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Improper Use of Magic – chapter two. By Ema-chan
"I've been searching on the Internet, and I found out that –"
"Hermione we don't need to know okay?"
"Fine, but you'll want to know about this."
"What," Harry sighed.
"Well," she started again. "There is going to be a few new students coming to Hogwarts when the term begins."
"Duh Hermione. The first years come every year remember?" Ron said sarcastically.
"No! These students are going to be in fifth year, with us."
"Why?"
"I don't know!"
Harry's eyes went wide. "Wow Hermione. I didn't think I'd ever hear that phrase come out of your mouth."
"Oh shut up! We have to go get our books now," she said, changing the subject and ending the argument.
About half an hour later, they ended up outside Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions.
"Do you need new robes Ron? Harry? I noticed that your were getting a bit short. I could see your ankles on the way home."
Ron glared at her, along with Harry. "What about yours Herm? Yours were getting a bit short too. In the arms."
Hermione gave him her best glare and stalked into the shop with Harry and Ron at her heels. As they were being fitted for the usual black school robes, Hermione brought up the subject of the new students again.
"I do know they are from Japan though Ron."
"Where did you find all this out?" Harry interrupted. "Wait – don't answer that. You'll take ages explaining."
"No I won't. I found it out from Prof. Dumbledore. He said we are to look after them and show them around the castle."
At last they were finished. They paid Madam Malkin for their new robes and went to Florean Fortescue's Ice cream Parlour for their favourite flavour of ice cream. Hermione always ordered chocolate. May be plain, but it had something extra in it. (A/N I wonder what…) Ron sat with Double Chocolate with chocolate sauce and sprinkles added on top with a bit of caramel strung through it. Harry had whatever he felt like that day, which was strawberry ice cream with chocolate and caramel sauce.
"What else did you find out about these mysterious new students who we have to look after?" Ron asked sarcastically.
"Well, they are Japanese and don't understand English all that wonderfully. Luckily I have my limited supply of Japanese I could talk to them with."
"What other language have you learned Hermione? German? Indonesian?" Harry butted in.
"I have learned and can speak French fluently."
Ron took a gulp of his ice cream. "Anything else?"
"Nope."
They finished their ice creams in silence. Soon after, they heard a babble of voices speaking a different language walk through to the ice cream parlour and order something they couldn't understand, but Florean obviously could. Then the voices moved over to the table next to Hermione and co.
"HOE!" the girl screeched out before somebody caught her.
"Arigatou Touya," she said in relief.
"I'm sure Prof. Dumbledore said that the boys name was Toryar or something like that, and the girls was Sakura," Hermione explained.
Sure enough, the next thing they heard was "Sakura (A/N pretend this is in Japanese k?) I know I eat to much, but could you at least share some of your ice cream?"
"IIE! This is my favourite, ask Yuki for some of his."
Kero pouted and turned expectantly to Yukito who shook his head.
Hermione decided to make her presence known to them. "Um…hello?"
One of the boys turned to her and said, "konnichiwa!" and the rest of them followed suit. Kero dropped to the table before Hermione could see. Then the girl, Sakura, stood up and pointed to herself. "Watashi no namae wa Sakura desu! O namae wa nan desu ka."
Hermione blinked. "OH! I'm Hermione."
Sakura sounded the word out. "Her-mai-oo-ni. Sugoi!"
Harry and Ron were behind her. "What did she just say?"
"Um I think she said, my name is Sakura, and what's my name?"
"Then what did she say?"
Hermione shrugged. "It sounded like my name is cool or something like that."
"They are going to have a hell of a time in Hogwarts. Why did they get accepted into an English speaking school when they can't understand it them selves?"
"Who knows Ron? And don't be rude!"
"Ano…we can speak English you know…" Yukito started.
"Oh!" Hermione yelled out. "Um…sorry, I didn't know."
"Ano…Yukito? We can speak English?" Tomoyo said in Japanese.
"Iie. Demo soon you will."
"Okay."
Yukito turned back to Hermione, Ron, and Harry. "I think you match the description that Dumbledore bloke gave us. Aren't you meant to look after us?"
Hermione felt stares coming from Ron and Harry. She turned around and glared. Then turned back to Yukito and smiled sweetly. "Hai," she said, using a word she knew, which meant yes.
Yukito grinned. "Well, now that's been taken care of, lets all go and buy all our stuff. Would you like to join us?"
"O-okay," Hermione stuttered. For the first time in her life, no one knows why, she was nervous.
* * *
Sakura took out her list of books and things and read them out to the strange looking man at the counter. As she read each one, he went a pulled two off the shelf, one for Sakura and one for Tomoyo. Yukito and Touya were too old to have classes. Harry was reading through a book, which told you how to put curses on muggles without getting caught by the improper use of magic office at the ministry. Hermione snatched it out of his hands and put it behind a book with a large green toad on the front. Ron was looking at the books on how to charm everyday objects to dance and run around.
Hermione shook her head.
When Sakura and Tomoyo had got all of the books needed for this year, they all went to the wand shop.
Sakura already had a wand, so she didn't get one, she just made hers look like the normal wooden wands that Hermione, Ron, and Harry used. Only it was cherry wood.
Tomoyo got a strange coloured wand; it was purple, with dark blue grains on it. It also contained a phoenix feather and a feather of a blue bird. The blue bird it had come from had magical properties and could morph itself into anything it felt like.
All the time, Harry, Hermione, and Ron waited patiently for them to finish.
Sakura still couldn't speak English, so Yukito translated for everyone there. Yue had traveled many places when he was with Clow.
Harry stuck his hand in his pocket, suddenly feeling like he had forgotten something or misplaced something. He pulled out a crinkly piece of parchment sporting Dumbledore's neat, cursive handwriting. It said:
Harry –
Four students are going to be staying at your home until school begins this year. I have written to your family, informing them you could all use your wands this summer. It's only for a few days, if they cause any trouble, contact me.
Dumbledore.Harry facefaulted while Hermione squealed about how lucky he was. "Er…I must warn you, the people I live with aren't very tolerant to magic. Don't expect a very warm welcome from them."
"Don't worry. We shall live," Yukito said.
"BUT if anyone touches my sister, the house is no longer going to be residing on this planet okay?"
"Touya, don't be so overprotective! Hey! We can speak English now! Eriol must have realised we couldn't!"
"Eriol?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Eriol. He's one of our friends. I hope he is there at the school!"
Tomoyo wrinkled her forehead. "I think he said in one of the letters he sent me that he was a teacher somewhere in England."
"Hmm…would his name be Professor Moon?" Ron asked from the corner.
"No. Eriol Hiiragizawa."
"That's who I am talking about. He told us to call him by this name 'cause hardly any of us could pronounce his last name. How can you possibly pronounce that name? That name is impossible to pronounce. Who made it up? What kind of a weird father did he have anyhow? That name is wrong – people like us can't even begin to pronounce." Ron said incredulously. Hermione slapped him.
"Stop babbling Ron. It's rude!"
"Hee-rar-gee-zar-war" Tomoyo gave to them.
"Hair-bra-zee-gar-war?"
"Close enough."
"Well," Harry interrupted. "Sorry, but if we want the Dursleys in a teeny bit of a good mood, we better get going right now."
"Well, see you at the station in two days then Harry. Bye Ron!"
Hermione left.
"Yeah Harry see you at the station. Good bye everybody!"
Ron left.
Sakura and co. followed Harry to the entrance of Diagon Alley. They made it through the Leaky Cauldron without trouble and walked across the road to where the Dursleys had yet to arrive.
* * *
They hadn't waited for five minutes when Vernon Dursley yelled at them. "WHAT ARE THESE –" he spat out the word 'these' as though he just drank curdled milk – "THINGS DOING HERE?!"
"They're not things Uncle Vernon, they're people and they are going to be staying with us for one day and one night before we go back to Ho – my school. As a matter of fact, we have permission to use our wands, and my Godfather will be extremely pleased to hear from me in the near future. Now, if you'll let us through, we will be staying in my room."
He pushed past Vernon Dursley with an air of confidence. Sakura, Touya, Yukito, and Tomoyo followed him. On the way past Vernon Sakura stopped.
"Very pleased to meet you sir," she said, hand held out to shake. Vernon ignored her completely, pushed past, and got into the driver's seat barking at them to hurry up.
* * *
The drive to Number Four Privet Drive was taken in a deadly silence. By the time they arrived at the house, Touya was about to burst with all the tenseness floating around him in the stuffy air of the car. They all wordlessly climbed out of the car and carefully lugged their luggage to where Harry instructed them.
Suddenly Sakura couldn't take it any longer.
"UUURGH!!! How quiet do we have to be? I'll die if I don't say something soon!"
She ended this with a breath. Vernon's voice was heard from the kitchen. "POTTER! Get your arse down here and tell your 'friends' to shut their holes and come down for dinner! Tomorrow Dudder's friend Piers is coming for dinner also, so you all make yourselves scarce."
Everyone blinked as Harry made his way down to the kitchen and followed his relatives' instructions carefully.
Tomoyo had her camera out.
"Tomoyo-san," Touya said tiredly. "Put that contraption away. I don't think these people would appreciate it at the table." He said all this in Japanese, so if there were any chance the people downstairs heard, they wouldn't know what the subject was.
"Sakura, do you have your cards? I don't trust these people," Yukito said.
Sakura pulled them out of her pocket and counted them to make sure none were missing. "Yep!" she said.
Touya was cracking his knuckles. "How can Potter-san take all of this for his whole life? He practically serves to their every beck and call. In fact, the only time I saw him even remotely stand up to them is when he defended us in the 'things' department."
"To-ya calm down. There is no need to get violent," Yukito said soothingly, putting a hand on his arm. Touya lost all tenseness and hugged him in return. Tomoyo – of course – had her camcorder out and was recording every cute moment she could find.
They were five minutes late for dinner.
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Well…sorry this one was kinda shorter than the others…*winces*
I thought a cliffie there was appropriate huh? Sorry…
I am planning on some Hermione/Harry mush soon ^_^
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