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"Well now didn't you say you needed to move into you apartment?" Hermione asked Emma after a while.

"Oh dear! I totally forgot! Yes I do! I'll be off then! Oh wait here's my address and number give me a ring whenever you're free!" Emma said writing down her information on a napkin for Hermione.

"Wait a minute." Ron said, "Your not expecting us to let you carry all your stuff by yourself are you?"

"Well I… I guess not!" Emma said laughing.

"Right then Harry lets get a move on and help this young lassie move her belongings!" Ron said giving Harry a punch in the arm.

"Hey watch it you big git! You may be taller but I'm stronger so don't go picking a fight you can't win!" Harry said punching Ron back.

"Oh really!" Ron asked sceptically.

Then the two boys started beating on each other all the way up to Emma's room.

"Honestly!" Hermione whispered to Emma, "Its like they never aged past 13 sometimes!"

The two girls giggled as they watched the guys try to walk up the stairs while trying to beat the crap out of the other.

"All right here we are! Ha ha ha! You can stop beating each other up now!" Emma said as she opened the door to her room.

"What? That's it?" Ron asked perplexed at the two moderately large suitcases that were sitting on the floor in her room.

"Well yes! I used a shrinking spell to shrink all my furniture. Be careful though they're quite heavy!" Emma said a little to late as Ron attempted to pick up one and then dropped it on his foot.

"OUCH! OH OUCH OUCH OUCH!" Ron whimpered while hopping around on one foot.

"Sorry!" Emma said apologetically, "I did try to warn you!"

"Its ok. I don't like that foot anyways!" Ron said.

Harry couldn't help but smile whenever he heard that laugh of hers.

"Ok weakling watch to see how someone of real strength can carry a suitcase!" Harry said jokingly to Ron. He the proceeded to lift up the same suitcase Ron had and swung it over his back easily.

"Yah, yah, yah you big show off!" Ron said kidding as he too picked up the other suitcase and flung it over his back.

"Well Hermione I don't know how I would have managed this if I hadn't met you and your friends! Your such a great friend!" Emma said hugging her.

"Its alright Emma! And this way I get to help you move in and decorate!" Hermione said laughing.

The girls walked behind the boys all the way to a magical cab that held Emma's trunks easily. The four of them sat slightly squeezed in the back of the cab, as it speed along the roads, with the girls in the middle of the two guys.

"Here we are!" Emma said flinging open the door to her absolutely gorgeous apartment. It over looked a park with a pond in it and had a kitchen, a full washroom, a dining room, a living room and two bedrooms, one with a full on suite bath.

"Wow! Emma this place is amazing!"

"Thanks! I don't like the colours but that I can fix easily! Hey Hermione can you close and lock the door?"

"Sure thing!"

"Harry, Ron thanks just place them there and I'll take care of it!" Emma said motioning them to put the bags on the floor. With a flick of her wand Emma opened the bags and un-shrank everything. And with a few more movements of her wand she sent everything perfectly into place. The queen sized bed and dresser went zooming into the master bedroom, while the dinning room table and chairs went flying to the dinning room. The big black comfy couch and matching chairs arranged themselves into a neat U shape around the window and everything else went to its proper place.

"Done!" Emma declared, "Now then for helping me out so much I'll cook you all dinner!"

"You really don't have to!" Harry said politely.

"No it's the least I can do! Although I do have to run to the market for some food. No matter! You all just sit here and I'll be right back!"

"Emma I'd feel a lot better if one of the guys went with you. I mean it's a new place and there are some… um… bad people out there." Hermione said warily.

"If you're worried about Lord Voldemort, don't be! I can take care of myself just fine!" Emma said staring into the faces of three very surprised people, "What? You didn't actually think I didn't know who he was did you?"

"No not that its just you said his name!" Ron said aghast.

"Oh please its just a name! A name holds no fear only the person who owns the name! And I don't fear him!"

"None the less I'd still feel better if one of you went with her." Hermione said determinedly.

"Fine, I'll go." Said Harry.

"Ok then off we go! You two stay here and try not to get carried away!" Emma said to Ron and Hermione jokingly and watched as they both turned red.

They walked in silence for about a block just enjoying the other's company. Then Harry began a conversation.

"How did your mother die? If you don't mind me asking?"

"Not at all. The truth of it is I don't actually know how she died. But now having been to school and all I think it was the Avada Kedavra curse. Who did it I'm not sure but I hope to find out."

"Hmm." Was all Harry said. He was thinking of his own parents and how they had died from that same very curse by the one man he hated most in the world. Then he felt a light touch on his arm and look over in surprise to see Emma's hand on his arm she looked concerned.

She had to look up slightly to read the expression on his face since she was only 5'8" and he was 6 feet. "Its ok Harry. You'll get your chance to avenge your parents. Just like I'll get mine." She said sweetly.

"Its not revenge I want. I just want him dead so he can't hurt anyone else."

"Good. Just making sure your not going to get all hell bent and go crazy and start killing random people who you think are Voldemort!" she said smiling slightly.

He looked down into her blue eyes and couldn't help but smile back at her.

"Anyways we're here!" she said walking into the store, "Do you think they'll like chicken?"

"Of course. Ron will eat anything." Harry said smiling.

"What did she mean don't get carried away?" Ron asked Hermione sheepishly.

"Nothing." She snapped back, not harshly just extremely fast.

"Right… hey look! She has a really nice stereo!" Ron said as he went to turn it on.

"Ron! Don't touch it she's not here!"

"Exactly! She'll never know!" He turned it on to a soft classical station.

"Mmm I love this song." Hermione said.

"Would you like to dance?" Ron asked blushing a little.

"Ron… um…"

"Oh no… its… ok we don't have to I just thought… you know… to um… pass the time." Ron murmured feeling extremely embarrassed.

"No Ron its not that I just didn't know you knew how to dance!"

"Oh well there are a lot of things you don't know about me." Ron said giving her a devilish smirk.

"Oh right Ron! Like after all these years of being friends there's something I don't know about you? What are you keeping secrets from me?" Hermione said as he spun her around.

"Hey just because we've been friends for so long doesn't mean I tell you everything! Besides it's not like you tell me everything!" Ron said smiling down into her face.

"Well… no… I haven't… but I mean…" Hermione tried to say but couldn't.

"It's ok Hermione. I figured you had secrets." There was some silence between them then Ron asked her the question he was most afraid of, "So Hermione… um how far did you go with Viktor?" There was a resounding smacking sound in the room and then nothing.

A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update but I've been super busy with school and my other things but I hope you enjoy and I'll definitely have more up soon!