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Privet Drive was at rest, quiet and dark, at half past one in the morning, when the shrill hoot of an owl rang out into the air. Now, most people on Privet Drive would have overlooked this if searching for anything out of the ordinary, but Harry Potter, of Number Four, who was sitting up awake in his room, was not like most people. Harry hurried over to the window eagerly, reaching out for the owl.

"Hedwig!" he exclaimed. "About time, you've been gone for days; I only sent you to-" Harry hesitated, for he'd been about to say Grimmauld Place, the home of Sirius before…before… "London," he finished lamely, trying to block out any bad memories. This is harder than Occlumency, thought Harry dully. Hedwig hooted and ruffled her feathers, irritated.

"Sorry, girl," said Harry apologetically. "You didn't take that long, I suppose. Do you at least have a letter for me?" Hedwig gave Harry an annoyed look and turned back to her food bowl, but not before Harry caught sight of the letter attached to her leg. "Aw, c'mon, Hedwig, I'm sorry, I was just being impatient. Please?"

The snowy owl reluctantly held out a leg. "Thanks, girl," said Harry. "Good job." With that, Harry hurriedly tore open the letter. He recognized Lupin's handwriting.

Harry-

Hello! How are you doing? Sorry it's taken so long to reply- Headquarters have been rather hectic lately. We're building onto it and it's coming along great. The old bedrooms have been turned into offices and the new floors are all bedrooms. They're loads more cheerful. We'll be coming to get you quite soon, but I can't tell you when that will be. Tonks wants to talk, take care, Harry!

-Lupin

Wotcher, Harry! How are things? Guess what, oh, do we have a surprise for you! It's great, and- ouch, Moody, nooo…

Harry- Hello! Fred here. And George. Anyway, we've joined the order and Dumbledore allowed us to finish our Newts. They were nastily exhausting. Yeah. Anyway, Tonks almost told you the surprise, she's hexing Mad-eye as we speak. Write, actually. Well, we just figured we'd say hello. We'll be seeing you soon, Mum's going crazy thinking of you with those Muggles. They will all be getting to Headquarters around the same time as you. Well, talk to you later; we've business to attend to. Bye! From, Fred and George Weasley, PS- You'll never guess what we saw the other day in Diagon Alley at our lunch break!!! Ickle Ronnikins and Hermione…SNOGGING!

Harry-

Hello! How's it going? This is Ginny! Fred and George and Bill helped me sneak out of the burrow to come here for a few hours and I spotted this piece of parchment in the kitchen, so, I read it and have more to add. To confirm the above letters, I know of two surprises (Both of which I'm not supposed to know!) And another thing I'm not supposed to know, Ron and Hermione have in fact been snogging, and on more than one occasion! My summer has been good so far, but Dean and I broke up (It was mutual) and- Oh bloody hell! I hear Mum downstairs; she must've flooed here. Ahh…she can't find me! Well, I'm going to go hide, bye! I will send this off with Hedwig now, see you soon!

~ Ginny

Harry laughed as he read the note. Wow, that was a lot of surprises in store! He couldn't wait to finally go back to all of his friends, even though it would undoubtedly be painful back at Grimmauld Place, without Sirius. Harry sighed sadly before thinking back to the letter. There were three people who'd caught his best friends snogging! Ha! That was funny, but Harry had definitely not seen it coming.

Harry was secretly happy about the last bit of news and couldn't help smiling. Dean and Ginny had broken up…but why did this make him so happy? Oh well.

Harry finally grew tired and fell into a fitful sleep, awaking the next morning not remembering his nightmare.