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Chapter 3: Maybe Introducing The Weasleys to Martians Wasn't Such A Good Idea.

Written by The Loards

Harry was disappointed because there was nowhere he could go this summer, since Ron was visiting some relatives in America. He was sending many letters of course, and had even gotten Harry a present: A book on all the world famous quidditch players that ever existed.

Hermione's present was interesting, and he couldn't figure out quite what it was, or what to do with it until he opened her card. She had sent him a picture frame. An empty picture frame. As it turns out, this was just a usual picture frame she'd bought at a muggle store, but she had bespelled it so that it worked kind of like a wizarding telephone.

...You just say the name of the person you want to speak to, and if they are anywhere near their photophone (Hermione's name for the contraption) you can see and hear them as you talk to them. You can even change your ring to anything you want, just say "Change ring to..." and say anything you want, it will record your voice, and anytime someone is trying to talk to you it will make that noise...

Harry found this quite interesting, and so of course he had to try it out. He picked up the frame and said clearly "I want to speak to Hermione Granger" The glass in the frame swirled as if you were trying to see through a fog, and then it cleared and Hermione's face was looking out at him.

"Harry! You got my present! I'm so happy the photophone's worked out! Aren't they wonderful? I sent one to Ron too, even though it's not his birthday. I figured they would be perfect to talk to each other over the summer, your aunt and uncle being what they are."

"Yes. And it is wonderful! This is a WONDERFUL birthday present. I'm so happy to talk to you. How are you?"

"I'm fine, though we're about to go out to dinner, so can I 'call' you later? I just wanted to be sure you're all right. The Dursley's aren't being too mean are they?"

"Just the usual...have fun at dinner. Bye"

"I will," and then Hermione opened her mouth as if she was going to say something, but then shut it again, and blushed. "Well, bye."

Harry wished she could have talked longer. It was nice just to see a friendly face.

Oh well, he could talk to Ron.

"I wish to speak to Ron Weasley." The mist came again, but this time it took longer. Eventually the mist turned blue, and a voice like the one you hear on airplanes that says 'please put your seats in their full and upright places' said "I'm sorry, he isn't answering his photophone right now, goodbye." And the glass went back to normal.

Oh, well Harry thought At least I tried

The most interesting package came two days later and was most certainly NOT a birthday present. It was from Fred and George Weasley and contained many of the twins' new experiments. He was informed that he was expected to keep them safe and to bring them to Kings Cross Station on September 1st, and that they had be carefully counted and recorded, and if even one of them was missing, something unusual might happen at the sorting feast, and though Harry was interested, he wasn't that curious.

The rest of the summer passed in a flash for Harry and Azelia. And though they rarely made eye contact, they watched each other.

Harry would get glimpses of her when he was working in the garden, or locked in his room.

And she watched sadly from her window as he was worked till he was half-dead.

And they both wondered. The wondered about the likeness of their eyes, wondered if he other one noticed, and wondered if the other one wondered too.

Harry's only respite from the hard life with the Dursley's, were the few minuets he spent talking to Hermione, and sometimes Ron, when he was around, but mostly he was out exploring the US.

August came and went and finally it was September. Harry and Azelia were both pleased to see the last of the Dursleys. And they both anticipated the coming of that happy day, when they got to leave the Dursleys behind for the WHOLE school year.

Finally September 1st was here. As usual the Dursleys gave reasons why they HAD to go into London anyway, Harry knew that they just wanted to get rid of him.

They were also afraid that he would tell Sirius and he would come and turn them all into frogs, Although I don't know why they would be scared of the improvement...

This year the excuse was that they 'needed' to go shopping for Dudley's 'ball' at his school. It was just going to be like a prom (except that they were too good to call it that) and Dudley wanted to impress his girlfriend. Personally I think he's trying to make Azelia jealous, but who would want him?? Dudley said he had finally gotten over 'crush' on Azelia. All Harry heard for weeks before was 'Azelia said this' and 'Azelia said that.' It almost made him wish he were locked in his room. Then he finally figured out that Azelia was the girl next door who had just moved in.

But finally Harry was leaving all this behind. He would be able to get back into his real life. He would finally be able to talk to Ron and Hermione, and hopefully Hedwig would get back with a letter from Sirius.

I can't wait.

Azelia was nervous. She was going to her new school today. Luckily she wouldn't have to ride the school train. Mom and Dad wanted to be with her for the first day, and they didn't want to ride the train; so she got to arrive in style.

L/I: Zoe: Style? Gosh, I wish my parents had style...

Brody: Tell me about it.

Azelia and her parents were going to ride broomsticks because our new house STILL isn't hooked up to the floo powder system, there is some problem with all kinds of technical details that none of us understand. Dad suspects it's just their excuse for forgetting... I wouldn't be surprised, damn englishmen to Hogsmead, where her mom and dad and get their own private horseless carriage to the school. Once they get there the whole family would go in for a meeting with the Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. Then Azelia would find out which dorm :I think they call them houses, or something: she would sleep in, and then on to the feast.

But what if no one there likes me, or can understand my accent?

I know, I know, "If what-ifs were, no one would say 'what if...'" L/I: ;-)

Still...

Harry arrived at Kings Cross Station on time, for the first time in his life, and went off to get his luggage loaded (like usual, in the last car) and waited for Ron and Hermione.

Hermione got there a few minuets later, while Harry was trying to arrange Hedwig's empty cage to it wouldn't rattle around during the ride.

"Hey Hermione. Have you seen Ron?"

"Yes. I passed his family outside the barrier. Apparently George's trunk burst open and a lot of filibusters fireworks blasted off. He might be a while, the muggles were giving them a hard time and making a big scene."

"Oh. Poor Ron. He better hurry, or he'll be left behind. The train won't delay just for him"

Seconds before the train was going to leave, Ron burst in, panting form the exertion of pulling his trunk.

"Oh good, you're here. We thought the train was going to leave without you."

"We had a bit of...trouble..." and Hermione smirked as Ron told the whole story.

Azelia and her parents drove to the country and picked an isolated hill to practice riding the broomsticks on.

Her dad preformed this handy little charm that made muggles look away at something else as soon as they came into view, and then they climbed on and tried to fly.

Azelia had a little trouble steering at first, but eventually got the hang of it, and by the time her mom had apparated back to them (after driving the car home) she was having fun with it.

#Good, you're back mom. Now we're ready to go!#

#Not quite honey. You don't want to fly all the way to Hogsmede. Driving is one thing, flying is another. # Dad then took out his wand, pointed it at Azelia's broom and yelled "ACCELERI!!!" # That will make the ground travel twice as fast below you, but you wont be going any faster, and so you wont risk loosing control of the broom He then did the same to his and mom's brooms and they got on their way.#

A few minuets after the train started rolling, Fred and George appeared...out of thin air.

"TA DA!!!!!!!!!!"

"What?!?" Harry, Hermione and Ron stammered. "How did you learn to apparate?"

"We didn't apparate. Its just a handy little piece of candy we invented, invisible ice caps." Fred took the liberty of informing the still stunned fifth years.

"Speaking of candy..." George prompted, and Ron and Harry began digging through their trunks, not wanting to turn into a slug, or something equally delightful.

"What is he talking about? What are you two doing?" Hermione, the ever curious asked, with the shrill tone to her voice that said 'I know you two are doing something to break rules and I don't like it!'

"Well, Fred and George needed some help..." Harry said, trying not to give too much away.

"Doing what?"

"Well, we figured that if something were to happen--"

"And something DID!" Fred interrupted George.

"Shut-up, you ass. Anyway, if something were to happen, and if Mom found out what was in our trunks, we had better be prepared." And he grinned as Ron and Harry loaded their laps full with the brightly wrapped bars and packets that carried the WWW logo.

"YOU HELPED THEM SMUGGLE WEASLEY WIZARDING WHEASES INTO THE SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Hermione was outraged. "NOW I WONT BE ABLE TO EAT FOR FEAR OF TURING INTO A FROG OR--OR SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTING!! Or worse, BECOMING A SNAPE LOVER!!!!" L/I: LIKE MALFOY!!! ; )

"Actually no, we haven't figured out the frogs yet, so you don't have to worry. Our favorite one this year is the beetle juice, flavored and colored like pumpkin juice of course." That was the first time in his life that Harry had ever seen Hermione close to fainting.

"..192...193...194. Good job. All of it seems to be here. Now as a reward you get to choose one to try. You can eat them here, instead of in front of the entire school."

"WHAT!" Harry and Ron screamed. Then he remembered the Invisible Ice Caps. Hmm... They sound interesting, and handy.

"Ooooooook. I guess I'd rather do it here." Harry gave in. "I want to try one of the Invisible Ice Caps."

"Nope. Sorry. Those are for select purposes." It wasn't too hard to guess what those 'select' purposes were.

"Dammit. Ok, I guess I'll go for the Parrot Parsley." This one interested Harry. It looked exactly like parsley and so could be mixed into any food without the eater noticing anything was different. Until they turned into a parrot that is.

Ron chose one of the brightly wrapped packages off the floor. "I'd like to try the Mars Bar." These were fashioned after the muggle candy, but had some interesting effects on the eater, as you probably guessed. Ron had apparently thought along the same lines Harry had. There were only 5 people there; there were hundreds at school.

Ron and Harry had each picked up their respective packages when the door burst open and three familiar, and not all delightful figures walked in.

"I see you guys are having a party in here." Draco Malfoy sneered at them all, with his two incredibly stupid bodyguards lurking behind him. "And you didn't invite us."

"Bug off, Malfoy." Came the usual response from Ron.

"Not until I've had some candy." Malfoy then yanked the half unwrapped Mars Bar out of Ron's hands and bit into it before anyone could warn him, not that anyone would of course. "Not bad, --"

--!!BANG!!—

Abruptly there was a very startled green alien standing where Malfoy had been, but of course no one could forget the two very scared bodyguards running as fast as their fat little legs could carry them, a wet patch on their trousers growing as they ran...

End of Chapter 3: Maybe Introducing The Weasleys to Martians Wasn't Such A Good Idea.

A/N: I know it took us FOREVER to get this chapter out, but we ran into some difficulties. This was originally going to be the third chapter, but we were having problems with ch. 2, and went on ahead in uploading this one. We might finish writing the REAL ch. 2 eventually, and bump this one up to 3, so check back every once in a while...

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How did you guys like the mars bars? Funky, eh?

Happy Reading!

Zoé and the Loards