Erased But Not Forgotten

Chapter 2

Nerves and Meeting the Family

"I don't know what you're so nervous about," Harry said, trying to calm Rose down and get her to stop pacing. They were on the Hogwarts Express, about fifteen minutes away from Platform 9¾. At the moment, Rose was on the verge of pacing a hole through the floor.

"Well, I'm engaged and I have no idea how my dad will react," Rose ranted, still pacing. "And the fact that you're a wizard doesn't exactly help matters! He could be totally cool with it or he could go totally ballistic and bring out the shotgun!" Harry managed to pull her down to a sitting position. When she mentioned the gun, he got a little uneasy.

Rose saw his eyes get wide and noticed his skin get a shade paler. "Oh, it's okay, honey. I won't let my dad kill you," she laughed reassuringly, hugging him from her current position on his lap. Harry relaxed slightly, but was still slightly tense. Rose kissed him compassionately, making him forget just about everything else.

"Mm," Harry moaned as he kissed her back. Her hands went through his hair, and his went to her waist. They broke apart when the whistle blew, making them jump a bit.

"Time to go," Rose said, standing up.

"Grr," Harry replied, standing up and taking her trunk from the rack above. "We're all gonna die."

"Hey! That's my line!" Rose said, smiling, swatting his shoulder. They found Liz, James, Ron and Hermione (who were coming to the U.S. too) and stepped off the train.

Rose scanned the platform and spotted her family easily.

"There they are!" she exclaimed, pointing them out for Harry. Harry looked and got a little paler.

"That's your dad?" Harry asked, eyeing her 6½ foot tall father. Mr. Thorn was huge, his dark hair growing gray with age. Beside him stood Mrs. Thorn, who was slightly shorter than Rose, with short auburn hair and smiling blue eyes. Rose's sister, Ellie, was there with their not-so-little brother, Alex. Ellie had dark brown hair, and smoky green eyes like Rose, but they had more brown in them than green and she was an inch or so shorter than Rose. Alex was nearly as tall as Harry (about 6 feet tall) and had dirty more-brown-than-blonde hair and brown eyes like their father.

"Oh yeah, we're all gonna die," Harry muttered in Rose's ear. Ron and James weren't nearly this worried when they met Hermione and Liz's parents, but that was before they got engaged.

"Just relax, Mom won't let Dad kill you," Rose reassured him.

"Oh, just Mom! Wow, I feel loved!" Harry replied sarcastically.

"Well, I won't either, but Mom wouldn't let him bring the gun," he laughed weakly as Rose smiled up at him. "C'mon, they won't bite you…hard…often." She grabbed his arm and dragged him over to them.

Rose jumped up into her father's arms and was nearly crushed in a hug. "Hi, Daddy!" she turned and gave her mother a hug saying "Hey, Mom!" "Sis," to Ellie and finally, "Hello 'little' brother," giggling as she hugged her brother.

"So is this the infamous Harry Potter?" Ellie asked, grinning. She looked enough like Rose that you could tell that they were sisters but Harry noticed that most of the small differences that he loved about Rose were missing from her sister. Most of Ellie's features were sharper than Rose's. "We've heard tons about you!" she continued.

Harry grinned wryly down at Rose. "Now how could that be!" he inquired.

"You're all she talks about!" Alex replied in a somewhat bored tone. "So you really defeated You-Know-Who?" he asked in awe.

"Alex!" Mrs. Thorn called him sharply back to his manners.

"What! I want to know!" he replied defensively.

Harry laughed. 'So this is what a family's like!' he thought.

"Yeah, I did," he answered finally, a bit grimly.

"Wow!" was all Alex could say.

Rose finally remembered to introduce everyone else.

Gesturing to each person in turn she said, "This is my dad, Micheal; my mom, Diane; my sister, Ellie; and my brother, Alex. Everyone this is Harry, of course, Hermione, Ron, and you know James and Liz."

Harry extended his hand and shook hands with Rose's dad. "It's nice to meet you, sir."

Rose silently did a mini victory dance in her head when her dad smiled and said, "Same to you."

'Great, now all I have to do is tell him I'm engaged!' Rose thought, twisting her ring around her finger nervously.

"Well, let's go! We don't want Rose to be late for her own party!" Diane said after shaking hands with everyone.

"Okay, Diane and I will go together; Ellie, you got Alex. And I suspect that you six can all get to our house okay?" Mr. Thorn asked, when Rose nodded, he and Mrs. Thorn, and Ellie and Alex all disapparated. Rose showed everyone a picture of her house and Ron, Hermione, James, and Liz all disapparated.

"Well, that went fairly well!" Rose concluded, as Harry pulled her into a hug of relief.

"I was so nervous," Harry murmured in her ear.

"Me too," Rose replied. "I think we should wait a little while before we tell them we're engaged."

"Yeah, sounds like a good idea. But if we're going to keep this secret, we might want to get to your house before Ron or Liz or anyone else says something stupid that might require us to explain."

"Yeah, let's go," With this she disapparated, pulling Harry with her.

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I only figured out names for her parents like 3 days ago! i was so stuck! please let me know what u think!