The three headed to the train for a long ride back to Platform 9 3\4. On the way home Harry bought a cart full of candies and treats from the trolley that passed the doors for Ron and Hermione and Harry to share, he pulled out a few galleons and left the rest for the trolley lady as a tip. When they reached the platform, Harry saw his aunt and uncle. He rushed over to them after telling Ron and Hermione bye. Harry had already decided not to tell the Dursley's about what had happened at Hogwarts. It would be best to not let them know. If they did find out, they would surely kick Harry out. Even though his stay would be short anyway. He was only going to stay 2 to 6 weeks at the most and then he would spend the rest of his summer at Ron's Burrow with his parents or Hermione's house with her parents.

Shortly after arriving to the Dursley's that night, Harry realized he needed to think of where the other Horcruxes might be. He pondered on that thought the whole time he was there, other than the thoughts of Hermione's sweet pretty face. Harry had come up with the conclusion that the Horcruxes would be in these locations:

1. Gaunt's ring (destroyed)

2. Tom's Diary (destroyed)

3. Slytherin's locket (12 Grimmauld Place, Mundungus took it, or Kreature threw it away)

4. Helga HufflePuff's teacup (Not found yet)

5. Nagini (Voldemort's pet snake)

6. One piece of his soul must be inside himself. (Voldemort's Living Soul)

7. Could be something from Ravenclaw or Gryffindor or it could have been Harry or Harry's parents (undecided)

Harry had been at the Dursley's for 2 weeks now, and they had put him through living hell. He had decided that once he turns 17 he would put a few curses on the Dursley's house and on the Dursley's son Dudley. 2 more days passed and then it was the morning of Harry's birthday. Hedwig had already known to go to Ron, Hermione, and Hagrid's houses to get birthday cards and gifts and cakes. She returned to wake him and she pecked at his forehead until he woke up to feed her and then reward her for being so kind.

"Thanks a million Hedwig, I owe you one!" Harry said silently enough so the Dursley's wouldn't hear him.

Harry gave her a dead rat and she nipped at his finger to show her affection towards him.

"Hey Hedwig, How would you like to get out of here and go visit Ron and Hermione?" Harry asked Hedwig.

Hedwig just gave a nod of agreement and then hooted so loud that she scared Harry.

"But first I have some unfinished business to take care of," Harry smirked, "I'm gonna let you out, here take this letter and take it to Hermione. Then when you are done take this other letter to Ron. Once you go to Ron's house stay there and wait for me. I'll be there shortly. I'm gonna go downstairs and give my aunt and uncle hell for a bit. See you in a bit."

Harry had already put a Reducio charm on the Dursley's garden, so that it would shrink until it just became non-existent. He then put a Jelly-Legs curse on Dudley and locked him in the closet. After this, Harry was having so much fun, he decided to use the Sonorus spell to say "Vernon is a fat, pig-headed-tub-of-lard so loud that the whole street heard him." And then when he finished with that he put a Furnunculus spell on Aunt Petunia, she had boils the size of watermelons all over herself. But Harry had one more thing to do before he left, Harry put a imperturbable charm on the refrigerator, in hopes that Dudley would lose his so-called-baby-fat and he also gave Dudley another tail like Hagrid did in his first visit.

He left the Dursley's and decided to pay a visit to Mrs. Figg the squib neighbor whom Harry never knew had been sent there to follow him until 2 years ago. After the visit to Mrs. Figg Harry decided to apparate to Ron's house. He had only just passed his apparition test a few months ago. He showed up un-noticed to the Burrow and sneaked right up to Mrs. Weasley, who was busy washing dishes, and gave her a frightening hug. She screamed out loud because Harry had scared her badly.

"Oh, my dear Lord, Harry when did you get in? Just now?" Mrs. Weasley huffed as she gave Harry a great hug, "Arthur come quick, Harry's here."

"Hello Harry, How are you feeling today? I'm surprised the Dursley's let you go so soon," Mr. Weasley said.

" Hello. Well, they had no choice, they wouldn't let me stay if they knew they couldn't protect me anymore," Harry said.

"Ron!" Harry yelled as Ron walked downstairs from his bedroom, "Have you seen Hedwig? I need to feed her. She has been on a long trip."

"No, Harry. I haven't seen her in a while. After she left to take Hermione the letter, she just never came back. Maybe Hermione fed her and made her stay a while," Ron said, "Oh, nevermind, here she comes now."

"Hi Hedwig, what has taken you so long? I was worried sick. Oh, Er... Hi Hermione," Harry said just as Hermione apparated right in front of Harry. She was holding her pet cat, Crookshanks, as she landed on the couch and then stood up to hug Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. As soon as Hermione set Crookshanks down on the floor, she took off to the garden to chase the Weasley's garden gnomes. It was Crookshanks's favorite past-time at the Weasley's. The gnomes would throw a rock at the cat and then get back in their holes. Then when the cat least expected it, they would come out of another hole and grab her tail and drag her down into one of the holes and annoy her so much she would start to bite their heads off.

"Oh, Hi Harry," Hermione said as she walked over to him and hugged him tightly as if it had been years since they last met, "sorry about Hedwig. I didn't want to apparate while holding Hedwig, just in case she got loose some where, after all, I did have Crookshanks with me anyways. So I had to make her fly back to Ron's. I hope you don't mind."

"Not at all," Harry said.

"Ron, Hermione can I speak to you in the attic for a moment?" Harry asked the both of them.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione all went to the upstairs attic to talk. Ron had forgotten about his secret step on his own staircase to the attic. There is a loose floor panel that will hit you in the face if you step on it. Ron surely enough forgot about it and got smacked in the face by the step.

"Bloody Hell Harry, why does this stuff always happen to me?" Ron blurted out; his muttering was silenced by all of the rubbing he was doing to his nose and forehead.

Once the three reached the attic, Harry asked them his mysterious question.

"I'm leaving in the morning to go to Godric's Hollow. I have got to go look for another Horcruxe that Voldemort could have possibly made after he killed my parents. It is the first time I've been there since I was 1. If you two want to come, you can. After that I will probably be going to 12 Grimmauld Place to look for the locket of Slytherin's," Harry stated, "don't say your coming just to help me. I want you to think about the fact that if any death-eaters show up at either place while we are there, you guys could get injured seriously, or even dead."

Ron didn't even hesitate to say, "I'm in!"

Hermione took a long deep gaze into Harry's green eyes and it took a minute, it seemed as though she were thinking of what to say, but she finally said, "I'm in also!"

All three of them left the attic and decided to eat lunch.

"Liver and onions," Mrs. Weasley yelled, "Just kidding."

After lunch Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny decided to play some backyard quidditch to take there mind off of what would happen the next day.

Harry and Ron were on one team; Ginny and Hermione were on the opposing team.

Harry had let Ron be the chaser so that he could be keeper. Ginny was also the keeper on the opposing team. Hermione had been the other chaser. The final score was 28-4 Harry's team had lost because Harry had pretended to miss the quaffle a few times so Hermione could score a few goals. He had to be nice; after all, he did have this huge crush on her.

After the game, they all decided to go and take their showers and get washed up and ready for bed. Harry and Ron slept in Ron's room. Hermione and Ginny slept in Ginny's room.

After everyone had gone to bed, Harry had gotten up and decided to go for a walk outside. He couldn't sleep for the past few weeks, without thinking about Sirius, Dumbledore, and what lies ahead of him. All of the sudden he heard footsteps behind him. Harry whipped out his wand and turned around almost ready to attack.

"Harry, Please put that away, I didn't mean to frighten you. I just couldn't sleep either. And I saw you, so I figured I'd follow you until I caught up so we could talk; In private," Hermione said just as she neared him, "I know you have a crush on me. Ginny told me just before she fell asleep," At the sound of this, Harry went crimson in the cheeks.

"Er... Well... Yeah, I do have a crush on you, but I wasn't ready to tell you yet. I didn't expect Ginny or Ron would tell you either. I didn't feel I should tell you because if anything happened to you while we were looking for Horcruxes or Voldemort, I would take all the responsibility of it and it would be too much of a loss for me. I have already lost Dumbledore and Sirius. I'm not going to lose you too!" Harry said, "But since you know now, do you want to go out with me?"

Harry almost cried at the thought of rejection. But to his kindness over the years, it paid off for him.

"Of course, Harry, I was wondering when you would ask me! I have waited ages for this day to come since our second year at Hogwart's," Hermione exclaimed with tears in her eyes.

Harry just sort of lifted out of his mind for a moment. He now felt like he was the happiest man on earth. He felt the happiest he had ever been. He walked up and stood a few inches from Hermione's face and kissed her on the lips. Hermione gave a slight giggle of satisfaction.

"What was that for Harry?" Hermione managed to blurt out from her wet lips.

"For making this such a wonderful time for me, and for making it so easy for me to ask you out." Harry said as he clenched her tight in his arms. She gripped his hands and wrapped them around her waste and then she picked her arms up and placed them on his shoulders.

"I want to be with you forever Harry." Hermione said as she stared out into the waterfront in front of them.

"And I, want to be with you too." Harry said back to Hermione.

Instead of going back up to their bedrooms, The two just layed down by the pond at the back of the Burrow and talked for hours and then Hermione had rested her head on Harry's shoulder and fell asleep until everyone had already waken up in the morning.

Ron woke up and Harry wasn't there. So he asked Ginny where he was and Ginny told him they were outside and that Hermione never came in last night.

"Morning Harry, Morning Hermione. Sleep well?" Ron asked as he walked down to the pond to wake Harry and Hermione up in the morning.

"Nope," Harry said.

"Not at all," Hermione then cut in on him.

"Why not? Having bad dreams again Harry?" Ron said sarcastically.

"Er... Yeah." Harry replied.

"Maybe you should have given a little more effort into that occlumency stuff," Ron said.