Harry Potter walked up to the Weasleys doorstep. Ginny was cooking lunch for her and her parents when the doorbell rang, she went to answer it. "Harry!, how nice to see you!" she said wiping flower off her face "but I didn't expect to see you until tomorrow when Ron came home".
Harry smiled "I couldn't wait that long to see you again".
Ginny blushed "come on in" she said leading the way. "Would you like some lunch, I just took it out of the oven".
"Yes please" he said sitting down at the table.
"Let me go and get my parents" said Ginny. Harry nodded and Ginny went upstairs. Soon Ginny came back down followed by Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. "Oh Harry dear!" said Mrs. Weasley hugging him and kissing him on the cheek. Mr. Weasley walked over and shook Harry's hand "good to see you again Harry" he said. The three of them sat down as Ginny went over to get the food. She sat down and they all started to eat
"So Harry how's work at the ministry?" asked Mr. Weasley
"Great!" said Harry "they have asked me if I wanted to run for minister of magic". Mr. Weasley looked shocked "Did Fudge already retire?" he asked.
"Yes" said Harry "and Dumbledore has still refused the job he just can't leave Hogwarts".
"Well I'm sure that you would make a great minister!" Ginny said "thanks" said Harry.
When lunch was done Harry helped Ginny do the dishes "Thank you for lunch!" said Harry.
"Oh it was no problem at all Harry, I always cook extra food because you never know when someone will show up" Ginny replied.
After the dishes were done Ginny offered to let Harry come with her and her parents to go shopping for Ron's welcome home present Harry excepted and soon they were on their way to Diagon Alley. Mr. Weasley used his wand to open the brick wall and they walked inside. The street was more crowded than usual
"Hogwarts must be starting soon" Harry said
"Yes it actually starts in two weeks" said Ginny. They made thier way to a new store that Harry had never seen before the sign read, "Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes" Harry smiled 'so they finally got the joke shop they wanted' he thought to himself, he laughed "what does your mum think about this store?" he asked Ginny.
Ginny laughed "oh she loves it" she said sarcastically. They walked in, a bell rang as they opened the door then, SPLAT!! the next thing Harry knew he was covered in sparkly purple slime! Fred and George ran out of the back room and started laughing hysterically
"CONGRATULATIONS HARRY!!" they said "YOUR OUR HUNDREDTH CUSTOMER!"
Mrs. Weasley was outraged "oh that's a nice way to greet our guest, do you do that to every customer?" she said huffily "no mum only to the lucky ones" Fred said. Ginny put her hand over her mouth to stifle her laughter and Mr. Weasley hid his head under a book so nobody would see him laughing . Harry wiped the slime off his glasses and put them back on laughing too.
"Sorry Harry but the sparkles wont come off until tomorrow" said Fred "but that's okay Harry they make you look absolutely lovely!!" said George.
Mrs. Weasley quickly changed the subject, "Fred, George, are you two planning on staying at home tonight to greet Ron in the morning?" she asked
"yes mother" they said together "hey Harry come look at our latest invention!!" said George dragging him into the back room. Ginny followed Fred while Mr. and Mrs. Weasley went to get money from Gringotts, the wizard bank. The twins led Harry into their "Invention Room" as they called it. It smelled like dust and every once in a while a little "pop" came from the corner.
"Look at these Harry" said Fred showing Harry a handful of little green marbles. "What do they do?" Harry asked
"well we don't know yet, but we know they do something, see we haven't tested them yet, do you want to?" George asked putting the marbles up to Harry's face. Harry quickly pushed them away thinking of what happened to Dudley the time he ate one of the twins taffies
"oh that's alright I think I'll pass you don't want to miss the fun do you?" he said. "You know Harry your right, George, lets play marbles tonight" said Fred. Harry was relieved. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley came back a few minutes later and they said goodbye to Fred and George then left to look for Ron's present "and make sure you show up tonight!" Mrs. Weasley shouted back to the twins Fred nodded,
"we won't be too long we're just going to play a quick game of marbles before we join you,..if we join you" he said.
They walked into the wand shop "why are we here?" asked Harry.
"Ron broke his wand again, you know how rough it is being an auror and all" Ginny answered.
"is his work going okay?" Harry asked
"oh he's fine, he wrote us last night saying that he would be able to come home tomorrow, and he's excited to finally see you and Hermione again" Ginny said. Mr. Weasley followed Mr. Ollivander to the back of the store to look for a wand for Ron and a few minutes later he took out the gold from his pocket and payed for a highly expensive but very good wand for Ron. The Weasleys were no longer poor ever since Ron got his new job as an auror the Weasleys had mounds of gold.
"Is that all we need?" asked Mr. Weasley
"I think that he would like some of his favorite candy as well" suggested Harry knowing how much Ron adored candy.
"Good idea Harry" said Mrs. Weasley. A few minutes later they came out of the sweets shop with three bags full of Ron's absolute favorite candies.
"Lets head back Ron should have written back and we don't want to miss his owl" said Mr. Weasley. They went back through the wall and used the floo powder to get back to the Burrow. Ginny started to cook dinner with the help of Harry. Mr. Weasley came into the kitchen a while later and told them that Ron had written back "he said he would be here around 10:00 in the morning tomorrow" he told them. After a delicious dinner Harry was full and tired so he made his way up to Ron's room and fell asleep.
That night Harry had a strange dream. He dreamed that the Weasleys mysteriously disappeared and he had to become and anamagi in order to bring them back. He became a rat and people accused him of being Peter Pettigrew and made him ride his broomstick to Azkaban but when he got there some Asian dude they called Jackie Chan was fighting the dementors and told Harry to escape as fast as possible (A/N: sorry guys I'm listening to the Jackie Chan song), he got onto his broomstick and fell off the next thing he knew he was on the ground and Voldemort was standing right over him his wand pointed right at his heart.
He woke up quickly and had a piercing headache. Ginny came in a few minutes later with a piece of toast and some milk. "Thanks Ginny" he said taking the food
"Ron should be here in about two hours, you can come downstairs with us or you can sleep in its your choice" Ginny told him.
Harry got up and clutched his scar "are you okay?" asked Ginny
"yeah, I think I just need a little bit more sleep" Harry answered
"alright I'll leave you alone" said Ginny walking out "sleep well."