––– CHAPTER ONE –––

The Warning

It was a hot summer day. The sun blazed in the sky and a worm breeze drifted through the air. It hadn't rained in weeks and everyone on Privet Drive we're at home with their air conditions on, except for one kid. Harry Potter, with his jet back hair and stained, white T-shirt, lay in the middle of his relatives, lawn just waiting for it to rain. Harry had been lying there for over 5 hours just thinking about his friends and how he missed Hogwarts so much. Harry even started to miss Draco Malfoy and couldn't wait to beat him at Quidditch again. He missed Ron and Hermione as well and wondered why they had not written to him in such a long time. He had written to them, but they never wrote back. At that same time Harry remembered the letter that Sirius Black had sent to him and how he wrote that he was all fine and dandy. He even reminded himself where Sirius was staying: Palm Springs, which made Harry feel even more hot and dry.

"Why can't it just rain?" demanded Harry.

Harry suddenly felt a cold rush slide down his face and onto his shirt followed by cold ice cubes. Harry jumped up in shock and saw his cousin, Dudley standing there, with a bucket, laughing his head off. Dudley was a very large boy, had blonde hair and basically looked like a baby elephant.

"Feel better now Pot-Head?" laughed Dudley.

"Actually, that felt great. Thanks." said Harry.

"Well, that wasn't very satisfying," said Dudley, feeling very daft.

As Dudley was about to go into the house he heard a voice.

"Hey Dude," yelled one of his friends, "Are you coming to the park with us?"

"Yeah" said Dudley and he and his friends were gone, leaving Harry to burn up in the sun.

About another hour of thinking and burning up in the heat, Harry decided to go into the house for a cold drink. As Harry entered the house, he could here his aunt and uncle watching the news and as he was getting his drink, he decided to listen in on what was going on in the muggle world.

"Today's top story," said a news reporter "Are aliens really real?"

"This should be funny." said uncle Vernon

"Well, today one was spotted walking down a street called Privet Drive A lady, watering her plants, saw it and than saw it vanish into thin air."

"Ha, what a lot of hooey." laughed uncle Vernon "and the picture's even funnier."

Harry looked at the picture on the television screen and he noticed that it was Dobby walking down the street. Harry started choking on his water. Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon heard Harry's coughing and wondered what was going on. Then Aunt Petunia saw what time it was and knew she had to start dinner. Vernon, on the other hand wondered what Harry was doing.

"Why were you coughing?" asked uncle Vernon very calmly.

Lately Vernon's been acting very calm because of his high blood pressure. He had been yelling at Harry a lot that summer, so the doctor told him to relax more.

"My water went down the wrong way. Sorry for scaring you." replied Harry "um, I have to go upstairs now. Bye."

Uncle Vernon new he was up to something, but didn't quite care at the moment. Harry, on the other hand was quite shocked at what he had seen on the television. Was that really Dobby or just his imagination running wild? Then Harry saw a very wrinkled, big eared, short, dirty, little creature appear, out of thin air, on his bed. Harry was so surprised that he screamed and fell to the floor.

"Hello Harry Potter. Sorry to scare you like this. Do you remember me?" asked Dobby.

"Yes I remember you. Your the one who nearly got me killed in my second year of Hogwarts." said Harry in a very angry voice "But more importantly, what are you doing here? You were on the muggle news to day. Muggles think you'r an alien of some sort."

"Dobby feels dreadfully sorry sir, but Dobby had to come. Come and tell Harry Potter the bad news," said Dobby.

"What bad news?" asked Harry "Your not going to try to force me not to go to Hogwarts again are you?"

"No, Dobby came to tell Harry Potter that there will be a very powerful, but familiar force at Hogwarts this year and that Harry Potter should be very careful of the friends he makes."

"Dobby, why is this so important to you?" asked Harry "Does it involve 'You Know How'? Is Dumbledore also involved?"

"I've told you to much. Just be careful sir," said Dobby and he vanished into thin air.

Harry couldn't understand what Dobby was talking about, but before he could think of another thought, he was called down for a late dinner. After that, Harry was too tired to do anything, so he just went to bed.