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The New Family

Ashley Marie Anton had her head pressed to the cool glass of the car window, and watched as the houses of private drive whizzed passed. Why her parents had all of a sudden decided to pick up and leave their nice comfortable house in America, and move to England was beyond her, and she wasn't very happy about it either. She fingered the silver locket her friends had given her for a going away present, and opened it to look at the smiling faces of her three best friends. She missed them so much already.

Ashley was jerked out of her thoughts by her fathers voice saying, "We're here, number 5 Private Drive, home sweet home!"

"Great" said Ashley under her breath, "I hate it already."

"What was that honey?" her mother asked.

"Oh nothing, I just love the house already" she replied smiling to her mother, who smiled back and said, "Wonderful! That's the spirit!"

Ashley tried not to gag at her mother's enthusiasm as she climbed out of the car. She opened the trunk and pulled out one of the boxes and carried it inside, so she could start to unpack her things in her new room.

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"Vernon look, the new neighbors have arrived in number 5, and it looks to me like they have a daughter around Duddy's age, she's cute too." Petunia Dursley said to her husband while peering between the blinds.

"Wonderful Petunia, but how about what kind of car are they driving, and do they look rich?" Vernon asked his wife.

"I don't know what kind of car they drive, but I did hear from Mrs. Crowshaw that the new family is from America, and that the husband was a successful businessman there, but then he just quit his job and up and moved his family here." Petunia said all this very conspiratorially, as if she were letting Vernon in on a big secret.

"Interesting" Vernon, replied, "We must go over and introduce ourselves to them, and invite them to dinner, before anyone else in the neighborhood gets a chance. We'll go over…" But before Vernon could finish his sentence the sight of Harry Potter coming down the stairs stopped him.

"Boy what do you think you are doing?" Vernon spat at Harry.

"I thought I was coming downstairs to get some breakfast, what the heck does it look like I'm doing?" Harry said back. In just a few more weeks he'd be seventeen, and then he could leave this place. He had a calendar in which he marked off how many more days' he had until his birthday, and as of today there were 3 more weeks left.

"I do not except cheek from you boy" Vernon was turning purple in the face now, and Harry watched in amusement, wondering how much darker Vernon's face could get before his head popped off.

Vernon continued storming, "As punishment you will not get anything to eat until you finish weeding the garden in the back, and make sure you are not seen by the new neighbors, Now get out!"

Harry backed away from Vernon, and walked towards the back door, he wasn't hungry anyway; he had just finished eating some chocolate frogs before he came down. Harry figured the sooner he got the weeding done the sooner he could go back to reading his books, and learning how to stay alive against Voldemort when the time finally came to fight in the final battle, Harry was hoping he'd come out on top.

Ashley had finally unpacked her last box, and was enjoying the view from her window. She was looking into her next-door neighbors backyard, and was watching a boy, who looked to be about her age, and was fairly cute in her opinion, weed the backyard. She was beginning to wish that the window wasn't there anymore, so she could see the boy better without the glare, when the window shattered.

"Oh not! Not now!" She thought, things like this always happened at the wrong time. "Fix window, please fix!" She thought desperately, and suddenly, the windows shards flew back up and replaced themselves magically back in the window, and sealed together to look good as new.

"Phew, that was a close one!" Ashley thought, "I'm glad that I don't have to tell mom and dad that I broke a window again." Just then their doorbell rang, "I wonder who that could be," Ashley thought as she walked downstairs to find out who was at the door.

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Vernon rang the doorbell of number 5, and stepped back to be with Petunia and Dudley, who was holding a very large cake, and was wearing a bored expression on his face, wishing he were "playing" with Piers. The door opened suddenly revealing a man and woman. The man was wearing khaki shorts and a black t-shirt, with flip flops on, he had short blonde hair, and looked to be around 6 ft. tall, he seemed to be in his late 30's or early 40's, all in all he was a handsome guy. The woman on the other hand was wearing cream capris with a pink t-shirt, and cute pink sandals to go with the outfit. She had strawberry blonde hair that was medium length, but was pulled up in a ponytail.

"Hi we're the Dursley's!" Vernon said after he had taken in their appearance.

"I'm Vernon Dursley, this is my wife Petunia, and our son Dudley. We live right next door to you in number 4."

"Wonderful!" The man replied back, "I'm Nathan Anton, and this is my wife Judy, and …oh, here she is" Nathan said as Ashley stepped from around the door in front of her parents, "this is our daughter Ashley."

Authors Note: Ok, so tell me what you think of the story, press that little submit review button and write. I've almost got the second chapter written, so if you want the second chapter I need at least 3 reviews. Ok, thanks a ton. --Sierra