The next morning was awkward for the group as they waited for Harry and Draco. Hermione and Ginny were pale and had dark circles under their eyes. Hermione kept her eyes trained on the door taking small sips of her cold tea and jumped when the door opened.
Harry stumbled into to the privet dinning room with Draco, his arms and legs wrapped around Harry. The band laughed at the two as they sat down.
"Morning guys," Harry said with a happy grin on his face.
"Morning," Jay said softly.
"Got a hangover?" Harry asked.
"No ya think?" Jay bit back, holding his head.
"Maybe this will teach you to not drink like that again." KC said sweetly.
"Not f-ing likely." Jay snorted.
"So how are you this morning Draco?" Lele asked.
"Sleepy." Draco said yawning and laying his head on Harry's chest.
"Guys we got to go," Kris said opening the door to the privet room, "And it leaked."
"Crap, I hope you three are ready to run." Dane said, getting up and pulling on his leather trench coat. Lele and KC did the same thing. The group walked quickly out and into the lobby and saw the crowed that was outside.
"Hold hands and don't let go." Harry yelled. The bands bodyguards went right before Harry as they plowed their way through the crowed. Upon reaching the safety of the bus, Hermione and Ginny sat down breathing heavily.
"What a rush!" Draco yelled looking energized.
"I know it's better than drugs." Jay said.
"How do you guys stand it?" Ginny asked her eyes bright.
"It's that rush of knowing that all those people love us. It's wild." Dane said.
"Shit, I need to get a hold of Ron and Lavender." Hermione said pulling out her mobile phone and dialing a number. She had a quick conversation with Lavender and hung up.
"So, what did Lav have to say?" Draco said sitting on Harry's lap.
"She just said, have fun and I don't believe you." Hermione said.
"About what?" Ginny asked.
"Harry," Hermione said.
"Hey guys, I was just up talking to Kris, and she said were just going to drive to France because there is no way in hell where going to be able to ride the Euro Star." KC said, flopping on top of Jay and Dane.
"Hey!" Jay and Dane said.
"So what movies do you like?" Lele asked leaning over at the entertainment system.
"What's a movie?" Draco asked.
"Hermione! I'm shocked that you haven't taken him to a movie yet." Harry said.
"Harry, between Hogwarts and now I've been a bit on the busy side of running my own magazine." Hermione said.
"Do you have Caddy shack?" Ginny asked.
"What kind of tour bus would this be if it didn't?" Lele answered putting in the movie.
"So you started a magazine and all this time I had thought you had to be teaching at Hogwarts." Harry said.
"With the help from Draco, Fred, and George, the magazine, in the last three years has become more popular than the Prophet." Hermione said with a touch of smugness.
"Oh come on 'Moine, you bought the Prophet last year." Draco said.
"Well, I couldn't let that rag be out on the streets." Hermione said.
"Now it's a real newspaper, you should read it sometime, Harry." Ginny said watch the screen.
"No thank you. That rag wrote way too many stories about me." Harry said.
"She also bought Witch Weekly." Draco said absently, eyes glued to the TV.
"You didn't." Harry said.
"I did." Hermione said.
"Wow! Maybe I should have hung around." Harry said.
"Maybe, but then you wouldn't be here." Hermione said.
"True, so are you and Ron still together?" Harry asked.
"No."
"What happened?"
"After you left we fought a lot, about stupid things mostly. We only got a note from you. Do you know what that is like Harry? To awake from a bloody war and think your best friends is dead and not know the truth for almost a week." Hermione yelled. That got the rest of the group's attention.
"Hermione, not here." Harry said.
"No Harry, I want answers now." Hermione said, her face turning red with the pent up frustration of the last five years.
"You want to know why I left, I'll tell you. I didn't want to be "The Harry Potter" any more. I didn't want the fame for killing someone. I wanted to live a normal life, but you want to know something the main reason I left was because I didn't want to be pulled back into being a hero after I did what I had to do." Harry yelled, storming out of the back of the bus.
