Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, or really anything, and If I did do you think I would waste my time here?

A/N: he guys, I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in like a term, but I've been really busy, and now that its holidays, I can finally update. Thanks to ALL my reviewers, it really means a lot to me, it does.

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The next day, Harry woke up early to pack his trunk.

This didn't take him very long; he hadn't even gotten around to making a calendar to count down the days until he returned to Hogwarts.

He was soon packed, so he went downstairs and sat on the garden bench outside for about an hour. Thinking about how glad he was to be leaving. He found his mind wondering to Hermione and how much fun it would be spending the summer with her.

After thinking for what seemed like ages, he looked up and saw Hermione's owl flying towards him from the sky, with a letter attached to it's foot.

Harry excitedly opened the envelope and saw Hermione's neat hand writing on a short letter.

Harry,

We are almost there, I wanted to come earlier, I hope you don't mind but I didn't want you to have to spend more time there than you had to. Have your things ready, dad says that he wont like the Dursleys from what I have told him and doesn't want to spend too much time there.

Love, Hermione

P.S. I was thinking that I could name my owl Hodge-Wodge so that our owld would match, wouldn't that be cute? I told him to stay with you until I got there, because it may look a but odd having an owl flying on and out of a car window in broad daylight.

Harry smiled at Hermione's letter and hurried upstairs to get his tr unk.

As he lugged it downstairs, he heard a car pull up outside and footsteps on the gravel, then three loud knocks.

Harry left his trunk on the third last stair and hurried to meet Hermione, he flung the door open and greeted her with a hug.

He stepped back to see Hermione's happy face 'why did I have to go and do that?" he thought to himself. He didn't have long to dwell on that thought because he soon heard a sleepy uncle Vernon come down the stairs, and trip over his trunk, falling down the three last stairs.

He heard Hermione's giggles and turned around to see his uncle sitting at the bottom of the stairs in his best suit. Vernon quickly stood up, walked over, past the window to see Mr. Granger's car, raised his eyebrows, obviously impressed and held out a hand for Mr. Granger to shake.

Harry rolled his eyes, which made Hermione giggle even more, so they silently agreed to go and fetch Harry's trunk.

While they were picking up the trunk, Harry said "Hello Hermione, you wouldn't think so in such a short time, but I have missed you. -a-and Ron" he added, trying to cover his mistake.

"You too, Harry" She laughed as they set the trunk aside and Harry led the way up to his room. Hermione picked up Hedwig's cage and Harry quickly scanned the room, looking for anything he may of left behind. When he was certain he had everything,, they made their way out of the room.

"It's a pretty nice room they gave you, considering how much you say they hate you," she commented taking a look around.

"Yeah," He agreed "thank god for Sirus, or they would have put me straight back under the stairs."

"They seriously kept you there? It's against the law!" she said, looking shocked.

"Yep" he sniffled, wiping away a fake tear.

"Oh stop it," she laughed, hitting his are softly "Come on, let's go. Dad will be waiting."

They walked downstairs, and stopping briefly so Harry could pick up his trunk, they proceeded to the Granger's car.

Harry went back to the door, mumbled a goodbye to uncle Vernon and went back to the car, taking a seat in the back next to Hermione.

They waited silently for Mr. Granger, who seemed to be having a hard time getting away. Every time he opened his mouth to say 'goodbye', uncle Vernon would start a new topic, but after an attempt of Vernon;s to talk about Hermione;

"Pity your daughter turned out to be such a freak, she could have followed in your footsteps" Mr. Granger cut him off, said a firm 'goodbye', he hurried over to the car, got in and drove away.

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