Chapter 37

Couple days passed. All petrification victims were released from the Hospital wing and the mood in the castle increased. Some people were still unhappy as for some reason unknown, the Slytherin House received two hundred points in one night and was now the leader in terms of points. Now the snakes' house got ahead of everybody else, which pissed people off, especially the Gryffindors.

Harry Potter sat on grass, looking at the lake with his friends. He was very happy that the year was about to end, as he was eager to go home and spend time with his family and friends. He was also quite happy that Ginny would live with them too, as he liked the girl and thought that she could easily look like his sister as she had red hair like his mother albeit a different shade and her eyes' color was very similar to his fathers.

"Harry, what are you thinking about?" asked Hermione as she looked at her friend. Harry noticed that Hermione now spent even more hours in the library, trying to catch up for all the time she spent in the hospital wing; Harry remembered when the girl surprised her friends when she actually decided to take at least the theoretical portion of second year curriculum exams.

"I was thinking about everything that happened this year as well as what this new summer is going to bring. During the previous summer I became Lord Potter and now it seems that my family can return to Potter Manor as the wards can be reopened by Lord Potter. Also I had been thinking about the classes I will take next year"

"I see. I think all of them are interesting; I especially want to take Muggle Studies to know the Wizards' world perspective on how Muggles live. And I also decided to take all of the classes" the boys looked at Hermione in shock while the girls giggled as they thought that their friend would over stress herself by taking so many classes.

Harry saw his mother passing by and after she heard the conversation, she joined in. "Hermione, you don't want to overstress yourself in your third year by taking so many electives. Your course load will be harder as your classes will be more advanced and five extra classes will be not worth it. I especially discourage anyone from taking the Divination class, as I don't think you can learn the subject, you either have or do not have the seer ability." Hermione looked at her Professor and Harry knew that his friend would listen to his mother, as Lily Evans Potter was her role model and the girl respected the woman a lot.

"I think of taking Care of Magical Creatures and Muggle Studies" Harry told the group. Hermione eyed her friend thinking on how she should respond. The other people in the group all decided to take the Magical Creatures Class although Luna decided to take Divination as her second elective whereas her other friends were mostly split between the Ancient Runes and Muggle Studies.

"Ok, I will take Care and Muggle studies but I am going to take Runes too" the girl told to her friends. The older witch smiled at Hermione's thrust for knowledge and want to get as much of it as she could.

"Then it is settled. I will tell Professor Dumbledore the classes you chose as your electives. This will be know later but I wanted to tell you all that your Care of Magical Creatures Professor will be Rubeus Hagrid." The children were now very surprised but happy as they all liked him although at times the tall man seemed intimidating.

"He also mentioned that if you know any creatures that you wish for him to bring to class, then you should talk to him although I warn you that he likes really deadly animals and I think it would be dangerous for him to bring to class an adult dragon or a basilisk or any other creature of category XXXXX." Lily then hugged her son and left to see Professor Dumbledore, leaving the Hogwarts students sitting on the ground, looking at each other.

"Imagine what would happen if Hagrid were to bring Rowena to one of his classes" not everyone got the joke at first but then they all started laughing, even Hermione. The girl could imagine that the sight of Salazar Slytherin's pet would make the entire student body wet their pants at the very least. And if the snake were to decide to be friendly and in dog like manner lick a student and wig its tail…

As the group looked at the sky, they noticed a black owl flying towards them. As it approached the group, it dropped an envelope on Hermione's lap. The girl saw that it was addressed on her name and opened it. She read, " Hermione Granger, you were listed as a beneficiary of Severus Snape in his will; he left everything he owned, including his house at Spinner's end on your name. The key to his vault is also included in this envelope." The girl looked at the envelope and found a small key that had a small snake engraved on its surface.

As the group sat on the train, leaving for summer, Hermione fondly remembered how she received all Outstandings on her theoretical world; the girl was quite happy with herself for getting those results. As the train approached the 9¾ station, the group looked on the platform and saw their parents standing on it. Harry and Hermione exited the train in later than others, as they were still talking about what the future year would bring.

"Hermione, I have to tell you something," told Harry to his friend. "When I saw you petrified, I felt that something was missing from my life. I later realized that I had feelings for one bossy Muggleborn friend of mine."

The girl looked skeptically at her friend with a confused look. "Harry, you don't mean that. I mean, I am just a plain Hermione, friend of Harry Potter" before she could continue, Harry pulled her into a hug and kissed her.

"Hermione Granger, will you be my girlfriend?" Harry Potter asked his friend.

"Yes!" she told him and they kissed again; however their happiness was interrupted by a sound of camera making a photo. The two quickly went to their families to avoid the press.

"Hermione, I talked to your parents and we decided to spend the summer at Potter Manor. " Harry took a portkey the Goblins gave him and activated him. Everyone touched the small shoe and soon appeared on the ground of the Potter estate.

"Hello Master, how can we help?" three small figures looked at the group and Lily's scream was then heard for like a mile away. "There are House Elves here?" she shouted angrily.