"It says here, that you can have either a toad, cat or or owl."
"What about a turtle?"
"Is a turtle either a toad, cat or owl?"
"No.."
"Then no, you can't get a turtle."
"I think I'll get an owl then. They can carry my letters as well."
"Very logical Harry."
Harry turned to face his family. Lily and James were sat on both sides of Harry beaming down at Him, His uncles were not too far off, eating toast at the table.
"Hagrid said he was coming with us? didn't he mum?" Harry asked, as he reached over to take a slice of toast from an oblivious Sirius' plate.
"Yes he did dear, he said he has a present for you"
"Wifked!" Harry mumbled, his mouth full of toast.
"I wish Dudley could come with Ron and I to Hogwarts though, I feel bad leaving him behind.." Harry said
"We'll make up for it by taking him to any wizarding thing we can take him too, as much as possible, anyway, he'll still be in Muggle school with Ginny and Damon.
"Yeah, but Damon's his brother it's not the same, then them two will be leaving as well and Dudley will be by himself, and it doesn't help with the fact that his dad will be teaching me instead of spending time with him"
"Dudley has Aunt Petunia and Uncle Severus will be with them at night and on weekends, don't worry, Dudley will make new friends" Sirius said, his mouth full of toast.
"Hey, I thought I had another piece of toast here.. did you take it Remus?" Sirius asked
"Why would I want your toast, I have my own, perfectly good toast right here" Remus replied
"Well-"
Lily sighed and rolled her eyes and Harry giggled
"Let them argue. Now, you understand, Harry, that we haven't shown you to the wizarding world much, for your own protection, so don't be scared or feel awkward if people stare at you. also, you know what information that you cannot, absolutely tell anyone, like dad's animagus forms and so on" Lily said. Harry nodded.
"Also, No one knows about Uncle Sev's family, you cannot tell anyone. As far as everyone else is concerned, he is an ex death eater and hates gryffindors and muggleborns.. Do not be shocked if he is mean or vindictive, it is a show that he has to put on. okay?"
"Yes dad."
"Now come on, it's almost nine, We said we'd meet the Weasleys at Gringotts by 9:10"
"Ron!" Harry yelled as he walked over to his friend.
"Harry! There you are! We thought you guys forgot or something, you're almost ten minutes late."
"Sorry, Uncle Moony and Padfoot were arguing over toast and we got attacked by that horrid Rita Skeeter lady at the Leaky Cauldron. She actually flirted with padfoot to try and get a picture of me!" Harry exclaimed disgustedly
"Ew.." Ron groaned and the two walked up to where James, Sirius and Remus were standing, along with Percy, Fred and George.
"Where's your dad, Ron?" Harry asked
"He's working again. They keep on sending him on stupid jobs around the country all the time.."
"Hello Hagrid!" Harry interrupted as he spotted the wild mane of the very tall, Rubeus Hagrid.
"Why, almost din't see you there 'arry" Hagrid said as he lumbered over to the group
"Whoa!" Ron exclaimed
"eh, another Weasley, you must be Ron" Hagrid said, extending his arm, which Ron shook gingerly.
" 'ello James, Sirius, Remus" Hagrid greeted. The men began to talk
"Bloody hell! Is that the Hogwarts gamekeeper!?" Ron asked
"Yeah! That's Hagrid! He's one of my parent's old friends." Harry said
"Well, It's almost 9:30, I have to head off to work. I'll see you all tonight." Remus said he bid farewell and left
"always knew 'e'd end up well, one of the head healers at Mungo's eh?" Hagrid said
"He was the good boy, always knew he didn't want to be an auror" Sirius said.
After what seemed like hours later, Lily and Molly emerged from Gringotts
"Oh, Hello Hagrid! thought you were meeting us at Fortescue's?" Lily said, as she greeted him
"Ah, I had to make a pitstop to pick up somethin for good ol' Dumbledore, from their vault you know, seven hun- ah" Hagrid looked at the kids, who were all listening intently. "And I ran into this lot as I was comin out" Hagrid finished
"Oh, well, we're just going to go get their books and such, you're welcome to come along if you want- oh" Lily exclaimed as a silvery lynx wafted to James and Sirius.
"We need you to report to head office for an urgent mission" The lynx said and disappeared.
"Oh," James looked at Harry pitifully,
"Go, dad. I don't mind, it's probably really important" Harry said
"Are you su-"
"Yes dad. we can celebrate tonight!"
"Yes, I'll bring home something for you, Bye" He said as he kissed Lily and Harry
"Sorry, prongslet" Sirius said before the two apparated away.
"Well, this complicates things a bit.."
"If you want, I'll take 'arry and Ron with me for wands and robes and you can go get yer books and everything" Hagrid said
"Oh, yes please, if it isn't too much trouble, Hagrid." Lily said
"Ah it's nothing, I'll meet you all at the apothecary" Hagrid said
"Thankyou so much, Hagrid" Molly said as she passed Ron a money bag "You can only spend this on Robes and a wand, Ronald" She warned
"Don' worry about it Molly" Hagrid said and the three set off, towards Madam Malkin's Robes For All Occasions.
And the First Year, begins! Hello readers and welcome to the second Installation of the If Only series! Please feel free to leave a review or favourite and/or follow! See you next chapter!