Disclaimer: Finally, Harry's twelve…Please Review!!! 'Birthday' belongs to Paul McCartney.
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Gains and Losses
Chapter 12
You Say It's Your Birthday
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You say it's your birthday
It's my birthday too, yeah
They say it's you birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you
Yes we're going to a party, party
Yes we're going to a party, party
Yes we're going to a party, party
Six years had passed since Harry was sent to the DeSenas. Harry was extremely happy there and was really close to his new parents. He had everything that he could ever want but he still missed Sirius. Secretly, every night he would pray for Sirius. He would give up the DeSenas for Sirius anytime.
He missed Romulus too. He would always sit in his room and think of all the things that Romulus could be doing. He hoped that he hadn't replaced him with another friend. That would break his heart. He missed his old life.
It was Harry's eleventh birthday and he and the DeSenas were sitting together in the living room. Harry had just unwrapped a bunch of new clothes, books, another TV, video games and a read and gold trunk with the initials HP.
Harry suspected that the trunk was for Hogwarts. He had just gotten his Hogwarts acceptance letter informing him that he would be starting his first year of Hogwarts on the first of August. Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper was going to pick him up today to bring him to get his school supplies.
"Thanks Mom, thanks Dad" Harry said
He gave each of his parents a hug.
Suddenly there was the sound of someone knocking on the door. Mrs. DeSena went answer. As she opened the door she found herself staring up at a 10 foot tall giant. It was Hagrid.
"Hello, you must be Hagrid" she said
"Hello" said Hagrid "Nice to meet you"
Hagrid pulled Mrs. DeSena into a tight hug. It was obvious that she couldn't breathe.
"Now where's Harry?" Hagrid asked
"Right here" Harry said
Harry put all of his new clothes into his trunk and pushed it to the door.
"I'm ready"
"Wait Harry" said Mrs. DeSena
She handed him a huge bag of money.
"We got you some wizard money to buy your supplies"
"How did you get wizard money?"
"Well that Dumbledore had a meeting with us last week, about Hogwarts. We exchanged some of our money for some of that wizard stuff. It's really weird"
"Thank you"
Mr and Mrs. DeSena each gave Harry a hug. Francesco ran up to him and shook his hand.
"Ciao man!"
"Ciao!"
Hagrid gestured, telling Harry that they had to go. Harry followed him. Hagrid led him to a deserted street a couple of blocks away.
"Now Harry, Dumbledore gave me permission to do magic so we're gonna apparate to Diagon Alley. Hold on tightly"
Harry grabbed onto Hagrid with one hand and held his trunk with the other. Suddenly there was a loud crack and they were standing in a small town with all sorts of little shops.
"First stop, Madam Malkin's Robes" said Hagrid
They entered a little shop with robes of every colour on display. Once inside a short, plump lady grabbed Harry by the arm and began to measure him.
"Hogwarts right?" she asked
Harry nodded.
When she was done measuring him she handed him three pairs of plain black robes.
"30 galleons please"
Harry pulled 30 galleons from his bag and handed them to the woman. He placed the robes neatly in his trunk.
Next they went to Ollivanders do get Harry a wand. Mr. Ollivander freaked Harry out.
"Mr. Potter, I expected to be seeing you here"
Mr. Ollivander handed Harry a wand. Harry waved it. Suddenly three books gave crashing down on Mr. Ollivander's head. Harry tried not to laugh. He quickly pulled the wand away from Harry and handed him another.
As soon as the wand was being held firmly in Harry's hand he began to feel and warm glow. A light breeze blew his hair from his face.
"Curious, very curious" said Mr. Ollivander
"Excuse me but what's curious?"
"It just happened that this wand is destined to you when it's brother gave you that scar"
"Voldemort has my brother wand?" Harry said loudly.
"Do not speak his name!"
Harry quickly paid for his wand. Mr. Ollivander was really scaring him now. Next they went to Flourish and Blotts to get his textbooks.
"I'm going to go next door to get you an animal. You'll need one this year" said Hagrid
Hagrid left and Harry went into the bookstore. He quickly grabbed all of the textbooks that he would need, and a few extra and ran to the cashier to pay.
That's when he noticed someone. Standing outside of the store was a boy of his age. He had light brown hair, odd amber eyes and was a little skinny and small for his age. Next to him was his father who looked just like an older version. They looked oddly familiar but Harry wasn't able to make out who they were.
The boy looked at Harry for a moment and then quickly looked way when he saw that Harry was staring back at him. The boy's father began to pull him away but Harry could see that the boy was staring at him from the corner of his eye.
"Um, are you in line" said a voice
Harry spun around. He had completely forgotten that e was in line.
"Sorry"
He quickly paid for his books, shoved them in his trunk and ran up to Hagrid who was carrying a snowy white owl.
"Here's you owl" Hagrid said "She's a pretty one isn't she?"
"She's perfect!"
"So what are you going to call her"
Harry though for a moment.
"Hedwig"
They finished their errands and went to Hagrid' to spend the night. Tomorrow Harry would be starting Hogwarts!
The next day Hagrid took Harry to the Kings Cross train station. Hagrid led Harry to the barrier between nine and ten. He handed Harry a ticket.
"You have to run through the barrier"
"How am I supposed to run through a barrier?"
"It's like a hologram for wizards, you can go through it"
Harry did as he was told. Suddenly he found himself standing in front of a huge red train. The Hogwarts' Express!
I would like you to dance (birthday)
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance (birthday)
I would like you to dance (birthday)
Ooo, dance, yeah
I would like you to dance (birthday)
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance (birthday)
I would like you to dance (birthday)
Ooo, dance
You say it's your birthday
It's my birthday too, yeah
They say it's you birthday
We're gonna have a good time
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