Chapter 1: Owl Attack
The sun came up along Privet drive filtering through windows and doors. Slowly people all along the street were getting up and getting their newspapers and placing out their milk bottles. This was a perfectly normal start to a perfectly normal day on this perfectly normal street. No one would ever suspect the strange things going on behind the house at number four Privet drive.
Five owls were floating outside the window of the smallest bedroom of he house. They all had letter tied to their legs and four of them were carrying packages as well. A large snowy owl was tapping on the window trying to wake up the person inside.
Harry Potter was jostled form his sleep by the sound of his aunt Petunia tapping on the door to his cupboard. "Okay I'm up." He reached for his glasses and put them on. Then he realized that couldn't have been his aunt tapping on the cupboard door because he didn't live in the cupboard anymore. Then what could have woken him up? Tap, tap, tap. She sharply turned to the window where and exhausted looking owl was bobbed in and out of sight. "Hedwig!" Harry exclaimed as he threw open the window and five owls flopped through it.
Now any normal person would find this weird, five owls flying into their room at seven thirty in the morning. But Harry Potter wasn't a normal boy, in fact he was as far from normal as possible. Harry potter was a wizard, and a really good one at that. He'd been training his powers at Hogwart's school of witchcraft and wizardry for the last four years. That's where harry felt most at home. Also unlike most people harry loved school and despised summer. Cuz during the summer he was forced to live with his muggle (non-magical people) aunt, uncle and cousin. And today was Harry's fifteenth birthday.
All of the sudden a small round brown fuzz ball slammed into the side of harry's head. It was Pig a small overexcited owl belonging to harry's best friend ron. Harry grabbed pig out of the air and tried to untie the letter and package from its leg. As soon as harry had untied it , pig zoomed to the top of harry's wardrobe and perched himself there. Harry quickly untied the letters and packages from the other four owls three of which flew out the window immediately there after. Hedwig just hooted , threw a glare at pig and flew to her perch and gulped sum water.
Aside from the card and package from ron, he had one from hermione, his other best friend; sirius, his godfather; and from the looks of the untidy scrawl on the envelope the last was from Hagrid, the hogwarts game-keeper. Plus he had his official shool letter in a rather thick enevelope.
Harry opened ron's note first:
Harry,
Happy birthday. You're finally 15! Hope all's well and that the muggles aren't treating you too poorly. You're gonna come stay with us the last week before term starts again right? Dumbledore said you could that week. Herm's coming the last couple days of that week cuz she'll be in Bulgaria visiting Krum. Well, Percy got promoted cuz Mr. Crouch isn't around anymore and oh Charlie is engaged, she's real and nice and she's a wizard conselor. Well send your reply with Pig when you figure out if you can come or not.
-Ron
Harry tore open the package with the letter and a miniature version of himself fell out. The mini Harry was complete with a miniature Firebolt. He looked back at Ron's note; there was a postscript he hadn't noticed.
P.S. Check it out! You're a figurine. How neat!
Whoa, Harry thought as the figurine mounted its broom and flew in circles. He put the figurine on his desk and moved on to Hermione's letter.
Harry,
Happy Birthday! How are you? I'm well. Guess what? I'm a prefect!
Big surprise there! Harry thought to himself.
Guess who the other prefect is? It's Neville! I know I was shocked too! But I guess Dumbledore thinks he can handle it. I'm visiting Krum next week I can't believe my parents are letting me go. I'm so excited, but I'll be late getting to the Burrow. Well I'll see you when I get to Ron's.
-Love-
Hermione
The package from Hermione contained a large box of Chocolate Frogs and Cauldron Cakes. "Thank you Hermione you've saved me from Dudley's god awful diet!" The letter from Hagrid was short and attached to a package of rock cakes. Maybe I could feed em to Dudley, they'd glue his mouth shut, Harry thought with a wicked grin.
The last package was from Sirius and it contained a pocket-watch with five hands. One had his name on it and the other four had Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore, and Sirius written on them. Where the numbers should have been were things like Home, Work, Traveling, School, Missing, Mortal Peril, and Dead. All were currently pointed to home except Sirius' whose was at Traveling. "It's just like the Weasleys', awesome." Harry opened the letter from Sirius:
Harry,
Happy Birthday! I'm still hiding out and moony and I are doing some defense work for Dumbledore. I'm in good health and I hope you're well. I hope you like the watch I had moony get it made for me now you'll always know where I am. I'll see you at hogwarts this year, I promise.
-Snuffles
"Duddy-kins! Bweaky-fast is ready!" Aunt Petunia called up the stairs. Harry quickly got up and rushed downstairs, not wanting his wail of a cousin to scarff down his breakfast too. His unusually thick letter from Hogwarts lay unopened on his floor.