Chapter 3: The Second Surprise
While Harry and the others were playing around, what they didn't know was that the Dudley's
had found out that Harry was missing. Also they didn't know that they were searching for him
and that they were having a little visit to Mrs. Figg.
After the Chess tournament, which Ron had won, the boys decided to go out to the backyard
and play soccer. Ron, Fred, and George didn't even know if soccer was even a game but they
wanted to learn. When they were about to go outside, they heard the doorbell ring. Hermione
looked out side, then yelled, "Oh, no! It's them, the Muggles!" "Hermione don't insult the
Muggles. I am one of them you know..." replied Sam. "It's no time for joke Sam! This is
serious! Harry's Uncle and his Aunt came!" yelled Hermione back quickly pushing everyone
(except Mrs. Figg and Sam) to the back door. They were in the backyard now. "What do we
do?" asked Ginny. "Keep your voice down, they might hear us!" whispered Hermione,
"Harry? Where is the secret passage way?"
"What passage way?"
"The one Mrs. Figg had created. The transporting hole."
"What?"
"Didn't she tell you about the passage way? Then how did you get here?"
"You mean the fence? I didn't know that it was a..."
But he wasn't able to finish the sentence, because the back door was starting to open and there
were his Uncle and his Aunt voice coming from there arguing that he was missing and needed to
look everywhere for him. So, as quickly as he can he opened the fence came through and
pointed to everyone to follow him. When Vernon and Petunia was in the backyard, thankfully
they didn't see the six.
Fred: What is this place?
George: Why is it so dark in here?
Ginny: Look there is a light coming from there!
Hermione: I read it in a book, when passing through a transporting hole there are no light but
only light that is coming from an another exit or an entrance. So that must be the other entrance
to Harry's backyard.
Harry: Well it isn't MY back yard. It's...
Again he wasn't able to finish his sentence because the five were already running towards the
light. So, he started running too.
They were now in Harry's Uncle's backyard. The grass there was all yellow, and the grass had
to be cut. George asked, "Is one of your chores that you said you didn't do cutting the grass
and giving water?" "Yeah", answered Harry. "Well, then I'll do it for you. I've learned this new
trick from..." clearing his throat, he said again, "my friend." And then in a flick of his wand the
grass was all green and they were all cut in to even sizes. "Oy, I'm impressed. So you actually
know a spell that is useful," started Ron, "well, can you teach me that trick? It will come handy
in my chores." "No, it's a secret trick I learned," clearing his throat once more, "my friend."
"Fine," answered Ron in an angry voice. "We shouldn't be here complaining! My aunt and
uncle will be here at any moment. So they opened the back door, which thankfully wasn't
locked. They were inside. They started going upstairs. The twins rather thought that the house
was pretty clean compared to there house. "Well, wait until you come into my room," told
Harry. "Harry, do you remember how I said last year that we'll be seeing you very soon?"
started Hermione, still walking up the stairs, "well, there is another birthday surprise for you. It's
that over the summer we had built another house just for you right next to Ron's. Well, actually
it's kind of an attached room." Harry was very surprised and so shocked. He was so happy.
His own home! "Is this a dream? Holy crab! You're saying that I'm moving out of this...this...
house? And living next to Ron's? This gotta be a dream..." Harry yelled in happiness. "We were
going to tell you the first we met today, but... You and Sam looked so happy. And I, I mean we
didn't want to upset you," replied Hermione; then started Harry, now entering his room, "How
can it upset me? Sam can come with us." "But we only mad one room... Well, I guess we can
build another room," said Hermione, "well, then why are you standing still you should start
packing. Then Harry used the spell he had learned last year from Tonks. He tried the same
movement that Tonks had done last year when she was packing his things. It fortunately
worked. Then He zipped his trunk then cast Scourgify on the room to make it cleaner and
neater then said, "Locomotor Trunk," which made his trunk float few inches off the ground and
wrote a note to the Dudley's that he wouldn't be coming back and said, "Let's go."
But this time unfortunately when they were about to exit the room hey heard the front door
open. 'Oh, no!
The Dudley's! thought Harry. And everyone else realized that the Dudley's were here too. 'Not
to worry, we can you Apparate!' said Hermione, 'just focus to the place you want to go to,
everyone focus on Mrs. Figg's kitchen; then I will do the rest' Harry kept his mind on Mrs.
Figg's Kitchen. He closed his eyes. He created a picture of a nice dark brown cabinets, brown
table with pink and yellow flowers on it, and... "Boom!" a loud crackling noise came out of
nowhere. "Harry, you can open your eyes now. We are here and safe," that was Hermione.
"Oh, okay," he opened his eyes, "now I get what you mean that why you didn't Apparate here.
That was really loud!" "Yes, it was louder than usual because we were in a hurry and there
were a lot of people who were Apparating," answered Hermione. However back at the
Dudley's, rather being mad that Harry had vanished they were happy. They had actually
searched for Harry, but didn't find him so they were proud of that. They even got to argue with
Mrs. Figg, they actually weren't able to do that because Mrs. Figg was always on top of things.
But they were feeling good tonight. Very good.
When they arrived home and found Harry's room empty and read the letter (they rather should
say that it was a note since it was on a post-it) saying:
Dear Dusley's,
I'm moving in somewhere else; like you should be happy I am happy as well. So if you'll
be so kind don't bother to think about me anymore.
From Harry
The Dudley's decided to go have dinner out for celebration. They weren't able to do it over
summer because they didn't want Harry to come with them, but now with Harry gone, they
were free to do anything. "Well, how about going to the moon to celebrate? Huh?" started Mr.
Dudley joking, "Well, duddles, you can move everything you have in to Harry's OLD room
tonight," he was so happy, when he laughed and smiled his jaws looked like it was about to fall
apart and his lips were about to rip. However, Mr. Dudley, and Dusley being so happy, Aunt
Petunia wasn't. She forced a smile on a face but in her deep heart in her deep instincts, she
knew something was going to happen.
However going back to the wizards and the witches, they were also happy as also. (A/N sorry
for keep on going back and forth around people and settings) Sam and Harry especially were
especially happy. Sam, for him finally was visiting a wizarding house; and Harry, for being able
to live with his best friend's family and his new friend who understands him very well. Mrs. Figg
broke into tears in middle of this saying that she was going to miss everyone, but they promised
that they will visit her again very soon.
And how wrong they were.
The very next day, they were Apparating to Ron's house. Hermione was also coming because
she got permission for being able to go to Ron's house until Hogwarts starts; she was going to
share a room with Ginny. Ron, now very close friend of Sam now, would have exploded if he
was a balloon being filled up with ideas they were going to do when they got there. Sam was
also very excited. Harry, well I can't even put them to words, he was so happy that if you had
added all the happiness in the world, he would be happier than that. (I'm just exaggerating, but
still he was very, very happy.)
Before it was time to go they decided to not waste any time and
started playing chess once more. (But they never noticed that Fred and George were missing.)
A few minutes before they were about to leave, Fred and George were still missing. But he was
too distracted form the clock to be thinking about them. It was 7 minutes till 12:00 p.m. then he
started checking if he had all his stuff that he got from the orphanage when they found him
staying at Mrs. Figg's.
(What happened to Sam was when Sam was found by the orphanage.
Mrs. Figg took a step and told them that she would be adopting Sam. She knew all about these
adopting and orphaning things since she was told to watch Harry secretly over now 16 years in
the Muggle land.)
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