Hermione's P.o.v.
I was meeting up the Weasley family in Diagon Alley and my parents were accompanying me. Dad was down stairs putting my trunk in the car, I was making sure that I had everything packed up because afterwards I would be back on a train back to Hogwarts, with all my friends.
I couldn't wait, "Hermione are you ready to go?" Mum asked loud of enough for me to hear her from downstairs.
"Coming mum. Just making sure that I have everything that I need. I couldn't wait; I had talked to Ron after they went and saved Harry from the Dudley's house, he had said that he and the twins got into trouble for using a flying car that was their dad's to go save Harry. So they couldn't do much talking seeing as for punishment, they were stuck de-gnoming the garden for Mrs. Weasley.
That would explain why I hadn't heard much from Fred expect for one letter at the time that we were worried about Harry. I walked out of the room and closed the door, by the time that I would come home for the summer, the door and the windows would be open, airing it out from being shut up all summer.
Walking down the stairs, I looked on the walls; I was my parent's only child so much of the picture that adorned the wall was pictures of me, mum and dad.
"Come on sweetie, we're going to be late if we don't get moving now" My dad said. By that point I had made it down the stairs, I grabbed a jacket on the way out of the door.
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Fred's P.o.v
Ron's driving me crazy, he just wouldn't shut up!
"Ron, can you be quiet for like ten minutes? Do you know how to do that?" I asked him.
I saw him turn red from embarrassment, I'm sorry but I was doing something that involve peace and quiet and with my little brother sitting there running his mouth was not helping the process.
"Fred and Ron! Come on we need to be going!" Mum said.
We were going to Diagon Alley to meet up with Hermione and her folks. It would be the first time that I had seen her since we parted for the summer. George had been teasing me all summer, he said that anytime that mention Hermione, he would just see my face light up.
I told him that he was just imaging things. She was a twelve year old girl that happens to be my little brother's best friend, it didn't mean that I was going to act on this silly little crush that I had.
Besides I was fifteen and she was twelve and that was way too young for either of use to develop any kind of relationship or feelings.
So I was just going to let the feelings for the bookworm disappear; it would be the best for everyone in the twin thought that I should tell her what was going on, I thought why I should? So I could scare her off and lose her as a friend. So I thought about it and decided that it was time to let the crush go, if that was possible.
Ron went down the stairs and I follow down behind him. Mum was standing at the bottom of the stairs waiting for us, "Come on boys, time to get ready to go" She said.
Like I said before our family was meeting up with Hermione and her family. They were meeting us there and we were going by floo powder. So we all stood in a line in the living room, mum had a bag in her hand.
"Harry you go first" She said.
"But Mum, Harry's never traveled by Floo powder before. " Ron said.
"oh okay, Ron why don't you go first then" Mum said holding the bag out. Ron walked forward and grabbed some of the powder from the bag, stepped into the fire place and said " Diagon alley" and threw the powder down in front of him.
Harry's eyes got big, this was his first experience and you could tell from his eyes that he wasn't sure about this method of traveling. "All right Harry your turn." Mum said holding the bag out to him as he came towards the fireplace.
He took some of the powder and stepped into the fire place and said"Diagonalley" and dropped the powder down in front of him and he went up in green smoke.
"What did he say?" Mum asked
"Diagonalley" Dad said.
'That's what I thought he said" Mum said.
We hoped that we could find him when we got to Diagon alley. I went next and then George came in behind me and we stood there until Mum came alone with dad and Ginny. When she noticed that we were missing a certain raven hair boy.
"Maybe he went on the bookstore" she said notice that Ron also was not with the group. We started towards the bookstore to see if we could find Harry and Ron; also the Granger family.
I stood by the door looking for Hermione; I was looking toward the left when I felt someone throw their arms around my neck. I wrapped my arms around the bushy hair girl and picked her up off the ground, "Hermione!" I said.
I put her back down on the ground and looked at her; her hair was still unruly and it looked that she had grown a few inches.
"Fred, how was your summer?" Hermione asked me.
"It was alright, I spent the rest of the summer in trouble. I guess you heard from Ron?" I asked her.
Then she looked around, I guess looking for the rest of my family and Harry," Fred, where is everyone?
"Mum and Dad are in the bookstore looking for harry. George and Ginny are in there as well; I'm not quite sure where Ron is. "I said to her.
"Why are Mr. and Mrs. Weasley looking for Harry?" Hermione asked me.
"Because he traveled using Floo powder for the first time and instead of saying it as two words, he said it as all one word. So now why don't know where he is." I told her.
She got a worried look across her face, i could get where she was coming from. First, he'd been locked up all summer with no word from anyone and now he'd had gone missing. At the rate it was going, this wasn't going to be Harry's year.
Then again thinking back to last year, When was his year ever? Last year he was almost killed by You-Know-Who, a troll and a teacher that was suppose to be protecting him and now he was missing somewhere in the alley, we hope that's where he was anyways.
Hermione still looked worried while we talked but there was not much that we could do in the matter, just hoped that he'd show up.
"So ready for another amazing school year at Hogwarts?" I asked her.
"yeah and hope that someone don't try to kill my best friends for the second year in a row. I'm not sure if i can handle that for another year." Hermione told me.
She was right though, I don't know if i could deal with the possibility of someone trying to kill them.
We talked outside for the book shop a little bit longer and then right before we walked into the shop, Hagrid showed up with Harry trailing behind him.
Hermione ran up to the Giant and Harry. "Oh my! Harry, your glasses!" She said and pulled out her wand and repaired them.
"Hey Hagrid, where'd you find him at?" I asked coming to stand by the bushy hair bookworm, "I found him sulking around knockturn alley." Hagrid said.
"I wasn't sulking, i just got lost; it was the first time that i traveled by floo powder. " He said.
"Well come on Harry, everyone is probably wonder where you had gotten off to and they wonder if they were going to have to save you from some place weird. We had a cousin that wound up in the loo one time and i don't mean standing in the bathroom either." I said.
Hermione stood there shaking with laughter. She had never traveled by Floo powder before either, so all she would hear for now is stories.
I started walking back towards the shop with the group behind me, as soon as i walked in the door, i wanted to walk back out because no other than Gilderoy Lockhart was standing up at the front; This was going to be a fun time.
Mum was standing at the front of the line with Dad and Ginny; Hermione stood back from all of the crowd and i walked up front.
I tapped her shoulder and told her that we had found him he came up beside her and stood there.
"Oh thank goodness, we hoped that you had only gone one grate to far" She said brushing off the soot on his sweater.
He was standing there when Gilderoy Lockhart entered the shop. Of course he didn't notice Harry standing there until he was taking photos.
Poor harry got shoved into the photo, i'm pretty sure he didn't want to be in the photo.
"Little did he know when he walked in, that Mr. Potter would be leaving with my whole collection. Free of charge" Lockhart said. I rolled my eyes, I'm not sure if this guy could be anymore of a tool.
Mum took the books out of Harry's arms when he came around the table.
"Give them to me, I'll get them signed. You kids go wait outside" Mum said.
I turned around and walked towards the front of the shop with Harry, Hermione and my siblings.
"Famous Potter can't even go into a book store" a voice said from about us.
Malfoy ripped a page out the book in his hand and came down the stairs.
"Leave him." Ginny said to him stepping in front of Harry.
"Look. Potter's got himself a girlfriend" he said.
"Back off malfoy" Harry said stepping around Ginny.
Malfoy was about to move towards harry when a cane was put on his shoulder.
"Now now Draco play nice" Lucius Malfoy said.
Dad walked up behind us and saw that Lucius was blocking our way out of the door, "Lucius"
"Arthur" Malfoy said back to dad.
"Busy time at the ministry I hear" Lucius said." All those raids. I do hope they are paying you overtime"
He reached into the cauldron that Ginny was holding and pulled out the tattered copy of A beginner's guide to Transfiguration.
"Obviously not" Mr. Malfoy said. "What's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard and if they don't even pay you well for it"
"We have a very different idea of what disgrace the name of wizards, Malfoy" Dad said.
"Clearly. Associating with muggles" Mr. Malfoy said cutting his eyes at Hermione's parents. When Hermione saw this, she turned red. Next thing, i know Dad dropped Ginny's cauldron and had thrown himself at Mr. Malfoy.
Hagrid wadded himself thought the crowd that was standing behind them to break up the fight, Mr. Malfoy had been hit in the eye by an Encyclopedia of toadstools and dad had a cut lip.
"Here girl- Take your book" Malfoy said putting the book back in Ginny's Cauldron.
He beckoned draco and swept from the shop.
"You should've ignored him, Arthur,"Said Hagrid.
Mum was mad when she was able finally to get to Dad.
"A fine example to set for your children… fighting in public- what Gilderoy Lockhart must of thought-"
"He was pleased with it. Didn't you hear him as we were leaving? He asked the guy from the Daily Prophet, he was able to get the fight in his story." I said.
Mum just shot me a glare.
A/N:
Welp i'm back with a second chapter and so far to date, this is by far my longest chapter that i have written. I'm not longer using my phone to type these chapters up, i got a computer now. So hopefully i can write more of these long chapters, When i'm not working crazy hours :)
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