Side Story: A Hard Day for Hermione
5:00 Sitting with Queen Victoria, sipping tea and discussing strategies for governing the country, suddenly the palace beams collapse, burying the Queen underneath.
5:05 Digging to free Queen Victoria.
5:07 Continues digging.
5:10 Woke up waving arms and legs, seeing Ginny's arm pressed on the abdomen. Realised the bastard had slept in the bedroom after another half night of gaming and pushed her away.
5:25 Finished freshening up, squatted on the edge of the bed and read aloud into Ginny's ear, "GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS QUEEN, LONG LIVE OUR NOBLE QUEEN, GOD SAVE THE QUEEN".
5:30 Finally woke Ginny up and, with a sense of revenge, forced her to go for a morning run.
5:50 Pulled a dawdling Ginny out the door, regretting having wasted so much time.
6:00 Ginny stepped on the wild dog's tail, causing both two people to be chased along.
6:15 Finally got rid of the wild dog and found Ginny gone.
6:30 Found her sitting in the park which had just passed, sleeping.
6:45 Couldn't wake her up, decided to drag her back.
7:25 Made breakfast for the whole family.
7:30 Mum came to help, causing a frying pan to catch fire, and grabs a tablecloth to put out the flames, making the kitchen a miserable place.
7:31 Rushed to put out the fire with a pot lid, talk Mum out of the kitchen, clean up the broken walls and mourn the last set of cookware.
7:45 Prepared breakfast-instant noodles.
7:50 Consoled dad who cried after seeing the kitchen.
8:10 Said goodbye to dad who will work late today.
8:20 Mum said she's going to the supermarket to buy a few more sets of cookware. Go back to the bedroom for reading.
9:00 Reminding that Ginny hasn't come home yet, suddenly hear a siren outside the window followed by a knock on the door.
9:05 Opened the door, there's a policeman at the door. Someone has reported seeing a suspicious body in her yard and requests an investigation.
9:10 Went to the bushes and dragged a sleeping Ginny out and beat her awake.
9:20 Apologised to the police.
9:30 Continued reading.
9:50 Ginny came running upstairs and gives the middle finger, saying she saw the gesture on TV and asking what it meant.
9:51 Considering whether to tell her. If Ginny realized it's cursing, she will definitely take it back to school and promote it around.
10:00 Ginny kept on asking the meaning.
10:10 Got annoyed. Tell her that it means good good study, day day up.
10:11 Ginny said that's so boring, then left. Satisfied, continued reading.
10:30 A volleyball hit the window frame in the bedroom, luckily the glass doesn't break.
10:40 Volleyball hit the window again, warning Ginny not to do that again with the threat of shooting her a spell even at the risk of getting a letter from the Ministry.
11:00 Volleyball shattered the glass and is hit in the head.
11:01 Grabbed wand and rushed downstairs in anger with the intention of fixing Ginny.
11:05 Realised that the ball was from Mum's hands. She was back from the supermarket.
11:10 Swallowing the anger.
11:20 Thought Ginny, who was playing games and eating snacks beside, was noisy and kicked her out.
11:30 Told Ginny not to scratch the door anymore, threw her a book of stories of great people and told her to read.
12:00 A sense of foreboding creeps in.
12:10 Intercepted Mum who is sneaking into the kitchen. Made lunch.
13:00 Called Ginny down for lunch and saw her tearfully holding up the stories of the great people and vowing to be like Franklin sometime in the future. The sense of foreboding deepened.
13:10 During lunch Mum brought up the issue of braces again and unhappily pretended not to hear.
13:30 After lunch Mum suggested going to an amusement park in the afternoon. The vote was two to one and it was passed.
13:35 Mum proposed that Hermione had to go too, and the vote was two to one, passed.
14:00 Be taken to the amusement park by force.
14:05 When crossing the road Mum pulled Ginny who was about to rush across and told her that she must use the zebra crossing and that the driver would have to pay more if she was knocked down on it. A chill ran down the back while listening.
14:07 Pulled by Mum, straight to the roller coaster.
16:30 Rode the roller coaster a dozen times and felt like life was worse than death.
16:35 Mum asked Ginny what else she wanted to do and Ginny said she likes rollercoasters.
16:37 Chasing to hit Ginny.
17:15 Finally home, slumped on the sofa and unable to move.
17:45 Explosions coming from the kitchen, kicking for not being strong-willed enough to defend the kitchen.
18:00 Crying with Dad who came home from work to see the kitchen, comforting each other.
18:15 Got the emotions under control. Dad said he's got four concert tickets back today, suggesting going to a restaurant for dinner after the concert.
18:16 Passed with all four votes.
19:00 Sit down in the red velvet chairs and listen to Chopin's Serenade in a good mood.
19:30 Confiscate the PSP that Ginny sneaked in.
19:40 Ginny asks why the man on stage is threatening people with his wand to play for him. Told her to be quiet.
19:50 Ashamed of Mum and Ginny who has fallen asleep sitting beside.
20:00 Fell asleep.
20:30 Shaken awake by Ginny. Ginny excitedly asks what piece she is playing now. Tell her it is Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C minor "Of Destiny". She is excited and says it is great and strengthens her resolve to learn from Franklin.
21:15 Exited the concert hall and went to a German restaurant.
21:20 Introducing famous musician to Ginny before food serving.
21:30 After hearing Joseph Haydn's story, Ginny asked aloud: If Haydn is the "father of the symphony", does that mean that Haydn's father is the "grandpa of the symphony"?
21:31 Disdained by all the guests and waiters.
22:00 Hurried up, finished dinner and went home.
22:15 It's thunderstorming.
22:20 Dad asked where Ginny had gone.
22:25 Went back to the room to read, heard a noise on the roof, opened the rooftop door to see Ginny flying a kite in the storm with a key hanging from the kite string.
22:26 Questioned her about what she was doing and got a reply saying she is learning from Franklin and catching the thunder and lightning.
22:27 Snatched the kite string, knocked Ginny on the head and called her an idiot.
22:28 Struck by lightning.
22:29 Went downstairs and was seen by Mum who asked in surprise about her identity. Told the identity. Mum said she doesn't remember her daughter looking like a lump of coal.
22:30 Got pissed off.
22:33 Went to shower, found Ginny has gone in first, waited outside.
23:00 Ginny still hasn't come out. Got angry and barged in. Saw her playing with a rubber duck. Told her she's almost 12 and she shouldn't be still playing with a rubber duck in the bath.
23:01 She refuted with being thirteen and still has a rubber duck in the bathtub. Speechless.
23:30 Lying in bed, unable to sleep, the more thinking about what happened during the day, the angrier.
23:40 Sneaking into Ginny's cupboard and pinning clothespin all over her face.
23:41 Satisfied watching her struggle in her sleep.
23:42 Lying in bed reading "The Origins of Modern Science".
00:00 Fell asleep happily and met Franklin in dream.
