Calvin tumbled out of the fireplace and rolled across a dirty floor with his trunk before finally coming to a stop against a patched up sofa, morning sunlight streaming into his face through a small window above the sofa.

"Oh man," he groaned, staring dazed at the ceiling. "I'll never get used to wizard travel."

His reprieve didn't last long due to the fact that as soon as he had said this, there was a loud FWOOSH, and a large mound of fur slammed into him at the speed of a commercial jet.

"Can someone stop the room?" Hobbes moaned weakly. "I'd like to get off."

"Maybe you should get off me first," Calvin coughed, struggling to breathe under the weight of the tiger. "I can feel my ribs snapping."

"Sorry," Hobbes said sheepishly as he rolled off of Calvin, allowing him to take a deep breath.

"You two all right?" Came an eager voice from beside Calvin and Hobbes.

Calvin was slightly startled at the voice and turned to the direction where he heard it, only to see two dirty boots with legs sticking out of them that were covered with gray jeans that looked as if they had been torn and stitched back together many times. Calvin's eyes followed the legs up to see a torso covered with a patched up green jacket, which was worn over a dirty looking white button down shirt. He continued to look up, and before he knew it, he was staring into the blue eyes of the man that he had seen with the Weasleys when he was trying to find his way onto platform nine and three quarters just last year, Mr. Weasley.

"Uhhhh…" Calvin said, staring into the man's eyes nervously, unsure of what to say.

Before Calvin could continue his sentence however, there was yet another FWOOSH from the fireplace, and Calvin turned to look.

"Hey dad," Ron said, sounding relieved as he walked out of the fireplace, shaking soot off of his red sweater. "Sorry for taking so long, had to convince Fred and George to not fiddle with the television…"

"Ah," Mr. Weasley said, waving his hand out in front of him and walking over to Ron. "Can't say I blame them. Probably would've done the same myself!"

Ron rolled his eyes.

Before the conversation could continue, another loud FWOOSH came from the fireplace, and the twins stumbled out of it, both looking rather distressed.

"Bad news, dad." Fred said (Or was it George? Calvin had forgotten how to tell the difference between them over the summer), glancing nervously at Mr. Weasley.

"We found this round thing with a dial on it," George added.

"We spun the dial and it started ringing," Fred continued.

"And it woke up Calvin's mum and dad," said George.

"They weren't happy," added Fred.

"In fact, we barely escaped with our lives!" George exclaimed.

Ron groaned and facepalmed.

"Oh dear," Mr. Weasley said nervously. "Well, we'll deal with that later. Right now let's work on getting Calvin and his er-"

He glanced nervously at Hobbes.

"His pet settled," he continued.

Hobbes mumbled something Calvin couldn't hear, though he could've sworn that the word "murder" was uttered.

"Now," Mr. Weasley continued. "Let's all quickly get upstairs before Molly wakes up and-"

"A bit too late for that," came a familiar voice from the side of the room.

Every head turned to the voice, where standing at the side of the room was Mrs. Weasley, almost shaking with rage.

"Ah," Mr. Weasley squeaked. "Dear, I can-"

"Save it!"

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The next few minutes were incredibly awkward. Calvin and Hobbes stood in silence in the living room were the fireplace was located with Ron, Fred, and George, while they listened as Mrs. Weasley scolded her husband in the other room.

"Honestly!" Mrs. Weasley shouted as her and a very embarrassed looking Mr. Weasley reentered the living room. "First the car, and now this? We were supposed to go together and talk to his parents, not kidnap the boy from his own home!"

"Like I said dear…" Mr. Weasley sputtered, looking increasingly more humiliated. "I didn't want to risk what happened to Harry last year happening to this boy…"

"I sincerely doubt that Calvin's parents were planning on putting bars on his window, Arthur!" Mrs. Weasley exclaimed, pinching the bridge of her nose. "Now I have to wait for the time zones to line up to a reasonable hour in America, and travel to their home to apologize to them! If they didn't want the boy going back to school already, then they certainly won't want him going back now!"

At that moment, Mrs. Weasley seemed to notice Calvin and Hobbes in the living room.

"Of course I don't blame you two," she said, her face suddenly turning into a smile as she beamed at them.

She then turned to Ron and the twins, who all gulped.

"I am aware that this idea did not come from you three," she said sternly, eyeing the three boys. "However, we will be having a talk later about convincing your father not to do such things!"

She glared at Mr. Weasley, and the older man somehow looked even more embarrassed.

"Now!" Mrs. Weasley said, clapping her hands together and turning back to Calvin and Hobbes with a warm smile. "Let's get you two set up!"

With that, she grabbed Calvin's trunk and began to carry it towards a rickety looking stairwell, gesturing for Calvin and Hobbes to follow her.

Hobbes gave Calvin a nervous look, but Calvin simply ignored him, picked up the cage that held a very disturbed looking Horus, and followed Mrs. Weasley up the stairs.

Hobbes simply sighed and bounded after them.

After an unusually long trip up the stairwell, which made Hobbes incredibly anxious, they finally reached the end, where there was an old scratched up looking door.

"You'll be sharing Ron's room while you stay here!" Mrs. Weasley exclaimed brightly as she grasped the doorknob, pushing the door open.

The room was quite the sight. It was painted a dark orange, and the walls were covered in posters for a quidditch team that Calvin had never heard of, the Chudley Cannons.

"You'll be sleeping in that bed over there," said Mrs. Weasley, dropping Calvin's trunk on the floor and pointing to a small ancient looking bed with black sheets that sat on the opposite side of what Calvin assumed was Ron's bed. A big cushy looking one with orange sheets that also happened to be decorated with pictures of the Chudley Cannons.

"That's where Harry slept when he was here last," Mrs. Weasley said with a smile. "But he won't be staying with us this summer for his own reasons, so I suppose it's yours for now!"

And with that, she left the room and closed the door behind her.

"Ron has an interesting taste in decoration," Hobbes said, glancing nervously between all the moving pictures on the walls of waving quidditch players.

"Eh, to each their own," Calvin said with a shrug, setting Horus's cage down next to the old bed. "Though I do think that having those weirdos waving at you while you're trying to sleep is kind of creepy."

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Time zones had made it so that while Calvin had left his home at midnight, he had arrived at The Burrow at eight in the morning, therefore, Calvin had one hour to sleep before the whole house awoke for breakfast. Did he sleep however? Absolutely not.

"The pirates launch a cannonball at the english Man O' War!" Calvin exclaimed as he bounced on his bed and threw a pillow at Ron, who had just arrived back in his room and was laying on his bed, attempting to get a bit more sleep.

"Calvin," Ron growled, rolling over and glaring at him. "If you throw one more of those pillows, I swear on everything I own that no one will find your body!"

"Let's test that theory, shall we?" Calvin exclaimed, before launching a pillow straight into Ron's face.

Ron let out a yelp as the pillow smacked into his nose and Calvin immediately jumped off the bed, dashed out the door, and down the stairs, laughing all the way.

"How do you deal with him?" Ron asked, looking over at Hobbes who was still in the bed, staring at the ceiling.

"You get used to it," Hobbes said with a sigh.

As Calvin ran down the stairway, snickering like a maniac, he was too absorbed in his fantasy to notice that someone had just opened a door outwards in front of him, and that he was barreling toward it at top speed.

Less than a second later, a loud SLAM echoed throughout the house, followed by a slew of swear words.

"Dage door!" Calvin exclaimed as he laid on the stairs where he had fallen, plugging his bleeding nose. "Whad kide of idiot wood put a door der?"

He looked up to the doorway with a glare, ready to give whoever had opened it a piece of his mind, but was shocked by who he saw.

Standing there in a bathrobe, staring incredulously at Calvin, was Ginny, looking like she had just woken up.

"Oh uh…" Calvin began, startled that it was her in the doorway, blood dripping down the front of his NOFX shirt from his nose. "Hey Giddy, ow's id going?"

"Uhhh…" Ginny said, confused. "...Spectacular."

A/N: Calvin has arrived at the burrow! Apologies for the shorter chapters lately, Like the last book, they should get longer once Calvin gets to Hogwarts and I'm done setting up the story. I also want to thank K-Rock 1315 for his amazing review, and I would like to address a few things he said. I always appreciate reviews, they keep my interest in this story alive!

1. Yes, I agree that the Weasleys essentially kidnapping Calvin and Hobbes in the last chapter was pretty out of character for them, and I would've written that differently if I wasn't in such a rush to get the chapter out, so I did my best to justify it in this chapter as it being one of Arthur Weasley's blunders. Hopefully that flowed well!

2. In regards to your suggestion to use one of the Hogwarts girls we already know as Calvin's future love interest, and with the extra emphasis you put on Luna being a possibility, I really like this idea. I've actually been debating with myself about having Luna be Calvin's final love interest since I started writing this, and the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. My only issue was that I was worried the story would end up being too similar to the fic "The Best Seven Years," the story that was one of the main inspirations to my own story, and if any of you haven't read that, go read it now. It's fantastic. But I think so far that I like the idea of Luna being Calvin's love interest, and will most likely use this!