Life Of Ron Weasley
Chapter 4: The Trip
Ron woke up and started to pack. He was so excited. He always wanted to go to Harry's. Harry would be picking him up at 10:00 AM. He was all packed up by 8:00 AM, so he went downstairs and got breakfast. He was done eating by 8:30, so he played 10 games of Gobblestones with Fred and another 10 with George. He looked at the clock and realized it was 9:30. He got his trunk out of his room, brought Pigwidgeon (his owl he called "pig") and was done double-checking the whole house, and put everything he found in his trunk. Vaguely wondering where Sirius was, he closed up his trunk, and ran up to his room to grab his Omnioculuars (he had gotten them the previous year when they went to a Quidditch world cup game. He checked his room one more time, and then pulled out old socks with holes in them to give to Dobby. He threw both of those in his truck and it was already 9:50.
**MEANWHILE AT UNCLE VERNON'S HOUSE**
"You better hurry up boy!! I might change my mind." It was Uncle Vernon still pushing Harry around. Harry was still cleaning up the whole house. He checked his watch. It was 9:45. He looked around quickly, and than dug out an old spell book, and looked through it until he found was he was looking for.
"Cella Mundo" The whole room was in ship shape. He went to the next room and did the same thing until the whole house was clean. "Done Uncle Vernon!!!" he screamed. "I gotta go pick up Ron and Hermione!" He ran upstairs and took Hedwig out of her cage and wrote in scribble scrabble (he wrote squiggly lines that meant nothing) and folded it passed it to Hedwig and whispered Ron. She was flying, and Harry was following her on his broomstick. See, he didn't know how to get to Ron's house from Uncle Vernon's and had no money to get a train, so he simply just sent Hedwig and followed her. He looked at his watch it was now 9:48. He kept following her, and by the time he got to Ron's house it was 10:15.
"Ron!! Hi!!" Harry screamed. Ron had grown even more and the scary thing was that he, Harry was a couple inches shorter than him now.
"Ha-Harr-Harry? Is that you? Wow, you're taller. In just a month?"
"You got taller too!"
"Wow, doesn't it feel great to be in 5th year? We could do some magic out of school."
"Yeah, know, I did that today!"
"Well, we really should be going."
"Yeah, we should. By the way I need to pick up Hermione also, you don't mind do you?"
"Not at all, as a matter of fact, I'll ride my broom. I picked it up this summer."
Ron ran upstairs and started to dig through all of the junk in his room, leaving Harry downstairs. He found his broom, and ran downstairs. "K, I'm ready."
Harry, once again wrote a scribble scrabble note, and handed it to Hedwig, then whispered Hermione. Harry and Ron followed, and Harry checked his watch 10:25. They could make it in 15 min. They followed Hedwig, daydreaming of the perfect summer they were about to have.
**MEANWHILE AT HERMIONE'S HOUSE**
"Really Mum, it's only going to be for the next to weeks. Schools gonna start and I promise to send you an owl a day while I'm at Harry's. I'll have a great time, I know it."
"Well, as long as you send me an owl a day, and I'll send you one if you want. How do you work them again?"
"Really, it's quite easy. You right a letter and hand it over to Brainy," said Hermione. She had finally gotten an owl and named it Brainy. "Then you whisper where you want it to go, and then it will go there. I'll you have to say is 'Hermione' and it will take it right to me."
"Well, if you wish."
"I still don't want you to go," her dad had entered the conversation.
"Daddy, I'll be fine."
"But you're my little angel."
"I know, you must have told me this a hundred times now, but I still love you, and I still love, (**fakes a cough**) like Harry. And Ron for that matter, and I want to spend time with them.
Hermione's mum and dad looked at her and smiled. They had both witnessed that kiss she had given Harry in the beginning of summer.
"Oh my!! Look at the time. It's 10:40!! Where could they be?" said Hermione's mom.
"You don't know Harry and Ron very well. They are never on time for anything, they were supposed to be here 10 min ago, and plus, there they are right there!" said Hermione pointing to the sky.
Her parents looked up. They saw Harry following an owl that landed in Hermione's arms, and Ron with a trunk tied to the end of his broomstick. He had obviously turned it feather-light, since they were allowed to perform small, limited, simple spells during the holidays. She had done the same thing with her trunk because she knew Harry would be there to pick her up.
Harry hurried down, and took Hermione aside. Ron was curious to see what they were doing, so he spied on them. Harry kissed Hermione on the cheek. How rude!!! Ron had really liked Hermione for a very long time and now Harry was kissing her. Well at least it was a short one. They all went back to Hermione's parents and tied Hermione's trunk to the back of Harry's broomstick.
"You can ride on the back of my broomstick, Hermie." said Ron.
"Thanks Ron!!" So she climbed on the back of Ron's broomstick and held on to his shoulders really hard. Ron and Harry kicked off, and Harry was 20 feet in front of Ron, so Ron started phrasing words in his head. He finally knew what he wanted to say.
"Hey Hermie?"
"Yeah, Ron?"
"Well I was just wondering if u know you'd…er…like to go to Diagon Alley with me to buy my school stuff?"
"Weren't we already planning to do that?"
"No, I mean just you and me."
"Oh I think I know what you mean Ron, and I'm sorry, because I'm not ready, not after Ced-"
"Don't go on Hermie."
"Thank you, but why do you keep calling me Hermie?"
"It's shorter."
"Please use my full name."
"Ok Hermione."
"Well, I think Harry is signaling us to fly down."
"What makes you think?"
"Well, he's diving downward, and motioning us to follow."
"Oh, I knew that," said Ron going crimson.
So they went after Harry, but before landing Hermione told Ron she was sorry one more time.
Then they all stepped forward and into Uncle Vernon's house.