"Chris!" Ginny squealed in delight as soon as she saw Chris.
She threw her arms around her neck and hugged her tight. Chris laughed and hugged her back.
Then Hermione came grinning and hugged her as well.
They both looked a little taller and grown-up. Chris's body had grown-up too. She was taller than Ginny now, almost as same height as Hermione.
"How are you?" Hermione asked.
"Fine, and you two?" Chris said walking around the room.
"Not very good." Ginny said.
"Why?"
"The entire house is too dirty to live." Hermione sighed. "We're here for almost four weeks, still it's not cleaned."
"Really?" Chris said looking at the near by table, which was really old and dirty. "Is the cleaning spells that difficult?"
"Spells? Chris we're not allowed to use magic outside the school." Hermione reminded.
"Right." Chris said and snapped her fingers, next second the table was looking absolutely cleaned.
"How...?"
"Wandless magic. Ministry isn't capable of tracking this unless they see you doing magic." Chris explained, snapping her fingers two more time, leaving the room like new.
"Why haven't I thought about that?" Hermione said looking around.
"So which bed is mine?" Chris looked at the three beds. The beds were set in a zigzag way. Chris saw on the first bed, where Ginny and Hermione were sitting few minutes ago, had big 'N' designed on it. The next one had a big 'A' and the last one had a big 'B'.
"I took this one." Ginny pointed the 'N' designed bed, then at the 'A' designed one. "Hermione took that one. You can take the last one."
"Alright." Chris said, setting the Firebolt beside her new bed. "Where are the others?"
"Ron's in the next room." Ginny replied sitting back on her bed. "Fred, George, and Bill are living upstairs."
"Remus, Sirius and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley are living on the fourth floor." Hermione said sitting beside Ginny.
"This house is quite big, isn't it?" Chris said joining them.
"Very big and well protected that's why Dumbledore chose this place as the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix." Hermione said.
"Oh right. Order of the Phoenix. What's that?" Chris finally decided to ask her questions.
"It's a secret society," said Hermione quickly. "Dumbledore's in charge, he founded it. It's the people who fought against You-Know-Who last time and some new people too."
"Bill told us there are also few people, who's families worked with Dumbledore against the Dark Wizard Grindelwald in the past." Ginny said.
"Grindelwald? You mean the powerful wizard, whom Dumbledore defeated years ago?" Chris said.
"Yes. He's famous for that." Hermione said.
"Hmm... anything else you know about?"
"Oh yes." Ginny smiled a mischievous smile. "Fred and George have invented Extendable Ears, see."
"Yeah. They're really useful." Hermione grinned as well. "We heard few things and got a general idea... We know some of the Order are following known Death Eaters and the people who are associated to them, keeping tabs on them, you know as anyone can be Malgino's follower..."
".... some of them are working on recruiting more people to the Order..." said Ginny.
"... and some of them are standing guard over something," said Hermione. "They're always talking about guard duty."
"Few are keeping watch on Harry." Ron said coming inside there room. "I was bored, don't mind if I join, will you?"
"Hey Ron. How are you?" Chris said.
"Er..." Ron looked very surprised by Chris's reaction. She wasn't very friendly to him before. "I'm... good... how are you?"
"Good." Chris replied. "You're looking more tall now."
Ron went red.
"So Harry doesn't know people are watching him all the time?" Chris said.
"No. He don't." Ginny replied. "I don't know why, Dumbledore told you but not him about this."
"He's really angry." Hermione said. "He's continuously asking us what's going on here."
"Getting really anxious." Ron said sinking on a armchair. "Sent me three letters last week."
"Harry even sent me two letters asking if I know something." Ginny said. "Thought I'll say everything at once."
Chris sighed.
"He's acting like a kid, isn't he?" She said.
There were few moments of silence, everyone was thinking about Harry Potter. Then Ron changed the topic.
"Oh! I forgot to tell you two, Mom said we're cleaning the room next to kitchen, tomorrow." He said.
"Well that'll be easy now." Ginny grinned looking at Chris.
Chris rolled her eyes.
Ron looked back and forth between the girls, confused.
"We've been decontaminating this house, it's been empty for ages and stuff's been breeding in here." Hermione said to Chris. "We've managed to clean out the kitchen, few of the bedroo — AARGH!"
With two loud cracks, Fred and George, Ginny's elder twin brothers, had materialized out of thin air in the middle of the room.