-bogey-hex" Ginny answered with an evil grin on her face.
"Nice one, I would love to be there to see that" Harry replied.
"Yeah that would be good" Ginny replied.
"It was nice talking to you Ginny, I better get back, Ron might be getting suspicious" Harry explained.
Ginny chuckled and spoke "Yeah, It was, I'll see you later Harry".
"See you later Ginny" Harry replied, Ginny passed him the owl treats and the owl food "Thanks" He added as he left the room.
Harry closed Ginny's door behind him and climbed back up the stairs to Ron's room. He entered the room to find Ron sat on his bed playing with some wizarding cards.
"How did it go with Ginny" Ron asked.
"OK, she was a bit nervous at first but I got her talking in the end" Harry explained.
"Yeah, I know she has this massive crush on you" Ron replied.
"I do know I was married to her in my other life" Harry reminded Ron.
"Oh yeah I forget about the smaller stuff from your other life sometimes, I'm usually more concerned with the stuff about You-Know-Who" Ron explained.
"I think we are going to have to get you checked out for memory loss" Harry joked.
"Very funny" Ron laughed and threw some paper at Harry. Harry caught the paper and threw it back at Ron "Bloody Hell, How the hell did you catch that so easily" Ron asked.
"With about five years of Quidditch experience from my other life, plus first year at Hogwarts" Harry explained.
"How come only five years, I thought you would have been on the team during all seven years at Hogwarts" Ron asked.
"Well, fourth year the Triwizard tournament was on so Quidditch was cancelled, Fifth year we didn't get to play a lot of Quidditch due to Umbitch, and Seventh year we didn't get to play because of the death of Dumbledore in our sixth year, she didn't want to risk it in case Voldemort or his followers attacked, it would be easy with everyone gathered in one area" Harry explained. Ron nodded and went back to playing with his wizarding cards.
The remainder of the summer passed quickly and the Hogwarts letters soon arrived for Harry, Ron, Ginny, the twins and Percy.
Harry opened his letter and read the contents to himself. He realised they were required to buy different books than what they had last time. He smiled as he realised this meant that they wouldn't have to put up with a fraudster for a teacher.
"Oi, Harry what are you smiling at" Ron asked.
"We don't have Lockhart as a teacher" Harry replied and punched the air.
"How can you tell that" Ron asked.
"The book list is different to last time around" Harry answered and listed some of the books that were required last time around.
"Oh yeah, I wonder who will teach us" Ron pondered.
"Even I don't know what this year will be like" Harry joked "Although I bet some things will still happen" He added.
"Yeah I see what you mean" Ron replied.
They left the house later that morning to travel to Diagon Alley. Mr Weasley had expanded the boot and the seats in the Ford Anglia to allow everybody to fit inside the car. Mrs Weasley was furious when she saw this but he assured her it would be better than trying to squeeze everyone into the car 'At least she hasn't found out it can fly yet' Harry thought as Mr Weasley talked about muggle aeroplanes.
A/N: Sorry about the delay in updating, I had a bit of writers block when it came to writing about the Hogwarts letters, I didn't know what the teacher replacing Quirrel would want the students to purchase so I decided to just have Harry read his letter to himself, I also had to re install my operating system and was stuck without ms office for a while as it was stored on my other pc and I didn't know where my flash drive was, I have office again so now I will update more often, I have made this chapter shorter so that I could post it online, the new dada teacher will most probably be announced in chapter 16, it will be a great surprise when you find out who it is. I will be writing Chapter 16 as soon as I have finished chapter 15 and will upload them together.
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