I'm still surprised people are reading this, because it's a load of crap. But don't worry, I say that about all my other writing. Helps to explain why my average of reviews is 4-4.25. Yep. I'm pathetic, I average my reviews.lol.Anyways.Here's your update. You might not be getting one tomorrow because I have a STUPID camp thing and all, and then there's the fact that after this VERY LONG (accent on the VERY LONGNESS of it, maybe it'll hold you over, it's not like I have any addicts yet.hehe) chapter, I have nothing. And Hermione's friends just yammer on FOREVER and EVER.And it really makes no sense as to why she'd be friends with Kris, Angela, Ashley, and, ESPECIALLY (you'll see why in the next chapter, when Harry's introduced to the flock of them), CLAIRE.I HATE Claire, and I made her up.And yeah.She has SO many friends, which is kinda surprising and yeah.Anyways, here it is.And, Aunt Petunia is kind of nice to Harry, but that's only because I think because they're related more closely than the others, so she's nicer than the others.By like 1 itty-bitty percent.And still.

* The Next Day *

Harry got up, and rolled out of bed. He took a shower and put on a green t- shirt, khaki-colored denim shorts, and flip-flops. He fed Hedwig and told her quietly that he'd be shoving her in his backpack later. She hooted objectionably and Harry went downstairs and started preparing breakfast.

The smell of real food awoke the Dursley's and they came down, gobbling up the food. Harry, who had already eaten bacon, eggs, and toast. He put Hedwig in his backpack and headed off to leave. He started to open the door when Aunt Petunia walked out of the kitchen. She waved him off.

"Have a good time at your friend's!" She said quietly and shut the door.

Harry began walking, shaking his head. He wondered what had happened with his aunt. He shrugged and continued on, gazing at the street post. Right now he was on Hazel Terrace. So according to his calculations, he had four streets to go. Then it was seven blocks uphill. He sighed softly and began walking.

He made it to the address the Grangers had given him and was stunned at its hugeness. He had never seen a building this large save for Hogwarts, which was much larger, seeing as it was a castle. The house he now saw before him was nearly twice the size of the one he and the Dursleys shared. A tall iron fence surrounded it and the vast grounds shocked Harry. He gingerly walked up to the gate. He felt the space between the bars, it was small, but he'd be able to slip through it, after all.

Harry was still lanky, but now he had height to accompany it. He swallowed and stuck his head through the bars. It fit, and then Harry's torso emerged on the other side. He was so focused on getting out that he didn't notice the person approaching.

"Harry, you didn't have to slip through the bars if you wanted to visit. You could have called, you know," A soft and familiar voice nagged.

Harry stumbled through the gate and tumbled unto the grass. He shook his head and shakily stood up. He was expecting Hermione, but his eyes did not meet the amber ones he knew so well. They met a pair of eyes so startlingly blue that he was shocked. It was Hermione's mother, this he could easily tell. She had the same bushy hair and looked like a slightly older and distorted version of his best friend.

"Hello. Hermione'll be around in a few minutes. She's out with some friends. You can come and wait on the porch," Patricia responded, leading Harry to the front porch.

"Can I take your bags? Where are your bags, by the way?" Patricia asked bossily.

Harry smiled wryly.

"Well, actually, this backpack is the only bag I have. Everything I own is inside of it, Mrs. Granger. Even my owl," Harry laughed.

Mrs. Granger smiled.

"Please, Harry, call me Trish. I suppose you cast some kind of spell upon it to make it hold so much, correct? And you might want to remove your owl from the backpack too. I'll ask one of the servants to take it to your room for me, okay? By the way, your room's right next to Hermione's. I'll have her show it to you later, Harry dear. Now, I've got to go to work. Bye Harry!" Trish said rapidly, picking up a briefcase.

Harry took Hedwig and her cage out of his backpack and Trish handed them to a servant, who ran off, presumably to place them in his room. He sat on the bench and waited. And waited. And waited. He was beginning to wish that he had taken a book out of his bag to read. Even if it was Hogwarts: A History. He didn't care. He was REALLY bored.

However, he didn't have to wait much longer after that. His friend entered through the gate laughing and talking with other girls her age. She walked up to the porch and Harry ambushed her by jumping on top of her and giving her a huge bear hug. Hermione was visibly shocked, as were the others around her, but they moved away before Harry tackled her. Hermione and Harry were very close, practically nose-to-nose.

"Harry! Get off me!" Hermione groaned.

Harry grinned awkwardly and pushed himself off of her. He dusted himself off and stuck out a hand to Hermione who was still on the ground.

"Sorry about that. I've just missed you a lot," Harry said, pushing the hair out of his eyes.

Hermione shook her head.

"You didn't, Harry. Now what are you doing here?" Hermione said sharply, hands on her hips.

Harry ran a hand through his hair.

"Come back with me, Hermione. Please. I need you. Ron needs you. It's not the same with you gone," Harry begged.

Hermione shook her head.

"If I do EVER decide to go back to school with you, I don't want it to be because of a boy," Hermione responded angrily.

Meanwhile, Hermione's friends were gossiping quietly over her and the boy's relationship. And well, the boy himself.

"Oh, how the heck does 'Mione know a guy that hot?" -Liz

"I dunno. Some girls get ALL the luck, Liz." - Sara

"He's so tall." - Liz

"And strong. Look at those biceps!" - Kris

"And his eyes. Oh, they're so GREEN!" - Laura

"I know! I feel weak in the knees, Laura." - Juli

"Totally." - Ashley

"And his hair. Isn't it just.Wow?" - Liz

"Totally." - Ashley

"It's such an interesting color." - Laura

"And it has that sexy wind-blown look." - Claire

"Totally." - Ashley

"Did you see how he nearly mauled her?" - Claire

"Yeah. And they were practically on top of each other just a few seconds ago." - Juli

"They weren't practically on top of each other, they WERE on top of each other." - Mary

"Yeah. You are so right, Mary." - Sara

"He looks really nice too." - Laura

"Yeah. They don't make guys like that here." - Juli

"I know. She is SO lucky, Juli." - Liz

"Totally." - Ashley

"Hey, Carolyn, you're her best friend!" - Angela

"Well, duh, Angela." - Carolyn

"No! I see where you're going, Angela! Yeah. She'll know." - Sara

"Know what, Sara?" - Carolyn

"Well isn't it obvious? She wants to know if they're a couple." - Mary

"Yeah. Totally." - Ashley

"Shut up, Ashley." - Laura

"She isn't dating anyone." - Claire

"How do you know?" - Kris

"Come on, Kris. Seriously. You KNOW she's the biggest gossip!" - Mary "You know, she's right." - Laura

"I resent that." - Claire

"Didn't know you knew such big words, Claire." - Kris

"Hey, at least I have a boyfriend!" - Claire

"So?" - Kris

"Calm down, people." - Mary

"Why should we? She did insult my intelligence." - Claire

"We all know that you're not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed." - Mary

"Totally." - Ashley

"Hey! I thought you were on my side." - Claire

"Totally." - Ashley

"She's dumber than a fruitcake." - Kris

"Hey! Don't talk about my friends that way!" - Claire

"GUYS! Let's get back to the point." - Liz

"Which was?" - Kris

"Jeez! Do I have to have ALL the brains around here? You were talking about Hermione and Harry's relationship or lack thereof before Claire and Kris started yelling at each other. Sheesh!" - Mary

"Yeah." - Angela

"Okay, you know that Carolyn's trying to run and hide, right guys?" - Laura

"Hey, come back here, YOU!" - Sara

"GOTCHA!" - Juli

"Gee, thanks, Jules." - Carolyn

"Totally." - Ashley

"Shut up, you idiot!" - Kris

"Stop picking on my friends, Krystal!" - Claire

"Oh, SHUT UP, you old bat! And DON'T call me that!" - Kris

"She is NOT a bat! And she has a right to call you by your real name too! It's called Free Speech." - Angela

"Sweet. Another suck up. And, in case you haven't noticed, we live in England, not the United States. What, hoping if you follow her, she'll let you become a cheerleader?" - Kris

"JUST SHUT UP!" - Juli

"Wow." - Sara

"I second that." - Liz

"Are we EVER going to talk about the subject at hand, guys?" - Laura

"Doesn't look like it." - Mary

"That's what I thought." - Laura

"Well?" - Sara

"Well what?" - Carolyn

"Well, do you know if Herm and that guy are a couple?" - Liz

"Why are you asking me?" - Carolyn

"Gee, I wonder why.You are her best friend and all. But what does that have to do with anything?" - Mary

"It has everything to do with it." - Angela

"Ever heard of sarcasm?" - Mary

"Yes. Why?" - Angela

"She was using it, you dimwit." - Laura

"Will somebody PLEASE stop insulting my friends!" - Claire

"Okay, Claire, can I offer you a chill pill?" - Mary

"Sure." - Claire

"Jeez. Has NO ONE heard of sarcasm around here?" - Mary

"They obviously haven't." - Kris

"What an insightful remark." - Carolyn

"Quiet you. I already want to beat something to a pulp. You don't want to be beaten to a pulp, do you?" - Kris

"Does anyone around here have a sense of humor?" - Laura

"Doesn't look like it, Laur." - Mary

"Well." - Laura

"And besides, I'm not even Hermione's best friend." - Carolyn

"If you aren't, then who is?" - Juli

"Mary. I thought that was obvious." - Carolyn

"Not to me." - Mary

"It wouldn't be." - Kris

"And besides, she's much better friends with Harry over there." - Mary

"How do you know his name?" - Claire

"Well, let's think here.She's said his name at least twice since we've got here. And then there's the fact that they go to school together and all. Haven't you seen her photo albums? There's loads of pictures of him and another guy in them. She's never with any girls in the pictures. So I'm assuming that he's her best friend. And I bet he'd know about his relationship with 'Mione, so why don't we ask him?" - Mary

"Oh. Wow." - Angela

"Guess today isn't one of your monosyllabic days, is it?" - Carolyn

"Nope. Not really." - Laura

"Totally." - Ashley

"Shut up!" - Laura

"What'd she tell you about him?" - Claire

"What makes you think she told me anything? She might've told Carol all about Potter over there." - Mary

"Carolyn?" - Angela

"What? I don't know anything." - Carolyn

"You're lying." - Claire

"Why don't you ask Mary? She knows his last name." - Carolyn

"Yeah. Let's do that!" - Angela

"Hey, wait a second. How does SHE know that his last name is Potter?" - Kris

"How do you know that that's his last name?" - Liz

"Unlike you, I have ears." - Kris

"We have ears, right Juli?" - Sara

"Right." - Juli

"Unlike you, I use mine." - Kris

"SHUT UP!" - Liz

"I also put two and two together." - Kris

"And it equals three." - Ashley

"Four. It equals four." - Laura

"Three." - Ashley

"FOUR! I am not in Calculus so you could mess up addition!" - Laura

"Okay, FINE!" - Ashley

"If I had two cows and I added two more cows, how many cows do I get?" - Laura

"I need some time to think about it." - Ashley

"Think? I didn't know you could do that." - Kris

"STOP insulting my friends!" - Claire

"My friends too." - Kris

"Both of you shut up! And there'd be eight cows because the bulls next door knocked them all up and they each had a baby." - Carolyn

"Dirty!" - Mary

"Yeah, I forgot you both grew up on a farm." - Kris

"We didn't grow up on a farm. We grew up BY a farm. Jeez! Get your facts straight, people!" - Mary

"It's FOUR! FOUR COWS! WHY DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND THAT?!" - Laura

"Calm down, Sweetie." - Juli

"Gay much?" - Kris

"Totally." - Ashley

"Don't pick on Juli. She is so not gay. Everyone knows she likes." - Sara

"Shut up! You know she doesn't want anyone to know that!" - Liz

"Guys! Look what you're doing to Juli!" - Carolyn

"Yeah, she's crying!" - Angela

"Wimp." - Kris

"KRIS! Do you have to pick on everyone?" - Claire

"Okay, guys, back to the subject of Hermione and her friend over there." - Mary

"Yeah. Right." - Angela

"Isn't he gorgeous?" - Claire

"Yeah." - Ashley

"Absolutely." - Liz

"I want to go to school with her." - Juli

"Me too." - Sara

"Guys, her school is really hard." - Carolyn "Yeah. She always has tons of homework, even in the summer." - Laura

"And somehow, I don't think we have what it takes to get in there." - Mary

"Come on, you, Carol, and Laura do. You are all so smart and the rest of us are all dumb." - Juli

"We're not cut out for it." - Mary

"How do you know?" - Claire

"There are some things you just know without asking. And if I were supposed to be at that school, I'd be there. I'm not." - Mary

"Why do I get the feeling that you know more than you're telling?" - Kris

"I DON'T! Now, I'm going to sit on the porch and watch Hermione and Harry." - Mary

"I'm coming with you." - Laura

"Me too." - Carolyn

Loren ;*

REVIEW! I still feel like Moody when I say that. And that ending sucked, but what can I say? I was tired and yeah.Making people come to life and bicker endlessly.Scary.