Two days later Molly and Hermione are baking a cake while Sirius, Remus, Fred and George are decorating the dining room with slingers. They all set the table and go hiding when they hear Harry coming down the stairs. When he comes trough the door everyone screams: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Then it turns out that this all was a bad idea. Harry falls to the floor shaking very hard. You can hear him gasp for air. "Hermione, quick" Remus shouts to Hermione who is on the other side of the room. She runs towards Harry and kneels down in front of him. "Everyone out!" Sirius shouts. "it's okay Harry, it's okay. I'm here. We're not going to hurt you." She keeps talking like that to him for a minute. When his breathing becomes a bit slower again she takes his hands and rubs their backs with her fingers. After a few minutese Harry has calmed down completely and Hermione takes him into a tight hug. "sorry" Harry says sad. "Hey, it's okay. We should have known this wasn't a good idea" Remus says worried. "Are you okay?" Molly asks. "Yeah, I'm fine" Harry answers. "you sure?" Sirius asks. "yeah, I just didn't expect a party today" Harry says quiet. "What do you mean with that?" Molly asks. Harry doesn't answer, he looks down at his feet. "Harry, do you mean you forgot your own birthday?" Hermione asks sad. Harry nods slowly, still looking at his feet. "Are you serious Harry?-" Fred says while running back into the room. "How can you forget it?" George ads. They had listened to the conversation with their extendable ears. "Yeah uh, my birthday was usually the worst day of the whole summer." He says quiet. Suddenly he gets hugged by six people at once. (Hermione, Sirius, Remus, Molly, Fred and George) "Heyy, wait for us!" Ginny, Arthur and Ron shout while joining into the hug. They all go eat breakfast and some cake and then Harry has to open his presents. From Hermione he gets a book about quidditch, Molly and Arthur give him a jumper, Ginny and Ron give some owl sweats and at last he gets some pictures from Sirius and Remus. They are from them, Lily and James. Not with Peter 'cause they know Harry hates him. "Thank you so much" Harry says while giving them a hug. They can see tears in his eyes and hug him very tight back.
After today Ron understands that Harry doesn't have it better then him. He's kind and friendly to him again. So the next few days there aren't any arguments and Harry doesn't have any panic attacks. He still has nightmares every night thoug.
~august 5, 1995~
While everyone's in the living room playing some cart games, Harry goes for a walk. Hermione wanted to go with him, but he managed to keep her from coming. He goes to the little playground in the small neighbourhood. He sits down at the swing and swings a bit. When sudden two dementors appear. He quickly looks around to see if there are some muggles. When he doesn't see anyone, he runs towards the dementors. He hears his mother screaming. "C'mon Harry think fast" He mutters to himself. Then he thinks about the happy memory with his parents. "EXPECTOOO PATRONUMMM!" a stag comes out of his wand and goes towards one of the dementors. The dementor flies away. Harry turns around and aims his want to the other dementor. "this way" he says, and the stag runs towards the other dementor. When both dementors are gone he runs back to Grimmauld place twelve.
"Harry what did you do?" Remus asks sounding both angry and worried when Harry comes into the dining room where only Remus and Sirius are sitting.
"Well, a few minutes ago I was attacked by two dementors. I looked around to see if any muggles were watching, but no one was so I used the Patronus charm against them" Harry explains.
"Okay" Sirius and Remus say calmly.
"What does the letter say?" Harry asks.
"Well, you used magic while you're still underage." Remus says.
"And?" Harry asks.
"You have to go to a trial in the department of mystification" Sirius says sad.
"Why? I only protected myself" Harry protests.
"You know the ministry doesn't really like you Harry." Remus says with a sigh.
"Yeah" Harry nods.
When they go into the living room, Hermione comes running towards them giving Harry a big hug causing him to almost fall over. "Harry! Are you okay? I was so worried" she says. "I'm okay Hermione, nothing to worry about. Not a panic attack or something, just two dementors." He says with a smirk.
"Only two dementors?" Ron says, "you don't know what you're talking about, do you?"
"What should I say, I had a great teacher." Harry answers while looking at Remus who stands behind him with a proud smile. They don't do much for the rest of the day.
~august 12, 1995 4pm~
They all are sitting in the living room. (Everyone knows that Harry isn't expelled) Suddenly they hear a groaning noise. Everyone looks a bit scared, except for Harry who was laughing.
"Why are you laughing?" Ron asks.
"That noise was my stomach. I'm pretty hungry, I haven't eaten anything since dinner yesterday." Harry says laughing with everyone else.
"Harry you need to eat something, you haven't eaten in almost twenty-four hours. That's not good for you." Hermione says concerned.
"Hey, it's okay. I'm used to it you know." Harry says. When everyone stopped laughing, he realises what he said.
"Harry what do you mean?" Fred asks.
"Nothing" Harry says nervous.
George opens his mouth to say something but stops when Remus gives him an evil look.
They talk for another few hours, while dinner Harry eats pretty much 'cause he was starving.
