Harry Potter and the Centaurs Pendant
Chapter 1: Letters from Someone
Three weeks had past since that historical night at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. Harry was asleep in the upstairs room of number 12 Grimualed place, the moonlight shone through the window onto Harry's once scarred face. Since defeating voldemort, the lightning bolt shaped scar had gradually disappeared which for harry came as a surprise. He had lived with that scar for as far back as he could remember; it served as a reminder of his parent's unfortunate death. In the past 3 weeks of harrys topsy turvy life he had become allot more famous that he already was, for instance, the newly appointed minister for magic (Humphrey Phillips, an unusual name in the wizarding world) had sent him a parcel containing a letter and bearing gifts of appreciation (a solid gold sneakascope and a gallon of Felix felicious, the lucky potion) which harry had sent back with sincere regards. On the chipped mahogany table beside Harry's bed were also an untidy pile of letters from various witches and wizards across
the country. Around a third of them were open with more gifts hanging out of the parchment (harry, Ron and Hermione had no time to send these back) amongst these items was an emerald green cube with strange symbols on the sides to help you make decisions and an unusual silk red scarf which protected the wearer from simple charms. Next to the pile of letters was an old picture that portrayed around 12 witches and wizards, these were the original members of the order of the phoenix. They were all smiling and talking to each other although no sound came from there mouths. Harry often found himself looking at this picture, crying for the man and woman on the right hand side. The man had black untidy hair that resembled Harrys, the woman had the same green eyes as harry too. These people where James and lily potter and harry was and still is there only son.
As dawn broke the night a small tawny owl swooped down onto the corner of Harry's window ledge and began to tap ferociously on the window. After a few seconds harry woke up to the noise that the owl was making and climbed out of bed. He walked
to the window and let the owl in which flew up into the room and landed in the letters on the table, which sent them scattering across the room.
"Stupid owl" harry muttered walking across the room to a chest of drawers which he opened and took out a lilac pouch, he pulled 5 bronze Knuts from inside and put them in the pouch on the owl's leg. The owl then without hesitation flew back out into the morning sunlight.
Harry sat on the bed and unrolled the newspaper that the owl had been carrying. It had a similar title to the past 2 issues: ALL IS SAFE AND WELL! with a picture of harry on the front. A side paragraph read:
Hogwarts natural glory restored
At last Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry has been restored to its natural state, some changes have been made to the castle but all for the better. Headmistress professor McGonagall has made a statement (pages 5 & 6) explaining the changes and why.oly a select few have seen the castle now but we (continued pages 4 & 5)
After a few moments of rescanning the page harry turned to see what changes had been made to the school but at that moment the door flew open to reveal to figures standing in the doorway. One of the figures was tall with ginger hair and freckles, the other came up to his shoulders and had mousey brown bushy hair and an intellectual look about her.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY! They both cried together. Ron and Hermione both held an iced birthday cake in their arms that was scarlet and had a gold lion on the top.
"We both made it while you was asleep last night" said Hermione stifling a yawn.
"Took us 4 hours mate" smiled Ron
"Thanks guys" said harry with a laugh "you didn't have to.
"We put the icing from the woman in London on it" said Hermione
"I wanted to put the Felix potion in it but then I remembered that you sent it back" said Ron with a grimace
"We also invited Mr and Mrs Weasley round for dinner and Hagrid might pop round for a bite" Hermione smiled
"Hurry up and get dressed" said Ron as he walked towards the door "breakfast is nearly ready.
He and Hermione then set off down stairs leaving Harry with a smile on his face.