A/N: ! I am just so happy. Okay N-E-Way, if you would like you can read The Time of Darkness before this, but it is not at all an essential. Now I would just straight out like to thank two wonderful people~
KELLY- Thank you so much for helping me with this! For the phone convo's, and the endless hours at Wendy's.
CHERYL- You know you helped me so much with this. Thanxs so much for helping realize what a grand idea this was. I love you both.
Disclaimer: Same old Same old. The song belongs to Bryan Adams though, the plot is mine though, thank you very much.
I anxiously waited for Hermione to pick up the fellytone after I punched in her number. On the third ring her sweet voice answered with a hello.
"Hello Hermione," I screamed into the fellytone, "Can you hear me?"
"Ron, you don't need to scream, talk like you normally talk. I'll hear you fine," she said softly.
"Oh, okay. Does this sound better?" I asked slightly lowering my voice.
"Yes, that's perfect. It's great to hear from you again. I was just about to send an owl to ask you over, but you called first, so do you want to come by for the rest of the summer?" Hermione asked happily.
"When? Now? I'll come whenever you say so!" I exclaimed in pure delight.
"Well you can come today if you like, we were hoping either that or tomorrow, you may be busy. Of course, I would figure that you might not be able to come right away-" I cut Hermione off in mid sentence.
"Mum said it's fine, I just asked her. She said they'll drop me off later tonight," I said in anticipation.
"That's great, you can eat supper at our place, my Mum always has adequate meals for us to eat, it'll be no problem at all. I guess I'll see you tonight," Hermione said in cheerfulness.
We both said goodbye and I began to pack right away. I was ready quickly, and an hour later all my stuff was at the fireplace. It seamed like ages until 6:00 when dad finally came home. Using Floo Powder we were transported to a beautiful house painted white with antique dishes on the wall which rose high to make the ceiling seem far away. The room was furnished in an old English style that looked marvelous.
"Ron it's so good to see you again," Hermione said embracing me in a tight hug and a quick kiss on the cheek, "Hello Mr. Weasley, may I once again introduce you to my parents." At this, she turned around, and behind her stood her parents. They were smiling kindly, both of them dressed like the Dursleys
had been when we picked up Harry last year.
"Hello, how do you do?" Mrs. Granger asked in a kind voice.
"Fine, and you," I replied also saying hello to Mr. Granger. I then turned back to Hermione who motioned me to follow her. I grabbed my trunk and left my dad to Hermione's parents. I heard him asking about the television in the room already.
Hermione lead me through the first hallway and up the stairs into the first the door on the right. "You can drop your stuff by the bed, this will be your room during your stay," Hermione said smiling as we walked into the room. It was huge; it had to be 5 times the size of my room. It was a light-orange color that resembled my walls filled with my posters.
"It's orange, just like my room," I said out load.
"Ha, wait till you see this, she turned and walked to the door. She closed it gently and when she moved aside, it reviled, what else, a picture of a large cannon with Chudley Cannon's shooting out of it.
"Where'd you get that Hermione? That's a collectors poster!" I exclaimed as I watched the 4 Quidditch balls zoom around.
"Oh, well I was looking in Quidditch through the Ages for some information on our report, and this fell out. I thought you may like to have it," Hermione replied as she once again opened the door and led me back into the hallway.
I followed Hermione and listened intently as she showed me where her parents room was, her 4 bathrooms were, the kitchen, basement, dining room, some of the other guest rooms, the large attic, the music room, her parents study, the den, the laundry room, and lastly her room. All of the rooms got more unique than the others and all of them seemed to get more, and more beautiful.
"Ron my room isn't clean, but I'll let you come in anyway," Hermione said opening the oak door. Her room was a blended shade of blue, purple, and pink. The colors mixed to make her room seem like it was in the sky. I couldn't believe she said it was dirty. For one thing, there was hardly anything in the room, aside from her trunk, bed, and a miniature table. Off to the right a doorway was colored like her room so you could hardly tell it was there.
"And what's in that room?" I asked in curiosity wondering what it could possibly hold.
"This would be the best room in the whole entire house," she said walking to the door and opening it widely, it was much unlike her colourful room, rather it was a room that resembled the oak door, "This, is the library."
Books, millions and millions of books everywhere, "I thought the school library was big, this is…unbelievable!"
"I stay here a lot when it's raining, or if I feel like I need to get away from the world, I just drown myself in a book," Hermione said sitting back in a red chair.
"Well all I can say is your house in amazing. What's that?" I asked pointing to an odd circular thing.
"That's a CD player, and this is a CD. A CD has music on it, so you put it into the CD player. Put on the head phones, push play and you've got music in your ears," Hermione latched the headphones on to my ears and pushed the play button. All of a sudden sound came into my ears just as Hermione had said it would.
"WOW! THIS IS COOL!" I yelled nodding my head to the music.
"I know it is, I'd be lost without it," she said smiling as the song finished.
"I never knew you liked to listen to music," I said in wonder.
"Yeah, no one does. They just expect I don't," Hermione said shrugging her shoulders dropping the subject.
"Who is this anyway, is it that new band the Wicked Witches from the West?" I inquired not knowing who it could possibly be.
"No, it's a muggle band named Offspring, and the song you just listened to is called Falling," Hermione answered.
"Offspring is a good muggle band, the music it awesome," I said putting the CD player back on the table.
"Dinners ready!" Mrs. Granger shouted from the dining room. I followed Hermione into the dining room, which looked sacred with its long glistening chandelier set in the center. There were plates of delicious foods that reminded me just how hungry I was. "Go on and sit down, we don't want to food to get cold."
Everyone sat down and started to eat. Mr. Granger finished first and went into the study. "Mrs. Granger this food is great," I said putting my plate in the kitchen sink.
"Why thank you Ron, it took me all day over the stove to prepare it. I'm glad that you're enjoying it," she answered smiling kindly.
"It took you all day? But couldn't you, didn't you," I stopped myself in confusion.
"That's right Ron, no wand in the muggle world, everything's by hand around here," Hermione said in amusement.
"Wow, how do you do all the dishes? I can't believe everything takes a whole day," I said in awe.
"Not everything Ron," Hermione said pulling something down from a cupboard, "Easy Mac only takes 5 minutes!"
"Cool! Can we make some tomorrow?" I asked looking at the peculiar blue package Hermione was holding.
"Of course you can, but for now you should go upstairs and unpack," Mrs. Granger said.
"Yeah, I should do that," I said climbing up to my room, Hermione close behind.
"So what do you want to do tonight? If you'd like we could go swimming," Hermione suggested.
"You have a lake? Cool, I only knew one person with a lake, and that's Dumbledore!" I said thinking of what it would be like.
"Actually it's a pool. I'll show you all right? Do you have a swim suit?" Hermione asked me raising her eyebrow.
"Yeah, I did, Mum conjured it, said it would be useful," I said thinking of my mothers words.
"Well can I see it?" Hermione asked me apparently wanting to make sure I had the right thing. I got out my suit. "Okay, there's a bathroom in your room right over there, you can go ahead and get read
I changed quickly and waited for Hermione outside of her doorway. She came out a minute later looking beautiful. She had on a two piece blue bathing suit outlined in red. It was a pearly color that brought out her eyes, "You look great."
"Thanks, here's your towel, lets go," Hermione said blushing a deep red. We walked outside, and it shocked me what I saw. Her pool was underground like a lake, except it looked 5 times as big. It was over 40ft long and 15 wide. There was a strange board, a big slide and the pool locked about 12ft deep at the middle part.
"Wow, this is amazing. Did you make it all by yourself?" I asked in shock.
"Yeah, with a little bit of help from the construction works, it took a long time, but it turned out great. They had already started on it before we moved in the people but they only had it dug out so we just figured we might as well finish it up," Hermione explained going up the slide and sliding down. I went to the board and jumped in, much to my surprise it bounced under me.
"This is fun! What do you call that thing?" I asked after surfacing.
"That's a diving board Ron, look I'll show you how to dive," Hermione said getting on to the board and jumping in like a fish.
"I can do that!" I said diving into the water.
"I can do better than that," Hermione called doing a triple twist and diving in next to me.
"Oh well…you win," I told her and then decided there was something else I could do, "But can you do this?" I climbed to the top of the slide, which had to have been a good 50ft high, got on my stomach, and face first went sliding down. The slide twisted and turned and I went flying out 10ft at the end.
"Yeah I can," Hermione climbed up and lying like me she went down, but first she pushed a button making jets go all along the slide. She came out twisting and landed far more than ten feet from the spot I had landed.
"Well then, I think you did a little better on that one than me," I said in amusement.
"Maybe, anyway how has your summer been so far?" Hermione asked climbing on to a mattress.
"Oh well there's good news the Ministry has finally started to count out the drops in liquid potions because of fear that there may be too much," I said trying to sound thrilled at Percy's new…job.
"Oh my gosh, what will they come up with next," Hermione said shaking her head in disbelief.
"Besides that it's been cool, what about yours, have you visited Vicky?" I asked. This was the question I had been anxiously waiting to figure out. I had been thinking she would go to his house every since that article.
"Ron, me and Viktor just didn't work it out," she said sighing deeply. I felt ecstatic; Hermione and Vicky were over.
"Oh really, gee, I am sorry to hear that," I said trying with all my power not to jump around screaming in joy.
"Well you know how it can be, Bulgaria really doesn't want visitors right now, and besides his parents are home. Next year he'll have his own place though," Hermione said.
My heart sunk to the soles of my feet. They were still together. However, suddenly a thought struck me. I had one year left to get Hermione to realize I could treat her better than Vicky.
Ron, Ron, RON! Are you listening to me?" Hermione screamed interrupting my thoughts.
"Sorry, what did you say?" I answered.
"I said let's have a race, there back there and back again," she said.
"Right, 1…2…3…go!" I exclaimed. I swam forward under water and I came up in the middle section, by the time I reached the final finish point Hermione had been done for 5 minutes, "Your pool is long!"
"Yeah, but if you try to swim above the water it seems just a little less distant," Hermione said dunking he head under the clear water. She looked beautiful. Then in alarm I realized her eyes were open.
"Hermione! You forgot to close your eyes, don't forget," I said in concern.
"Ron, you oaf, you can open your eyes underwater if it doesn't hurt you too much, and here, just in case these are goggles. They protect your eyes," Hermione said handing me black rubbery spectacles.
"They look rather queer, what are they supposed to be?" I asked.
"Just put them on and go underwater, leave your eyes open though," Hermione said. I did what she told me, and was amazed to discover I could see clearly from them.
"Hermione, these are amazing, did you make these?" I questioned in excitement.
"No, not at all, we bought them. From the store you know," she replied.
A/N: Vell, vat do you think? You like? More? It all depends on you reviewers!
KELLY- Thank you so much for helping me with this! For the phone convo's, and the endless hours at Wendy's.
CHERYL- You know you helped me so much with this. Thanxs so much for helping realize what a grand idea this was. I love you both.
Disclaimer: Same old Same old. The song belongs to Bryan Adams though, the plot is mine though, thank you very much.
I anxiously waited for Hermione to pick up the fellytone after I punched in her number. On the third ring her sweet voice answered with a hello.
"Hello Hermione," I screamed into the fellytone, "Can you hear me?"
"Ron, you don't need to scream, talk like you normally talk. I'll hear you fine," she said softly.
"Oh, okay. Does this sound better?" I asked slightly lowering my voice.
"Yes, that's perfect. It's great to hear from you again. I was just about to send an owl to ask you over, but you called first, so do you want to come by for the rest of the summer?" Hermione asked happily.
"When? Now? I'll come whenever you say so!" I exclaimed in pure delight.
"Well you can come today if you like, we were hoping either that or tomorrow, you may be busy. Of course, I would figure that you might not be able to come right away-" I cut Hermione off in mid sentence.
"Mum said it's fine, I just asked her. She said they'll drop me off later tonight," I said in anticipation.
"That's great, you can eat supper at our place, my Mum always has adequate meals for us to eat, it'll be no problem at all. I guess I'll see you tonight," Hermione said in cheerfulness.
We both said goodbye and I began to pack right away. I was ready quickly, and an hour later all my stuff was at the fireplace. It seamed like ages until 6:00 when dad finally came home. Using Floo Powder we were transported to a beautiful house painted white with antique dishes on the wall which rose high to make the ceiling seem far away. The room was furnished in an old English style that looked marvelous.
"Ron it's so good to see you again," Hermione said embracing me in a tight hug and a quick kiss on the cheek, "Hello Mr. Weasley, may I once again introduce you to my parents." At this, she turned around, and behind her stood her parents. They were smiling kindly, both of them dressed like the Dursleys
had been when we picked up Harry last year.
"Hello, how do you do?" Mrs. Granger asked in a kind voice.
"Fine, and you," I replied also saying hello to Mr. Granger. I then turned back to Hermione who motioned me to follow her. I grabbed my trunk and left my dad to Hermione's parents. I heard him asking about the television in the room already.
Hermione lead me through the first hallway and up the stairs into the first the door on the right. "You can drop your stuff by the bed, this will be your room during your stay," Hermione said smiling as we walked into the room. It was huge; it had to be 5 times the size of my room. It was a light-orange color that resembled my walls filled with my posters.
"It's orange, just like my room," I said out load.
"Ha, wait till you see this, she turned and walked to the door. She closed it gently and when she moved aside, it reviled, what else, a picture of a large cannon with Chudley Cannon's shooting out of it.
"Where'd you get that Hermione? That's a collectors poster!" I exclaimed as I watched the 4 Quidditch balls zoom around.
"Oh, well I was looking in Quidditch through the Ages for some information on our report, and this fell out. I thought you may like to have it," Hermione replied as she once again opened the door and led me back into the hallway.
I followed Hermione and listened intently as she showed me where her parents room was, her 4 bathrooms were, the kitchen, basement, dining room, some of the other guest rooms, the large attic, the music room, her parents study, the den, the laundry room, and lastly her room. All of the rooms got more unique than the others and all of them seemed to get more, and more beautiful.
"Ron my room isn't clean, but I'll let you come in anyway," Hermione said opening the oak door. Her room was a blended shade of blue, purple, and pink. The colors mixed to make her room seem like it was in the sky. I couldn't believe she said it was dirty. For one thing, there was hardly anything in the room, aside from her trunk, bed, and a miniature table. Off to the right a doorway was colored like her room so you could hardly tell it was there.
"And what's in that room?" I asked in curiosity wondering what it could possibly hold.
"This would be the best room in the whole entire house," she said walking to the door and opening it widely, it was much unlike her colourful room, rather it was a room that resembled the oak door, "This, is the library."
Books, millions and millions of books everywhere, "I thought the school library was big, this is…unbelievable!"
"I stay here a lot when it's raining, or if I feel like I need to get away from the world, I just drown myself in a book," Hermione said sitting back in a red chair.
"Well all I can say is your house in amazing. What's that?" I asked pointing to an odd circular thing.
"That's a CD player, and this is a CD. A CD has music on it, so you put it into the CD player. Put on the head phones, push play and you've got music in your ears," Hermione latched the headphones on to my ears and pushed the play button. All of a sudden sound came into my ears just as Hermione had said it would.
"WOW! THIS IS COOL!" I yelled nodding my head to the music.
"I know it is, I'd be lost without it," she said smiling as the song finished.
"I never knew you liked to listen to music," I said in wonder.
"Yeah, no one does. They just expect I don't," Hermione said shrugging her shoulders dropping the subject.
"Who is this anyway, is it that new band the Wicked Witches from the West?" I inquired not knowing who it could possibly be.
"No, it's a muggle band named Offspring, and the song you just listened to is called Falling," Hermione answered.
"Offspring is a good muggle band, the music it awesome," I said putting the CD player back on the table.
"Dinners ready!" Mrs. Granger shouted from the dining room. I followed Hermione into the dining room, which looked sacred with its long glistening chandelier set in the center. There were plates of delicious foods that reminded me just how hungry I was. "Go on and sit down, we don't want to food to get cold."
Everyone sat down and started to eat. Mr. Granger finished first and went into the study. "Mrs. Granger this food is great," I said putting my plate in the kitchen sink.
"Why thank you Ron, it took me all day over the stove to prepare it. I'm glad that you're enjoying it," she answered smiling kindly.
"It took you all day? But couldn't you, didn't you," I stopped myself in confusion.
"That's right Ron, no wand in the muggle world, everything's by hand around here," Hermione said in amusement.
"Wow, how do you do all the dishes? I can't believe everything takes a whole day," I said in awe.
"Not everything Ron," Hermione said pulling something down from a cupboard, "Easy Mac only takes 5 minutes!"
"Cool! Can we make some tomorrow?" I asked looking at the peculiar blue package Hermione was holding.
"Of course you can, but for now you should go upstairs and unpack," Mrs. Granger said.
"Yeah, I should do that," I said climbing up to my room, Hermione close behind.
"So what do you want to do tonight? If you'd like we could go swimming," Hermione suggested.
"You have a lake? Cool, I only knew one person with a lake, and that's Dumbledore!" I said thinking of what it would be like.
"Actually it's a pool. I'll show you all right? Do you have a swim suit?" Hermione asked me raising her eyebrow.
"Yeah, I did, Mum conjured it, said it would be useful," I said thinking of my mothers words.
"Well can I see it?" Hermione asked me apparently wanting to make sure I had the right thing. I got out my suit. "Okay, there's a bathroom in your room right over there, you can go ahead and get read
I changed quickly and waited for Hermione outside of her doorway. She came out a minute later looking beautiful. She had on a two piece blue bathing suit outlined in red. It was a pearly color that brought out her eyes, "You look great."
"Thanks, here's your towel, lets go," Hermione said blushing a deep red. We walked outside, and it shocked me what I saw. Her pool was underground like a lake, except it looked 5 times as big. It was over 40ft long and 15 wide. There was a strange board, a big slide and the pool locked about 12ft deep at the middle part.
"Wow, this is amazing. Did you make it all by yourself?" I asked in shock.
"Yeah, with a little bit of help from the construction works, it took a long time, but it turned out great. They had already started on it before we moved in the people but they only had it dug out so we just figured we might as well finish it up," Hermione explained going up the slide and sliding down. I went to the board and jumped in, much to my surprise it bounced under me.
"This is fun! What do you call that thing?" I asked after surfacing.
"That's a diving board Ron, look I'll show you how to dive," Hermione said getting on to the board and jumping in like a fish.
"I can do that!" I said diving into the water.
"I can do better than that," Hermione called doing a triple twist and diving in next to me.
"Oh well…you win," I told her and then decided there was something else I could do, "But can you do this?" I climbed to the top of the slide, which had to have been a good 50ft high, got on my stomach, and face first went sliding down. The slide twisted and turned and I went flying out 10ft at the end.
"Yeah I can," Hermione climbed up and lying like me she went down, but first she pushed a button making jets go all along the slide. She came out twisting and landed far more than ten feet from the spot I had landed.
"Well then, I think you did a little better on that one than me," I said in amusement.
"Maybe, anyway how has your summer been so far?" Hermione asked climbing on to a mattress.
"Oh well there's good news the Ministry has finally started to count out the drops in liquid potions because of fear that there may be too much," I said trying to sound thrilled at Percy's new…job.
"Oh my gosh, what will they come up with next," Hermione said shaking her head in disbelief.
"Besides that it's been cool, what about yours, have you visited Vicky?" I asked. This was the question I had been anxiously waiting to figure out. I had been thinking she would go to his house every since that article.
"Ron, me and Viktor just didn't work it out," she said sighing deeply. I felt ecstatic; Hermione and Vicky were over.
"Oh really, gee, I am sorry to hear that," I said trying with all my power not to jump around screaming in joy.
"Well you know how it can be, Bulgaria really doesn't want visitors right now, and besides his parents are home. Next year he'll have his own place though," Hermione said.
My heart sunk to the soles of my feet. They were still together. However, suddenly a thought struck me. I had one year left to get Hermione to realize I could treat her better than Vicky.
Ron, Ron, RON! Are you listening to me?" Hermione screamed interrupting my thoughts.
"Sorry, what did you say?" I answered.
"I said let's have a race, there back there and back again," she said.
"Right, 1…2…3…go!" I exclaimed. I swam forward under water and I came up in the middle section, by the time I reached the final finish point Hermione had been done for 5 minutes, "Your pool is long!"
"Yeah, but if you try to swim above the water it seems just a little less distant," Hermione said dunking he head under the clear water. She looked beautiful. Then in alarm I realized her eyes were open.
"Hermione! You forgot to close your eyes, don't forget," I said in concern.
"Ron, you oaf, you can open your eyes underwater if it doesn't hurt you too much, and here, just in case these are goggles. They protect your eyes," Hermione said handing me black rubbery spectacles.
"They look rather queer, what are they supposed to be?" I asked.
"Just put them on and go underwater, leave your eyes open though," Hermione said. I did what she told me, and was amazed to discover I could see clearly from them.
"Hermione, these are amazing, did you make these?" I questioned in excitement.
"No, not at all, we bought them. From the store you know," she replied.
A/N: Vell, vat do you think? You like? More? It all depends on you reviewers!
