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Chapter 6

Presents!!

By Caroline "Hally" Hal (maracuchi@hotmail.com)

 It was July 31st; Harry was lying on his bed, in just minutes, greeting cards from his friends would arrive.

"It's already become a tradition," he thought smiling, remembering that Hermione had told him so, or like Fleur told him last year, "Ton jour férié, mon amie".

It was almost 2:00 am, so probably the owls would come soon, as none of his friends wanted the Dursleys to confiscate any of their presents.

The first owl was Hermione's; it dropped a packet along with a note saying:

Dear Harry,

Happy Birthday!! Too bad that you couldn't move in with Sirius just yet, but at least it is the last summer. I hope that you like my present, I remember that you told me how much you like the Weasleys, so I searched for it since the beginning of summer, and well, I found it.

Yours.

Mya.

He opened the package and found a mini version of the clock that he had seen hanging in the Weasleys' kitchen: It had only four hands, all of them pointing up. He smiled; he really liked those clocks. Sirius had promised him at the end of Fifth year that they would have one in their living room.

He looked out of the window and saw three or four owls approaching: the Weasleys'. They flew in through the window and deposited their parcels on the floor with a soft thud While two of the owls left the room again, the other two (Errol and 'Pig') stayed, annoying Hedwig as always. He opened the first parcel; it was from Mr and Mrs Weasley. He was amazed at the presents: Whereas there was Mrs Weasley's usual hand-made jersey and a set of homemade cakes, the no-batteries-needed-Discman, ("Mr Weasley's idea" thought Harry) was the hit. Harry smiled to himself. He did not have any discs yet, so maybe he should start buying them now. He took another packet: It was a box full of candies and chocolates, with a little note on top that said:

Hey Harry:

Sorry about just this but we didn't know what to buy so… well happy birthday, we hope you enjoy this day.

Greetings from: Bill, Charlie and Percy.

Then, he took the biggest box of all. On unwrapping it he found a Quiddich balls set. He took the note that went with it:

Harry:

This time we didn't send you any cake because we saw that mom was making some, - well, a lot, actually, - of her own and that Charlie, Bill and Percy only bought you candies. — Wait—oh, Ron says "plus we are broke", well anyway, I hope you like our present more than the others. I saw that dad was sending a strange box, probably one of his experiments with muggle things; oh, and you are welcome—It's none of your business Ronnie—well, Happy Birthday, hope that your relatives don't make your day a living hell.

Your friends.

Ginny—and Ron

Harry smiled and was just looking at the floor to see if there was something more, when another owl arrived with a large box.

This is a broom case; we know how valuable your broom is for you. Happy Birthday by the way.

From: Gred and Feorge.

PS: We could not give you any toilet seat from Hogwarts since we don't go there any more.

The next group of owls came, bringing a magic camera, from Sirius, an album that never ran out of pages, from Hagrid and Madam Maxine; and a message from Hogwarts that asked him to go earlier because of a new Professor. ("A Magical Languages Master?" thought Harry, "strange.") It also said that Hermione and Draco Malfoy would be that year's Head Girl/Boy.

"Didn't see THAT coming" said Harry sarcastically. Since he had become a Prefect, he had become more responsible, and started studying, so now he and Draco were the second top students (though, of course, they could never surpass Mya). But last year Snape had been very hard on Harry and very soft on Draco, and if Snape had given him one point, just one point for his last Potions essay, he would have been Head Boy, but he had known that Snape would never do such a thing, so… He was just going through his mental "blame Snape for everything" routine, when a brownish owl arrived in his room. He had never seen the bird before, but still it was familiar to him. It stretched out a leg showing a little cage tied to it.

He detached the miniature cage from the owl's leg, and immediately the bird flew to Hedwig's cage, Harry was surprised that Hedwig remained so calm, since she never liked other owls getting into her cage.

"Strange," Harry said to himself, looking down at the tiny cage in his hand. It had a label that said, "Open the cage." He did so and saw a minute white wolf that looked very familiar step out of the cage. The tiny wolf transformed into a tiny person, who at the same time started to grow to her original height.

"Ta-daaaa" said Fleur, when she had finally reached her real size. "Joyeux anniversaire!!" Harry was lost for words, she had been planning this, he realised now, that was why she hadn't wanted to talk to him last week.

He seized her and covered her mouth with his own. She kissed him back lovingly, wrapped her arms around his neck, playing with his hair, his hands circling her back. After a long time they pulled apart to catch their breaths.

"I was forgetting how good that feels," he gasped, brushing away a strand of hair from her face, while she was caressing his cheek.

"Oh, come on 'J', it was not that long," she said half-laughing.

"All right, but still I've missed you a lot."

"I've missed you too," she said kissing him softly on the lips, then she hugged him tightly, she had missed that too.

While she was leaning closer to him, she stepped on some of the wrappings that were on the floor. "Presents!!" she looked up to him and added, "what did you get?"

She sat down on his bed; he sat next to her.

"Well…let's see, Ron and Ginny got me a Quiddich ball's set, I am going to use it a lot back at Hogwarts." She nodded, understandingly smiling at his enthusiasm. "Umm, Gred and Feorge sent me a broom-case, Hagrid and Madame Maxime, you know, I don't know what to call her, Mm. Maxime or Mm. Hagrid, I mean they are together all the time, aren't they?" - she laughed at that - " anyway, they gave me a photo album…"

"I think that was Mme. Maxime's idea, she thinks that one should keep as many pictures of yourself and your loved ones as it is possible, she always gives photo albums or portraits. - Go on, continue."

"Sirius, a camera, umm," he paused for a second "guess they bought the presents together; let's see, oh Hermione gave me a Tracking Clock, Mrs. Weasley made me a jersey and lots of cakes, Mr Weasley gave me a CD player that works without batteries, Bill, Charley and Percy sent a mountain of candies and chocolates and … oh yeah, the annual Hogwarts letter," he finished.

"And mine," she said taking out of her pocket a little package in silver and gold wrapping paper.

"You didn't have… you, you came, that was all I would have asked for."

He unwrapped the package and found a tiny jewellery box.

He grinned mischievously and said, "Are you asking me to marry you?"

They both laughed.

"'Coz then: Yes"

Fleur flew into a fit of giggles.

"No, dummy, open it." she managed to say when she calmed down. He opened the box and found a silvery glowing ball-shaped charm attached to a silver chain. He noticed that in the centre of the charm there was a single strand of fairy hair. 'Her hair,' he thought.

"It's supposed to protect your loved one," she said with a shy smile.

"It's beautiful, thank you."

He sat her on his lap and kissed her. She deepened the kiss and leaned over him, soon they were lying on the bed, her on top of him, his lips travelled down to her neck without any intention of stopping there...

When he felt her hand covering his mouth, he opened his eyes.

"We can't do this here J," she said.

"Yeah, I know, where do we go?" he asked her. She laughed barely audibly.

"I am serious, Harry" she said smiling.

He grinned. "I am, too"

She laughed, but said "Harry" as a warning.

"Ok, I was not TOTALLY serious, but I like hearing AND seeing you laugh" she smiled at him.

"What time is it?"

He turned to his night table. "2:15, why?"

"Oh, merde, I better be going." She jumped up.

"What??!!" he said getting off the bed as well. "Why??!!"

"Because Pansy is waiting for me, and I told her that I was going to be there at 2:45/3:00 at the latest."

"Pansy, huh? How is she doing, still sad?" he asked, a little concerned about Pansy, after all that Fleur had told him.

"Probably, but she doesn't show it anymore, she is more talkative now, she usually shows up at midnight to talk."

"Really? Is she a Vampire?" he smirked.

"Harry..." she seemed to think about what he had said. "Then this year you will have a vampire that thinks that you are cute, not to mention a git and player," She smiled and almost laugh at his face, brushing his lips with her own. "Au revoir, mon amour," she said pointing her wand at herself and shrinking back again, then transforming into the mini-wolf and entering the cage.

Harry tied the cage to the leg of the brownish owl and then let it go.

And while the owl was disappearing in the night sky, he remained standing at the window frame and said "au revoir".

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A/N: Hi, this is the Captain author, you are now in the Harry Potter fanfic: "Captain Potter", we are now about 16 pages high, we will reach our destination in an undefined period of time, so sit and enjoy your flight : ).

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