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Ok let me know what you're thinking. Now behold THE FIFTH CHAPTER OF LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE!

Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter. I only own the characters that I make up. Blah, blah, blah. All of that 'J.K. Rowling owns HP' crap. *Sigh*

When we last left our beloved characters: Ron got jealous of Hermione's incessant flirting with a rather charming Aussie and snogged Hermione.

After Ginny had interrupted Ron and Hermione, the group exited the Australian Ministry of Magic to find a familiar looking street, but the small lane was not Diagon Alley as they had originally thought, but Cater-corner Corridor, as a sign read. As they walked down the alley they noticed there were similarities and differences to Diagon Alley. The shops and street were currently quite empty, on account that it was late at night due to the time change.

They made their way out of Cater-corner Corridor and out into the muggle part of town. They hailed a taxi which took them to a hotel in Coogee, Sydney that Hermione had made reservations for, back when they had planned their trip, at the Burrow. They paid the driver and entered the hotel.

"Welcome to Lorikeet Lagoon, Oceanfront Suites. How can I help you?" the reception asked looking up from her computer.

"Reservations for Granger," Hermione told the receptionist.

"Oh, yes here are your keys. Room 521," the receptionist said politely handing them the key cards.

"Thank you."

They went up to the fifth floor and found their door. Hermione swiped the card and the lock clicked.

They entered revealing a room, much like a living room. The room was decorated with bright blues and sea greens. It had a couple couches, sitting chairs, a desk, and a television.

"Well this is home until we find my Mum and Dad," Hermione said.

On opposite sides of the rooms were two doors. Hermione led Ginny through the one to the right, to reveal a small room with two twin beds. The room was similarly decorated to the previous room and different types of shells, paintings, and photos covered the walls. A small bathroom was in the corner of the room. Hermione took the suitcases out of the beaded bag and put them on the beds. Ron and Harry walked to the room across the way followed by Hermione and Ginny. Their room was almost identical to the room that Ginny and Hermione were to share; the only difference was that this room had a bigger bathroom.

Ron took the beaded bag from Hermione and pulled his suitcase out and laid it on a bed, and started to look through it.

"I don't think so. You're not sleeping in this room," ordered Ginny.

"What? Yeah I am. Harry and I get this room. Your bags are in the other room, therefore that is your room and this is ours," Ron argued.

"No. Hermione and I get the bigger bathroom."

"Why does it matter?!"

"IT JUST DOES!"

"Okay guys calm down," Harry intervened, "we can switch rooms, Ron don't start," he said stopping Ron before he could start another yelling match. He took out his wand from his back pocket and with a twitch of his wand sent Ron's suitcase into the other room and summoned Hermione and Ginny's bags to the room in which they stood.

"Thank you," Ginny smiled at Harry. While Harry smiled back, Ron glared and exited the room. Harry soon followed, after Hermione had given him his sack of clothing.

"Ok, set your watches to the time change," Hermione instructed from the doorway.

"What time is it here?" asked Harry.

"Well the trip by floo was thirty minutes, another thirty minutes to get to the hotel and with the time change that is…," she said pausing to think it over.

"Bloody Hell Hermione! Look at the clock on the desk! You think about things too much," Ron told her.

"Don't you put my name next to cuss words Ronald Weasley," Hermione said strictly. At this comment Harry and Ginny rolled their eyes and went into their rooms and shut the doors. Hermione walked across the room to scold Ron some more.

"Well you think about things too much. You need to take the easy route sometimes," Ron said calmly trying to get through to her.

"If we had taken the easy route during the war, we wouldn't have been defending Harry, we'd have been fighting Harry and helping Voldemort," Hermione reprimanded, Ron cringing at the name.

"Please don't-"

"Ron! Voldemort, Voldemort, Voldemort! It's just a stupid name!" Hermione said her voice getting angrier and louder.

"NO IT'S NOT! IT'S THE NAME THAT GOT YOU TORTURED AND ALMOST KILLED!"

Hermione's face softened. "Oh, Ron," she said before hugging him. He hugged her back, her hair inches from his nose, his chin on the top of her head. After a few seconds of this Ron broke the silence.

"'Mione?"

"Yes?"

"Your hair smells like strawberries."

"Why thank you Ronald," she said laughing and looking up at him. They stood there for a moment just searching the other's face. Ron was about to say something, before Ginny interrupted.

"It seems awfully quiet out there for a yelling match, what's going on?" Ginny said after opening the door and popping her head out of the door way, to find her best friend and brother hugging and looking at her. Harry also popped his head out of the boys' room, also looking at Hermione and Ron.

"Well then, I'm uh… gonna go to bed," Harry said before returning to the bedroom. Ginny went back into the girls' room.

"Mione?"

"Yes Ron?"

"I'm hungry."

"Ron-"

"Well, technically we still are accustomed to England's Time zone, so it's theoretically lunch time."

"So many big words in one sentence, Ronald..." said Hermione poking fun.

"Come on 'Mione, be serious. I'm hungry."

She sighed. "Fine Ronald, let's go find a vending machine," she said pulling him out of the room.

"A what??"

"You'll see. Come on."

She led him around the corner, using the signs to direct her. She pulled into a small room that had three metal boxes, as Ron saw it. One read 'ICE', another read 'Coca-Cola', and the last one had only buttons and numbers on the side.

"Hey there is food in there!" he shouted, loudly tapping the glass between him and the food inside. Hermione shushed him as passing old couple stared at them.

"Yes Ron," she said digging in her pocket. Finally finding some muggle money, she inserted it into the machine. "Now what do you want?" she said turning to him.

"What is this stuff though? Nutter-Butters? O-reos? Is this stuff okay? It sounds like just as much of a disease as Cinderella does."

"Ron, if you don't trust that stuff just get some potato crisps. We have those back in England, and you tend to eat quite a few of them, so I think you're safe. And those are all fine."

"Okay. Fine potato crisps."

Hermione pushed a few buttons and a bag of chips fell out. She grabbed them from the vending machine and handed them to Ron. He opened the bag and ate one and began to grin.

"Thanks 'Mione."

"You're welcome Ronald, now let's get back to the room and go to bed."

"But I'm not tired."

"Are you serious? Ron Weasley not tired? Wow that's a first. Come on if I know you, you won't feel the same way when we get back to the room. We have to get used to a new schedule."

They made their way back, getting lost a couple times. They finally made it back and Hermione opened the door. Ron's eyes widened and his face contorted. Harry and Ginny's faces were inches apart, as though they had just been snogging. Harry looked up eyes wide, after Ron grunted making them alert of Hermione and his presence. Ginny ignored Ron's angry mumblings.

"Good night Harry," she sang as she walked, almost skipping, to the girls' bedroom. Ron walked forward to confront Harry, but Hermione stopped him and pulled him into the boys' room, slamming the door behind them, while Harry remained on the sofa looking confused and worried.

"Ronald," Hermione said turning to him once the door was closed, "Let it be. Harry and Ginny-"

"Hermione! She's my sister! What am I supposed to do?!"

"Ron, remember when we were in the tent telling Ginny about what happened last year?"

He nodded.

"Remember when you told us that Harry thought of me as a sister?"

"Yeah, but-"

"Ron! What is he thinking when he sees his two best friends are snogging?! He probably is thinking the same thing. I think of Harry as a brother and He thinks of me as a sister. Harry has no family so I have become it! He has been just as protective of me in some situations as you have with Ginny!"

Ron felt defeated.

"Ron, Harry isn't interfering in our relationship; don't interfere in his and Ginny's. If he hurts her emotionally, physically, or verbally, you can, but you know Harry would never hurt her. If you were doing anything like that to me, Harry would intervene," she said more calmly than before.

"'Mione, I will never-."

"I know. I was just giving an example."

He nodded, understanding what she was saying. They exited the room the find Harry still sitting there dumbstruck.

"Goodnight Ronald, good night Harry," Hermione said in a sing sang, before closing the girls' bedroom door behind her.

A few awkward seconds passed before Ron broke the silence.

"Come on Mate, let's go to bed." He walked into their bedroom and changed into pajamas before poking his head out.

"Harry? Are you sleeping out there?"

"You aren't gonna yell at me?"

"No, 'Mione told me to lay off."

"And you listened to her? That's a first," Harry said standing up and walking into the room. They both quickly fell asleep to the sound of the ocean waves crashing on the beach.

The next morning Hermione woke up first, at 4 am. She busied herself with showering and dressing. After doing so she went out into the living room and watched some shows on the muggle television. At about 5:30 movement could be heard from inside the boys' room. Hermione could hear the shower turn on. She went back to watching the television and thirty minutes later Ron appeared in the doorway.

"Oh I thought that it was Ginny who was out here."

"Nope. Are you okay?" she said noticing the worried lines on his forehead.

"Oh well um… yeah what makes you ask?" He said apparently trying to hide something.

"You look- never mind. You're positive?"

"I had the dream again," He said sitting on the couch next to her.

"Ron-"

"I know. But I keep having it. I- I don't know."

She knew he was worried and confused as to why he continued to have these nightmares, even though he knew that she was ok; but she kept quiet and just sat there. She knew there was nothing she could say or do to comfort him.

Movement could be heard from both rooms as both Harry and Ginny woke up at almost the exact same time and headed to the showers. About twenty minutes later both showers turned off at the exact same moment. Harry came out a half an hour later and sat down silently in an armchair and watched television with them. Ginny came out thirty minutes after Harry had and walked over and kissed Harry. Hermione watched Ron for a reaction. The only response from him was the closing of his eyes so he would not have to watch it. Hermione snickered at this. A second later the kissed was finished and Hermione tapped Ron on the leg, which told him he could look again.

"Now that you two are done. Let's go find food. Oh, and Mione's parents. Follow me. I know where to go," Ron said proudly, as he stood up. Harry, Hermione, and Ginny followed him out of the room, and he led them boldly to the vending room that he and Hermione had visited the night before.

"Okay what do we want for breakfast?"

Hermione tried desperately to contain her laughter. "Ron. No. that was just for last night, a quick snack."

"Yeah, you tosspot. Come on let's go find a restaurant," Ginny said leading the way to the lobby. Hermione grabbed a map of the area before they left and hailed a cab. They found a nearby diner and went in and ordered breakfast. Hermione paid for the bill and they left. Hermione hailed another cab to take them to a place near Cater- corner Corridor.

"We can look around, and there is a library near there. We can look around for records and look online there for information," Hermione told them after entering the cab and telling the driver where they wanted to go.

"What do you mean by going online?" Ron asked but Hermione didn't wish to explain this at the moment, as the driver looked through the rear view mirror to look at Ron questioningly.

They arrived at their destination and exited the cab, Hermione paying the driver a nice tip. They went into the wizard restaurant, and found their way to Cater- corner Corridor. As they entered the street they noticed a huge change. They had first seen it at night, but during the day the alley was completely different.

They saw that there were book shops, candy shops, and even a bank much like Gringotts. Along the sides of the shops there were a variety of vendors, unlike Diagon Alley. On some the tables were items with magical qualities, such as a variety of potions, quills, and other products of magical nature.

Instead of dull colors like Diagon Alley, Cater-corner Corridor had bright colors that made the place seem happy and new, instead of run down and damaged. As the group made their way through the crowd, being bartered with and bargains being thrown at them, Ron noticed a table that contained many different types of magical plants. He pointed this out to the group and they made their way over to the stand.

"Should we get something for Neville? You know, to thank him for his help," Ron suggested.

"Yeah, how about we get a card and write, 'Hey thanks for killing Nagini! We couldn't have killed Riddle without you!' to go with it," Harry told Ron sarcastically.

Ron only sighed, while both Ginny and Hermione rolled their eyes at Harry's comment.

"Maybe we should get Neville a screechsnap," Hermione said, pointing to a small plant on the table. She proceeded to pet the screechsnap, which in return purred. Ron thinking this was interesting, also began to pet the plant. Instead of purring, as Ron had hoped, the plant screamed. Surprised, Ron screamed back, to which the plant responded by screaming again. Ron began to return the gesture but was stopped when Harry clapped his palm across Ron's gaping mouth. The entire alley stopped, and looked toward the four of them. Ron wide eyed, turned to Hermione, speechless. Harry removed his hand from Ron's face and Hermione suddenly burst out in laughter.

"Ronald," she barely choked out in her fit of giggling. Ron looked bewildered and embarrassed.

"What? Bloody hell Hermione! It screamed! What was I supposed to do?"

Hermione was too busy laughing to respond, but Ginny answered for her. "You screamed like a first year! Oh, the look on your face!"

Harry was also laughing and the bustling of Cater-corner Corridor had returned to normal. Hermione led the way through the crowd still laughing occasionally, to which Ron grumbled under his breath.

A/N Key: In the A/Ns, bold is me, Lil' Llama, and italics are my Story Collaborator, LlamaiiiiXlovesXSeddie. Who is totally awesome. Oh Shush. =P

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