A/N: Thanks to every one for reviewing

A/N: Thanks to every one for reviewing. This chapter, you have to look forward to Harry going to the Burrow. Hermione definitely will be there. There will also be a twist with Ginny further on, maybe in one or two chapters time, but my lips are sealed…. Read on and don't forget to review!

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Chapter Three



"Hi! Harry!" Ginny welcomed from the gate as Harry, Ron and Mr Weasley climbed out of the back seat of a large black Ministry of Magic car. Mrs Weasley stood at the kitchen waving while preparing a welcome lunch for Harry and Hermione. Hermione would be arriving later after being dropped off by her parents.

When Harry got out of the car Ginny rushed up to him to help with all of his belongings.

"Hi, how've you been?" Harry asked as they all walked inside the overlarge, rickety building.

Ginny barely had time to answer before Mrs Weasley rushed towards Harry and gave him an extra big hug. Harry felt, once again, as if he was back where he belonged, with people of his own kind.

"Why don't you all go upstairs?" Mr Weasley asked Ron as he ushered the friends out of his wife's way and the kitchen.

When they were barely three steps up towards Ron's room the doorbell rang again and it was the boys' other best friend – Hermione Granger.

When the three had been reunited they set off once again up towards the top of the house and Ron's bedroom. Finally, reaching the correct door, they walked into the fiery orange inferno and sat down. Hermione, who seemed extremely happy to see the boys, went in her pocket and pulled out the recent copy of The Daily Prophet.

"Look at this," Hermione pointed to the headline and shaking her head in disgust, "24 muggles killed. I think it's sick." Harry and Ron knew she meant that Voldemort's supporters had killed them. Of course Cornelius Fudge (the Minister of Magic) still refused to believe that the days of the Dark Lord had returned.

Harry had often lain awake at night thinking of what the Dark Lord would do next. He wondered and worried for not just his safety, but his friends' safety as well. This was because he knew all too well that anything dangerous Harry attempted this year; Ron and Hermione would try and help him or stop him. It wasn't that Harry wanted to risk his life deliberately; he remembered the night of the final task, in the Triwizard Tournament, when Cedric Diggory had been killed at Harry's side and the echoes of his parents last moments all too clearly.

That night, when Harry and his companions had finished eating their supper, Hermione pulled out a list of hexes, shielding charms and curses and read it to the twins, Ron, Harry and Ginny. "These are a few spells that I thought were necessary to learn. They aren't that hard and we should start practicing in two days time."