Okay, I'm sorry this is only going to be a short chapter, but I was planning on only writing one thing. The fifth book! Augh! She's given in the manuscript, you guys! It was in the newspaper!!!!!! June 21st!!!!!!! It's going to be HEEEEERRREEE!!!!! Can you tell I'm excited? Alas, I have to share my excitement with you guys, since my friends aren't nuts like me… Okay, okay, listen to this. This is how it starts. AHEM
"The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. … The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flower bed outside number four." And then, it gets even better! We find out Dumbledore is going to tell Harry something very very important. Here's another part.
" It is time … for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything." What is he going to tell him? Why Voldemort wanted to kill him and his parents? What is special about Lily? If he actually IS the Heir of Gryffindor? Everything? And guess what!!!!!!!! It is even LONGER than the fourth book, even though she said it would be shorter! They say it is "by far" the biggest one!!!!! Yay!!!!!!! Only five more months and uh, 4 days! I'll keep a countdown, shall I on my posts? Yes? That's what I thought. Anyway, here's my post.
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" Mr. Hart, this is my, erm, friend, Ron Weasley. Remember I told you about him? Ron, this Mr. Hart, my cab driver," Hermione said, proudly saying my cab driver.
" Ah, yes, I remember, my Hermione. Would this be the one from the station many years ago?" … Hermione blushed, even though Ron couldn't possibly know what he meant by this.
" Yes, this is him…" Ron looked completely confused.
" 'Mione, at the station? I haven't been at this station since before I left! What does he mean?" he asked.
" Honestly, Ron! You are so nosy sometimes! Does it really matter? No, I didn't think so…" Mr. Hart watched the two from the review mirror with a look of amusement on his old face. How old was Mr. Hart? Hermione wondered. Well, it didn't matter anyway, did it? He was here now, and didn't look as if he was going to have a heart attack and crash the cab. So Hermione smiled at him and said, " So, um, we're going back to my flat… you don't need directions, do you?"
" Of course not," he smiled back. " Tell me, Ron, are you the one who's been in a prison all these years? Hermione described it to me quite vividly, her dream."
" Well yes, I actually just got back. Now you tell me, do you know everything about everybody, or just me?" Ron asked, in a nice way.
" Just the friends of Hermione's," he replied winking at her. Oh Lord, thought Hermione, he is going to tease me so much about this.
" 'Mione, you mean you've only told this man all about me? Wait! How many times has she called me a prat?" Ron asked. Their conversation continued, and teasing comments were sent back and forth. Ron found out numerous things that she had told the cab driver. Like how BRAVE he had been when he was playing chess. How BRAVE he was when he stood up to Sirius Black. How he had gone chasing after his worst nightmare so he could find out how to make HER become Unpetrified. Indeed, Mr. Hart put emphasis on the exact syllables (a/n that was for you James) to make her words sound as if she was completely in love with Ron. Which, she thought, might be true. But Hermione didn't want Mr. Hart declaring her love to Ron himself, so she put a stop to it.
" Okay, you guys! You've had your fun! Enough teasing!" she said.
" You are right, my Hermione. We shall stop. Right Ron?" agreed Mr. Hart.
" Fiiiiiine," sighed Ron, who was obviously having fun.
" But you know, Hermione, that if you went with my friend Mr. Baker, he could tell you what Ron thinks of you. I understand that Ron is fond of him. We found this out on our break…" Ron turned the colour of his hair and muttered something to himself. Perhaps the conversation would have continued, but they had reached Hermione's apartment and they had to rush since Hermione needed to be at an interview in half an hour.
Hermione dragged Ron into her apartment, gave him the grand tour, settled him on her couch and told him to use anything he wanted. She then kissed him on the cheek and Apparated to her interview.