So here's chapter 3. Enjoy.

Chapter 3: Unfair decisions

Harry & Gunny, Ron and Hermione

Harry woke early the next morning and decided he would get dressed before he woke Ron. When Ron didn't wake up after one nudge Harry decided it was his fault for being a heavy sleeper and left him.

Breakfast was sitting on the table and Harry ate some quickly before going upstairs to check his trunk and bring it down. Ron was till asleep and Harry considered waking him but knew it would be funny if he didn't.

By the time he got back downstairs all of the plates, except the one for Ron, had been cleared and Ginny was standing at the door. "Hermione is getting her trunk and everyone else is outside," Ginny said. "Where's Ron?"

"Asleep," Harry laughed. Ginny also knew that leaving him would be funny so she headed outside.

Hermione ran out the door hovering her trunk above her head complaining about being late. She took charge and piled everyone into the car. The whole family was coming. Some to get out of work and some just for an excuse for something to do. Once the last person was in the car Hermione noticed that someone was missing.

Giving Harry a dirty look, she ran into the house mumbling about how stupid Harry was and how lazy Ron was. "Ronald!" she yelled when she got into the room. She kicked him repeatedly and threw his trunk out of the window, charming it to stop before it hit the ground and hover until someone put it in the car.

Ron opened his eyes and looked around groggily. "Why must you be so lazy? We need to get the train and you are in here asleep! It's partially Harry's fault for not waking you but everyone else managed to get up without him telling them to. You're going to make us late and McGonagall won't be able to trust us! You are so useless!"

Ron smiled when she left him to come down but he didn't know that Hermione was being serious. He thought she was just joking.

Everyone tutted when Ron got into the car. "Ron, you are the worst of my sons," Mrs Weasley complained, sighing. Harry just sat there smirking that he had gotten Ron into trouble with Mrs Weasley and Hermione.

At King's Cross it was only Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny that got out the car.

"Behave," Mr Weasley said.

"Remember to write," Mrs Weasley said.

"Pay attention in class," Percy said.

"Call me if you hear anything about dragons," Bill said.

"Blow up the school," George said.

"Have fun," Fleur said.

Harry laughed at what he had been told to do and how each one was so different depending on the person. The family was very mixed up.

The car drove away buzzing with conversation and Harry led his little troop into the station.

They stood in front of the pillar between platforms nine and ten and slipped through when no one was looking.

Instead of the usual red steam train, they were greeted by an empty platform.

"What's going on?" Ron asked. "I bet it's not even the right day and you just woke me up early."

"We did not," Hermione snapped. "And you need to wake up on your own."

"I'm sorry," Ron pleaded trying to kiss her. She let him but she seemed to be doing it because she had to and not because she wanted to.

"How are we going to get to school?" Ginny asked.

Harry shook his head and shrugged. "Beats me."

Just then Hermione ran over to a cracked vase lying on the platform. "Why's that there?" Ron asked as the other three followed Hermione over to it. There was a note on it.

"It's from McGonagall. It's a port key. It'll activate at exactly 11 O' clock," Hermione said.

"Well we have to grab on it will leave in a minute," Ginny exclaimed.

Ten seconds would have been a better judgement but no one said anything. They just grabbed the port key and were whirled to Hogwarts.

Professor McGonagall's office came into focus around them and they slammed into the ground as the port key disintegrated in their grip.

McGonagall sighed. "Ginny you are in seventh year and you three are meant to be away from the school and the four of you still don't know how to land a port key.

"Sorry, Miss," all four of them mumbled miserably. They all wished that they could land a port key but no one had ever told them how. Hermione made a mental note to check the library when McGonagall let them go.

"You will all know that Hogwarts has a head boy and girl from seventh year each year. This year there is two seventh year classes," Professor McGonagall began. "That means that there will be two head boys and two head girls. One of each will be from the returning seventh years and the others will be from the year that is meant to be seventh year."

"But, Miss. Why are you telling us this?" Ron asked.

"You four are more than just students of the school. You were very involved in the war. As was requested by Harry, the wizarding world has been told that you left Ginny here to help you from the centre of the war so this year you will all be special. You will not get special treatment from teachers except now," McGonagall explained.

Harry didn't want the whole world to know that he had left Ginny without any information. It killed him that he had had to do it and he didn't want people questioning him about it and reminding him.

"Because of this, I would like your help in choosing the head boys and girls. You can choose whoever you want. Everyone that was asked to return because of last year has returned except the Slytherins. None of them wanted to come. And of course all of Ginny's year is here. I will leave you to decide what you want. It is totally up to you. Harry is quiditch captain as well but that doesn't have to make a difference." With that McGonagall left the room.

Harry couldn't believe it. With all the trouble he had caused during his six years at Hogwarts, he had been invited back for another year and he had been asked to help choose the head boys and girls.

Ron was wondering exactly what he had done to be considered famous. Okay he had helped in the war but he had just been helping his best friend. It didn't matter to him that Harry was the most famous wizard. He was Ron's best friend and always would be. Even if he got him into a lot of trouble. Ron would stick by him through the good and the bad and that time happened to be one of the good times.

Hermione was busy trying to consider the best candidates from both years. She was ever practical and wasn't thinking about how strange it was for pupils to be picking the head boys and girls. All she wanted to do was choose.

Ginny wasn't thinking about what McGonagall had said. She had seen Harry's face when McGonagall had mentioned the year before. He hated someone saying anything about it and it killed him to remember. Ginny started to remember the year. It nearly brought tears to her eyes to think about Harry being with his friends but not with her.

"So who do you think?" Harry asked. "I'm quiditch captain so I think that it should be Ron and Hermione for my year. The other head girl should be Ginny and I don't know who the other head boy should be."

"No offence mate but your idea sucks," Ron said.

"Why?" Ginny asked. "It seems fair.

"Well, yes, it's fair but I am no way accepting that sort of responsibility. McGonagall said it didn't matter that Harry is quiditch captain."

"But if it's you then that's all of us," Hermione said. The loving look for Ron had come back into her eyes. She had forgiven him.

"I'm not taking it. Harry is head boy and there's nothing any of you can say that will change my mind," Ron insisted.

The room was quiet for a while, while they all considered what Ron had proposed.

"No." Harry broke the silence. "I'm not being head boy and quiditch captain."

Ron started to complain but Harry silenced him. "If you don't want the responsibility then that's fine. I'll be head boy. But you have to be quiditch captain."

Ron didn't think he was good enough to be quiditch captain but he knew that there was nothing he could do to change Harry's mind and he could tell that Ginny and Hermione loved the idea too.

"So if Ron is quiditch captain, Harry is head boy and Hermione and me are head girls then who will be the second head boy?" Ginny asked.

"That'll be up to you. The only people we really knew in your year were you, Luna and Colin. Luna is a girl and Colin is-"

Everyone silently remembered Colin Creevey and wished they could let his brother be head boy but he was too young.

Eventually Ginny had an idea. "What about Logan McKibbin? He's in Ravenclaw. He was in my charms class and Luna knows him. He would be good. He's nice."

No one could think of anyone else so they accepted Ginny's decision of Logan.

"But all the head boys and girls will be sharing a dorm in one of the towers. What about Ron?" Hermione asked.

"We'll ask McGonagall," Harry replied.

McGonagall knew when the decisions were made. She went up to her office to find the four children sitting at her desk deciding who would go and find her. Harry was just about to stand up when she swept in front of them and sat on her chair.

"What have you decided?" She asked.

Harry answered. "Hermione and I will be the heads for our year and Ginny and Logan McKibbin will be the heads for their year."

"Logan McKibbin is a nice boy. That is a good choice," McGonagall said. She was about to mention Ron being left out when Harry spoke again.

"Miss, we were going to make Ron head boy but he didn't want the responsibility so I gave him my position as quiditch captain. I know he will do well. He won't want to disappoint me. We were also wondering if it would be possible for Ron to share the head's common room and dorms with us?"

"That would be quite alright. And you had better be a good captain, Ron."

"I will," Ron mumbled. He didn't think he would be a good captain. He decided that he would be the official captain but, since Harry would definitely be making the team, he could lead.

The quartet headed to the west tower to find their trunks which had just been sent to their new dorms. When they got to the portrait they were told to pick a password. They chose 'new beginnings' and went in. They were greeted by a common room very similar to the Gryffindor one. There was a fire in the wall and cream sofas in front of it. They went upstairs to find five individual rooms with their own bathrooms. McGonagall must have done some quick magic.

Once the four had chosen their rooms and unpacked, they went down to the common room and played a muggle game that Harry and Hermione loved called Monopoly.

They went down to the great hall to get some dinner when Ron started to complain that he was hungry and couldn't concentrate.

When they came back up, Ginny opened a cupboard to find a muggle television. Hermione hooked it up and found a pile of DVDs. The four settled down to watch Happy Feet when Ginny insisted that the penguin on the front was so cute and they had to watch it because of that.

When the film was finished they went to bed to get ready for the year ahead.

So that was chapter 3. I hope you liked it. Please review. P.S 'McKibbin' came from my co writer. She writes as much of this as I do.