Chapter 3: The Burrow

Harry woke to the sound of someone pounding on his bedroom door. He had overslept! He put on his glasses and ran over to the door, and opened it. Ron frantically ran into Harry's room and began to pick up stuff and take it out. Fred, George, and Ginny had come in to do the same. Just as Fred picked up Harry's trunk, Harry told him to leave it since he hadn't had a chance to get dressed. All of the Weasley's went back downstairs. Excited, Harry grabbed some clothes from the top of his trunk and put them on. He stuffed his pyjamas into the trunk and locked it. He picked it up by the handle and began to drag it across the floor toward the door. Just as he was about to open the door, it flew opened and Ron came bouncing in. "Hiya Harry." He looked at Harry struggling with the oversized trunk. "Need some help?"

"Yeah, thanks Ron. So how's your summer been?"

"Well it was kind of good. Mum and Dad made us all go to Romania to visit Charlie. It was really hot there but it was fun for the first three days. Then it was boring."

"At least you got out of your house. The farthest I've gotten from here all summer was down to that park on the corner."

They finally reached the front door, where the whole Weasley family stood waiting.

"All set, Harry?" Mr. Weasley looked over at Harry. "Anything you want to say to the mug-I mean your aunt and uncle?"

"Yeah. But I want to talk to Dudley."

"Well I don't want to talk to you." Dudley had a smirk on his face but his eyes never left the Weasley twins.

"All I wanted to say was have fun at fat kid camp." Harry laughed as he said this. Dudley looked completely horrified. "Oops sorry Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia I thought he knew."

"Get out of my house, boy. And never come back!" Vernon shouted as he pointed toward the door.

"Gladly. Ron? Give me a hand?"

"Sure."

As they drove up the driveway of the Burrow, Harry felt happy. He hadn't felt happy in a long time and this truly made him feel happy because he knew that this was is home from now on. "Ahh, how I've missed this place."

"Well Harry it's your home too now." Fred said this with excitement, while looking at Ginny who wasn't too thrilled with it. "Oh come on Ginny if you want Potter to be your boyfriend then living with him is the next best thing." Everyone except Ginny laughed at this comment. Ginny just turned the other way and ignored them all.

"Oh Harry! Fred and I have very big new to tell you!!" George sounded rather excited about this news. "It will have to wait until we get home though." He whispered so low that even Harry, who sat beside him, could barely hear. "Mum would go mad if she found out the news."

Harry laughed. "Since when did that stop you before?"

"It hasn't but this time it could."

"Ok everyone out." Mr. Weasley had parked the car and was not opening the trunk. "Harry you can sleep on the spare bed in Ron's room, as usual."

"Thank you."

As Harry entered the Burrow he smiled. He loved this place. The smell, the magic of it. Harry followed Ron upstairs to his room. He always slept on the pull out couch in Ron's room. "You can put your trunk anywhere, mate. Afterall it's your room now too."

"Yeah. Thanks." Harry smiled at Ron's comment and set his trunk down at the end of his bed. "So what happened to you this summer? Anything new with the order?"

"Not a thing. Mum and Dad have become a little worried since they haven't had a single meeting since SI-I mean that night at the ministry. The way I see it is if there's no meetings that means nothing is happening with Vol-You Know Who."

"That's very true. No news is usually good news, right?"

"Oh, that sounds like mum yelling. I'll bet supper is done. Good thing too, I'm starved."

After supper had been eaten and cleaned up, Harry and Ron decided to sit in Ron's room and discuss everything that has happened since the last time they were together.

"So, is it true your cousin, Dudley has to go to a fat kid camp?" Ron asked this laughing hysterically.

"Yeah." Harry replied laughing just as hard as Ron. "I don't think it will do any good though." They both erupted in a series of laughter.

"Ok boys, time for bed. Tomorrow is a big day for you." Mrs. Weasley had stood in the doorway of the room for a moment then left again.

"Yeah. Mum is right tomorrow is a big day. Chudley Cannons game." Ron said this smiling from ear to ear, as he pulled his pyjamas out of his top drawer. Harry also got his pyjamas out of his trunk and began to undress. "I am so excited for it. Aren't you Harry?"

"Yeah. I haven't even heard anything about quidditch in a long time." By this time Harry had already taken his glasses off and was lying under the covers. "Anyways, I'm tired I'm going to go to sleep now. Good night Ron."

"Night, Harry." Ron turned off the light and climbed into bed.