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Chapter 16: 4th of February 2003

Dear Diary,

When I got home a few days ago, the house was empty. Harry left straight for the Ministry once we got back to England.

This was what happened a few hours after I got home:

I was sitting on the couch, reading silently, when Viktor suddenly appeared out of nowhere. I had no response, I was used to Viktor's use of Apparation.

Silence

"Vhen did you get home?" asked Viktor in surprise.

Viktor was surprised, now that's new.

I looked up from my book. "A few hours ago."

"Oh."

Silence again.

"How's Miami?"

"Great." I said and smiled slightly.

"Vell, I supposed you haff got over Potter after this vacation, haff you?"

I looked at my husband and he was folding his arms.

I rolled my eyes in annoyance and didn't say anything.

"Vell?" I heard Viktor demanded.

"You want the truth?" I asked coldly.

Viktor glared at me and looked as if he was going to slap me. Suddenly, he just made a noise in frustration and went upstairs.

Oh well, this is what my life with Viktor Krum is like when I'm in England. But when Harry is with me, life is different. We always get to do something interesting. Like one of the Weasley kids' birthday or something like that.

But recently, life is very, very, boring. Harry seems to spending all his time at the Ministry. Viktor, as usual, went for practices for like 24 hours a day. There's nothing for me to do. I'm sick of drawing and reading everyday. Sure, they are fun but I just can't do these two things all the time.

Ginny, however, had saved me from dying from boredom. When I was sitting on an armchair in the living room, thinking about what to do for the day, Ginny's head appeared among the green flames in the fireplace.

"Hermione!"

"Ginny!" I said in delight, glad that there was a friend to talk to today. "Back from Hawaii, I see."

"Yep," said Ginny cheerfully. "Listen, are you available today? Want to come to my house? I have something for you and Harry."

I was so happy that I could just jump around with joy in front of Ginny. At least I had something to do today!

Quickly, I replied: "Yes, I'm available. Please give me your address and the time I need to be there."

"Well, my address is 24 Demeter Drive London. You could just come anytime, I don't mind." said Ginny, smiling.

"I will come over right now." I said.

"Great! See you!" said Ginny and her head disappeared.

I went to the living room and picked out a lovely white dress with ladybugs on it. I hadn't wore it for years, Viktor didn't like it when he first saw it, and still doesn't.

I combed my hair, put on my earrings and grabbed the Longbottoms' souvenirs. Then I Disapparated.

I appeared in front of Ginny's house and I went "wow" at the place. The house was painted white, with red tiles. One of the rooms (Neville and Ginny's, I suspect) have a balcony, with morning glories decorating its metal railing. But that's not all, it has a large garden in front of it too, with all sorts of flowers! You should see them, there's lilies, roses, sunflowers, Christmas cactuses, poppies, orchids (kept in special glass domes), and even tulips!

I walked up to the door and looked at the boards beside the door. It looked like three simple hand-made wooden plates. The first one, with hand-drawn grass, had Neville's name on it, then the second one, with a plastic sunflower nailed on its corner, had Ginny's and the third one, with tiny drawings of purple flowers decorated all its corner, had Lethe's.

"Cute." I remarked and rang the doorbell.

"Coming." called Ginny from inside.

I waited for a while before Ginny opened the door.

"Hi!" I said and Ginny let out a squeal before she gave me a hug.

"Oh I'm glad that you are here, Hermione!" said Ginny happily. "Come on in!"

I went in and you should see the living room! It gives off a sense of warmth and happiness. The wallpaper was white with red roses on it. The mantelpiece had tons of muggle pictures of Neville, Ginny and Lethe. Big, soft armchairs sat in front of the fireplace. I even saw a cordless phone on a table. The phone was white and had a sunflower printed on it. Toys were on the floor and Lethe was sitting right in the middle of it.

"Lethe! Look who's here." said Ginny and her daughter looked up. She looked at me with big brown eyes and I waved back rather shyly.

Lethe just looked at me blankly.

"I don't think she remembers you." said Ginny slowly. "She has only seen you once."

"It's okay." I said quickly.

"Come." said Ginny and she pulled me towards Lethe. We kneeled down and Ginny said, "Lethe, this is Hermione."

Lethe looked extremely confused. "Herm-own…" she said slowly.

"It's Hermione, Her….." Ginny paused. "Do you mind if Lethe calls you Hermy?"

Did Ron tell Ginny about Grawp?

"No, not at all." I said finally.

"Great, Lethe, this is Hermy. Got it? Hermy." said Ginny slowly.

"Hermy." said Lethe.

"That's right." said Ginny, nodding.

"Hermy." said Lethe again and looked at me, smiling.

I smiled back at her in adoration. "Isn't she beautiful?" I asked, admiring Lethe's soft brown hair.

Ginny didn't answer. I turned and found that her looking at her daughter with a… I don't know, I can't describe it. It reminds me the expression that Hagrid wore when he looked at his baby dragon Norbert…..

Then it just hit me. Ginny was looking at Lethe just like how a mother does. I mean, watching your kid growing up in front of you must be a really blissful thing…. am I being sentimental?

I sighed. I knew that I could never be able to experience the feelings that Ginny had that time. Viktor was a bastard and I wouldn't go anywhere near him. As for Harry… well… I couldn't have his child, not now when I'm still tied to Viktor….

"Hermione? Hermione?" I heard a voice calling and I snapped out of my trance.

I looked at Ginny and saw her looking back at me in concern. "Are you all right?"

"Um, yeah… I'm fine." I said quietly.

Ginny didn't look convinced.

"Really." I insisted.

"By the way," I continued and handed Ginny the souvenirs. "these are the things Harry and I bought in Miami."

"Oh thank you!" said Ginny and took the gifts. "Can I open them?"

"Sure. That's Neville's." I added when Ginny took the box wrapped in green.

"Well, then I will wait for him to open it." said Ginny and put it aside.

"That's yours." I said when Ginny reached the small box wrapped in pink.

Ginny unwrapped the box and took out the necklace. "Oh, it's so pretty!" she cried and immediately, she put the necklace around her neck. "How do I look?"

"Nice." I said simply.

Ginny took the last box wrapped in blue. "This is Lethe's, right?"

I nodded. Ginny unwrapped the box. "Oh Merlin, look at this!" She lifted out the hair bands. "They are gorgeous! Oh, they look perfect on Lethe's hair…."

Suddenly, she got up, went behind her daughter and lifted her up from her toys. She then sat down on the chair, with Lethe on her lap and started tying her daughter's hair with the hair bands.

Lethe didn't seem to like to be away from her toys, she tried to reach desperately for the toys on the white carpet. She moved forward slightly, trying to get at least one toy.

Ginny pulled her back. "Don't move, darling." she said gently.

Seeing that Lethe couldn't move, I took one of the cubes and presented it in front her. She grasped it with her two hands and played with it happily.

"There, what do you think?" asked Ginny and I looked at Lethe's hair. It was tied in two short ponytails.

"Well, her hair is still a bit short, but I bet it'll look better with the hair bands when it grows longer. Right, Lethe?" she asked and tickled Lethe affectionately. Her daughter laughed and I smiled at the sight in front of me.

"Wait, I'm going to get the stuff Neville and I bought in Hawaii." said Ginny and she got up, put Lethe back with her toys and went upstairs.

A few seconds later, she came back down with two boxes of different sizes. Then she put them in front of me. She handed me a long, velvet box. "This is for you."

I took it and was about to open it when Neville just popped out of nowhere and nearly knocked over a tall vase near the wall. He immediately caught it before it fell. "Oops, I got it…. hi, Hermione!"

I turned. "Hi Neville." I said cheerfully.

Ginny smiled. "Welcome home." she said, getting up. She went to her husband and gave him a light kiss on the cheek.

"Papa!" said Lethe, holding up her arms.

Neville bended down and picked his daughter up. As he carried her, he asked, "How's Miami, Hermione? Harry asked for me a few days ago and I thought you guys wouldn't be back for a week or two."

I sighed. "We want to be there for a week but Harry's boss called him back for something urgent."

"Oh…." said Neville slowly. "I see."

I looked at him. Does Neville know something that I don't? I tried to catch Neville's eye but he was looking at Lethe's new hair bands. "Nice hair bands, did you buy them, Gin?"

"Nope, Hermione and Harry did." said Ginny.

"Beautiful, thanks Hermione. I'll thank Harry when I see him." said Neville.

"Open the box, Hermione." said Ginny.

"Wh-what? Oh…." I opened the box. "Wow, it's a necklace!" I said, looking at the gorgeous sun-shaped necklace encrusted with diamonds.

"No, it's a locket." corrected Ginny. "You can put Harry's picture n it."

I smiled brightly. "I love it. Thanks." I said and closed the box. I looked at the bigger box. "What's this?"

"I told Ginny not to buy that." said Neville quickly.

"But it's cute!" said Ginny in protest.

"Gin, they are not even living together." Neville pointed out.

"So?" asked Ginny.

"Um, guys? What exactly is it?" I asked, trying to stop the argument.

"Open it and see." said Ginny.

I opened the box and took out… a clock. But it wasn't an ordinary clock. It looked like a smaller version of the clock at the Burrow, you know, that one which doesn't show the time. This one was yellow in colour, made in wood and was in a shape of a sun.

I looked at the clock's face carefully. It had two hands. One of them had my name and the other had Harry's. The words around the hands were "Home" "Hospital" "Work" "Prison" "Missing" "Dead" "Visiting" "Aboard" "Sick".... currently, my hand was pointing at the word "Visiting", while Harry's was pointing the word "Work".

"I asked the man at the shop to leave out the "Dead" word, who needs that? But he insisted to leave it there." said Ginny.

"Hope that I won't see Harry's hand pointing at that." I said, shuddering. "Well, I can't put this in my house, Viktor will see it. Maybe Harry will keep it. I'm sure he'll like it."

"Of course he will," said Ginny. "Especially when he's separate from yo….."

"Ginny!" said Neville sharply.

Ginny shut up.

I blinked. "What?"

"I, I mean, when he went for work…." said Ginny slowly.

I narrowed my eyes at her. Is she hiding something?

"What Ginny means," said Neville. "Is that maybe Harry will like to see what you are doing while he's in the Ministry."

"Um, yeah. That's what I mean." said Ginny, nodding vigorously.

I frowned slightly. Are Ginny and Neville telling the truth?

"Err, by the way, are you going back to Hogwarts?" asked Ginny.

My frown disappeared. "What?"

"Didn't Harry tell you?" asked Neville.

"What?" I asked blankly.

"Well, Hogwarts is holding a graduates' gathering on 12th. All the graduates are invited." said Ginny. "Didn't you receive the invitation? Neville and I got ours yesterday."

I shook my head.

"Maybe the letter was sent to Bulgaria." said Neville helpfully. "That's why you and Krum used to live."

"Or maybe it was sent to your old address." said Ginny.

"Right…" I said slowly.

I looked at the clock on the wall, it was already 5pm. "I better go home, Viktor would probably be home any minute."

"So soon?" asked Ginny in surprise.

I nodded.

Ginny looked extremely disappointed.

"I'll see you soon." I said and gave Ginny a hug. "Maybe the invitation will come today or tomorrow."

"I hope so. Because Neville and I are going." said Ginny. "Goodbye Hermione. And thanks for the souvenirs."

"What souvenirs?" asked Neville.

"Harry and Hermione bought something for us from Miami." explained Ginny. "I got this." she showed Neville the necklace.

He smiled. "Looks pretty on you, Gin."

Ginny beamed. "Your souvenir is upstairs."

"I better go." I said and got the clock and the necklace.

"Bye." said Neville and turned to Lethe. "Say goodbye, Lethe."

"Bye bye, Hermy." said Lethe.

I smiled before I Disapparated. I could hear Neville saying before I went, "Hermy? Who taught you that?"

Well, I haven't got the invitation yet. Maybe I will get it tomorrow.

Something isn't right, Diary. I could feel it.

Neville and Ginny are hiding something from me. Does it have anything to do with Harry? I'm sure it does. Why does Harry tell them and not me?

Something is terribly amiss, Diary, I wish I know what.

Hermione

"Something's fishy is going on, all right." said Oliver. "Wonder what is it."

Neville and Ginny came back to the house and George asked, "Oi! What's the big secret?"

Neville looked blank. "What secret?"

"You, Ginny and Harry were hiding something from Hermione! It says so right here in the entry!" said George.

"Err….." said Ginny. "You have to find out yourself."

"Oh come on…." said George. "Just a little bit of info….."

While George and Ginny were talking, Fred asked, "So the next entry is about the gathering, right?"

Alicia glanced at it. "Yes. How do you know?"

"Lucky guess." said Fred. "Hey, all of you went to the gathering, right?" he asked loudly.

George and Ginny stopped talking (George didn't manage to get anything out of Ginny).

"Sure did." said Katie.

All except Fred nodded their heads.

"Anyone of you remembers what Harry and Hermione did for their performance during the gathering?" asked Fred.

"Sure." said George, grinning. "Who won't forget their exciting….."

"Erotic…." said Oliver.

"Daring…" said Neville.

"Beautiful…" said Angelina.

"Entertaining…" said Alicia.

"Hot…" said Fred.

"Impressive…." said Katie.

"And wild…." said Ginny.

"Latin dance." said the whole group together.

"Boy, weren't the graduates excited back then when they saw Harry and Hermione danced." said Ron.

"Yeah, the whole Great Hall went crazy when they started their performance." said Lavender.

"I remember seeing Professor McGonagall blushed when she saw that." said Katie, giggling.

"Come on, let's read the next entry!" said George excitedly.

"I'll read it!" said Lavender and took the diary.