Chapter 2:
A/N: Well, it took me a while to write this chapter, I got it started pretty fast but then just had no desire to write for a few weeks. But I forced myself to get it finished and stuff today so I can move on to the better parts of the story. Thanks to the few reviewers I had from the last chapter, reviews really help me out and I appreciated all of them. There was some confusion about Michelle and Lea so I added a small bio about each of them to this chapter so hopefully this will clear up some of the confusion, and if not then just ask me any questions you have either in a review or you can e-mail me. Xo Hannah
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any other characters, they all come from the great JK Rowling.
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Name: Michelle
Age: 17
Birthday: January 6
Location: Born and raised in Texas, USA
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Blue
Height: 5'5
Family: Mom, dad, sister (11), and brother (10). Hermione and Lea are her cousins (all of their mom's are sisters).
Favorite class: Transfiguration
Favorite color: Pink and orange
Job: Student teaching Transfiguration at Hogwarts. Co-head of Gryffindor house.
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Name: Lea (pronounced Lee)
Age: 18
Birthday: April 2
Location: Born and raised in Texas, USA.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Height: 5'3
Family: Mom, dad, and sister (13). Hermione and Michelle are her cousins (all of their mom's are sisters).
Favorite class: Potions
Favorite color: Pink and baby blue
Job: Student teaching Potions at Hogwarts. Co-head of Slytherin house.
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The next morning started off like any other. It took Molly Weasley quite a long time to get all the kids up and going for the morning. Ginny and the boys were the first down to breakfast, the rest of the girls were still getting ready upstairs.
"I'm starved." said Ginny to her mum with a yawn.
"Me too mum, what'd you make?" Ron said looking over his mother's shoulder to see what's cooking on the stove.
Molly turned and started serving food onto the kids plates, "We have eggs, bacon, and hash browns. Would you like more Harry dear?"
"No that's good, thanks." Harry replied, picking up his fork and digging in.
"Ginny would you please go get Hermione and the others." Molly asked her daughter.
"HERMIONE, LEA, MICHELLE" Ginny screamed up the stairs. She turned back and sat down back to her breakfast. Looking up, noticed the others were looking at her in a weird way.
"What" she said puzzled.
"I could of done that, I wanted you to walk up there and get them not just yell, you're going to wake you father." Molly said in a harsh whisper.
"Sorry, why isn't daddy coming with us?"
"He has to be in the office at noon, come on Ginny eat your breakfast before it gets cold." Molly replied sitting down and helping herself to eggs.
"Sorry we took so long." Hermione said entering the kitchen and sitting down at the table, closely followed by Lea and Michelle.
"Oh its alright dears, help yourselves to breakfast. We've got eggs, bacon, and hash browns." Molly said spooning eggs onto Lea's plate.
Ron glanced up from his plate at the girls who just walked in. They each looked great, looked like they took extra time primping this morning, Hermione even had on a lot of makeup and she usually hardly wears any at all. Michelle looked exceptionally beautiful, with her hair up and her baby pink robes.
"Ginny did you know at Yulstang Academy the students can wear whatever color robes they want, that isn't fair at all is it?" Hermione said looking down the table at Ginny.
"You can? Oh I wish students could wear those at Hogwarts, teachers can always wear whatever color robes they want, we are stuck with boring old black ones."
Lea, wearing deep red robes, said, "Oh I've got robes of every color you could think of, a robe to match every outfit and occasion."
"Yah same here" Michelle added taking a drink of her apple juice.
They had a cherry breakfast, exchanging stories and comparing Hogwarts and Yulstang. The food cleared away rather quickly as the kids all filled up.
"All done dears?" Molly said. The kids nodded their heads and got up out of their seats.
Molly cleared the table and started the dishes washing in the sink. They all headed into the living room and gathered around the fireplace, one at a time stepped in the flames with their floo powder and each in turn said "Diagon Alley" and where sucked into the fireplace.The found their selves thrust into Diagon Alley one after the other.
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With Mrs. Weasley leading the way, the teenagers walked through Diagon Alley. This being the first time in Diagon Alley for Lea and Michelle, they were very amazed with it.
"We don't have a place like this in the US, ours is very small and only has a few basic shops." Lea said with her eyes darting all over the place trying to take in the whole atmosphere.
They had a fun day, walking through Diagon Alley and looking through all the shops. They kids had a lot of fun, laughing and talking the whole time, enjoying the free time they had together before school started tomorrow.
The girls split from the boys and went to the Leaky Cauldron for drinks. They ordered, paid, and then sat down together at a table. Within the next few minutes an owl swooped inside and dropped a letter in Michelle's lap before settling itself down in an empty chair nearby.
"Hey Spiral, what have you brought me." Michelle said to her owl. "Oh its from my mom!"
Michelle read her letter with the other girls watching. Once she was done, she folded the letter up and put it back into the envelope, dug through her bag and pulled out a quill and parchment, and hurriedly scrawled a quick note onto it. She then tied it to her owl's leg and sent him off on his way.
"What did you mom say?" Lea asked setting her drink down.
"She was checking on me, making sure I got here safely and telling me that my sister has been allowed to go to Hogwarts this year, instead of Yulstang." Michelle answered
"Oh Madison is coming to Hogwarts, what year is she?" Hermione asked.
"She'll be a first year, she's 11." Michelle answered.
"Oh good for her, she gets to go to school with her sister. Don't you have a brother too?" Hermione added.
"Yah, but Brady's only 10. If I'm still working at Hogwarts next year then maybe he can come here too. That is, if he gets his acceptance letter." Michelle added laughing.
Just as the girls were finishing up their drinks, Mrs. Weasley came in with Harry and Ron close behind her.
"Come on girls, its getting late. We'd better head back to the burrow as its nearing dinner time." Mrs. Weasley said ushering the girls out into the street.
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Back at the burrow a little while later, the teens were all up in their rooms laying down and resting before dinner time.
"Michelle, guess what!" said Hermione raising her eyebrows.
"Um, well, I don't want to guess so just tell me." Michelle replied.
"Ok fine, you know how I told you I would casually ask Ron about you?" said Hermione.
"Yah, and?" Michelle added anxiously.
"Well I asked him what he thought about you, while you and Lea were in the bookshop earlier. And him being his usual Ron self, said something like, 'um I don't know'." Hermione replied.
"Oh." Michelle said trying to hide her disappointment.
"No don't be upset cause that's not all we said, I told him that I think you like him--" said Hermione before being cut off by an angry Michelle.
"HERMIONE, you said you would just casually ask him, I didn't think 'casually' meant you telling him I like him." Michelle said furiously.
"Ok ok, don't go crazy and let me finish." Hermione replied reassuringly.
"Ok well, go on then." said Michelle twirling her hair nervously.
"Well, as I was saying, I told him that I think you like him, and he said that Harry told him that as well."
"How could Harry know that I like Ron?" Michelle interrupted again.
"Michelle, we all know cause it has kind of been obvious." Ginny answered.
"Yeah, so Harry probably saw the same things we saw and told Ron about it, but anyway back to what I was saying." said Hermione, "Ron said that Harry told him that he thinks that you like him, but Ron was worried about you being a teacher at Hogwarts and him a student and how that will work."
"Yah, I thought of that too." Michelle said.
"Well, you are a student teacher and will be staying in the dorms with us so you aren't like all the other teachers, and besides your only a year older than him so its not that big of a deal." Ginny added hopefully.
"That's exactly what I said to him." said Hermione excitedly, "I told him pretty much that same thing and he agreed with me."
"So does he like Michelle back?" asked Lea.
"I think so, he never came out and said that he liked her, but he never acted uninterested either." Hermione answered.
"Well that's good right?" said Michelle questionably.
"It sounds good to me, you don't know my brother. He's not good at all with feelings." Ginny added.
"Now you have to show him that you are interested in him, sit by him at dinner and let him know that what I told him is the truth, then we'll see what happens." said Hermione.
"Ok I will." As Michelle said this there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." yelled Ginny.
The door opened, it was Ron.
"Well speak of the devil." said Lea.
"Huh" Ron looked confused. "Umm, Mum said to come down to dinner." he added.
"Ok, we'll be there in a sec." Ginny replied standing up from her spot on the bed.
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Ron closed the door and left down the stairs to the kitchen.
"Did you tell them dinner is almost done?" asked Mrs. Weasley as Ron walked in and made his way to a chair.
"Yeah Ginny said they will be down in a sec." Ron replied, "They were talking about the devil or something." Ron added to Harry.
"The devil, hmm girls." Harry said.
"Yah, girls, they are weird." Ron replied.
The girls came down the stairs, shortly followed by Mr. Weasley, Fred, and George. Everyone took their seats and Mrs. Weasley served dinner. Michelle sat next to Ron, as she said she would, and everyone just had normal dinnertime talk and ate the food served by Mrs. Weasley.
Once everyone was too full to eat anymore they all started to get up from their seats at the table.
Ginny walked over and looked out the window, "Lets go sit outside for a little while, it's so nice outside right now." She said to the rest of the girls.
Hermione, Lea, and Michelle walked over and joined Ginny at the open window and gazed out.
"Ok, I could use some fresh air." Hermione said turning towards the front door. The rest of the girls followed her.
"Girls, don't stay out for too long. You need to get to bed a little early tonight, your first day of Hogwarts is tomorrow and you need to be well rested." Mrs. Weasley said as she started the sink washing the dinner dishes.
"Ok mum we won't be out there for too long." Ginny answered as Hermione opened the door and they all filed outside and into the yard.
They had not so much as sat down when Harry and Ron walked up and asked to join them for a little while. Hermione and Michelle scooted apart just enough for the two boys to sit down between them. They spent a good while just all talking, exchanging stories about their summer, wondering why this summer went by so fast, and talking about how great this next school year is going to be. Lea and Michelle talked some about their lives, while Hermione, Ron, Harry, and Ginny told the two American's some about their lives. The two sets of friends got to know each other very well that evening, that is until Mrs. Weasley came out to tell them they need to go on up to bed.
They stood up and started off to the house. On the way Michelle felt someone grab her arm and she was pulled back behind the others. She turned and it was Ron.
"Wanna take a quick walk with me?" he asked her smiling.
"Sure." she answered taking his hand and turning around to see the others watching them, then noticing that they were also being watched they turned and hurried inside.
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"OH how cute!" Hermione almost yelled when they had reached the first landing of the stairs.
"Did you tell Ron to pull her away like that Harry?" Ginny asked.
"Yah, I figured if he doesn't try something then nothing will come out of it. So I gave him a few pointers." Harry answered.
"Well if mum comes up there to check on y'all and he's not back cover for him, but he shouldn't be stupid enough to stay gone for too long right." Ginny said continuing up the stairs.
"Yah, I'll tell her he's in the bathroom or something, but I told him not to stay out for very long." Harry answered.
Ginny and the other girls stopped, said goodnight to Harry, Hermione even hugged him, then went into Ginny's room, while Harry went up the next flight of stairs to Ron's bedroom.
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"So, I assume Hermione told you about our little chat in Diagon Alley." Ron asked looking into Michelle's eyes.
The two of them had been walking slowly under the stars around back of the Burrow, hand in hand in the cool evening air.
"Yah she did, and I actually put her up to that chat." Michelle replied with a small giggle.
"Oh you did, well you could of just told me. You didn't need Hermione."
"No I wanted her to tell you first, its less awkward that way. And besides I didn't know if you even thought twice about me."
"I've thought more than twice about you. A few times actually." Ron said. He stopped walking and pulled Michelle a little closer to him. "And I was thinking, since I know you like me as well, why don't we give this a try?"
"You don't think it will be too weird, me being a teacher at Hogwarts and all?" Michelle asked.
"Well, it might be kind of weird for some people at first, but your not like the other teachers. Your 17, and a lot prettier than, oh lets say McGonagall or Sprout. Besides your just a student teacher."
"Well I don't know McGonagall or Sprout so I can't agree with you on that one." Michelle said with a laugh.
"Trust me, I know what I'm talking about." laughed Ron.
"Ok I trust you, and I think it wouldn't hurt to try this out. And if it gets too weird then we can just be friends instead ok." Michelle said squeezing his hands in hers.
"Ok, sounds like a plan." said Ron and he moved in and kissed Michelle quick and softly on the lips. "We'd better go in before mum notices we aren't in bed." he added turning to walk up towards the house.
Michelle walked next to him up to the house, through the door, and up the stairs to Ginny's room. They stopped and pulled each other into a tight embrace before Michelle turned the doorknob of Ginny's room and walked in.
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A/N: Ahh love hehe. Thanks so much for reading. Now if you'd review that would be so awesome!! The next chapters will get better, they will be at Hogwarts and such so I will have more things to write about. I just had to get these starting chapters out of the way first. Well I should be having the 3rd chapter up pretty soon. Probably within a week, depending on how much school work I have this week. Xo Hannah
