A/N: More Rooney stuff. this story sucks, sorry. Actual romance-ish stuff in dis chapter. Hey look at that! I'm writin' dis at 2:00 am!

Disclaimer: Guess who owns the stuff in my story? Not Me!!!!!! Yay!!!! I mean Awwww darn. Oh well, it's probably better in the hands her highness, J. K. Rowling

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Chapter 2, Stay Away

"Stay away from that Harry Potter boy, he's dangerous," Ron heard his brother tell him, as he shook his finger at Ron. Behind Percy the twins were making fun of their older brother. "And that Hermione girl too."
"But what's wrong with her? She's always getting on my case to do my work, I owe my being a prefect to her."
"She doesn't like you like you like her, if you spend too much time with her she'll realize and then things will be awkward. She'll stop talking to you, and will be afraid even to sit near you in class. If she does ever speak to you after she figures out you like her, she'll only be mad."
"I don't believe you, there is nothing wrong with Harry. He was telling the truth! didn't you read the paper?" Percy had now turned into Bill who was telling the twins to stop puking, but they wouldn't. Ron looked away, it was really gross, but then, Ginny and Harry were kissing. Ron had no choice left but to wake up. He felt queasy. He hoped he would never have that dream again.
He got up and got dressed and went downstairs. "Harry's coming today!" Hermione exclaimed, she had arrived at the burrow the day before. Ron was really excited, so was everyone else.
"I can't wait 'till he gets here. I've got so much to tell him, like how the Cannons are totally killing everyone else this season, and I'm sure he's got loads to tell us, I hear the Dursley's felt threatened and were almost nice to him!"
"Ya know, I'm sure he knows about the Cannons and all, he does get the Daily Prophet. But I can't wait to hear what it was that possessed the Dursleys to give him a CD player," Hermione commented.
"He's got too much to worry about than to waste his time with the sports page!"
"Then why would he care when he got here?"
"Well he's going to be doing some mindless house work once we get back to the Order headquarters, and why not talk about it to help pass the time?"
"Oh that's right!" Hermione exclaimed, "I forgot we were going back there. Poor Harry's going to b crushed when he see all Sirius' old stuff!" Hermione really wanted to talk to Harry, so she could ease him into it. She could hardly imagine how she would feel by going back, but Harry, there was no explaining what Harry would feel. "Hey, he's here!" A huge group of Weasleys (and Hermione) rushed over to greet him. After about twenty hugs, ten handshakes, and thirty-three apologies (all from Percy). Things settled down.
"Wow, you grew!" Ron noticed.
"Um, so did you," Harry responded.
"Yeah, but you grew more than he did," Hermione informed Harry.
Harry looked from Ron, to Hermione, to the ground, "Hey I did!" Harry then explained about the birthday party and the scary dream he had the night before. This sudden talk of dreams ( and the earlier apology for telling Ron to stay away from Harry) reminded Ron of the dream he had the night before. He looked at Hermione and blushed suddenly. Harry left the room that the three of them (just them) had been in to talk to the twins who were home momentarily while and employee of theirs watched the store.
"Yeah it was going so well that we had to hire some extra help!" Fred exclaimed,
"Thanks to the adds in the paper, we've been getting customers nonstop!" George added. "We gotta go, see ya tomorrow Harry!" then there was a CRACK, and the twins were gone. Harry decided to have a chat with Ginny.
"Ron has really been annoying, telling me to stay away from Dean. 'He's been known to cheat on girls, he was caught kissing Padma while going out with Parvati' he keeps going on like that. I can't tell you how funny it is that he believed me on the train. No matter how much I tell him I was only joking, he just doesn't listen" Ginny informed him.
Harry felt like telling Ginny "Stay away from my friend, Dean's a smooth operator. Stay away from me tonight, I've made other plans and you'll just be distracting me, but in a good way, " but, of course couldn't. He couldn't confess to her that it took until three years after Ginny got over him that he realized how much he loved her. Kinda sad.
"So I heard you had an almost okay summer," Ginny said.
"Well yeah, I guess, so far it was al right. The Dursleys treated me okay, I guess, but I really felt bad most of the time anyway," Harry told Ginny.
"Oh," a sympathetic look spread across her face, "yeah I see how that could be, I'm sorry. I'm sure it must have been hard without being able even to talk to Sirius."
Harry wanted to say "Well I feel better now that I'm with you," but decided against it, and said instead, "I'm feeling a little better now that I'm back in the wizarding community,"
"Well that's good to hear."
Meanwhile in another room in the kitchen, Ron and Hermione had been left to help Molly alone. They hadn't been left alone in a room since they stayed up for Harry to get back from detention, and that time they were both preoccupied with homework. Now, they had plenty of time to talk, and not much to talk about, all the while Ron's dream was playing over in his head. He was happy to be doing the opposite of what Percy told him, even if Percy didn't really say all that stuff. He couldn't imagine not being near Hermione, staying away from her seemed like a very bleak future.
"You know, I know Dobby was the only one taking my clothes, but that doesn't mean that they don't want freedom, just that they don't know they want it," Hermione was ranting. She eventually realized that Ron wasn't listening. He was sort of staring at her and staring into space, and peeling potatoes all at once. She looked away, cleared her throat and smiled. Ron stopped staring.
"Oh sorry, just thinking how the well Chudley Cannons played yesterday. Wish I could have been there," Ron lied. Hermione realized it, but he didn't notice how obvious it was. It would have been wise of him to take Percy's advice on girls, had Hermione not felt the same wy about him.
"DINNER" Molly shouted, and everyone headed outside to eat. At dinner everyone conversed happily and ate more than they should have. It was all great fun for everyone until Arthur had the unfortunate job of telling Harry where they were headed the next day.
"There still using the Black house, though they people were skeptical of it's safety until Kreacher died, of old age" he added seeing Hermione's look.