Hermione's Summer by Aphrodite
Hello all. First off I would like to say I just got home from the 2nd Harry Potter movie and it was WONDERFUL. It came out today here in the US and I had my tickets for two weeks now. Seeing the movie made me want to rush home and write this chapter so here I am.
Happy reading!
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Chapter 17
When the ladies came through the front door, they found something very unsuspected. All of the guys were standing at the door, waiting for their arrival.
"Hello Mum, Angelina, ladies, we would like to request you to wait out side well we get lunch for you. We decided you guys need the day off." Fred stated rather quickly when the girls tried to enter inside.
"Fredrick Patrick Weasley (I have no idea what his middle name is!) what happened in there. Something must be messed up pretty bad if you are willing to cook something and you didn't do anything wrong, or maybe you did. Let me in there now. Arthur what have you let these boys do?"
Mrs. Weasley pushed her way into the house, all the rest of the girls following her and the guys trying to hold them back, but had no luck in the matter.
When they reached the kitchen an awful site met their eyes. It looked as if a bomb was set off right in the core of the room. Water and something that looked as if it could be cake batter was splattered all over the walls, counters, and well anything else that you could visibly see. There were other food sorts spread out all over the room. A mop, muggle broom, dusters and such could be seen scattered through out the mess.
Before she could contain herself, Hermione bust out laughing, "I am sorry Mrs. Weasley but boys what in the world did you guys do to this place? I mean it looks worse then Moaning Myrtle's bathroom." Ron went to laugh at that but caught sight of his mothers face and thought second of it.
Harry spoke up from the back of the crowd, "They tried to clean and cook." Mrs. Weasley looked rather confused at this, "They clean and cook all the time, and have NEVER made this kind of mess, well unless Fred and George decide to practice some of their pranks of Ron or Ginny. Is that what happened? Boys how many times do I have to tell you not to do those tricks, and Author, I am ashamed of you for allowing them to do such a thing."
"Molly dear that is not what."
"And for another thing this is going to take ages, I should make you guys do it the muggle way!"
"NO!" could be heard from all of the guys in the house. The females were rather shocked by this sudden outburst. "What?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"That's what got them into this mess, they were trying to cook and clean. the muggle way."
Hermione looked at Harry like he was out of his mind, "But Harry you are from a muggle family, and you have cleaned and cooked tons of times how come it still came to this?"
"They wouldn't let me help you see. Because it was my birthday, and they wanted to do something special for you guys but since it was my birthday I couldn't help. I tried to give them some advice but no, can't take advice from me. What would I know? I was only raised in a muggle family."
At this point all the girls and Harry were laughing, including Mrs. Weasley. The guys looked rather put out. Finally Ron decided that the laughing was too much, "And what may I ask it so funny? We were trying to do something nice for you guys and all you do is laugh at us, fine be that way see if it happens again."
"Oh Ron, honestly stop being so oh I don't know stop being so mean. We were only laughing."
"Mean? I was not being mean, I was stating a fact. You guys are the ones being mean by laughing. How could you be like that. I was trying to be nice. I had a cake blow up in my face for you!"
"Oh Ron, really." Then Hermione looked at the people around them, they were waiting for a fight to ensure but Hermione was going to show them that there was more between her and Ron then fighting. Hermione Anne Granger was not a quitter! "I am sorry for laughing at you. I know you were trying to be nice. Thank you for being so thoughtful."
Only one thing was and could be on everyone else's mind, including Ron, "HUH???" Where in the world did that come from, a moment ago she looked as if she was going to blow a casket but now she was perfectly calm and avoided a chance to fight with Ron. "Yep," Ron thought "she must be loosing it."
Mrs. Weasley being the first to come out of her state of shock was the first one to ask the prized question, "But how did all of this happen?"
We may want to move into the living room, I don't think I can stand seeing anymore of this room." Charlie said as he gestured around. Everyone else agreed and followed Charlie to the living room.
"Ok out with the story. we were only gone 5 hours." Katie said and she took a seat next to George. "Yes that is a good point how did all this happen in 5 hours, or less since I have a hard time believing any of you got up early?" Lavender added.
"Well" Seamus started, "we decided we wanted to do something special for you guys and since today was Harry's birthday it would be for him to. But we couldn't send him with you because you guys were out shopping for him. ops I shouldn't have said that should I have?"
Hermione shook her head no, but Bill picked up his story for him. "So because of certain circumstances we were not able to send Harry with you guys. So we told him of our plan, which included baking a cake for him, but he was not aloud to help out at all. Which might have been out down fall. Oh well, George want to continue?"
"Sure I would love to, we decided to cook and clean at the same time because it was the only way we would be able to get both things done considering the time we got up this morning. But we keep getting in each others way, Dad was frying the bacon and he jumped back and fell over Charlie who was washing the floor underneath him. This sent the bacon and mopping water all over the kitchen." Mr. Weasley interrupted at this point.
"I would just like to say that something in the bacon pan was bewitched and kept popping out at me. It was like the bacon was alive. Rather frightening if you ask me, I think you know who's followers put a curse on it."
Hermione, Angelina, Katie, and Mrs. Weasley all dies of laughter at this statement. "what may I ask is so funny?" Mr. Weasley asked at their antics.
Hermione giggled once more before answering "Nothing, were sorry for laughing. Go on Fred or George or whichever one was talking before hand." It was true Fred and George switched out speaking during the last speech and no one was sure who was talking last.
"I don't thing we want to continue, what do you think dear brother?" "Why I think you are right, take us away Ron since the next part deals with you."
"Right, well I was baking Harry's cake since he is my best friend and all. Well I got out an old American cookbook, I thought it might have made it more fun to cook that way. Well the book called for two cups of a thing called yeast, I found some yeast stuff in a cupboard so I figured that was like two of our big cups, you know the really big ones Muggles drink beer out of?"
"Oh no, you didn't? Please tell me you didn't." Lavender asked.
"Yeah, why was that what was wrong with it?"
"Yeah you could say that. Americans have a different measuring tool then we do. A cup to them is about a fourth of a liter here."
"Whoa I put way to much in, didn't I?"
"Yeah you could say that, tell us what happened when you put it in the oven to cook?"
"Well it was okay to begin with but then it started to grow, and then push the oven door open itself. It grew huge! Then it exploded all over the kitchen. It was not pretty. Then a rather large chunk of it landed of the egg pan and it spilled everywhere. It was horrible. To think the bathroom looks almost as bad as the kitchen."
"WHAT??? THE BATHROOM LOOKS LIKE THIS TOO? AND YOU WAITED THIS LONG TO TELL ME? I NEED TO START CLEANING?"
"Why are you yelling mum?"
"CAUSE I'M. I'm just anxious. Today is Harry's first real birthday celebration and I wanted it to be perfect."
"Oh don't worry Mrs. Weasley this is the greatest birthday ever. I am just happy to be here with people who love me rather then the Dursley's. Thank you for this great birthday!"
"Your Welcome!" everyone one replied.
"Hey why don't we work together to clean the house up for the rest of the day! It will be great! Come on then." Hermione said as she stood up. Soon everyone followed her. ~*~*~*~ Ok that's all for now, more soon.
Next chapter: They find out what happened to the bathroom and Fred and George have a trick up their sleeves, but that's not really not new is it? Happy Reading!
Hello all. First off I would like to say I just got home from the 2nd Harry Potter movie and it was WONDERFUL. It came out today here in the US and I had my tickets for two weeks now. Seeing the movie made me want to rush home and write this chapter so here I am.
Happy reading!
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Chapter 17
When the ladies came through the front door, they found something very unsuspected. All of the guys were standing at the door, waiting for their arrival.
"Hello Mum, Angelina, ladies, we would like to request you to wait out side well we get lunch for you. We decided you guys need the day off." Fred stated rather quickly when the girls tried to enter inside.
"Fredrick Patrick Weasley (I have no idea what his middle name is!) what happened in there. Something must be messed up pretty bad if you are willing to cook something and you didn't do anything wrong, or maybe you did. Let me in there now. Arthur what have you let these boys do?"
Mrs. Weasley pushed her way into the house, all the rest of the girls following her and the guys trying to hold them back, but had no luck in the matter.
When they reached the kitchen an awful site met their eyes. It looked as if a bomb was set off right in the core of the room. Water and something that looked as if it could be cake batter was splattered all over the walls, counters, and well anything else that you could visibly see. There were other food sorts spread out all over the room. A mop, muggle broom, dusters and such could be seen scattered through out the mess.
Before she could contain herself, Hermione bust out laughing, "I am sorry Mrs. Weasley but boys what in the world did you guys do to this place? I mean it looks worse then Moaning Myrtle's bathroom." Ron went to laugh at that but caught sight of his mothers face and thought second of it.
Harry spoke up from the back of the crowd, "They tried to clean and cook." Mrs. Weasley looked rather confused at this, "They clean and cook all the time, and have NEVER made this kind of mess, well unless Fred and George decide to practice some of their pranks of Ron or Ginny. Is that what happened? Boys how many times do I have to tell you not to do those tricks, and Author, I am ashamed of you for allowing them to do such a thing."
"Molly dear that is not what."
"And for another thing this is going to take ages, I should make you guys do it the muggle way!"
"NO!" could be heard from all of the guys in the house. The females were rather shocked by this sudden outburst. "What?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"That's what got them into this mess, they were trying to cook and clean. the muggle way."
Hermione looked at Harry like he was out of his mind, "But Harry you are from a muggle family, and you have cleaned and cooked tons of times how come it still came to this?"
"They wouldn't let me help you see. Because it was my birthday, and they wanted to do something special for you guys but since it was my birthday I couldn't help. I tried to give them some advice but no, can't take advice from me. What would I know? I was only raised in a muggle family."
At this point all the girls and Harry were laughing, including Mrs. Weasley. The guys looked rather put out. Finally Ron decided that the laughing was too much, "And what may I ask it so funny? We were trying to do something nice for you guys and all you do is laugh at us, fine be that way see if it happens again."
"Oh Ron, honestly stop being so oh I don't know stop being so mean. We were only laughing."
"Mean? I was not being mean, I was stating a fact. You guys are the ones being mean by laughing. How could you be like that. I was trying to be nice. I had a cake blow up in my face for you!"
"Oh Ron, really." Then Hermione looked at the people around them, they were waiting for a fight to ensure but Hermione was going to show them that there was more between her and Ron then fighting. Hermione Anne Granger was not a quitter! "I am sorry for laughing at you. I know you were trying to be nice. Thank you for being so thoughtful."
Only one thing was and could be on everyone else's mind, including Ron, "HUH???" Where in the world did that come from, a moment ago she looked as if she was going to blow a casket but now she was perfectly calm and avoided a chance to fight with Ron. "Yep," Ron thought "she must be loosing it."
Mrs. Weasley being the first to come out of her state of shock was the first one to ask the prized question, "But how did all of this happen?"
We may want to move into the living room, I don't think I can stand seeing anymore of this room." Charlie said as he gestured around. Everyone else agreed and followed Charlie to the living room.
"Ok out with the story. we were only gone 5 hours." Katie said and she took a seat next to George. "Yes that is a good point how did all this happen in 5 hours, or less since I have a hard time believing any of you got up early?" Lavender added.
"Well" Seamus started, "we decided we wanted to do something special for you guys and since today was Harry's birthday it would be for him to. But we couldn't send him with you because you guys were out shopping for him. ops I shouldn't have said that should I have?"
Hermione shook her head no, but Bill picked up his story for him. "So because of certain circumstances we were not able to send Harry with you guys. So we told him of our plan, which included baking a cake for him, but he was not aloud to help out at all. Which might have been out down fall. Oh well, George want to continue?"
"Sure I would love to, we decided to cook and clean at the same time because it was the only way we would be able to get both things done considering the time we got up this morning. But we keep getting in each others way, Dad was frying the bacon and he jumped back and fell over Charlie who was washing the floor underneath him. This sent the bacon and mopping water all over the kitchen." Mr. Weasley interrupted at this point.
"I would just like to say that something in the bacon pan was bewitched and kept popping out at me. It was like the bacon was alive. Rather frightening if you ask me, I think you know who's followers put a curse on it."
Hermione, Angelina, Katie, and Mrs. Weasley all dies of laughter at this statement. "what may I ask is so funny?" Mr. Weasley asked at their antics.
Hermione giggled once more before answering "Nothing, were sorry for laughing. Go on Fred or George or whichever one was talking before hand." It was true Fred and George switched out speaking during the last speech and no one was sure who was talking last.
"I don't thing we want to continue, what do you think dear brother?" "Why I think you are right, take us away Ron since the next part deals with you."
"Right, well I was baking Harry's cake since he is my best friend and all. Well I got out an old American cookbook, I thought it might have made it more fun to cook that way. Well the book called for two cups of a thing called yeast, I found some yeast stuff in a cupboard so I figured that was like two of our big cups, you know the really big ones Muggles drink beer out of?"
"Oh no, you didn't? Please tell me you didn't." Lavender asked.
"Yeah, why was that what was wrong with it?"
"Yeah you could say that. Americans have a different measuring tool then we do. A cup to them is about a fourth of a liter here."
"Whoa I put way to much in, didn't I?"
"Yeah you could say that, tell us what happened when you put it in the oven to cook?"
"Well it was okay to begin with but then it started to grow, and then push the oven door open itself. It grew huge! Then it exploded all over the kitchen. It was not pretty. Then a rather large chunk of it landed of the egg pan and it spilled everywhere. It was horrible. To think the bathroom looks almost as bad as the kitchen."
"WHAT??? THE BATHROOM LOOKS LIKE THIS TOO? AND YOU WAITED THIS LONG TO TELL ME? I NEED TO START CLEANING?"
"Why are you yelling mum?"
"CAUSE I'M. I'm just anxious. Today is Harry's first real birthday celebration and I wanted it to be perfect."
"Oh don't worry Mrs. Weasley this is the greatest birthday ever. I am just happy to be here with people who love me rather then the Dursley's. Thank you for this great birthday!"
"Your Welcome!" everyone one replied.
"Hey why don't we work together to clean the house up for the rest of the day! It will be great! Come on then." Hermione said as she stood up. Soon everyone followed her. ~*~*~*~ Ok that's all for now, more soon.
Next chapter: They find out what happened to the bathroom and Fred and George have a trick up their sleeves, but that's not really not new is it? Happy Reading!