A/N - Thank you all for your reviews - im so happy, he he. I never thought it would work. Sorry the last chapter seemed rushed, i couldn't get it to work so I didnt put enough effort into it... enjoy chapter 2...

Dissclaimer - everything belongs to the wonderful J. K. Rowling.


Petunia and Dudley were standing to the back of the room, each remembering the last time this family had come here.

Harry stood up from where he had been sitting on the sofa. Happiness was shown clearly on his face. The Weasleys! They were like his family, to see them after this time with the Dursleys was great he wanted to leave now but knew he would have to be patient.

Harry watched each of the Weasleys enter the living room, of course Bill, Charlie and Percy weren't there. They were all working. Fred and George had taken the time out of the Joke shop to come and see Harry again.

"Harry, dear" said Mrs Weasley reaching forward to hug him. Hermione was the next to follow, embracing him deeply, "How are you? No more developments on You-Know-Who?" She whispered, worry apparant in her eyes.

He smiled slightly, it was strange to feel love directed to him in this house, the house which had been a living hell for him the past 16 years of his live.

The last person to enter the living room was the smallest Weasley. He looked at her, astonished by her beauty. She was no longer the little girl that had followed him around when he was twelve, she was different, she was incredible! He didn't want to stare at her for too long, he feared that the rest of the people in the room would notice.

"How've you been mate?" asked Ron, eager to catch up on news that he and his best friend had missed, though he doubted that there would be much news, Harry had spent the last month with the Dursleys!

Harry spoke for the first time, everything had happened in such a short time that he'd forgot to speak - the Weasleys and Hermione had arrived in a great wave, each of them speaking at once. "I'm fine, Ron, everybody, just fine" he grinned at the people who had been more of a family to him than his blood relatives.

He turned to the Dursleys, who had been surveying the scene quietly, slightly intrigued about what these wizards actually thought about their nephew. "So...i'll erm... see you later, sometime... after i've...er... finished school...sometime" he mumbled. Both he and his Uncle Vernon knew that none of it was true. After he finished at Hogwarts, he wouldn't go back to Privet Drive if he could help it.

Everybody said their goodbyes to Harrys Aunt and Uncle, though none of them really cared about the impression they made on them. This was Harry, Ron and Hermiones' last year at Hogwarts, after that, Harry wouldn't have to return to this house again.

Once everybody was settled in the mini van, Harry looked back at Ginny Weasley, taking in her soft skin, her petite features and her brown eyes which were alive with laughter as she talked to Hermione about some girl-thing or another. Suddenly, she turned around, catching him looking at her, Harry blushed furiously and turned to see Rons questioning gaze. Staring straight ahead, he tried to focus on Fred and Georges coversation from the seat in front of him, " ....disappearing cauldrons, they'll sell well to all of the Hogwarts students" said Fred. They continued on discussing inventions.

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The Weasley family, Harry and Hermione, stood in front of The Leaky Cauldron, in the mortal world. Mr Weasley was taking in evrything around him with a huge grin on his face, and kept saying in loud voices "Molly, would you look at that over there - these muggles do invent some stange things don't they!". Harry knew they were drawing attention from passers by, so he entered the small pub urging the others to follow him.

"Hi Tom" He said greeting the bar man with a smile on his face. The bar man looked incredibly happy to see Harry again and shook his hand joyfully.

Diagon Alley lay ahead of them. Apart from Hogwarts and the Burrow, this was one of Harrys favourite places. Shops lined the cobbled streets with strange items in all the windows, witches and wizards of all shapes and sizes were spread around, some in a hurry, others walked slowly, taking everything in at there own pace.

Ginny bumped into a fellow pupil, a male pupil, and Harry couldn't help feel a slight twinge in the base of his stomach. Jealousy? But why would he be jealous over Rons little sister? She laughed exuberantley showing perfect white teeth and a bright smile, he realised why......

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Everybody was raring to go. Each of them had money to spend and school supplies to buy. The question was, where would they decide on going? To make matters easier, they decided to split into pairs - Mr and Mrs Weasley, Fred and George, Ginny and Hermione and Harry and Ron.

With Fred and George having such a successful business, money wasn't such a problem for the Weasleys now. There was only Ginny and Ron to buy school supplies for, and they had enough money to make sure that they got everything that the needed, without any hand-me-downs.

Ginny clung on to her money. She had quite a lot, she had saved her birthday money and had great prospects for it. Her and Hermione headed straight for Madame Malkins. All set to try on plenty of dress robes.

As she waded through the racks she spotted the perfect set of robes... she rushed to try them on...

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"Does anybody want any more potatoes?" asked Mrs Weasley from the end of the table. Everybody was enjoying a large meal, after a long time shopping in Diagon Alley, they were ravinous.

"This is beautiful, Mrs Weasley" mumbled Hermione, pausing to look up at her boyfriends mother.
Harry agreed, sighing joyfully when he was finished. It was times like this when people could be happy. When people could forget that Voldermort was still out there, waiting.


Harry had spent the evening discussing quidditch with Fred and George. He was getting steadily more and more tired, so he said his goodnights and walked up stairs to Rons room.

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"Oh my god", Hermiones voice echoed around the room, her face flushed red.

"I'll er leave you two alone shall I?" said Harry, suppressing a smile. He had walked into Rons bedroom, only to find them kissing intensley on the bed. It was nothing that he hadn't seen from them before, but it had obviously taken them by suprise.


Harry was at a loss for what to do. The others had gone to bed and he didnt want to wake anybody up by going into the living room. Ginny was coming up the stairs and smiled at him, reading his mind - "Are they making out again?" she asked in an exasperated tone, "You can come into my room and talk if you want..until they put eachother down"

"yeah, that would be great" he said feeling slightly anxious as he looked at her profile. Again he couldn't believe that he had never noticed how pretty she was before.

Harry walked into Ginnys room, realising that this was the first time he had ever seen it.

A/N- Hope you like it, ive got homework to do so I hope its alright,, r/r - no flames please!!!!!!!