Chapter 3: Chapter 3

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Harry snapped back to himself, after and closed his mouth which had fell open due to the shock of seeing Hermione oblivating both his Aunt Petunia and Dudley. Before he could shake his surprise off him he felt a tug in his stomach and almost immediately he felt himself being apparated to an unknown place.

"Uuhh! I hate apparating." Harry mumbled quietly. He was on the ground, on his back, he stared at the sky looking at the bright sky, squinting slightly at the sun as the dizziness left him. He got up and dusted himself as he heard Hermione say to him in a small voice, almost as though she was afraid of setting him off, "Don't worry you'll get used to it." He looked up and saw Hermione taking his trunk and reducing it into a size of a matchstick and placing into her pocket. He looked at her was once again was entranced by her long, creamy legs that he swore were never ending like the everlasting candy from the Weasley's' Wizard Wheezes.

He quickly looked away before she could catch him ogling at her and forced himself to look someplace else before she caught him staring at her and which would inevitably scare her off. Dusting himself off, he took in his surroundings. He could instantly make out the vast differences between Privet Drive and well, wherever he was. It was... it was very open to say the least, free was the word that came to his mind as he gazed at the place that enveloped him. There were no houses packed in as tight as they could fit like on Privet Drive. He could see a small garden whose grass had gone yellow due to the heat and lack of water, hot-humid weather and the hot sun. He could even see the cracks in the ground due to the heat and lack of water. He also noticed that there was not a single soul on the road.

"You can set Hedwig free; she will be able to find us in the house." Hermione suggested to Harry. He nodded and opened up her cage letting Hedwig fly away, Hermione took the cage from him then and reduced it to the smaller size to match his truck and put it away with his trunk. She started walking and motioned him to do the same too.

"So, where exactly are we?" Harry asked as he looked at the barren place.

"This is Remus place- this is his estate." She said biting her lips and looking at him from the corner of her eyes.

Harry frowned, his brows furrowed in thought "Aren't we going to The Burrow? Or are the Weasley's are staying here too?" he asked turning towards her as they both continued to walk to the unknown destination.

Hermione looked away from harry, closed her eyes and sighed softly. She bit her lips "There was a change in plan." She answered avoiding answering his question. A comfortable yet awkward silence fell over both of them, and neither of them did nothing to break it. Both lost in their thoughts while continuing to walk towards their destination. Harry was deep in thoughts thinking why Hermione was acting so weird around him when he felt as though someone had dumped a bucket of cold water on him.

"What the hell was that?" Harry yelled, startling Hermione as he immediately took out his wand from his back pocket and he threw out his other hand in front of Hermione, ready for an attack.

"Harry, there is no need to curse or yell." Hermione said reprovingly as she looked in his confused eyes. "What happened?" she asked as Harry calmed down a little.

"I felt as though someone poured ice water on me." Harry replied to her.

"Oh! I forgot about that. Harry that was just an anti-charm to undo any magic, or traces put on you." Looking at Harry's enquiring gaze she added "it means that you can now do magic, well without getting letters from the ministry." Hermione said smirking ever so lightly with her eyes shining brilliantly.

"Seriously?" Harry asked surprised and little apprehensive looking at his wand in wonder. He'd been in trouble over this before and it wasn't worth going back on trial.

Quickly rearranging her facial expression from happy to somewhat serious she asked, "Is this serious enough for you?" Looking at her, Harry cracked a smile and exclaimed, "Cool!" Taking out his wand, he did a quick Reducto on a nearby rock, which ended up being turned into pieces and sand. "Awesome," he whispered to himself while Hermione was silently chuckling at his antics.

"Come on, it's not so far now. Actually, can you see that house?" Hermione asked Harry, pointing straight ahead. He could see a house, which was in the middle of nowhere, and then he suddenly realized that Hermione was waiting for an answer and answered her in an affirmative. He took her hand and started walking towards the house.

"Once we reach the house, I will tell you everything." she said quickly squeezing Harry's hand and then recasting the cooling charms upon them. Harry frowned at her but nodded silently.

It wasn't long before they reached the small but cosy looking house. It looked quite odd placed in the middle of nowhere. Hermione opened the door and went inside, "Come on in!" she was calling out to him from inside.

Harry followed her inside and felt an instant blast of cool air and thought out loud, "Heaven." He glanced at Hermione and she agreed, "Yeah."

Hermione pushed him towards the sofa and sat him down. The house looked homey. It had a medium sized fireplace. The sofa looked exactly like their favourite couch in the Gryffindor common room. There were paintings and pictures hung all over and same antiques and knickknacks, here and there.

"Okay, so what did you want to tell me, what is going on?" Harry asked Hermione as she sat down next to him.

Hermione lowered her eyes and then looked at him; she nodded her head and then got up and went to the other room. Harry looked at her as she went wondering whether he should follow her not. Before he could make up his mind Hermione returned looking worried but determined.

She sat down right next to him as before and turned to face him, taking a deep breath she said "Okay, there is some very good news and a bit of very bad news… which one do you want to hear first?" Hermione asked him.

"Start with the bad news, let's get it out of the way." Harry said gruffly trying to feel brave and listened to what she had to say.