One sunny August morning, I was calmly eating some cereal when I heard a peck at the window. An unfamiliar owl sat at the ledge with a large parcel tied to its leg.

"Rosie! I bet that is your OWL results!" Mom scurried over to the window to let the owl in. The old grey owl flew in and landed on the kitchen table. I carefully untied the parcel, nervous to see my results. My eyes scanned the page, and looked up with grin.

"How did you do?" my mother asked anxiously.

"See for yourself."

Mum grabbed the paper and cried out, "Oh I'm so proud of you Rosie! Ronald! Come in here you daughter just got back her OWLs, and she got Outstanding in every class!"

My father came into the kitchen."Really? That's better than your mum Rose! Congratulations!"

The owl on the table hooted impatiently.

"Oh that's right! Now where did I put the owl treats. Ron did you move them again?"

"Now why would I move them Hermione?"

As my parents bustled around the kitchen arguing about who did what with the owl treats, Hugo reached across the table and grabbed the other papers in the parcel.

"Oh cool our supplies list are here."

"Maybe we can go shopping next Saturday," said mother. She finally found the owl treats, turns out my dad must of moved them to the pantry by accident. She handed one out to the owl who snatched it up and flew out the window. "I'll have to call up Ginny and Katherine and see if they want to go with us."

The Potters always went school supplies shopping with us, and ever since Jack started school, so did the Dursleys.

I was excited to be going back to Hogwarts again soon. I missed my mom and dad while I was away, but there was something about that dark castle that felt like home. I missed seeing my friends every day, and waking up in my bed in my dormitory. I missed going to the library to and picking up a random book off the shelf and then spending all day reading in the bay window on the fourth floor, that happened to have a perfect view of the Quidditch pitch. And I especially missed having my wand stowed away in my pocket. It took all of my will power not to sneak into mom and dad's room and try to break open the drawer where Hugo and my wands were stored for the summer.

When Saturday arrived, Hugo was almost bouncing off the walls excited to go. To be honest I was pretty excited too, I was craving some ice cream.

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When Saturday came, we all gathered in the living room around the fireplace. Dad went first ahead of us, and I went next.

I spoke clearly "Diagon Alley", and felt myself be whooshed through the floo network. Dad always told us a story of how Uncle Harry once did not speak clearly and ended up in Knockturn Alley by mistake. He also said that he had to fight his way out of a group of snatchers trying to kidnap him, but I know he made that up so we wouldn't get tempted to go near Knocktrun alley.

I stumbled out of the fireplace, and Hugo and Mum were not far behind. As soon as we stepped onto the main street I spotted the Potters and Dursleys sitting at a table in front of Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour.

Lily ran over and gave me a hug. "Rosie I haven't seen you in like a month!"

"I missed you too Lil, but in a couple weeks we'll go back to seeing each other every day and you'll wish you wouldn't see me for a month."

Lily laughed, "I could never get tired of seeing you Rose!"

The first place we stopped was Flourish and Blotts to get our new books. Mum put them in her purse (which Perry calls her 'Mary Poppin's Bag'. I never seen that movie, but Mum always laughs when he calls it that) and we headed over to the Apothecary to get potion supplies and such. Then the group split up so we could get various items. Uncle Harry and Dad went to Gringotts so they could extract some money for us for the year. Mum and Aunt Katherine went to get some new robes for Hu and the Dursley boys. And Aunt Ginny, Lily, James, Al, and I went to the Quidditch shop.

"Mum can I get a new broom?"

Al looked wistfully at the case of a new Firebolt 750 gleaming in the window.

"What for dear?" Ginny asked, looking at a pair of gloves with James.

"Well I was thinking about trying out for the team this year..."

James snorted, and Ginny smacked his arm. "How about if you make the team, your dad and I will buy you a new broom?"

Al seemed content with this, and I knew he would know work harder than ever to try and make the team.

"Mum come look! They have a poster of you!"

We all followed Lily's voice to the back of the shop where they had old posters hung up on the walls of famous Quidditch players. Sure enough, Aunt Ginny's face smiled down at us wearing her Holyhead Harpies uniform. Beside her was a picture of Victor Krum , an old friend of Uncle Harry's. And apparently Krum dated my mum once.

"Look how young I am! Those were lovely days, back before I had kids." Aunt Ginny ruffled Al's hair. James made a face at her. "Kidding, come on, let's go meet the other's at Uncle George's.

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I always loved the feeling of walking into Weasley Wizard Wheezes. The colorful shelves gleamed with gags and gadgets. There was always a crowd of people surrounding a new product of theirs and the occasional classic such as the love potions.

Uncle George was standing on the stairs pointing to a customer where a product was. When he spotted us he broke out into a grin and waved us over.

"Look who it is! My one and only sister Ginny Weasley-Potter and her children! Plus my other niece who I'm 78% sure is not a Potter..."

"The rest are coming," I laughed.

"Good, now since I'm a generous and obviously your favorite uncle, I've decided to let all my nieces and nephews pick one item on me."

Lily and I both hugged him. "Thanks Uncle George!"

We headed into the crowd to find our one item. I looked through the laughing, love, and lust potions. I passed over the fake wands and hats that turned into birds. Finally I found what I was looking for. The new patented Heart's Desire Candy Hearts. If someone where to eat one of the candy hearts, whatever they desired at the moment, whether it be food or to sleep or to tell someone that they look like an ogre, they will stop at nothing to make it happen. We had Albus eat one at the time with hilarious results. It turns out he really wanted to punch James in the stomach (which was no surprise since James had just been teasing him), and we had to restrain him until the effects wore off 5 minutes later.

The day was getting late, and it was soon time to head home. We said our goodbyes to Uncle George, and headed back to the Leaky Cauldron. On our way back I grabbed some cookie dough explosion ice cream from Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour which was now ran by the late Floerean's granddaughter. Ice cream in hand, we headed back home.

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"Rose! You better wake up we are going to leave for the station in an hour and half!"

I groaned in response. My bed was so comfy, and I didn't feel like getting out of it yet. But then I remembered I needed to finish packing, so I reluctantly got up. My trunk lay open in the corner of my room, half stuffed with clothes. After getting ready for the day, I glanced around room grabbing stuff that I needed to take with me. My broom care kit. The book I was reading. The unicorn figurine that was walking across my desk protested as I set it under my sweater.

I doubled checked that I had everything, and I realized that I had forgotten my jumper. I scrambled around the room trying to find it. I looked in my closet and in my dresser and finally under my bed. I stuck my hand under the bed and felt around. Finally my hand closed around something soft which I was hoping was my jumper. When I pulled, out came my jumper along with an assortment of things. Some toffees, a scarf, and the photograph of Malfoy that he had given to me last Christmas of him smirking, and that he also put a charm on it so I wouldn't be able to rip it up. I threw it into my trunk. Perhaps I could tape it onto a troll doll and give it to him as a gift, or maybe sell it to one of those third years that were always in love with him.

"Rose! It's time to go, do you have everything?" Mum asked when she poked her head in my door.

"I think so, just need to grab my broom."

Mum walked in and handed me my wand that she had been keeping all summer. I gladly took it back. It was going to be great to get back to Hogwarts.

I'm so sorry it took so long to get this chapter done! But with school ending, I can focus on writing again :) I decided this is one last family chapter before a very Scorprose year. Thanks for being such lovely readers and please review your thoughts on the story so far!