The World We Live In

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter

The summer holidays were nearly over, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter were both staying with their best friend Ron Weasley at The Burrow. Hermione was sat on her single bed in her joint room with Ginny reading a book called 'cleaning with magic' researching what spell would be best to help clean Fred and George's room. During the holidays Fred and George had been bored so they created a batch of new fireworks but one night at around 11:58pm they had ALL gone off leaving an awful black ash 'WWW' mark on their wall. The walls shook at the screams of Mrs Weasleys voice knocking the tiles off the roof.

Ginny poked her head around the door, not expecting to see Hermione there she let out a little yelp, Hermione suddenly looked up and her hand threw to her mouth to stop her sequel, the two girls looked at each other and started to giggle.

''Coming up to help?" asked Ginny casually. Too casually.

"Who's the boy Ginny?" Hermione asked with a wink.

"Oh... ummm nobody" with that Ginny when as red as her hair and burst into an embarrassed grin.

"Hey Hermione" butted in Dean Thomas "Apparently Mr nobody is her boyfriend" Deans mouth turned into a huge D knowing he had embarrassed Ginny.

"Oh hey Dean, here to help?" asked Hermione who was now also smiling at the sight on Ginny.

"Oh yeah... here to help..."Deans eyes darted over to Ginny and Ginny elbowed him hard in the ribs.

"Yeah, we're here to help" she said with a small fake smile.

"Well come on lets go, or your mum will be chasing after us." said Hermione happily.

"Hang on." said Ginny and Dean in unison, Hermione smiled but Dean and Ginny's faces seemed to have dropped.

"Ummm... ok I'll see you there..." with that Hermione slipped out the room.

"I CANT BELIEVE YOU DID THAT YOU'RE SO STUPID, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT NOW, HERMIONE WILL THINK SOMETHINGS GOING ON AND WE WERE SUPPOST TO BE A SECRET DEAN,I KNOW I BROUGHT YOU HERE BUT IF YOU'D JUST WAITED OUTSIDE THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED, UURRRGGGGHH!" Ginny's shouting could be heard from the stairs; although they were muffled you could still make out A LOT of swearing after. Hermione couldn't help but to feel bad for Ginny.

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"Hermione!" Mrs Weasley cried as Hermione climbed up to Fred and George's room, "Plenty of work to be done."

"I can see, I didn't think that it was this bad!" said Hermione as she skimmed the room. She saw Fred and George on their knees splashing the water at Ron and Harry who were standing on two step ladders getting most of the first W off the top of the wall.

"We need another hand in the top corner near the lamp shade; it appears that the ash has spread over night." Mrs Weasley said ushering Hermione to the corner "oh yes and where's Ginny she only stopped to answer the door, better not be those cauldron sales, I'm so fed of them, I'll go and see to them!"

"No wait, it was Dean!" Hermione tried to loudly whisper

"DEAN!?" shouted Ron, Harry, Fred and George.

"Yes?" answered Dean entering the room, "Where'd you want my help Mrs W?

"Yeah" sniffed Ginny as she walked in her face red, stained with tears.

"Urgh yes over with Hermione Ginny, umm Dean with Fred and George please, you can keep them in order" Mrs Weasley appointed the jobs and was then interrupted by an owls screech. "Oooh! Post is here!" with that Mrs Weasley scurried down the stairs down to the kitchen.

"AHHH!" Mrs Weasley screamed from down-stairs. Everybody stopped. Nobody moved. Nobody made a sound. What had happened to Mrs Weasley?