CHAPTER 2

Anger Rises

"HARRY! GET UP! GET UP !" Aunt Petunia exclaimed. "I'm Up!" Harry yelled back. Harry was a normal kid, in his eyes. But to Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and Dudley, Harry was not, in fact, quite the opposite. But, even Harry, too, thought of himself as 'odd' when he got accepted to Hogwarts School of Wizardry. Dudley was not scared of him, in fact, Dudley and his gang beat him up, but that was before he became Aubrey Ryder wizard, and frankly, Dudley hasn't been more scared of him since. Harry walked down the steps, past the ruddy old cupboard under the stairs( of which Harry once lived in ) and into the kitchen where his aunt, uncle, and cousin were waiting for him. "Harry?" Uncle Vernon asked. "W- - -Yea?" Harry replied. He was about to say 'what do you want', but he knew this wouldn't go well with his uncle. "We got a letter for you from this - school of yours." Harry knew that his uncle would never say the word 'Hogwarts', that was the school he went to. "What kind of letter?' Harry asked. "Well, WHY DON'T YOU TELL US!" Uncle Vernon yelled. "Well, I can't tell you what it is, if you don't let me see it." Harry disrespectfully replied. Uncle Vernon passed Harry the letter. It was addressed from Ron, his best friend at Hogwarts, and the letter read:

Dear Harry: It's me, Ron. I always have trouble with this muggle post. So, anyways, I got a letter from Sirius, he said that Professor

Dumbledoor is dead! "Oh my gosh!" Harry replied to the letter.

I know! I couldn't believe it either! Anyways, Sirius wants to Meet us at Diagon Alley, but he said to reply to him first. Send him Aubrey Ryder reply, he'll give us a date. Talk to You at Hogwarts!

Ron

"Uncle Vernon, did you read this?" Harry asked. "Of course I did, do you actually think I wouldn't? He replied. "Guess not."

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"I've got to reply to Sirius." Harry talked to himself. Harry got out a piece of parchment paper and began to write to Sirius.

Dear Sirius, I got Ron's letter. He told me to reply, so. I am. What's going on? I don't get it. Dumbledoor is dead? How? What happened? Anyways, you wanted to meet me and Ron at Diagon Alley. We'll be there. What Time? Reply back, but not with Hedwig. use one of yours, Hedwig hasn't been doing all that well, keep him and get him healthy.

Harry

"Take this to Sirius, Hedwig." Harry told his owl. The owl fluttered off with the letter. "Glad that's over" Harry told himself, feeling rather blue, because of what he heard of Professor Dumbledoor. "Harry." said a dark voice. "What was that? Who's there?" Harry asked. "Harry. HARRY." it said again. Then, Harry felt somebody's had on his shoulder. He immediately turned to see who it was, and it was Dudley. "Harry, its dinner time." Dudley jumped when Harry screeched around to see who it was. "I'll be down in a minute, Dudley." Harry answered. Then Harry jumped at Dudley and yelled 'BOO!', which made him scream down the halls and into the kitchen. This made Harry chuckle. "HARRY!" Uncle Vernon yelled. "WHAT!" Harry yelled back. "Don't you yell at me, boy!" Harry thought about it, and then stopped arguing. He thought it would do nothing but bad. He then wondered what Hedwig was doing. Harry went to the kitchen, ate, and then went back to his room.