Chapter Three: A Sad Farewell

     "You have to leave?! Can't you stay just a little longer?" Harry pleaded. They had just got here and now they had to go. "I am sorry, Harry. It's time for us to be leaving," his dad said. "I don't want you to go." Harry was crying, so were his parents. His mum spoke, "We don't want to leave either, but we don't have a choice." Harry hugged his mum and his dad, and then he asked, "Will I ever see you again?" Lily and James looked at each other. They didn't know if this was the last time they would ever see each other again. "I love you." He said as he hugged his mum one last time. "I love you too. Here take this." Lily removed the necklace from her neck, and gave it to Harry. It was a beautiful, sterling silver heart shaped locket with a smaller heart shaped sapphire in the middle of it hanging from a thin sterling silver chain. "To remember us by, ok." She said kissing him on the forehead. He opened it, and inside was a photo of his mum and dad. He turned to his dad. James looked at his son, "You're going to be a fine wizard. I am so proud of you. I love you, son." Tears filled Harry's eyes as he hugged his dad. "I love you too." James continued, "Take care of that Invisibility Cloak."[1] Harry grinned, "I will." Lily and James backed up away from Harry. "Goodbye. We'll miss you!" James said while Lily cried. "I'll miss you too." His parents began to fade until they were completely gone. Harry sighed. He bent down to pick up his dad's cloak, and then.

----------------------- [1] In J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", it's the cloak that Harry gets for Christmas from "someone"; it once belonged to his father.