Chapter 51
Harry woke up Friday morning and thought to himself,
'Wow, I've lived in this room full time for maybe six weeks, and I'm already moving out, never would have thought.'
He busied himself packing, whatever wasn't already in his Hogwarts trunk and apparated it to the new apartment, then back and had brunch with Sirius.
Hermione on the other hand didn't have it so easy, she'd lived in her room for most of her seventeen years,
'What will I bring, what will I leave? At least for now, can't bring everything, our apartments not huge, it's a nice size, two bedrooms, a living/dining room and a bathroom, she thought of what Harry had said and laughed,
'"Why do we need two bedrooms, not like we needed two at Hogwarts."'
The reason was so her parents wouldn't throw a fit, the second room would basically be a guest/storage room. Then she remembered and thought to herself,
'Oh, yeah, I should get packing, don't have all year.'
At around noon, Harry came to help. When they had everything she wanted to bring, they apparated with the boxes as many as possible at a time. They were all done at around seven.
"Harry, did you maybe bring anything we could eat?"
"Yeah, Sirius gave me this box of I guess cookware and food." After looking in the box he asked, "So what shall it be, Ramon noodles, Raviolis, or macaroni and cheese?"
"Ramon noodles." (It's what I've had for dinner the past 3 days.)
"Chicken flavor alright?"
"Yeah." Ten minutes later, both were sitting on the floor, enjoying their chicken flavored Ramon noodles.
"So, did you perhaps think of anything to sleep on, I forgot about blankets."
"Yep, Sirius gave me a couple of sleeping bags, for until we have a bed, etc."
"Wonderful, we get to snuggle together on the floor for our first night in OUR apartment." They both beamed at each other. No more parents, guardians or teachers lurking around corners, anymore, they were alone.
They woke cuddled together, neither where they started, took a shower and ate,
"So, what did Sirius put in the box for breakfast?"
"Frootloops."
"Any milk?"
"Uh-oh, I forgot to put it in the fridge."
"Yippee, dry cereal!"
"There's bread and jam."
"That sounds better, we need a toaster."
"And to go grocery shopping."
"We should probably get a car, we are in a muggle populated region, get around town easier."
"Good idea, shall we go to furniture shopping downtown or in Diagon Alley/London?"
"Let's check out the town, if we find nothing then go there."
"Sounds good, but first we need to go to Gringotts, need to transfer to pounds."
"Alright, let's get going."
After Harry got about 20,000 pounds out of his account (barely a nick in his galleons.) Hermione said,
"Harry, I don't really think we need that much money."
"We're buying a car, right, there expensive."
"Harry, you don't pay for the whole car up front."
"You don't?"
"No, there's payment plans."
"Oh!"
"Where to first, car shopping or furniture store?"
"Furniture store, I guess."
A little while later in the mattress store.
"Hermy, Hermy can we get this mattress please, try it out, please can we?"
"What's so great about it?" she asked walking over.
"It's like the mattresses at Hogwarts, so comfortable."
"Boy, are you right, definitely this one."
They got a queen size mattress and a headboard with a built in bookshelf, plus a twin for the guestroom. They paid for the mattresses and frames. They would come pick it up later, now time to get a car, then the rest of the furniture.
"Herm, do you have a drivers license?" Harry asked on the taxi ride to the car dealership.
"Yeah, do you?"
"No, I've never driven."
"Then I'll teach you."
"Don't I need a permit or test or something?"
"Yeah, and I'll test drive the cars."
"Good idea, don't want to crash."
They settled on a nice four door green car, signed the papers, made the first payment and happily drove away, to find furniture stores, since they still needed everything but beds. In the furniture store-
"Harry are you really sure you want to get this green couch? Especially with all the fellow gryffindor around?"
"I like this couch, should we get something in blue, because the sorting hat wanted to put you in ravenclaw, like it wanted to put me in slytherin?"
"The hat wanted to put you in slytherin!?"
"Yeah, you didn't know that, did you?"
"No, why didn't you tell me?"
"Fear of what yours and Ron's reactions would be."
"The hat put you in the right house," she stated.
"As it did you, I'd be dead many times over without you."
"How about this chair, it's so comfortable, plus it's red and won't potentially anger our friends?"
"Yeah, this is comfortable," he said squeezing in the chair with her.
"Definitely, this chair and the green couch?"
"Yeah, it'd be perfect."
"What else do we need?"
"Oh, I don't know, a dining room table, dressers, end tables, bookshelves, desk, chairs."
"Yeah, we're really going to have a house with only a bed, couch and chair, it'd be comfortable, but we'd be eating on boxes, shall we check those things out?"
"Duh."
They bought everything they needed, since they had more then enough money. It was all to be delivered Monday. Now was time to pick up their beds. With a little help from magic, they fit the twin mattress and frames into the car and tied the rest on the roof and drove home, getting a bit lost on the way.
"Oh, Harry, we have to go get a license plate for the car, Monday."
"I thought we had one?"
"No, it's only temporary."
"That makes sense."
They carried the mattresses and things into the apartment building, then wingardium levioso'd all into the elevator, took it up to the third floor and brought it into the apartment. Putting the stuff in it's respective room, to be put together later, now they were to go grocery shopping.
"Have you ever been grocery shopping, Harry?"
"Yeah, it was horrible."
"With the Dursley's?"
"Yeah."
"Do we have everything we might want?" Hermione asked.
"I guess."
"Well, we have all the food we need to last a few weeks."
"Unless Ron comes for dinner."
They went through the check out, then loaded the food into the car.
"Damn."
"What?"
"We should have done this last."
"Why?"
"So, it won't spoil."
"Herm, refrigeration charms."
"Right."
"Now what?"
"Another store."
"Alright then let's go."
"Okay, we've got sheets, pillows, blankets, comforters."
"You made a list?"
"Of coarse, don't want to forget anything, a toaster, did you bring your alarm clock?"
"Yeah, it is mine." She crossed it off the list
"Lamps, light bulbs, forks, knives, spoons, spactula, pots, pans..Anything else we really need now?"
"Not that I can think of, come on let's go pay for this stuff and go home."
"Great idea."
After putting the food away and putting together the beds.
"Okay, I'll make dinner."
"Then, I'll make our bed."
"Great, I've never been the best at making beds, or keeping the sheets on."
"Yeah, it's obvious, if you've been in your dorm," she laughs.
"Hey!" She smiles at him and kisses him.
"Shall we go to bed?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, tomorrow, we can sleep in and enjoy the calm before the storm of furniture arriving Monday."
"And Monday, you need to go get a license plate."
"I love you."
"I love you, too." And together they went to their bedroom, closing the door.
On Monday morning, Harry waited for the furniture to be delivered, while Hermione went to take care of the car stuff. Harry waited until Hermione got home around noon to set things up, wanting to decorate together with Hermione, tomorrow would be the first time anyone had yet visited. Ron, Lavender, and Sirius were coming for dinner.
Ron, Lavender, and Sirius flooed to the grate on the first floor of the building, then the three took the lift up chatting and wondering how, Harry and Hermione's place would look.
They knocked on the door, Harry answered.
"Harry!" the three exclaimed.
"Hi, welcome, come on in." They piled there jackets on Harry, who hung them in the closet. Hermione came in,
"Hey guys, how are you?"
"This is nice," Sirius said looking around, then spotted the couch, "Green?" Sirius questioned Hermione.
"Ask you godson."
"Harry?"
"What, I liked it!"
"Slytherin, Harry, are you mad?" Ron questioned.
"No."
"Maybe it's because that's where the hat wanted to put him," Hermione joked.
"What!?" Ron, Lav, and Sirius exclaimed/questioned.
"Yeah, it did."
"Why?" Ron asked.
"Isn't it obvious, Ron?" Harry asked back.
"NO!" the three exclaimed.
"Parcelmouth, my Voldemort connection, basically, but I proved it wrong second year."
"How?" asked Lav.
"Chamber of Secrets."
"Huh?" Lav and Sirius asked.
"He pulled Gryffindors sword out of the sorting hat," Hermione answered.
The three went on a tour after dinner, and Ron asked,
"What's behind that door?" indicating their bedroom.
"Our mess of a bedroom," Hermione answered.
"After three days it's already a mess?" Sirius asked.
"Yep," Harry shrugged.
"Mione, messy?" Ron asked.
"No, I'm the pig," Harry joked.
"Must be a Potter trait," Sirius said.
"Why?" asked Hermione.
"James was always a mess, too, but Lily still put up with him, so I'm sure you'll be able to put up with Harry, here."
"Especially, if he continues to cook, I hate cooking."
The guests left around midnight.
There was Chapter 51. I'll probably jump ahead to a future month, next chapter, not sure at the moment, sorry took me so long to update, been terrorized by whiny little cousins nonstop for the past week, so I couldn't write, Love your reviews. If any of you are interested check out my new fic, Harry Potter :Year Six. Thanks to the reviewers of that too, got to write chapter 3. If you want to read some good fics check out DarkWolf24, her stories are awesome, love all of you readers and reviewers.-ears91
Harry woke up Friday morning and thought to himself,
'Wow, I've lived in this room full time for maybe six weeks, and I'm already moving out, never would have thought.'
He busied himself packing, whatever wasn't already in his Hogwarts trunk and apparated it to the new apartment, then back and had brunch with Sirius.
Hermione on the other hand didn't have it so easy, she'd lived in her room for most of her seventeen years,
'What will I bring, what will I leave? At least for now, can't bring everything, our apartments not huge, it's a nice size, two bedrooms, a living/dining room and a bathroom, she thought of what Harry had said and laughed,
'"Why do we need two bedrooms, not like we needed two at Hogwarts."'
The reason was so her parents wouldn't throw a fit, the second room would basically be a guest/storage room. Then she remembered and thought to herself,
'Oh, yeah, I should get packing, don't have all year.'
At around noon, Harry came to help. When they had everything she wanted to bring, they apparated with the boxes as many as possible at a time. They were all done at around seven.
"Harry, did you maybe bring anything we could eat?"
"Yeah, Sirius gave me this box of I guess cookware and food." After looking in the box he asked, "So what shall it be, Ramon noodles, Raviolis, or macaroni and cheese?"
"Ramon noodles." (It's what I've had for dinner the past 3 days.)
"Chicken flavor alright?"
"Yeah." Ten minutes later, both were sitting on the floor, enjoying their chicken flavored Ramon noodles.
"So, did you perhaps think of anything to sleep on, I forgot about blankets."
"Yep, Sirius gave me a couple of sleeping bags, for until we have a bed, etc."
"Wonderful, we get to snuggle together on the floor for our first night in OUR apartment." They both beamed at each other. No more parents, guardians or teachers lurking around corners, anymore, they were alone.
They woke cuddled together, neither where they started, took a shower and ate,
"So, what did Sirius put in the box for breakfast?"
"Frootloops."
"Any milk?"
"Uh-oh, I forgot to put it in the fridge."
"Yippee, dry cereal!"
"There's bread and jam."
"That sounds better, we need a toaster."
"And to go grocery shopping."
"We should probably get a car, we are in a muggle populated region, get around town easier."
"Good idea, shall we go to furniture shopping downtown or in Diagon Alley/London?"
"Let's check out the town, if we find nothing then go there."
"Sounds good, but first we need to go to Gringotts, need to transfer to pounds."
"Alright, let's get going."
After Harry got about 20,000 pounds out of his account (barely a nick in his galleons.) Hermione said,
"Harry, I don't really think we need that much money."
"We're buying a car, right, there expensive."
"Harry, you don't pay for the whole car up front."
"You don't?"
"No, there's payment plans."
"Oh!"
"Where to first, car shopping or furniture store?"
"Furniture store, I guess."
A little while later in the mattress store.
"Hermy, Hermy can we get this mattress please, try it out, please can we?"
"What's so great about it?" she asked walking over.
"It's like the mattresses at Hogwarts, so comfortable."
"Boy, are you right, definitely this one."
They got a queen size mattress and a headboard with a built in bookshelf, plus a twin for the guestroom. They paid for the mattresses and frames. They would come pick it up later, now time to get a car, then the rest of the furniture.
"Herm, do you have a drivers license?" Harry asked on the taxi ride to the car dealership.
"Yeah, do you?"
"No, I've never driven."
"Then I'll teach you."
"Don't I need a permit or test or something?"
"Yeah, and I'll test drive the cars."
"Good idea, don't want to crash."
They settled on a nice four door green car, signed the papers, made the first payment and happily drove away, to find furniture stores, since they still needed everything but beds. In the furniture store-
"Harry are you really sure you want to get this green couch? Especially with all the fellow gryffindor around?"
"I like this couch, should we get something in blue, because the sorting hat wanted to put you in ravenclaw, like it wanted to put me in slytherin?"
"The hat wanted to put you in slytherin!?"
"Yeah, you didn't know that, did you?"
"No, why didn't you tell me?"
"Fear of what yours and Ron's reactions would be."
"The hat put you in the right house," she stated.
"As it did you, I'd be dead many times over without you."
"How about this chair, it's so comfortable, plus it's red and won't potentially anger our friends?"
"Yeah, this is comfortable," he said squeezing in the chair with her.
"Definitely, this chair and the green couch?"
"Yeah, it'd be perfect."
"What else do we need?"
"Oh, I don't know, a dining room table, dressers, end tables, bookshelves, desk, chairs."
"Yeah, we're really going to have a house with only a bed, couch and chair, it'd be comfortable, but we'd be eating on boxes, shall we check those things out?"
"Duh."
They bought everything they needed, since they had more then enough money. It was all to be delivered Monday. Now was time to pick up their beds. With a little help from magic, they fit the twin mattress and frames into the car and tied the rest on the roof and drove home, getting a bit lost on the way.
"Oh, Harry, we have to go get a license plate for the car, Monday."
"I thought we had one?"
"No, it's only temporary."
"That makes sense."
They carried the mattresses and things into the apartment building, then wingardium levioso'd all into the elevator, took it up to the third floor and brought it into the apartment. Putting the stuff in it's respective room, to be put together later, now they were to go grocery shopping.
"Have you ever been grocery shopping, Harry?"
"Yeah, it was horrible."
"With the Dursley's?"
"Yeah."
"Do we have everything we might want?" Hermione asked.
"I guess."
"Well, we have all the food we need to last a few weeks."
"Unless Ron comes for dinner."
They went through the check out, then loaded the food into the car.
"Damn."
"What?"
"We should have done this last."
"Why?"
"So, it won't spoil."
"Herm, refrigeration charms."
"Right."
"Now what?"
"Another store."
"Alright then let's go."
"Okay, we've got sheets, pillows, blankets, comforters."
"You made a list?"
"Of coarse, don't want to forget anything, a toaster, did you bring your alarm clock?"
"Yeah, it is mine." She crossed it off the list
"Lamps, light bulbs, forks, knives, spoons, spactula, pots, pans..Anything else we really need now?"
"Not that I can think of, come on let's go pay for this stuff and go home."
"Great idea."
After putting the food away and putting together the beds.
"Okay, I'll make dinner."
"Then, I'll make our bed."
"Great, I've never been the best at making beds, or keeping the sheets on."
"Yeah, it's obvious, if you've been in your dorm," she laughs.
"Hey!" She smiles at him and kisses him.
"Shall we go to bed?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, tomorrow, we can sleep in and enjoy the calm before the storm of furniture arriving Monday."
"And Monday, you need to go get a license plate."
"I love you."
"I love you, too." And together they went to their bedroom, closing the door.
On Monday morning, Harry waited for the furniture to be delivered, while Hermione went to take care of the car stuff. Harry waited until Hermione got home around noon to set things up, wanting to decorate together with Hermione, tomorrow would be the first time anyone had yet visited. Ron, Lavender, and Sirius were coming for dinner.
Ron, Lavender, and Sirius flooed to the grate on the first floor of the building, then the three took the lift up chatting and wondering how, Harry and Hermione's place would look.
They knocked on the door, Harry answered.
"Harry!" the three exclaimed.
"Hi, welcome, come on in." They piled there jackets on Harry, who hung them in the closet. Hermione came in,
"Hey guys, how are you?"
"This is nice," Sirius said looking around, then spotted the couch, "Green?" Sirius questioned Hermione.
"Ask you godson."
"Harry?"
"What, I liked it!"
"Slytherin, Harry, are you mad?" Ron questioned.
"No."
"Maybe it's because that's where the hat wanted to put him," Hermione joked.
"What!?" Ron, Lav, and Sirius exclaimed/questioned.
"Yeah, it did."
"Why?" Ron asked.
"Isn't it obvious, Ron?" Harry asked back.
"NO!" the three exclaimed.
"Parcelmouth, my Voldemort connection, basically, but I proved it wrong second year."
"How?" asked Lav.
"Chamber of Secrets."
"Huh?" Lav and Sirius asked.
"He pulled Gryffindors sword out of the sorting hat," Hermione answered.
The three went on a tour after dinner, and Ron asked,
"What's behind that door?" indicating their bedroom.
"Our mess of a bedroom," Hermione answered.
"After three days it's already a mess?" Sirius asked.
"Yep," Harry shrugged.
"Mione, messy?" Ron asked.
"No, I'm the pig," Harry joked.
"Must be a Potter trait," Sirius said.
"Why?" asked Hermione.
"James was always a mess, too, but Lily still put up with him, so I'm sure you'll be able to put up with Harry, here."
"Especially, if he continues to cook, I hate cooking."
The guests left around midnight.
There was Chapter 51. I'll probably jump ahead to a future month, next chapter, not sure at the moment, sorry took me so long to update, been terrorized by whiny little cousins nonstop for the past week, so I couldn't write, Love your reviews. If any of you are interested check out my new fic, Harry Potter :Year Six. Thanks to the reviewers of that too, got to write chapter 3. If you want to read some good fics check out DarkWolf24, her stories are awesome, love all of you readers and reviewers.-ears91