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Catastrophe from Canada
By:rubber-ducky-lauren

Chapter 5: Two is company, three's a crowd

Harry and Ron sat in the Great Hall for breakfast the following morning sitting directly across from each other, both with their arms crossed, heads down. Neither of them had spoken to the other since the end of their argument from the previous night, and Hermione didn't even want to get involved. So the three of them sat in silence and ate their breakfasts.

"Harry, can you please pass the butter?" Hermione asked, and he quickly reached over to where the butter bowl was (which happened to sit beside Ron's untouched plate) and passed it to Hermione without a word.

"Oh so now you've got to have my butter too Harry?" Ron said coldly, (which happened to be his first words to Harry since their row) barely looking up.

"STOP IT YOU TWO, I CAN'T HANDLE THIS ANYMORE!" Hermione shouted hysterically as she got up to walk back to her dormitory, all eyes on her.

"I've had it too!" Harry declared as he too got to his feet, preparing to leave. Just as they had started to walk, a strong gust of fall wind blew their way and they turned to face the door, and shrill screams coming from the Gryffindor table pierced the silence.

"ANNA!"

"LAUREN!"

"ELLIE!"

"ANNA!"

"AAHHHH!"

"EEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The two girls from the Gryffindor table ran towards the girl at the doorway, who was running towards them too and they all met each other half way down the hall in a group hug that seemed to last forever. Everyone continued to stare (boys with their mouths dropped open, this new girl was quite the looker as well!) as Dumbledore got up. Once he started talking, the whole room's heads turned to face him.

"On behalf of the entire school, I would like to welcome our newest guess in the foreign exchange program, Anna Goldberg. How nice of you to join us Anna! I hope your stay here will be enjoyable. Now I see you know Ellie and Lauren, they will show you where to put your things down and where you will be staying." And with that, they three girls ran towards the staircase leading up to Gryffindor tower.

"Wow..." breathed Harry and Ron in unison.

"Oh you two..." Hermione said as she shook her head.

"It's like every foreign girl I've ever seen is gorgeous! How come none of the girls here look like THAT?" said Ron.

"RON!" yelled Hermione as she kicked him under the table.

"Except for you Hermione! You're prettier than all of them combined." Ron said apologitcally. "But you didn't have to kick me!"

"Hmph..." was the noise that came from Hermione.

"Well you can have this one then," said Harry.

"You talk as if they're... THINGS!" Hermione said in that voice that she used when she was talking about how the house elves are treated.

"Fair enough, mate!" Ron said grinning, as he extended a fist to Harry, which Harry bumped his own fist against, as Hermione muttered to herself something that sounded very much like "boys..."

"Well at least things are back to normal between you two," Hermione said, trying to look on the bright side.

The three of them continued to talk happily amongst each other for the remainder of breakfast until the bell rang, signaling their first period class.

"History of magic- that's terrible! First period in the morning? I'm going to fall right back asleep!" Grumbled Ron as he, Harry and Hermione walked into their classroom and sat down, and took out their books. Then the late bell rang, which was followed by the three foreign girls who walked in laughing.

"We're really sorry we're late, we got lost!" said Anna.

All the boys in the class had that look on their faces again. Hermione shook her head at the boys, then called for the girls to come over and sit with her, as her Ellie and Lauren had all become friends, so she was sure that she could get along with Anna just the same.

"Hi!" said Anna in a very friendly voice. "I'm Anna, who are you?"

"Nice to meet you Anna, I'm Hermione, I see you already know Lauren and Anna, do you go to school with them back home in Canada?"

"Well actually, I'm not from Canada, I'm American! I know that the foreigners were all supposed to come from the same place, and there was only supposed to be two, but my form came in late, and Dumbledore felt bad so he just told me I could come too!" She said with a big smile.

"Well welcome to Hogwarts! These are my friends, Harry and Ron." As she pointed to each one as she said their names.

"Hi," they said together.

"Hello!" she said joyfully and turned back around to face the girls. "Ron is just adorable! Maybe we could hook-up or something... or were any of you planning on it?"

"DEFINITELY NOT," said Hermione.

"You should meet Draco... mmm!" Said Ellie, and the three of them laughed.

"Quiet down class, quiet down."

"Sorry Professor!"


Author's Note: Well there it is Nan, special for you!!! My biggest fan!!! And for anyone else who reads my stories, a new chapter is finally up!!! And this is just the beginning... be prepared for much drama ahead! I'll have love triangles, more fights, and even a duel! Should be good. What did you guys think of it? Only one way to let me know... REVIEW!!!