Harry sat up straight in his bed. Ron had just dumped a bucket of cold water on him and was running down the hall with Fred and George.

"I'm going to get you guys!" said Harry.

He got up out of bed to go take a hot shower. He got out, changed his clothes, and started downstairs to eat some breakfast.

"Today we're going to Diagon Alley," said Mrs. Weasley while serving eggs and bacon.

There was a mumble heard from everyone at the table for they were too hungry to actually answer her.

After breakfast, the trio went upstairs to get ready for their trip to Diagon Alley.

"So Hermione, exactly how many books are you getting," asked Ron.

"Well, I wrote them all down and I have about.fifteen extra books to get," she said.

"What!" said Harry and Ron together.

"Well, I did good on my O.W.L.S. and I have to get ready for the N.E.W.T.S" she said.

"But that isn't until next year," said Harry.

"I know but you can't be too ready," said Hermione.

"I think you can," said Ron quietly.

"By the way Ron, how many O.W.L.S. did you get?" asked Harry.

"Umm.well." said Ron.

"Well?" asked Hermione impatiently.

"I.well.I didn't do too good. I got 7 O.W.L.S.," said Ron.

"Well that's how many I got too," said Harry.

"Yea, ok, whatever, can we drop the subject?" asked Ron.

Before anyone could say anything else, Mrs. Weasley called them down.

"It's time to go everyone," she said.

They were the last ones down. Ginny, Fred, and George (even though they weren't going back to Hogwarts) were already there, waiting for the trio.

"Everyone know how to use Floo?" she asked.

"Yes," they all said.

"Good, now Ron, you first," said Mrs. Weasley.

Ron stepped into the fireplace, took some powder and said, "Diagon Alley," and with that he was gone.

"Harry, you next," said Mrs. Weasley.

Harry took some powder, stood where Ron was just standing and said, "Diagon Alley."

Harry could feel himself being lifted off his feet. He was starting to fell dizzy. He soon felt himself on the ground and found himself standing next to Ron.

Soon enough, the rest of the Weasleys were standing at Harry's side.

"So, to Gringotts first I guess," said Ron.

They walked to Gringotts and gave the goblins their keys to their vaults. They stepping into the lift with the goblin as he escorted them towards their vaults, while Hermione traded in some of her muggle money for galleons, sickles, and knuts.

"Mr. Potter," said the goblin as he opened the door. Harry tried to grab as many galleons as he could as fast as he could so they could leave. Harry's parents had left him a large sum of money and he hated the others seeing it.

They moved on to the next door.

"Mrs. Weasley," said the goblin and she went in to grab some galleons from the quite smaller pile of coins that Harry had.

They met Hermione back at the entrance and started towards Flourish and Blotts.

The grabbed the new school books that they needed, plus the extra fifteen Hermione got and headed off to Madam Malkins for some new robes when they met up with Seamus, Dean, and Neville.

"Hello," said Seamus, Dean, and Neville.

"Hello," said Hermione, Harry and the Weasley family.

"We just got back from Zonkos but they don't have nearly as much stuff as Fred and George have," said Seamus.

"We were waiting for you to open so we decided to go to Flourish and Blotts to get our new books," said Dean.

"Oh, we were going to get some new robes," said Hermione.

"Well, we better get going," said Neville

"See you guys in a few hours maybe," said Seamus as him, Dean, and Neville walked off.

"Bye," said the rest of them, Harry slightly confused by their answer.

"See you in a few hours?" asked Harry. "What did they mean by that?"

Hermione and Ron looked at each other with a grin on their faces.

"I have no idea," said Ron.

"Me either," said Hermione.

"Oh well, let's get going then," said Harry as they got going to Madam Malkins.

After they got their robes, Fred and George said they had to go open up their shop. Ginny wanted to go eat some ice cream, so Mrs. Weasley said to meet back in an hour at Fred and George's store.

As everyone started going in different directions, Hermione suggested going to The Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer.

"We haven't been there in a while and I'm getting thirsty," said Hermione.

"Sure, why not," said Ron and off they went.

They walked in and sure enough it was jam packed with people. Eventually, they found a booth and sat down.

"Three butterbeers please," asked Hermione politely.

The bartender gave them the three butterbeers and said, "Six sickles."

"I've got it you guys," said Harry as he rummaged around his pockets for some money.

They started talking about Quidditch and Hogwarts when Hermione suddenly yelled out, "LET'S GO YOU GUYS, WE'RE HALF AN HOUR LATE," as she dashed out the door.

"Ok Hermione, calm down we're coming," said Ron as he and Harry ran out after her.

When the got to the joke shop, they knew things weren't good when they saw Mrs. Weasley's face.

"Where have you three been," she said impatiently to the trio.

"Well, we were at The Three Broomsticks and we kind of forgot about the time," said Ron.

"Well, is everybody here?" asked Mrs. Weasley, still angry.

"Yes," they all mumbled, not wanting to get her mad again.

"Well, then lets get moving," she said as they all started off towards the Burrow.

~*~

When they got back, Mrs. Weasley told them that dinner would be ready in an hour and to look "presentable" because the Order would be here for dinner.

As they went upstairs, Harry said, "I wonder why the Order is coming for dinner, they never do."

"I have no idea," said Ron, turning his head before Harry could see the slight grin on his face. "How about a game of chess?"

"Sure, why not," said Harry.

I'm going to help Mrs. Weasley with dinner," said Hermione and went downstairs.

After a half an hour, they finished their chess game (in which Harry was victorious) and Harry decided to go take a shower.

"I'll be downstairs," said Ron.

After Harry had taken a shower and changed his clothes, he went back into Ron's room and looked in his trunk for something and pulled out his photo album of his parents. A tear formed in his eye as he flipped through the pages and his parents waved at him. Just then, Ron came in.

"Come on, everyone's here," said Ron.

"Ok, I'm coming," said Harry as he threw aside the photo album and followed Ron downstairs.

When they got down there, Harry said, "Why is it so dark?"

"I dunno," replied Ron.

"SUPRISE!!!" yelled a bunch of people as the lights flickered on, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!"

He stood there staring at the amount of people in front of him. There was the entire Order (except for Snape), Neville, Seamus, Dean (now he knew what they meant), Angelina, Alicia, Katie, Hermione, the entire Weasley family, and Albus Dumbledore.

"Wow, I can't believe I forgot my own birthday," said Harry as everyone laughed at him.

Soon enough, they found themselves outside eating delicious food made by Mrs. Weasley. Afterwards, Charlie challenged Harry to a Quidditch match. The teams were Harry, Angelina, Alicia, Katie, Fred, and George against Bill, Charlie, Ron, Ginny, Dean, and Seamus. They played for 2 hours and the score was tied 300-300. Everyone was getting tired and wanted to quit when Harry caught glimpse of the snitch. He told Fred and George to keep on playing and they told the rest of the team. Just then, Charlie saw the snitch too. They both dove for it. Everyone stopped playing to watch them, even the adults stopped talking to watch. Now they were both neck to neck. They both had their arms reached out. Harry pushed just a little harder and caught it. His team was yelling and screaming. Before he could say a word, Fred and George had tackled him and he almost fell off of his broom.

"Nice catch Harry," said Charlie after he had gotten Fred and George off of Harry, "though I haven't been practicing much."

"You were right Remus, he really can fly," said Kingsley Shacklebolt.

"Yes he can," said Remus, "Just like James."

"I think it's time for Harry's presents now," said Mrs. Weasley as everyone started landing.

They went inside and then Harry saw the biggest pile of presents he had ever seen in his life.

From Angelina, Alicia, and Katie, they got him the most expensive broom keeping kit, holographic paper from Neville, Seamus, and Dean so that when he owled anyone, they would be able to see him, as usual, mounds of candy from Ron, 5 books from Hermione, a photo album of all of them from Ginny, a gigantic box filled with one of everything from Fred and George's store, a dragon scale and tooth from Bill and Charlie (that may sound kinda corny but I couldn't think of anything else), a 7 compartment trunk from Moody, just like the one he was held captive in, and a book from Tonks.

Then he opened Remus's gift. I was Sirius's vault key and his will, saying that everything was split half way between him and Remus. He also got a journal and on the cover it said: Property of James Charles Potter.

Harry was excited. He was holding something of his father's. He couldn't wait to be alone and read it.

Then he opened Dumbledore's gift. He had gotten him a sneakascope so whenever he wanted to see someone, all he had to do was say their name.

Just then an owl swooped in and landed in from of Harry with a package.

Harry,

I'm sorry I couldn't be there for your birthday but I had some important business to do for Dumbledore. I hope you like the gift. I traded it from someone. Happy Birthday.

Hagrid

Harry looked up with a horrified look on his face at the package.

"What's wrong Harry?" said Hermione.

"It's from Hagrid. He said that he traded this from someone," said Harry.

Suddenly, everyone pushed back their chairs from the table.

"I don't think you want to open that, Harry," said Ron.

Harry slowly opened the package and his eyes widened at what he saw.

"What is it, Harry," asked Charlie.

"It's a unicorn's horn," he said, still amazed at the beautiful thing in front of him.

"Wow, those things are very rare," said Hermione.

"Well, thanks for all of the gifts. I didn't really do anything to deserve them," said Harry.

Soon enough, everyone started to leave. The Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione sat down at the kitchen table. Ron started to yawn.

"I think it's to bed for all of you," said Mrs. Weasley.

Harry was the first one up. He was so tired that he could barely stand.

"G'night everyone," said Harry.

He started up the stairs towards his room and couldn't wait for the next day so that he could read his father's journal.