Hey! Fast update! I'm still looking for more characters, so either look at the end of chapter 13, or look at the bottom of this chapter.

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"All Aboard!" The conductor of the Hogwarts Express called.

"Let's go, guys!" Sadie called to Lexi and Skyler as she ran to the train and hopped into the doorway of the bright red school train.

Jumping out of the black carriage, Lexi and Skyler made a run for it. With suitcases in hand, flying about, they sprinted their way to the train and jumped in.

On their way in, they crashed into Sadie and ended up a big pile on the floor in the massive corridor.

"Plfft. Plfft." Lexi looked up to see Skyler trying to get Sadie's bright red hair out of his mouth. Lexi laughed and rolled over.

"You know, I'm quite comfortable here. I say we spend the duration of the way home here!" Sadie laughed at Lexi's comment and pulled her hair from Skyler, who seemed to be almost choking on her hair by now.

"I say not. Let's see if we can find an empty cabin." Sadie suggested as the three of them pulled themselves up off the floor.

The whistle blew and the train began to move.

After many completely full cabins, they finally found one that had Sadie's younger sister, Audrey, and her new friend, Mckayla Pierce.

"Audrey, do you mind if we sit with you guys?" Sadie led Lexi and Skyler into the cabin and plopped down next to her younger sister who shared the same fiery red hair, as did the whole Weasley clan. Audrey shook her head and went back to talking with Mckayla.

"I feel like I haven't seen you all semester! Where have you been?" Sadie wrapped an arm around her sister and used her other fist to give Audrey a noogie.

"Stop! Stop!" She shrieked.

"Come on, Sadie, let her go." Skyler laughed and sat down next to Lexi across from Sadie.

"Fine, fine. So, Mckayla, is it? I see you're in Hufflepuff. How's life?" Skyler laughed and stretched his arms above his head. The scared first year looked up at him with wide eyes and shrugged.

"That's nice. Lexi, where exactly do you live?" Skyler asked his friend, turning his body so he was sitting sideways on the seat with one leg bent on the bench.

"I live in East London, (a/n: for all I know, there is no East London…just bare with me) near Main Street." Lexi looked up at him with a smile.

Suddenly, Skyler felt a tug on the back of his robe. He turned his head to see Mckayla motioning him to lean down so she could ask him something.

Just to humor her, he bent his head down, expecting her to whisper something. Whisper she did not. In fact, what she said was loud enough for anyone to hear in the cabin.

"Do you like her? As in like like?" Skyler's eyes enlarged and a slow blush crept onto his cheeks.

This small black girl, who was in fact, eleven, just embarrassed the shit out of him.

He cleared his throat. "I don't think that's something that you need to ask." She croaked, turning back to Lexi who was noticeably holding in a laugh.

"Oh bugger."

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"Mum! Harry!" Lexi screamed at the top of her lungs as she ran off the train and into her parent's arms.

"I've missed you both terribly!" Lexi went in for a second hug, trying to soak in as much of them as she could. Pulling back, she turned to see Skyler walking warily over to them. She motioned him over and looked at her parents.

"Mum, Harry, this is Skyler Thomas, the one I asked you about in my letter." They both nodded and smiled at him.

"Skyler, how lovely to meet you. You're welcome in our home anytime you need." Hermione smiled lovingly at her daughter's friend.

"Thank you, M-Miss Granger." Skyler quickly remembered that Lexi said that her mom was 'Miss Granger', not 'Mrs. Granger'.

"Mr. Potter, nice to meet you." Skyler stuck out his hand to Lexi's dad. Harry eyed his hand as he reached out to shake it.

Lexi and Hermione both noticed Harry's reaction towards and Skyler and quickly butted in.

"Harry, Daddy, Skyler has no relation with Death Eaters and or You-know-who in any way, shape, or form. Better?" Harry smiled at his daughter and nodded.

"Well, then, Skyler! We'll get along just fine." Harry reached out and firmly shook his hand again.

"Sorry about that, I'm just a little wary after Lexi's last boyfriend." Lexi gasped.

"Harry!" She shrieked. Hermione poked her fiancé in the back with her finger.

"He is not my boyfriend!" Lexi put her face in her right hand.

"It's alright Lex. I think we'll be getting that a lot, considering what's going around school." Skyler grinned at her.

"What's going around school?" Harry asked as they made their way off the platform to the muggle King's Cross station.

"Oh, nothing. Just a stupid rumor about us that people started to get back at us." Lexi stopped short as she saw Harry open the door to a car.

"We have a car now?" Lexi asked as she walked around it, examining it.

"Yes, it's a flying car." Lexi looked up at her dad and nodded.

"Well I knew that!" Lexi laughed and jumped in the backseat with Skyler.

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"Here we are!" Lexi announced as the four of them walked into the Granger living room.

Skyler looked around and nodded.

"Nice place, Miss Granger" He looked at her and smiled while Lexi dumped her stuff at the bottom of the stairs and did the same with her classmate's things.

"Thank you, Skyler. You will be staying in the guest room upstairs. It's down the hall, last door on the right. The bathroom is the last door to your left." Hermione then told Lexi to show Skyler his room and help him get unpacked.

When the two had disappeared up the stairs, Harry wrapped his arms around Hermione's waist from behind.

"Skyler seems like a nice boy." Hermione said over her shoulder to her fiancé.

"I guess. He just better keep his hands off my daughter." Harry got an evil glint in his bright green eyes and Hermione began to laugh.

"Oh, shut up. You're just worried because her last boyfriend turned out to be a total jerk." Harry turned her around in his arms and raised an eyebrow.

"Not that Skyler is her boyfriend. You know what I mean." Hermione stood up on her toes and kissed Harry on the nose.

"Don't worry about it. You'll just make yourself sick." Harry released his arms from around Hermione.

"I know, I know."

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"Thanks again for letting me stay with you. I really appreciate it." Skyler told his best friend as he heaved his luggage onto his new bed for the holiday.

"Oh, no problem. I'm really excited actually. We're going to have a blast." Lexi looked around the room that was so familiar to her. It used to be her room until she was seven and needed a bigger room.

The room had off white curtains that had a light blue trim. The walls were the palest blue you could think of, and the carpet was a bright white. The bedspread was also a pale blue that had white flowers on it.

"And sorry about the flowers. It used to be my room, but we butched it up as much as we could." Lexi walked across the soft carpet to look out the window. She pulled back the curtains and let a considerable amount of sunlight through.

Skyler set his wand on the nightstand and walked up behind her. He looked over her shoulder to see a couple people walking the streets.

"You know," He paused because Lexi whipped around, obviously surprised he was right behind her.

He was now about three inches from her face, and they could both feel each others breath.

"You know," He repeated softly "I really think that you shouldn't have been with Joel in the first place." Lexi, who had been looking at the ground, was now looking straight into her friend's eyes.

"Why do you say that?" She whispered, not noticing that she was getting closer to him.

Skyler was momentarily lost for words. The light reflecting off her hair, the special sparkle in her eye, the light blush in her cheeks- it all made her seem even more beautiful than she already was.

"Be-Because-"but he couldn't finish his sentence. He was already in a full on lip lock with a girl that he had kissed only once before.

Lexi pulled him to her and caressed his lips with hers. Just as they began to get more into the kiss-

"Lexi, can you come set the table?" A male shout came from downstairs.

Lexi and Skyler pulled apart and looked into each other's eyes.

"Lexi!" Her mother called. Lexi, still looking into Skyler's eyes, called down to her mother.

"Coming!"

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Lexi looked up and across the dinner table to see Skyler giving her a small smile. She smiled back and turned again to her broccoli.

"So, Skyler, do you and Lexi have all the same friends?" Hermione asked before she took a sip of her water.

"Yeah, we do. When I met Lexi, it turns out she already had met Sadie Weasley, who is one of my best friends." Skyler was trying to be as nice as possible, considering Lexi used to date Jamie Soltis, and her mom and dad might need a bit of a change.

"Are all of you're friends girls?" Harry asked. Hermione gave him a sharp look and lightly hit him on the shoulder.

"Harry, that's not nice." Harry concealed a laugh. So did Lexi. Sometimes her parents acted like an old married couple, and sometimes they acted like Hermione was Harry's mom.

"Actually, no, most of them are, but not all." Skyler decided to give Harry an answer, even though his question was treated unneeded.

Skyler looked up at Lexi to see her giving him a look of humor. He looked at her back to say 'what?'. All she did was shake her head and go back to her food.

"So, dear, are you going back to you're house tonight?" Hermione asked. Harry nodded.

"I don't see why not."

"Oh, Skyler, you don't mind hanging out with all the men tomorrow at Ginny Weasley's baby shower, do you?" Hermione asked her daughter's friend. Skyler shook his head no.

"That's good. Just to let you know, the first hour and a half of the shower will be both the men and the women, and then the rest of the party will be just us girls. While we're having the rest of the party, all the men are going to go to a quidditch match. Chudley Cannons against the Appleby Arrows, correct?" Hermione asked asked.

"That's right. I got all the tickets for free too." Skyler's eyes widened, suddenly remembering he was in the presence of the Puddlemere United first string seeker.

He had to keep his mouth shut though. Suddenly bursting out with 'Can I have your autograph?!" at the dinner table wouldn't be too suave.

"Well, I'm done. Skyler?" He looked up to see Lexi looking at him and then down at his plate. Apparently, at some point in his train of thought, he had finished his meal.

"Oh, yeah, sorry. He got up with his plate but Lexi pushed him back down and took his plate from him.

"Let me." She gave him a smile and put the dishes in the sink.

"Mum, can we go over to The Burrow to see how Sadie is? And to see if they need any extra hands setting up?" Hermione looked up and nodded.

"Sure thing, just be back by nine."

"Come on." Lexi pulled Skyler over to the fireplace.

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"Sadie!" Skyler called as the two of them fell out of the fireplace. The two of them looked up to see Sadie rushing down the steps.

"Lexi! Skyler! I didn't expect to see you two so soon. Want to help hang streamers?" Lexi and Skyler gave each other a 'help me' look before they were dragged off to an oversized pile of pink and blue.

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Well? Well?

I still need you all to give me characters!!!!!!!!!! I need some (woman!!!) friends from work and other people to have at the baby shower (that means grown ups, and like a few kids who belong to these grown ups). I NEED:

Name:

Where Ginny knows them from:

Looks and Characteristics:

And if you don't mind, I might need to change where she knows them from. Also, please give my some children too! (even if u already gave me a parent)

Name:

Parents that Ginny knows:

Looks and Char.:

Please place these characters in reviews, NOT EMAILS! I delete any and all emails from people I don't know!! (for safety)

Thanks SO MUCH! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Review!!!!

Dedications: I will dedicate a chapter to me 80th, 90th, and 100th reviewer (that is, if ya'll get that high) so try to be that person!

Angelriseng85: stephie! I hope you got some of your Skyler and Lexi action that u wanted!