Chapter Two; The Birthday Party

Thanks guys! And yeah I know it's pretty exciting that Harry's finally going to go to Hogwarts! Although that's not going to actually happen until a few chapters later. Anyway, here's the next chapter and I hope you enjoy it! Thanks again for your continued support! Oh, and a HUGE special thank you to JK Rowling who invented this world for me to play in! You rock Jo and you've inspired all of our imaginations with your wonderful series!

When Harry got back home he started looking through all of his new school books just to get a general idea about what they were about and what he would be learning his first year at Hogwarts. "Look at this Mum," he began. "Latisha J Hedwig's in here." He told her having remembered that he learned about her in charm school.

Latisha was a squib who was also a saint and taught other muggles the truth about witches and wizards. "Hey, I've got it!" Harry exclaimed as he suddenly felt a lightbulb turn on over his head. "That's what I'll call my new owl!" he cried.

"Latisha?" Tobey questioned with a roll of his eyes. "That's a dumb name." he said while Harry simply scowled at him.

"I know, I was talking about her last name." Harry told him.

"Well Hedwig's a nice choice sweetheart, but I personally like the name Latisha as well." Lily began. "Maybe if we have another little girl that's what I'll name her." She said as Snape simply just stared at her. "What!?" she questioned him.

"Anyway," he began before turning his attention back over to Harry. "Why don't you put Hedwig in your room and then feed the dogs and let them outside before the company starts arriving. They need to stay in your room while their here." He told him.

"What about Cosmo?" Tobey asked him as Snape slowly turned his head and looked over at his wife.

"I think that you better handle this one." He told her before she squatted down in front of her five year old son.

"Well you see darling, while you and your sister were taking turns using the potty I found him outside. I was going to go feed him, but I'm afraid that he went to Heaven." She explained.

"Oh." He replied as he heaved a heavy sad sigh.

"Don't you worry though, as soon as the party's over we'll take him and burry him in the yard together." She told him as she took ahold of his tiny little hands while Harry carried Hedwig's cage back to his bedroom. "How does that sound?" she questioned him.

"Alright I guess." He told her as Harry came back out of his room and headed towards the kitchen. Cowboy and Katie were both busily chewing on their bones until they heard the sound of kibble being poured inside their bowls. They each instantly stopped chewing and perked up their ears before leaping up onto their feet and racing into the kitchen wagging their tails.

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Harry climbed up on top of his knees and watched out the window eagerly awaiting his guests while Eve put on her beautiful red sparkly party dress and then dashed back out of her room so that her mother could tie her hair up into a ponytail.

"I don't know why you're so dressed up." Tobey began. "It isn't your birthday." He told her.

"I know that silly, but that doesn't mean that I shouldn't try to look my best." She told him as Tobey rolled his eyes at her.

"Girls!" he spat.

"Boys!" she snapped back at him.

"Now kids behave yourselves!" Lily scolded. "This day isn't about either one of you. It's Harry's special day and if either one of you try to mess it up for him, you're going straight back to your room with no nonsense. Is that understood?" she questioned them as they each took a deep breath and sighed heavily.

"Yes Mummy." They chorused together but secretly stuck their tongues out at each other when she wasn't paying attention to them. That's when all of a sudden the doorbell rang and Harry leapt off of the couch.

"I'll get it!" he cried as he went to go answer the door. It turned out to be four of the Weasley children. Fred, George, Ron, and his little sister Ginny. "Hullo." Harry said happily.

"Hullo there Harry," Fred began with a grin.

"Happy birthday." His identical twin brother said before passing him a package wrapped up in brightly colored blue wrapping paper.

"Thanks, come on in." Harry told them while continuing to hold the door open for them.

"Thank you Harry, happy birthday." Ginny said shyly while lowering her head and starting to blush as she stepped inside and followed her brothers. Harry didn't understand why she was suddenly acting so weird around him since they'd known each other since she was Eve's age.

"Hi Ginny." Eve began as she smiled widely up at her.

"Hullo Eve, I like your dress. It's really pretty." She told her.

"Don't get her started." Tobey warned but it was already too late.

"Why thank you, I know." Eve said beaming proudly before she started twirling around inside of it.

"Eve, that's enough." Her father warned. Pretty soon more of Harry's birthday guests arrived. First his grandparents showed up, and then some of his friends from charm school. Harry was rather surprised when his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon showed up with his cousin Dudley. Although neither one of them really looked like that they were all that thrilled to be there. Except for maybe his aunt a little bit.

Harry really wished that his godfather would have been able to be there even though he hadn't seen him since he was Tobey's age. He still missed him and thought about him often wondering what all he had been up to in the last six years. Of course neither his brother nor sister couldn't possibly feel the way that he was feeling about Sirius since Eve never even met him and Tobey had only been a tiny little baby.

After supper Lily brought out Harry's birthday cake and set it out on the table in front of him before beginning to light the candles with her wand. Then she turned off the lights and everybody started singing to him.

"Happy birthday to you,(Tobey and Eve put in an extra chorus of cha, cha, cha much to Snape's dismay as he just simply rolled his eyes at them) happy birthday to you, (cha,cha,cha!) happy birthday dear Harry, happy birthday to you!" (Cha, cha, cha!) they sung before starting to cheer and applaud him.

"Alright sweetheart, make a wish and blow out the candles." Lily told her son while she got her camera ready. Harry thought about it for a moment before closing his eyes and blowing out all eleven successfully. He opened his eyes again as the cake magically started slicing itself.

"So what did you wish for?" Eve asked him as Harry just simply smiled at her.

"I can't tell you that otherwise it won't come true." He told her as he suddenly found his mind drifting back to the broomstick he had seen in Diagon Alley.