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Don't Own a Thing!

Chapter 5

I could hear them talking about me. Not that they knew that I could but, I could hear them talking about me and asking each other questions trying to piece me together in their minds.

"What does it matter Hermione?" Harry asked. "She doesn't want to be bothered. She has locked herself in her room. We should just leave her alone. We have about a month until school starts and then…"

"Harry, I am not going to let her just sit their by herself, that has got to be so lonely, we should go and see her. Talk to her."

"Hello dear," Mrs. Weasly said to me when she saw me sitting on the stairs outside the room that the three of them were in. "Going to visit them, that's very good, you need to spend time out of your room, more with the living people."

She didn't know about Bethany.

"Ron, Harry, Hermione, dears, please open the door. You have a visitor."

I smiled as the door opened and the three came out. Hermione smiled back while Ron tried to and Harry just stared.

"I just came to say hi," I said, covering for the fact that I was found eavesdropping.

"Hi," Hermione said as she took my hand and pulled me into the room that I figured was hers and Ginny's, and Ron and Harry followed back in and sat down on the opposite bed from us girls.

"Look, I don't want to intrude or anything, but I though that if I am going to be going to school with you I might as well try and get to know you some and see if we get along. And Hermione I wanted to apologize for the way I said what I did the other day. That was the wrong way to say that my friend was dead."

"It is okay," she said as the boys looked at her while she looked at the ground.

"So, what are you talking about?"

"Nothing," Harry said fast.

"Really," I said with a hint of not believing him in my voice. "Then tell me about the school. I don't want to go and not know anything."

"Hermione has a book that you could read, Hogwarts a History. She always has it with her," Ron said earning a kick in the shin from Hermione that made me smile and laugh a little, and making Harry laugh too. Ron glared at him.

"It's not funny Harry, her kicks hurt."

"There is a book about the school? We didn't have one because the headmasters don't want information getting out in to other witches and wizards hands. They are really stuck up. I hope people at Hogwarts aren't like that."

"Only the purebloods in Slytherin. But the rest of the school is good. Do you know what house you are staying in?"

"Yeah, Gryffindor or something like that."

"Cool," Ron said, "that is were we live."

"Cool," I said as I picked at the hole in the knee of my black jeans. "Well…"

"Yesterday, you said it was safer what did you mean?"

I looked at her before saying, "My gift is rare and stuff, so maybe because everyone, good and bad are here in England, I will have enough protection because people are protecting you Harry, if you don't mind sharing the order, not that I will be taking there help, I don't want it. You don't mind if I ditch out of here later, could you cover, I don't like people following me."

"But the order is to keep you safe, you should use it," Hermione said.

"I have a problem with authority and usually I get away with ditching people following me. It wouldn't be the first time that death eaters followed me if they do, and the last time I got away fine, minus the few cuts and bruises that I got from falling down when running in the woods and the cuts from fighting back. Plus, I need to get out of here. I hate being cooped up in places."

"What about going to the areas that you have been too around my house? You get out then."

"Yeah, but still have rules about how far that I can go. But if it makes my brother happy, I'll wait till after this year is over. What do you three do to get over the fact that you are practically grounded here?"

Ron and Harry looked at each other and a smile came to their faces before they looked back to me and Hermione muttered something that sounded like "oh no".

I didn't get a chance to respond, because the boys got up and ran out of the room and down the stairs. Hermione just stood and walked out the door saying, "You may want to follow."

"What?"

I followed Hermione. She seemed to know where she needed to go even the boys weren't even in the house anymore.

"Hermione, where are we going? Where did the boys run to?"

"Outside to the field to play on their brooms."