Chapter AN: This is for V. Sourweather's Packets of Prompts Challenge. Prompts: (restriction) less than 500 words, (song – inspiration only) Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles, (character) Hedwig
According to my word processor this has 325 words, which fulfills both the restriction and the minimum word requirement of the challenge. Yay, for me!
Here comes the Sun
After being locked up by the Dursley's Harry and Hedwig are freed.
Hedwig watched expectantly as the three redheads prepared to get her Harry out of this place. It was time to be quiet now, so the people her Harry lived with during summer wouldn't notice. There went the trunk, now it was her turn. No her Harry was climbing out. What about her? Knowing that it would lead to trouble, but seeing no other way, she screeched.
"Hedwig!" her Harry shouted. There, now he remembered and came to get her. Pleased she fell silent again, but she knew the damage was already done. As her Harry was handing her cage out the window, her Harry's uncle burst into the room. But her Harry was fast enough and they got away, because her Harry was awesome like that.
"We should let Hedwig out, so she can stretch her wings," her Harry said. Hedwig barked in approval. Ron fiddled with the lock on her cage, opening it for the first time in weeks. With a delighted bark Hedwig launched herself out of the cage and out the window.
Finally, after weeks and weeks of sitting in the cage she could stretch her wings again! Excitedly she flew a couple of loops around the car, barking loudly for all to hear. Then movement on the ground reached her ears. Not hesitating she swooped down to catch a mouse scampering in one of the gardens. Delighted she perched herself atop the car to devour her first proper meal in weeks. Her Harry had done his best, but those leaves had been gross. Now it was all better.
Once she was done, she dropped the remains of the mouse to the ground and launched herself into flight again. No more cages, just her, the sky and her Harry beside her. As if sensing Hedwig's good mood the rising sun was bathing the landscape into a soft glow. Life was looking up, Hedwig thought as they raced the sun to their destination.