A/N: This is chapter two of Camp Moonlake. Hermione and Laura arrive with one bus, but who arrives on the other? In fact, Hermione failed to notice someone she should have on the very bus she was riding.. Who is it?

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Chapter 2 - Surprises and shocks

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Hermione jumped out of the small bus with Laura tightly after. They quickly found their way to the luggage-pile and got out large backpacks filled with everything from Hermione's most necessary schoolbooks to Laura's hair-gel. This summer was going to be interesting.

When she'd found the list of cabins, where she and Laura was to stay and once they'd got their backpacks there, it was already time for assembly on the soccer-field. Hermione and Laura were among the last to arrive, and everyone was already standing in front of the podium, where the camp- manager stood ready to bid them welcome.

Before she got the chance to pay heed to the manager and her main staff, Hermione froze dead in her tracks. Laura noticed her stopping and looked at her, and Hermione's face showed utter amaze and shock. She was staring at the back of a head which rose taller than everyone else. Jet-black hair that curled up over the collar of a short-sleeved white shirt. Broad yet lean shoulders, dark khaki shorts. And she'd recognise that back anywhere.

She noticed Laura follow her gaze and then stare at her peculiarly as she crossed the remainder of the soccer-field and stood just behind the person's back. Hermione took her most McGonnagall-like face and slowly raised her hand and tapped the shoulder in front of her.

"E-hrm!", she said. "Harry Potter, what on earth are YOU doing here?"

Behind herself Hermione heard Laura gasp in surprise. She, however, didn't pay attention to her cousin at the moment, since all she cared about just flinched in surprise and turned around in a nanosecond.

"Hermione!", Harry nearly shouted, his voice a deep baritone, but flashed that incredible smile of his.

Soon thereafter, Hermione found herself enveloped in a fierce hug, whisked off the ground and spun around in the air. Harry was grinning madly when he put her down again.

"I can't believe you're here!", he exclaimed. "This is great!"

Hermione smiled back just as happily. She couldn't believe her luck. Harry was there, the one and only person she'd actually worried about making it through the summer without.

Laura came over to them, she too smiling, although Hermione strongly suspected her cousin was smiling for reasons different from her own.

"Harry, this is my cousin, Laura".

Laura eagerly extended her hand and took Harry's, still smiling mischievously. Hermione silently prayed her cousin wouldn't do anything foolish, like spill the beans on Hermione's feelings.

'Merlin, Harry's gorgeous!', Hermione thought.

At that moment the camp manager spoke up.

"Alright, leaders! Welcome to Camp Moonlake. My name is Elisabeth Adams, and I'm the camp manager. Feel free to come see me with all your possible questions! Now, since we have three full days before the campers arrive, I suggest that we use this time in order to get to know each other a little better. That's why we're going to team up in groups of four and have a small competition. On the camp-grounds, there is a so called co-operation- course. All teams will go through this course. The main staff consisting of myself and these nine persons behind me will go out with one team each and keep track of your score, which you will earn according to how good you perform on each obstacle of the course."

Hermione looked excitedly at Harry and Laura, who both grinned back.

"The teams have already been divided", continued Elisabeth. "Team one, you will be going with Jack over here", she pointed at a twenty-five-or-so man with blond hair. "And you are these persons: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Grey Jones and Madelyn Tomlinson. You may leave immediately!"

Hermione and Harry bid goodbye to a disappointed-but-mocking-looking Laura and went away into the forest with Jack, a short boy with brown hair and a slightly chubby blonde girl.

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The day turned out quite good. Hermione always had fun around Harry, and since they knew each other very well already, they could enjoy pretending not to and then still being able to make correct guesses about one another all the time.

The best thing, Hermione decided, was when they came into a small clearing in the forest. Before them there was a large log, and Jack instantly explained the obstacle to them.

"Right. You will begin with stepping onto this log, all at one time. After that, you're going to switch places, without stepping off. This you will do two times, first according to the first letter in our middle-names."

Hermione and Harry quickly turned to each other and swapped places. Madelyn and Grey looked questioningly at the pair, but quickly announced their middle-names, and Hermione let up a call:

"We're all set!"

"All right, let me see if you've done correctly", Jack said. He walked up to Hermione, who was the leftmost in the group.

"Annie", she said. "Harry's middle-name's James, Madelyn's Maria and Grey's Philip".

"Alright then, remind me to be very amazed over the fact that you didn't ask Harry for his name, but knew it anyway. This took you a mere fifteen seconds, people!"

Hermione laughed inwardly and exchanged a wink with Harry. They gave each other a high five behind their backs and pulled the same stunt when the team was sorting according to birthdays as well.

The whole day went on in that spirit. Hermione found quickly that the one year younger Madelyn was in fact a very nice girl, and the two were well on the way of becoming friends.

Grey, however, was something completely different. He was Hermione's age, and very snobbish and somewhat rude. Harry he seemed to dislike - almost hate - right out from the beginning.

Hermione merely shrugged the feeling off, though. She figured the short, plump and a little slow Grey probably was jealous of the dead sexy and intelligent Harry, or something similar. She proceeded to studying Harry as he swiftly climbed his way up onto a large rock, extending a hand down to help her up there. Then she drifted off into her own world.

When they'd completed the whole course team number one turned out to have a very high score, mostly thanks to Hermione and Harry, a bit Madelyn also, but no credit at all could be given to Grey, that was for certain.

Team number one emerged from the forest by time for dinner, where the winner of the competition would be announced, and Hermione and Harry immediately went off to find Laura. They were slowly walking over the camp- grounds, and Hermione finally got the chance to demand an explanation to Harry's presence.

"Well", he began and scratched his head a little sheepishly. "Sirius thought that it would be good for me to have an occupation over the summer... At least that's what he said. I though it to be rather strange, though, since he was really into spending time with me last summer", Harry shrugged. "He did have a very strange face when he announced this to me, though, almost as if he knew something I didn't".

"You reckon he knew we were both coming here?", Hermione asked.

"Maybe", Harry laughed. "You never know with Sirius".

Hermione snickered.

"No, you never do", she looked up and saw a fuming angry Laura walking towards her. "Hey, Laura! What's the matter?".

"Oh, I'll tell you what's the matter", she muttered. "My former team, that's what's the matter. They must be the most ignorant, stupid, snobbish, chauvinistic...", her voice trailed off.

"Huh?", Hermione asked.

Harry raised his eyebrows questioningly.

"Well, the girl was this incredibly stupid bimbo, who kept nudging me and dropping comments on the boys, who were the most...", she went back into her line of swearing again.

"They sound like more confident versions of Grey", Harry noted.

"...and they kept bragging about their school and their recent achievements, like they were some bloody celebrities or something".

Hermione exchanged a knowing glance with Harry, they were quite obviously thinking of the same person.

"What are their names?", Harry said.

Laura went into another harangue of angry rambling.

"Their names? Oh, have I ever heard anything more stupid? They thought they were important, though they sound like clowns suffering from severe lack of imagination rather than the great leaders and athletes they thought themselves to be", she waved her hands in the air. "That's them over there!", Laura pointed to the other side of the soccer-field.

Hermione looked at the two boys with suspicion in her eyes. One look at Harry, followed by his deep gasp in surprise confirmed her suspicions.

"I mean, what kind of a name is Piers Polkiss, anyway? And that bloody Dudley Dursley! I've never heard anything more ridiculous in my entire life!".

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A/N: Sorry to leave you with something even resembling a cliffie! I hate those myself. This was a good place to leave off, though.

What a shocking first day for Hermione. First Harry, then his evil cousin and his best friend. What's she going to do?

It was Dudley and Piers! Oh, how many exciting plot twists this promises! (Laughing my head off).

Next chapter: How will Harry react to Dudley and Piers - or they to him? What will happen when the campers arrive? I can promise you the war of a century...

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