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Harry Potter life after Hogwart



1 Time away



"Hey Harry, thanks for the talk last night. I needed it." Hermione said this and gave a smile.

"It was my pleasure. Ms.Granger."

"Shut up, Harry." She gave him a little punch

"Hey, that really hurts." Harry was teasing her in a way

"Ha, whatever, Potter. Don't be so sarcastic. Hey, can you get me the suit case in my closet for me?"

"Yea sure. What are you doing?"

"I'm obviously packing. Smart one."

"Where are you going?" Harry a little worried Hermione was leaving him

"I decided last night that I needed to go on vacation, I mean it is winter break, so I don't have to teach at Hogwart. Why not go on vacation, to get away from a noise neighborhood."

"Oh, so where are you planning to go?"

"There this new place past Hogmeade, it's like a cabin area, where people can get some peace and quiet. Oh, also you can enjoy a beautiful view of everywhere, well at least that's what I heard from people. So I guess I just have to find out if it's true, and the only way to know is to go there."

"Yea." Harry said this with his voice no longer happy and jokingly but very disappointed instead.

"Hey Harry…"

"What?"

"Would you like to come with me? If you don't it's okay, but I would really like you to come."

"Are you sure?"

"Yea!" And she pulled him all the way to his room and packed everything he had for winter clothing

"You know, I think that everyone should come too. That would be so much fun." Hermione said everything in a really excited voice. Harry gave a big smile, when he saw how happy Hermione was. Oh my god she's so happy, look at her she's so beautiful. I wish that she was my girlfriend. Oh god don't think of her that way, she's your friend, no best friend not girlfriend so shut up. Anyway you're going to spend this vacation time with her, so stop your feelings from coming out.

"Harry? Harry!" Hermione waving her hand in front his eyes.

"What?" A shocked Harry jumped a little bit

"You kind of went somewhere a moment ago. Where did you go?"

"Oh I was just thinking about the…er…. Trip! Yea the trip, so should I tell everyone to pack?"

"No, I'll do it." Hermione walked out Harry's room, went to the stairs railing, leaned over and screamed "Hey everyone, pack your bags, we're going on vacation! Oh and pack warm clothes." Hermione looked backed at Harry and smile as if to say that was easy.

"Yea rode trip!" Fred and George both said at the same time

"How long till we leave?" Cho said with a worried mind that she wouldn't have enough time to pack

"We're leave in a couple of hours." Hermione answered

Hearing this everybody rushed out of the family room to get ready

"Hermione did you even make reservation?" Harry wondered

"No, but I'm sure I can get us in."

"How?"

"The person who told me about the place was one of my student's parent, and they owned the place. So I might be able to get us in."

"Oh. You better tell them that we're coming."

"Okay. Well I'm going to do that now, so I'll be back."

An hour later Hermione came back with a big smile on her face.

"So, did you get us in the place?"

"Yup!"

"Yes, going out of this house."

Hermione laughed at how excited and happy Harry was, to her it was like seeing a little kid in a candy shop.

*****

"Wow! That was a long ride." Hermione said while stepping into the cabin.

"Yea I know." said Harry as he was following Hermione in.

"Damn! This place is nice." said Fred, he was amazed of the place.

"Amazing." said George.

"Nice and cozy." Cho replied.

"Hey everyone it's late lets go to sleep." Hermione said followed with a yawn.

"Yea let's go check out the rooms." said George, he was eager to find out what they looked like.

But when everyone got to the hall there where only four rooms.

"Huh! what are we going to do?" Fred asked immediately.

"Well obviously two of us have to share. So who will it be? How about Fred and George?" said Hermione right off the back.

"No way, we both snore so we would keep other up all night." George replied.

"Well I guess I'll be with Cho, since you like your space Harry." Hermione said.

"Hey, I'll share with you Hermione." Harry knew that Hermione no way in hell would like to share a room with Cho. Hermione liked Cho but she wasn't going to be sharing a room with her. She walked up to the room and then stop right next to Harry, they were side by side.

She then whispered to Harry "Thank you for doing that."

"No problem."

"Well Good night everybody." Hermione said opening the door.

"Good night." Fred and George replied.

"Sleep tight, everyone." said Cho, this followed by a yawn.

"Night you three." Harry mumbled.

Harry closed the door going into the bedroom. "Hermione, do you know if there is a cot in this place somewhere."

"Why?"

"So I can sleep in it."

"What? Why don't we just share the bed?"

"Er, okay, sure, I guess it's okay if you say so."

"Yea it's okay, I mean we are best friends, and I known you for a long time now. I think it's okay for us to share a bed. But there is one thing?"

"What is it?"

"I get to sleep on the right side." With this, Hermione hopped onto the right side of the bed and pulled the covers over her soldiers. Harry gave a smile and then went on the left side of the bed, when he pulled the covers over his legs. He noticed that it was very cold. "Hermione, are you okay? Hermione?" Her back was turned to him, so he had to push himself off the bed to look over her. He saw that she was sleeping like a baby, so he just went to sleep. Morning rays came into the room, Harry woke up, he could smell breakfast cooking, and it smelt really good. He looked over at Hermione, her back still towards him, he could tell that she was really cold, so he took his arm, put it over her and pulled himself close to her. Hermione could tell Harry was holding her because she shifted from cold to warm, from his body warmth, this sent a chill up her spine. She opened her eyes slightly, she did this cause she didn't want Harry to know she was awake, and she wanted to be closer to him so that everything could last forever. Why does this feel so right? He's perfect, why can't I be with him, Harry why do have to be so sweet? Everything about you is way to sweet. I love you in so many different ways Harry.

Harry not knowing Hermione was awake pulled himself a little closer. He could smell her hair from here. This felt so right to the both of them, being at this place at this time, being so close made them both nervous, scared, and never wanting to leave. Harry began to worry that Hermione would wake up, so he pulled himself away from her, they both felt they were naked in a way without each other. Hermione knew that Harry had just got out of the bed and was heading towards the bathroom; so she started to yawn as to show him that she just woke up.

"Hey, good morning." Harry said awkwardly.

"Good morning, how'd you sleep?"

"Good, and you?"

"I slept really well."

"That's good, well I'll be done with the bathroom soon."

"Good, need to brush my teeth"

A couple of minutes later Harry came out the bathroom.

"Here's the bathroom, you can have it, and well I'm going to get some breakfast, so see you."

"Okay, see you in a little bit."

The whole conversation was a bit awkward for the both of them. It didn't get any better at breakfast. No one was really talking.

"So who make breakfast? It's really good." Hermione was trying to make some small talk.

"I did, thanks for the compliment, and I know for sure this is better then Harry's omelet." Cho answered. This made Harry and Hermione ease up a little.

"That's for sure… well," There was a couple second pause "I'm going to the mountains. So I need to get ready right now, see you guys later." Hermione was in a rush to go, knowing she had every thing planned out by the very second.

"Hey I'm gonna be outside, so bye." Harry left right after Hermione.

After the two left the roommates gave each other weird looks, no one talked for a while, Fred finally broke the silence. "Hell, I think the two a sleeping together."

"Yea, that would explain why Harry said he would share his room with Hermione, and the fact they came out for breakfast so late." Cho make a really quick remark.

"No, they're not sleeping together." George was pondering at the time.

"How can you be so sure?" Fred was a little curious.

"Well, Hermione is dating Krum, and she wouldn't cheat on him, anyway Harry and her are very close so it doesn't surprise me, that there sharing a room." George said with a serious face.

"Wow. That makes sense." Fred stunned that his brother could be smart and could think of something like that.

"Oh also, the walls here and at home, are both very thin, and I never heard a thing." George said in his old ways, no longer a serious person.

Fred was laughing slightly and Cho just rolled her eyes.

*****

Harry was sitting on the porch. Thinking about how his life was pretty good, except for the part Hermione wasn't with him, he just thought about everything. At this time Hermione was getting ready to go when she saw Harry, he seemed in the deepest trance ever. "Hey Harry, Harry, Harry!" She said and waving her hand at the same time.

"Oh, Hermione. Hi. Aren't you supposed to be going on your hike thing?"

"Yes, but you seem like you need someone talk to and if you do I'm here."

"I know, go on your hike, I don't need anyone right now."

"So you saying you need to talk to someone later."

"No, I didn't say that."

"Well if not later then now, so then tell me what's on you mind."

"I would, that's if I have anything on my mind."

"I know you Harry and you have something on your mind, and I'm not going anywhere until you tell me." Hermione was so determined to find out. Harry was surprised at the way she'd reacted. "Harry please tell me, because if you don't I'll worry about you."

"Well I was just thinking about my life now, and how it's so empty."

"Well, do you know what's empty in your life?"

"Nope." Of course Harry wasn't telling the truth, he knew. It was Hermione, the fact that he couldn't be with her.

"If you say so. Well I'm gonna go now." Hermione took a pause while going down the steps. She then turned around and said, "You know what Harry? You're coming with me!" She was laughing as she took his wrist, she was pulling him and he went along, they ran for a while.

"Hermione, where are we going?" Harry was feeling a little awkward and at the same time really happy.

"Um… that's a good question. I don't know. But there's a trail."

The two walked along the trail for a long time, both lost track of time because they were having fun and by the time they realized it, it was almost nighttime, the sun was almost gone.

"Oh god, Harry! Look at the time. We're going to be late for dinner if we don't hurry back." Hermione looked so worry, because she was scared of what they might find if they stayed out in the mountains when it's dark. This place is so creepy when there is no light. I'm so happy Harry's here. He'll protect me if anything happens.

"Harry, do you have your wand?"

"No, do you?"

"Yea, it's really dark now, why is it getting dark so fast?"

"I don't know, but lets go home."

"Okay." Hermione looked towards the ground only to find that the path has disappeared. "Bloody hell. The path is gone!"

"What? How can a path be gone?"

"Well I don't know."

"Okay, let's back track."

"To were? You know what, maybe we just wandered off the path, lets look for it."

"Okay."

The two looked for the longest time. By the time they gave up it was completely dark.

"Oh, I'm so tired-" She was slowly walking towards him, when she tripped over a sign that fell. The sign was old and Hermione didn't see it because it was partly covered by snow.

"Ah, my knee. Bloody hell, what was that?"

"Hermione look. It's a sign." Harry was getting the snow off the sign as fast as he could.

On the sign it read.

1.1

1.2 Warning The path you have been following for

the past 4 miles will disappear after 6 o'clock.

Please head back to your vacation area.

A lot of dangerous creatures live in the woods!!!

Also NO MAGIC will work after 6 o'clock!!!

"Oh, bloody hell! So that's why the path is gone." said Harry.

"Yea. Um… Harry, since the sign says that there is a lot of dangerous creatures here, why don't we go find a place to stay for the night."

"Good idea."

"Grrrrrrr!" the sound came from some place near them.

"Harry did you hear that?"

"Yea. Lets go over to those rocks. Maybe it's safer over there."

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!"

"Harry now I'm getting really scared." She took a hold of his hand; she was gripping it very tight.

"It's going to be okay. Don't worry, I won't let anything hurt you."

"Thanks, but I'm still scared, and worried."

The two got on the rocks; they saw that there was a cave never there. Both ran to the cave, when they were inside they stayed in the opening, both scared of what they would find if they went in deeper, but Hermione was a lot more scared then Harry. Hermione gave Harry a little nudge as to tell him to keep on going. The two took slow steps; both trying to find their way around the pitch-black cave, as they took more steps the grrrr sound seemed to go away. Hermione was really relieved at the sound fading away.

"Harry, shouldn't we try to get some light."

"Yea. Good idea."

"Do you know how to start a fire?"

"Yea, but I need wood."

"Well I'm sure there is wood in here." Hermione let go of Harry's hand and went on her knees; she swept her hand over the ground to find wood, after a few minutes so she found some wood. "Here Harry. There some twigs, branches and three big pieces of wood."

"Thank you." Harry tried to start the fire but it didn't work, so he found to hand sized rocks and kept on hitting them together, he did this for about 10 minutes and then finally got the sparks to start the fire.

"Yes!!! I did it." Harry said with a smile on.

"Oh my god, Harry you're the best!!!" Hermione said as she gave him a hug from behind, she squeezed his neck so hard that he almost couldn't take it.

"Hey lets look around now."

"Okay, you go that way and I'll go this way."

The two set of in different direction, Harry's path ended after a few turns and Hermione's path didn't seem to end.

"Oh, this path is creepy!" Hermione said after she saw a bunch of spider webs. She stopped with a sudden stare. "What in the bloody hell is that?" Hermione didn't know that she was staring at a gravesite.

"What is this place?" She saw the bodies and then freaked. "Ah!!! Oh god."

Harry heard the scream echoing, and he went running in her direction. When he got there he was shocked.

"Uh… Hermione you okay?"

"No. Harry please come here."

"Okay."

When he walked over to her, she took his shirt, pulled him towards her, and hugged him, putting the side of her head on his shoulder.

"Harry, this place is way to scary. Can we go to the opening?"

"Yea, sure if that makes you feel better."

They got to the opening and stayed there for the night, Hermione laid her head on his shoulder and he held her.

Harry felt scared of what they found. Harry wondered of the place, why were there so many bodies there, and if anything in there was still alive?

*****

That night at the house everyone began to wonder what happened to Harry and Hermione. The three roommates came up with funny, stupid and outrageous ideas.

"Hey I bet they're doing it somewhere." Fred with his perverted mind

"Stupid, they're not sleeping together." Cho said tired of Fred's comments.

"Or they're getting married and on there honeymoon right now." George was being sarcastic to Fred comment.

"Hey, that could be true." Fred snapped back.

"Yeah, sure! What have you been taking lately?" said Cho.

"Well, nothing, but I really think something's happening between the two." said Fred.

"Duh! Haven't you notice all these years! They had feelings since probably the first time they met; it's just that their feelings didn't develop until they got older. I mean I didn't know them personally when they started school, but I mean during the years of getting to know them you can tell that something is there, but those two needs to except their feeling because they're seriously meant for each other." said Cho with a very serious attitude.

"You are right, maybe they're out on a date." said George finally seeing some since in what Fred said.

"No that's not right, cause Hermione still dating Krum and she's not the cheating-" said Cho

"BUT she might have dumped Krum without telling us." said Fred right away.

"HI everyone!" Krum came jogging in, he was covered with snow, and had a mask on so no one could tell it was him.

"AH!!!" Cho screamed, then jump up from the chair she was sitting on and ran behind Fred.

Fred stuck his two fists up, as if he was going to fight on the spot, and George crabbed the closet things near him witch was a book and a pillow. "Stand right there, any sudden move and I'll be forced to use the book and pillow I've got!!!" said George, after he said that the realized it sounded really stupid.

"Hey, it's just me Krum!" said Krum

"Oh, it's you. Krum." The three said at the same time, George sat down and whacked Krum in the head with the pillow. "Krum! What are you doing here?" said the roommates.

"Well Ginny told me about the break up and that you guys were up here in the cabins. I just wanted to see Hermione, I miss her, anyway I wonder why she didn't invite me to this place?" said Krum

"She probably wanted to get away from you, you annoying tag along git." said Fred while grinning at Krum, Fred had whisper pretty loud so Cho and George elbowed him on both side at the same time. Fred was in pain, he held his stomach and realized that he shouldn't be talking any more. So he backed away from Cho and George slowly. Cho was looking at George as to tell him to tell Krum that he can't stay with them.

"Hey Krum." George gave him an awkward look

"Sup?" Krum answered right away.

"Er… you can sleep on the couch." George could tell him to leave because he was scared that Krum would beat him up or Hermione beat him up for telling her boyfriend to leave. George gave a grin toward Krum, he then turned to Cho, by the look on her face he could tell that she was going to beat him up, then yell at him for the next couple of hours. He then turned to Fred; Fred gave him a smile, because he also knew that Cho was going to beat George up.

"Oh okay. Where Hermione?" said Krum looking around the place to try to find his girlfriend.

"She's out," said George "with Harry."

"Out with Harry? Did they tell you guys when they be back?"

"Oh, no… they might be out all night." said Fred with a smirk

"What? Why? I mean what can two people do staying out all night?" Krum had a confused look followed by a weird smile.

"Well…two people can do a lot of things together at night, like-!" Fred implied

"Hey but don't you worry about them SLEEPING together!" Cho added on.

"Shit! I gotta find her, and I won't come back till I do" With this Krum went darting out the door.

"What a stupid git!" George said a second after Krum left

"I can't believe he actually went looking for her, I mean where does he think he's going to look, this place is huge!" Fred was laughing at the matter

"Hey you two, why don't we like him again?" said Cho with a confused face

"We don't like him because he dumped Hermione got back with her and now he's the reason Harry and her won't get together." said Fred

"Bloody Hell… ever since he got back with Hermione a couple years back you know, he started acting like a dog, he had to go everywhere she went, and it's so annoying to both us and Hermione. He's changed, he's not that cool Quidditch player we once liked, he's a weirdo now." said George

"Oh, now I remember!" said Cho

"Oh hey, you know how Harry and Hermione's not here, well what if they're in trouble or something?" said George, just remembering what they were talking about before Krum had came in.

"Well, I'm sure that they'll be fine. Both of them are outstanding with magic, and I'm sure Hermione took her wand with her." said Cho

"Let's give them till noon to come back." Fred added on to what Cho had said

*****

"Hermione wake up." Harry said in a low whisper. "Wake up."

"Huh… what?" Hermione was rubbing her eyes

"It's morning and the path is visible again."

"It is?" Hermione still rubbing her eyes stopped and could see a blurry vision of the path. She gave a smile at the site of it and looked at Harry he was smiling back at her. They both looked back down at the snow outside, and the path had gone away again.

"HARRY! Where's the path? I know my vision wasn't perfect but saw it!" The shock woke Hermione right up.

"Hermione I don't know what happened to it. I saw it just a minute ago." Harry walked calmly outside to the snow, bent down and looked at the place the path was. He stuck his hands on the snow as to see if the path was covered, but he had no luck finding it.

"Harry, it's okay if-." She had stopped talking for she saw the path again. "Look, Harry, the path."

"I know, come on lets go."

"Lets."

With that Harry and Hermione started to walk along the snowy path. Within five minutes the path had disappeared again. The two stood there not saying a word, just looking at each other. A couple minutes later the path reappeared. They followed that path and stopped when it disappeared. The path was doing this for a long time and it seemed to slowly fade out when it disappeared, as if the batteries went out.

"Harry, this is really weird."

"I know. But it can't be that long before we get back.

"Yea, you're right, the sign we read said that was three miles from where we started, so I'm guessing we walked a mile now."

"Yea."

"Hey Harry."

"What?"

"What day is it?"

"Er… I think it's the 20."

"And it's December right?"

"Yeah."

"Crap!" Hermione was panicking, she had forgot to do early Christmas shopping this year, her schedule was totally ruined now.

"What's wrong?"

"Christmas."

"Huh?"

"Shopping…Christmas… er… Christmas shopping." She wasn't really thinking that straight.

"Hermione are you okay?"

"NO! Harry… everything is going so wrong in my life right now. I haven't gone shopping for you or anyone for that matter. My job is stressing me out and I'm not dating the guy I want to be with!" Hermione just realized what she had just said fixed it up right a way. "Er… I mean I'm mad because I'm not with the guy I'm dating." She gave a very awkward, nervous smile afterward. Harry had a hope there for a second but when Hermione said I'm mad because I'm not with the guy I'm dating, it just shot Harry right at his heart.

"Oh…um… Let's keep on going okay." He look straight forward without looking at her, and walked in front of her because he didn't want to see her face. A little while after walking Hermione was mad that Harry hadn't said a thing for a half a mile.

"Harry! Stop walking." She said in an angered voice. "You been quiet and not saying anything for about a mile now. What's going on?"

Harry stopped walking. "Nothing Herm. Nothing." said Harry in a whisper, looking down at the ground.

Hermione walked up to him, grabbed one of his sleeves and turned him around. "Harry if nothings wrong, then why are you acting this way?"

"Herm… it's just… I just want to be alone for now, okay?"

"Okay…" Hermione was a little confused by this, mad by it, but she respected what Harry said and left him alone.

Harry and Hermione where almost to the cabins, they had the camp area in sight, when Harry stopped walking and said "Hermione, I'm sorry." He still wasn't looking at her.

"For what?" Hermione was a little mad, and Harry could tell that she was because of the tone of her voice.

"For not talking to you."

"It's okay." Her voice was a little calmer now; she couldn't stay mad at him.

Harry turned around and walked to Hermione, he stuck out his arm and then said, "May I have the Honor of walking home with you, side by side?" Harry had a silly looking face on, with his smile like their old professor Lockhart. He looked like a complete dork. Hermione trying very hard not to laugh at him.

"Yes you may." And she cuffed her arm around his. As the two approached the last little hill to get to the cabin, Hermione dropped down from Harry's arm, grabbing her knee.

"Ah. My knee." said Hermione.

Harry bent down on one knee. "Herm, are you okay." Hermione didn't say anything, but instead she took some snow off the ground and smashed it in Harry's face. "Haha, I can't believe you fell for that, ah my knee!" Hermione was laughing so hard. Harry couldn't believe it for a second that Hermione actually did that, when he snapped back into reality, he just look at Hermione with a smile. Herm knew that Harry was going to tickle her at that moment and got up and ran. Harry chased Herm for a while, during the chase Hermione took off her jacket so she could run faster and she throw it in Harry's face too. After two minutes or so, he finally caught her. He started to tickle her so bad. Hermione was laughing so hard tears were running from her eyes, and her face turned bright red.

"Harry stop!" She could hardly say the words.

"Nope."

"Please"

"Okay."

"Thanks." Herm caught her breath; she could see that Harry was pink from laughing too. That was fun, I wonder if he ticklish too, well there's only one way to find out. With that she pinned Harry down to the ground and tickled him. What do you know? Harry is ticklish, how cute.

*****

"Hey guys come here!" said Cho, looking out the front window. She was amazed at what she saw.

"What?" Fred was still drinking his coffee

"It's Harry… Hermione…they're so…cute!" Cho looked so happy

"Wow." That was all George could say

What the three roommates saw, was Harry and Hermione rolling around in the snow and having the times of their lives. The two-looked so cute Hermione was on top of Harry now and tickling him to death

*****

"How do you like it Harry? I thought you were ticklish, but now I know for sure." said Hermione giggling from having so much fun.

"Plea.se!" Harry managed to say, through his laughter, he could get out the word stop.

"Please…stop? Okay, I will stop if you don't go tickling me afterwards."

"O... kay."

With that Hermione got off of Harry. He finally caught his breath. He sat up, his face was bright red. Hermione thought that he was really cute.

"Harry, you okay?"

"Yea, you know I'm gonna get you for that later."

"I know, but I don't care." Hermione was looking really relax for the first time in a while.

"You know we should go in. I think I would like to get out of this shirt." said Harry.

"Why?"

"It's all wet."

Hermione felt the shirt, it was wet, the snow had melted on it. She stood up and pulled Harry off the ground. "Let's head in."

"Okay." Harry was smiling at Hermione.

When Hermione opened the door, she yelled, "We're back!"

The two walked in the kitchen, to their surprise their friends looked liked they didn't even care that they were there. It was awkward for a second there, and then Fred said out of nowhere, "So you guys looked like you were having a good time out there!" He gave a big smile at them. Both Harry and Hermione blush from just realizing that their friends saw them tickling each other outside.

"What-What do you mean." Hermione still blushing awkwardly sat down.

"Come on! We saw you out there. Anyway you two look cute together." Cho looking at both Harry and Hermione. Hermione started to blush even harder, when she turned around to look at Harry his face had turned bright red like it did outside.

"Thanks, I guess." said Hermione. Wow, so I guess me and Harry would make a cute couple. That is so cool. He's so cute right now. He looks dorky all blushing, but so adorable.

"So… where you guys late night?" George curiously asked.

After being asked that Harry and Hermione told them all about what had happen, the cave and path. The roommates all talked about this for a while. No one thought anything big of it, except for Harry. He didn't say anything though, he really only had a gut feeling that there was something more about the cave then the eye could see. All the friends decided to go home before Christmas, so that they could celebrate in a place that's special to them. The roommates stayed until the 22nd. But on the 20th and 21st everyone had fun relaxing and having big snowball fights.



So there's my 2nd chap was it good, plz review!