Harry stopped reading to quickly check and listen for movement upstairs. He didn't expect they would be down for a while, Vernon didn't start work for next week, so would probably lie in until about half past 9. Petunia would be up at 9 in order to get Harry up, to make breakfast. Dudley would probably be in his games room until breakfast was ready.

One of the most memorable pranks I can remember at the moment, was in 6th year, when the Marauders somehow managed to bewitch everyone's clothes for the day, and change their house colours. The funny thing was, the house would change every hour, randomly, so no one knew who was in each house. To avoid detection, they also bewitched their own robes! Dumbledore must have suspected them, they were the most obvious troublemakers in the school, but he let it go. The next week, they followed it up by applying a similar charm to everyone's hair, causing it to change between red, yellow, green or blue highlights. The finale of this was to bewitch all the teacher's robes, causing them to occasionally act like an invisibility cloak, making the professors disappear. However the teachers would use this to their advantage, and sneak up on unsuspecting students when they were not paying attention in class, mainly James! I heard, from one of the prefects, that professor Flitwick had asked Lupin how they had manage to carry it out, and that he was planning to prank the students another year, once the Marauders had left! He has quite a mischievous side to him I think! I do not know if he has done it yet, you had better watch out Harry!

Do you know which primary school you will be going to Harry? I assume you will be going for your last year of school, before you go to Hogwarts? I work at Little Rock Primary School, which is only a short walk from your house, I would expect you to be going there.

Who are you living with, what is your Uncle's name? We have not seen or heard of you for ten years, you had disappeared from our world after James and Lily 's deaths. You must be living a very sheltered life, for no one to have seen you, and for your Uncle to want to prevent you from speaking to others. It is wrong that he calls you freak, he doesn't abuse you in any way does he? Harry you can trust me, I want you to be able to have someone to speak to, it does not seem as if you are very close to your adoptive family. At the school I act as a sort of counsellor, as someone that the students can speak to, I hope you can treat me as that, if not as a friend. I hope you will be able to speak to me, and that you are settling in alright in your new house.

Mara Tonks

Harry looked up, glad he had someone to talk to, but confused over many of the things Mara had said. He quickly wrote a list if things she mentioned that he did not understand, which he would question in his reply:

Wizengamont

Gryffindor

Ravenclaw

Hufflepuff

Slytherin

Hogwarts

Charms/ bewitched

The reply would have to wait until later, Harry could hear movement upstairs, looking at the clock he could see it was just before 9, Petunia had probably just woken up. After attempting to flatten his hair, Harry straightened his glasses before trudging upstairs to begin cooking breakfast for the family.