" Hi there! I need power turned on at my home"

The girl across the counter gave George a puzzled look. Either He seemed odd, or His accent confused her. At First glance she didn't seem like a very bright light bulb.

" Um, alright...the address?" She said, chewing her gum loudly.

" oh, um.."George stumbled. Why had he not asked what the address was?

" 1579" Harry cut in, " Knights Cross"

The girl was quickly inputting information into her computer.

" And your name, sir?" She said, without looking up.

" George.." He thought quickly.." Winters..." with a quick shrug and a look to Harry and Hermione...

" Okay then Mr. Winters.." said the girl, almost as if , she herself didn't believe him. " Since the house has existing service, there's no need to send a truck. Everything should be up and in working order within the hour."

She gave them all one last look over, making a strange face when Hermione smiled at their errands they met back up with Ron and Luna at the bench. They had so many bags, it's amazing they managed to get all the way back without help.

" I hope the house is a bit less dusty" Said George, struggling with the two bags of potatoes he had. " Should be good, Although I have never witnessed Ginny cleaning without......................."

As He opened the door, he was dumbstruck. The entire house....was was as if the house was newly built. Not only was there no dust. There was no sign of age or decay.

Before any of the stunned could speak, Ginny blurted out " It was his idea!!" pointing to Draco.

" What the hell?" He cocked an eyebrow and dropped his jaw.

" Don't blame this on me chicky...You were blasting away mold before Angelina and me could agree to help. And you know what" He said, turning towards the group, " This girl has some bizarre obsession with blowing crap up. And not even when it's practical! I even caught her building dust people then blowing their bodies apart.."

Harry began to chuckle, Ron smiled ( as if proud), and George looked worried, He knew it was his fault, well him and Fred's fault, that Ginny was a boom girl. He missed his twin dearly, especially when he looked at his little sister. When Ginny smiled, she looked a lot like Fred.

" Alright...That's it. You wasted your one get out jail free card for using magic. No more. If we get caught, I'm blaming the three of you." George brushed past them, headed to find the kitchen, with his potatoes.

" Man, i think we really made him angry that time" Ginny said, looking to Ron, for some sibling sympathy.

"Hey! Don't look at me. I would have listened to him.." Hermione made at noise at Ron, rather like a giggle and a cough, " ...alright maybe I wouldn't have, but i would have at least tried to hide it, or pull some excuse outta my ass. Come on Luna."

Ron took his bags to the kitchen, Luna following in his wake, reading a magazine. " Man gets eaten by tiger...HA..where do they come up with this stuff?"

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The kitchen was rather large, or at least it had been until they started to fill it with all the food they bought. Luna and Ron had gotten basic essentials. Milk, water, bread,...eggs. They had stopped by a general store as well. There they purchased towels for everyone, light bulbs, trash bags, that sort of thing. When all was said and done, of the $450 from Draco, they had $100 left.

" This won't last long" George said, looking over all the information the Electric company had given him. " Between the lights, the gas and the water...we'll barely make it a month here.."

Luna began to peal an orange, stuffing pieces into her mouth. Every so often she would hand one over to Ron. Who, instead of just taking it, would lazily open his mouth and turn towards her, allowing her to drop the orange piece into his open mouth.

" I think we're going to have to all get jobs here...." George grabbed his paper, and stormed out of the room, returning moments later, the rest of the group on his tail.

While everyone started talking around the table, Hermione and Angelina began to cook some rice, beans and pork for dinner.

" So I know I said we are not allowed to use magic, but i have changed my mind, " Ginny pumped her arms in the air at her brother's statement," Ginny please...i mean at least one more time. We need paperwork here. Dad used to tell me he hated the thought of ever coming to America, everything is about what papers you have, and if they're right. If you do, you can do anything you want. We have $100 left from shopping. And 8 people means we're going to go through that food rather quick." For a moment they all looked at Ron and Luna, who were eating their second orange now.

" Maybe sooner than we think." George rolled his eyes " We need money. Now we can't create money, so we do the next best thing"

" We ride horses into a bank and steal all the money" Ginny said, chewing on a toothpick.

She was staring off into space, so she never saw the look everyone exchanged, then gave her.

" No, Gin..not quite. We are all going to get jobs. Further more, to get them, we need documents. Normally that wouldn't be a problem but since the electric company thinks my name is George Winters..that might be an issue, so..."

He quickly turned to Hermione, giving her the floor.

" We figured we would stick ourselves a little further below the radar." She said, pulling out a torn napkin with writing on it from her pocket, " It took us a while to come up with them.."

" I wanna be Viktor Krum!" Ron blurted out

" And that.., " Laughed Harry, pointing a finger at Ron, " Is EXACTLY why I told Hermione to pick the names"

Ron bowed his head in defeat, mumbling something about " Harry" and " dungbombs". Hermione leaned on the kitchen counter, her cheeks turning ever so slightly pink.

" If you don't like them, I'm sorry. I did the best i could. " She lifted the paper once again to her face, reading it properly out loud.

" George, obviously we know now that you will be George Winters, ( George nodded towards her) Angelina I hope you're okay with being Angelina Winters, if not..see George.." Hermione pointed to Angelina took it well, squeezing his hand with love.

" Further more," Hermione continued, " Ron and Ginny, you are both Winters' as well"

Ginny smiled, giving it to her brother. Ron however, did not take it so well.

" What?!? I don't want it! Why can't I be something else?"

" Because we're brothers.." George said.

He gave Ron a quick little smile, however Ron's face was one of serious business. He obviously wasn't getting the idea.

" Ya know Ron. Sometimes I wonder if you'd win in a fight against a chunk of wood."

Hermione cleared her throat, trying not to laugh, especially after George whispered to Angelina, " My money's on the wood"

Hermione checked herself again. " Let's see..Harry will be taking Modan for his last name. Luna, we gave you Donelly. um.." She seemed to be scanning her minute slip of paper, when really, only Draco and herself were left." I will be taking Gale, Hermione Gale....." She smiled a little bit, then her eyes shot open and she turned to George.

" Alright...Draco..hear me out before we start bickering like little old ladies here.." George rounded on Draco, who in turn looked rather surprised at him. " How many other people do you know named Draco? I got nothing...so..i mean...i will understand if you don't want to, but i....we ( he pointed out harry and hermione) thought it would be best if you changed your first name, at least in public.....that is..if.."

" No that's cool." Everyone was taken back by his sheer casualness pertaining to the subject. " Honestly, Draco was a family members name...it's just one more thing tieing me to my roots...to my father...., " Draco signed deeply, " I had a horse when i was little, he was black with a white patch on his left leg...I named him Jakobi, before I could even spell my own name....What was the last name you had picked out for me? "

" Jakobi?" said Ginny, " We're trying to get you hidden by changing your name and you want to go from Draco.....to Jakobi? You didn't have a dog named Brian or anything did you?"

With a nervous laugh, everyone turned to Draco, straightening up a little. Ron especially remembered laughing at Draco's name during first year, and Draco taking it very badly. With a twitch of his eyebrow, Draco turned to Hermione, she handed him the paper. Taking it in his hand, he scanned down it, looking for his own name...

" Ah here we go...Lets see..Brian Halliday...um...needs tweaking...Brian Holliday....I like that..it sounds pretty cool"

A little while later, they had spread out amongst the house. Angelina was lying down for a mid day nap. George and Ron were out walking the grounds, determining work to be done. Mostly George pointed, and Ron wrote. Harry and Ginny were drinking tea, taking a break from doing laundry. While Draco searched out He finally found her, she was nose deep in a book, sitting on the second story porch. Before he interrupted her, he watched. He watched the wind blow through her hair, he watched her nose crinkle when she thought, he even watched while she battled the fly who kept settling on her knee.

" DAMNIT! GO AWAY!" She barked, waving her leg about all crazy like. At that point, he couldn't help but laugh and break his silence.

"Hey Creepy,....anyone ever tell you it's creepy to watch people" She said with a strange expression, trying her hardest not to laugh hysterically.

He crossed over to her, glancing over towards the skyline. The sun was beginning to set behind the city, casting an orangey-pinkish glow to everything. For the first time ever, Draco's pale skin appeared to have color to a quick moment, even his pale grey eyes seemed to be alive with color. When he finally came to her, he sat across from her on the railing, rather than next to her. Normally she would have complained, but the sun cast such a glow around him, that he seemed heavenly, ethereal.

" 'swhatcha doing pretty lady?" He said to her, bringing her back out of her coma state.

'" Er....just reading some more. I'm not any closer to knowing what Lucius is up to. Everything depends on me and my brain." She laughed, but he could tell she was truly worried.

" Don't let it get to you 'Mione. We will deal with all of this in due time." His words were comforting, but still she feared what was to come. For many nights she has dreams, horrible terrifying dreams that would bring most to the brink of insanity. Thankfully, waking up with Draco's arms tightly around her, was enough to keep her sane. She smiled at him, nodding. She looked so beautiful today. Her skin enriched by the sun, the white dress she wore, even the daisy clip in her hair. She didn't even notice him leave his perch and take place in front of her. His shadow covered her, and she turned up to him with a smile. With a "come hither" look to die for, he reached out his hand towards her. She took it without hesitation. With a smirk he swung her arms around his neck, placing his hands on her curvy yet, boney hips; they swayed. He began to hum a melody, quiet at first then, a little more loudly. She leaned in closer, placing her head on his chest, listening to the reverberations from his humming. As they danced, dusk placed itself upon the sky like a vast blanket. At once, when the sun was fully down, somewhere downstairs, Luna flipped a light switch, causing the Christmas lights that were left, strewn to the porches from years before, turned on..

POP

Hermione opened her eyes

POP POP....................POP

The 20 something year old bulbs were individually breaking.

"Add those lights to the list" They heard George yell from below

" Screw you..and your list.." Ron replied

Suddenly there was the obvious sound of two people wrestling on the grass.

Hermione turned to Draco, with bulbs exploding, sending sparks everywhere, " I'm sorry about.." It was quite apparent to him that she was going to apologize for the way her friends were. But by now they were just as much friends to him as they were to her, and really..they were like one big annoying " family".

" honestly, I love them just the same" Darco said, kissing her forehead.

" I love you Hermione" he said, his eyes squinting in the bright sunset

" I love you too, Draco" She smiled. He smiled back at her,....." I think you mean Brian..."

" oh yes of course...Brian. Ooo! Does this mean I can pretend I'm with a different guy.." They both laughed whole heartily.

BANG BANG BANG

"Food!!!" Angelina's voice rang out through the door.

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A/N I will admit, sometimes when i reread my chapters, i find myself laughing completely out loud ...( Basically the entire naming scene lol)