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Disclamer: Still not J.K Rowling
Chapter 2- Best friends and parents
The next morning Harry was woken up by someone knocking on the front door. Slowly getting out of bed trying not to disturb Hermione he put a silencing charm on her. Once he got out of the bed and opened the bedroom door he lifted the charm. 'Man I love magic.' Harry thought as he walked down the stairs. Now if only he wasn't on the top of the list of an old mans to kill list until he was 17, he would have probably enjoyed it even more. Opening the front door he found Myra, Johan and Liam.
"Why are you here so early on a Sunday morning?" Harry asked letting them in. "I get that you are a early rising family but that doesn't mean the rest of us are."
"Harry its 10 o'clock in the morning, the Cubs, White Sox game is on at noon! I swear even though you have lived here for 5 years baseball is just not as important to you as it should be. There is no sleeping in on a Sunday morning when the Cubs play at noon! Especially when they are playing the White Soxs!" Johan exclaimed the deeper he got into the house. "We brought chili, and Myra's chocolate chip cookies. Do you have beer?"
"Johan man, we have everything ready for today. We just you know like to sleep in. But you're right baseball is not that important to me. I mean when you've played quidd-. I mean soccer, baseball can just be boring." Harry said mentally slapping himself for mentioning quidditch.
"Harry we know what quidditch is. Do you know how long we have been waiting for you to mention anything about the magical world? Johan and I are both, as you're community likes to call us purebloods. I knew exactly who you were at that football game but we kinda figured that you two didn't want to talk about anything that happened to you."Myra said resting her hand on Harry's cheek. "I've been dying to hear about Hogwarts. It really is a castle right?"
Nodding his head he went to grab the invitation off the fridge. "Yeah we just got this yesterday. The first piece of mail connecting us back to the magic world. Its an invite to come see the newly rebuilt Hogwarts. Nate is really excited to go. I mean what four year doesn't want to go on an airplane, take a train ride and stay in a castle for a weekend."
"I want to! Mom dad can we go with?" Liam asked with his bright blue puppy dog eyes. "I want to stay in a castle!"
Picking up his son Johan said. "I don't think we can go buddy. I think you had to go to school there to go do all that fun stuff." Looking like someone kicked his dog Liam nodded his head. When Hermione walked down stairs with a half sleeping half awake Nate, Liam jumped up and ran over to his best friend.
"You are so lucky you get to stay in a magical castle!" Liam exclaimed.
By seeing Liam here Nate woke completely up and nodded his head as fast as he could. "Its going to be so cool!" The two boys ran off into the living room as Hermione looked at Harry with wide eyes.
"Its okay Mione. Myra and Johan have been hiding their powers from us too." Harry said walking over to her. Wrapping his arms around her waist he kissed her lightly. "Good morning."
"Good morning to you too. But can someone fill me in on how all this happened?" Hermione said walking more into the kitchen.
"Well your lovely soon to be husband and my husband were talking about how important baseball is to Johan but not as much as Harry likes quidditch." Hermione looked at Harry giving him her 'you're an idiot' look. "Moine we have known who you two were the day you sat next to us at the football game. Us Americans knew what was going on over there in England. We just figured that since you two were here and not there that you didn't want to talk about the war." Myra said pulling out her wand to put a heating charm on the chili. "Its so nice not to have to hide that."
"Why didn't you guys tell us that you knew about magic?" Hermione asked.
"We wanted you to slip up. Would you really still be friends with us if we said 'Oh my Merlin you're Harry Potter and Hermione Granger! Can you sign my wand?'"
"Yeah you're right. That is part of the reason we left England. If I had to do one more interview I would have killed someone." Harry sighed as he grabbed the coffee out of the cupboard. "Do you know how annoying reporters and fan girls are? They are not something you want following you around. It might sound nice at first but the second you are labeled the Chosen One and can't be alone with your best friends for more then 5 seconds it starts to loos it appeal."
"Even for me. When Ron and I broke up the papers had a field day. 'The Golden Couple Broken Up!'. Golden couple my ass. If Harry didn't ask me to run away from all that I would have been standing right next to Harry killing every reporter that crossed my path." Hermione said pulling out ingredients for a pasta salad.
"Oh my god I saw pictures of Ron. Harry is defiantly a better catch. Who would want a gangly red head. When they can have a strong green eyed dreamboat." Myra said winking at Harry.
"Hey there married women. Do you remember me?" Johan said wrapping his arms around Myra's waist.
Everyone started laughing as Myra turned in Johan's arms. "Aww baby you know I only have eyes for you. I can just appreciate a good looking guy when I see one."
By the time noon came around everyone was in the living room watching the game. Well in all honesty it was Johan and Harry watching the game as the boys were too busy playing with their trains.
Hermione looked over at Myra and asked "Where did you study magic?"
"We studied at Four Leaf Academy. It's not the greatest name but we didn't get to choose the name. It's just what happens when an a school has an Irish founder. It was fun though. We went from 6-18. And we still study math, history, english and science. They wanted us to have a well rounded education just incase we wanted to go to a muggle university." Myra said looking over at Hermione. "Why do you look so shocked?"
"Well Hogwarts only had a muggle studies which was pointless because it didn't teach you how to live in the muggle world. Just what the muggle world has. No pureblood took it unless they were on the light side and no muggleborn needed to take it since we came from the muggle world."
"That's ridiculous. No wonder you had a blood war. It's horrible that you lost so many people over something so silly as blood. Its just as stupid as hating someone because of the color of their skin. I'm sure that took a hit to your community, with it already being so small." Myra said looking at Harry. "He had it the hardest didn't he?"
Also looking over at Harry, Hermione sighed "He did. Feeling like anyone who ever gets close to you is going to die, isn't the best feeling in the world. His parents were the first ones to die for him. Growing up with family that didn't even want him there made trusting people even harder for him."
"Ugh I hate people. Well you two have us. No matter what we will always be here, even when you go back to England. I know we aren't much and you also have your parents. Which I'm surprised that they aren't here."
"They will be here soon. Dad had a couple of appointments." When the Grangers decided that they were going to stay in Chicago they decided to open up a new dental office. "Dad wants to get here after the seventh inning stretch . He's a true English man, not really caring about baseball like Johan here." Hermione said watching Johan pick up Liam and throw him in the air celebrating a homerun made by one of the cubs players.
Laughing Myra shook her head."Yeah he's something special."
When the seventh inning made its way, Dan and Emma Granger walked into the soon to be Potter residence.
"Nana! Papa! You made it!." Nate yelled as he saw his grandparents. "I get to go to Hogwarts! And the best part is I get to ride in a train and an airplane!" His chocolate eyes wide full of excitement.
Dan and Emma looked over at Hermione and Harry. Neither of them have heard anything about Hogwarts since the kids came to join them in America. Especially right in front of the Smith family. Hermione explained everything that happened the night before and before they came over.
"Well maybe going back to Hogwarts will give you the closure that you need. You two went through so much that we understood why you ran away from it all. But you two also have been engaged for a year with nothing planned. I think in the back of your minds you want your Hogwarts friends to be there." Emma said wrapping her arm around Hermione's shoulders. "I know it will be hard but you need to do it. Also you have your son who will be there to ease any tension. Well hopefully you never know with that Wesley family."
Harry softly chuckled "Yeah well mainly Ron, Ginny and Molly will have the fits. Because everyone thought that Hermione and I would fall in love with them. We both tried and did not like it. Even with a love potion."
"Yeah who would want to date and marry into a family that has a fan girl and a passive aggressive boy." Myra said pulling up her long blonde hair. "I know I wouldn't. No matter how fun those twins sound." Myra was the prankster at their school while Johan was in the quiet guy in the back of the class room. Myra didn't even know that Johan existed until he came to her to help plan a prank on little sisters ex boyfriend.
"You're right though mum it will give us closure. I never thought about that." Hermione said looking at the older version of herself. "It will be nice to see how everyone is doing. We have to find flights! We don't have that much time until its July 31st. McGonagall probably sent the letters out in the beginning of the July. I didn't even think that it would take the owl twice as long to get here. We have 10 days to get everything sorted. I need to make lists!"
"Hermione! Its going to be okay. We always figure it out." Harry said rubbing her back. "We will start making lists tomorrow. For now we will just relax."
Nodding her head. "You're right. Relaxing is exactly what we need."
"It's really hot when you tell me that I'm right. Just letting you know." Harry whispered into her ear.
"You are ridiculous Potter."
For the rest of the day Hermione and Harry told stories about their time at Hogwarts. Child censored for Nate and Liam. They didn't think Nate would like to hear how many times his dad almost died. Both the little boys loved all the dragon and quidditch stories. Nate decided that he wanted to be a seeker just like his dad. Which made Harry happy but Hermione not so much. With worrying about Harry during the matches, she doesn't know how she will handle her own son diving 30 feet above the ground to get a stupid snitch. The more Harry and Hermione talked about Hogwarts, the more they were sure they were ready to face everyone.
