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A/N: Thank you to all who had reviewed! THANK YOU! Now continue to the story. And sorry for the immense delay.


Chapter 2

Harry peeled himself away from the window and climbed through the maze of beds. In his haste, he tripped over a couple bed legs before reaching the narrow stairway. Pushing his hands onto the walls of either side of the stairway, he descended quickly to the bottom floor.

A loud thunk was heard when he reached the bottom. A bed, occupied by a man, stopped him from getting onto the landing. Harry waited for the bed to slide away and finally stepped onto the landing. He looked turned to the front of the bus and saw a blur of red before he felt hands grasp him from behind, knocking the air out of him. Ginny grasped him in a tight hug and buried her head into his chest. Ron and Hermione held hands and looked at the pair in mild amusement.

"Ginny, let go of me," Harry rasped, "Can't breathe."

A giggle escaped from Ginny as she reluctantly unclasped her hands from behind Harry and stepped back. "Harry, I've missed you."

Harry chuckled in amusement. "Ginny, I've only been gone for a day!"

"I know, but I missed you Harry," Ginny replied. Harry looked over to his two friends with a raised eyebrow.

"It's true mate," Ron responded. "She was mopping around the house after you had left. Man, it was hard to restrain her from escaping the house and look for you." Ron sniggered. "She knocked down mum and dad, Fred and George…and, of course, Fleur. Bill was the only one standing besides me trying to restrain her. It was amusing. Hermione finally put a full binding charm on her, although she really didn't want to."

Harry laughed and looked over toward Ginny. "Well, looks like you had a fun time while I was gone."

Ginny looked at Harry proudly. "Ron just left something out," Ron cried in protest, but Ginny ignored him and continued. "I hexed Ron. Actually he was quite an easy target. He was just standing there trying to restrain me and forgot that I was a witch."

Harry snorted and looked at Ron and smiled broadly. Ron was red with embarrassment and mumbled about not being able to think clearly because someone had done something to him and that he didn't think Ginny would put a hex on him. Hermione smiled at Ron remembering the incident and squeezed his hand. Ron glanced down at Hermione and smiled back; he slowly brought his head down to Hermione and leaned in.

"Go get a room you two!" Ginny screeched, startling Ron and Hermione from the near embarrassment. Both started to climb up the staircase to find a room alone.

Ginny turned to Harry, "Where do you plan for us to go? I think we should go to Grimmauld Place. I mean, I know you don't like the place." She continued when she saw Harry's face. "But it's the only place I can think of."

"No, Ginny," Harry replied. "I've thought about it last year and I've decided to go to Godric's Hollow. I've told Ron and Hermione, but I forgot to tell you." Harry apologized. He didn't recall telling the driver where he wanted to go. He thought they should maybe just go to Hogsmeade and from there ride on the broomstick. He guessed it was a sound plan. "Ginny, I'm going to tell the driver to drop us at Hogsmeade from there we'll ride our broomsticks. You have your broomstick right?" Ginny nodded. "Ron?" She nodded again. "Hermi…never mind. She hates flying." Ginny snickered at the comment.

"Right, I'll go get Ron and Herm while you tell the driver." Ginny turned away and climbed up the rickety staircase. Harry was left on the bottom floor as he watched Ginny climb up. He turned to the front and slowly walked up. When beds were in his way he would climb over it. It felt like ages to get to the front, but he eventually got there. What he didn't expect was to find the driver not there and as he turned to look at the back, he realized none of the passengers he saw get on was on.

'Ginny, Ron, Hermione!' Harry thought. He raced to the back of the bus as fast as he could, but it seemed like every single bed tried to get in his way. He got onto one of them and grabbed onto the chandelier and swung over. He climbed up the staircase three at a time and checked the first landing. There, Ginny, Hermione, and Ron sat on the bed talking. Harry whipped out his wand and walked over. He was feeling a bit wary about the empty bus. He hoped these people were his real friends.

Ron turned around and widened his eyes when he saw Harry's wand pointing at them, "Harry mate, what are you doing? Is there something behind me?" Ron looked behind him and saw nothing. Ginny and Hermione started at Ron's voice and looked up and also saw Harry's wand.

"What are you doing Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Harry, you put that wand down right now!" Ginny yelled. That was Ginny alright. She would only yell at Harry if he was pointing a wand at her. Harry was relieved.

"Do you want to know what's going on? Well, the whole damn bus is empty, no driver, no passengers that I saw get on is on," Harry started. "We need to get off this bus now. I have a feeling that something bad will happen if we don't."

"Do you think we could apparate?" Ron asked. "Well, Ginny is not of age, but she could side-apparate with you and Hermione and I passed the test. Well, I barely passed the test, but…you know what I mean."

'Apparate isn't a bad idea. Sometimes Ron had those smart moments, however short there are.' Harry thought. 'Now I have to think about something in Hogsmeade.'

"Ready?" Harry asked. Ron and Hermione nodded. "Ginny, you hold onto me and…"

"I know, I know. Think of something in Hogsmeade. Remember Harry, I'm a pureblood. No offence Herm," Ginny said when Hermione gave Ginny a dirty look. "Besides, I've done side-apperation since I was a little girl."

"Fine, the question is how to get off this thing." Ron interrupted. He pointed out the window and Harry saw quick flashes spreading across the bus. It was obvious that the bus was going about a hundred miles per hour. Objects that didn't jump away in time (although the spell on the bus should have let them) got ran over.

"Maybe we should get onto the bottom deck." Harry suggested. The rest nodded, they slowly moved to the stairs and, once in a while, stumbled. As they reached the deck Harry realized that the bus was on auto, meaning someone or something was driving it from the outside. Harry cursed, "Hermione is there a spell that can stop this thing?"

Hermione shook her head, "Not if it's being controlled from the outside. But I can get our baggages out." She took out her wand and flicked it. Hermione was very skilled at non-verbal spells. Their baggages rose though the floor and then solidified.

"Great, I guess we can all just bloody apparate on the bus that's going a bloody thousand miles per hour!" Ron shouted. "For all I bloody know I'll probably have half my body still here!" He quieted when Hermione slapped him. "Thanks Hermione."

"Ron's right, we have to apparate on the bus." Harry stated. "Everyone ready? Remember our destination is Hogsmeade." They all nodded at each other. "Grab a hold of your luggage. And Ron, just think of Honeydukes or the Three Broomsticks. On the count of three. One, two, THREE!"

They all apparated and left behind an empty speeding bus.


A/N: Whew, that took a long time! Sorry for the delay, but I just never did have the time to do this with school and all. Oh and vacation. Don't even talk about it. I was booked the WHOLE time on summer vacation. Well I hope you all like it and if you have any ideas for my story, I'd like to know. Remember the three C's! Comment, Criticize, and…um I meant the two C's and the one R…REVIEW! Thanks for your support!