everything is J.K.Rowling's... although some of my ideas are interlaced...
It was the summer after third year, and as usual Harry Potter found himself in an awful spot at 4 Privet Drive.
"After doing those rose bushes, de-weed the lawn again."
"But Aunt Petunia, I just did it last week."
"Come on, don't complain. I need to see that lawn resplendent, you understand. You should have it done, since your uncle had allowed you to go. You have," Petunia Dursley looked at the clock on the wall just right beside her, it was almost five in the afternoon. "until six to finish. It is already five so no more complaints."
With that Petunia left her nephew outside to do the gardening, while she resumed cleaning of the house.
Ever since he arrived back at the Dursleys', he did the gardening. He even told them that the escaped convict, the "Mass Murderer" Sirius Black, was his godfather so they would at least give him enough time to himself.
In a way, they did give him time. He was never given a chore that would require all of his available time, however, they did give the task of taking care of the garden.
Harry sighed, at least he was allowed to correspond with his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. And something they told him last night was enough for him to happily finish his task faster than expected.
"A what?" Vernon Dursley asked his nephew, looking at him as if what he said was something very unsensible. Well, for them it was.
"I am invited to join the Weasleys in watching the Quidditch World Cup," Harry said, wiping the spittle that came from his uncle.
They were eating dinner then when he told them of the news. It was a good thing he said it when his Uncle Vernon was not chewing.
"And what makes you think I would be letting you, eh?" Vernon asked, his eyes slits and his fork pointed at Harry.
"Oh, you're not letting me... oh okay, I'll just write to me godfather that I could not come because-"
"Oh alright," Vernon said, his face white, "you can go with those freaky friends of yours."
Harry smiled inwardly. One mention of Sirius Black to the Dursleys, and it would turn them all livid with fear. The rest of their dinner was conducted in silence, with the Dursleys occasionally stealing glances at each other and at Harry.
That night, Harry wrote to Hermione and Ron about the trip to the Quidditch World Cup, stating that he could come. He attached the letter to Hedwig and sent her on her way.
"This would be a fun summer," Harry thought to himself, lifting the loose floorboard under his bed and eating his supplies of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, and Chocolate Frogs. Harry smiled to himself.
Hermione Granger was reading a book on Transfiguaration on her bed when she heard a light tapping on her window. She saw a blurry snowy owl just outside her translucent glass window, with a letter in its beak.
She sighed, as she stood up after putting a bookmark on the page she was reading she wondered who would write to her.
Upon opening the window she discovered that she knew the owner of her nocturnal visitor.
"Thanks Hedwig," she said as she stroked owl. Hedwig ruffled her feathers and flew off, carrying the last of the two letters written by Harry.
She eagerly opened her letter. It read:
Dear Hermione,
I hope you're doing well. Sorry for not writing to you more often, corresponding with everyone is next to impossible when I'm with the Dursleys. I do hope you would not take it against me.
I don't know if Ron told you, but I'll be staying with them for the rest of the summer. We would also be watching the Quidditch World Cup, so I suppose the Weasley's invited you too. I really do want to see you. And Ron.
Write to me when it is convenient with you.
Well, see you at the Burrow.
Harry
Hermione smiled as she finished reading the short letter. She climbed on her bed, lying down and staring at her ceiling, the letter on her chest.
After a while, she got up and looked beneath her bed. From there, she pulled out an old shoebox adorned with various stickers, with one word written in a beautiful caligraphy amidst it all, Keepsakes.
She opened the box and placed the letter with the rest of the things in it, these were from the people who were important to her. She sighed.
this is as far as i get for this time... until the next post... please read and review... thanks... XP