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A/N- well I'm modifying this story as well ... hope you like it!

Dedicated to - my favorite cricketer Sachin Tendulker . He is the greatest player of all times and to my reviewers.

CHAPTER I: TO ADULTHOOD

Ginny opened her eyes, something stirred around her in her room. Indeed, this something was Hermione leaving. Ginny waited, patiently and the followed, as quietly as she could. Hermione went out of the house into the broom shed. Ginny followed her till there, but stayed outside. She took one of the extendible ears out and used it to here the movement inside. Ron was speaking. So he was there as well, Ginny thought.

'…Asleep, I hope?' he was asking Hermione, when Ginny tried to eavesdrop her.

'Yes, she's asleep,' Hermione replied, 'Nobody followed me Ron so let's go.'

'You are right. Let's go.'

So they took out the brooms and came out, by then Ginny had managed to hide away herself. They mounted on their brooms and kicked off to fly away. Ginny saw them flying in the sky. She debated whether to go back or stay, and decided to wait in the shed.

It was late night, and nobody was out, in or around Privet Drive, except teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed outside number four, invisible to people around him thanks to his invisibility cloak. This boy was none other than Harry Potter. Next to him was a trunk and an empty cage (Hedwig was set free to go to the burrow), all under invisibility cloak too. He waited for his friends to arrive, constantly looking up, even though he knew that they were to arrive at Midnight: 12 O'clock, the very moment when he was to turn into an adult.

They are here, he thought, as he saw two brooms in the sky. In his excitement, he didn't wonder why they were early. But his excitement evaporated as he saw them. Indeed they were Ron or Hermione, they looked like them, but he had never seen them like this, in such kind of clothes. Ron was wearing tail coat and knee breaches and looked like a character of some historical play. If this was Ron, Hermione was no less in looking out of place- time: she wore a frilly dress and perhaps a corset, inside. Harry wondered what to say to them, but he had to say something. So he went out of his cloak, and greeted them. They greeted him back: forgetting to wish him a happy birthday.

Harry looked at his watch, 'you are early, by 15 minutes.'

'Early,' said Hermione looking blank, 'Are we early?'

'May be,' said Ron oddly, 'May be, we started early, not knowing how much time it takes, we didn't know the distance properly.'

Ron didn't know the distance! But he had been here, in his second year, to rescue him. Perhaps he had forgotten the distance, he thought looking skywards.

The sky was dark, but the moon was shining and there was ample of moonlight, which enabled him to see two shapes distinctly, in the flying sky.

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