After Madam Pomfrey allowed them to leave, Ness and Ginny quickly saw that the work of the Boundless hadn't been for nothing. When they joined their housemates at breakfast. Luna had quickly given them an issue of the Qubbiler with an almost giddy smile.
"There's loads of theories to make now." She exclaimed before she returned to her house table,
"Okay then." Ness muttered as Ginny read the blaring headline aloud, "Serious Black innocent! A man once dead now revealed to walk among the living as a rat! More inside!"
"Whoa. I knew this would be big, but I didn't know the Qubbiler was a gossip magazine." Ness said.
"I…it's not." Ginny replied, looking extremely bewildered, "But, this is Luna's father were talking about and he usually prefers to talk about the unknown, so to get actual proof that a man once dead is alive must be like getting a Elkwood horn for Christmas."
"Should I ask?"
"No, but look! The Daily Prophet's talking about it as well!" Ginny exclaimed,
"Uh, everyone's talking about Black being innocent Ginny." Ness said pointing toward their house mates who had their noses buried in different newspapers, only looking up to express their shock and disbelief.
"The Minister was right. The Daily Prophet is having a field day." Ness mumbled as he caught someone loudly whisper, "I can't believe it! No wonder Black seemed like he was off his nutter! He was the only person who knew the truth!"
And someone else replied, "I hope our parents can overlook Lupin though, he's a really cool teacher for a werewolf."
"Snaaap." Ness groaned, "Of course Lupin had to come clean to explain about how Peter was an Animagus." Ginny sighed and closed the Qubbiler, "Of course he had to, if he didn't mention why then Snape surely would have—I mean, look at him! He's downright murderous!"
"No, he's not-," Ness started to say when he glanced at the Staff Table to see Snape drilling holes into Harry's head then a lowered glare at Dumbledore who was happily eating runny eggs and toast.
"Never mind." Ness muttered, "And, speaking of teachers. Dumbledore WAS with the executors, right?"
"Of course," Ginny said, "Says so right in the news. Besides, I remember it happening." She frowned and glanced at Dumbledore, "Why do you ask? Did something happen?"
"Uh…" Ness said, glancing around at the table, even though everyone was talking he didn't want to get Hermione in trouble by talking about their time traveling adventure.
"Never mind." Ginny sighed sensing his problem, "You can tell me on the train."
"What train?"
"The train to return home of course, it'll be the end of the school year in a couple days. After Hogsmeade everyone's going to be packing before the last Great Feast to leave after Dumbledore announces the house winner." Ginny explained.
"There was a contest for best house?"
"You were attending school, right?" Ginny teased, "Look, you see those giant hourglasses?"
"…Where did those-,"
"Anyway." Ginny interrupted, "You can get points on good behavior, being a smart student and last minute bonus points, Gryffindor's been winning thanks to Harry."
"They have?" Ness questioned.
"Yea!" Ginny exclaimed with a huge grin, "Before, Slytherin had the House Cup, but then Harry foiled an evil teacher's plan and saved me from Voldemort!"
"Wait what." Ness said, the grinds stopped for a moment, "I thought you were trapped in some Secret Chamber or something!"
"I was but um… I'll explain on the train." Ginny hastily finished, "The point is that Harry's bravery, Hermione's smarts and Ron's… helpfulness have helped our house in winning the House Cup."
"Odd…" Ness said, an old theory coming back as he looked at Dumbledore. Stroke of luck or not, the lions of bravery coming back to being the top dog after defeating the 'house of evil' seemed to much a coincidence.
He didn't have long to ponder over it since Ginny suggested that he pack his things and send a letter to his parents about what happened before he enjoyed the beautiful Spring-Summer weekend weather.
"So, THAT'S where you went." Ness grumbled, pulling a scroll full notes free from underneath his bed, "And here I thought Selvis stole them." He sighed and glanced at his trunk with a half-smile, wondering if he was doomed to attend Hogwarts for five more years or if he was truly done.
"Ah, whatever. I'll deal with it when the time comes." Ness decided before he kicked his trunk—wait, he had a suitcase, dear god being in Europe was turning him British!
"Annnd time to write a letter." Ness said, "But what to write about…?" sure, he had tried to write more after Christmas, and he had, but how was he going to explain this whole mess in brief sentences before he got home?
He couldn't just up and say, 'Hey mom! Just finished traveling through time to save an innocent life and that was after a bunch of convoluted waiting and talking! Tell you more when I get home!' he had already gotten an earful when he had tried to hurriedly explain how he, Paula, Poo and Jeff had saved the world.
But, he couldn't say too much, since he didn't trust his mail to be safely delivered after Kir had 'accidentally' lost his letter to Paula in the woods. And he had put a lot of work into that letter!... Sort of, he had worked hard on finishing it since school work had interrupted his train of thinking at the time but—
"Mr. Earthbound." A crisp voice said.
"Gah!" he spun around, wincing as he banged his leg against the bedside dresser as he looked up to see Professor McGonagall standing at the dormitory doorway. Everyone else had fled to the wonderful outdoors, leaving him with the Head of House.
"Professor, uh… what are you doing here?" Ness questioned, "Is this mandatory checkup or something…?"
"Dumbledore requested to speak with you." She said, sounding a little stiff, although that could have been because she had been personally seeing the Dementors off before breakfast with Madam Pomfrey.
"He has…? Cool." Ness said, slowly standing up and shoving his hands into his robe pockets, "Lead the way te—Professor." She nodded, catching onto Ness's hurried cover up at trying to call her 'Teach' a nickname he had given his old teachers before this whole mess had started.
And lead him out the common room and toward a Gargoyle, where she whispered a candy brand into the statue's ear. "Dumbledore reeallly likes sweets to make it his official password." Ness thought as the statue stepped aside, allowing them to enter a spiraling stairwell.
"Ah, right on time." Dumbledore said, gently smiling at him as Professor McGonagall ushered him inside a formal yet oddly cozy Headmaster's office.
"I suppose you have a lot of questions Ness." Dumbledore guessed.
"Uh, yea… A bunch actually." Ness said, sitting down in a really, cozy armchair. Even though the room was warm yet professionally decorated, Ness kept getting shivers down his spine and a faint stabbing in his head. Maybe that had something to do with the oddly colored bird and the glaring paintings…
"Admiring the décor?" Dumbledore asked, causing Ness to jump a little, "Uh… A little, anyway! Why did you tell Harry and Hermione that we needed to save two innocent lives?" Ness questioned, "You saw Buckbeak escape on his own, and you know that I'm not a wizard, so why lie?"
"Well, if I had just said that you three needed to save one person, Harry and Hermione would have misunderstood what they needed to do." Dumbledore calmly explained, "This entire year, you've been off with your friends finding your own way to save Black while Harry and his friends spent their year trying to save Buckbeak. So, in a way you both needed to save two innocent lives."
"…I… Huh." Ness said, something clicking with what Dumbledore said, but… WHAT THE HECK WAS UP WITH THIS HEADACHE?! It was throwing everything out of line… Weird… Hopefully it would go away on its own...
"So, that's solved. Great, but why am I, a Psychic child who has been banned from the magical world by law, here? Harry didn't need me! Heck, all I did was play the 'why am I here' game!"
"That, is for you to find out, Ness." Dumbledore said, "You may not realize it now, but you and Harry share a connection."
"…Huh?"
"Fate, has drawn you to together."
"No, that was you, who sent the letter. Claiming that I needed to protect Harry."
"And you did, if you didn't think to take pictures of Peter then Harry wouldn't have a chance to be with his Godfather-,"
"Who you, originally didn't like since you urged James to change Secret Keepers." Ness reminded him.
"A regrettable mistake." Dumbledore bitterly said, "At the time, I was blinded by Black's past mistakes and unable to see the good in him at the time. If I hadn't urged him to change then…" he trailed off and lowered his head slightly, before he brightened, "But, we have all learned a valuable lesson, never judge a book by its cover. Or, in this case a magic spell."
Ness slowly nodded, although something sounded off about that statement, why would Dumbledore be blinded by Black's past actions? He had been a jokester yea, but when it came down to the wire, Black was a good friend—No, the BEST friend any man could ever had.
And hadn't Dumbledore-, "Now then, any other questions?"
Ness jumped and shook his head, his mind muddled from the headache. "Well, then, I believe our time is up." Dumbledore said, nodding at the door which abruptly opened, revealing Professor Lupin. Carrying a suitcase.
"Professor? Why are you here? And what's with the suitcase?" Ness questioned as he slowly got out of the armchair,
"I'm just here to drop off my registration letter."
"Wha-Oh… Because you're a…" Ness said, trailing off.
"Yes, Snape was upset at being unable to exact his revenge on Sirius, so he let it slip that I'm a werewolf, even though I confessed that to the newspapers."
"Guess he wanted to have something to own up to." Ness joked, although he didn't feel like joking at the moment. "Er… Sorry for barely paying attention in class…"
"Don't worry, I trust your 'powers' rendered it nearly impossible for you to focus for long." Lupin said with a small smile.
"That, and other things," Ness replied before he gave an awkward smile and excused himself from the office.
"That was weird." Ness muttered as he walked down the spiral magical staircase and watched the gargoyle close behind him. What on earth did Dumbledore mean by 'Fate had drawn them together?' had Harry been predicted to be a hero? But if that was true then why was Ness there?
He could save the day with his friends back home, all he needed was a goal and objective. And why did his head hurt?! He hadn't tried to fake magic so-, "Hello Ness…" a dreamy voice said, causing Ness to jump a foot in the air and glower at Luna who was carrying a bundle of knickknacks.
"You didn't get in trouble for anything, right?" Luna questioned.
"Uh, no, Dumbledore just summoned me to talk about what happened." Ness explained, "Err… What's with the random knickknacks?"
"There my things, my housemates think it's hilarious to hide my shoes, socks and gifts from home around the castle."
"Ouch."
"Oh, but don't worry, I usually find everything before the Great Feast." Luna said, giving him a reassuring smile.
"Want me to help? I don't exactly have anything better to do." Ness said, figuring that he should take a break from the All Mighty Wizard's words of 'advice' and focus on a somewhat serious problem.
"If you want to." Luna said, with a small shrug of her shoulders, "I'm just missing my glass mouse collection and Minirunt horns. They shouldn't be to hard to find…"
"Although I have no idea what a Minirunt horn looks like, let's go!" Ness announced, "Where haven't you checked yet?"
"The dungeons, Professor Snape was muttering up a storm, so I decided to check their later."
"Well, now's a better time than later since it's nearly evening."
"True…" Luna mused as they started to head for the lower levels of the castle, as they searched Luna babbled about how exciting it was to attend Hogwarts and earned dry quips from Ness about how he wished it was a bit calmer, "Maybe then we wouldn't have rat nutjobs on the loose." Ness grumbled.
"True… But at least everyone knows about him now." Luna reminded him, "If Selvis hadn't given you his camera then, Peter would have been able to roam freely around Europe."
"I guess… But it just feels wrong." Ness said, sighing slightly as he checked a molding desk, "He's going to come back with something or other just like Belch and I won't know what to do."
"Other than wait?"
"Waiting is fun, and relaxing but I just spent an entire year playing the what if game."
"Oh yea… I forgot we did that…" Luna mused, closing a classroom supply closet with a soft thud, "And being stuck in school probably isn't helping since you and the others were exploring the world to stop the bad guys."
"And we have helpful people telling us what exactly they knew as we searched for the Mani-Mani Statues." Ness said, "Here, everyone's focusing on school. Or being a teacher."
"Come to think of it… I don't think I learned a single helpful thing this year."
"Really? What happened?"
"Black, I was busy creating theories that I forgot to actually study. I merely did the work to pass the class… Oh well…"
"I'm pretty sure I flunked every class so, you did better than me!" Ness offered, giving Luna a small grin.
"I don't think you did that bad-," Luna started to say when her foot hit something, "Oh! My Minirunt horns! Here they are!"
"Great! Now we have to find the glass mice!" Ness said, then he frowned and looked up at the stone celling, "I bet Kir has them…"
"He probably does." Luna mused, "I caught him flying around the Raven-claw tower a couple times."
"Geez, is he that desperate for mice?" Ness wondered as they back tracked and headed upstairs, admiring setting sun as they climbed the grand stairwell.
"Well… He is an owl."
"I know but still-,"
"There you are!" Ness jumped as Ginny nearly slammed into him, looking a little breathless, "What happened? Patti Patrvil told me that you were called into Dumbledore's office!" Ginny exclaimed.
"I'm not in trouble or anything." Ness started to say when he noticed a flood of students heading toward them, "Uh… I'll tell after dinner." Ness said as Luna mused, "Time for the Great Feast." And allowed herself to be swept up with the crowd.
XxxXx
Before Ness knew it, the school year was officially over, Dumbledore had announced Gryffindor to be the winner of the house cup for the third time in a row, earning three tables worth of mad cheering and yells of joy, Ness somehow didn't flunk out of school and Lupin had a wonderful good bye party hosted by almost every house and Ness.
Now, he was riding on the Hogwarts Express and sharing a car with Selvis who was practically livid about the results.
"I can't believe it! I was the one who gave you the dumb camera! But did I earn 50 points? Nooooo!" Selvis spat, his arms crossing and uncross as he angrily ranted, "Ugh! Of course Dumbledore favors the Gryffindors of course!"
Ness merely nodded his head in agreement as the prejudice against Slytherin became more and more apparent to him. After a full five minutes of watching Selvis's tantrum he tried to cheer him up, "Well, look on the bright side!"
"What. Bright side?" Selvis angrily questioned.
"Harry owes you something since your rock alerted us to him nearly getting booted out of school." Ness reminded him.
"Huh… I suppose your right." Selvis slowly said, his eyes growing wide with endless ideas, "Yes… Harry Potter owes me one! Take that gods of fate!"
"And now I'm slowly regretting mentioning that fact to you." Ness said as he imaged all the things Selvis could blackmail Harry into doin/
, "Oh please! You should be worried about yourself," Selvis huffed, "After all, you still had my listening stone on you."
"I did!?" Ness checked his robe pockets and gawked at the smooth white stone in his hands, "Wait, I gave it back to you after I-,"
"Well, that might not be the exact rock." Selvis interrupted, "But who knows? I might have placed a second one on you during the school year. Or planted it in the camera which you so nicely nearly loss."
"Sorry… I was overwhelmed by soul-sucking monsters." Ness grumbled.
"No matter, I got gossip and you Gryffindors saved the day." Selvis said, happily flipping open a book to jot something down, "Win-win!"
Ness rolled his eyes and looked out the window to admire the afternoon sun, "Geez… How long does it take to find the snack cart?" Ness muttered as he glanced at a small pile of books and magazines which belonged to the girls.
"Dunno, but knowing them they probably found someone to gab to." Selvis mused, "Huh… I should have planted one on Ginny. Girls seem to know everything and everyone…"
"If you did that Ginny would murder you." Ness pointed out, "Or, have you forgotten how she pinned you to the ground before the final Qudditch match?"
Selvis stiffened and looked away, muttering something under his breath as he scanned his book.
"We're back!" Ginny announced, the car door practically flying open as Ginny and Luna stepped inside, carrying an army of oddly shaped sweets.
"Good god!" Selvis exclaimed as Luna happily dumped some pumpkin pastries into his lap, "Did you buy out the entire cart or something?!"
"Only half of it." Luna teased as she sat back down in her mess of paper and took a bite out of her own pastry.
"We got really, really lucky!" Ginny exclaimed, practically glowing with happiness, "While Luna and I were trying to figure out what to buy, a Raven-claw girl by the name of Orchid Smith approached us and asked if we were friends with you Ness!"
"Annnd?" Ness questioned.
"Well, apparently, she's a huge fan of your adventure and offered to split half the cost of the pastries since she was picking some up for her friends as well! So we were able to get a huge selection!" Ginny finished.
Selvis snorted while Ness said, "Wow! That was really nice of her!"
"Especially since your family's too poor to afford decent books." Selvis quipped, giving Ginny's school book a look of disdain before he bit into his pumpkin treat.
Ginny sent him a death glare while Luna mused, "Orchid also seemed quiet interested in the camera you used Ness, saying that the quality of the picture you took reminded her of her hot-headed little brother's camera."
"Really?" Ness started to ask when Selvis violently choked on the mouthful he had been chewing and doubled over in a coughing fit.
"The Cho-Cho fairies must have got him!" Luna realized her eyes widening slightly in shock, while Ginny yelped, "I'll get water!"
"N-o!" Selvis wheezed, furiously pounding his chest as he coughed, "I'm good!"
"Well, he's talking so that means he can breathe." Ness noted as Ginny left the car to search for water, "How do you feel?"
"Like murdering someone." Selvis darkly muttered before he snapped, "Fine! Just a little surprised at Orchid's idiotic question." And huffily folded his arms. Ness and Luna exchanged a look but didn't press the question as Selvis shot them daggers.
When Ginny returned with water (Which Selvis grudgingly accepted after Ness threatened to use his PSI powers on him) they started talking about the meeting with Dumbledore.
"Honestly… He sounds like he knows more than he's letting on." Ginny admitted with a small frown, "Then again, this is Dumbledore we're talking about."
"True…" Ness said, "But what's bugging me the most is how he phrased everything—I mean, he outright distrusted Black when Voldemort was on the loose over past mistakes."
"Well Black did nearly get Professor Snape killed." Luna reminded them, "And he did become an illegal Animagus."
"Which was lucky left out of the story." Selvis recalled, "I thought it was a purpose mistake, but every newspaper except that news rag of yours Luna, seemed to have glossed over that fact."
"Well, the Ministry of Magic screwed up big time with letting Peter go scot free." Ginny started, "Letting the public know that there were two other Animagus wizards running around would be even worse."
Ness and Luna nodded in agreement while Selvis leaned against the compartment wall, "Still, Black was still reliable to James, something that should- No, completely changed Dumbledore's judgement on the matter since he's this all mighty wizard who sees the good in every human being and monster."
"And he loves keeping secrets." Ginny grumbled. Ness and Selvis shared a baffled look while Luna merely said, "Like the chamber?"
"Of course! How else could Fawkes could have found us!" Ginny angrily argued, although, she seemed a bit nervous and fearful about the event.
"Whose Fawkes?" Ness questioned, prompting Selvis to happily chirp, "Dumbledore's pet Phoenix, he saved Harry from the brink of death last year with its magical tears of healing."
"Phoenixes can do that!?" Ness exclaimed, "I thought they just set stuff on fire…"
"That too." Selvis dryly added.
"Anyway. The Chamber of Secrets is located in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, and the only way a person could get in was through a sink at the end of the room." Ginny explained, "But the catch was that only people who could speak parsel tongue, people who could speak snake could access the Chamber."
"Harry can talk to snakes? How?" Ness questioned, since Harry seemed surprised and amazed by his own ability to communicate with animals.
"No one really knows." Selvis sighed, "We have a couple rumors but those are less than truthful since they circle around Harry becoming the next dark lord or being his apprentice."
Luna nodded in agreement and twirled her quill in her fingers, "They were really bad theories though…"
"As I was saying." Ginny interrupted, "Only Harry could open the Chamber at the time, and he was dying while Ron was getting the teachers."
"And yet Fawkes managed to Desu Exmachina over to Harry's side." Ness finished.
"Desu what now?" Selvis questioned.
"Muggle term in movies in stories." Ness clarified, "It's where the hero gets stuck in this incredibly bleak and hopeless situation where it's 100% chance for them to die only to be rescued by a lady luck character who has next to no plausible explanation as to why they were there to save the day."
"So in other words… Dumbledore." Selvis said, his eyes lighting up slightly while Luna and Ginny exchanged a look, probably wondering if Dumbledore was indeed desu-exmacahina man.
"So back to the topic at hand, what's with the chamber?" Ness questioned, "It keeps popping up."
Selvis snorted and tilted his head to Ginny who flushed an embarrass yet angry red as he said, "Probably because our dear little lion was brainwashed by Tom Riddle, A.K.A Lord Voldemort to turn couple students, ghost and a cat into statues, kill a chicken and then lure her prince charming to the Chamber of Secrets."
"Ah… That's why it keeps popping up." Was all Ness could say before Ginny changed the subject, prompting the argument of the upcoming Quidditch World cup and who would win.
Ginny was beating on the Irish team while Selvis boasted that The Bulgarian team would win since they had Victor Krum on their team.
"I heard that he managed to catch the snitch 30 minutes after the game started." Selvis boasted, "Ireland's best seeker won't stand a chance against him!"
"Aidan Lynch will stand a chance against Krum, because he's going to send him back to the icy tundra!" Ginny hotly retorted.
"I. Am soooo lost." Ness said, he looked at Luna who was happily creating paper hats out of old notes, "Who are they talking about?"
"Qudditch players." Luna translated, "The World Cup is about to be announced, but it's clear that Ireland and Bulgaria are going to be facing off against one another at some point."
"If you say so, I'd rather focus on Baseball world cups." Ness said with a small shrug before asking, "So anyone got any summer plans?"
"I'm going bog hunting with my father." Luna happily answered while Selvis's eyes lit up with malice glee, "I plan on spending my summer organizing my gossip and secret collection."
"Ignoring that little fact." Ginny bluntly retorted before she said, "I'm not sure what I'm going this summer, it's sort of a tossup. What about you Ness? Anything interesting planned?"
"Baseball, bugging Jeff, relaxing and enjoying the sights in Onett." Ness said with a huge grin, "It'll be nice to be semi-normal again and not have to worry about magic for a bit."
"Magic is awesome." Selvis huffed, "You bloody Psi freak."
"Aw! You still like me!" Ness teased, earning an angry glower from Selvis and muffled hoots of laughter from the girls.
After that, they spent the remaining hours just chilling, enjoying the trees flying by the train and played cards where they discovered that playing Uno with three competitive people lead to yelling. Lots and lots of yelling and death threats.
"I'll send you a letter when I get home!" Ginny yelled as they got off the train with their trunks and headed their separate ways. "I'll try to do the same." Luna replied, but her yell was muffled by the buzz of conversation. Selvis merely stalked off to greet his parents while Ness happily enjoyed a tackle from King, who had snuck into the car when his father prepared for the long drive over to Europe.
"I swear he was going to murder me." His dad joked as King happily turned Ness's lap into a pillow, "He kept shooting me dirty looks when I said I was going to turn around."
"Hey! I'm just trying to be a good dog greeting his Master!" King protested, earning an eye roll from Ness as he teased, "Don't worry Dad, King's a bit to chicken to attack someone."
"I prefer the term, tame, civil and obedient. Not chicken, when it comes to attacking people." King huffed, his tail steadily thumping the car seat. Ness rolled his eyes once more and before he started talking with his dad about how Onett was and work.
Summer, Ness decided, was the season of interruptions. Sure, June and July had been swell since he had started playing baseball again, hung out with Paula and Jeff, raced King and Tracey around and other basic activities.
When August rolled around Ness was slowly regretting informing Paula of Dumbledore, wizards and their outfits since she had deemed them 'cultists'. Which was an overstatement but Ness was forced to let it slid every now and again considering the fact that Paula was wary of people wearing cloaks and robes after she had nearly became the Happy-Happy Priestess.
And even though the Happy-Happy cult were push overs, the thought of how actual cults worked terrified Paula to the point that she outright attacked people approaching her in robes that concealed your face and or outfit.
She had even attacked Ness once when he tried to prove that wizards weren't cultists because of their outfits. He quickly regretted doing that however since she had screamed "Cultist!" and chased him around her house with her frying pan until Ness had flung the robe off and yelled for mercy. Then it turned into a game of awkward and flustered apologies from both of them before Ness left. (Tracey happily teased him about that incident ever since.)
So when Ginny sent him a letter asking him to spend the rest of August at her house to attend the Qudditc World Cup (Her dad had won tickets for a huge group of people) Ness had hesitantly accepted, not because he didn't like Qudditch or because he didn't want to spend the remaining few weeks surrounded by wizards, but because she had asked if Ness could drag Paula along as well, her new muggle pen pal.
"She's going to murder you for sure." Tracey had said as Ness read the letter aloud and looked at his little sister and dog for help. "Yeeaaaa. You'd do better lying to Ginny about Paula being sick." King said, his ears flattening slightly as he remembered Paula's little freak out.
"How? She's sending the same letter to Paula." Ness said, glancing at an old battered owl by the name or Erowl, the Weasly's family owl. It was dozing on the windowsill, blissfully unware of King's long stares or the dilemma at hand.
"Besides, it's not like I can just walk up to Paula and ask her out to a wizard's house." Ness deadpanned.
"You could try~" Tracey offered, as their front door open, "Hello Ness! Tracey!" Paula chirped, a basket full of fresh veggies at her side as she closed the door behind her, "My mother wanted to give your mom some homegrown vegetables." Paula explained as she dumped the basket on the table.
"What's going on?" she questioned as she gave King a brief scratch behind the ears and sat down at the table, her hands neatly folded as she studied Ness's look of disbelief and Tracey who was biting her lip to suppress laughter.
"Hey uh, how do you feel about spending the summer at Ginny's place?" Ness questioned, waving the letter in the air, "She invited us to attend a Qudditch match that's happening later."
"Sounds exciting." Paula chirped, then she frowned and narrowed her eyes at Ness, "There's a catch, right?"
"Well if spending a couple nights in a house full of robe wearing wizards and then attending a sport made by and for wizards sounds like a catch, sue me." Ness said with a small shrug.
"There all wizards?" Paula questioned, sounding a little hesitant.
"Yup, and there at least 9 Wesley's to deal with, not including Harry and Hermione." Ness added. Paula hesitated before she fiddled with her summer yellow ribbon which had replaced her satin pink for the summer.
Paula bit her lip, played with her dress, then her ribbon before she sighed and answered, "I'll come." Ness grinned and opened his mouth to say "Awesome!" when Paula quickly added, "But I'm bringing my frying pan and sewing kit! Just because I need to get over my fear of cults-,"
"Which is perfectly understandable." Tracey interjected.
"Doesn't mean I'll go into a world of magic with just my PSI powers." Paula finished, "Now, what time are they supposed to pick us up?"
"We'll there supposed to pick me up via floo powder, whatever that is, And Ginny said that if we accepted then we'll leave two weeks before Augusts ends and I have to go back to being a 'wizard'."
"Flu powder?" Tracey questioned while King perked up, looking a little uneasy, "You won't get sick from this. Right?"
"Hope not." Ness said with a small shrug as Paula pursed her lips and thought for a bit, "Very well, then." Paula decided, "I might as well start packing for the big trip."
"You should pack as well Ness." Tracey teased, "Before you forget."
"I won't forget to pack my stuff, Tracey." Ness retorted.
"Sooo, you'll remember to pack your third-year books, your wand, your clothes for four seasons, your shoes, your potion ingredients and everything else?" Tracey asked, easily remembering every object from his school list with ease.
"Yes mother!" Ness playfully snapped earning a bark of laughter from King and twin eye rolls from the girls who knew he was going to forget.
One of the these days I shall figure out an update schedule that won't take me a full month to write and edit. T_T
On the bright side though, I should be able to update faster since I'm attempting to write shorter chapters (Everything under 10,000 words is to short...) which should allow me to jump around when I'm writing and give me an extra chapter to fall back on when I'm late.
