Weekend at the Granger's

Written By: K-Chan

Chapter 6: Giggly Girls and Board Games

"Oh, Harry. I'm sooo sorry about that!" Hermione apologized for the tenth time. "My grandmother's usually not that bad."

"It's okay," Harry lied, not wanting her to feel any worse than she already did.

All of a sudden, the doorbell rang. Mrs. Granger went to answer it. From the kitchen, Harry could hear girls giggling. He didn't like giggling. It reminded him of when he asked Cho to the Yule Ball in fourth year. Seconds later, Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil entered the room, carrying sleeping bags.

"Hi Harry, hey Hermione," Lavender said.

The three girls exchanged quick hugs and started talking rapidly. Harry couldn't understand a word they were saying. If this was how girls normally acted around each other, it was gonna be along night. He found himself wondering when Ron would get there. Harry was jerked back into reality as Hermione poked him.

"Uh, wha?" he sputtered.

"We're going into the living room," Hermione said, as Lavender and Parvati ran upstairs to drop off their bags.

The girls came back down and the four of them situated themselves on the living room floor. Hermione had gathered a collection of Muggle games and was passing them around.

"Here," she handed Harry 'Hungry Hungry Hippos.'

"Reminds me of Dudley," he said, looking down at the illustration on the cover.

After a few more minutes of looking through the games, they decided on 'Kids Monopoly.' Parvati opened the box and set out the board.

"I'll be banker," Hermione said as she separated the money into piles and began to dish out the correct amount to every player. Harry examined the plastic green car which was suppose to represent him. He couldn't quite remember the rules, since it had been so long since his last game, and Dudley had always cheated anyway. Luckily for him, neither did Lavender or Parvati, having come from wizard homes, so Hermione did a quick run-through of the rules.

Ten minutes into the game, Harry was losing spectacularly. To his luck, he had landed on 'Spaceship Ride,' 'Merry-go-Round,' and 'Cotton-Candy Stand,' all of which were owned by Parvati. She smiled broadly as he hander her a large wad of game money.

"Hermione, dinner!"

They all got up and headed into the kitchen as Mrs. Granger announced the meal. Sitting down at the table, Harry noticed that they had ordered pizzas. He could have sworn he saw Mrs. Granger cooking something earlier, but that thought was soon cast out by the act of eating.

After dinner, they completed the game. Parvati had won by quite a bit, and Harry had defiantly lost. While they were cleaning up, Lavender looked through Hermione's movie collection.

"Hey, Hermione! Let's watch a movie!" she suggested. Hermione agreed, so the girls searched through the large piles for the appropriate video. Harry got this odd sense of foreboding. Three girls. One guy. He was out-numbered. This was defiantly going to be a chick-flick.

While they searched through the pile, the Grangers came in to bid them goodnight. Mrs. Granger seemed a little reluctant to leave them there, making Harry a tad uncomfortable. What was she thinking was going to happen? He shook his head, trying to remove the bad mental image. Once Hermione's parents were gone, Parvati suggested another game.

"Let's play 'Truth or Dare.'"