Chapter 2
"Dudley's Mistake"
A/N- Ok, so maybe the last chapter was a little short. This one's a little longer. Promise. Again, nothing really happens in this chapter, but it doesn't mean that this chapter isn't improtant. Ok, here I go!!
Harry was awakened the next morning by the shouting of his uncle and the loud crying of the Augurey. Harry was still half asleep when he noticed his uncle charging straight at him and demanding him to get out of bed.
"What do you think I'm runnin' here, boy? A bird hotel?!?" his uncle yelled at him. "That bloody bird won't shut up! Shut him up, lad!"
"I can't!" Harry yelled over the bird's crying. " It cries before heavy rain! Best we can do is wait!"
Uncle Vernon gave Harry a look of digust while covering both his ears with his chubby hands. "You were lucky when I let you keep that owl of yours! But now.... a moaning bird!?! No more! And let me guess, it's from one of your little friends at school, isn't it boy? Well, NO MORE!" Uncle Vernon looked more furious than ever. "I want you and that bloody bird out of here by tomorrow, is that clear?!"
The bird finally stopped and the new found silence caught both of their attentions.
"Well, it stopped," Harry said matter-of-factly.
"I don't care! Do you know what damage you just caused? All the neighbors probably heard and since your aunt is out of town now, I'm the one whose gotta explain to them what that noise was! What am am I supposed to tell them?" Uncle Vernon used the same tone of voice as before, even thought he didn't need to yell over an Augurey anymore.
"Well, you could tell them the truth," Harry suggested. "Tell them that a mystical creature from a faraway land was crying it's heart out because it's about to rain." A small smirked crept onto his face.
"NEVER!" Uncle Vernon glared at Harry and his smirk disappeared. "I want you and that bloody bird out of here by tomorrow, is that clear?" His tone of voice decreased dramatically, yet it still had the same effect.
"Where am I supposed to stay, then?" Harry asked.
"I honestly don't care. I just want you as far away from here as possible." He marched out of Harry's room and the house began to shake.
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As Harry layed on his bed, staring absentmindedly at the ceiling, he heard two loud thumps outside hie window. Apparently, the crashes alarmed the now-sleeping Augurey because as soon as it heard the noise, it jumped up and nearly knocked down Hedwig's cage.
Harry recongnized the two owls right away; one was his own Hedwig and the other was Hermione's. Harry opened the window to allow the two owls inside. Hedwig instinctivly flew inside her cage, while the other one just stood on the window sill until Harry picked it up and placed it on his bed.
Harry noticed that they both had packages attatched to their legs, so he he relieved them of their heavy loads and placed their packages on his desk.
He opened the package that came on Hermione's owl first. He opened the letter inside the parcel, which read:
Dear Harry,
Hope your family's not giving you a hard time. Anyway, Happy Birthday! I didn't know what to get you, so I hope you like it.
Sincerely,
Hermione
Harry looked inside the box and found a golden goblet with jewels across the base and his name engraved in the middle. It was like Hermione to get him something practical.
He decided not to waste anymore anymore time and immediately opened the next package. It, too, contained a letter, which said:
Hey Harry,
Just received your letter and just in time, too, bevcause I was going to send it on Errol, but he would have just gotten lost or something. Anyway, Happy Birthday, Harry. Hope you like what I got you. Oh, and my mum said you can come over. How about I pick you up tomorrow at around 8:00 A.M.? I'll probably go by Floo Powder, just to warn you(Remember last time?). Anyway, afterwards, we're going to Diagon Alley for school supplies and to meet up with Hermione. I have to go. Bye.
Ron
Harry tried not to laugh as he remembered the last time Ron came to pick up Harry by Floo Powder. Dudley eneded up with a tounge the size of the fireplace. The image brought a smile to Harry's face. The memory of Dudley's Ton-Tounge led Harry to almost forget about the present Ron had sent him.
He slowly opened the parcel to find two things inside the box. One was a clear, glass bottle which was labeled "Phoenix Tears." Harry remembered that phoenix tears have the ability to heal, so he was grateful. The second gift was a small, yellow, egg-shaped object with a note underneath it. The note read:
Harry-This is a Jobberknoll. They're wonderful pets. They clear your room of spiders and they never make a sound. Also, their feathers are used in all sorts of potions, so you won't need to buy them.
Harry placed the egg gentley inside of it's box, along with the bottle. Harry decided that now was a good time to pack his bags. He only had twenty-two hours until Ron came to pick him up and all of his school supplies were still all over the place.
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Harry was nearly complete packing. All of his robes and clothes were in a chest, while his books were in suitcases. Harry just had to pack a few more things, but then, Dudley came.
"What are you doing in there?" Dudley barked from behind the door. Harry turned to see Dudley's porky fingers clenched on the door and his glaring at him in disgust.
"I'm just getting ready to leave. I'm going to stay with some friends from school," Harry retorted with a slight smirk on his face.
Dudley suddenly stopped glaring and gripped both of his beefy hands over his rear. He never had much luck with any of Harry's friends.
Dudley noticed the smirk on Harry's face, and he wasn't going to let Harry wim this time. He took his hand off of his rear and began pacing.
"You think your special because you're all 'magical', don't you?" Dudley asked in an intimidating voice."You think you're better than everyone else."
"I do not!"
Dudley's attention was soon caught by the three birds that sat on Harry's desk."What are you doing? Collecting birds?" Dudley asked, coldly. He bagan to walk towards the birds when he noticed an abnormally strange bird.
"What kind of a bird is THIS? It's bloody ugly!" Dudley began flicking the Augurey on the beak.
Before Harry could stop him, Dudley let out a smalll yelp. The Augurey had snapped him on the fingers.
"Your bird bit me!"
Harry began to snicker, whick eventually turned into loud, howls of laughter. Harry nearly fell down.
"What's so funny?" Dudley demanded.
"Nothing," Harry managed to say in between laughs.
It was then that Dudley noticed Harry's wand lying unguarded on his desk. Dudley began to slowly walk towards it while Harry was distracted by his laughing. Dudley finally reached the wand and held it firmly in his hands. Harry finally stopped laughing when Dudley pointed it directly at Harry's face.
"So this is how you perform your stupid little magic tricks," Dudley said, his hand trembling as he held the wand. Harry didn't want to say anything to make matters worse.
Dudley turned around, the wand still in his hands. "Look at me, everybody! I'm Harry Potter!" Dudley remarked sarcastically as he strolled around Harry's room."I can peform magic!" Dudley stopped walking only to look at himself in the mirror.. He looked at himself in delight.
He looked at the wand and muttered something Harry couldn't here. Dudley pointed the wand at the mirror and said "Abra Kadabra." Harry was amazed to see that whatever Dudley did worked, because golden sparks came out of the wand. However, the sparks soon bounced off the mirror and formed silver ribbon, which was wrapping inself around Dudley.
When the ribbon faded away, Harry almost started laughing again by what he saw. Dudley had grown two pig-like ears, and his nose was now a snout. As Dudley looked at himself in the mirror, Harry slipped the wand out of his hand.After that, Dudley fainted, causing a loud thump which alarmed Uncle Vernon. He soon began stomping up the stairs.
"What's going on up here?" he yelled. "You better not be getting any more of those blasted birds!" He finally reached Harry's door and opened it so roughly, it nearly cracked the wall as it bounced off of it, and also knocked a picture that was hanging in the hallway onto the ground.
Uncle Vernon noticed his son lying unconsious on the floor, who happened to resembled a swine more now than ever.
"What have you done to him?!?" Uncle Vernon asked, trying to sound calm. He noticed that Harry was holing his wand and his eyes widend. "You put some kind of a spell on him, didn't you?"
Harry looked at Uncle Vernon, trying to find the right words to say. He eventually stuttered a few "I didn't do it!"'s and a couple "It wasn't me"'s in his defense.
His uncle just glared at him and snapped,"You're lucky you're leaving tomorrow." Uncle Vernon began dragging Dudley out of Harry's room, because he was too heavy to lift.
Harry bacame furious at his uncle's attempt to blame him. 'If Dudley wasn't so stupid,' Harry thought. He then packed his wand, so it wouldn't cause any more damage.
When he finished packing the last of his belongings, he let Hermione's owl go back and began to wonder when it would rain again, so he could let the Augurey go home as well. 'It cried this morning.' he thought, 'So it might rain soon.' Harry turned his attention to his watch. 'Only twelve more hours until I'm outta here.'
A/N- Ok, so I might've taken a while to update, but I'm a slow typer, and I'm also really busy. Ok, I would REALLY appreciate reviews. Give me ideas for future chapters! All reviews are welcome! Good or Bad! Thanks to all the people who review, and if you don't, PPPPPLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEEEE RRREEEVVIIIIEEEEEEWWWWWWW!!! I'm BEGGING(And I don't do that often.) Thanks~
"Dudley's Mistake"
A/N- Ok, so maybe the last chapter was a little short. This one's a little longer. Promise. Again, nothing really happens in this chapter, but it doesn't mean that this chapter isn't improtant. Ok, here I go!!
Harry was awakened the next morning by the shouting of his uncle and the loud crying of the Augurey. Harry was still half asleep when he noticed his uncle charging straight at him and demanding him to get out of bed.
"What do you think I'm runnin' here, boy? A bird hotel?!?" his uncle yelled at him. "That bloody bird won't shut up! Shut him up, lad!"
"I can't!" Harry yelled over the bird's crying. " It cries before heavy rain! Best we can do is wait!"
Uncle Vernon gave Harry a look of digust while covering both his ears with his chubby hands. "You were lucky when I let you keep that owl of yours! But now.... a moaning bird!?! No more! And let me guess, it's from one of your little friends at school, isn't it boy? Well, NO MORE!" Uncle Vernon looked more furious than ever. "I want you and that bloody bird out of here by tomorrow, is that clear?!"
The bird finally stopped and the new found silence caught both of their attentions.
"Well, it stopped," Harry said matter-of-factly.
"I don't care! Do you know what damage you just caused? All the neighbors probably heard and since your aunt is out of town now, I'm the one whose gotta explain to them what that noise was! What am am I supposed to tell them?" Uncle Vernon used the same tone of voice as before, even thought he didn't need to yell over an Augurey anymore.
"Well, you could tell them the truth," Harry suggested. "Tell them that a mystical creature from a faraway land was crying it's heart out because it's about to rain." A small smirked crept onto his face.
"NEVER!" Uncle Vernon glared at Harry and his smirk disappeared. "I want you and that bloody bird out of here by tomorrow, is that clear?" His tone of voice decreased dramatically, yet it still had the same effect.
"Where am I supposed to stay, then?" Harry asked.
"I honestly don't care. I just want you as far away from here as possible." He marched out of Harry's room and the house began to shake.
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As Harry layed on his bed, staring absentmindedly at the ceiling, he heard two loud thumps outside hie window. Apparently, the crashes alarmed the now-sleeping Augurey because as soon as it heard the noise, it jumped up and nearly knocked down Hedwig's cage.
Harry recongnized the two owls right away; one was his own Hedwig and the other was Hermione's. Harry opened the window to allow the two owls inside. Hedwig instinctivly flew inside her cage, while the other one just stood on the window sill until Harry picked it up and placed it on his bed.
Harry noticed that they both had packages attatched to their legs, so he he relieved them of their heavy loads and placed their packages on his desk.
He opened the package that came on Hermione's owl first. He opened the letter inside the parcel, which read:
Dear Harry,
Hope your family's not giving you a hard time. Anyway, Happy Birthday! I didn't know what to get you, so I hope you like it.
Sincerely,
Hermione
Harry looked inside the box and found a golden goblet with jewels across the base and his name engraved in the middle. It was like Hermione to get him something practical.
He decided not to waste anymore anymore time and immediately opened the next package. It, too, contained a letter, which said:
Hey Harry,
Just received your letter and just in time, too, bevcause I was going to send it on Errol, but he would have just gotten lost or something. Anyway, Happy Birthday, Harry. Hope you like what I got you. Oh, and my mum said you can come over. How about I pick you up tomorrow at around 8:00 A.M.? I'll probably go by Floo Powder, just to warn you(Remember last time?). Anyway, afterwards, we're going to Diagon Alley for school supplies and to meet up with Hermione. I have to go. Bye.
Ron
Harry tried not to laugh as he remembered the last time Ron came to pick up Harry by Floo Powder. Dudley eneded up with a tounge the size of the fireplace. The image brought a smile to Harry's face. The memory of Dudley's Ton-Tounge led Harry to almost forget about the present Ron had sent him.
He slowly opened the parcel to find two things inside the box. One was a clear, glass bottle which was labeled "Phoenix Tears." Harry remembered that phoenix tears have the ability to heal, so he was grateful. The second gift was a small, yellow, egg-shaped object with a note underneath it. The note read:
Harry-This is a Jobberknoll. They're wonderful pets. They clear your room of spiders and they never make a sound. Also, their feathers are used in all sorts of potions, so you won't need to buy them.
Harry placed the egg gentley inside of it's box, along with the bottle. Harry decided that now was a good time to pack his bags. He only had twenty-two hours until Ron came to pick him up and all of his school supplies were still all over the place.
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Harry was nearly complete packing. All of his robes and clothes were in a chest, while his books were in suitcases. Harry just had to pack a few more things, but then, Dudley came.
"What are you doing in there?" Dudley barked from behind the door. Harry turned to see Dudley's porky fingers clenched on the door and his glaring at him in disgust.
"I'm just getting ready to leave. I'm going to stay with some friends from school," Harry retorted with a slight smirk on his face.
Dudley suddenly stopped glaring and gripped both of his beefy hands over his rear. He never had much luck with any of Harry's friends.
Dudley noticed the smirk on Harry's face, and he wasn't going to let Harry wim this time. He took his hand off of his rear and began pacing.
"You think your special because you're all 'magical', don't you?" Dudley asked in an intimidating voice."You think you're better than everyone else."
"I do not!"
Dudley's attention was soon caught by the three birds that sat on Harry's desk."What are you doing? Collecting birds?" Dudley asked, coldly. He bagan to walk towards the birds when he noticed an abnormally strange bird.
"What kind of a bird is THIS? It's bloody ugly!" Dudley began flicking the Augurey on the beak.
Before Harry could stop him, Dudley let out a smalll yelp. The Augurey had snapped him on the fingers.
"Your bird bit me!"
Harry began to snicker, whick eventually turned into loud, howls of laughter. Harry nearly fell down.
"What's so funny?" Dudley demanded.
"Nothing," Harry managed to say in between laughs.
It was then that Dudley noticed Harry's wand lying unguarded on his desk. Dudley began to slowly walk towards it while Harry was distracted by his laughing. Dudley finally reached the wand and held it firmly in his hands. Harry finally stopped laughing when Dudley pointed it directly at Harry's face.
"So this is how you perform your stupid little magic tricks," Dudley said, his hand trembling as he held the wand. Harry didn't want to say anything to make matters worse.
Dudley turned around, the wand still in his hands. "Look at me, everybody! I'm Harry Potter!" Dudley remarked sarcastically as he strolled around Harry's room."I can peform magic!" Dudley stopped walking only to look at himself in the mirror.. He looked at himself in delight.
He looked at the wand and muttered something Harry couldn't here. Dudley pointed the wand at the mirror and said "Abra Kadabra." Harry was amazed to see that whatever Dudley did worked, because golden sparks came out of the wand. However, the sparks soon bounced off the mirror and formed silver ribbon, which was wrapping inself around Dudley.
When the ribbon faded away, Harry almost started laughing again by what he saw. Dudley had grown two pig-like ears, and his nose was now a snout. As Dudley looked at himself in the mirror, Harry slipped the wand out of his hand.After that, Dudley fainted, causing a loud thump which alarmed Uncle Vernon. He soon began stomping up the stairs.
"What's going on up here?" he yelled. "You better not be getting any more of those blasted birds!" He finally reached Harry's door and opened it so roughly, it nearly cracked the wall as it bounced off of it, and also knocked a picture that was hanging in the hallway onto the ground.
Uncle Vernon noticed his son lying unconsious on the floor, who happened to resembled a swine more now than ever.
"What have you done to him?!?" Uncle Vernon asked, trying to sound calm. He noticed that Harry was holing his wand and his eyes widend. "You put some kind of a spell on him, didn't you?"
Harry looked at Uncle Vernon, trying to find the right words to say. He eventually stuttered a few "I didn't do it!"'s and a couple "It wasn't me"'s in his defense.
His uncle just glared at him and snapped,"You're lucky you're leaving tomorrow." Uncle Vernon began dragging Dudley out of Harry's room, because he was too heavy to lift.
Harry bacame furious at his uncle's attempt to blame him. 'If Dudley wasn't so stupid,' Harry thought. He then packed his wand, so it wouldn't cause any more damage.
When he finished packing the last of his belongings, he let Hermione's owl go back and began to wonder when it would rain again, so he could let the Augurey go home as well. 'It cried this morning.' he thought, 'So it might rain soon.' Harry turned his attention to his watch. 'Only twelve more hours until I'm outta here.'
A/N- Ok, so I might've taken a while to update, but I'm a slow typer, and I'm also really busy. Ok, I would REALLY appreciate reviews. Give me ideas for future chapters! All reviews are welcome! Good or Bad! Thanks to all the people who review, and if you don't, PPPPPLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEEEE RRREEEVVIIIIEEEEEEWWWWWWW!!! I'm BEGGING(And I don't do that often.) Thanks~