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1.1.1 Chapter 4- The Letter

"Dr Granger?" The blustering old man asked.

Hermione was startled out of her reverie. She'd been thinking over the day before, she'd taken Mr and Mrs Weasley on a trip round the city, showing them the most interesting sites. However Barcelona was hardly a city you could see in a day, they had been entranced by the muggle architect Gaudi and had been amazed at how such a brilliant man had met his death by doing such a silly thing as getting run over by a Tram! They'd gone home now, leaving her with an open invitation to visit the Burrow any time. Hermione doubted that she'd take them up on the offer anytime soon.

"Dr Granger! Are you listening?" Dr Ferolie asked her.

Hermione couldn't bare Dr Ferolie; he was always asking her to do runes translations for him, then taking the credit for her work! Glancing at her watch she said,

"Oh my, how the time has flown today, I'm off home, goodbye Dr Ferolie!" She said.

AN- that conversation was in Spanish by the way.

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Hermione apparated into the Senate Café she found Lise was already there.

Lise was French. She had come to Spain to teach ballet when her own career had been stunted by a back problem- why she chose to come to Spain to teach and not stay at home was anybodies guess!

Older than the others, Lise was twenty-nine, but it didn't show. Despite the sun Lise retained her creamy complexion and had rich, russet coloured hair that reached to her shoulders and had bright hazel eyes. Like most ballerinas she was small, petite and skinny.

"Bonjour Hermione!" She greeted her.

"Bonjour, so how's your day been?" Hermione asked her.

They were speaking in French, Hermione had wanted to learn the language and Lise taught her. A summer spent at Lise's home in Southern France had made Hermione fluent. She had a knack for languages.

"Good, yours?"

"Mine, oh I've had Dr Ferolie on at me again. I swear, I'm not doing another Rune translation for him!"

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When Hermione got home she found a very familiar owl waiting for her. Pig? But Ron didn't send her letters anymore- maybe Ginny had borrowed him. No! Ginny had Hedwig now.

When Pig had calmed down enough for Hermione to take the letter from him she gasped as she recognised the untidy scrawl.

In shaking hands she read the letter,

Dear Hermione,

Ginny's been taken ill, she walked home in the rain yesterday and had some sort of virus, my fault I admit, I upset her. She's in no fit state to write to you, so don't expect any letters for a while- I'll keep you updated instead.

The doctor said she'll recover quickly but will need to leave work for a while, probably the whole summer. It is my idea that she comes and stays with you when she's better. Mum and Dad were entranced by the city and its hot climates would be a perfect for Ginny's full recovery.

Will you be able to let her stay? If not I'll get Sirius to give me some time off and I'll take her on a cruise or something.

2 *THERE WAS A SPLOGE OF INK ON THE PARCHMENT THAT HERMIONE HELD AT THIS POINT, IT LOOKED AS THOUGH THE WRITER HAD PAUSED, HESITENT ON ADDING THE NEXT BIT*

2.1 I miss you Hermione

2.1.1.1 Ron

Hermione stared, startled at the last bit.

I miss you too Ronald Weasley, she thought sadly and of course Ginny can stay, but what about you? Would you want to too?

She sat down to write her reply.

AN- what do you think? I struggled a bit with this chapter and I know the Lise bit seemed pointless but I felt that I needed to get some info in about her. As for Maria and Carra, well you know that they're actresses but there's been no direct speech with them, I'll see if I can fit that in somewhere.

As you can probably guess- I LOVE BARCELONA!