Harry entered the main common room two days after the disastrous potion
experience to find it pitch black. There was a rustling noise coming from
one of the corners of the room. Harry wondered why the lights were all
off. Usually they kept them on, even if no one was there. He turned on the
lights, and to his great surprise, saw all of his friends, family, and
acquaintances standing there.
"SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!", everyone shouted.
Their common room had been magically enlarged to accommodate the many people who were there. Balloons of all shapes and sizes covered the room. Confetti fell from the ceiling, and streamers and crepe paper covered the walls. Up against the far wall were stacks and stacks of presents, all with different colored wrapping paper and bows. On the wall to Harry's right was a large table covered in almost every food imaginable- from carrot sticks for those who like to eat on more of the healthier side, to both wizard and muggle sweets, cakes, Ice Cream, and a muggle food called "pizza". Coolers of butterbeer, water, pumpkin juice, and alcoholic drinks were underneath the large table.
Collin Creevy took his picture. Harry was momentarily blinded by the sudden change in lighting.
"I- I don't know what to say." Harry said. "I didn't even realize that it was my birthday already, until you all screamed it-"
Everyone began to laugh. Harry continued.
"-And I have never had a birthday party before- thank you!"
Harry's eyes wandered to the corner of the room where he had hear the noise. He saw Sirius holding a little boy of about two years of age. The little boy had blonde hair, but also resembled Sirius a lot. The boy was laughing and batting at one of the balloons that had been enchanted to float around without touching the ceiling.
He walked over to the corner and Sirius introduced him to the little boy.
"Harry, this is my son Andrew- Drew for short."
"I didn't know you had a son", Harry said.
"Well, he isn't technically mine. Have I ever told you about my brother Regulus? Well, he had a son, and then he died, and this is his son's son, making me his great uncle or something like that. My nephew, who is Regulus' son, also died when he was only twenty- which was this year. Drew has been with me ever since I came back to life, although I didn't want you to know just yet, so I hid him from you. I wanted to surprise you."
"Ohhh. . .", said Harry, now beginning to understand. "How old is Drew?"
"I'm this many," said Drew, holding up two fingers.
"And when is his birthday?"
"June 27", said Drew.
At this point, Lavender and Parvati had come over to see the little boy, and were starting to play with him, so Harry walked off to talk to some of the other guests. Among the people there were also some of Lily and James' old friends from school, members of the Order of Pheonix, some of the teachers from Hogwarts, some of the shopkeepers at Diagon Alley, some people that Arthur Weasley worked with at the Ministry, and various people that Harry didn't know. Harry walked up to his mother.
"Mom? Exactly how many people did you invite?"
"We invited everyone", Lily responded
"Everyone?" Harry questioned.
"Yeah, we invited everyone we know."
"Wow. . . How many people are here?"
"Probably somewhere around a thousand."
"But, aren't people not supposed to know where the entrance to our rooms are is?"
"Don't worry about that- we have someone outside the corridor ready to wipe their minds as to which portrait and corridor the room was behind after they leave."
"That is reassuring", Harry said. He thanked her again for throwing the party for him, and asked how long they had been planning it.
"Ever since I got back, I think. When I found out you had never had a birthday, I had to do something."
Just then, Draco Malfoy walked up to Harry.
"Ummm... I didn't know that you were here Malfoy," said Harry, trying to be polite, as his mother was standing right behind him.
"Uh, can we go talk somewhere more private?" Draco Malfoy asked.
"Okay," Harry reluctantly replied. There was something about the way Draco acted that didn't seem so... Malfoy.
Harry lead Malfoy to the common room that he shared with his parents. He whispered the password to the portrait of the mermaid. They entered the room and sat down.
~10 minutes later~
"Wait, so the 'Draco' who has been going to Hogwarts for the past five years wasn't you? It was your DAD?" Harry asked incredulously.
"Yeah. Dumbledore already knows, and I got re-sorted last week. I am in Gryffindor, where the sorting hat said that I truly belonged."
"But why did your father pretend to be you?"
"I was never told, but now that he is under the Dementor's Kiss, I can go. I am at the same level as a sixth year, because my mother tutored me at home and taught me along the guidelines that Hogwarts teaches."
Harry talked to Draco for about fifteen minutes more, when Ginny barged in and said that everyone was wondering where he was. When she saw whom he was sitting with, she gave Draco a dirty look, and gave Harry one that plainly said, "Why are you talking to HIM?"
"He's okay Gin-", Harry said. He then proceeded to give her a summary of what he and Draco had talked about.
They exited the common room, and joined the party once more. Mostly, Draco hung around Harry.
Before everyone knew it, the party had been going for over an hour, and some of the younger children and Harry's friends were begging him to open his presents. Since this process would probably take about two hours, due to the volume of presents that he had received. There was probably close to 1,000 gifts to open.
Everyone gathered around and watched while Harry began to unwrap his gifts. First was a gift from Collin Creevy, who had bought him a magical camera. Dennis Creevy had gotten him a picture frame to go along with the magical camera. It was charmed so that he could put three photos in the frame, one on top of the other, and the frame would automatically switch the photos back and forth, so that all of them could be viewed. Kingsley Shacklebolt's gift was next, and was a book on becoming an Auror. Mundungus Fletcher got him a solid gold cauldron, although Harry questioned whether or not it was stolen. McGonagall had purchased another book on becoming an Auror for Harry, as well as a book on professional Quidditch, because she knew that Harry also had a chance of playing in the Pro's.
Gift by gift, the pile of unopened gifts got smaller and smaller as the pile of opened gifts got larger. It seemed as though people that Harry had never seen before in his entire life had brought him gifts.
He had gotten two sets of gobstones, a nasty game that shot foul-smelling liquid at you if you were loosing, three wizard chess sets, a golden snitch, a crystal ball, a remembrall, a Secrecy Sensor, foe glass, three sets of exploding snap cards, self-shuffling playing cards, a lunascope, a talking mirror for his bedroom, two penknives, a Put-Outer, three revealers, and a variety of books, along with many other items.
He received seven cases of Butterbeer, and a bottle of Ogden's Firewhisky. He also got loads and loads of candy, which included Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Droobles Best Blowing Gum, Pumpkin Pasties, Sugar Quills, Cauldron Cakes, Fizzing Wizzbees, a variety of joke supplies, toffees and chocolates, and to Harry's disgust, Cockroach Clusters and Acid Pops.
"What are these people trying to do, poison me?" Harry thought.
Finally, the only presents remaining were from Hermione, Draco, Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, Sirius, and his parents.
Hermione handed him her present, which contained a fairly thick book on Defensive Spells and a packet of Dung bombs. Everyone laughed, because this was not the type of present that you would expect from Hermione. Harry thanked her as he was handed a gift that was from Ron.
Harry tore open the wrapping paper to find a brand new set of Quidditch balls that came with beater's clubs. These were very expensive and semi- hard to obtain. Harry thanked Ron, and started on the next gift, although he couldn't wait to play some Quidditch.
Harry was handed Draco's present, which started meowing when he picked it up. Little holes were punched all over the box, probably so that whatever was inside could breathe. Harry tore off the paper to find a cute little tabby kitten inside. It was so small, he could hold it in his palm.
"What's its name?" Harry asked Draco.
"Her, and she doesn't have a name yet." Draco replied.
"Tigress- Tiger for short," one of his guests suggested.
"Mischief", someone shouted.
"Princess"
"Fluffy!" shouted Drew
"Misty"
"Mirage"
"Kara"
"Kitty!" Drew squealed.
"Rosie"
"Angel"
"Chester!" someone shouted out.
"Chester?" Ron asked, confused. People looked around, trying to find out who had said that. The voice came again, this time from a corner.
"Walter!" It said.
Still, no one could make out who it was.
"Herman!"
"Fernando!"
"Fergus!"
"Hubert!"
"Winston!"
"Water Balloon!"
"Water Balloon?" someone called out.
Peeves then appeared, with a sack of water balloons in his hand. Someone screamed.
Peeves began pelting people with water balloons. There was water everywhere. When he ran out, Peeves shoved the sack that he had been using over Ginny's head and sped away, cackling. Hermione quickly cleaned up all of the water with a wave of her wand, while Harry got the sack off Ginny's head. The names then started again, after everyone had a good laugh.
"Princess"
"Callie"
The names went on and on and on. Finally Harry said, "I think I like Tiger- just plain Tiger."
Thus, the kitten was named.
Next, Harry opened Sirius' gift, which contained a blank piece of old parchment and another small box. Before Harry could open the other box, Sirius whispered in his ear "It is a new and improved version of the Marauder's Map". Harry then opened the smaller box, and regretted doing so, because whatever was inside jumped out and bit him on the nose. Everyone began to laugh. Sirius had given Harry a nose-biting teacup.
"Ouch", Harry said. The teacup had latched onto his nose, and no matter how hard Harry tried to get it of, it wouldn't budge. Sirius then muttered a spell and the teacup flew off his nose. The large dent that had been in his nose disappeared, and he was handed a present from Fred and George. This present contained a variety if joke items from Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. Various Skivving Snackboxes, Canary Creams, Basic Blaze Boxes, Deflagration Deluxe, five Extendable Ears, a Portable Swamp, seven Headless Hats, Ton Tongue Toffees, Wildfire Whiz-bangs, and several fake wands.
Lily and James then handed him a long thin package. Harry tore off the wrapping paper, and to his surprise, a new broomstick fell out. Harry read the label on the handle.
"Fireball 2010"
"It is a prototype. Not available in stores yet. In fact, that was the first one made." James said.
Harry stared at it in awe. Harry then asked his father how he managed this. James then replied that some people "owed him big time".
"The broomstick was from your father, this gift is from me," Lily told him.
Lily handed him a small box. Harry opened it to find a small clear bauble, much like the remembrall that he had received earlier.
"Hold it with both of your hands, and then close your eyes," Lily told him.
Harry did so, and after waiting about thirty seconds, he opened his eyes and gazed into the small bauble.
At this point, Harry was wondering what was going on. Deep within the mist inside of the ball, a figure could be seen. It became clearer and clearer until Harry could tell what the figure was.
It was a dragon. A Swedish Short Snout, to be specific.
"This bauble is cool, but what does it do? What does the dragon represent?" Harry asked.
Lily then produced a piece of parchment, and handed it to Harry.
Harry quickly scanned the parchment, and within seconds, grasped the fact that it was an anamagus license.
"The bauble shows you're your true form, and this license permits you to begin training to be an anamagus. I figured that it could be useful."
"Thanks mum!" Harry exclaimed.
"Oh great," James said, rolling his eyes. "He's going legal on us..."
The last present was from Ginny, who removed her necklace, which had a small silver whistle attached to it. She blew on the whistle and a phoenix flew through the open window.
"Harry, meet Flame. She is your present," said Ginny.
Harry gasped.
"Where did you get her?" he asked in a hushed voice.
"That's for me to know and you to find out," Ginny said, sticking her tongue out at Harry.
Everyone stared in awe at the phoenix.
"Beats my gift," Draco said.
"Mine too," said Ron
"And mine," chimed in Hermione
"And mine," added Lily
"Not mine," James stubbornly disagreed. "Nothing beats a great broom."
Peeves then flew back into the room.
"I wanted to express my birthday greetings to Potty Wee Potter." Peeves said. "I have a song for you."
He then cackled, and began singing.
"Once a year we celebrate With stupid hats and plastic plates The fact that you were able to make, Without a trip around the sun. And the whole clan gathers round And gifts and laughter do abound As we let out a joyful sound And sing that stupid song. Happy Birthday. Now you're one year older. Happy Birthday. Your life still isn't over. Happy Birthday. You did not accomplish much, But you didn't die this year I guess that's good enough.
~Music playing in background~
So, lets keep to your fading health And hope you don't remind yourself Your chance of finding fame and wealth Decrease with every year. Does it feel like you're doing laps And eating food and taking naps And hoping that someday perhaps Your life will hold some cheer.
Happy Birthday
What have you done that matters?
Happy Birthday
You're starting to get fatter
Happy Birthday
It's downhill from now on
Try not to remind yourself you're best years are all gone.
~music again~
If cryogenics were all free
Then you could live like Walt Disney
And live for all eternity
Inside a block of ice
But instead your time is set
This is the only life you get.
And though it hasn't ended yet
Sometimes you wish it might.
Happy Birthday
You wish you had more money
Happy Birthday
Your life's so sad it's funny
Happy Birthday
How much more can you take
But your friends are hungry so just cut the stupid cake.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday!"
Peeves then sped out of the room as people tried to figure out what the song had meant.
The party finally ended, and as everyone walked out, their minds were wiped of as to where the room was located. Finally, the room was cleared. The only people that remained were Harry, his parents, Fred, George, Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Molly, Arthur, Sirius, and Drew. Harry collapsed onto a nearby couch.
"That was awesome, but I am exhausted. Try greeting over a thousand people in a few hours time."
"Must be pretty hard," Ginny commented.
"No . . ." Harry replied sarcastically. "And where do you suppose I am going to put all of this stuff?"
"We have expanded your room and added extra storage," Lily said.
"Good," Harry replied. "I am going to need it."
A/N: I am sorry I couldn't get it out till the end of today- I went shopping at the mall- for five hours! And then we went out to the movies, and hung out. We didn't get back till 7:00 pm and I am typing this at 7:36. I have to leave again at 8:00 and I won't be back till 11:30, so I am updating quickly now. The song that peeves sang is located on If you go down to the Birthdays section and click on the one that says 'comedy', you can here it. I do not own it.
Oh yeah- I own Drew now!
And I will do individual responses later- I don't have time and I wanted to get this out to all of you. I thought you would rater have this chapter now w/o responses, than tomorrow around 2:00 (I have stuff to do in the morning) with responses. Oh yeah, and these times are EST (Eastern Standard Time)- I live in Pennsylvania in the USA.
Ooh yeah- and I was going to split this chapter in half, but I thought you people deserved an extra long one for reviewing so much- just don't get used to it- lol.
"SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!", everyone shouted.
Their common room had been magically enlarged to accommodate the many people who were there. Balloons of all shapes and sizes covered the room. Confetti fell from the ceiling, and streamers and crepe paper covered the walls. Up against the far wall were stacks and stacks of presents, all with different colored wrapping paper and bows. On the wall to Harry's right was a large table covered in almost every food imaginable- from carrot sticks for those who like to eat on more of the healthier side, to both wizard and muggle sweets, cakes, Ice Cream, and a muggle food called "pizza". Coolers of butterbeer, water, pumpkin juice, and alcoholic drinks were underneath the large table.
Collin Creevy took his picture. Harry was momentarily blinded by the sudden change in lighting.
"I- I don't know what to say." Harry said. "I didn't even realize that it was my birthday already, until you all screamed it-"
Everyone began to laugh. Harry continued.
"-And I have never had a birthday party before- thank you!"
Harry's eyes wandered to the corner of the room where he had hear the noise. He saw Sirius holding a little boy of about two years of age. The little boy had blonde hair, but also resembled Sirius a lot. The boy was laughing and batting at one of the balloons that had been enchanted to float around without touching the ceiling.
He walked over to the corner and Sirius introduced him to the little boy.
"Harry, this is my son Andrew- Drew for short."
"I didn't know you had a son", Harry said.
"Well, he isn't technically mine. Have I ever told you about my brother Regulus? Well, he had a son, and then he died, and this is his son's son, making me his great uncle or something like that. My nephew, who is Regulus' son, also died when he was only twenty- which was this year. Drew has been with me ever since I came back to life, although I didn't want you to know just yet, so I hid him from you. I wanted to surprise you."
"Ohhh. . .", said Harry, now beginning to understand. "How old is Drew?"
"I'm this many," said Drew, holding up two fingers.
"And when is his birthday?"
"June 27", said Drew.
At this point, Lavender and Parvati had come over to see the little boy, and were starting to play with him, so Harry walked off to talk to some of the other guests. Among the people there were also some of Lily and James' old friends from school, members of the Order of Pheonix, some of the teachers from Hogwarts, some of the shopkeepers at Diagon Alley, some people that Arthur Weasley worked with at the Ministry, and various people that Harry didn't know. Harry walked up to his mother.
"Mom? Exactly how many people did you invite?"
"We invited everyone", Lily responded
"Everyone?" Harry questioned.
"Yeah, we invited everyone we know."
"Wow. . . How many people are here?"
"Probably somewhere around a thousand."
"But, aren't people not supposed to know where the entrance to our rooms are is?"
"Don't worry about that- we have someone outside the corridor ready to wipe their minds as to which portrait and corridor the room was behind after they leave."
"That is reassuring", Harry said. He thanked her again for throwing the party for him, and asked how long they had been planning it.
"Ever since I got back, I think. When I found out you had never had a birthday, I had to do something."
Just then, Draco Malfoy walked up to Harry.
"Ummm... I didn't know that you were here Malfoy," said Harry, trying to be polite, as his mother was standing right behind him.
"Uh, can we go talk somewhere more private?" Draco Malfoy asked.
"Okay," Harry reluctantly replied. There was something about the way Draco acted that didn't seem so... Malfoy.
Harry lead Malfoy to the common room that he shared with his parents. He whispered the password to the portrait of the mermaid. They entered the room and sat down.
~10 minutes later~
"Wait, so the 'Draco' who has been going to Hogwarts for the past five years wasn't you? It was your DAD?" Harry asked incredulously.
"Yeah. Dumbledore already knows, and I got re-sorted last week. I am in Gryffindor, where the sorting hat said that I truly belonged."
"But why did your father pretend to be you?"
"I was never told, but now that he is under the Dementor's Kiss, I can go. I am at the same level as a sixth year, because my mother tutored me at home and taught me along the guidelines that Hogwarts teaches."
Harry talked to Draco for about fifteen minutes more, when Ginny barged in and said that everyone was wondering where he was. When she saw whom he was sitting with, she gave Draco a dirty look, and gave Harry one that plainly said, "Why are you talking to HIM?"
"He's okay Gin-", Harry said. He then proceeded to give her a summary of what he and Draco had talked about.
They exited the common room, and joined the party once more. Mostly, Draco hung around Harry.
Before everyone knew it, the party had been going for over an hour, and some of the younger children and Harry's friends were begging him to open his presents. Since this process would probably take about two hours, due to the volume of presents that he had received. There was probably close to 1,000 gifts to open.
Everyone gathered around and watched while Harry began to unwrap his gifts. First was a gift from Collin Creevy, who had bought him a magical camera. Dennis Creevy had gotten him a picture frame to go along with the magical camera. It was charmed so that he could put three photos in the frame, one on top of the other, and the frame would automatically switch the photos back and forth, so that all of them could be viewed. Kingsley Shacklebolt's gift was next, and was a book on becoming an Auror. Mundungus Fletcher got him a solid gold cauldron, although Harry questioned whether or not it was stolen. McGonagall had purchased another book on becoming an Auror for Harry, as well as a book on professional Quidditch, because she knew that Harry also had a chance of playing in the Pro's.
Gift by gift, the pile of unopened gifts got smaller and smaller as the pile of opened gifts got larger. It seemed as though people that Harry had never seen before in his entire life had brought him gifts.
He had gotten two sets of gobstones, a nasty game that shot foul-smelling liquid at you if you were loosing, three wizard chess sets, a golden snitch, a crystal ball, a remembrall, a Secrecy Sensor, foe glass, three sets of exploding snap cards, self-shuffling playing cards, a lunascope, a talking mirror for his bedroom, two penknives, a Put-Outer, three revealers, and a variety of books, along with many other items.
He received seven cases of Butterbeer, and a bottle of Ogden's Firewhisky. He also got loads and loads of candy, which included Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Droobles Best Blowing Gum, Pumpkin Pasties, Sugar Quills, Cauldron Cakes, Fizzing Wizzbees, a variety of joke supplies, toffees and chocolates, and to Harry's disgust, Cockroach Clusters and Acid Pops.
"What are these people trying to do, poison me?" Harry thought.
Finally, the only presents remaining were from Hermione, Draco, Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, Sirius, and his parents.
Hermione handed him her present, which contained a fairly thick book on Defensive Spells and a packet of Dung bombs. Everyone laughed, because this was not the type of present that you would expect from Hermione. Harry thanked her as he was handed a gift that was from Ron.
Harry tore open the wrapping paper to find a brand new set of Quidditch balls that came with beater's clubs. These were very expensive and semi- hard to obtain. Harry thanked Ron, and started on the next gift, although he couldn't wait to play some Quidditch.
Harry was handed Draco's present, which started meowing when he picked it up. Little holes were punched all over the box, probably so that whatever was inside could breathe. Harry tore off the paper to find a cute little tabby kitten inside. It was so small, he could hold it in his palm.
"What's its name?" Harry asked Draco.
"Her, and she doesn't have a name yet." Draco replied.
"Tigress- Tiger for short," one of his guests suggested.
"Mischief", someone shouted.
"Princess"
"Fluffy!" shouted Drew
"Misty"
"Mirage"
"Kara"
"Kitty!" Drew squealed.
"Rosie"
"Angel"
"Chester!" someone shouted out.
"Chester?" Ron asked, confused. People looked around, trying to find out who had said that. The voice came again, this time from a corner.
"Walter!" It said.
Still, no one could make out who it was.
"Herman!"
"Fernando!"
"Fergus!"
"Hubert!"
"Winston!"
"Water Balloon!"
"Water Balloon?" someone called out.
Peeves then appeared, with a sack of water balloons in his hand. Someone screamed.
Peeves began pelting people with water balloons. There was water everywhere. When he ran out, Peeves shoved the sack that he had been using over Ginny's head and sped away, cackling. Hermione quickly cleaned up all of the water with a wave of her wand, while Harry got the sack off Ginny's head. The names then started again, after everyone had a good laugh.
"Princess"
"Callie"
The names went on and on and on. Finally Harry said, "I think I like Tiger- just plain Tiger."
Thus, the kitten was named.
Next, Harry opened Sirius' gift, which contained a blank piece of old parchment and another small box. Before Harry could open the other box, Sirius whispered in his ear "It is a new and improved version of the Marauder's Map". Harry then opened the smaller box, and regretted doing so, because whatever was inside jumped out and bit him on the nose. Everyone began to laugh. Sirius had given Harry a nose-biting teacup.
"Ouch", Harry said. The teacup had latched onto his nose, and no matter how hard Harry tried to get it of, it wouldn't budge. Sirius then muttered a spell and the teacup flew off his nose. The large dent that had been in his nose disappeared, and he was handed a present from Fred and George. This present contained a variety if joke items from Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. Various Skivving Snackboxes, Canary Creams, Basic Blaze Boxes, Deflagration Deluxe, five Extendable Ears, a Portable Swamp, seven Headless Hats, Ton Tongue Toffees, Wildfire Whiz-bangs, and several fake wands.
Lily and James then handed him a long thin package. Harry tore off the wrapping paper, and to his surprise, a new broomstick fell out. Harry read the label on the handle.
"Fireball 2010"
"It is a prototype. Not available in stores yet. In fact, that was the first one made." James said.
Harry stared at it in awe. Harry then asked his father how he managed this. James then replied that some people "owed him big time".
"The broomstick was from your father, this gift is from me," Lily told him.
Lily handed him a small box. Harry opened it to find a small clear bauble, much like the remembrall that he had received earlier.
"Hold it with both of your hands, and then close your eyes," Lily told him.
Harry did so, and after waiting about thirty seconds, he opened his eyes and gazed into the small bauble.
At this point, Harry was wondering what was going on. Deep within the mist inside of the ball, a figure could be seen. It became clearer and clearer until Harry could tell what the figure was.
It was a dragon. A Swedish Short Snout, to be specific.
"This bauble is cool, but what does it do? What does the dragon represent?" Harry asked.
Lily then produced a piece of parchment, and handed it to Harry.
Harry quickly scanned the parchment, and within seconds, grasped the fact that it was an anamagus license.
"The bauble shows you're your true form, and this license permits you to begin training to be an anamagus. I figured that it could be useful."
"Thanks mum!" Harry exclaimed.
"Oh great," James said, rolling his eyes. "He's going legal on us..."
The last present was from Ginny, who removed her necklace, which had a small silver whistle attached to it. She blew on the whistle and a phoenix flew through the open window.
"Harry, meet Flame. She is your present," said Ginny.
Harry gasped.
"Where did you get her?" he asked in a hushed voice.
"That's for me to know and you to find out," Ginny said, sticking her tongue out at Harry.
Everyone stared in awe at the phoenix.
"Beats my gift," Draco said.
"Mine too," said Ron
"And mine," chimed in Hermione
"And mine," added Lily
"Not mine," James stubbornly disagreed. "Nothing beats a great broom."
Peeves then flew back into the room.
"I wanted to express my birthday greetings to Potty Wee Potter." Peeves said. "I have a song for you."
He then cackled, and began singing.
"Once a year we celebrate With stupid hats and plastic plates The fact that you were able to make, Without a trip around the sun. And the whole clan gathers round And gifts and laughter do abound As we let out a joyful sound And sing that stupid song. Happy Birthday. Now you're one year older. Happy Birthday. Your life still isn't over. Happy Birthday. You did not accomplish much, But you didn't die this year I guess that's good enough.
~Music playing in background~
So, lets keep to your fading health And hope you don't remind yourself Your chance of finding fame and wealth Decrease with every year. Does it feel like you're doing laps And eating food and taking naps And hoping that someday perhaps Your life will hold some cheer.
Happy Birthday
What have you done that matters?
Happy Birthday
You're starting to get fatter
Happy Birthday
It's downhill from now on
Try not to remind yourself you're best years are all gone.
~music again~
If cryogenics were all free
Then you could live like Walt Disney
And live for all eternity
Inside a block of ice
But instead your time is set
This is the only life you get.
And though it hasn't ended yet
Sometimes you wish it might.
Happy Birthday
You wish you had more money
Happy Birthday
Your life's so sad it's funny
Happy Birthday
How much more can you take
But your friends are hungry so just cut the stupid cake.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday!"
Peeves then sped out of the room as people tried to figure out what the song had meant.
The party finally ended, and as everyone walked out, their minds were wiped of as to where the room was located. Finally, the room was cleared. The only people that remained were Harry, his parents, Fred, George, Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Molly, Arthur, Sirius, and Drew. Harry collapsed onto a nearby couch.
"That was awesome, but I am exhausted. Try greeting over a thousand people in a few hours time."
"Must be pretty hard," Ginny commented.
"No . . ." Harry replied sarcastically. "And where do you suppose I am going to put all of this stuff?"
"We have expanded your room and added extra storage," Lily said.
"Good," Harry replied. "I am going to need it."
A/N: I am sorry I couldn't get it out till the end of today- I went shopping at the mall- for five hours! And then we went out to the movies, and hung out. We didn't get back till 7:00 pm and I am typing this at 7:36. I have to leave again at 8:00 and I won't be back till 11:30, so I am updating quickly now. The song that peeves sang is located on If you go down to the Birthdays section and click on the one that says 'comedy', you can here it. I do not own it.
Oh yeah- I own Drew now!
And I will do individual responses later- I don't have time and I wanted to get this out to all of you. I thought you would rater have this chapter now w/o responses, than tomorrow around 2:00 (I have stuff to do in the morning) with responses. Oh yeah, and these times are EST (Eastern Standard Time)- I live in Pennsylvania in the USA.
Ooh yeah- and I was going to split this chapter in half, but I thought you people deserved an extra long one for reviewing so much- just don't get used to it- lol.