I'm baaaaaaaaaack...

After they got Jeremy's wand, Ron and Jeremy headed back to the hotel, while Hermione went out to try and find a magical library. She insisted that Jeremy should be taught the spells properly out of a book, to try and avoid accidental mis-teachings. Ron had, of course, dissagreed, but only by making faces at Hermione when her back was turned, causing Jeremy to fight back a grin. So, after making them promise that they wouldn't do any magic while she was gone, Hermione grabbed her wand and some money and headed out the door.

As soon as the door had swung shut, Ron turned to Jeremy. "So, what do you wanna learn first?"

Jeremy grinned. He had, after all, been expecting something like this. "But didn't Hermione say no magic while she was out?" He asked innocently.

Ron rolled his eyes. "Yeah, well, she's always saying stuff like that."

"And is she usually right?"

"Er... That has nothing to do with this dicussion!"

"Fair enough." The two boys pulled out their wands with an air of great importance and got started. Ten minutes later, they were both coughing and trying to wave away clouds of heavy purple smoke.

"I take it that's not what expelliarmus is supposed to do?" Jeremy choked.

"Nope. I actually have no idea what went wrong with that. You said it right and everything... I showed you the correct wand movement, right?" Ron glanced over at him.

"There's a correct wand movement?" Jeremy glanced over at Ron. "For future reference, I'm thinking we should listen to Hermione."

"Well, maybe. I'm just glad nothing happened. I mean, could you immagine how mad Hermione would be if we had vanished the door, or blown up the bed, or..."

"Hey Ron?"

"Yeah?"

"Did that couch use to be bright purple?"

Several hours later, Jeremy and Hermione had already made it about half-way through the very large book of defensive magic Hermione had brought, and Ron was sitting on one of the beds sulking. Hermione had confiscated his wand as soon as she had fixed the couch (which had taken all of ten secconds, wheras the boys had spent half an hour trying to fix it, with only some bright orange polkadots to show for it). The look on her face had been extremely intimidating, and Jeremy had made a mental note to never get Hermione mad. Well, not on purpose, anyways. At the moment, though, she was beaming at him.

"Really, Jeremy, I didn't think we'd even get through half of what we've covered so far by now!" Hermione was obviously ecstatic about having a student who could pick things up so quickly.

Jeremy shrugged. "Well, it's all been really familiar, almost like I already knew all this stuff, and I just needed reminding or something."

Ron snorted. "Yeah, almost." Jeremy shot a glance at Ron that was meant to be intimidating, but it only caused him to laugh harder. "You look like Hermione!" That caused Jeremy to burst out laughing, and Hermione, scoffing, to leave the room to go order a pizza, as it was obvious that they wouldn't be getting much more done by way of magic for a while.

"I think we should all go to the library tomorow."

Jeremy and Ron looked up from their pizza at Hermione. "Any particular reason why, or are we just visiting the books?" Ron asked.

Hermione glared at him. "Of course there's a reason! Think about it, Ron! Jeremy's lost his memory completely, we've lost bits and peices of ours, and I think it's pretty obvious that we were all friends before!"

Ron stared at her. "So? What does that have to do with the library?"

"Honestly, Ron, you're completely hopeless. This is all far too coincidental to be natural. There was obviously some magical intervention in this case, and I think we should find out what it is so that we can reverse it!"

Ron rolled his eyes. "That proves nothing! All of those coincidental things you're talking about? They could be, oh, I dunno, a coincidence!"

Hermione stood up and shouted, "You just don't want to study!"

Ron stood up as well. "Well, duh I don't want to study, I'm not some know-it-all who's looking at a coincidence and saying it has to be magical!"

Jeremy sighed. It didn't look like they were planing on stopping any time soon, and he personally didn't want to be caught in the cross-fire, so he quickly excused himself and went off to bed before they could ask him his oppinion.

Tada! Chapter 4 is up! Sorry if it wasn't great, I'm currently sick. I couldn't go hang out with Little Lily Granger today, which was sad, but then she threatened me with not posting the next chapter of One Last Hope (WHICH YOU SHOULD ALL READ!) until I got my lazy butt in gear and posted this chappie. Which is also why it's kinda short, but that's mainly because I finished all I had set out to do in this chappie early, and I really didn't want to start anything new.

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