BOOM. They knocked again. Dudley jerked awake.
"Where's the cannon?" he asked stupidly. I giggled at him.
There was a crash and Uncle Vernon skidded into the room with the rifle in his hands. I backed up a bit.
"Who's there?" He shouted. "I warn you- I'm armed!"
There was a frightened pause and then…
SMASH (my dad loved that word)
The door swung clean of it's hinges and crashed loudly on the floor. A huge man, half the size of a giant (hint hint nudge nudge), stood in the door way. The top of his head was cut off he was so tall. He squeezed into the hut and picked up the door, fitting it perfectly back into it's frame. He turned around, his face was a mass of curly, knotty, shaggy black hair, you could only see is kind black eyes and mouth. As the noise died down a little, the giant man looked at us.
"Couldn't make us a cup o' tea could yeh? It's not been an easy journey…" He strode over to the sofa, with huge steps, where Dudley sat frozen with fear. I smiled at the effect this man had on my greedy cousin.
"Budge up, yeh great lump," said the man. Dudley squeaked and ran to hide behind his mum (like that would hide him), who was crouching, terrified, behind Uncle Vernon (ok that might be the only thing that can hide him).
"An' here's Lily!" said the giant. I looked up at the fierce, hidden face and saw his beetle eyes where crinkled into a smile.
"Las' time I saw you, you was only a baby," said the giant. "Yeh look a lot like yer mum, but yeh've got yer dad's eyes." And suddenly my heart dropped. Lily Potter nee Evans was ginger, not blonde. I took a strand of my hair and looked at it. It was longer and red. My appearance had changed to suit the story.
'Damn you Harry James Potter' I thought. 'Thank for not telling me.' My eyes were most likely still blue but I was certain James's eyes were brown in the book. Maybe it had changed just for me. I spun round as Uncle Vernon made a weird rasping noise.
"I demand you leave at once sir!" He said. "You are breaking and entering!"
"Ah, shut up Dursley yeh great prune," said the giant.
"Actually," I said. "He is breaking and entering and fixing." Dudley punched my back and I elbowed him back. The giant man chuckled, bent Uncle Vernon's gun into a knot, threw it in a corner and turned to me.
"Anyway- Lily, a very happy birthday to yeh. Got summat fer yeh here- I might have sat on it at some point, but it'll taste all right." From inside the pocket of his bug black overcoat, he pulled out a slightly crushed white box and I smiled. Inside the box was a sticky chocolate cake with pink icing and 'Happy Birthday Lily' in bright green icing. I slid my finger over the icing and popped it in my mouth. Strawberry icing, nice job. I intended to say thank you but a sentence came with it.
"Thank you, but who are you?" I asked. The giant chuckled.
"True, I haven't introduced meself. Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts." He held out a huge arm and I gladly shook, it shook my whole arm and I laughed a bit.
"What about that at then?" He said, rubbing his hands together. "I'd not say no ter summat stronger if yeh've got it, mind."
His eyes fell on the empty grate with the shrivelled up crisp packets in it and snorted. He bent over the fireplace, we didn't know what he was doing mind, but a second later there was a bright warm fire. It filled the whole place with flickering light and I felt like I had slipped into a nice, hot bubble bath. Heaven, I really needed a lie down actually. But I didn't want to go to sleep.
As the Rubeus dude sat down he started taking random stuff out of his coat pockets: a copper kettle, a pack of sausages, a poker (though how it fit I will never know), a teapot (butiful, like a tea pot lol), seven chipped mugs and some amber liquid of which he took a swig off. Yes it was probably butter beer. I couldn't wait to try that stuff! I was supposed to taste really nice and I so wanted some. Not one of us spoke while Hagrid worked, but as he slid the first six big, fat, juicy sausages from the poker, Dudley fidgeted a bit. Dream on Dudley…