Disclaimer: Their mine!!!!!!! I would be saying that if I were JKR. Unfortunately I'm not... *Author walks away crying*
Chapter 9: The Weasley Bunch
He was lost. He was squirming around in a dark damp place and he didn't understand what he was looking for. He made a lot of turns and dips; what made matters even worse, he couldn't stop if he wanted to. Harry tried to get any sign that told him where he was. It was dark, cold, and wet. He didn't recognize anything! At the most it looked like a cave. Better yet, it looks like a large sewer.
Before he could really begin to argue with himself he stopped. He took a look around and saw a huge head that looked like it was built into the wall. It had snakes as the hair and it looked straight ahead. It was about 50 feet tall and Harry wanted to get a better look at it. He tried to lift his head but instead he seemed to rise 40 feet at eyelevel. Harry lowered himself trying to think of what animal he could be. Out the shadows of the…dark watery place, a figure appeared. As the figure got closer, Harry was able to see it was a man. A young man. With Slytherin robes. He stomped over to Harry and stood face to face with him.
"WHAT do you think your doing? You are supposed to be in your room for the night! Go! And if you disobey me again I'll kill you quicker than you can sputter an apology. IS THAT UNDERSTOOD!!!???"
Harry awoke in a start. His scar was stinging; it wasn't as painful as when he met Voldemort and Quirrell, but it still hurt. He could see the sun trying to peek it way through the curtains so he didn't mind waking up a little earlier. Ron snoring was killing him though.
Harry had been at the Weasley's for about 6 hours. He and Hermione arrived the other night. The last two weeks at the Grangers' were great! Harry got the great news from Tim and Rachael the next day. Of course he was excited but he didn't want to get too overboard. He knew there was extra responsibility that came with being an adult. He got his inheritance from his parents. In total Harry received close to 500,000,000 million galleons. He quickly found out that goblin taxes and ministry taxes were the first things he had to take care of.
He also discovered that his parents stored their old Hogwarts trunks in a separate vault for when Harry became of age. Harry found plenty of his father's old pranks and pictures. Most of the pictures were of guys being goofy and waving at him. There were four names on most pictures, Prongs, Moony, Snuffles, and Wormtail. In fact he only knew the people's faces by their nicknames, and of course his father. He was the first one Harry noticed. They looked just alike in all the ways a boy can look like his father.
He checked his mother's trunk and found her letters to her family throughout the years. He also found more pictures, mostly of life outside of Hogwarts; even a few of 'baby Harry' as Hermione put it. Pay back was horrible. She found a picture of baby Harry in his crib chewing on his big toe, while James stood proud with the rest of the Maurders.
Other than being thoroughly embarrassed by the huge foot in mouth Harry over the fireplace of the Granger household, nothing really happened. Before the last week of the summer was over Mrs. Weasley invited them both over. She said her little boy really wanted to meet Harry's other friend. Harry wrote a letter saying he wasn't going to visit. But Hermione told him to get over the protectiveness and visit his friend, besides she wanted to see a real wizarding household. They arrived the night before while the Weasley children were asleep. Hermione was instructed to go to Ginny's room while Harry was sent to Ron's room. They snuck in and put away their things hoping to let the commotion start in the morning rather than the middle of the night.
Harry looked at Ron laying there with his mouth open, head back in the pillows, and his back arched. How can any one sleep like that!? After realizing the sun was shining a little brighter, Harry decided to wake Hermione so she splash water on her face and kill the beast that resides there when she wakes up. He also didn't think Ron's little sister would like having a strange girl in the bed across from her.
He slowly crept out of bed and into the room he saw Hermione go into the other night. He opened the door to find Hermione's bed made and all her belongings put away.
He walked downstairs and ran into the Weasley's kitchen. Hermione was sitting at the kitchen table while Mrs. Weasley cooked a breakfast that looked more expensive than the house.
Hermione looked up and smiled smugly, "About time you're up"
Harry smiled at her knowing that not giving her a good morning hug would be the hardest part about hiding their relationship. It was going to be hard covering everything up, but they knew they could pull it off. As long as they set aside a 'study time' for each other they were happy.
"Harry dear, are you happy to be back? I know Ron is going to be excited to see you. Oh what did you both eat? You look like sticks. Here fill up! I made everyone, one egg a piece."
Harry and Hermione looked at their mountain of eggs and gulped. "Um. I don't know if this would be considered one egg. Maybe we can just have a small scoop?" Hermione looked as if she didn't want to hurt Mrs. Weasley's feelings by saying that, but Harry agreed that it looked like enough to feed their whole family. He warned her that Mrs. Weasley could get too motherly. Hermione said she would try to understand, but she won't tolerate too much.
"It's okay dears. I forget that everyone doesn't eat like the Weasley family" Hermione smiled. Mrs. Weasley really is a nice, caring, and understanding woman. She should get along well with Hermione. "But you and Harry are awfully thin. Why don't you get 4 scoops instead?" Uh oh.
"Four scoo.."
"HERMIONE…how was your night? How did you get up so early?" Harry gave her a look saying, just get the four scoops. She pouted and gave in.
"I'm on my fall schedule. I'm usually up by 5:30 am; sometimes I wake up late a 6 am."
Breakfast was pretty boring until Molly yelled four words that call the starving herd to the Shepard, "The food is ready!"
It sounded like hundreds of cattle were bounding down the stairs. Here goes nothing.
Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny all stepped in, sat at their chairs and immediately dug in. Harry and Hermione gave each other another questioning glace. Didn't they notice us?
Mr. Weasley came in last, kissed his wife, sat for breakfast and spoke "Harry! And you must be Hermione. Nice to meet you"
The Weasley children all looked up except for Percy. Ron still had his mouth full of food and shouted "HARRY!" Most of his food ended up on Hermione. She mad a look between sheer disgust and loathing. Harry was trying to see this as a serious situation but he wanted to laugh. Nice one Ron. What a great first impression.
Ron stared at Hermione for a minute and blushed. "Erm. I'm Ron and this is my brother Percy" Percy looked up for a second and gave a quaint nod. "These are my other brothers Fred and George…They are twins"
"Nice going genius"
"I'm pretty sure she"
"Could tell we are"
"Twins."
"Ron is a bit shy around girls"
"He tends to say stupid things"
"Not his normal stupid things,"
"But his reserved stupidity kicks in"
"Yeah the one for girls"
"Look at him. He doesn't even know we're talking about his intelligence"
"He's not the brightest in the family"
After a few seconds Ron yelled, "HEY. I'm not stupid. I knew they were talking about me. I just didn't know in a way"
Everyone gave him the look (AN: You know the look. It's confusion with a mix a touch of "I think you're special")
Realizing how dumb that was Ron looked at Ginny and said "And she is Ginny. I'm going to go to my room now and die of embarrassment"
"Don't forget to write your will" yelled Fred
"I want his room" Ginny added
****This is Break or whatever****
After a weird breakfast Harry left Hermione to get to know Ginny, he had to check on Ron. On the way up Harry heard Percy yelling at the twins to give him his man purse.
"Why look George. Our bother has a purse!"
"Mum wears a purse!"
Percy too the bag and turned his nose up. "It's a man bag. Not a purse" Then he stomped out the room.
He walked into the other room to see Ron sitting on his bed reading a Quidditch magazine.
"Hey Ron I didn't know you read on free time"
"Ha bloody ha ha Harry. You going to make fun of me too?"
"Look Ron it was just a joke and I'm sure they didn't mean it"
"Harry I completely embarrassed myself! I choked up! I bet if I calm down I can start over with her."
Her!? This was all about being embarrassed in front of Hermione!? I thought it was because of both of us. "Ron we don't care about it we know it was a joke" Harry was sure to emphasize the 'we' in his sentences.
"What do you mean we? She must think I'm a fool. I think I like her. She really looks nice, a little thin but still nice. I want to impress her. She probably likes bad boys. Fred said the nice ones always like the bad ones" Then he put his hand on his chin and looked deep in thought.
"RON, you have to stop this. She is NOT your type. You are both too different!" Because she is my type and she is mine.
"Yeah. I do think she's my type. Thanks Harry. I just wasn't moving fast enough" Ron left the room leaving a confused Harry behind. What? He must not have heard a word I just said.
He chased after Ron to get him to listen to his advice. But it was too late; Ron was plopped down on the couch next to Hermione. She looked as if she was trying to ignore him while she had a conversation with Ginny. Ron turned around and winked at Harry. What are you doing Ron?
He placed his arm around Hermione's shoulder and said "You know, I think you'd look great as my girlfriend. What do you say?" Before she could reply he gave her a kiss on the cheek. Ginny looked at the girl she had only know for a few minutes and knew to cautiously go to her room. Harry didn't know whether to hit Ron or ask him who taught him pick up lines.
"Don't ever TOUCH me again! You have really got the brain of an animal. You waltz in here and think you can get a girl by being arrogant!? You are not the alpha male you think you are. You better get yourself together before you step up to me again because the next time I see you I want an apology. You small minded, ignorant little PRAT" Hermione had Ron balled up in the corner of the couch praying to Merlin that she didn't hit him. She put her hands down to her sides and composed herself. "Now Harry, I'm going to finish this last book of summer reading." And with that she stomped up the stairs.
Ron looked absolutely petrified. He turned to Harry and said, "That one is completely mental. I don't want to be with someone that has 'one last book of summer reading'. She'll never get a boyfriend that way, will she mate?"
"Erm…right. Never get a boyfriend that way…" She got me when during her summer schedule.
A/N: Sorry it took so long to update. Finals week and I have been very busy
Thanks for all the reviews
Monisa