Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with Harry Potter and related stuff! Thanks to J.K. Rowling for the inspiration though.

I had posted this as my first story but I realized that, yes, my chapters are extremaly short so I decided to repost this and have all the chapters longer. By the way, note the few changes I have made! Thank You to the reviewers who persuaded mte to repost! You rock! Well...on to the story!

It had to be the coldest summer in history on Privet Drive that year. Only a couple of Owls had come to Harry on his birthday, but he didn't mind for he knew everyone must be busy at Grimmuald Place. Of course, he was extremely jealous of Ron and Hermione since they are both there.

"I wonder what it's like there" he thought "I bet it's harder to shut up Sirius's mother now" He tried to at least produce the smallest laugh but it turned into a coughing spell and he went back to sulking like he had been for the whole summer.

As he went to lay back down on his mattress (he had kicked off all of his sheets and didn't put them back on the bed) he hit his head on his only homework. Potions. The assignment was to write three pages of parchment about The Uses and Advantages of the Polijuice Potion. Amazingly, it was the quickest piece of schoolwork he had ever done. Occasionally, he had to catch himself a couple of times from writing things down like; "And when you change back, make sure you have your glasses ready" and "The size of Hermione's tail when she accidentally used cat hair"

Snape couldn't harp on him as much any more either. He had received an Outstanding (to his surprise) on the Potions portion of his O.W.L.'s and he also did remarkably on his others regarding the circumstances.

At that moment he heard pecking and flapping at the window.

"Must be Hedwig" thought Harry as he got up to open the window.

Instead of Hedwig, there, hovering at the window, was a buff, brown barn owl with two letters tied to its leg.

Harry opened the window and the bird flew right in.

Harry walked over to the bed where the owl landed and pulled off the string. The two letters were from Dumbledore and Tonks.

He opened and read the one from Dumbledore first:

Harry,

Meet me at the park in your neighborhood, the one on Methuselah Road, TONIGHT! Come precisely at midnight. I need to speak to you face to face.

Albus Dumbledore

"At least that will get me out of the house." He said out loud while putting Dumbledore's letter back in the envelope and opening the next one.

Harry,

After lunch on August 30th, be ready to go to Diagon Alley and back to Grimmuald place. Dumbledore said you could say for the last few days and go to Kings Cross with us. Don't forget your stuff! An don't forget to tell your uncle.

See you then Harry!

Tonks

"August 30th, that's tomorrow!" He yelled, the first time his voice sounding happy all summer. he checked his watch "only 10 o' clock, I still have 2 hours before I have to go! And for 2 hours he packed.

At eleven thirty, Harry started down the stairs. He wanted to get there early instead of being late.

As he was headed out the door, past the kitchen, he saw a light coming form the fridge. At first he couldn't make out what was in there and then he noticed.

"Looking for a bit of a midnight snack are we?" Asked Harry, startling Dudley, making him drop the liter of soda he was drinking out of.

"Shut Up!" He said sliding his sleeve across his mouth where residue of a soda mustache once was as if it was a napkin. "I'm telling mummy you were snooping!"

"Oh, and what would you tell her you were doing, eh?" Harry snapped back. Then imitating a baby voice said " Mummy, while I was stuffing my face with junk food, Harry caught me."

"SHUT UP!"

" Here's a deal... I won't tell Aunt Petunia you were eating against your diet if you won't tell her I went out for a while. Truce?"

Dudley just stared before answering. "What's in it for me?"

"What?! You idiot, there's nothing in it for either of us! I'm leaving now!" And with that, Harry ran out the door and slammed it, not thinking about how loud the noise was, and ran all the way down to the park.

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