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A/N: this is my first attempt at fan fiction, PLEASE review and let me know how it is. Ok, I lied; it's my first attempt at HP fan fiction with people reading it, hehe. Please forgive me; I'm American so they probably will end up talking more Americanish than British (tho I do have this lovely tendency to use British swear words). I will try to remember the "mum/mom" thing tho in the least. There are a few curse words this chapter but bear with me, they curse a lot in the book too (
CHAPTER TWO
"SURPRISE" yelled a chorus of over a dozen voices.
Harry looked around with a huge grin on his face at all of his friends. Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George, Bill, and Charlie all rushed forward to greet him. Mrs. Weasley stayed back until he was free and gave him a bear hug. Percy, who had been on good terms with his family ever since Arthur had accepted the job as Minister of Magic, simply nodded a hello with a curt handshake. Tonks waved from the corner of the living room where she sat talking with Mad Eye Moody who turned and nodded in greeting. Neville and Luna came up next to wish him a happy birthday and Harry put the spotlight on Neville announcing that he would accept nothing until it became his and Neville's party. Immediately, the banner proclaiming "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY" was changed to "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY AND NEVILLE" and another stack of presents appeared from under the table. No one had forgotten that it was Neville's birthday as well, but since the party had been Neville's idea in the first place they couldn't hide it from him. Neville turned red and stammered a thank you to Harry and everyone else as his grandmother came over to say hello.
Harry started to make rounds, saying hello to everyone who hadn't rushed over to greet him. He found Seamus Finnegan and Parvarti Patil making out on the couch and Dean Thomas and Lavender Brown flirting near a table set up with food. They both greeted Harry warmly. Lavender hugged him, and seeing Dean's face, Harry cut it short excusing himself to go talk to Lupin about something. Harry then found Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinet with the twins. The two girls had started dating Fred and George (A/N: respectively, Angelina w/ Fred and Alicia w/ George) when they graduated and had survived the twins many pranks on them as testees for their new merchandise.
When Harry was finished his rounds, saying hello to Mr. Lovegood and some Order members to finish it off, Ginny assaulted him. "You haven't been keeping in touch too well lately" she accused him teasingly.
"Aw, Gin, you know I would've but I've been busy. Moony just bailed me out of the Weasley's and we've been having a touch time moving in here" Harry said giving her a hug. Ginny laughed at his use of American slang.
"I know, I was just teasing you. God, Potter, get a sense of humor" Ginny said with a smile. Lord how he loved that smile. She teasingly cocked her head to one side while she did it knowing full well that it drove him crazy. She knew about his crush on her, and she returned his feelings. If only they could work their way around the Ron thing. That and Harry's shyness. She made a mental note of working on these things. "See, I just have a distorted sense of humor, don't like verbal humor much." Harry grinned, and Ginny felt her knees go weak.
"No, you just take after your father, it's not distorted, it's hereditary I tell you" Ginny said. Harry's grin turned into a full-fledged smile after her comparison of him to his father.
"Where are Ron and Hermione? Making out in a secluded room somewhere?" Harry asked looking about the room. Ron and Hermione had finally come to realize their feelings for one another around Christmas in their 6th year. Ever since, they have been inseparable towards one another. Harry had hoped that their being together would calm the fighting down, but alas, poor Harry was still tortured by their many fights along with detailed explanations of the making up. Harry swore that if he ever heard about another one of Ron and Hermione's late night escapades in the Room and Requirements he was going to hex them both.
"Probably, how much you want to bet they're in your room? They are rather sickening don't you agree?" Ginny asked laughing at the look on Harry's face as he imagined what would possibly be going on in quite possibly his bedroom at the moment.
"You just had to put that mental picture there didn't you?" Harry grimaced. Ginny laughed and the sound of her laughter sent chills up Harry's spine. Harry looked about the room and noticed that everyone their age had paired off and Harry tried desperately to figure out when this had happened. Even Neville had paired off, with Luna, whom he had made the resolution to remember not to call her Loony.
"I say I give you a tour of the house and then we go break up the two lovebirds and I put some spells on my room if that's where they are so they can't get in there again" Harry said smiling.
"Oh yeah, you're 17 now, you can do magic outside of school, you lucky bastard" Ginny said as she walked to the main hallway.
The house was a bit bigger than it looked from the outside. While the house did resemble a log cabin on the inside, it was nowhere near as small. There were two floors. The first floor had all the main rooms. A laundry room, the kitchen, the living room, a dinning room, and a bathroom all occupied this room. They went through those rooms rather quickly. They then ascended a beautiful wooden staircase to the second floor. On the second floor were the 2 bedrooms, with 3 guestrooms. Harry guessed that Sirius had rebuilt the house to be an exact replica of the old one having the same amount of rooms since there were 3 guest rooms, enough for each one of the marauders to have a room and all stay there at the same time. There were also 5 bathrooms, each one connecting to one of the rooms.
When Harry and Ginny arrived at his room he put his finger up to his lips to tell her to be quiet. They could already hear the moaning coming from the room and Harry flung the door open yelling "ATTACK!"
A surprised Hermione and Ron looked up from the bed as Harry and Ginny ran at them with pillows, proceeding to smack them repeatedly with them. They were surprised to find Ron and Hermione fully dressed, just maybe a bit disheveled.
Ron glared at the two of them once Harry and Ginny stopped their pillow attack. "What did you have to go and do that for?" he asked angrily turning a slight shade of red as Hermione tried to fix herself up.
"Because, you're in my room. IF you don't want the consequences of doing unmentionable things IN MY BED, then don't do those things IN MY BED" Harry replied stressing those three words. Ron muttered something that sounded like "sorry mate" as he turned an even deeper red and Hermione got off the couch.
'I'm going to go see if lunch is ready" Hermione said leaving and the rest followed suit. Harry quickly paused and muttered a few spells on his door to keep unwanted people out and made a mental note to remove them later.
When they came downstairs everyone was shooed into the dinging room and they started eating. Harry never took notice of it before this point, but he then realized that his professors were not with them. Harry turned to Ginny and she answered before he could ask her.
"Dumbledore and a few of the other Professors as well as Hagrid had to stay at the castle, they were working on strengthening the words and including gnomes, giants, and dementors in the alert system. Snape was offered the chance to come and see you but surprisingly he turned him down" Ginny said with smock astonishment at the last question. It was so secret that Snape hated Harry and that Harry was all too eager to return the feelings. The gnomes had joined Voldemort's side secretly at the beginning of Harry's 5th year at Hogwarts. No one knew until Voldemort attacked Hogsmeade the year before and gnomes started to attack people as well.
"What a pity" Harry said faking the sincerity that was heard in his voice.
After lunch, people hung around for a bit enjoying the party and the music that was playing. Lupin had arranged for the Weird Sisters to send a pensieve that would replay only one memory, one of a concert they had performed. This caused their music to be played very loudly and be heard throughout the entire house. The Weird Sisters were originally going to perform but one of them had become ill and they sent this instead. Some people found it better and pretty soon some of the teenagers were lining up waiting for a turn to go into the pensieve and pretend they were at the concert.
Harry noticed Ginny sitting by herself on the couch, not bothering to line up for the mini concert. He walked over to her and sat down giving her a smile. It was then that he realized that she had dated most of the guys in this room. After a brief time with Dean, Ginny had dated Seamus. She had never dated Neville, with the exception of going to the Yule Ball with him during the Triwizard Tournament, for he had very quickly became attached to Luna.
Ginny smiled back at him and watched as Dean and Lavender graduated form flirting to kissing. She sighed and turned her attention back to Harry. She noticed that no one had even noticed that they were sitting apart from everyone else. Well, no one but her parents and Lupin who seemed very happy about this. Ginny and Harry chatted animatedly for the remainder of the party and Hermione had been the only one to notice that their eyes had never left each other the entire time.
Most of the party guests left around 4 in the afternoon, leaving the Weasley's and Tonks at the house with Harry and Lupin. They had dinner around 6 and sat around talking for the rest of the time. Fleur Delacour showed up around 7 to be with Bill, apologizing to Harry for missing the party, she had to work. Harry accepted the apology with full grace and offered her some left over cake.
After awhile Ginny excused herself to go to the bathroom. Harry left for the kitchen about 5 minutes later and found her sitting in there playing with a strand of her hair.
"Funny, this doesn't look like the bathroom" Harry said teasingly giving her a warm smile. Ginny looked up at him startled but then returned his smile.
"I'm sorry Harry, I just wasn't in much of a mood to talk to everyone. The only other people single in that room were you, Charlie, and me. I don't know if you noticed Harry, and judging by the confusion on your face I'd say not, but Tonks and Moony have started dating. It doesn't bother the two of you like it bothers me though, about being single. Charlie's enjoying being a bachelor and you're just always so happy when you're around us that you don't notice things like that. I mean I'm usually fine about it but being in a room where the only other single people are your brother and your best friend, it's kind of depressing especially after being in a room full of people you once dated. And now I'm babbling and you're probably sick of listening to me" Ginny mumbled.
Harry just sat down next to her and gave her a hug. "So, you only think of me as a best friend?" Harry asked half teasingly. Ginny looked up at him ready to tell him yes when she saw the sincerity in his eyes.
"No, you're more than that" Ginny said truthfully. Harry started to lean in when Ron interrupted them by loudly coming into the kitchen laughing loudly at something Bill had said.
"I was wondering where you two had gone," Ron said giving them a questioning look, then abandoning it after eyeing some cake. Ron staggered over to the cake.
"Ron? Mate? Question" Harry said eyeing his friend cautiously. "Why are you staggering around like that?" Ron giggled and then Harry knew. He had seen Fred and George sneak something upstairs before, and now he knew what. They must have persuaded Ron into drinking some Fire Whiskey while everyone was busy with the pensieve before at the party. Come to think of it, he wondered why he hadn't noticed before how drunk Ron was. He then realized that it was because he had been paying too much attention to Ginny. He blushed as he thought of this and Ron confirmed his suspicions.
"Fire Whiskey mate, greatest stuff on earth. Now, on to you two" Ron said shaking a finger at them. "You two should just kiss already, Hermione did say you've been giving each other 'goo-goo' eyes all night. If you're worried about me, I'm fine with it, I've been telling Hermione for centuries you two should get together" Ron managed to get out. His words were slurred but not too slurred so Harry had no reason to believe that his drunken state was too bad. Ron then left making kissy noises at them and Ginny turned a delicate shade of red.
'God, she looks so pretty, even when she's embarrassed' Harry thought to himself, absentmindedly brushing back a piece of her hair that fell in front of her face. She turned to him as her face returned to its normal color. She decided it was now or never. "Harry, I-"he cut her off with a finger to her lips and he smiled at her knowingly. He leaned in and their lips met for a brief, but passionate, kiss that was interrupted by a roar of laughter from the living room.
"I guess we should be getting back now," Harry said. Ginny nodded and left the room, Harry following her feeling as if he was on cloud 9.
Ok, that's it! So sorry it took so long but I've had papers up the you know what to finish. And since my adolescent psych class was cancelled, I decided to write the story now (. Another chapter might be up by the end of the week, not sure, depends on my schedule (. I know this chapter was a little slow on the uptake but the next chapter send them off to their final year of Hogwarts ::tear:: And no, I have not forgot about Draco, he'll be making his first appearance next chapter. But he's not always going to be what he seems. For those who hate the whole Draco being good thing, please don't decide to not read this fanfic b/c as I said, things aren't always as they seem.
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Juniper Kiayla: thanx so much for reviewing! I was so excited when I saw my first review, I was like "YAY!" lol, you made my day, lol. You're gonna have to be patient (, the past thing will come into play a bit later on in the chapter, I'd say around Christmas. And we'll find out why Severus really hates james, dundundun! lol
A/N: this is my first attempt at fan fiction, PLEASE review and let me know how it is. Ok, I lied; it's my first attempt at HP fan fiction with people reading it, hehe. Please forgive me; I'm American so they probably will end up talking more Americanish than British (tho I do have this lovely tendency to use British swear words). I will try to remember the "mum/mom" thing tho in the least. There are a few curse words this chapter but bear with me, they curse a lot in the book too (
CHAPTER TWO
"SURPRISE" yelled a chorus of over a dozen voices.
Harry looked around with a huge grin on his face at all of his friends. Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George, Bill, and Charlie all rushed forward to greet him. Mrs. Weasley stayed back until he was free and gave him a bear hug. Percy, who had been on good terms with his family ever since Arthur had accepted the job as Minister of Magic, simply nodded a hello with a curt handshake. Tonks waved from the corner of the living room where she sat talking with Mad Eye Moody who turned and nodded in greeting. Neville and Luna came up next to wish him a happy birthday and Harry put the spotlight on Neville announcing that he would accept nothing until it became his and Neville's party. Immediately, the banner proclaiming "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY" was changed to "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY AND NEVILLE" and another stack of presents appeared from under the table. No one had forgotten that it was Neville's birthday as well, but since the party had been Neville's idea in the first place they couldn't hide it from him. Neville turned red and stammered a thank you to Harry and everyone else as his grandmother came over to say hello.
Harry started to make rounds, saying hello to everyone who hadn't rushed over to greet him. He found Seamus Finnegan and Parvarti Patil making out on the couch and Dean Thomas and Lavender Brown flirting near a table set up with food. They both greeted Harry warmly. Lavender hugged him, and seeing Dean's face, Harry cut it short excusing himself to go talk to Lupin about something. Harry then found Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinet with the twins. The two girls had started dating Fred and George (A/N: respectively, Angelina w/ Fred and Alicia w/ George) when they graduated and had survived the twins many pranks on them as testees for their new merchandise.
When Harry was finished his rounds, saying hello to Mr. Lovegood and some Order members to finish it off, Ginny assaulted him. "You haven't been keeping in touch too well lately" she accused him teasingly.
"Aw, Gin, you know I would've but I've been busy. Moony just bailed me out of the Weasley's and we've been having a touch time moving in here" Harry said giving her a hug. Ginny laughed at his use of American slang.
"I know, I was just teasing you. God, Potter, get a sense of humor" Ginny said with a smile. Lord how he loved that smile. She teasingly cocked her head to one side while she did it knowing full well that it drove him crazy. She knew about his crush on her, and she returned his feelings. If only they could work their way around the Ron thing. That and Harry's shyness. She made a mental note of working on these things. "See, I just have a distorted sense of humor, don't like verbal humor much." Harry grinned, and Ginny felt her knees go weak.
"No, you just take after your father, it's not distorted, it's hereditary I tell you" Ginny said. Harry's grin turned into a full-fledged smile after her comparison of him to his father.
"Where are Ron and Hermione? Making out in a secluded room somewhere?" Harry asked looking about the room. Ron and Hermione had finally come to realize their feelings for one another around Christmas in their 6th year. Ever since, they have been inseparable towards one another. Harry had hoped that their being together would calm the fighting down, but alas, poor Harry was still tortured by their many fights along with detailed explanations of the making up. Harry swore that if he ever heard about another one of Ron and Hermione's late night escapades in the Room and Requirements he was going to hex them both.
"Probably, how much you want to bet they're in your room? They are rather sickening don't you agree?" Ginny asked laughing at the look on Harry's face as he imagined what would possibly be going on in quite possibly his bedroom at the moment.
"You just had to put that mental picture there didn't you?" Harry grimaced. Ginny laughed and the sound of her laughter sent chills up Harry's spine. Harry looked about the room and noticed that everyone their age had paired off and Harry tried desperately to figure out when this had happened. Even Neville had paired off, with Luna, whom he had made the resolution to remember not to call her Loony.
"I say I give you a tour of the house and then we go break up the two lovebirds and I put some spells on my room if that's where they are so they can't get in there again" Harry said smiling.
"Oh yeah, you're 17 now, you can do magic outside of school, you lucky bastard" Ginny said as she walked to the main hallway.
The house was a bit bigger than it looked from the outside. While the house did resemble a log cabin on the inside, it was nowhere near as small. There were two floors. The first floor had all the main rooms. A laundry room, the kitchen, the living room, a dinning room, and a bathroom all occupied this room. They went through those rooms rather quickly. They then ascended a beautiful wooden staircase to the second floor. On the second floor were the 2 bedrooms, with 3 guestrooms. Harry guessed that Sirius had rebuilt the house to be an exact replica of the old one having the same amount of rooms since there were 3 guest rooms, enough for each one of the marauders to have a room and all stay there at the same time. There were also 5 bathrooms, each one connecting to one of the rooms.
When Harry and Ginny arrived at his room he put his finger up to his lips to tell her to be quiet. They could already hear the moaning coming from the room and Harry flung the door open yelling "ATTACK!"
A surprised Hermione and Ron looked up from the bed as Harry and Ginny ran at them with pillows, proceeding to smack them repeatedly with them. They were surprised to find Ron and Hermione fully dressed, just maybe a bit disheveled.
Ron glared at the two of them once Harry and Ginny stopped their pillow attack. "What did you have to go and do that for?" he asked angrily turning a slight shade of red as Hermione tried to fix herself up.
"Because, you're in my room. IF you don't want the consequences of doing unmentionable things IN MY BED, then don't do those things IN MY BED" Harry replied stressing those three words. Ron muttered something that sounded like "sorry mate" as he turned an even deeper red and Hermione got off the couch.
'I'm going to go see if lunch is ready" Hermione said leaving and the rest followed suit. Harry quickly paused and muttered a few spells on his door to keep unwanted people out and made a mental note to remove them later.
When they came downstairs everyone was shooed into the dinging room and they started eating. Harry never took notice of it before this point, but he then realized that his professors were not with them. Harry turned to Ginny and she answered before he could ask her.
"Dumbledore and a few of the other Professors as well as Hagrid had to stay at the castle, they were working on strengthening the words and including gnomes, giants, and dementors in the alert system. Snape was offered the chance to come and see you but surprisingly he turned him down" Ginny said with smock astonishment at the last question. It was so secret that Snape hated Harry and that Harry was all too eager to return the feelings. The gnomes had joined Voldemort's side secretly at the beginning of Harry's 5th year at Hogwarts. No one knew until Voldemort attacked Hogsmeade the year before and gnomes started to attack people as well.
"What a pity" Harry said faking the sincerity that was heard in his voice.
After lunch, people hung around for a bit enjoying the party and the music that was playing. Lupin had arranged for the Weird Sisters to send a pensieve that would replay only one memory, one of a concert they had performed. This caused their music to be played very loudly and be heard throughout the entire house. The Weird Sisters were originally going to perform but one of them had become ill and they sent this instead. Some people found it better and pretty soon some of the teenagers were lining up waiting for a turn to go into the pensieve and pretend they were at the concert.
Harry noticed Ginny sitting by herself on the couch, not bothering to line up for the mini concert. He walked over to her and sat down giving her a smile. It was then that he realized that she had dated most of the guys in this room. After a brief time with Dean, Ginny had dated Seamus. She had never dated Neville, with the exception of going to the Yule Ball with him during the Triwizard Tournament, for he had very quickly became attached to Luna.
Ginny smiled back at him and watched as Dean and Lavender graduated form flirting to kissing. She sighed and turned her attention back to Harry. She noticed that no one had even noticed that they were sitting apart from everyone else. Well, no one but her parents and Lupin who seemed very happy about this. Ginny and Harry chatted animatedly for the remainder of the party and Hermione had been the only one to notice that their eyes had never left each other the entire time.
Most of the party guests left around 4 in the afternoon, leaving the Weasley's and Tonks at the house with Harry and Lupin. They had dinner around 6 and sat around talking for the rest of the time. Fleur Delacour showed up around 7 to be with Bill, apologizing to Harry for missing the party, she had to work. Harry accepted the apology with full grace and offered her some left over cake.
After awhile Ginny excused herself to go to the bathroom. Harry left for the kitchen about 5 minutes later and found her sitting in there playing with a strand of her hair.
"Funny, this doesn't look like the bathroom" Harry said teasingly giving her a warm smile. Ginny looked up at him startled but then returned his smile.
"I'm sorry Harry, I just wasn't in much of a mood to talk to everyone. The only other people single in that room were you, Charlie, and me. I don't know if you noticed Harry, and judging by the confusion on your face I'd say not, but Tonks and Moony have started dating. It doesn't bother the two of you like it bothers me though, about being single. Charlie's enjoying being a bachelor and you're just always so happy when you're around us that you don't notice things like that. I mean I'm usually fine about it but being in a room where the only other single people are your brother and your best friend, it's kind of depressing especially after being in a room full of people you once dated. And now I'm babbling and you're probably sick of listening to me" Ginny mumbled.
Harry just sat down next to her and gave her a hug. "So, you only think of me as a best friend?" Harry asked half teasingly. Ginny looked up at him ready to tell him yes when she saw the sincerity in his eyes.
"No, you're more than that" Ginny said truthfully. Harry started to lean in when Ron interrupted them by loudly coming into the kitchen laughing loudly at something Bill had said.
"I was wondering where you two had gone," Ron said giving them a questioning look, then abandoning it after eyeing some cake. Ron staggered over to the cake.
"Ron? Mate? Question" Harry said eyeing his friend cautiously. "Why are you staggering around like that?" Ron giggled and then Harry knew. He had seen Fred and George sneak something upstairs before, and now he knew what. They must have persuaded Ron into drinking some Fire Whiskey while everyone was busy with the pensieve before at the party. Come to think of it, he wondered why he hadn't noticed before how drunk Ron was. He then realized that it was because he had been paying too much attention to Ginny. He blushed as he thought of this and Ron confirmed his suspicions.
"Fire Whiskey mate, greatest stuff on earth. Now, on to you two" Ron said shaking a finger at them. "You two should just kiss already, Hermione did say you've been giving each other 'goo-goo' eyes all night. If you're worried about me, I'm fine with it, I've been telling Hermione for centuries you two should get together" Ron managed to get out. His words were slurred but not too slurred so Harry had no reason to believe that his drunken state was too bad. Ron then left making kissy noises at them and Ginny turned a delicate shade of red.
'God, she looks so pretty, even when she's embarrassed' Harry thought to himself, absentmindedly brushing back a piece of her hair that fell in front of her face. She turned to him as her face returned to its normal color. She decided it was now or never. "Harry, I-"he cut her off with a finger to her lips and he smiled at her knowingly. He leaned in and their lips met for a brief, but passionate, kiss that was interrupted by a roar of laughter from the living room.
"I guess we should be getting back now," Harry said. Ginny nodded and left the room, Harry following her feeling as if he was on cloud 9.
Ok, that's it! So sorry it took so long but I've had papers up the you know what to finish. And since my adolescent psych class was cancelled, I decided to write the story now (. Another chapter might be up by the end of the week, not sure, depends on my schedule (. I know this chapter was a little slow on the uptake but the next chapter send them off to their final year of Hogwarts ::tear:: And no, I have not forgot about Draco, he'll be making his first appearance next chapter. But he's not always going to be what he seems. For those who hate the whole Draco being good thing, please don't decide to not read this fanfic b/c as I said, things aren't always as they seem.
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Juniper Kiayla: thanx so much for reviewing! I was so excited when I saw my first review, I was like "YAY!" lol, you made my day, lol. You're gonna have to be patient (, the past thing will come into play a bit later on in the chapter, I'd say around Christmas. And we'll find out why Severus really hates james, dundundun! lol