My first story was kind of a failure so I wish this one will meet you guys standards. R&R please : )
Chapter 1
Birthday
Wormtail had told Voldemort," M-m-my L-lord, your p-plans have b-been successful. This time we won't l-let H-Harry P-P-Potter run from you again, M-m-my L-l-lord." He bowed.
Then Voldemort said," Yes, If Harry Potter escapes again it'll be all your necks on the line. Don't let him thwart me again faithful Death Eaters. If all goes well, we shall have Harry Potter by the end of this year. I will kill him and I shall conquer! We will kill Harry's friends. We fight him using his friends. If he escapes again?"
"No Master, we will not let you lose again. We will help you kill him, My Lord. I promise he won't escape from you again Master," drawled the cold voice of Draco Malfoy's father, Lucius Malfoy.
"Of course not Master, he has escaped you four times and this time we shall not fail!" Bellatrix Lestrange called out in her voice.
"But Bellatrix, you failed me just a month ago."
Harry awoke so suddenly it seemed like someone had poked him in the eye. He felt as though his head had cracked open. He clutched his face to stop from screaming or else he'd wake the Dursleys up.In a flash he sat up and thought about what he just dreamed.
He had another vision of Voldemort and his Death Eaters. He had stood in the corner of the room they were in and watched it all, instead of him being Voldemort and orders issuing from his mouth.
He quickly took out a piece of parchment and was going to write Dear Sirius when he remembered Sirius had died. All because of Bellatrix, he was going to seek his revenge on her some day, but for now he had to write about what he just saw.
Quickly thinking, he wrote,
Dear Professor Dumbledore,
I just woke up from a vision of Voldemort and his Death Eaters. He said that
Harry suddenly remembered Moody's warning of not putting secret things in letters. Doing this very quietly so not to wake the Dursleys, he crumpled up his piece of parchment than thought how he was going to tell Dumbledore without the letter being intercepted.
Somehow he had to think of a way to speak to Dumbledore about what he saw, but before he could ponder any more on his dream he heard a light tapping on his small bedroom window. He turned and what he saw made him very happy, owls.
Five owls were tapping quietly on his window. Opening the window, Harry tried to identify whom the owls belonged to, but before he could guess, the owls started making a loud racket so Harry had to quietly take off the letters, and packages, that were attached to the owls.
After taking the mail off, he settled himself on his bed and tore open a letter that had his best friend, Ron's handwriting on it. Eagerly he read the whole letter and he felt much better than a few minutes ago.
Dear Harry,
Hope you're okay, Hermione and I are at … well you know where we are. Happy birthday, I sent your present along with Errol and Hedwig. Hope the Muggles didn't make you suffer over the summer. Mom says you can come over soon, but Dumbledore says you have to stay for one more week so we'll be picking you up on the 7th of August between 5 'o'clock and 6 o'clock. I think your birthday present is pretty good Harry, just go open it up now.
Fred and George joined … it. They are staying where we are now and I'm kind of jealous. They have loads of money from their joke shop (Mum still isn't done being mad with them yet) and they are filthy rich. I went to their joke shop once and I thought it was pretty good. They are selling all the Skiving Snackboxes and Canary Creams and all the other stuff they tried at school. I accidentally ate a pie they gave me and I suddenly turned into a cow. They call it a Beef Pie. Not funny at all,
Well, see you later!
Ron
Harry's heart leapt, it was his birthday and he got presents. He immediately dragged a heavy package about the size of a dictionary over onto his bed and eagerly ripped it open, but his heart quickly fell as he looked at the gift, a book. He turned the heavy book over, onto its cover and read the shiny gold letters Quidditch Teams Throughout the World and Why They are Famous. This was a great present! He thought it was a heavy book full of spells but it was much better! Quickly flipping through the book seeing vibrant colored pictures of people in Quidditch robes, zooming around the Quidditch pitch. There were also pictures of Quidditch moves.
This would be excellent for Quidditch. I can't wait to read this! He thought aloud.
Remembering the other letters, he pulled over one that was from a tawny brown owl that he was sure was from Hogwarts. Turning it over, his heart stopped, he read
To Mr. Potter, Harry J.
O.W.L. results inside
Tearing open the letter, he read
Name: Harry James Potter
Transfiguration: Exceeds Expectations
Charms: Exceeds Expectations
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Outstanding
Potions: Outstanding
History of Magic: Poor
Care of Magical Creatures: Exceeds Expectations
Divination: Dreadful
Astronomy: Acceptable
Herbology: Exceeds Expectations
Inside the envelope, he saw another letter. Wondering in amazement who it was from he quickly read
Dear Harry,
Happy birthday Harry! Hope you're okay. Grawpy's getting loads nicer. I've found him a lady friend actually, and they're getting along pretty swell. Your birthday present is attached and congratulations because you have great O.W.L. results Harry! If the Dursleys ever are mean to you again, just tell them that I'll come along and give your cousin a nose to match that tail eh? See you back at Hogwarts!
Hagrid
Harry thought for a moment about persuading Hagrid to give up the idea because he wasn't too keen about another giant living in the forest that was probably much more violent than Grawpy had been. But quickly gave up the idea when he saw a package that was sitting next to him, and it had Hagrid's handwriting on it.
Just before tearing it open he read, To: Harry From: Hagrid Hope your birthday's swell Harry! Knowing what was probably inside the box, he opened it and not to his surprise he found a box of Hagrid's infamous rock candies. Making a mental note to give them to Dudley, he reached over for a third letter that was addressed to him in Hermione's handwriting. He silently slit open the envelope and sat down on his bed to read the letter.
Dear Harry,
Guess what Harry? Our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher will be a person who just joined you-know-what. Her name is Badilta Dermitine. She's really nice actually we met her once just before a meeting. Dumbledore is sending you back your Firebolt soon, I suspect it'll come sometime right before you come here where we are! In case you didn't read Ron's letter yet, you're coming over in 7 days! I can't wait.
Oh yeah I forgot to say, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I think you're birthday present is great but Ron doesn't agree with me. He says a book full of spells isn't that good but oh well,
See you in seven days!
Hermione
The Dursleys gave a big loud snore from the next door bedroom that he jumped and landed on the floor with a boom. Uncle Vernon had woken up, and was starting to come over to his room so Harry quickly stuffed all the post he had gotten into the loose floorboard on his floor, took off his glasses, and quietly slid into bed.
"What's going on boy?" Uncle Vernon's voice roared from in front of his door," Stop falling off your bed! I thought a burglar broke into our house!" After he finished bellowing he went back to his room and after a few moments the only sound Harry could hear was Uncle Vernon's loud snores. Thinking it was safe enough to start reading again so he pried open the loose floorboard and took out Hermione's present. Weighing it in his hand it wasn't even as heavy as Ron's book. Tearing the wrapping off the book he saw the words Defense Against the Dark Arts Spells he opened it and flipped through a couple of pages seeing pictures of all different kinds of jinxes, pages of incantations, and realistic pictures of people after the spell hit them. Thinking that the book wasn't as good as Ron's present but at least it wasn't a book full of useless incantations, he put the book in his trunk with his other spell books.
Reaching for the third and last letter, he saw Lupin's thin spidery handwriting on the front of the envelope. Noiselessly tearing open the letter he read
Dear Harry,
Happy birthday, The present that is attached is from all the members of you-know-what. See you in seven days.
Lupin
Wondering if it was another book, and hoping it wasn't, he picked up the last package and felt immediately that this was no book. It was very light and seemed very fragile. Carefully tearing off the wrapping he saw two tiny miniture versions of a people, one with a wand, and one without. Seeing a small note on the bottom of the box, he took it out and read
This is a model for you to see what the jinxes and other spells look like. Just tap the figure with the wand (make sure you tap it with your wand) and say the incantation you want it to perform AND before the incantation you need to say figurette. For example say figurette expecto patronum! and then it'll do the spell on the other figure.
Lupin
Harry prodded the figure with his wand and said," figurette stupefy!" a red beam shot out of the figure's wand and when the read beam hit the other figure, it fell, unconcious. Thinking that this was an excellent present, Harry put it away into the loose floorboard under his bed, crawled into bed, then instantly fell asleep.
Hope you liked this chapter! I already wrote the second chapter just need to type it. Please please please R&R!!!! PLEASE!
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LATER: ps… I edited it better from peoples advice so… it's a bit different :) ( I only changed 3 places but that's what people told me to do and I like people suggesting what I should change because it helps me write better. Thanx!)