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A/N: sorry that it took a bit to update but life was going on. What with registering for school, and work…which by the way I just got promoted. YEA!!! Ok so now onto the chapter.

Chapter 21

I have a new Toy!!!

Last time

"I will prove it to you"

"Harry you can't just…." But stopped at seeing that Harry had orbed out and then back in. He also noted that the young boy was not alone.

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"I told you that I could orb" Harry said as he handed little Chris, who was gurgling and smiling at the trip he had just taken, over to his dad.

"You should no by now Leo that when a Halliwell says they can do something, they can do it," Piper said as she walked into the room smiling.

Leo was at a loss for words, he just kept glancing down at Chris and then up to Harry who was smiling. "Well, it looks like you get to skip over the second and last part of your training."

"Huh, why?" Harry asked.

"Well, cause you orbed to another room and then returned with a passenger" Leo replied.

"I think this is cause for celebration, I will call Phoebe and tell her to come home," Piper said as she picked up the phone.

"But won't she be mad if you call her away from work?" Leo asked.

"Ever since Phoebe and Jason broke it off she doesn't mind being called anymore," Piper said as she dialed the phone.

"Well, you might as well go get ready because as soon as she talks with Phoebe she will have me go get her," Leo said as he rocked baby Chris to sleep.

Harry nodded and made his way up to his room. He wondered why his mom was making such a big deal about getting the family together just because he learned to orb. As Harry was cleaning up he started to wonder what the new school year would bring. What would he say to Ron and Hermione, what would he tell the Headmaster? 'Well at least I can close my mind now,' Harry thought.

He was brought from his musings from a yell downstairs, "Harry dinner's ready!"

After pulling his shirt over his head he made his way down the stairs and into the dinning room. Paige was there and was again writing on a pad of paper, while Phoebe sat there quietly.

Upon entering the room Phoebe called out to Harry, "Hey I heard you can orb now, care to demonstrate?"

Harry stopped and smiled and the next thing Phoebe knew Harry was sitting next to her, appearing in a mass of blue lights. "Very nicely done," Paige said looking up from her notes.

"Thank you. What are you writing?" Harry asked

"Oh, just things for the office," Paige replied.

"I thought someone said that dinner was ready," Harry commented

"And it is," Piper said as she and Leo sat down. With a wave of his hand yet another set of blue lights engulfed the table and once they had dissipated dinner was on the table.

"Dig in!"

And so they did. Harry, having built up an appetite for his mothers cooking, took a bite of everything on the table. His mom was a great cook, and when he had first arrived he had found out that she had always wanted to be a chef, and own a restaurant.

There was the usual chat: how was work? How they were all doing? Did a demon attack? And was Harry ready for school?

"Well I can't say that I'm ready, but I do miss my friends"

They smiled at this. Harry had been away from the wizarding world since the middle of July.

"How bout some dessert" Piper said as she put down her fork. Getting nods from all of them she once again had Leo do the honors, only this time not only did the left over birthday cake arrive but also a couple of presents.

"You can go ahead and open them now while we do the cake," Phoebe said.

"You really did not have to," Harry replied.

"No but we did want to and it may help for when you go to Hogwarts," Leo said.

"What?" Harry asked.

"Just open them," Piper said smiling.

So Harry did. The first one he opened was a book, but when he made to look at some of the pages he found them blank. A little confused, he looked to his mom but she was ready because she said "It is a sort of diary. I got it while you were busy looking at other things while in the Alley."

"So it's magical?" Harry asked.

"Yes, and we have the other four," Piper said pulling out four other books and setting them on the table. "The way they work is you open it to the first page or any page and write the name of the person you want to chat with. When you do so, the book of the one you are writing to will start to glow right here," Piper said pointing to a small jewel on the clasp.

"Nice, this will come in handy if I'm bored in class, or if I have nothing else to do," Harry said rather quickly, "So it kind of works like an instant chat?"

"Yes and, just like chat, if the person who you are trying to reach is not available then it will tell you as much when you write them. It will also alert the person who you are trying to reach by the light in the jewel pulsing every so often," Phoebe answered.

Nodding, Harry decided to open his next gift. "This one is another gift from all of us," Piper said as Harry unwrapped the object. It was a photo they had taken about a week after his birthday. It did not move but, had it been able to, it would have shown the love it had captured.

"Thank you so much," Harry said as he looked at the picture.

"No problem, we figured you would want something to put by your bed at night," Paige said.

As Harry made to get the last gift Leo stopped him. "Now this one is from me and after you open it you are going to be confused and I will need to explain it."

Harry nodded and opened the gift. When he got all the paper off he saw what the gift was, or rather what it looked like. "A miniature door?" Harry asked, clearly confused.

"I told you," Leo stated. "Now this door is unlike anything you have ever seen. Now I want you to go to the wall right over there and stand it upright."

Harry did as he was told and moved to the wall just opposite where he had been sitting.
Once there he stood the door up and waited. "Now what?" He asked.

"Now you need to give it a command code. Touch the door and say what ever command you want," Leo said.

Harry stood there thinking for a moment. 'A code, what would be a good code?' And then it hit him he knew the perfect thing. Bending down to the door he said "Mischief." He stood there waiting for something to happen but nothing did. Turning to his dad he was about to ask when Leo interrupted him. "You only just gave it the code. To activate it you now need to speak it."

So Harry did. He backed up just a little bit, unsure of what was going to happen, and said "Mischief." What happened next was not what he had expected. It started to grow; it grew until it was at least seven feet tall. Harry was amazed and still confused. Turning to Leo he asked, "Ok, so what does this do?"

Leo smiled and said, "This door was the first door you and I ever built. I held onto it because I had an idea and I did not want your mom to get over zealous when she tried to get you up."

Harry smiled and looked over at Piper who had just swatted Leo's arm. Leo continued, "This door, in its activated state, will act as a portal between this house and Hogwarts."

"How? I mean there are all kinds of wards around the school. What will Professor Dumbledore say?" Harry asked looking to Leo.

"Well as far as I know the wards should be no problem; magic is magic, it does not matter who you are or where you come from. Now as to Dumbledore: you are going to have to try your hardest to skirt around him with this. He can't get into your mind anymore, and there has got to be a place that he either does not know. Or you will have to find a place." Leo answered.

"Ok, I will worry about that bridge when I come to it. But what does this door actually do?" Harry asked

"Well, like I said this door acts as a portal to the Manor, but it does have a few other features. For instance, since you are the owner of the door only you can see it while it is activated and deactivated." Leo paused a moment so he could take a breath and then continued, "Also there is a sort of security measure on it so that only you can open it. If you want to allow a friend to be able to see or open the door then all you have to do is key them in. And even when it is active or dormant it can avoid magical detection as well as physical touch"

Harry was in a daze, there was so much running through his mind about what he could use the door for. Obviously he could travel back and forth from school for the Holidays, or if he just needed to get away for a bit he would be able to do so. He also couldn't wait to show Ron and Hermione. Ron would say it was 'Bloody Awesome' and Hermione would want to run off to the library to research it, but not before saying 'Language Ronald'.

As he thought more about the door he had some questions about it. "So how do you do all those things you just said, because I do not see any panel in which to type who can have access?"

"All you have to do is touch the door, but you do have to do it while it is active," Leo replied.

"Ok, so when I step through and I close the door, say, on this side…"

"You will be able to deactivate the door, pocket it and go to your room or anywhere else you can think of. Because you open it on one side does limit it to that side, you are in essence only opening one door," Leo cut in.

It was a lot of information to take in but in the end all Harry could think about was 'I have a new toy and I can't wait to try it out!'

As if reading his thoughts Piper said, "But you can't use it to skip class or come here every night. You are at a school where you have a dorm and you will sleep there. But you can come home on the weekends, and for holidays, understand?"

Not wanting it to be taken before he even got onto the Hogwarts Express he said "Yes Mom."

"Now you have a long day ahead of you so it is time for bed," Piper said.

"But…" Harry, however, did not get to finish because Piper interrupted.

"You have yet to pack, and we all have to get up early enough so we can see you off."

"I can't go to the station tomorrow," Paige chimed in.

"What? Why not, Aunt Paige?" Harry asked

"I unfortunately have to go into the office tomorrow. A big case was brought in as I was leaving tonight and so I told them I would handle it first thing in the morning. I will be gone before you get up. sorry kiddo," Paige said with a hint of sadness in her voice.

"Well I guess I will go on up, but before I go to bed I think I may send an owl to my friends and the Headmaster just to let them know I'm okay," Harry said.

As he stood up to leave, Harry became dizzy and lightheaded and had to grip the chair for support. Seeing this Phoebe left her chair and moved to help Harry keep his balance.

"Are you alright?" Phoebe asked.

"Um yea, but uh, someone's coming up the drive," Harry said.

"Leo, can you get it?" Piper asked heading over to Harry.

"Can you let Phoebe get it, so dad can also help get me up stairs?" Harry asked looking at his mom intently.

"Uh sure. Phoebes could you?"

"Yea, not a problem" Phoebe replied and she made her way to the door as Harry, Piper and Leo made their way up to Harry's room. As the front door opened, Harry paused for a moment on the stairs, listening.

"For a Miss Phoebe Halliwell," a voice sounded.

"Oh, hey that's me," came her reply.

"Sign here please, ma'am. Thank you have a nice night." As the door shut Piper called out. "Phoebe who was it?"

"Some delivery guy. He had a box for me. What are the odds?" Phoebe said as she opened the box.

"Oh, they are beautiful!" Phoebe exclaimed as she pulled out a dozen red roses and showed the rest of her family.

"Who are they from?" Paige asked.

"Uh, I don't know. Oh, here's the card," Phoebe said as she pulled it out of the little envelope.

"Will you read it to us?" Piper asked.

"They came for me, can I not read it first please?" Phoebe said exasperatedly.

When she was done reading it she said, "It is from someone named Cooper. He says that he has read my column since I started there and thinks I should be told thank you for all the advice I have given and have yet to give"

"That so sweet, why can't a guy write that to me?" Paige asked looking at Phoebe and Piper.

"Don't ask me I'm married," Piper said as she started to once again to help Harry up the stairs. Meanwhile, Leo and Harry were making gagging noises.

"Ok, you knew it was going to be for Phoebe," Leo said looking pointedly at his son

Harry nodded and said, "I knew it was for her and I also knew that it would do her some good."

"Well, that was nice of you, but are you all right now?" Piper asked.

"I'm fine. I just needed an excuse so you would let Aunt Phoebe get it," Harry said as he smiled. "But now I am tired and I really need to get these letters out to my friends. And yes, then I will go to bed"

"What are you going to tell them?" Leo asked "Because I thought didn't want them to know where you had been all this time"

"I still don't but I haven't written to them all summer and I am just going to let them know that I will see them on the train and will have some things to tell them" Harry said as he made to open his door.

"Have you thought of how they might react to what you have to say?" Piper put in "I know I would"

"I think I can come up with something, but I want to check on some things before we leave" Harry said

"Well if you need any help let me or Leo know ok" Harry nodded letting her know that he heard her she continued "Good, then we will see you in the morning," and with a hug she set off to her own room to check on baby Chris.

"That was crafty you know; getting Phoebe to answer the door, and your mom knows it too. That is why she left so quickly, and she also knows you got it from her," Leo said as he made sure Piper was gone.

"Well, I had to do something" Harry commented "Anyway I am tired, so I guess I will see you tomorrow," Harry commented.

"Yea, you will. Who do you think is taking you to the train station?" Leo stated as he gave Harry a hug goodnight.

"See you in the morning," Harry called out as Leo shut his door.

As soon as the door shut he made his way to the desk that was in his room, and pulled out some parchment to write to his friends as well as the Headmaster. Saying that he was fine, unharmed, and had completed all the summer homework and even did some extra work hoping that this would appease Hermione. However, in the Headmaster's letter, he conveniently forgot to inform the Supreme Mugwump, of his extra studies.

After having written the letters he made good on his word to his mom and went straight to bed. But not before thinking on what the next day would bring as he made his way back into the wizarding world.

A/N: Ok so here is chapter 21, and by now I should have chapter 22 done also. Anyway I hope you liked it and tell me what you think about the instant diary chat books. This as of right now is my longest chapter so for those of you who wanted it longer here you go.

Thanks goes to RoseMarieLynn who was my beta for this chapter. Also I got the idea for a magical door from Farfumsane, I just expanded on it.

Well as always please let me know what you think.

Mudbloodpotter