"No! No! Please, anything but that!" Hermione heard the
complaints of Ron as his mother took out his older brother's battered
graduation robes. Mrs. Weasley tried to reason with him.
"Now Ron, I know that these look old and battered to you,
but really, we can't afford new ones right now, can we?" She scolded him
reminding him about their financial problems.
"Yeah, Ron, don't worry about it, those robes aren't ugly,
they have character!" Fred, Ron's older brother teased. While Percy busied
himself straightening Fred's tie.
Ron rolled his eyes. "Oh come on, you don't expect me to
wear thoseā¦things? Do you?" he stared at the tattered robes in
disgust.
Hermione felt
somebody grab her arm and turned around. It was Ron's little sister, Ginny.
"Come on! I think
after being close friends with us for so long you'd realize by now, family
crisis's happen all the time!" Ginny whined, "Plus, we've got to help Nata get
her dress on, she's only four you know!" They hurried into the girls room to
help Ginny's little sister.
After a lot of
fidgeting and groaning from Ron and Nata, they were ready to go. Then they
heard a knock on the door. Ginny ran to answer it.
"Harry!" she cried,
sweeping him in a hug. "We were just about to leave! Come in!" Hermione and Ron
appeared in the doorway.
"Bugger off Ginny!"
Ron said, still cross about having to wear his brother's old robes.
"I'm only one year
younger than you! I'm not the little on anymore Ron!" Ginny said with a
displeased look upon her face.
"Nice robes Ron."
Harry commented, trying not to stifle a laugh.
Ron rolled his eyes
and slapped Harry hard on the back.
"Yes, they're the
latest fashion in Men's wear. Straight
from the dusty closet. They have a stunning scent of George's body odor." He said
putting on his best impression of a fashion announcer.
"Has Bethany arrived
yet, Ron?" Harry asked, giving Ron an
odd look.
"Nope, her parents
are taking her. We're going to have to meet her at the Ceremony." Harry
suddenly noticed Hermione was there.
"Are you meeting Seamus at the Ceremony as well?" He asked
her.
"Yeah, he's says his mum takes forever to get ready, so he
wouldn't have been here until five minutes after we left." Hermione said,
rolling her eyes. Harry laughed. He
still remembered the time Seamus couldn't come to Hermione's birthday trip
because supposedly his "mum wouldn't let him". Harry noticed something
different about Hermione, but he didn't have time to figure out what it was
because a three foot blur of fiery hair came zooming down the hallway.
"Harry!" Nata shrieked ramming into Ron at top speed. "Harry,
Harry, Harry, Harry, Harry!"