Chapter 7: Summer at the Potter Manor
'Ahh home, family, my room, I missed it even that I love to be in Hogwarts' Harry thought to himself while he was taking a shower after he and his parents came back home from the train station.
Downstairs in the kitchen and outside James and Lilly were preparing a special homecoming dinner. After Harry finished his shower he went to his case and unpacked it. He took all his homework out and put it on the table. He decided that first of all he will finish with all his homework and then started to spent the summer holiday for rest, relax, practice with his dad and Mia for Quidditch, to help his mother with her shop and of course to meet Ron and Hermione as they decided.
The next morning after the breakfast Harry was in his room and was doing his homework. He needed to tackle with a mountain full of homework. It was too much and he decided to separate it for two mornings.
After the lunch Harry and Mia went outside to play Quidditch one by one. It was a good practice for Harry as a seeker and for Mia just to be a good flyer on the flying lessons in Hogwarts. After the dinner all the family went to the little cinema room and watched a movie. The next day was the same.
After a week finely Harry could feel the summer and the vacation.
Tomorrow Ron, His brothers and his sister Ginny, Hermione and Neville will come to the Potter Manor for a week and be with Harry and Mia.
Everyone got to the Potter Manor. Mia showed to the girls their rooms while Harry showed to the boys their rooms. After that everyone changed their cloth to swim suits and went to the lake. Most of all the parents came too and dicedied to join to their children. Most of the women didn't get in, but lie out on the lawn chairs, and talk about everything.
Neville was in the water while outside of the water near the diving board everyone was standing in line right after Percy. They stood from the oldest to the youngest, so Mia was the last. Mia and Ginny try to convince Neville to come to join them.
"Come 'on, Neville!" Mia encouraged him. "It is fun. Just look at Percy!"
"NO!" Neville exclaimed.
"Neville it is not even a broom, you just stand on the board and then jump" Hermione explain. "And if you afraid, maybe you can tell me why you got 10 points from Dumbledore and because of that we won the trophy?" Ron asked him. With that Neville just said "Right, everything is ok and I don't need to be afraid. Harry I am older than you by a day so I will stand before you" and then he came to the line and stood with them. Every one of the kids jumped once and then ran back to the board. "I didn't know that it will be so much fun, thank you guys for the support" Neville told his friends with a wide smile. After couple of hours Mia started to be hungry and then she saw how her parents prepared the dinner and knew that soon enough they will all eat. Five minutes later Lily called all the children to come to the table. After the meal everyone went to have a shower and then down to the cinema room to watch a movie and it a special pop-corn with some surprises and tricky stuff.
The weekend ended and all the adults went home. Before they go Lily gave to all of them all the stuff that their children need for the position's lessons. She already got all the lists from Hogwarts. "It is a very good thing because when we will meet and be in the Diagon Allie we won't need to go and buy the stuff for the potion's lessons because we already have it." Explained Mia to Ginny.
"Oh now I get it. So thank you Lily for giving me everything that I will need for the potion's lessons"
"Ginny, it is my pleaser" Lily answered. All the parents went to their houses. They closed with James and Lily that in more two weeks all the kids would go home and on the other week Harry and Mia would come to the Borrow until they would meet in the Diagon Allie. That means that Harry's birthday would be spending and celebrating in the Borrow.
While the children, Lily, James and Mr. Potter and Mrs. Potter were eating dinner Lily started to talk: "Now, girls tomorrow I want that you will help me in the shop, and boys will go with James and Mr. Potter hiking for two days"
"Cool… When we need to wake up father?" Harry looked at his father
"Son don't worry about the time I will wake you up all. After the dinner boys I want you to go to your rooms and pack some cloth for the upcoming two days and pack it in Harry's bag, plus also I want that you will take your wands" he stops and then when Ron opened his mouth to ask why they can to take wands James suddenly continued "You allowed to use them but only there don't worry about it."
"Can you answer my question?" Percy asked him.
"Sure, what do you want to know?" asked James.
"Well can you tell us why we need to take our wands?"
"James, let me speak." Mr. Potter said he drank little bit of his water and started to speak. "Young man, you want to know why you will need your wands right. Well you know the wood in Hogwarts so their sometime you need the wand for protection so even now when we will go hiking you will need it and this place known in the magic ministry and they allowed us that all of you, I mean all of the young wizards are allowed to use their wands." After his words the boys got up from the table and went to pack their cloth while the girls help Lily with the dishes and then they went to the paly room and the library to rest, have fun and spend this day as well.
On the next day Mr. Potter and James waked up the boys and after the fast breakfast that was made by the house elves, they all went to the little forest near the lake and started their hiking adventure.
When it was time for Lily and her little helps to wake up the breakfast was already done and was waited for the girls to come to the table in the dining room. Lily and Mrs. Potter waked the girls up, ate the breakfast and went to the potion shop that was 10 minutes of walk from them.
After nearly three hours there was two people that came to the shop. One of them wear an emerald cloak and the another one wear black one.
"Good Morning professor McGonagall and good morning professor Snape, what can I do for you?" Lilly welcomed them and hugged them both.
"Ahh Lilly it so nice to see you. Hello Miss Granger, oh I suppose that you young Miss Wesley, and hello to you Mia too. We came here to look for James and Mr. Potter, but as I saw they aren't at home."
"And I came to here to full up my potion stuff at Hogwarts as usual." Snape said and with this words gave a big list to Lilly. "Girls took this list and put all the stuff on the table, then took boxes put the stuff in, write on the boxes what it is and then we will send it to Hogwarts. Do it while I will talk with them. Got it?"
"Yes mother, come 'on girls we have a big work to do" with Mia's words the girls went to the back of the shop and started to pack the stuff into the boxes.
"Professor McGonagall maybe you want to wrote me a letter and I will give it to James tomorrow when he and the boys will come back from the hiking? Or as well we can send them the patronus."
"Well Lilly it something, well we all in the school thinks of that this year will be a year full of danger because as you know we have Luscious Malfoy and his all stuff from you know who, so I and Dumbledore think that this time he will try to put some stuff in one of the children of the order so I came here to suggest that Mr. Potter will be the teacher of the Defense Against the Dark Arts, but if he won't we have already a teacher for that.
And another suggestion is that every month one of the order will be in Hogwarts for the protection"
"Oh yes it is a very good idea professor" Lilly said and then she asked Mia "Mia, girls are you finish?"
"More 10 minutes mommy" Lilly heard her daughter's voice from the back of the shop and smiled.
"Severus, take now some of the boxes and the last I will send it to you. Here take this two." Lilly helped him.
"So I think that soon enough I will see you girls at school. Spend well your holiday."
"Goodbye professors it was nice to meet you, see you soon." Both Mia and Ginny called and then started to laugh.
After the long day at the shop the girls decided to have a sleepover in the cinema room with hot chocolate, popcorn and a good movie.
The next day was the same. The boys came back and had fun in their little adventure in the mountains, they also had a hot bath and a hot chocolate. On Saturday evening everyone went home. James and Lilly decided with Arthur and Molly that the weekend before Harry's birthday Harry and Mia will come to the Borrow and will be there until the last day of the summer vacation. This was a good decision because from next week till a week before September ends James and Lilly have to be on a mission from the order. They said that they will try to their best to see Harry and Mia in the train station. On this words the Wesley's left and leave the Potters alone.