Everything Your Heart Desires
By: EvelynRose
Chapter 1
The Best Birthday Ever
Harry Potter woke from yet another nightmare about the Department of Mysteries. He tossed and turned in his bed at Number 4 Privet Drive, trying to get a better look at the clock. It was 6:58.
'Great,' Harry thought, 'Aunt Petunia will be waking me up any time now.'
He waited and waited, but his Aunt's knock never came. It was 8:00, and Harry was surprised that he hadn't been ordered to cook breakfast or something of the like.
Just as he was getting out of bed, he heard a soft knock on his bedroom door. Instinctively, he reached for his wand.
"Come in," he said without thinking.
Harry watched the door open as if in slow motion. The suspense was killing him. Who on earth would knock on his door, asking entrance?
He gasped in shock as he caught sight of a tall, slender woman, with long red hair, and startling, bright green eyes. Her gasp matched his.
Who was this woman? And what was she doing in his room? She looked suspiciously like his mother, only older that she was in any of his pictures. A Death Eater, perhaps?
"Who are you?" Harry asked sternly.
The woman didn't answer.
"Harry?" she whispered, barely audible.
"M-Mum?" he began, but then caught himself. "No! This can't be happening. It's a trick, and I'm not gonna fall for it again," Harry hollered at the strange woman, "Not this time." His voice quivered.
"Harry," She said again, this time louder. "Harry, it's me. I'm your mother," the woman revealed, "Truly, I am."
"B-But you can't be. Both my parents' are dead. For nearly fifteen years now. And there's no way to bring people back to life," Harry said, trying to sound confident.
"But there is. Only few people know about it," seeing that she was getting nowhere, the woman stuck her head out the small room and yelled, "Sirius, a little help here!"
Right on cue, a large black dog came bounding up the stairs. The dog transformed, into the raggedy shape of a man with a gaunt face.
"Hiya Harry!" he said.
"W-Wa-," Harry's mouth couldn't seem to form words.
"Ask me a question only the real me would know?" the man told Harry.
Harry was dumbfounded. Oh how he hoped they weren't Death Eaters. He really wanted his parents back.
"Um, what did you give me before I went back to Hogwarts last year, after Christmas break?" Harry asked, unsure of himself.
"Easy, a Two Way Mirror. The same Two Way Mirror that used to belong to your father. We used them to communicate from separate detentions," Sirius replied in an offhanded way.
Harry believed them He really did. He ran and threw his arms around Sirius and his mum. He'd never had parents before. Now he did. And he couldn't have asked for a better birthday present. Today was, after all, July 31st.