Chapter One; Car Trip

Snape lit the twenty candles on Harry's birthday cake. He and the rest of his family and friends were visiting him and the rest of his band along with The Dragons for his birthday in New York. "Alright everyone, it's time to get ready to sing." He began with a grin. "Aaron lead us off." He told him as the other man smiled.

"C'mon then, hit it boys." He said.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Harry, happy birthday to you. And many more,. Ooh,..." they harmonized together while everyone else sang in the background before everyone started to cheer and applaud.

"Alright Harry, make a wish and blow out the candles." Ginny told him as Harry leaned in towards the table and blew out all twenty candles.

"So what did you wish for Harry?" Heather asked him but he just simply grinned at her and shook his head.

"Can't tell you that. Otherwise it won't come true." He told her while the cake magically started slicing itself.

"So, the big two o." Snape began. "Congratulations son, we made it through your teenage years." He told him.

"We?" Harry questioned with a grin.

"Hey, I wouldn't celebrate just yet. You still have four other children that you have to worry about." Ron pointed out.

"So, did you ever get my owl about Bill, Fleur, and Johnny?" Hermione wondered.

"Yeah. It sounds like Johnny is going to have a new baby sister." Harry said.

"Hate to say I told you so." Ginny told him proudly.

"Most everyone thought that it was going to be a girl." Neville said.

"Well I think that it's really exciting." Luna said.

"Yeah, but they won't tell us what they're going to name her until Christmas. And that's five months from now!" Eve exclaimed.

"Less than five actually." Ron told her.

"Please don't remind me." Harry said.

"Why not? I thought you loved Christmas." Ron said.

"I do. Not only do we get to celebrate the greatest gift of all, but we get to spend time with family and friends. It's just that when we get back it'll be almost Halloween and I won't have too much time to relax before I have to start my Christmas shopping." Harry explained.

"Well you should worry about that later. Right now you should enjoy you birthday and twenty years of being alive." His father told him.

"Twenty wonderful years." Ginny said dreamily while breathing a dreamy sigh as Ron rolled his eyes at her.

"Can we please just have our cake now?" he inquired.

"Sure. But Harry gets the biggest cake since he's the birthday boy." Snape told him.

"Man is more like it." Ginny said.

"Whatever, you know what I mean." Snape told her as Harry's slice of chocolate cake landed in front of him and he grabbed ahold of his fork and started to eat.

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"Thanks for taking us to the mall Harry." Eve told him while he drove down the highway.

"Yeah, it's been ages since I've been shopping." Ginny said while she turned her head and looked back at her from the passenger's seat.

"Actually, that's not why I'm looking forward to going." She said.

"Well, what else do you want to do then?" Harry questioned her while he quickly hit the brakes and slowed down so another car could pass him before moving his foot back onto the accelerator.

"Eve wants to go get her ears pierced." Hermione explained.

"Really? Does Dad know?" Harry wondered while getting a tighter grip on the steering wheel.

"Not exactly." She told him.

"What!?" Harry exclaimed with complete and utter astonishment and disbelief.

"Oh c'mon Harry, I'm thirteen years old now. I'm not a little kid anymore, I'm a teenaged witch. I'm sure that he wouldn't have a problem with it." She told him.

"Well yeah but you still should have asked him about it before I agreed to take you. After all, if he does, he's going to take it out on me for allowing you to go through with it." He told her.

"Not to mention the fact that having your ears pierced isn't only a big responsibility, but it's also a huge pain in the butt which is the reason that I never got mine done." Ginny said.

"What's that?" Eve asked her.

"Because first of all it's pretty expensive, and second of all you have to constantly clean your ear lobes and change your earrings every few weeks or so." Ginny told her while Harry put his foot back onto the brake and started slowing down as they came up to a red light.

"Listen Ginny, I own a horse. A pregnant horse at that. If I can handle taking care of her, I'm sure I can manage taking care of my ears." Eve told her as Luna heaved a heavy sad sigh and turned her head to look out the window.

"What's wrong Luna?" Hermione asked her.

"Oh it's nothing. I'm just worried about Katie that's all. She's getting pretty old and the vet told me that he thought that she was developing cancer. Brittany agreed to watch her while we were gone, I just hope that she's doing alright that's all and it's too bad that there isn't any magic that can cure her." She explained as the light turned green again and Harry stepped down on the gas pedal and accelerated again before hitting the turn signal and turning to the right.

"Poor dog. She is getting pretty old." Ginny said as Harry quickly grabbed the steering wheel with one hand and dug out his box of cigarettes with the other.

"I remember that Captain Kit gave her to me as a puppy when I was a kid. I was about Teddy and Heather's age." He said.

"Who's Captain Kit?" Luna asked him.

"He's an old friend of Harry's." Hermione explained.

"Yep, Eve was only a baby when I met him." Harry said.

"I know, you told me about him and Diamond the dragon." Eve said.

"Have you spoken to him recently?" Hermione wondered but Harry just simply shook his head before stopping at another red light.

"No. I haven't spoken to him in years. The last time I saw him was in our fourth year at Hogwarts during the Triwizard tournament." Harry told her.

"Wow, I can't believe that Tobey will be entering his fourth year at Hogwarts soon." Hermione said.

"Yeah, and I'm going into my third. That means that I'll be able to take care of magical creatures this year and go into Hogsmeade on weekends." Eve said.

"You'll love it there." Harry told her. "There's a lot of candy, sweets, and butterbeer." He said.

"I know. Tobey's let me try a few of his toffees before." She told him as the light turned green again and he stepped back on the gas before turning into the mall parking lot.