"Harry!" cried Ron. "Harry wake up!"

Harry sleepily opened his eyes to see Ron's freckly face staring back at him.

"AUGH!" screamed Harry and fell off the bed.

"Oh I'm sorry Harry, did I startle you?"

"It's alright Ron" Harry said with a smile.

"Well, Happy Christmas Harry."

"Happy Christmas to you too Ron."

They went downstairs and unwrapped their presents.

Harry laughed.

"Homemade sweater again?" joked Harry.

"Don't forget. It's maroon." groaned Ron.

"It's better than nothing at least."

"What did YOU get Harry?"

"Nothing particularly special this year." answered Harry. "Just loads of sweets"

"Hey Harry, you missed 3 more." Ron pointed out.

The first one wasn't neatly wrapped in delightful vivid colored wrapping paper, instead,

it was wrapped rather messily, in what looked like scraps of brown paper bags and

ripped shreds of newspaper. The card was made out of a 3" by 5" index card and the

bow looked like the bow on Dudley's 7th birthday party.

"I wonder who THIS is from." Harry asked in wonder. He has NEVER seen a present

wrapped so messily before. He read the card first.

Harry.

What a nice Christmas this is eh? Dudley is fine and so is your Aunt Petunia.

I'm quite fine too. Dudley's diet is going along well and we got him a

playstation 2 and a gamecube. He enjoyed them both very much. Aren't you

happy that your nephew is doing great? Um... I hope you are well at your

school. If you are wondering why we sent you this, er, a Christmas present is

because your godfather told us it would, er, make you happy, and that's er, all

we want. I hope you can stay at your godfather's place for the rest of your life.

Not to get rid of you of course but since you would be so much happier there.

From

Uncle Vernon

"Lies." said Ron angrily. "All lies. He didn't even say Happy Christmas! All he talked

about is your stupid nephew Dudley."

Harry stared at the present and started to open it with care.