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CHAPTER 3--- The Confession.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked curiously," Destroyed by Voldermort?"
"Yes Harry." Hermione answered quickly as the trio walked towards Mr Granger's sliver-colored Nissan. " He attacked at a time when the Order was having a top-secret meeting. One wave of the wand and POOF!" Hermione said vividly, "And the whole place was on fire."
"Yah," Ron continued. "And some people in the order were hurt too, mate. Tonks got burnt quite badly and is now in St Mungo's. Moody also got hit quite a bit and Mom also got hit by a curse. She's now in St Mungo's too."
"You must be Harry, right?"
An unfamiliar voice interrupted Harry's train of thought. Looking up, he saw Mr Granger standing next to him. Mr Granger was a tall man with chocolate brown eyes, just like Hermione. His hair was, however, jet black, unlike his wife, who had Hermione's brown bushy hair.
"You're Harry, right? Nice to meet you." Mr Granger stuck out his hand and Harry shaked it. He reminded Harry of Mr Weasley.
"Hermione's told me all about you." Mr Granger said cheerfully. " Ron there told me that his family was quite busy with some important stuff, so Hermione persuaded me to let you guys stay for the rest of the holidays! I'll get you to King's Cross on the 1st! It's platform 9 3/4 right?"
Harry laughed. Mr Granger's cheerfulness and open-mindedness towards magic differed so much from the Dursley's. However, once Harry got on the car, he thought about what had happened. "Why did Voldermort want to destroy Sirius' house? Maybe he knew about the Order!" Harry thought. Feeling depressed and worried for Tonks and Mrs Weasley, Harry slumped against the car door.
"Come on, Harry," Ron chirped, "Don't look so glum. Cheer up!" and did a funny face at Harry.
" Oh Harry." Hermione said, "Don't get so worried about it." And to Harry's surprise and shock, kissed him on the cheek.
Harry slumped back down onto his seat and sighed, his mind full of thought. " Does she really like me?" Harry thought. His mind whirled as he felt drowsy and started to sleep..

"Wake up, Harry! We're there!" Ron half-shouted as he shaked Harry vigorously. Harry sat up groggily and felt for his glasses and putting them on. He looked out of the car window and saw a gleaming white bungalow right in front of him.
"Welcome, Harry" Mr Granger said, " to our home."
It was definitely the biggest house Harry had ever saw in his entire life, even bigger than the Burrow, Ron's house.
"And here is the living room" Mr Granger chirped as they walked through the house," and at the backyard is a little swimming pool, for your use, of course." Mr Granger added. Harry grinned. Although he could swim, he had never done so during the summer holidays, as the Dursleys never let him out of the house.
Ron, being in a wizarding family, had never lived in a Muggle house before, was amazed at the common household appliances in Hermione's house.
"What does this do, Hermione?" Ron asked while pointing to the electrical switch on the wall.
"I have a deal for you, Ron," Mr Granger suddenly cut in, " I tell you everything that you need to know in this place, in exchange for the both of you" pointing at Ron and Harry," showing me all your magical gadgets."
Ron's eyes lit up. "Deal!" he said excitedly.

So, for the next few days, Ron was given an ' crash-course on the lifestyles of Muggles', while Harry and Ron showed Mr Granger all their wizarding gear.
" This, Mr Granger, is an Invisibility Cloak." Harry pointed to his Invisibility Cloak, left behind by his father. He put it on and became invisible, to the delight of Mr Granger, who nodded curiously. And in exchange, Mr Granger and Harry showed Ron all the' Muggle stuff' in the house.
" This, Ron" pointng to the TV set in Hermione's bedroom," is a television set. You use this remote control and press this red button and turns on." Harry turned it on and it started to show " Friends" the comedy.
"Cool, Harry!" Ron exclaimed excitedly.
After a very long tour of all the "interesting stuff" in the house, the trio set down to eat their dinner-Fish 'n Chips. It was the best meal Harry had ever eaten outside of Hogwarts, due to the fact that the Dursley's had always given Harry toast with butter for breakfast.
" Now you three better behave yourselves." Mr Granger said warningly as he put on his suit and left with his wife.
" Where's your parent's going?" Harry asked between mouthfuls,
" To some Dentist's Convention south of town." Hermione replied quickly.
After dinner, Harry and Ron went to put their stuff in their room next to Hermione's room. Then they went into her room to watch " Star Wars Episode 1-The Phantom Menace" on Hermione's VCD player. Ron gasped in awe every time an X-Wing fighter blew up another fighter jet. "That is SO cool!" Ron said repeatedly, irritating both Harry and Hermione.
"That was a brilliant show!" Ron exclaimed after the show ended. "Dad would really like to see that.. What do you call that again?"
"A VCD player, Ron." Hermione said, with a tone of irritation.
"Right, OK then, I'll be going to bed now, It's kinda late." Ron said and walked out of the room, stifling a yawn at the same time.
Harry was going to stand up when Hermione suddenly said "Harry, I've something to tell you."
Harry sat back down on Hermione's bed, rather confused. "So what is it you want to tell me?"
Hermione looked around nervously, unsure of whether or not to tell him. Finally, she took a deep breath and said,
"I like you a lot, Harry."
Harry gazed at her. "So she really likes me." He thought for a moment and replied
"I like you too, Hermione."
They stared at each other for a long time, not daring to break the silence.
"Oh Harry!" Hermione suddenly exclaimed and move towards him, and their lips met.....
Its probably the first time they had kissed that passionately. Harry felt warmth seep through him as their tongues met. Unconsciously, both of them had fell onto the bed. Harry had the temptation to just pull her shirt off. When his hands reached her shirt, Hermione pulled away.
"Let's not do that yet, Harry." She said rather reluctantly.
"You're right." Harry mumbled as he got off her bed. Before he left, he kissed Hermione on the forehead and said " I love you."
" I love you too." Came the reply as Harry walked out of her room..

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So how do you find it? Rather mushy I agree. Pls R&R THANKS!!!!!