The first thing a certain green eyed, raven black haired boy noticed when he came to his senses was the sun was shining through his open window, not really being ready for this sudden brightness, closed his eyes quickly and brought his hand to rub away the sleep from his eyes. After he was sure that the light wasn't going to blind him again, opened his eyes. He sat up and the next thing he noticed was that a white snowy owl was sitting in her cage, back from wherever she went. Though he thought the owl was just out for a fly and to catch a nice dinner, was very mistaken as he looked around the room, his eyes soon landed on a letter sitting on his desk, stretching and rubbing his eyes once more, got out of bed and walked over to his desk. He picked up the letter noticing the familiar handwriting and tour it open.
Dear Harry
Hey, im just writing to see how you are, I haven't heard form you since school has finished, which to me means that you are not dealing with everything that happened last year, you must know that it wasn't your fault. I wish you would at least let me know that you are alive, please Harry. I miss you. I hope the Dursleys are treating you all right, not giving you a hard time are they.
Love
Hermione
Tears came to Harry's eyes as he finished reading the letter, and flashback from last year came back to him, Hermione getting hit by a curse, the purple flame hitting her in the chest. Sirius falling through the veil, after that it felt like his whole world had crumbled before his eyes. He dropped the letter back onto the desk and walked over to his trunk, he put his hand in and felt something smooth touch his fingers, taking a grip of the object he pulled it out only to notice the two way mirror that Sirius had given to him before he died. Looking down into the mirror Harry hoped that he would see Sirius smiling up at him, but all he saw was a pale, unhealthy little boy staring at him through grieved eyes. Not wanting to see himself like that Harry through the mirror back into his trunk and grabbed a piece of parchment and his quill and went back to his desk. He sat there for a few minutes to calm down and think about what he was going to reply. After a few minutes of trying to fight back the tears, only to have one fall onto the parchment, he began to write.
Dear Hermione
Hi, im fine, sorry I haven't written to you I've been a bit preoccupied, how can it not be my fault, if it wasn't for me, then Sirius wouldn't be dead and you wouldn't have been hit by a curse. So it is my fault if only I had listen to you and not gone running to the ministry then everything would be alright, no one I know and love would have been hurt or killed, I don't know what to do any more Hermione. I miss you too. And the muggles are treating me fine; they pretty much ignore me so it's great actually. As a matter of fact they just called me for lunch so ill speak to you soon.
Love Harry
Harry set his quill down sealed the letter gave it to Hedwig, she stuck out her leg and Harry tied it to her.
'Take this to Hermione for me please' he said. Turned to the door and walked down the stairs. As he was coming down the stairs he could hear the TV in the living room, his cousin Dudley must be watching it while eating his lunch, Harry walks into the kitchen and uncle Vernon was sitting at the table eating his lunch, and his aunt petunia was washing the dishes in the sink. As soon as Harry walked in his uncle turned to him and said,
'Lunch is on the table take it to your room and don't come out till we call you.' With that he turned back to his own lunch and he completely ignored him, his aunt was doing the same. This didn't bother Harry one bit; he grabbed his plate and left the kitchen as quick as he could. He made it to his room closed the door and sat down on his bed. He looked down to his plate and all that was there was two slices of bread with some cheese. Harry grabbed the two slices of bread and put the plate of cheese onto his desk, after finishing the bread, he walked to his trunk again grabbed a book and sat on his bed, he thought to himself if only Hermione could see me now and for the first time in a while Harry smile to himself. I didn't take Harry long before eyes dropped and he was asleep.
There he was facing Bellatrix Lestrange with Sirius standing just in front of him wand pointing right at her chest. Harry turned to look at his friends to see how they were doing, when he turned back to Sirius, him and Bellatrix were sending spells at one another, until a spell from Bellatrix hit Sirius in the chest and sent him falling backwards into the veil. The fear and surprise on his face as he slowly disappeared out of site.
The scream that came from Harry's mouth should have woken the whole neighbourhood, but no movement came form the house. Harry sat up soaking from sweat, breathing heavily; it took him a couple of minutes to calm down enough to come to his senses. It was know pitch black outside, with the stars and moon shining brightly through the window; the book he was reading was now on the floor. Knowing that he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep Harry got out of bed and headed towards the bathroom to take a shower. After taking a 10 minutes shower just to make sure that he had calmed down completely, changed and walked back into his room. With nothing else to do but read Harry sat on his window sill. He thought about all the stuff that went wrong last year. What was I thinking I should of known it was a trick, why didn't I listen to Hermione, maybe if I did then none of It would have happened and Sirius would still be alive, and none of my friends would have bin hurt, and all because I didn't listen and just went running off. Tears came to Harry's eyes as he thought of all this, and they didn't seem to want to stop, but Harry didn't care he just let them all fall. After the last tear fell and none others would come Harry got off the window sill and crawled back into bed, although he wasn't tired, he wrapped the quilt around him and picked the book back up to read, and once again without realising it his eyes closed shut, for another restless sleep, and for the next couple of days Harry went through the same routine.
After two days of doing the exact same thing and not hearing form either Ron or Hermione, Harry was a bit on edge with nothing to do then sit in his room just thinking about how awful the past year had been. At the moment found Harry sitting on his bedroom windowsill staring at the setting sun, when he saw a small something coming towards him. As the object got closer he noticed that it was his owl Hedwig. As she landed on the sill next to Harry and stuck out her leg, Harry took the letter form it. Once Harry took the letter from her, he flew to his cage and ate some treats. Harry flipped the letter over and immediately recognised the handwriting. A small smile came to his face.
Ripping the letter open he began to read the letter.
Dear Harry
Hey Harry, how are you feeling, I know that it took awhile to reply to your letter, and you are probably bored and on edge with nothing to do (how does she do that always knowing how I feel without even seeing me) but I had to wait till I could send you my letter. Guess what I have great news, although it depends how you see it and I hope you will think that it's great news, look at me im rambling in a letter, what is wrong with me. (the smile on Harry's face grew once he read that) well to get to the point the reason it took so long to reply was that I send an owl to Dumbledore, I borrowed Hedwig hope that's ok, asking him if It would be alright if you could maybe come and stay with me and my mum and dad, it took him a while but he finally agreed that you had been there long enough that the charms will still work, so if you want to you can come and stay at my house for the rest of the summer, you don't have to it was just an idea, but I hope you will I really miss you and I don't know what else I can do I don't want to hear that you are unhappy staying there on your own. So if you want to come and hope you will just send us a reply. Please come Harry I really want to see you.
Hope to see you soon
Love Hermione.
Harry sat there in shock for like five minutes, then reread the letter just to make sure what he read the first time was actually right, seeing that he was right, became a bit nervous of actually being able to leave the house and spend the rest of the summer at Hermione's with her parents. Then he became extremely happy as he won't have to spend it with his unfriendly relatives who don't give a damn about him and spend it with someone who cared for him and he cared for her. Coming to a rapid conclusion Harry got off the window sill and grabbed a fresh patch of parchment and quill.
Dear Hermione
I'm ok thanks, but I still can't believe how you know how I really feel. You can borrow Hedwig whenever you want so don't worry about that. You know Hermione you still surprise me to this day, you are the best friend anyone can ask for; I can't believe how much trouble you went through just to make sure that I am truly ok. I thought about it for like a minute and it the best news I have heard all year, I would love to come and stay at yours the rest of the summer. I really can't believe you did that. I really miss you to.
I will hopefully see you very soon.
Love Harry
With that Harry put the letter in the envelope and called Hedwig over.
'Hey girl I know you just got back but I really need you to get this to Hermione as quickly as you can please.' Hedwig gave an appreciative hoot a nibble on the fingers and flew out the window. Harry watched until he could know longer see her. Now a lot happier then he was earlier Harry turned to his bed and collapsed onto it, he grabbed his book from the desk and began reading. And for the first time all summer Harry fell into dreamless sleep.