Harry Potter was looking out the window of his room in the house of his muggle relatives who always have waged a war against Harry and his strange ways. The Dursleys favored only things that were of the normal and wished only for a quiet normal life. However, Harry Potter is no ordinary orphan; he is no less than the most famous Wizard of all time, apart from the evil Lord Voldemort and the wise Professor Dumbledore. Harry will be attending Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his 5th year in September, which still seemed like an eternity away. Yet, his Harry's thoughts were drifting as any 15 year old boy's thoughts would be.
Harry's birthday had come and gone once again with the Dursleys not even noticing, even though precisely at midnight the night before, 4 owls had come bringing Harry very large birthday presents. His best friends at Hogwarts, Ron Weasly (Whose family all had fiery red hair) and Hermione Granger (Whose family is of muggle descent, however is the most clever witch in their year), had both sent large birthday cakes along with small letters to Harry wishing him a good birthday and hoping the Dursleys weren't giving him a hard time over the holiday. From his friend, Hagrid (the gamekeeper of Hogwarts school) sent Harry a small carved whistle that had a small knob that could magically adjust the volume at which it played. From his godfather, Sirius (who was Harry's father's best friend and was an escaped convict from the wizard prison Azkaban, which two years ago was proved innocent; However, Wormtail, another one of his father's friends, betrayed them and Sirius had to stay on the run) sent Harry a brand-new All ink-remover eraser that could remove any ink from any type of surface. Unfortunately, these were the only things that would be cause for him to be happy right now.
Harry's uncle only agreed to let Harry back to Hogwarts only if he'd stay in Diagon Alley for the rest of the summer during the month of August, since Aunt Marge was supposed to be coming back during that month. During the last incident Aunt Marge came to the Dursley's house, Harry accidentally used magic to make her fill up and float like a balloon. Harry had nothing against returning to Diagon Ally so the agreement was made rather quickly.
As Harry stared into the starry sky, he felt as though he should be expecting something… The reason why he woke up so suddenly was because he felt something strange… Was someone outside? He didn't know… Either way, he'd be heading off to London in the morning, might as well get some rest.
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"Home…," whispered Harry as he saw the silhouette of Hogwarts Express Platform. Ron and Hermione were getting off the train car behind him as he was looking up at the school. He and his friends had talked joyously about their summer vacations in their carriage ride up to the school.
During the rest of the summer, he had many fun-filled days of roaming the cobbled-stone street of Diagon Ally, visiting many wizarding shops and getting the supplies he'd need for the next year. Ron and Hermione had come at the last week of summer to get their school things as well. While in Diagon Ally, he saw many of this school mates such as Neville Longbottom with his grandmother, Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan looking at the latest Quidditch supplies. Yet, the memories of the past year at Hogwarts were always on his mind, how he was in the Triwizard tournament where he was placed against Champions from different schools across Europe. During this tournament, Voldemort was brought back to power through Wormtail's help in kidnapping Harry and forcing Harry to duel against Voldemort. Harry barely escaped with his life, as well as the body of his friend, whose echo asked Harry to return the body to Hogwarts as a final request. All of these memories were blurred now, and still very painful to remember.
Once all the students had gotten off the carriages and sat down in the Great Hall for the Beginning of the Year Feast, Professor McGonagall walked in with the new first years. The old sorting hat was placed on each first year in turn as it sorted each frightened student into their house. After the sorting, Feast officially started. Harry and his friends started to pile food onto their Golden plates as excited chatter echoed for nearly an hour. Finally when all the plates were magically cleared, Dumbledore stood up to give his start of the year speech.
"If I can have your attention, while I give out some notices. Mr. Filch, the care taker, has asked me to remind all students that the list of forbidden objects are viewable in his office when needed to be seen. I must remind that all students are not allowed into the Forbidden Forest and all students under third year are not allowed to visit Hogsmede."
"And now… I must introduce several new members of our school that have come across our closest ocean to join us here at Hogwarts."
The Great Hall instantly became silent, all eyes were on Dumbldore.
"If you could direct your attention to the opposite end of the Great Hall… They have arrived."