Second Chance at Saving Them {Harry Potter}

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Whoa, thirty chapters of story now. Also, I am working on the crackfic, it's just hard to write a lot at one time because it's so far out of my comfort zone. Mostly how OOC the characters are. BUT. I am enjoying writing it and I can't wait to share it! Now, es ist Zeit fur die Frage. (It is time for the question. I think.) I took two years of German, but I've forgotten all of it already. If you want to know more about me, I'm doing a Q&A on my rant book, all questions will be answered late on Tuesday. ANYWAY.

"What House was Tonks in?"

HUFFLEPUFF, of course!

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The rest of the summer passed in a blur of Quidditch, lunch at the Weasley's, and pranks. On the last day of summer, the twins had finally gotten revenge on Ron for his comment on their relationship statuses. They had slipped him a potion that made all the chickens out back attracted to him. Not even Hermione knew how they did it, but as soon as Ron went out to feed the chickens, they mobbed him. 

They knocked him over before he could close the gate, and the proceeded to chase him around the yard until everyone else managed to wrangle them back into the pen. That didn't stop a few from trying to fly over the fence. One or two managed to climb onto the others and escape. It took two hours for the potion to wear off, and everyone had had so much fun watching Ron run from a flock of chickens that no one bothered yelling at the twins. 

When Ginny asked why chickens, they explained, "Well, Ron thought he was so funny, poking fun at our current single status."

"So we figured if he's such a chick magnet..." This was as far as they got before Ginny started laughing too much to listen.

Ron was pretty sour about the whole thing, especially considering he'd had to take two hours out of his last day of summer, but even he had to admit that it was pretty funny. He wanted to get back at them and thought up plans as they sat at the table outside, but Hermione warned against it.

"They would know it's you if you did anything, so they would just retaliate again, and eventually Harry and I would get sucked in and then the entire school would suffer from the pranks between us. Besides, there's no chance of you ever actually winning a prank war with those two. Let sleeping dogs lie for now."

"And this is why I love you. You keep me from doing stupid things that would only end up poorly." Ron said, slinging an arm around her shoulders.

"Is that the only reason? Because we could go back to being friends and I could do the same thing." Hermione teased.

"Of course not, you're beautiful, smart, and funny. Besides, when did I ever listen to you when we were just friends?"

"You still don't half the time."

"That's why you're the smart one." Ron pointed out, and Hermione lightly punched his shoulder. Soon after, it was time for lunch. Harry was going to join them, but Sirius had surprised him with a trip to Godric's Hollow. It wasn't the happiest trip, and it was nothing he hadn't seen before, but Ginny knew hearing Sirius talk about all the memories he had there would hold a lot more meaning.

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No one saw Harry until they were boarding the train the next day. Harry, Sirius, and Remus had spent the night at Godric's Hollow and left right from there. The other grew anxious the longer they went without seeing Harry, but they climbed on the train anyway to find their compartment. Luna was already there with a copy of The Quibbler in hand. The train had just started moving when Harry finally came in, out of breath.

"Oh, there you are. You've just barely made it." Luna said, glancing up.

"Yeah, I almost didn't. Remus spent half an hour trying to wake up Sirius. We all stayed up late telling stories so he slept like a rock." Harry explained.