AN: Guess what every one! My computer is fixed! Of course all of the files I had were deleted so now I get to retype this chapter! Fun, fun, fun. So obviously I could not update due to technical difficulties. I was also extremely busy with school, dance, Driver's Ed, and enjoying my summer. So I want to say happy summer to all of my readers, and enjoy this chapter! I planned to have this chapter rather long, so we'll see how long it is.

(Oh, and if you are looking for a great place to go to and have fun and be tourists, go to Montreal Canada! That place is so much fun. And crepes with chocolate and strawberries are the best. Mind you, don't eat them extremely fast before you go for a long, 7 hour drive, you tend to feel carsick!)

Chapter 15. Summer Ends

"You really should eat something," Harry told Laur the next morning at breakfast.

"I'm not hungry," was the reply. "What if everyone hates me?"

"Why would they hate you?" Harry asked gently. "Ron, Hermione and Ginny don't."

"Because I'm muggleborn and American and a transfer student!" she exclaimed. "That's three things!" Laur held up four fingers to exaggerate point. "Plus, I'm freaking out so much that I can't even flipping count!"

"Relax," Harry said, putting her hand down and held it for a moment before releasing it.

"Well, I'm still not hungry," the American teen said stubbornly. "And I never usually eat breakfast so I don't think I will now."

"Well, you won't be able to eat another meal until the feast tonight," he said, taking a bite of his own breakfast: scrambled eggs and grits.

"If it makes you happy and keeps me from starving, I'll get some toast or something small like that," she said, even more stubbornly.

"Okay, well do you need to go anywhere before we leave? We're actually running ahead of schedule. That's a first," Harry said once Laur got some toast.

Laur sat there nibbling on her toast thinking if she needed to get anything. "I did need to go to Gringotts. Would it be open yet? It's only 9:30."

"I bet. I doubt those goblins ever sleep."

"Okay, well after you finish your breakfast, we can go," she said as she took another bite of her toast.

"'Vell, 'vell, 'vell," a voice with a thick French accent said behind them. Turning around, Laurali saw the boy with the French accent that talked to her back in August. (Go figure)

"Peux-je vous aider?" Laur asked as Harry sat there in disbelief. He obviously had no clue what she was saying.

"Bon matin mademoiselle. J'espérais que vous m'accompagneriez," he said in a charming manner.

"Vous accompagne où?"

"To Hogwarts," he said it as if that was the most obvious thing.

"Et pourquoi dois-j'aller avec vous au lieu d'Harry?"

"Parce que, deux gens qui sont aussi beau que nous sommes devons aller avec l'autre."

Laur suddenly burst out laughing. Once she sobered, she said, "Hmm..." as if thinking. "Let me think." She waited another second then said, "Thought about it, decided," she laughed. "NO." Then she stood up, grabbed her purse, saw that Harry was done and said, "Let's go, Harry." Harry was still trying to comprehend what he just witnessed.

"What was that may I ask?" Harry asked as soon as they stepped outside.

"That French kid just wanted me to 'accompany him to Hogwarts'," she explained.

"He goes to Hogwarts? Since when?"

"Wait," she stopped suddenly. "You've never seen him?" she questioned. "Because that is the third time I have seen him in less than two months and I have only been here twice."

"Well maybe he's a new student. Like you," Harry said, glancing at Laur who started walking again.

"That could be right. He was here when I took my placement test with Dumbledore."

"Yeah, maybe," Harry said. "So you can speak French?" He asked, breaking any tension.

"Yeah, not fluently, just a little."

"That's better than nothing. So what else did he say?"

"He said, 'two people as beautiful/handsome as we are should be with each other.' What a tool," Laur said frowning. Then they continued walking in silence to the wizard's bank.

"Oh I wonder if Melvin is here!" Laur exclaimed suddenly as they reached the doors.

"Melvin?" Harry questioned out loud.

"He's a cute little goblin that works here," Laur explained smiling.

"Is he any cuter than me?" Harry asked while holding back a grin.

"Of course not. How could you compete with a little goblin?" Laur said giggling.

"Let me meet this 'cute little goblin'," Harry said rolling his emerald eyes. "What did you say his name was?"

"Melvin."

Harry burst out laughing. "Who-" laughs "in their-" more laughter "right mind names their kid Melvin?" this time he didn't hold back and laughed for all it was worth.

"A goblin. I don't find it funny." She said frowning, while trying her hardest to laugh along too. It was a little humorous. "Now be nice, if you keep laughing, the mean little goblins will toss you out."

"I'll try," Harry said, trying to hold back his laughter.

"Good boy. " Laur said approvingly smiling and patted Harry's head as if patting a dog. The girl suddenly excitedly pointed. "Look! I think that's him!"

She briskly but gracefully walked up to Melvin's counter. "Good morning Melvin," she said sweetly. Startled, he looked up from whatever he was working on.

"Hello miss. What can I do for you?" Melvin asked. Showing that he didn't remember Laurali, her excitement level fell almost immediately. She nonetheless converted her American money into galleons, knuts, and sickles for any trips to the village that Hermione had told her about. While they were leaving, Melvin said, "Thank you for doing business with us again miss."

Happy once again, Laur said, "Any time." During the transaction, Harry stood back watching the girl that he as slowly beginning to have feelings for.

"C'mon! We have to leave now if you don't want to miss the train!" Mrs. Weasley was saying to all the children.

With her she was taking: Fred, George, Ron, Ginny, Harry, Hermione and Laurali to King's Cross. Laurali had met Mrs. Weasley the night before when Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Laurali came in from walking around Diagon Alley. Laurali took an instant liking to Mrs. Weasley and she deeply reminded Laurali of an extremely motherly woman. She made sure that each child had everything that they had come with. This clearly would mean that they had everything they needed for school and that nothing would be left behind.

Hermione had informed Laurali that morning that they were planning to take the Knight Bus to the station. Laurali had no idea what the Knight Bus was, but by its title, she guessed that it was indeed a bus, or some type of mobile transportation. She'd just have to wait and see.

At the time, Laurali was walking with Ginny. She had the feeling that Hermione and Ron were not all that happy with her for taking so much of Harry's time away from them. They weren't used to that. She also understood how it was for your someone to ignore you for someone else.

"So I heard that you met our trouble makers," Ginny said.

"I did indeed. They're quite interesting. The way they are with each other reminds me of some other twins that I know."

"It must be a twin thing then."

"Probably."

"So did they prank you or anything like that?"

Laur laughed then said, "They were quite, charming, I guess you could say."

flashback

"Hullo," a red headed boy greeted Laurali while she was on her way into the Leaky Cauldron. He stepped next to her.

"Hi," Laur responded.

"I'm Fred Weasley," he said, holding out his hand.

"I'm Laurali Richardson," she said, shaking his offered hand.

"And I'm George Weasley," said a red headed boy who was identical to the other, on the other said of Laurali. He also held out his hand.

"Charmed." She shook his hand as well.

"So we hear-" Fred started. "That you're American," George finished.

"And damn proud of it," she said.

"And we're twins," George said, then he looked at his twin and together they said, "And damn proud of it."

The three of them laughed and Laurali said, "Glad to hear it."

"Would you like a piece of candy?" George asked.

"What kind of candy?"

"Yummy candy." Fred said then winked at George. He obviously meant for Laurali not to see this, but he had awful timing this time and Laurali saw.

"As tempting as that sounds, I'm sorry but I'll have to decline your offer." Laurali said, using some of her best acting skills to not laugh.

end flashback

"I'll have to say that this year is going to be interesting," Laur said, once she finished her little flashback from the previous night.

"Yes it shall be. Of course with everything that happened last year and all. I have to admit," Ginny was saying, " that I am surprised that Professor Dumbledore is allowing transfer students, especially at this time."

"Well, I was originally asked to come attend Hogwarts, so maybe that is why I am allowed to come this year." Laur said.

"Then, with all due respect, why didn't you decide to come to Hogwarts until now?"

Laur thought carefully of how she was going to answer this question. "Okay," she said carefully, " I wasn't sure if I wanted to be a witch when they wanted the responses back by. The reason is because I was going through a hard time at home. You see, there was a death in my family right before I got my letter and I wanted to be with my family more than ever."

"I understand," Ginny said sympathetically. "But why did you decide to come now?"

"It's different being a witch in America." Laur started. "There is rarely any pure bloods, and so any magical folk that there is don't really unite with one another. The American witches and wizards lead both lives. Both muggle and magical. So I wasn't exposed to too much magic, only at my school. And even at there, the curriculum is based on both standards; muggle and magical. So, in order for me to decide what I want to be in life, either have a magical or muggle profession, I wanted to experience some real magic, how it is to live as a normal witch. "

"So wait, how much magic you know?" Ginny questioned.

"Oh, I know probably as much as you do," Laur said defensively. "I just don't have as much experience."

"Ahh, gotch," Ginny said, basically finishing their conversation. So in the silence that persued, Laurali thought about how many magical people thought that they knew her father. There was Mrs. Malcolm, owner of the clothing store; a man at the ice cream parlor, and Tom.

Flashback

"So how is your father, Miss Richardson?" Tom asked Laurali.

"My father? He's well," she answered. Then she thought, ' How would Tom know Dad if he is an American muggle?' So she voiced her thought to Tom.

"Excuse me, Tom, but, you know my father?"

"Yes, of course. He used to come here all the time," Tom answered.

"I'm sorry, but you must be mistaken. My father is muggle and as much as I know, he has never lived in Europe."

"Bob Richardson? Isn't he your father?" Tom asked, now extremely confused.

"Yes, but my father is a muggle, Tom. He would have no business here."

"Well, I'm terribly sorry Miss Richardson. I must be thinking of another man with the same name as your father," Tom said, still looking, and feeling confused.

"That's alright. You're not the first who thought the same as you."

"I'm sure. Good luck in Hogwarts Miss Richardson," Tom was saying.

"Thank you, Tom. Take care," Laurali said, still as confused as ever.

End Flashback

As Laurali was thinking all of this, she failed to notice Mrs. Weasley hold out her wand in her left hand. What she did notice was a loud BANG! and a large, triple-decker bus the color of royal purple show up out of no where. Out came a conductor who was sporting a purple uniform, complete with a matching hat. He appeared to know Mrs. Weasley, because he was saying, "Good morning Molly. How many today?"

"Hello Stan, nice to see you. I'll have 7 tickets please." Mrs. Weasley said, greeting the conductor.

"Okay, so that will be 70 sickles, at 10 sickles each. Or, 4 galleons and 2 sickles if you please," Stan said. Laur was thinking about how he would know all of that math instantly, but he must have something to look onto that they weren't seeing.

"While Mrs. Weasley was reaching for the money, Harry stepped forward and paid for them all. Laurali noticed that he didn't look at Stan at all, and tried to hide his face from the conductor in purple.

"Thank you, Harry. But that wasn't necessary,' Mrs. Weasley was saying as soon as everyone's stuff was onboard and the bus started to move.

"Think of it as a favor for all the help that you have given me," Harry said.

Instead of talking to the people that she was with, Laurali was too busy keeping her stuff from moving all over the bus. Stan, or whoever was driving obviously hadn't a clue to keep control of the vehicle. But they never crashed into anything. The objects that they could have hit always moved away, even if it was a stationary object. 'Magic,' Laurali thought, 'is a great thing.'

Their trip on the Knights Bus was surely an experience, one that Laurali hoped never have to experience again soon.

"How did you like the Knight Bus?" Ron asked Laurali as they were pushing their carts towards the entrance of Kings Cross.

"Oh, gawd, it was an experience that I hope I won't have to do again," Laurali said, chuckling. "Is it always like that?"

"Yep, it almost killed me a few years ago," Harry was saying.

"What? Harry, you never told-"Hermione bellowed. Harry put a hand up to stop her from continuing.

"I never told you because it happened right after I saw Snuffles for the first time." Harry explained.

"Oh, but Harry, you should have told us." Ron said.

"Look, you would have just worried even more about me than you need to."

"Snuffles?" Laur asked. The trio all looked at each other nervously. Not noticing her companies' reaction to her question, Laur continued. "It sounds like 'snuggles', the fabric softener moscot bear thing." Laur said giggling. "Ah, well, I don't even think I want to know." Harry, Ron, and Hermione all seemed to be less tense about Snuffles and walked towards the barriers 9 and 10. They showed her how to secretly get onto the platform, without making the muggles suspicious.

"Wow," Laurali said in awe. "That," she said pointing to the scarlet train, "is going to take us to school?"

"Yeah, isn't it great?" Ginny said from behind her. "Have fun on the train Laur, I'm gonna go meet some friends."

"Have fun." Laur said, looking at all the excited children and anxious parents with trunks, owls, and cats. She did notice some people that were about her own age look at her oddly. 'Great, this will be fun' Laur thought just as Harry was leading her to the train.

"C'mon Laur, we have to get a good compartment!" He said all excited. "Then we can go say goodbye to Mrs. Weasley. I think Mr. Weasley will be here too."

"Okay," Laur said in response and followed Harry onto the train and into the farthest compartment. Laurali and Harry both stowed their stuff on the racks with eachother's aid and then went outside to say goodbye to the Weasley's.

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