Chapter 2

New Place

Time went by very slow for Harry Potter, he felt as 3 o'clock would never come a long. Harry had dragged his trunk down-stairs and waited for The Granger's arrival.

"I see your friend forgot about you. Are you sure this people really exist?" Dudley stared stupidly at Harry.

"Leave me alone."

"Aww… I think that freaky little friend of yours really did forget you." He snicker.

"If you don't go away I might just do some sort of jinx on you!" Harry was always annoyed by Dudley and sometimes he wished he could do much outside of school. Dudley's grin faded away with the thought of Harry doing some sort of magic.

"You know my dad said you're not allowed to use magic. So you shouldn't do it!"

"So what if I do?"

"Well I'll tell on you." Dudley was terrified Harry would actually do something. It was always fun for Harry to scare his cousin.

There was a knock on the door and Dudley pushed Harry out of the way to answer the door. Hermione just smiled lightly and stared at Dudley.

"Hello, I'm here to pick up Harry?" Dudley stood there, mouth wide-opened.

"You're here for him? You're his freak…. I mean friend from school?" Before she could answer, Harry made his way through Dudley with his school trunk.

"Hey Harry!" She greeted him happily.

"It's great to see you Hermione, thanks for having me over this summer." They both carried on in conversation, pretending Harry's cousin wasn't there. They carried his school trunk to her car.

"I forgot something." Harry grabbed Hermione's hand, she blushed slightly, they ran up to his room. Harry almost forgot his owl, Hedwig, he put her in her cage. Aww, he let go of my hand, Hermione told herself.

"Hermione, lets go. The sooner we leave the better."

"Right. My mum and dad are waiting for us." They dashed back down-stairs and before they left Harry said his goodbyes to the Dursleys, "See you all next summer!" and with that being said, the Grangers and Harry were out of number four Privet Drive.

When they arrived to their home, just the new home for Harry for the rest of the summer. The Grangers' house was very beautiful to Harry, a light blue two story home, with a black roof. The grass was nice cut and the little brick path to the house looked new. The flower beds had different color flowers and Harry liked how the house looked and was glad to be staying here for the summer. They all went inside, Mr. Granger and Harry carried his school trunk inside. The inside was even more remarkable, the sweet smell of spring and to Harry it felt so delightful, the whole house was clean. It looked like any regular muggle home.

"Harry, I hope you enjoy your stay here." Mrs. Granger smiled at him.

"Oh I will, thank you very much for having me."

"It's no problem, after how much Hermione wanted you and Ron to stay over, I didn't dare say no." Mrs. Granger smiled and Hermione turned a lightly pink.

"Mum, please…" Her parents laughed.

"Don't mind her, Harry, she will show you to the room you will be using." Mr. Granger chuckled lightly.

"Follow me, Harry." Hermione led the way and Harry followed her up the stairs, Mr. Granger picked up Harry's trunk and followed both of the young teens. They entered a small room and Mr. Granger put Harry's belongings down.

"I'll leave you two alone, I'm going to help my wife with cooking dinner for all of us." He left Harry's room.

"Sorry its not much Harry, nothing like Ron's place." Harry was happy, he had a bed, desk, dresser, closet, and a night-stand, the regular stuff you find in a quest room.

"Don't worry, its great, better then what I had at home."

"I just want you to bed happy here…"

"I am! You saved me from that dreadful place, I can't thank you enough." Harry gave her a hug. She hugged him back but didn't want to let go.

"Harry I want to tell you something, but I don't know if I should." She let go of him.

"You can tell me anything, right? I am after all your best friend."

"Harry sit down, this might be a shock to you at first." They sat down on the bed and Hermione began to talk again, she tired to tell him how she felt but was lost in words. Harry took her quietness as a signal that she was tongue tied and began another conversation about school.

"I think our 7th year will be a great one, since Vol… since we got rid of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, is out of our world, we will have peace. Just every now and then Malfoy trying to annoy us and homework to keep us busy."

"Over all, Harry, school won't be so bad for the three of us."

"And Katie Bell left captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team to Ron."

"We know he is happy about it. I'm hoping to get head girl this year."

"You will get it, your top in our year." He sounded so certain about it.

"I think you'll be head boy." She smiled.

"Why?" Harry questioned.

"Well your father was and I won't be a bit surprised if you were head boy as well."

"I guess maybe… Ron and you were Gryffindor's prefects for 5th and 6th year, so I doubt I will make head boy."

"You don't have to be a prefect to be head boy, Sirius told us your dad was head boy and never was a prefect."

"Maybe your right." He grinned. "Me head boy, that would be most excellent. All three of us, would be remembered when we finish school."

They kept talking about school, when Mrs. Granger called out to them for dinner. They ate the hamburgers Mr. Granger had grilled and the different types of salads Mrs. Granger prepared, potato salad, macaroni, garden lettuce, Harry favorite was the fruit. After dinner was over Hermione and Harry picked up the dishes and washed them, since her parents did do the cooking. Hermione didn't really want Harry to help because he was her guest, but he told her he wanted to help her. When ever thing was done they went back up stairs and said goodnite to each other, Hermione was tired and she planned some fun things to do together tomorrow, she said they needed their rest.

"Alright Hermione, I'll go to bed then, wake me up in the morning."

"Good, you better. Get your rest Potter."

"I will see you in the morning. Goodnight and sleep well."

"Same to you." She smiled and went to her room. Harry stood there and watched her enter her room, once she closed her door he went in his room. There was a little hyper owl flying around his room with a piece of parchment on his leg.

"Pig stay still and come here." The owl flew to his shoulder. Harry un-tied the note and read it.

Hey mate,

I'm guessing you are now with Hermione. Hopefully your reading this all alone, I told Pig to give it to you when Hermione wasn't around. I bet you're wondering why I just wrote that, to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be here, I rather be over there with you two. I don't know if Hermione told you this, but she likes you mate, I mean as more then a friend. I know both of you. She likes you and you don't see her in that way. Harry, I like Hermione and I really wanted to spend this summer with her and maybe ask her out. I trust you and I know for a fact you don't fancy her. I just wanted you to know, let her down easily and tell her about me. Tell her I'll be happy to be her boyfriend because I fancied her since second year. Anyways see you in 3 weeks. Have you gotten you school letters yet? Ginny and I have, I was hoping to be Head boy, but I wasn't so I'm guessing you were. Write back.

Ron

What does he mean by that stupid letter!?! Harry yelled in his head, he was upset with Ron. I shouldn't get mad at the poor guy, I never really told him I like Hermione, I knew he liked her but I don't think she would return the same feelings they do argue loads of times, well I hope she doesn't like him. I don't know what to do, unless… Harry got a new piece of parchment from his trunk and started to write back to Ron.

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Ha didn't see that coming or did you? Well I don't know if it should be H/Hr or R/Hr…….. my friends are telling I should end it Hr/? can't say until I up-date.
bye for now