Chapter 3

The bathroom

The Living Room

Rose’s bedroom.

And there’s the car, it kinda reminds me of my dad’s Ford Anglia. I guess that’s why I bought it.

Guess who volunteered to run a test drive. Yup, hugo. He learned to drive faster than me, I found it hard memorizing all those buttons. Muggles really have it hard. They can’t ride on brooms, they can’t travel through a floonetwork and they can’t apparate. How sad is that. Wait I just realized something, technically I am a muggle now. Oh man...

Hugo grew more and more passionate towards art. He wanted to try to paint a portrait of a real person, so I volunteered.

He did a great job on it too. I mean no matter how you look at it, it’s a perfect replica of me.

Hugo, wished to own a guitar, I told him that I’d buy him one. But I think he knew, that we don’t have that much money. So he, opted to get a job at the record store. Hermione didn’t agree at first, she didn’t want his grades to suffer.

Hugo assured her that he can handle it. I backed him up. Hermione didn’t talk to me after that. Not until hugo came home with his grades, and showed her mother that he is still an A straight student. Though I think he did a lot of all nighters to achieve that. I’m a proud dad.

He also is getting popular at our neighborhood. I advised him, to not let fame get into his head. He agreed, he answered that he just wanted a lot of friends.

Anyway, the next day, Hermione and I, both got promoted. I am now part of the swat team, while Hermione got promoted to be a guest lecturer at the university. Thanks to that, we could now afford to go to a camping trip. Hermione had been wanting to learn more about this world. So this is a perfect oppurtunity for that. Hugo searched for a camping site, and found that they’ve got a lot of that in three lakes.

So for the weekend we went on a camping trip at axewood campground in Three Lakes. We chose that cause it’s free.

First thing we did, was go on a Logging expedition. It cost us about 400 simoleons.

That afternoon we bought new clothes. I told them to chose clothes that would make them feel comfortable here. I was the only one to embrace the local’s fashion.

I then tried axe throwing. It was a lot of fun, but it does stress out you arms.

Hugo tried fishing, it took him hours to catch one fish. Lucky he’s not like me, I don’t have that much patience.

The mother and daughter, on the other hand. Were happy just chatting as they watch the fish swim around the lake.

That night, we gathered round the campfire and I shared them all my adventures with hermioneand our bestfriend harry at hogwarts. They listened intently. Rose wished she could go to hogwarts, while hugo asked more about harry and voldemort. I did tell him more about harry, but I didn’t want to talk about voldemort. Not when Rose is listening, I didn’t want her to hear the horrors he’d done.

Hugo and Rose got tired, and headed to their tent. I saw them chatting though, I wonder what they were talking about.

Hermione and I, also headed to our tent, we didn’t sleep though, at least not right away.

I didn’t realise that someone was still up at that hour. But we couldn’t just stop, you know...

The next morning, we went on a Nature trail. It was scary though, we had a bear encounter, it didn’t hurt us, but it took all our food, so we came back pretty hungry.

We hurried to eat after that.

We toured the town for the rest of the day. We even bought some souvenirs.

For the evening, we roasted some marshmallows. Then we went straight to sleep.

The next day, we went on a bird watching. It was fun, the birds were beautiful.

Rose spent the rest of the day playing.

While hugo spent it with a girl he met. Too bad though, as it was our last day.

So, that night we headed home..What a fun experience. Muggle life sure is interesting.

Back home, life was back to normal. There’s work, school, homeworks, and lot’s of skilling to do.

Rose, like me, is also great at chess. She even have beaten me. Thank God, she inherited something from me.

Hugo, continued to go to work, soon he had enough money to buy a guitar.

Soon, hugo thought about going to college. So, he applied for a scholarship. He got three of ‘em, Bui Engineering Award, Quigley Visual Arts Grant and SimCity Scholar's Grant. We are so proud of him.

Before he went to college, we had another wizard talk, we told him about our circumstances here. He seemed to understand. But I think he’s as hopeless as we are of ever going back to earth. We reminded him to keep a journal too. It’s important, as someday maybe someone of our kind would step foot here. Then they’d be able to know our story.

The next day, Hugo left for college.

Hermione hugged me tight after he left. Which reminds me, I still need to console my wife. Till here.

- Ron