CHAPTER 2: You're Beautiful
He opened the door incredibly slowly, trying to annoy the Dursley's as much as possible.
When he finally did open the door he didn't even get to see who it was before whoever it was had thrown their arms around his neck.
"I've missed you so much!" Hermione whispered.
"Hermione?" Harry exclaimed, stepping away to make sure it was her.
In front of him stood a very pretty -if not beautiful- young woman. All those years growing up together and he had never noticed how she was forming into the beauty who was standing in front of him right now.
She smiled when she noticed his eyes wide with amazement.
She was wearing a pair of 3 quarter length jeans with yellow stilletos that went with her yellow t-shirt that had a tiger printed on it. She was also wearing a pair of silver hoop earrings and a silver locket that held a picture of Harry and Ron.
Her hair had been cut short so it was shoulder length and she had curled it into not overly done curls.
"You look great!" Harry exclaimed, picking her up and twirling her around playfully.
"Well, you don't look half bad either" Hermione said teasingly.
"Ahem!"
Both Hermione and Harry turned to see everyone staring at them, the five boys wide eyed.
"Who is that?" Vernon said in a deadly whisper.
"This is Hermione, she's my friend from school" Hermionestifled a laughat the fearful look on the Durley's faces.
"What is she doing here?" Petunia asked, her voice fearful but still snappish.
"Uh...I don't know, what are you doing here Hermione?" Harry asked.
"Oh, well that's kind of the thing, I need a place to stay" Hermione said.
"How come...?" Harry asked.
"I'll tell you later" Hermione said, looking around at everyone who were still looking at her as if she had just turned blue.
"Ok...well you're welcome to stay here" Harry said kindly, picking up her bags that were just outside the front door.
"NO SHE CANNOT!" Vernon yelled, making everyone jump.
Suddenly a slim wooden instrument fell onto the floor.
"Silly me" Harry said innocently, picking it up and shoving it back in his pocket.
"What we meant was that...er...we have no where for you to sleep" Petunia said quietly, a bit of bitterness to her voice.
"That's cool, I'll just camp out in Harry's room" Hermione said, smiling sweetly.
"Oh no, we can't have that" Petunia said, sounding very frustrated.
"I'll be fine" Hermione said, and before anyone else could object she took her trunk from Harry and walked up the stairs in the direction she hoped was Harry's room.
"Oh and Happy Birthday Harry" Hermione said, kissing his cheek and handing him a parcel.
They entered Harry's room to find Sirius finishing off a pie.
"Sirius!" Hermione exclaimed, throwing her arms around the animagus's neck in greeting.
"Hermione...?" Sirius said confused.
"She's staying here for the rest of the holidays" Harry said, as he moved the trunk Hermione had dropped.
"Why?" Sirius asked, sitting down on the bed.
"Oh, well I got into a fight with my parents about the amount of money school supplies cost. Well, they decided to come up with everything I've ever done wrong in my entire life. It's the 7th big fight I've had with them all holidays and I just got sick of it, so I left" Hermione said, acting as though she were talking about a book she had just read...No, wait, if that had been the case she probably would have been more enthusiastic.
"Oh" Sirius said.
"Well, you can stay here as long as you like" Harry said, turning away from her to hide the blush that was over-taking his cheeks.
Hermione smiled.
"Soooooo...Are you going to open my present?" Hermione asked.
"Oh yeah! I had forgotten about that!" Harry said, looking down at the beautifully wrapped gift that had never left his hands.
He tore the paper off to find...a book.
"Oh...um...thanks Hermione" Harry said in a false tone of cheerfulness.
Hermione smiled, "Look inside"
He opened the book and read the title...
QUIDDITCH AT ITS BEST
-Broom Care and Professional Quidditch moves-
Harry's eyes widened as he drew the girl into a tight hug.
"Thanks 'Mione" he murmured..
"You're welcome" She said, pulling out of the hug so that she could talk properly. "It has alot of interesting things in it, like there's a spell you can cast on your broom so you know when someone is trying to steal it"
Harry smiled, remembering all the times he had panicked about his broom before Quidditch matches.
"Also-"
"Hermione, I'll read the book!" Harry laughed, staring into her eyes as she laughed as well.
"Oi, Harry! You haven't opened your school letter yet" Sirius said quickly.
Harry dropped Hermione's gaze and looked over to his Godfather who was holding up an important looking envelope.
Harry took the letter as he sat on the bed beside Sirius.
Opening it his eyebrows raised.
"It says that under the circumstances all students who are entering their 7th year may use magic even if they aren't 17 yet" he said.
"Oh yeah, I heard a rumor that Dumbledore had gone to the ministry of magic to take away some of the underage restrictions" Hermione said.
"It also says" Harry said, continuing to read the letter, "That 7th years can wear free-dress under their robes!"
Hermione sighed in relief, it seemed she had more cloths in her trunk then it could handle.
"Other wise it just tells us to congratulate the head-boy and girl when we see them" Harry finsished off.
"Does it say who they are?" Hermione asked.
"Umm...yes, Draco Malfoy and...HERMIONE GRANGER!"
Hermione laughed as she was hugged by the two men.
"Congratulations Hermione" Sirius said.
"Yeah, it's just too bad that you have to patrol with Malfoy..." Harry said.
"Oh, way to spoil the moment" Sirius said jokingly.
Hermione laughed, turning red when she realised Harry and Sirius were watching her.
Trying to put an end to the uncomfortable moment she fell back on Harry's bed and grabbed a choclate frog saying "Well?"
"Well what?"
"Are you going to join me or let me get fat eating all of these chocolate frogs?"
They laughed and fell on the bed beside her.
They spoke about their holidays while throwing bertie botts every flavoured beans at Sirius who caught them in his mouth.
"Argh! Liver" Sirius said, coughing slightly. It seemed he hadn't ot one decent bean yet.
"Wimp" Hermione said.
"Wimp am I? Well why don't you come stand here and catch them in your mouth? See who's the wimp then" Sirius teased.
"What?" Hermione exclaimed.
"What's wrong Hermione, can't handle it?" Harry said.
Hermione glared at them both before standing up and facing them.
They threw the first bean which Hermione tried to catch in her mouth but failed miserbly.
However she caught the second.
"Mmm Chocolate" she said, grinning at Sirius's annoyed facial exprassion.
"Cheer up, I'm sure not all food products are against you Sirius" Hermione said earning a pillow in the face.
Throwing the pillow back at Sirius she sat down next to Harry.
"So what flavour was it?" He whispered.
"Grass" she whispered back, smiling.
"What was that?" Sirius asked, towering over the two to hear what they were saying.
"I said lets go outside" Hermione said quickly.
"And why would we do that?" Sirius asked.
"Because you two look like fucking losers sitting there eating" Hermione laughed.
They pulled mock-hurt faces before jumping up and tickling her.
"AH! No...guys, please!" She begged.
They grinned at her but stopped all the same.
It wasn't long before Harry had Sirius on a leash and the three of them left the house.
They walked up the street until they came to the park where they let Sirius off the lead.
Hermione and Harry laughed as Sirius raced off,chasing one of Mrs. Figgs cats that had strayed too far from home.
Soon Sirius had started a game where he chased the two teens and got chased in return.
"Head him off" Hermione shouted to Harry.
Harry nodded and ran in front of Sirius who expertly swerved him and instead ran in Hermione's direction.
"Sirius, I'm warning you!" Hermione laughed.
Sirius barked once and jumped on her, knocking her to the ground.
Harry laughed as he ran over to them, out of breath from chasing Sirius.
"Look Sirius, why don't we have a game of fetch instead, give Hermione and me a break" Harry suggested.
The black dog barked once and happily bounded a distance from them.
"Okay, all we need is a stick..." Harry said.
"I'll find one" Hermione said, walking into the mass of trees.
As she walked deeper into the trees she started to smell smoke, not fire smoke, but cigarette smoke.
Following the scent she began to hear voices.
"Who was that chick with your cousin Big-D?"
"How the fuck would I know?"
As she rounded a bush she saw Dudley and his mates, she quickly hid behind the bush.
"Well, he is your cousin"
"So?"
"Well, is that his girlfriend?"
"Fuck no, Potter couldn't get a girlfriend if his life depended on it, and definatly nothing that hot"
"Well then who is she?"
"I already told you, I don't know!"
Hermione balled her fists in anger, no-one spoke of her friend as if he were trash, only Voldemort and his deatheaters did, but to hear these words coming from Dudley's mouth! Did he realise that Harry might have to save the world one day, did he realise that without Harry, he would probably die alot sooner then nature had intended?
And further more, Dudley had insulted her, he had called her a 'thing', a 'thing' was not a human-being, it didn't have a brain, it didn't have a personality, how could she, Hermione Granger be called a 'thing'?
"Come on Big-D, lets head back"
Hermione's heart raced, if they walked around the bush they would find her!
Picking up the first decent sized stick she saw she bolted, keeping low as she ran.
Once she was back beside Harry she breathed again.
"What took you so long?" Harry asked.
"Nothing" Hermione lied, handing him the stick.
Harry looked at her for a moment before shrugging and throwing the stick for Sirius .
Hermione decided that for now she would forget it had happened and enjoy the day, but some how, she would get Dudley and his mates back.
A/n: Ok, well that's another chapter down. I'm sorry that once again she wasn't sent back in time, but you'll just have to wait:P I'm not sure if you have noticed, but I am using song titles and Lyrics as my chapter titles and even my main title, so yeah, some of the titles I might just use becuase they suit the chapter, but that doesn't mean that i'm meaning the song itself, if you get what i mean? lol. Anyway, I wasn't sure what song title to use for this chapter so I just used 'You're Beautiful'.
Also for those of you who read my other story 'So Beautiful', I Will comtinue with it. I'm am writing this one at the moment because while i'm at the hospital (because of my relative, don't worry, i'm fine:P) i have heaps of time soI hand write this story.
So it's easier for me in the limited time I have on the computer at the moment to just get on and copy this story straight from my hand-written version then it is to think it up whileI write, don't get me wrong though,I work on 'So beautiful' EVERY timeI come online.
And I hope that you don't think that making Hermione look pretty was shallow because I was planning on making a pointabout peer pressure sometime during the story, so it has a reason.
Well I'm done writing possibly the longest authors note ever:P
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