As soon as Hermione got off of the underground, she got worried, 'well, what if they forget to pick me up' she thought. She knew that thoughts like these would get her in trouble, and she knew for sure that Harry and Ron would not forget about her.' I'm there best friend for goodness sake,' she thought miserably. She was looking around for Harry or Mrs. Weasley but she didn't see anyone.' Argh, I knew it' she thought. 'They forgot about me. But all of a sudden, there was Harry right next to her.

"Ahh Hermione, how have you been?" Harry said when he recognized her. 'Wow she has grown' he thought

"I've been alright" Hermione said cautiously she noticed the same thing about him. "Wow you have grown" and indeed he had. He was no longer the short wiry kid she knew in first year, now he was very tall, and somewhat lanky. Not that that was a bad thing, she thought. She smiled to herself; she no longer was taller than him, now he was towering over her at almost six feet.

"Its good to see you Hermione, have you had a good summer?" Harry said after a moment of silence.

"Oh of course," she said surprised he didn't want to just get back to play Quidditch. Which was among one of his favorite things to do.

"Should I get your things?" Harry asked, half hoping she would say yes.

"That would be nice, thank you," she said. So he picked up her bag, and they walked over to where Ron and his family were waiting.

" Oh so there you two are," Mrs. Weasley said." Have you had a good summer, Hermione, dear?"

"Oh, yes, wonderful, Mrs. Weasley" Hermione said," Very good"

"Oh that's nice, dear. Oh look at the time! We need to go now if we want to get in before the crowd." She said looking at her watch.

"What crowd?" Harry asked.

"Mom picked a convenient day to go to Diagon Ally. There is a convention going on. Really boring," Ron said already yawning.

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"Oh stop it Ron. The guetilla convention is supposed to keep peace in the wizzarding world," said Mrs. Weasley." I was thinking about going to see a portion of it."

"Oh really? I have read a lot about that during the last month or two, because of all this You-Know-Who business. It was really interesting" Hermione said.

"Yeah, but about half of it will be calling names and sponsors, and rituals and junk like that," Ron said." and you know it."

Hermione grinned sheepishly "Oh of course Ron, I have to admit it would be rather boring. We should do some shopping instead."

Ron groaned," is there any peace in this world" he said looking pleadingly at Harry.

"Oh Ron shut up. You know we need new things, we have worn everything out" Harry said, smiling.' at least its not a convention, thank god'

So they walked from store to store, buying this and buying that, anything they thought they might need at school. Eventually they were all shopped out; at least Harry and Ron were, Hermione was eager to keep going. But she finally settled for sitting outside of Florence's ice cream shop, with a giant sundae that Harry had bought her. Ron had the biggest thing they had, and Harry had a small, but very good milkshake. (AN/ I happen to like milkshakes so lay off!!) After they had finished they ran off to find Mrs. Weasley.

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"Oh hello there Ron what do you need now? Don't tell me more money? I gave you more than enough?" Mrs. Weasley said when Ron tapped her on the shoulder.

"No mum its just that we wanted to see some of the convention meeting" Ron said in exasperation.

"Oh, well then dear," she said taking out a schedule." Perhaps we should go and watch the next part. They are talking about what to do about the Minister."

"Oh, ok then. Cummon Harry or we wont make it." Ron said wearily; for you see they didn't want to see the convention, Hermione did, and you know them, always give in to the girl.

"That's the spirit Ron!" Hermione said, not noticing his sarcasm. As they walked into the assembly building, she was quite amazed by the grand architecture. It was great, even by wizarding standards.

"Come along now dears, there are some seats." Mrs. Weasley said pointing over the heads in front of them.

As they approached their seats, so did someone else.

"Malfoy," Ron hissed. And sure enough there were the Malfoys.

"Excuse me Mr. Malfoy, but those were our seats." Mrs. Weasley said as dignified as she could be.

"I don't see your names on them," luscious Malfoy said.

"Well here are our tickets them and they do have our names on them," Ron said holding them out.

Luscious scathingly took the tickets from him took one look at them and ripped them to shreds. "Well I still don't see your name any where," he said with a smirk.

"Hey!" said Harry pulling out his wand. "Those were ours! Now you're going to pay!! Prepare to duel Malfoy!" as, Malfoy whipped out his wand, Harry fired off a curse, "Serpientsorta" and a giant snake shot out of his wand.

"Arghhh," Malfoy said as the snake bit him repeatedly. But he did manage to shout out a curse," tarantangella" and Harry's legs started to wobble violently beneath him.

"You'll have to do better than that to beat me," Harry said he said as he shot out curse after curse. One after another the curses hit Mr. Malfoy. After about three minutes of this Hit Wizards from the ministry arrived on the scene and broke up the duel. "Alright folks what's going on here? Huhh well, who started this duel?" said the head of department.

"Mr. Malfoy provoked Harry, sir. And I must say I would have done it if he hadn't, after what he did." Ron said stepping up.

"And what did he do?" said the department head.

"Well, we bought tickets to see the convention, and they were for those seats. So we were walking over here, to sit down and Malfoy took out seats. When we told him they were ours he took our tickets and tore them up. Them Harry challenged him to a duel," said Hermione carefully, not wanting to get in trouble herself.

"I see, so those two dueled, huh, and who is this kid anyway?" said the official.

"That's Harry Potter. And yes they dueled, but it was more like Harry beat up Malfoy, it wasn't much of a fight." Ron said.

"Good lord, Harry Potter, did ya say! And Malfoy got taken down; well this will be news tomorrow." Said the official walking off.

"fheuw, I was afraid Harry was going to be arrested." Said Mrs. Weasley.

"Thank god he didn't." exclaimed Hermione,' and I hope he is alright' as they walked over to where Harry was standing with some officials.

"Oh, Harry are you alright?" Hermione said hoping she didn't sound to childish or caring.

"Yeah I'm fine, mione, I only got hit with one curse." Harry said looking embarrassed.

"Oh, ok then, I think we should go to the Burrow." Ron said anxiously looking at his mother.

"Oh yes I suppose we should, I would guess that there will be no more meeting." said Mrs. Weasley. So they went up to the Leaky Cauldron, and took some Floo powder home.

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