Harry Potter and the Summer of Change

The next morning Harry woke up to a feeling of pain in his right arm he looked down and there was hedwig pecking away and surrounding her were about ten owls who were all shifting impatiently waiting for their letters to be taken so they could go back home. Harry stretched luxuriously and stood up. The owls all looked expectantly at Harry, as they all jostled to be the first to deliver their letters.

"All of you are going to have to hang on one second," laughed Harry "cuz I need to use the bathroom".

While Harry headed off there the events of yesterday finally started to catch up with him and he was shocked at what he had done, and how lightly he had gotten off from getting seriously punished. He laughed suddenly feeling like it was worth it to be the famous Harry Potter. As he walked out of the john (a.n: that's bathroom for all you ignoramuses) he saw Dudley looking at him weirdly and he muttered something.

"Sorry dud's didn't catch that, want to try again, I won't bite" asked Harry laughing.

"I said happy birthday Harry" Dudley said while looking anywhere but at Harry.

"Why thank you Dudley" said Harry in a slightly puzzled tone.

Meanwhile he was thinking who had put Dudley up to this, it couldn't be family maybe friends but who? , The list was longer then even Harry knew. Harry just put it in the back of his head thinking he would think about it on some rainy, boring day. He walked into his room and started taking the letters off all the owls wondering what the occasion is. The occasion became apparent after Harry started to read the first line of his first letter, which he had gotten from Hedwig.

It was from hermione the first line started. "Happy birthday Harry, I am so happy that you're finally feeling better. I know you must be frustrated with us, your closest doing not giving you advice or support though not for lack of trying we sent bloody long letters every day (I had to force Ron to write a foot a day, but I don't think it helped because you didn't read them) though you have enough on your plate as it is so but that's no excuse to treat your friends like dirt. When you come to 12 grimauld place though we are going to have a serious talk of how you treated Ron and me, especially me Harry since when did you become so cold to ignore our letters, and what about the time we came over, the cold shoulder you gave us hurt Ron very deeply even though he didn't show it. Harry, Ron treats you like a brother and all you can do back is treat him like a distant acquaintance. What about me do you know how much I cried when I was treated like a house-elf of the malfoy's yes Harry that's how you made me feel what do you want me to say that since you're the boy-who-lived everything is good because he's good. I'm sorry Harry but as your closest friends we've always treated you like a regular human being and the way you treated us demands an explanation from one person to another and don't try to brush us off with an excuse that you have to deal with voldermort because we are here to help and just because you go through extenuating circumstances all the time doesn't mean we can't help you go through them. Think for a second who helped you in the first year Ron and me who helped in the second ditto .the third ditto the fourth ditto the fifth ditto. We aren't stupid we are your friends if something happens to you it's like it happens to us and we will help you and if we get hurt on the way then it's our responsibility not yours for it was our choice that made us come with you and share your burden because believe me it's too much for any one person by himself. We all have choices to make from going to eat and sleep to buying certain products to whom our friends are. Our choices defines us as human beings a person's personality attitude excellence in class all has to do with a decision you make consciously or unconsciously to try hard, to be different, to change a mood. Now if we make a choice to stay by your side no matter what whosoever wises you harm has to come through us. Make no mistake Harry we will always be there for you the more you deny us this opportunity to help you, you cause us to live a lie of a life for our life is only defined by the choices we make if you suppress ours as you are doing then all you will do is push us away as friends as there is no other option as I see it. I will leave you with these thoughts to think over and I hope you give them serious thought and make the right choice. Till then I eagerly await your reply and hope this gap that has sprung up between us can be repaired you know what they say some thing that was made only has a certain potential but it it's broken then it can be rebuilt to a new shape a new strength something which never can be broken but that's your choice. I now am finished berating you and have only one thing to say you have been the greatest friend a person can have and with the utmost sincerity I say to you don't throw this away it's more then just you me and Ron and who knows where it can go.

Tons of Love: Hermione Granger

P.S. I would like to tell you I don't hate you I cried when I wrote this letter but I felt it was necessary to explain everyone else's point of view.

If anyone would be looking into Harry's room at that time they would have seen a range of emotions cross his face when he read that letter. The only ones worth mentioning were the beginning and the ending ones. When he first started reading he had a look of happiness on his face at the end was the emotion of sadness then he reread the letter and started thinking very hard he came upon the conclusion that the only way to explain his grief to his friends and the protectiveness was to show them his point of view. Meaning he would tell them the prophecy and the way that whoever had gotten close to him had died but the ultimate decision would end with them whether they wanted to stick with him to thick and thin. So Harry took a piece of parchment and started writing a letter stating he would like to talk to both Ron and hermione and that he would explain his past behavior and hope they could forgive him for the wrongs he had done and maybe they could find it in them to forgive him and that he was really sorry for everything. He was about to finish when he remembered that he hadn't read what Ron had wrote to him he quickly looked through the pile of letters and found Ron's.

His letter was two lines long and very to the point and Harry's face fell when he read it. It said simply "Hi Harry how are you? Hope your feeling better I have gone through too much and I decided if you don't want me as a friend I'll accept that we had some good times and I'll see you round

-Ron

Harry quickly went back to the letter and addressed it to hermione and wrote, "I just got the letter from Ron and please try to talk to him and I'll ask Dumbledore if I could go to 12 grimauld place to talk with you guy's meanwhile talk to Ron for me.

With my deepest thanks: Harry

Harry then sent off the letter with Hedwig and said to her "make sure you get an answer"

She hooted in reply and took off. Harry then quickly wrote a letter to Ron explaining he would be over the next day to explain everything and to please find it in his heart to forgive him, as he was terribly sorry for his treatment of him. He had never meant it; it was only his way of dealing with the stress. He quickly signed it and sent it with pig. When he thought about the two letters he had gotten so far he felt that Ron's had hurt more and it wasn't even two lines long. Well he sighed to himself better read the rest.

Harry flopped on his bed and started working through his pile of letters.

(A.N.: hope you liked this chapter. the stuff you read in earlier chapters will get discussed give me time to write it up and post it and I hope by chapter 7 you'll have a clear view of everything. By the way I decided to put romance but I don't know how or when yet so be patient while I through out hints of it in every chapter) oh yeah I almost forgot R&R pls