Chapter 2: The Wanderings and Wonderings

(A/N this is written by me, Amy, and help of OlIvE-bIrCh, Eunice.)

Harry is lost. He doesn't know where he is. He looks around. This street was very different from the streets in London. Everything was black.

The only thing that was the same the road since it's always black. Harry was terrified.

He looked around once more and found some sort of light; it was very easy to notice that because everything else was black even the Sky and the grass.

So he decided to go to the light source and explore from there.

He finally reached the source and realized that it was another fence, but this time it was white not dark brown.

He got closer to it, the closer he got he found that two of the fences were lose.

So he slowly put his hands over and pulled it to the side and peered inside. With just on look, he realized where it led to, it led Harry right in to Mrs. Figgs's backyard.

He was very surprised by this. How could this one fence led to a house which was 13 blocks away?

However, as fast as his legs could go he ran towards the back door. But it was unfortunately locked. So he tried to get out of the backyard and go to the front door. But again the fences were locked.

'Uh, oh,' thought Harry, 'I'm stuck'. He walked back to the back door and knocked this time. 'Why didn't I do this before?' asked himself.

A few moments later he heard footsteps getting closer and closer. Then he heard the door unlock, but the door didn't open (A/N in meaning that the person who unlocked the door didn't open the door).

So he opened the door, which was now unlocked. He went through the back door it had led him to the kitchen. Strangely, nobody was there.

To check if this was the right house he looked around for any signs that might represent Mrs. Figg or Sam.

Just then he saw something flashing in rainbow colors. He went closer it was a calendar; and where it was flashing was today's date and the letters on it read,

'Harry, Sam, the others, and I are waiting in the living room. Hurry!!!'

After reading he was very relaxed knowing that this house was the right house and that they were waiting for them. But he was also concerned.

He wondered who 'they' were; because on the calendar it said 'Sam, the others, and I are waiting…' 'Who are the others?' Harry wondered.

While he was walking to the living room, all he was thinking about was Sam and the others. First of all he couldn't have waited much longer until he could tell Sam more about Hogwarts. Second, he was wondering who was 'the others'.

When he was about to enter the room, he almost fainted.

The reason was, because in the middle of the living room, on the table, was a 3-feet tall cake standing! It also was labeled, "Happy 16th Birthday Harry!!!" the cake looked wonderful.

It was changing colors every moment he was watching. Also there were cute little chocolate animals dancing around and on the cake. It looked like a mini wonderland! Only that he was a little too big for it.

However after staring at the cake for a few minutes he got his mind back. Then he noticed Hedwig sitting behind the cake with a package in her feet and took a few more steps to get to her until he heard a loud bang and-

"SURPRISE!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!!!"

Out of nowhere Sam, Mrs. Figg, Dobby, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George appeared.

Harry was very shocked. He was paralyzed for a moment. He couldn't even breathe! It was the happiest moment of his life!

Hermione actually needed to use an Awakening Charm to get his mind working again.

Harry, after the Awakening Charm, said, "That actually freaked me out! I mean that surprised me so badly that I can't put them in to words! How did you get here?"

Right after the last word Harry had said Ron started continuously "Well we actually came here by brooms last night. We were going to use Apparate to come but then it will make too much of a noise at night so we had to choose the way coming her by brooms. It was pretty cold up there I'm tellin' ya now, I thought I would die. Thank god for mum that she put a Warming Charm on our clothes and putting Fluffy Charm on our brooms. Without it you wouldn't see me here. I wonder how many Charms mum knows I've got to learn from…"

with that thinking Ron had said enough Hermione cut in, "Harry happy birthday! We brought you some presents; they are in the room over there (pointing to a door on their left) and we better get started. We planned so much for you!"

Harry was so pleased. Also he noticed that Ron was much taller now; he was almost 2 inches taller Harry (who had grown about 2 inches over the summer) and Hermione and Ginny was too almost catching up to him; and of course, Fred and George looked very more mature, but Harry never admitted that they were mature in the inside.

Also He finally noticed Dobby. Dobby still looking the same except that he was wearing an elf-sized tuxedo, 'Hermione probably made it for him,' Harry suspected.

However not knowing that he was being pushed and tugged into a room, he arrived at the room full of presents.

He was more shocked (if that's possible since he was so shocked already) then ever. But then he got over it because of the eagerness of presents.

He looked at Ron, Hermione, Sam, Fred, George, then to Mrs. Figg. They all nodded with smiles on their faces. Then, Harry started unwrapping the presents.

Harry opened all the presents:

Ron: 300 Barty-Botts' Every-Flavor Beans Set and a Wizarding Chess (Ron made Harry promise to give him some of the beans at Hogwarts).

Hermione: a new homework organizer and a new Writing Set (including a set of best un-smudging ink, best feathers with phoenix-feather quills, and 50 pages of leather parchments).

Sam: two pencils that he had made from burning and cutting of the trees. (Useless for Harry but he was very thankful)

Fred: a dozen of transforming wands (Harry had no idea what he was going to use them for).

George: a smart-quill (as Harry was examining it George said in a whisper so that no one will hear, "This took me years to make it, I finally invented it last week. If you just whisper the questions to the quill it will just start writing the answers. You better not lose it because if I sold it, it might cost more then 500 shickles, or not")

Mrs. Figg: Cutting Knife (cuts anything, it always cuts the exact amount you need for anything).

Dobby: A pair elf-made chocolate muffins and a pair of sock that he made him self).

After opening all the presents, they right away started eating the cake, of course after Harry blowing the candles out.

They also had fun chasing after the chocolate animals. It was just like chocolate frogs just that it wasn't a frog and just that because it was much smaller than the frogs.

After eating the cake, while Hermione and Mrs. Figg were washing the dishes, the boys played Chess which Ron gave to Harry.

Sam was very fascinated. Also Fred and George showed Sam a lot of magic tricks that they had created. By that Sam was extremely fascinated. Sam was very pleased by this; the more he saw magic, the more he wanted magic to be a wizard.

When Harry asked Sam for a duel of chess Sam couldn't resist it, he couldn't say no even though Sam was so bad at Chess (well, he didn't even know how to play it) he still gave it a try. He was having so much fun looking at the chess pieces move as they said the directions out loud. Since he was so interested he (impossibly)quickly learned how to play chess.

Sam was so happy.

They had a very happy evening until it was time for Harry to go….

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