Chapter 3

One Big Birthday Bash and Sleeping with Harry?

The weeks went by quickly. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday the Dursleys, would go into to London to do things and that's when Harry and I would go and hang out with Dudley's old friends at the park on Magnolia. Remus knew my parents and would visit often, now that he knew they lived there. For some reason I thought I was being left out of a very important secret. But I soon overlooked it and decided I was just imaging it. The park was very fun and I saw that Harry was really starting to like me, and hanging out with other people for a change. August was coming very fast and so was my birthday.

I was born on August 1st and I soon found out that Harry was born July 31st. So we were only a day apart. The day of July 18th is when Harry came to stay at our house until September 1st when he would go back to school. That morning was very boring, since I had to spend it with Dudley. He wouldn't let me go home at all; so I ended up helping him pack and listening to him talk about the school he goes to.

"Smeltings is an excellent school. And I hear the girls school is great too."

"Oh, wow." I said bored.

"And we have dances for both schools, maybe you can come to the dance with me. How about it?"

"Oh I'd love to." I said sarcastically. 'In your dreams! Ha! I would have to be VERY DRUNK, and I wouldn't even go with you then.' "So are you finished?"

"I still need my play station and besides I like hanging out with you."

"Oh, Dudley, I like to hang out with you too." I lied. "But unfortunately I need to help Harry get all his stuff over to my house. And he's staying on the third floor!"

"Oh," he said disappointedly. Dudley finished packing about an hour later. I helped him lug his things out to their car, which was a lot of work because Dudley packed more than I would have ever packed. I could tell their vacation would be very boring. 'I wonder why!?' I thought sarcastically.

It was now about 12 o'clock in the afternoon and Dudley and his parents were out the door and on their way to where ever it was they were going, but not before making sure I would have all of Harry's stuff out of the house and locking it so he couldn't get back in. I promised I would, although I think Harry was happy to be leaving and to be staying with a friend for an entire month. It took us till 1 o'clock to get all of Harry's things over to my house. He wouldn't let me help pack, said he could do it himself, and then also wouldn't let me help unpack. Mum and Dad placed a twin bed in my room along with another wardrobe to store his clothes and other such things. His trunk went at the bottom of his bed; it had his initials carved into it. It was a really nice trunk. That day we went into London to buy some things for the party. I offered a suggestion to Mum and Dad. I thought that since Harry's and my birthdays were so close together, we should have one great big party to celebrate. They loved the idea. Harry and I were given money and sent to go look around for things that we would need. I noticed that Harry didn't have a suit for swimming so I decided to buy him one. We found a store called Swimming Suits for All Occasions. It was unique but it had guy suits for swimming. I walked in, Harry behind me.

"There over here I think." I told Harry as I motioned him to follow.

"I can't believe your going to spend money on me?"

"Why wouldn't I?"

"Well no one has ever spent money on me, well besides my friends at school and Remus and Sirius, I always get hand-me-downs."

"Yes well you're with me now and I'm basically rich. So pick the pair you like and the one that fits comfortably. If you ask me, I like lime green, that's the color of my suit!"

"Oh," he said. I could tell he never went shopping in a store like this before. It took him forever to pick one. "Ok how about this one." It was black and he was really HOT with out a shirt! I blushed.

"Its Great!" I said still blushing.

"What's up?"

"What do you mean?"

"You're blushing?"

"Am I?"

"Yes." He smirked.

"Oh I didn't know, I guess it's just that that suit makes you look really handsome."

"Why thank you." I continued to blush. I walked away as he went to change. He came out a minute later and decided to get the suit. "You want me to give the person the money or do you?"

"I will, just never tell Remus I said you looked handsome in the suit or we'll never live it down."

"We?" he said with a smile.

"Yes, if he makes fun of me, he'll do it to you too!" He laughed as I paid for his suit. "Know of any place we could eat?"

"Yes, but I might not be able to bring you there, depends if you can find it or not."

"Oh, ok. Lead the way."

"Ok, but we'll have to take a bus part of the way."

"Ok, I've got plenty of money. I even have some weird coins mother gave me on accident, I expect their foreign money." I showed him.

"Oh, good, their galleons, The Leaky Cauldron uses these, don't ask." He said kind of suspiciously.

"Oh, they do, do they? Well I've never used different money for...well you know."

"Yea." We took the bus to Westport and Main. There we walked down a street and came to a bookshop and a record shop and between them was a sort of weird little place that looked like it needed a lot of work.

"Harry! Look! There's a cute little inn thing, it's called the Leaky Cauldron."

"You you can see it!?"

"Well yea it's right there. Is this where you wanted to take me?"

"Yea, actually it is. But I would never have known you'd see it."

"Why? Do you think I'm blind?"

"No, but"

"Then don't worry let's go in. Do you know the owner?"

"Yes, Tom's wonderful. I stayed here once when I ran away from the Dursleys."

"Oh." We went in and everyone stared. They were muttering.

"It's Harry Potter"

"Harry Potter, is it really?"

"Harry!"

"Hello, Hagrid, I didn't expect to see you here."

"Just visitin' Tom."

"Hello, Tom."

"Hello Harry! Who's your lovely friend?"

"This is Marie, Hagrid, Tom. Oh and Hagrid I need to talk to you."

"Well go ahead, I'll wait right here." I said. I found out later what they talked about so I'll just tell you. But remember I had no idea what they said at the time. They went off into a corner and sat down. I stood looking around as people stared at me. At first Harry told Hagrid a lot about me and then went into what he really wanted to talk about.

"Hagrid, Marie saw this place."

"So she's a witch, what abou' it Harry?"

"You don't understand. She's not a witch, she's a muggle. [Hagrid gasped] You are sure that only a witch or a wizard can find this place right?"

"Yea, but she has ter be a witch then."

"She's not, or she would have gone to Hogwarts, or possibly would have had robes, and things like that, right?"

"Not necessarily, Harry."

"What do you mean Hagrid?"

"What if she didn' get her letter, I mean it was different with you, we knew where yeh were, but you said she had moved a lot righ'?"

"Well yea but"

"Harry, I probably shouldn' be tellin' yer this, but Marie, Peppers is it? Well she didn' even see 'er letter and since she moved so much, no one could keep track of 'er. Harry, ask 'er if 'er last name is Evlen. Then yeh'll know for sure if she is a witch or not."

"I'll do it, thanks, Hagrid."

"Yer welcome Harry." Harry and Hagrid came back and Hagrid left saying he had to go finish his shopping and he exited through the back entrance. I never did ask Harry where it went.

"Well what'll you two have?" asked Tom.

"A couple of soups, Tom, please. They were good last time I ate here."

"Ok, two soups it is, and thank you Harry." Tom brought us a couple soups and we ate and I discussed the party idea with him.

"Harry, we could have a birthday party together you could have an actual birthday party!"

"But who would we invite?"

"Our friends from the park, your friends from school, Hermione, Ron, etc... Hermione told me lately that Ron has an enormous family, we could invite them all, and my father works with Mr. Weasley. They control something, but wouldn't tell me what."

"Oh." Harry looked at the floor. "Marie is your last name Evlen?"

"Yes, it is, why?"

"Nothing, just wondering, because Hagrid just knew who you was."

"You guys are definitely hiding something from me. I can tell, why doesn't anyone just tell me what's going on!" Harry looked up and I looked into his green eyes. "Harry, tell me what's going on."

"I c can't."

"Why not?"

"Just let your parents tell you or whatever it is you think we're hiding."

"Fine!" I got up and walked up to Tom. "How much?"

"Five Sickles." I gave him the gold one and he gave me money back. Then I stormed outside and sat on a bench in front of the bookstore. I was all huffy puffy and I could tell this day was going wrong. I brought my knees up to my chest and started to cry. 'Why was I being left out of things? Is it possible I'm not like them? Could they know about my powers? No they couldn't. But yet, why am I always treated differently and why won't anyone explain things anymore?' I cried harder and started singing. (A/N: this is going to be here comfort song.)

"Isn't anyone trying to find me, won't somebody come take me home? It's a damn cold night trying to figure out this life. Won't you take me take me by the hand, take me somewhere new. I don't know who you are, but I, I'm with you. I'm with you." I kept up singing the song and then about 5 minutes later Harry came out.

"Marie, I'm sorry, I just can't say anything to you. You must trust me. You'll know when the time's right, I promise."

"Ok, Harry." I said still crying. "Ok, I trust you. But..." I stopped and decided to just finish shopping for the party. "Now about the party, we need things. I already have most of it, such as music and party games and the pool." I laughed and continued, "All we need are invitations and a guest list and, hm... what about...no that won't work. Hm? Have any ideas of what else to do, I've already got karaoke and things like swimming and other stuff."

"I think that should be good, I suppose you have it so it's like a dance sort of, and then we'll have a big cake that says, 'Happy birthday to Harry and Marie' on it right?"

"Oh no! the cake, I totally forgot to buy a cake!"

"Well let's go to the bakery and pick one out."

"I thought we could bake our own, or let my mum do it."

"Let's let your mum cook, ok?"

"Sure." I looked at my watch. "We better get back to the mall, Mum and Dad'll be looking for us."

"Ok. We'll take the underground this time, shall we?"

"I suppose." We took the underground back to the mall and waited at the entrance. Mum and Dad came about fifteen minutes later. "Mum! Dad! Over here!" They walked over here and asked us if we were done. "Yes we're done mum." We all walked to the car and went back home.

The party was in two weeks. And my brothers were just starting to show up. Phil, his wife Carol and two kids Martha and Lilian showed up at the same time as Lawrence and his wife Bethany and their child Benjamin showed up. A couple days later Carl, his wife Rebecca who was pregnant, Marvolo, his wife Hannah and their child Mark showed up. Michael showed up that same day with his daughter Mary Ann (His wife had died the year before). The next day Harvey showed up with his fiancée Deborah. They were all wonderful. Harvey, I found out was very smart and worked at the same place as Dad, but under another compartment. Phil was originally from America and worked for some form of government. Lawrence was in India breaking codes, and Carl and Marvolo, the twins, owned their own shop (Some sort of bookstore). Michael, who is the youngest boy, went off to college and is becoming a doctor. They are all super smart and never fuss about small things and they get along pretty good, well as good as brother's get along at their age.

Harry and I invited the entire Weasley family to our party, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Bill, his wife and kids, Charlie and his family, Fred and George and their girlfriends, Ron, and Ginny. In many ways their family was much like mine except my family's hair was all black, except my mother who had brown hair and me who like the Weasleys had red hair. Hermione and her parents were also invited. We invited our friends from the park too, Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon. Sure they were all Dudley's old friends, but since they didn't have Dudley pushing them around all the time, they were very friendly and told Harry a while ago, that they were sorry for always beating him up and getting him in trouble at school.

It was the day before the party and we were rushing around the house grabbing and cleaning and getting ready. Hermione and Ron would be staying with us till the end of school so they would be showing up that night. We moved my bed out of the way and put two air mattresses down on the floor; one for Hermione and I and one for Ron and Harry. Although Ron wanted to share with Hermione, but she had insisted they wouldn't and finally gave in to two nights because Ron wouldn't stop whining. Hermione, wrote all this to me in a letter, and I told Harry, that we would have to share a bed for two nights. He didn't seem to mind, but suggested that we should lock the door, so my parents wouldn't think we were doing anything wrong. I agreed and then went back to cleaning and preparing.

It was 4 o'clock and Ron and Hermione showed up. Both looked great. I showed them up stairs and asked if they would like to go for a swim.

"I can't swim real well, and I don't have a suit," said Ron.

"That's ok because my brother has one you can use. Hope you don't mind blue." I went to grab the suit and gave it to him. We all put our suits on. Hermione had a purple bikini which was like mine except mine is lime green. Ron used my brother's blue one and Harry wore his black one. It made him so hot. He came out after Ron. I started blushing. 'Oh he's so handsome. He always makes me go week in the knees when I see him.' We went swimming for a couple hours. It was a lot of fun and later that night we had dinner and then spent the night talking about tomorrow.

The next morning my mum was on the phone with her old friend from school. At 10 o'clock everyone started showing up. Hermione's parents arrived first, then Piers and his gang, and finally all the Weasleys showed up. It started in the back yard. "Hello every one. Please, refreshments are on the patio, over there."

"Harry! Oh dear, you look great, haven't been getting into any trouble have you?" It was Mrs. Weasley. "Oh and this must be Marie. We've heard so much about you, Ron says your all Hermione talks about in her letters." I blushed.

"Well Hermione and I were childhood friends, and haven't seen each other since we were 11." Mr. Weasley came up and started talking to Harry. "Welcome Mr. Weasley, nice to meet you.." I nodded. "You already know my father and my 6 older brothers."

"Ron! Come over here!" he came over and introduced me to all of his family.

"That's Bill, his wife Mary and their children Natalie and Billy jr. and there's Charlie and his wife Nancy and their three children, Bobby, Stacy, Arthur. Mary has twins on the way and Nancy is pregnant also. And these two clowns are Fred and George and their fiancés Noelle and Christina, they're still in school. And this is my little sister, Ginny."

"Hello. I'm Marie."

"Hello, Marie." They all said together then looked at each other and laughed.

After awhile the parents all went into the house, so did Bill, and Mary, their children, Charlie, Nancy and their children, and all of my brothers. So it was only us kids and Fred, George, Noelle, and Christina who were left. We all decided to do karaoke. Noelle and Christina went first.

"We love this!" said Noelle.

"It's called 'We are the champions'," said Christina. And they sang. Next came Hermione and Ron, who sang 'From this moment on' by Shania Twain. I went next and sang 'The tide is high' by Atomic Kitten. We sang more and more so did the guys. It was quite good fun. Some of us girls sang 'I will survive', and 'Ain't no mountain high enough'. It was a lot of fun. All of us sang 'U.G.L.Y.' from the Bring It On soundtrack. And just as we were singing, "U.G.L.Y. You could make an onion cry, U.G.L.Y. like an alien chased by the FBI," a boy with blonde hair and gray eyes, with two ugly big guys came in.

"Did you just call us ugly?" said the blonde haired boy.

"Yep, I guess we did." I said with a smirk.

"Don't sass, me," said the blonde boy again.

"Oh, are you going to get your two body guards to beat me up? Oh I'm shaking in my boots. Your so scary, NOT!!" I laughed.

"What are you doing here Malfoy," said Harry, with a mean look on his face. I was still laughing so was everyone else.

"Well, Potter, my mom told me that her friend's daughter, Marie, and the famous Harry Potter were having a birthday party, so I thought I'd go and meet this girl, Marie, that my mother's friend talks about all day when she's over. Which one of you is the famous Marie?"

"That would be me." I said staring him in the face.

"Oh, so it's the one who sassed me." He looked at me and said, "There's nothing special about you!"

"Of course not, but there's nothing special about you either, I see why Harry hates you so much, of course every time I look at you I laugh, your hair!" I said laughing. "It's a scream." I laughed and walked over to him. "Oh, baby, Malfoy, can't handle a bit of teasing." I said in a baby's voice and laughed.

"Come, Crabbe, Goyle, we're leaving this lame party."

"Oh, wittle Malfoy can't stand the teasing! Poor Baby! Come here wittle Malfoy, Mummy'll take good care of you." I laughed and he became mad, as everyone else laughed. "You've met your match, Malfoy!" I shouted as he left. Everyone came and congratulated me.

"No one's ever stood up to Malfoy like that. But you know that his mum'll talk to yours right?"

"Will she? That's ok you guys. My mum'll just have to talk to me about it. But hey, we'll never see him around here anymore."

Three hours later, everyone left, and Harry, Ron, Hermione, and I decided that after we cleaned we would go up stairs and sleep since we were dead tired from having a great day. We finished cleaning and went up stairs. Hermione and I changed into pajamas in the library while Harry, and Ron changed in my room. Hermione loved my library and looked at a couple of the books. When we finally went back into my room, Harry and Ron were already laying down, one in each bed.

"Ron!" said Hermione.

"I decided that I wanted to use one of my nights."

"Fine, but you only have one more left."

"Two!"

"One!"

"Two, or I won't shut up."

"Fine!" and she laid down next to him cautiously, and soon found that it was nice to snuggle with Ron. They both fell asleep fast. Harry and I were still awake. We decided to talk. So I suggested we go in the library so they could sleep in peace.

"Happy Birthday Harry."

"Happy Birthday Marie."

"You're a great friend."

"I love you as a friend too, Marie, but I think I might be loving you even more that. I've never felt like I could just talk to someone freely before. It's strange to me." I built up a fire and sat down on the couch. Harry came and laid down on the couch and I laid with his legs around me and put my head on his chest. It was comfortable, and I didn't even feel weird, it was a strange feeling. Was this love? I thought. We sat that way for a very long time. It was 2:30am before we decided to actually go to bed. We crawled into bed together.

"Harry?"

"Yes, Marie?"

"I think I love you more than a friend too." I kissed his cheek, said "Good night" and snuggled into Harry's arms. It was such a good feeling. 'Was this love? Am I in love with Harry, who's been just a good friend to me? Being in his arms makes me think so. But is he in love with me, too? He says so, but does he REALLY love me?' I felt Harry's slow and warm breath on my neck and knew he was asleep. 'Sleeping with Harry. It feels so right. I don't know if I can ever sleep with out him now.' And I too fell asleep, next to Harry.

A note: Hope this chapter was ok, please review! Thanks in advance. And sorry that you can't read what is italized. so I hope you sort of understand what goes on in my story.......