Chapter 3
Hermione's Surprise
By Hermione Annie Potter
Early the next morning at Potter Manor, Hermione woke up to find Harry not in bed. She was wondering where he could have gone when she started to smell sausage, bacon and eggs coming up from the kitchen. Harry had woken up early to fix breakfast for us before we had to see my parents.
With that, Hermione rolled out of bed and walked over to her dresser where she got a change of clothes. She headed to the shower to freshen up after that and headed downstairs where she realized she was the last one up that morning.
She walked into the kitchen to find their four children sitting around the table. She sat down next to their youngest daughter, Hermione Ann Potter, Jr. (Everyone called her Ann though so as not to get her confused with her mother.) She looked like her father except she had her mother's brown eyes and she had her grandmother's bright flaming red hair. She and her brother James were 8 years old; they where twins. James was a very rowdy little boy; he looked just like his mother except for the ever-messy jet black hair that his father had. Next came Lily, who would turn 11 on Aug 1st. She was quite excited to be finally going to Hogwarts. She looked exactly like her mother from head to toe, but she had the loving and caring nature from her dad. Finally we have Sirius, he will be starting his 4th year at Hogwarts.
Suddenly, Hermione snapped back to reality because the phone had started to ring. So, she got up and answered it. It was her parents. They where called into the dental office to settle a few last matters of business and was wondering if they could meet them there at the office instead, of the house.
Hermione said, "That would be alright." So after saying their goodbyes, Hermione headed back to the table to finish her breakfast.
"So what did you parents want?" asked Harry.
"Oh, they asked us if we could meet them in their office since they got called down there for some final business before they retire."
"Sounds great," replied Harry. So, as soon as the kids were ready and the dishes were put away, they all took a portkey to her parents' dentist office. Only, they showed up in her parent private office. But when they got there, Harry wasn't with them. She didn't know where he had gone to.
Harry had apparated to the Granger residence where he met up with Ron, Luna, Neville and Ginny. They hard agreed to help Harry with the moving of Hermione's parents' stuff over to Potter Manor where they would be living with Harry and Hermione. So they all went in and started getting stuff packed and shrunken. They went over to Potter Manor where they unpacked everything into their respectful rooms. Harry said that he needed to meet up with Hermione before she got too worried and thanked them for the help. With a loud crack he was gone.
Just as he got back to Mr. and Mrs. Granger's Dentist Office, where Hermione and her parents where just about to leave the premises, Harry appeared from around the corner.
"Where have you been, Harry?" Hermione said harshly.
"I was just finishing up the touches on your surprise from your parents."
Mrs. Granger said, "Well, since we are finished here, why don't we head for home then?" And so they all headed out to Mr. and Mrs. Ganger's car and they all got in and started to drive off towards home. Well Hermione thought that they where headed to her parents house but she was in for a surprise. After they had past her parents' house she began to wonder where they were going. She knew that her parents wanted to move since they just retired. But she thought they where going to move some months from now so they could have some time to look for houses. But soon enough Hermione found out their destination: Potter Manor, where Harry and some of the gang helped move all of the Grangers' stuff over to the Northwest side of the manor. As they arrived there, Hermione asked Harry why they where there at their home.
He replied, "I am going to let your parents answer that one."
Just then her father spoke up and said, "As you know, we've wanted to move to a smaller house for a while, and we had found one not to far from here. We where going to buy that one when we decided to ask Harry about the area and such. That's when he suggested that we just move into the manor with you. He said, `There's lots of room and then that way you could be closer to your grandchildren and daughter and son in-law.' So we decided to do just that and while you where at the office he and some of your friends helped move all of our stuff over."
Hermione was so surprised that she didn't know what to say, and the tears started to come from her eyes for she was so happy to have her parents so close to her again.
"I am so happy that you decided to stay here with us. That will be really great for the kids, too."
Well I guess I better get dinner started since Ron, Luna, Ginny, and Neville are coming over for dinner tonight and then we're off to our vacation to France.
Once everyone had sat down to the dinner table, Harry started bringing the food out from the kitchen. He had fixed a small turkey and a small ham with baked potatoes and carrots. For dessert he served a blueberry cheesecake.
Once everyone was filled from the delicious food. Hermione thanked all of her friends for helping moving her parents stuff over to the manor. She also thanked her parents for the wonderful surprise. With that Neville, Ginny, Ron, and Luna and to go. They thanked Harry and Hermione for the wonderful food and also thanked Mr. and Mrs. Granger for the opportunity to help them and wished them both the best of luck on their retirement.
So after they left, Harry said, "I think that we all need to go to bed so that we can get up early in the morning so we catch our flight to France." Everyone agreed with them and so after saying goodnight to everyone. Harry showed Mr. and Mrs. Granger where they would be sleeping and with that Harry went to bed.
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