Walking on Wire

A/N Sort of a sequel to Roy Way.

Harry was walking into King's Cross Station thinking about what his 7^th year at Hogwarts would be like. He had just spotted Ron when he felt a thud on his back.

"Hi Harry!!" Harry turned his head around and saw Sam Roy's little sister.

"Hi Alex," he mumbled.

Sam had become one of Ron and Harry's best friends after Hermione changed to a more advanced school. Neither Harry nor Ron had gotten a letter from her so they gave up and found new friends.

"Sammy is looking for you Harry. She said she saw Hermione in the Leaky Cauldron. I don't believe her because all I saw was a girl with bushy brown hair and she looked really smart too."

"You've never even met her, how would you know?" from Alex's description Sam had seen Hermione.

"Because I'm smart!!!!! I'm smarter than you and everyone you'll ever meet!"

"Okay what's two plus two?"

"Five!"

"Ah, right, you're smarter than anyone I know."

Alex went hopping around the train station screaming *I'm smarter than you! * To everyone she saw.

"What'd you do know?" Ron came up to Harry carrying Pigwedgon who was screeching his head off.

"I just told her she was smarter than anyone I knew."

"Well it doesn't look too good for her anymore," Ron pointed at Sam and Alex.

"What are you doing?" Sam screamed at her before Alex told the police officer she was smarter than him.

"Harry told me I was smarter than anyone he knew!"

"Well Harry doesn't know everyone!"

"But he knows you. So why should I believe you if I'm smarter?"

"Because you're an air head and don't really know anything! Harry is just trying to be nice."

"Well at least I've got air in my head!! You have nothing!" Alex reached over and punched Sam, but Sam punched her even harder.

"Harry!!!!!!!!!! She punched me!" Alex ran over to Harry crying.

"You're not bleeding. I don't think you'll die." Harry bent down and picked her up.

Alex kept on crying until she realized Ron. She jumped down onto Ron's trunk.

"I'm smarter than you!"

Sam walked up to Harry and gave him one of her looks.

"I hate you," she mumbled.

"Hi to you too."

"You told her she was smart! Now she thinks she's smarter than me!"

"So?"

"So? She is! The only thing I have against her is my fist! And right now it's going to be used on you!"

Ron and Harry both laughed.

"Anyways, I thought I saw Hermione in the Leaky Cauldron, but I'm not sure if it was her. It might've been. I just wanted to let you know, but I've got to go. I can't find Cho. Have you seen her around?"

"Nope." Harry shook his head. He saw Ron start to open his mouth but quickly shut it. Harry had gotten over his crush on Cho last year."

"Okay, tell me if you do, bye!" Sam started to go off until Ron called her back.

"She's right over there talking to Alex!"

Sam turned around. "Right, probably trying to figure out why Alex is going around shouting she's Miss Know-It-All"

"Well, come on Harry let's go so we don't have to sit by Neville or Seamus."

"Alright let's go. And would you shut that owl up!" Pigwedgon was throwing a fit the whole time.

"Sorry, I've gotten so used to it I don't notice it anymore." Ron dropped the cage then kicked it.

"Ouch," Harry said for the owl.

"It doesn't hurt him, he's already demented enough. Why did Sirius have to send you the worst owl?" Harry laughed at Ron as he kicked Pig all the way to the platform.

"I have no idea."

Harry and Ron found good seats and sat there talking about their summers.

Finally the train blew its whistle that they were leaving in two minutes. Harry looked out the window to see if anyone was still out there. A little boy was struggling to get his case up the stairs. Harry thought about going out there to help him until he saw another figure.

"Need some help?" Sam asked the kid.

"Yes please."

She hauled the trunk, which looked like it weighed two tons, with one hand and no struggle at all. The little boy stared at her with his mouth wide open.

"Well aren't you going to get on the train?" the boy kept staring at her.

"Do need someone to help you too?" he shook his head and got in.

Sam started to walk away but the boy stopped her.

"May I please have your autograph?" he asked very politely.

"No!" Sam walked onto the train and pulled open Harry and Ron's compartment.

She sat down next to Harry.

"I don't think you sit here?" Ron said questionably.

"I know, I just don't want that kid to come looking for me. So how was your guys summer?"

"Great!" Ron said with a huge grin.

"Horrible," Harry replied.

"Your summer was horrible! You think it helps my summer get better having 80 sisters?"

"Yes." Ron answered for Harry.

"How?"

"First of all you only have eight sisters."

"Only?"

"And you don't have to do so many chores and you have lots of company."

"Okay, but I have eight sisters who each count as 10 sisters, more chores to do because there are more people, and the worst company on Earth! So who had the worst summer now?"

"Harry."

"One day Ron, I swear I'm going to make you spend a whole summer at my house with my sisters!" with those last words Sam went back to her compartment.

"You know Harry, she's right. I used to think I had the biggest family. But I've only got nine people she has to suffer eleven. Can you even name all her sisters?"

"Meg, Katie, Beth, Joanne, Alex, Lucy, Kinsley, and Mary."

"That's a lot of sisters. At least I only have one sister, and don't have to suffer all boys."

Harry and Ron talked about what classes they were taking and some other stuff. In the middle of the trip Sam pulled open the door to the compartment and dropped a huge pile of candy before them.

"Want some? I stole some money from Alex's piggy-bank."

"So she's probably at home screaming her head off and forgetting how smart she is?" Harry took a chocolate frog.

"Yeah, but at least she'll know it all went to a good cause."

"You know you're going to get a howler." Ron said with his mouth full of jellybeans.

"You don't know the trick to those? You just rip them up while they're in the middle of talking."

"Really? Well I think you might be the only one in the school who can do that. Not everyone is as strong as you."

"So? You just have to know when to grab it. In the middle of the 3^rd and 4^th sentence, unless it's a short message then you have to suffer listening to it. Hey, Harry, have you talked to Cho yet? You know she hasn't found anyone to replace the teammates Ravenclaw yet, she wanted to know if you'd seen anybody who looked good enough."

"No."

"You haven't talked to her, or you haven't seen a good enough player?'

"Both."

'Right. Okay, got to go. Hope you like the candy."

"Aren't you taking some back?" Ron asked, even though he wanted to eat more.

"Nope, I've got some more. You don't know how much money Alex has. You know we're almost there. I heard they have a new Divination teacher if you still take the class."

"No more Professor Trewlaney?"

"Nope. The other teacher is teaching something for 7^th years only too. But someone told me she's even worse. Professor Brown I think is her name."

"Great, I can't handle another one of her!"

"You might want to put all that candy away Ron. I see a horrible future for your teeth." Sam laughed as she walked away unfortunately into the kid she'd helped that morning. She quickly came back in.

"I think I'll stay here for a while."

"Hey Sam, have you heard from Fred? He's been gone all summer and never wrote us one letter."

"Fred? No. I mean yes, but I'm not supposed to tell you anything except for that he says hi. Okay, I think that kid's gone now." Sam left really quickly before Ron could get the information out of her.

"Great, he tells her everything but not me."

"He said hi."

"Hi! How nice! Hi to you to Fred! Next time we go to Hogesmeade I'm buying a howler and sending it to him!"

The train stopped and everyone piled off the train. Harry was not looking forward to his last year at Hogwarts.