SURPRISE!
Harry jumped with surprise. Standing in front of him were; his Dad, Sirius, Remus, the entire Weasley family and the Firthlands. The kitchen table was packed high with presents and the worktop was covered with an assortment of delicious looking food. After all of the presents had been unwrapped, Harry thanked them all and they all went outside. Most of them went to play quidditch whilst Abigale went to help Lily, Remus and Mrs Weasley with the food.
They decided to set it out as a picnic as it was such a nice day. Harry was circling above looking for the snitch with Ginny doing the same thing at the other end of their make shift pitch. Harry's team was winning with James and Jacob scoring half of their goals each. Harry suddenly spotted the snitch close to the ground, excited Harry dove, he was speeding up, the wind rushing through his hair. Out of the corner of his eye he realised everyone else had stopped. He was close to it now. He pulled out of the dive with it clutched in his hand. Everyone on his team started cheering. James lifted Harry onto his shoulders and walked like that back to the house for lunch. Harry thought that the picnic spread looked great. There was pizza, lasagne, bacon, sausages, chips, carrot sticks, bread buns and pots of ketchup. Everyone started tucking in, before long everyone had eaten some of everything and it was all cleared away. Then Lily brought out the puddings, there was ice cream, treacle tart, cheesecake and a huge chocolate cake in the shape of an 11. Harry thought it was all delicious.
Later that day Harry was in his room reading some of his new and he decided to call his new Owl Hedwig. He spent his last month before school reading his new text books and occasionally Lily would let him practice making the simplest of potions in her lab, which was in the cellar.
At last the day when Harry was to go off to Hogwarts had arrived, he woke up early and ticked off the day on his calendar, which was of his favourite quidditch team, and packed it in his bag. He got dressed, brushed his teeth and made sure he had everything. James came into Harrys' room "Hey Cub, have you got everything?"
"Yes Dad" Harry said excitedly.
"Listen Cub, I have something to give you, before you go, it helped me when I was at school and now I hope it'll help you" he passed Harry a long, silvery cloak. It felt like water.
"This is an invisibility cloak, it has been passed down through the family, from father to son for generations, and it is very old." He said, Harry gaped at him. "Why are you giving this too me now?"
Asked Harry.
"Because, I think it's time you had it, and because your mother wouldn't approve of me giving it to you just yet" Harry looked confused so he added "she doesn't want you to turn into a troublemaker like me" he grinned down at Harry. Harry gave him a big hug and said "I'll put it to good use" James ruffled Harrys' hair "that's my boy" he grinned. "Oh and Harry" Harry turned to look at him "here's some money to spend on the train" and he passed him a small bag full of coins. "Thanks Dad" Harry grinned at him and James winked. Harry pocketed the bag and picked up Hedwig's cage.
James used his wand to lift Harrys' suitcase and to carry it down the stairs. Then the two of them walked down the stairs with James using his wand like a conductor's baton. Lily made them both pancakes with a piece of melted chocolate in the middle. Then Remus and Sirius arrived, Sirius gave Harry a big bear hug and Remus gave him a hug too. "Bye Cub" both men said at the same time as they waved goodbye.
