CHAPTER 2 OF HARRY POTTER AND HIS LATER LIFE...... After a while of chatting with Ron, talking of the old days of Hogwarts and chocolate frogs, Ron got up to go. "Oh," said Harry as Ron was going out of the door. "Do you want your newspaper back?" Ron shrugged and replied "Nah, you can keep it; I'll send you more later, with some letters or something, the normal way of course." He added as Harry sighed. "Things are so slow these days, all of the mail, the Muggle way." The Muggle way. That was the way, of course you should already know, that you normal people do things. Telephones, (Mr. Weasly was fascinated with them) Post office mail, walking everywhere, or riding in cars (on the streets) all Muggle ways. You probably thought they were normal! Harry Potter sat at his table staring at (all) of his belongings. He decided to send Ron a letter, and have him send all of the rest of his belongings to him here. He wrote just that, and sent Hedwig to find Ron. Harry used this time to find out exactly which small spells he could use in this enchanted hut. "Accursed hut, more of the like." He muttered to himself as he tries the accio spell, and the Wingardium leviosa spell. They both worked, so did some others. Harry made his meager supper quite quickly, ("Accio salt!,") which was Macaroni and Cheese, (it was a a muggle food that he had always wanted at the Dursley's, but he only ate it alone, with no other wizards around. So far no one had seen him eat the Muggle food.) Just then, as he sat down to eat, and to admire the picture of his two hero wizards, Gandalf the Grey, and Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger burst in. "Harry! How perfectly lovely to see you again!" She stopped and looked at Harry's supposedly-not-to-be-seen Macaroni and Cheese. "You're having that again, Harry?" Harry nodded, confused at the 'again' in her sentence. She helped herself to some, and sat down with him. "So, how was your Noble Prize?" He asked, just realizing, if Ron were here, he would say "No! don't get her started on that subject!" But she interrupted his thoughts by first saying, "You're saying it spelled wrong, Harry, it's Nobel, not Noble. And it was perfectly swell! I absolutely love having all of those fans, of me! The prize is excellent also, here, let me show it to you!" With that she disappeared, and most people would just take her for gone, but Harry knew her too well. She popped back up fairly soon, and she presented her gold whatever-it-was to Harry. "See, see, that engraving, it has my name on it! Oooo! It was just terribly exciting, and being on the newspaper and everything. Too bad mum and dad couldn't have come to see me-but-I-suppose-they-were-busy-and- so-they-couldn't-but-oh-well-Ron-and-Alicia-Spinnet-were-there-and-so-was- Cho-Chang. . . . . . . . There she took a big breath and started in where she left off, but Harry wasn't listening. He was half chuckling to himself, remembering Cho Chang, from Hogwarts, he was half sad about those days, and Hermione finally stopped her chantering about the prize and said, with her last breath, "Harry are you paying any attention to me at all? I have been talking to you for 5 minutes now and you haven't heard a word I've said!" Harry turned to her and laughed. "Sure, I heard something about a prize, and something about your congratulations party and something about a Nobel prize. . . ." Hermione looked satisfied. "Wait, I didn't say anything about a congratulations party! Anyway, there were several Muggles there, but they wanted to be wizards and witches, so they were welcome there, anyway, and. . . . . . ." After Hermione finally left, Hedwig came flying in the window and dropped a fairly large parcel on the table in front of Harry. Harry opened it, and found a note from Ron, Dear Harry, Here are some important things that you might like first, I will send you the rest bit by bit, so as not to wear Hedwig out. ~Ron Harry opened the package, which contained his Firebolt, his invisibility cloak, and more carefully wrapped, the Pensieve. "Theat's odd, why would I want this?" He wondered to Hedwig. She shrugged.