KG: Hey peoples! How are all of you? My life sux at the moment cause a "friend" of mine found out who I like and is now spreading it all over my entire school. But anyhoo... On with the chapter!

Hermione's POV-

Woo hoo! We landed! Yay! Maybe Ron will go away now! Yeah, I know it's a slim chance, but a girl can dream can't she?

Any ways, we got off the plane and walked off into the terminal when a girl with black and blue hair came up to us. "Hermione Granger?"

"Yes, that's me. Can I help you?" I wasn't trying to be rude, but I was kind of annoyed. I didn't know who this person was or what they wanted, but all I wanted at this point was to find Shawna and go to bed.

"Hi, I'm Carla Mapherson. I'm Shawna's friend."

"Um, nice to meet you, but where's Shawna?"

"Carla? Are they here yet? Did I miss them?" I looked over Carla's shoulder to see my cousin Shawna, dressed in mainly black and carrying a video camera. Apparently she saw me cause she squeaked "Hermione!" And ran over to give me a hug.

"Hey Shawna. Oh, by the way, these are my friends, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Ginny Weasley. Oh, and that's Draco Malfoy."

Carla tapped Shawna on the shoulder and looked as if she was about to say something, but was stopped by Shawna's glare. Hmmm. I wonder what that was all about.

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Harry's POV-

Hermione's Cousin Shawna seems pretty cool. Even if she is kind of scary. I seriously think that girl has some sort of problem, cause she was hyper the entire car ride. Thank God that Carla was diving, or we all would have died.

Shawna was basically just rambling on about everything, and then as we got closer to her house, she started playing tour guide, saying things like "And to your left you will see LMS. Thank god you don't have to go there." And "over to the right, is The post office, although it will be of pretty much no use to you since you all have owls."

That girl is seriously dangerous. She should be locked up.

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Draco's POV-

Hermione's cousins are muggles. All except for Shawna. All of them- muggles! How can I be expected to live with muggles for an entire year? Wait until Father hears about this. I'll be out of here before you can say- well, what should I say?

Well, you could always say 'I love Harry Potter'

Will you stop with that already? It's really starting to get to me.

Harry Potter

STOP IT!

No. I don't wanna.

If you say 'Harry Potter' one more time...

Ooh, He's an angry Malfoy! H-A-R-R-Y... P-O-T-T-E-R! Harry Potter! Harry Potter! Wow, this is fun! Harry-really frickin hot-Potter!

Mommy!

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Ginny's POV-

Shawna and Carla seem really cool. They're really hyper, but still, they're cool. Carla mentioned that a friend of theirs, Heather, is having a last week of summer vacation pool party, and we're all invited. When I mentioned that I didn't bring a bathing suit, Shawna and Carla looked at each other and said "Mall. Tomorrow. All of you, with us." in unison. That scared me a little bit.

But, we're going shopping! YAY! I love shopping! Shopping us wonderful! And we get to go to a mall! I've never been to an actual mall, although Hermione has, and she says they're pretty nice- really big with lots of people and lots of stores. It's supposed to be better than Hogsmeade. I CAN'T WAIT!

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Ron's POV-

Shawna's house is not what I expected. It's normal. It's just her, her parents and her younger sisters, and she's the only witch. The house isn't that big though- four bedrooms, a living room, dining room, family room, which is also an office, and a garage.

We ate dinner with her parents-Margie and Kate were at a friends party- and that was one of the strangest experience of my life. Her parents were basically silent throughout the entire meal, and kept shooting us strange looks. It was like they were afraid of us or something. After they had finished eating they basically ran away from the table, saying they had to go grocery shopping.

Grocery Shopping, at 800 PM, when they had the whole day to do it. Sure.

Shawna said we could split the bedrooms- guys in one, girls in the other, or we could all sleep in the family room. After putting it to a vote, we opted for the Family room. That might have been a mistake.

Shawna and Carla pulled out their wands and conjured sleeping bags and mattresses for themselves and laid them out on the floor, looking at us expectantly. "Hello? Are you going to get yourselves sleeping bags or not?"

I glanced at Hermione. Our extra magic privileges had run out as soon as we arrived in New York. "Well," Hermione began, "Are we even allowed?"

Carla seemed to understand. "There's no age restriction here. The magical government is virtually nonexistent. So basically, you could teach a two year old a spell and it would be okay. The only real think is that you can't get a wand until you're nine."

"Oh." Harry and I said in unison as we pulled out our own wands and conjured sleeping bags and mattresses for ourselves. Malfoy stood watching as Hermione also got herself a place to sleep before transfiguring the couch into a large, four-poster bed surrounded by black curtains.

Shawna looked through a cabinet, before pulling out a few small rectangular objects. "Master and Commander, Pet Cemetery, Urban Legend, or Pirates of the Caribbean first?"

Hermione practically squealed with delight. "Pirates of the Caribbean!" I gave her a quizzical look, why was Hermione so excites about pirates? Her reply- " Four words, Shawna, can you guess what they are?"

"Orlando Bloom, Johnny Deep."

"Hell yes!" Hermione said, giving her cousin a high-five.

A high five, I kid you not.

The "movie" as it turned out to be called was pretty good. And that girl in it was really hot. Another thing the muggles have done right is microwave popcorn. That stuff is good!

When the movie was over, Carla started looking through the cabinet for another. She was about to take one out when Shawna stopped her, smacking her in the arm, and shoving it into the back of the cabinet.

I wonder what they're hiding?

KG- All right- whoever can guess what she's hiding gets the random award of the day.!