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A/n: sorry about the long time between updates. And This IS an H/Hr fic, but that will come later. Also this started out as just one chapter, but it got really long so I split it into two parts, it might possible become three parts. Not sure yet...

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Chapter 7: 29th Sep 2002. Pt 1

29th Sep 2002

G'day mate. Hows it goin'? Hehe. I am in Australia, and its kinda nice here, if you can stand the heat. It's hot and sunny and I am told that it is only spring! It feels like summer! I have been here for almost a month now. Our trip started on the 30th of August at 4am when Hermione ran into our room and jumped on our beds.

"Wake up you lazy bums." She yelled. I opened my eyes to find Hermione sitting on my knees dressed in black shorts and a green top, which stopped before her belly button. She slapped my legs.

"Come on we are leaving in an hour and if the two of you don't get up soon we will miss our plane. Oh and Mrs Weasley also said that once you have gotten dressed you have to come down stairs, because breakfast is not ready." She said before walking out of the room closing the door behind her. At the word breakfast, Ron had jumped out of bed and was now pulling on his jeans.

"Come on mate. I'm starved, I need my food." Ron said to me as I slowly detangled my self from my bedding.

"Yeah ok. I'm up." I muttered still half asleep.

Once we were dressed we headed downstairs to find Hermione already halfway through her bacon and eggs.

"Morning." Ron and I said. Hermione looked up and smiled.

"Morning." She replied as Ron and I sat down. No sooner had we sat down, Mrs Weasley handed up two huge plates piled up with food. Ron and I started eating well Ron was shovelling food in to his mouth so fast, it made me feel sick to look at him. Once we were done, Ron and I headed back up the stairs to get our suitcases. By the time we had dragged them down the stairs the taxi was waiting for us. Ron, Hermione Mrs Weasley and I got into the taxi, and as we pulled out of the drive ways I saw Ginny waving from her bedroom window. I waved to her, but I don't think she could see me.

The drive to the airport took almost two hours. We sat in silence for most of the trip; the silence was only broken by Ron complaining that he was hungry again, and Hermione telling him to get over it. When we finally reached Heathrow airport I paid the taxi driver, while Hermione, Ron and Mrs Weasley unloaded our luggage. After that Hermione led us to a line for the check in counter

"Next" called the blonde girl at the counter. Hermione led us forward.

"Three tickets to Sydney, Australia booked under the name of Granger." Hermione said. The blonde girl typed something on the computer.

"Please place your luggage here on the scale" She said. We did as we were told. As soon as our suitcases were weighed and stickers placed on them the blonde girl handed us our boarding passes.

"Have a nice flight." She said.

All too soon we were saying our good byes to Mrs Weasley and we were boarding the plane. We quickly found our seats. We were in row 6. I had the window seat, Hermione was in the middle (something I was extremely pleased about.) and Ron was next to the isle. No sooner had we put on our seat belts, Hermione pulled out her book and started reading and Ron began to read his book on Quidditch. I stared out the window, watching all the airport crew running around. I started to day dream bout Hermione, I was enjoying my day dream until the plane started its engines and the air hostesses started going through the emergency evacuation plans. Soon we were on the run way and I was once again staring out the window, as soon as we lifted off Ron started muttering about how he didn't like flying, until he worked out how the TV worked. I looked at my watch. It was 8:30am, and I was already tired. I closed my eyes and went to sleep…

I woke up some three hours later. I looked at Hermione. She was still reading her book. I looked over at Ron. He was flicking through the TV channels. I looked at my watch; only to fond it had stopped working.

"What's the time?" I asked Hermione. She looked up at me before cheeking her watch.

"Oh good your awake. It's about um… 11:40am. I got you a bottle of water in case you were thirsty." She said, passing me a bottle of spring water.

"Thanks." I replied, giving her a grateful smile

I can be bothered writing what happened for the rest of the trip, so nothing really interesting happened. The highlight of the trip was when Hermione told Ron to stop watching movies, and to get some sleep. Ron turned around and told her he didn't need sleep. They got into a huge argument, but it ended quickly. I still don't think that they are right for each other….

We arrived in Sydney international airport round 6:30pm the next day. It took us a very long to get through customs and once we got our luggage from baggage claim it was close to 7pm.

"We are looking for my friend's dad." Hermione said, scanning the area. She quickly found him and led us over to a middle aged man, with blonde – brown hair and bright blue eyes.

"I'm Sam." He said shaking our hands. Once we all had introduced our selves, we headed to his car.

"The girls would have come to pick you up Hermione, but there wasn't enough room in the car and they both have a dance lesson." Sam told Hermione. Hermione nodded.

"Dance was always important to them." She told us.

The ride back to the house only took half an hour. We pulled into a long steep drive way. Sam got out of the car and helped us unload our things. He led us inside and showed us to our rooms. Hermione was to sleep in her own room, whilst Ron and I shared a room. We had just put our things away and were in the lounge room, when the door opened again. A pair of identical twins entered, followed by their mother. Both girls were around the same hight, though one was slightly shorter. They both had their father's bright piercing blue eyes, and their mother's blonde hair. The taller one had her hair finish just past her shoulders, whilst the shorter one had long hair that went to her waist, and had red streaks through it. Both girls looked and sweaty and were wearing black pants and black tank tops. When they say Hermione they both dropped their bags, screamed and ran over to her and gave her a huge hug.

"Oh my goodness it has been too long." Hermione said. Both girls nodded. "So um this is my friend Harry." Hermione said introducing me.

"I'm Juliet." The taller girl said shaking my hand.

"And I'm Katherine." Said the shorter one. In my opinion she was the prettier one. Hermione went on to introduce Ron. Then the girls' mother introduced her self as Charlotte. Once all the introductions were done Katherine turned to her mother.

"Can we go for a swim before dinner?" she asked. Her mother nodded and Katherine turned to face me.

"You coming?" she asked and when I nodded she squealed and ran out of the room to get changed. Juliet came over to me.

"Sorry about her, she is like this around most boys. She has trouble dealing with the fact that I have had my boyfriend for almost three months and her relationships never last more than a month or so." Juliet said quietly.

"Its alright I don't mind." I told her truthfully. Juliet gave me a small smile, before disappearing to get changed. Ron looked at me.

"Why is it all the hot girls always go for you, or are unavailable? Actually don't answer that. Are you coming to get changed or are you going to stand there for the rest of the night?" Ron asked. I grinned at him and followed him to our room. But Ron is wrong. If ALL the beautiful girls were attracted to me, I would be the one with Hermione, not Ron.

By the time we got out side, all the girls were sitting around the pool, in their bikinis, drinking lemonade. Ron didn't waste any time and did a cannon ball into the pool, drenching every one.

"Are you lot coming in? The water is really nice." He called from the middle of the pool. After that we all jumped in. Ron decided we should play shoulder wars. Juliet decided to sit out, as she had hurt her self in her jazz lesson earlier that day. So Hermione and Ron paired up as a team and Katherine and I paired up as a team. Out of the ten or so games we played, we won seven. We had just stared a game of Marco polo when Charlotte came outside, the phone in her hand.

"Juliet, Matt is on the phone. Do you want me to tell him you will call him back later?" she asked. Juliet shook her head, climbed out of the pool and disappeared inside, talking into the phone. Katherine swam up beside me.

"She is always on the phone to him, and when they aren't on the phone to each other, they are out at the movies or something. I whish I could have a relationship like that." She said before sighing.

"I know how you feel." I said looking at Hermione and Ron, who were now making out down the other end of the pool. I quickly turned away. "But tell me about you self." Katherine thought for a moment.

"Well I'm sixteen years old, I have been friends with Hermione since we were two, I went to Hogwarts and was in Ravenclaw, but my parents decided to move to Australia after my third year. I love to dance, sing, act, and perform. My hobbies include playing the flute badly, going out with friends, cooking and having a good time. What about you?"

I spent most of the night talking to Katherine about my life; my problems and she listened and gave me advice when ever she could. It was nice to talk to some one who didn't care about the fact that I was Harry Potter, the boy who lived, the chosen one or what ever they call me these days. Later that night, I was lying in bad, flicking through an old photo album half talking to Ron.

"So you and… um… what's her name…? That girl you were talking to…" Ron asked, clicking his fingers.

"Katherine." I supplied not looking up.

"Yeah… her. You two got along well you know…A little too well..." Ron said trailing off. I looked up at him.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked him.

"Well… maybe it's just me, but I think… there might be chemistry between the two of you…I know she seems to like you and I think you might like her…" Ron said carefully. I looked up and closed my photo album with a snap.

"I don't know what your talking about." I said. I knew that the idea of me and Katherine, Hermione's best friend was ludicrous. Besides I was and still am in love with Hermione. Ron just shrugged.

"What ever I am just stating what I see." He replied. I snorted.

"How could you see what I was doing with Katherine, how do you even know that I WAS with Katherine? You were to busy making out with Hermione to notice anything so just SHUT UP!" I yelled. I didn't even know why I was shouting, yes I do. Its because Ron was the one making out with Hermione and it was supposed to be me! I took in a deep breath.

"Sorry, I don't know what came over me. Let's just go to sleep, it's been a long day." I said, turning off my lamp. Ron soon followed, falling asleep quickly. I lay there in bed, tossing and turning. I couldn't get Katherine out of my head. But Ron was wrong; Katherine and I were just friends, not even that. I hardly knew the girl. I didn't have feelings for the girl, I just couldn't.

I woke up late the next morning. It was almost 12pm, and I hadn't slept well at all. I walked into the kitchen to find Charlotte busy making lunch.

"Oh hello dear, the girls and Ron are in the pool. Lunch will be ready soon." Charlotte said. I nodded, grabbed an apple and went to go get changed. Once I was ready I headed outside where I found Ron, Juliet and some other strange boy (who I was later introduced to. His name was Matt and he was Juliet's boyfriend) in the pool playing some kind of game. Katherine was sun baking on her towel and Hermione was sitting in a deck chair reading a huge book, on the table next to her sat a small trinket box. I realised it must have been the one that Hermione had been talking about awhile back. I hung my towel up on the fence and dived into the pool. There would be plenty of time to worry about Voldemort, the Horcruxes and the second war, but for now I want to enjoy life as a teenager.

After lunch I asked Hermione what she was reading. She told me that it was a book on breaking spells and curses. She told me that she needed some idea on how to destroy the Horcruxes without using the killing curse at all costs. I just nodded and pretended to be interested while my mind was on other things… like Katherine. God she looked beautiful in her pale blue bikini. The way the light bounce's of her hair and they way she smiles, she looks like a goddess…damn it. I must stop thinking about her like that. I have now come to face the fact that I like Katherine, in more than a friendly way. That DOESN'T mean that I don't love Hermione because I do. Its just she is with Ron and I get that, but that shouldn't mean that I can't be happy. Anyways Katherine must have seen me staring at her because she smiled and walked over to me.

"Can we talk for a second?" she asked me. I nodded.

"Look I know that we hardly know each other but I have to ask this because if I don't I am going to regret this for the rest of my life so Harry… um…" she trailed off…

To be continued…

A/n: please don't kill me! The next chapter should be up some time soon I hope! Please R&R!