This takes place after the sixth book, with a few changes 1) Harry and Ginny were never together 2) Dumbledore never died.

Harry sat in his room at Number Four, Privet Drive staring at the wall. He would only have to spend a week here this year. As per Dumbledore's request Harry returned, but decided to keep it short. He had been there three days already and was leaving in four more days for the Burrow, where he would spend the remainder of his holiday with his two best friends and the Weasleys. This had all been planned before they left school just a couple of days ago. Harry couldn't wait to leave; as far as he was concerned he had been there too long already. He spent most of his time sitting in his room trying to avoid his "family". So far it had worked well; he had only seen them on his first day back. His Aunt would leave food by his door two or three times a day, the Dursleys were just as happy that he was keeping to himself.

Harry reading his favorite book, "Quidditch through the Ages," when he heard a little tap on the window. He looked up and saw Ron's tiny owl, Pig outside the window. He hurried to let the small owl in, taking the letter off his small leg. While Pig did his usual lap of excitement, Harry opened the letter and his heart sank.

'Harry,

Bad news mate, Mum and Dad want Ginny and I to go with them to see Charlie. They have some business to take care of there and think that we might be able to help. Well it looks like it's going to take a while so I guess you can't come to the Burrow yet. I'll write as often as I can but don't really know when that will be. I'll let you know when we're back so you can come right away. Sorry.

- Ron'

Harry read the letter three times over before he sat down at his desk. He set the letter down and ran his hand through his hair. He tried not to be, but the truth was he was really disappointed. He figured that whatever the Weasleys had to do must be important if they had to break their plans with Harry.

After a few more minutes of sulking Harry rummaged around in his desk and pulled out a quill and a sheet of parchment.

'Ron,

Don't worry about me, I'll figure something out. I'm still leaving at the end of the week even if I have anywhere to go yet. Maybe I'll go to the Leaky Cauldron or something. Good luck with Charlie and everything you guys have to do. Talk to you later.

Harry'

Harry reread the letter and looked up at pig "Up for another trip tonight?"

The little bird piped up again "SHHH" Harry whispered as he tied his letter to Pig's leg.

He walked to the window and lightly threw the owl out the window. He watched Pig until he couldn't see him anymore. Harry just stayed there, staring out the window for a long time. When he finally moved away from the window he didn't feel like doing anything else, so he put his book back on the desk, turned out the light and laid down in bed. After what seemed like hours he finally fell asleep.

The next morning Harry awoke to a strange sound in his room. Harry fumbled for a moment, finding his glasses on the nightstand and putting them on. The noise he found came from a strange owl perched on his desk. It was rather young looking, brown with black spots. It had a letter attached to its leg. Grabbing it and reading a smile crept up onto Harry's face.

'Hi Harry!

I just got a letter from Ron saying that they were going away on "family business" and that our summer at the Burrow was put off for a while. All I could think last night was that you must be pretty upset by this, so I talked to my parents and they said that you were more than welcome to stay with us for the summer! Just let me know what you think. You can send your answer back with Spotty (don't laugh I don't have that great of an imagination). Mum and Dad bought him as an early birthday present to me.

Love Always,

Hermione'

Harry wrote back immediately.

'Hermione,

I love you! Thank you so much! I would love to come spend the summer with you, see you soon! I can't wait!

All my love,

Harry'

He sent the owl back as soon has he finished drinking from Hedwig's water. He was really excited that he would still end up spending the summer with Hermione. He smiled all that day.

'I'm really excited,' he thought to himself as he was laying in bed on Sunday night. Hermione would be coming for him in the morning with her parents. He was finally getting out of here and his summer would be saved. He was still getting to spend most of the summer with Hermione. He smiled again. 'Why am I so excited about this?' "Because you're getting out of here" he said out loud. 'But is it really? Or are you excited to see her?' "You're crazy," he said to himself again. He fell asleep with a smile on his face that night.

Harry woke up the next morning before the sun had even come up. In all truth, he didn't think he really slept at all. He was too excited, so he got up and finished his last minute packing. By 8:30 the only things left in his room were the bed, the desk, and the wardrobe. His trunk sat in the middle of the room with two boxes on top of it and Hedwig's cage in front of it. All he had to do now was wait.

At precisely 9:30, just like they had talked about, the doorbell rang. He jumped up and started heading down stairs. 'I Love Hermione! She's always on time,' he thought to himself on the way down. He stopped dead in his tracks. 'I love Hermione? …. You know what I mean,' he told himself.

He opened the door and something flew at him in a blur. "Harry!"

Harry found himself locked in Hermione's hug. "I missed you!" she said letting go and stepping back. " I mean, it's only been a week but..."

"Don't worry Hermione I know what you mean, I missed you too." Harry smiled at her, feeling his face get rather warm.

She smiled for a second then turned toward the two people behind her. "Harry you know my parents…" she said still not looking at him.

"Mr. and Mrs. Granger, nice to see you again," Harry said politely shaking both their hands.

"Nice to see you too, Harry," Mr. Granger replied, shaking his hand.

"Where are your aunt and uncle, dear?" Mrs. Granger asked.

"Oh," Harry smiled, "They went out. They didn't want to be here when more of "my people" showed up. I didn't bother to tell them that Hermione was muggle-born."

They all laughed. Hermione had finally turned to face him again and he saw that her face was a little pink. "Do you need help with your stuff?" Hermione asked.

"Umm sure, follow me" Harry said turning to go upstairs.

He picked up the two boxes and held out the bird cage for Hermione. "We can come back for this," he said, nodding at his trunk.

"Don't be silly," she said. "Put all that stuff down," she ordered as she set the cage on top of the boxes. Then she pulled out her wand. "Locomotor trunk."

"You keep forgetting, I came of age last year so I can do magic outside of school," she told him as she followed Harry's belongings out of his room with her wand pointed at them.

When they got downstairs they carried the stuff to the car so nobody would see. Taking one last look at the house, Harry smiled and got into the backseat of the car. 'I'll never have to come back here again.'

As though she were reading his thoughts, Hermione asked, "Happy this is the last time you'll see this place?"

"You have no idea," he replied with a laugh.

The drive to the Grangers house took most of the day. At around two o'clock Harry looked over at Hermione and asked, "How did you guys get to my house so early if you live so far away?"

She smiled at him and said, "Well we didn't drive from home this morning we made kind of a trip of it we left on Thursday night and stopped at a few places on the way."

"I didn't know I was so far out of the way for you guys, I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it Harry," Hermione told him "We had fun on the trip and now that I know you're safe it makes it all worth while," she finished turning a little pink.

They arrived at the Granger house at about nine o'clock. After they had gotten Harry's stuff out of the car Hermione had showed Harry to his room. She gave him the grand tour of the place. It was a five-bedroom house with two floors.

"Your house is really nice Hermione," he said as they came back to his room.

"Yeah I like it." Hermione smiled. Harry yawned. He hadn't realized that he was so tired.

"Why don't you go to bed?" Hermione suggested with a small laugh.

"Don't laugh at me, I didn't sleep last night," he with a smile.

"Well I guess I'll see you in the morning," Hermione said and she leaned forward and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Good night," she added quietly before quickly leaving the room.

Harry watched the door for a few moments after she closed it. After snapping out of his little trance, Harry went into the adjoining bathroom washed up and got into the huge bed and fell asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow.

The next morning Harry woke up as the sun came in the window and the light hit his face. He laid there for a moment, then there was a knock at the door.

"Harry, are you awake?" Hermione asked quietly from outside the door.

"Yeah, come on in," he answered.

Hermione came in still wearing her PJ's. They were blue and black striped pants with a black tank top shirt. " Wow…" Harry said softly, "Uh, I mean, hi," he said quickly.

"Morning " she smiled and sat down on his bed. "So what do you want to do today?" she asked.

"I don't know. What's around here?" Harry asked.

"Well there's a mall and a cinema and a bunch of small restaurants and things," she told him. "We could just go walk around there."

"Yeah that sounds fun," Harry answered. "I'll get dressed and meet you downstairs in a little while, ok?" he asked.

"Deal." Hermione got up and went to get ready.

He got downstairs before she did so he waited for her in the living room. He was sitting on the couch and noticed that her parents were gone. "Hey where are your parents?" he shouted upstairs.

"Oh, they are at work," she yelled back going from her room to the bathroom.

"What do they do again? I can't remember."

"They are dentists, both of them they have an office about 25 minutes from here," she said. She was finally ready and started coming down the stairs.

He was looking up at her thinking about how pretty she looked. 'Why do I keep thinking about her like that?'

"Ready?" she asked standing next to him.

Taken a little by surprise that she had gotten down the stairs so fast, Harry answered, "Yep lets go."

They spent the day out. First they had breakfast, then heading to the mall. Hermione was determined to help Harry pick out some new clothes that actually fit him properly. She said she was tired of always seeing him in Dudley's old things.

Shopping took about three hours, because they were having a lot of fun pointing out stupid or ugly that others were buying. After a while, Hermione was satisfied with what Harry had bought. He even bought her some new clothes and a new book, as a way of thanking her for letting him come to stay with her and her family. They ate lunch and caught a three-thirty movie. When they got back to the house her parents had dinner ready.

The rest of that week went by pretty quickly Harry thought. They spent most of every day just hanging out around the town and enjoying each other's company. They had even managed to get a fair amount of homework done.

One day in the middle of July, Harry and Hermione stayed in and finished their homework, and decided to rent a movie. They went to the video store and picked out a good one. "Mum and dad should be home by the time we get back, then we can decide what to do about dinner," she told him as they walked back.

"Mummy, Daddy are you lot home yet?" she called as they walked in the front door.

There was no answer. "Hmm they must still be at work."

About 15 minutes later the phone rang and it was Hermione's dad. "Oh, Hi daddy!" she said. "We were starting to get worried," she told him, "Ok Daddy, see you later… love you too, bye." She hung up the phone.

"They said that they were going to leave late and eat out so we're on our own for dinner," Hermione informed him.

They managed to make themselves dinner without making too big of a mess (after they cleaned up the one they made by throwing stuff at each other). After dinner they started their movie.