Disclaimer: Ok so it's not mine sad face It's JK Rowlings. But I can still play with them can't I?

"Poke." Ron said poking Harry in the arm.

"Poke," Said Harry doing the same back to him.

"Will you two just stop it. You're annoying me and I'm not even the one you're poking." said Hermione irritably.

Harry, Ron and Hermione were waiting outside the Leaky Cauldron waiting for Elana. They had arrived early so didn't expect her to arrive yet.

"Poke." Said a voice behind Harry.

Harry turned and saw a very familiar face smiling at him.

"Harry." She said as she flung herself at Harry.

"Hey you." Harry said trying to breathe through the bone crunching hug.

"I missed you" Said Elana, pulling away from a relieved looking Harry. "It really isn't the same without you at home."

"Erm I take it that you're Elana." Said Hermione.

"I am." she said turning her attention towards the two people stood next to Harry. "And you must be Hermione." She said pulling Hermione into a quick hug. "I have been looking forward to meeting you so much."

"Me too. Harry has told us so much about you. Plus it would be nice to have another girl around" she said with a smile as they pulled away from each other.

"And you must be Ron." Elana said turning to the final person in the group and once again pulling them into a hug.

"Well that's what my label says" Ron told her as they pulled away from each other Ron's cheeks slightly pink. And it was true. He was wearing his Weasley jumper (though how in the hot weather Harry didn't know) with an "R" emblazened on it.

"So are you going to tell us? Harry cut across.

"What?" said Elana innocently. Walking away from the group and towards a shop.

"Err what house were sorted into." Harry called after her.

"I'll tell you later. I'm hungry does anyone want ice cream?"

They all nodded and Ron led the way to Fortecue's ice cream parlour.

When they had brought their ice creams they all decided to sit outside and eat them.

"So, I'm ready to tell you which house I was sorted into." Elana finally said half way through eating their ice creams. They had been chatting casually in the August sun.

"Ooooo which one?" asked Harry through a mouthful of peanut butter and chocolate chip.

"Gryffindor. I get to spend the next two years with you three." She said happily.

"That's great" Harry exclaimed through yet another mouthfull of ice cream.

Elana carried on talking but Harry wasn't listening.

He would be able to spend loads of time with Elana now. If he was honest with himself then he was scared that he would loose her, that she would end up in another house, probably Ravenclaw. But she didn't she was in Gryfindor with him. If he was completely honest he liked Elana a lot more than as a friend, differently to how he did Ron and Hermione.

"Ok so where shall we go next?" Elana asked snapping Harry out of his trance.

"Erm I don't mind." He mumbled.

"I want to go and have a look in Florish and Blotts," Hermione tolde the group "I her they have a new set of books about-"

"Hermione I'm sure that the books are absolutely fascinating," Ron cut across her "and I'm sure we'll find out exactly what the books are about sooner or later but right now I would very much prefer to have a looksie around the shops. Plus I think we should go and visit Fred and Georges shop. Harry hasn't been there yet and I'm sure he's dying to."

"What? Yeah, actually I would like to go and have a look around the shop." Harry said.

"Well yes ok but we still need to go and get our school stuff." Hermione said apparently defeated.

And so they spent their day talking about nothing in particular and buying ice creams whenever they walked past the ice cream parlour. Harry must have spent as much on ice cream that day as on his school things.

"Ah this is the one," Hemione said as they walked into Florish and Blotts. She had walked over to a large display of books. "Theres a series of six, each one demonstrating a different magical source. It really looks in depth at the origins of magic and the was it has developed over time."

"Ok," said Ron walking in the opposite direction. "I'm off to find the books I need for school." He added and Harry followed him while Elana stayed with Hermione and they stood in deep conversation about the books.

Ten minutes later they all emerged once again into the bright street. Hermione weighed down by more books than the others.

"Hermione, why did you buy so many books? I mean I'm sure once we got back to Hogwarts you could just borrow them. It would save you a lot of money." Ron said to her.

"Because I like new books. I could borrow them but it's just not the same as having a new book which no one has ever read before. Not that I'd expect you to understand because to do that you'd actually have to be able to read." Hermione said scratchingly. "Besides I've got enough books here to last me a while."

"Yeah about a week." Ron said quietly.

Hermione must have heard him because she slapped him on the arm.

Harry chuckled to himself and ignore it.

Everything was back to normal. He thought. For now anyway.

A/N: Ok so in the light of HBP I'm still not sure whether to carry on with this one because well as we know this didn't happen. So now I don't know whether to continue and make it AU, which really all fan fiction is. Or to discontinue it and make all of this a waste of time. Tell me what you think.

Ok and I know that Elana is slightly a "Sue" But that's all part of her character. In fact her middle name is Sue. Elana Sue Ackerley! Lol

Anyhoo review. Please. You can have Ice cream and cookie dough. Or ever cookie dough icecream. Hmmm I'm hungry now.