Chapter 5

The past few weeks have been a breeze for both Hermione and Alexandra, but the guys did have struggles at which the girls would help them. But there was so much work; they all wondered how Alexandra could stand it

"you know Alex; with all this work being given to us I'm surprised you do it like it was no problem" Ron said kind of glumly

"yeah, it's no sweat for me. When you originally start Hogwarts is when I started junior high in America. So when I was at Hogwarts, I had to balance my work from junior high and Hogwarts. Same from when I was going to regular school. I just got use to it. I also had to do it for parts of my high school year. But I'm going back next year to America for my senior year of high school, and that's it until college at least, but I can go to college here"

"you're leaving next year! But what about us?" Harry pouted more to himself than to Alex

"well you can come with me, as soon as your 18 Vernon and Petunia won't want you in their house anymore, so for my senior year, you can come with me to live in America, and get a job as a sub for gym and stay with me in my apartment. I and my parents talked about it, and they don't mind paying extra for rent"

"really?" Hermione asked a little shocked that she might not see her friends until Alex graduates from high school

"yup, so how about it?" she asked Harry, hope in her eyes

"definitely!" he told her with much excitement laced in that very word

"but be warned, the high school I go to is filled with a lot of muggles, only so many students are witches and wizards." She offered her warning

"so explain your system of schooling for muggles, if you know what kind of schooling they have, like we have 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th years" Ron asked, Hermione having a face of complete shock

"well its first k-5, k meaning kindergarten, then 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade in a system called Elementary school. Then the system junior high school/middle school is 6-8 or 6th, 7th, and 8th grade."

"bloody hell! That's a lot" Ron moaned sadly

"and the last system is high school which is 9-12 or 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade"

"how?" Hermione interjected before Ron could have a chance to same something else

"you start school when you're 11 in Hogwarts, right? Well, for muggles, they start school when they're 6 in Elementary. So as soon as they get into 6th grade they should be 11 just like us."

"wow, that's wonderful" Harry replied once Alex was done explaining about muggle schooling systems

After their discussion of how school works in America they did their homework. Then they heard a noise coming from a black book that was plastic and metal. Alexandra said it was a laptop and that she had an email. Of course Hermione knew what it was, but the guys, or at least Ron didn't appear to know what email was, so he asked, but she said she'd explain after she was done reading it. Then all of a sudden she started typing away. They didn't know why so they went over to look at the screen. This "laptop", as explained to Ron by Alex minutes after reading her email, had the instant messaging up, and Alex was talking to more than one person. With seeing Ron's confusion again, Alexandra said that she was talking to a friend even though she wasn't talking to them face to face. So after a while, she told her friend that she would be back on later. And then they headed to the great hall to have dinner.

A/N: I left the part about the laptop because I had it in my head for my fanfiction that when Alex came to Hogwarts she had gotten Dumbledore's permission to use those muggle items without them going berserk, and that he let down some barriers so that she be able to use them properly, thank you, R&R, and enjoy

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