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Chapter Three.

'Dude, wazzup?' Sirius shouted as they entered the Great Hall for breakfast.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, Fred and George had just eaten breakfast and were not hungry but because it had been a "long trip" according to Hermione, they had to act starving, and eat like it.

'Don't worry about him,' said James. 'He's going through a weird stage.'

'Yo man, I asked ya; wazzup?' he repeated.

'Nothing much,' said Ron, looking at him weirdly.

'See, how can anyone argue with me? This is why I don't think I should date him,' said Emma. 'How are you guys?' she asked laughing and greeting them all with a smile.

'Great,' they all said.

Lily greeted them all with a grin and announced that she was dating a gorgeous guy.

'Who is it?' George asked.

They all hoped it was James; Harry was yet to find out when his parents started dating and was eager for the day.

'A Ravenclaw,' she said excitedly. 'Something wrong?' she asked when she saw their faces.

'No, that sounds great,' said Hermione. She was always the one to pick them up from something when it went wrong.

'Oh, good. You just looked upset,' she said.

'We just saw Snape,' said Ron, who thought up a good excuse.

To Lily, this excuse wasn't the best, but it passed.

'Come on guys; let me get you up to date. Jess dated Sirius for a while, Emma didn't mind, Sirius did though. Umm, a few billion randoms have dated James and Sirius since you were last here. What else? Ellie and Remus still haven't dated and Claud and Remus broke up,' said Lily in one breath.

Harry was lost, but he always had Hermione, she looked like she soaked everything up. Not that he had to memorize it anyway.

'Come and have some breakfast, you must be starving.'

'Not really,' said Fred. 'We had breakfast on the way here.'

'So,' said Emma as she spoke to Fred for, to her, was the first time in a year.

'Have you dated anyone since I last saw you?' she asked.

Fred smiled, 'no, have you?'

'Well I dated this one guy except he was a prick and I'm not doing that again,' she said.

'Not doing what again?' he asked.

'Dating a prick,' she said.

'Oh, right.'

'I only did that because he was hot and I wanted to get back at this preppy girl called Lydia who dated my ex-boyfriend and so I dated hers, except, like I said, I am not doing that again.'

'Glad to hear of it,' he said and kissed her on the cheek.

She smiled up at him. 'You haven't got any taller,' she said.

'Just as well,' he laughed. 'Because then I wouldn't be able to reach you.'

George went looking for his dad. So far he hadn't heard anything about him and he wanted to see him. He had had a quick glimpse here and there of his mother, but as far as he could see, they hadn't started dating yet.

Maybe they didn't start dating until they were out of school, he thought. But he remembered his mother telling them the story of them both sneaking out and taking a stroll one night and they nearly got caught or something of that kind. So they had started dating at school.

'Arthur Weasley, do your shoelaces up, you're fifteen shouldn't you know that you could trip over them if you're not careful,' shouted a teacher from behind him.

'Thank you, whatever your name is,' George muttered to the teacher who shouted at his father.

George started to whistle while strolling casually down the hallway. He "accidentally" bumped into his father while he was on the ground doing up his shoelace.

'Sorry,' he said and he bent down to his height.

'I haven't seen you around before,' he said.

'And I will say the same to you,' said Arthur.

'Please do,' George mocked him.

'Are you one of those exchange students?'

'Ding! Arthur you have one point,' George said happily.

'How did you know my name was Arthur?' he asked suspiciously as he got up, drawing himself to full height.

'Damn it,' George muttered. 'Um, I heard the teacher shouting at you, Arthur Weasley, right?'

'Right,' he said, all suspicion thrown out the window as they shook hands.

'I'll see you around then, dude,' said George as he left.

'Right,' George's father agreed and then left, trying to get to lunch.

'Damn it, stupid Sirius' words are rubbing off on me,' he muttered as he thought about why he said "dude".

Harry was bored with his homework and decided to go for a walk.

He wondered whether Bellatrix or her sisters here. He wondered if he killed her, would Neville's parents still be insane.

'Mind if I walk with you?' a girl asked, her face was recognisable and he wondered who he knew that looked like her.

'I'm Melissa,' she said. 'I really needed a walk,' she laughed.

'I'm Daniel,' he introduced himself. He even surprised himself that he didn't say his real name. He thought he must be getting used to it. He hoped when he got home he still answered to the name Harry.

'You're one of the exchange students, right?'

'Yeah,' he said, he felt relaxed and comforted around her, but in the back of his mind, he knew nothing could happen. Some thing told him something was wrong with this.

'Why dot you need a walk, if you don't mind me asking?' he said.

'Oh, I don't mind. Maybe because you're an exchange student it won't matter so much that I told you,' she started. 'Well I'm in seventh year and my boyfriend, I told him I loved him and he didn't know what to say, he sort of mumbled something about having to go and he left. Was I wrong to tell him how I felt?'

'No,' said Harry, shaking his head. 'It's way better that he knows you feel that way. What's his name?'

'Amos Diggory,' she said.

The back of Harry's mind was saying over and over again 'I told you so' while the front of it was saying 'what if this isn't Cedric's real mum, what if he dumps her or something?'

He paid no attention to either of his extremely strange thoughts and he concentrated on just talking to her.

And they talked until Melissa and "Daniel" started to yawn. She was in Ravenclaw and so she bid him goodnight and thanks for the company when she reached her Common Room.

Hermione ran towards Harry at full speed in the morning and Harry nearly fell of his chair when she stopped abruptly right in front of him.

'What the hell do you think you're doing, Mione?'

'You haven't heard the news!' she said, in a fluster.

'Hermione, sit down and tell me, slowly, what has happened,' said Harry, who was annoyed at his friends mood, he wanted to know what happened.

'Amos Diggory and Melissa Walter are to be married!' she said.

Harry's jaw dropped, he had spoken to Melissa last night, they were having problems, and now they were to be married?

'That's great,' he said, and he meant it, he was happy that they had not broken up, because, after speaking to her for so long, he found her the perfect match for Amos Diggory.

'Melissa is Ellie's sister so when the wedding is on,' said Hermione, 'she's invited as all!'

Harry's jaw dropped further. 'We can't go, we won't be here.'

'I know,' said Hermione, sitting down. 'What are we to do?'

'We just tell her that we cannot come,' said Harry. 'That's all.'

'Are you sure? I mean, what if she asks why?' said Hermione.

'We tell her we are in France or something on that day and we are sorry we cannot come, and to make it sound real, we will ask for Ellie to show us pictures of the wedding,' he said.

Hermione's breathing returned to normal and she hugged Harry. 'Alright.'

'Have you heard the news?' shouted Ellie. 'My sister is getting married!'

'And I'm going to be a flower girl!' Emma shouted.

'Hey! Why is that?' asked Lily.

'Because Ellie and I are family friends,' she said. 'And I've known her sister for ages.'

'We're all coming though, right?' asked Peter.

'Of course you are,' said Ellie, 'and you can come too, my little exchange buddies.'

'Um, the thing with that is . . .' said Fred.

Emma looked at him expectantly. 'Aren't you coming? I thought you were going to be my partner,' she said.

'We're going to be in France that day and we can't come,' said Harry.

'Oh, are you sure?' asked Lily. 'We were looking forward to you coming.'

'Well we want to come,' Hermione said. 'But we can't, but we can't wait to see the pictures,' she said, remembering what Harry had just told her.

Harry burst out laughing and then recomposed himself, 'sorry, just remembered something extremely funny.'

'Well don't keep it to yourself, man, spread the joy around,' said Sirius in a Jamaican accent.

'How is that part of your "dude" mood?' asked Remus. 'Jamaican is not a "dude" type of country,' he explained.

'It is now,' he said, forgetting to put on his accent, so he quickly repeated it, with the accent.

'Will he ever learn?' Remus asked himself.

'Bye guys, sorry you can't come to the wedding!' Ellie shouted as they walked out of the Common Room.

'See you guys soon,' Harry said. 'Before you know it we'll be back again.'

Fred kissed Emma goodbye and walked outside.

'I'll miss you,' she said.

'Me too,' he told her.

'Ok get on with it, man, or you will never leave,' said Sirius in his accent.

'Don't rush them,' Lily told Sirius off.

'Sorry, man.'

'Stop calling me man!'

'Man, she can be annoying,' said James.

And Harry remembered laughing and stepping out into the hallways just before he blanked out. He opened his eyes and he found himself in his fourth year of the Marauder era.