The next morning dawned bright and early. Harry woke and went downstairs.

When he got downstairs he saw Vernon kissing Petunia good-bye for the day.

Vernon saw and Harry and said, "Boy, you better be good!" and then he walked away and went to work.

"Sorry about that. So, are you ready to go?" Petunia asked.

"Not quite, but give me a minute." Harry said. Then he ran up the stairs and changed and grabbed his book list. Then he bounded down the stairs again.

"Okay, I'm ready to go now, I think." Harry said, mentally going over what he should have.

"Good, now let's go!" Petunia said, walking towards the door.

"Uhh.....how are we getting there?" Harry asked, following her.

"You'll see." Petunia said.

Once they were outside, Petunia locked the door and then walked to the edge of the driveway. She then held up her right hand, her wand hand.

Then, out of no where, the Knight Bus appeared.

"Oh, I see. Why didn't I think of that?" Harry said laughing.

Stan Shinpike came out and said what he normally does and Aunt Petunia and Harry boarded the bus.

The bus was filled with all sorts of chairs. From squishy armchairs to straight backed wooden ones. Petunia and Harry sat down in two of the fluffy arm chairs and when Stan asked where they were going, Petunia replied, "To London please, near the Leaky Cauldron."

"Okay, Ernie, to London, near the Leaky Cauldron!" Stan yelled up to Ernie.

The ride there was quite bumpy and when Aunt Petunia and Harry got off, they didn't feel like eating anything for a while.

"Well, to Diagon Alley. we go!" Petunia said. "I haven't been here since my last year at Hogwarts."

They reached the Leaky Cauldron and entered.

"Hello Harry!" Tom, the inn keeper called.

"Hi." Harry said, heading for the back of the pub so he and Petunia could enter Diagon Alley.

When they closed the back door to the pub, Petunia said, "Here, let me do it, I want to see if I can remember how."

":Okay." Harry said, stepping aside.

Aunt Petunia pulled out her wand and stepped up to the brick wall. She tapped the bricks, one by one, going slower than people normally did.

About a minute later, the wall was magically making itself into an arch way, leading into Diagon Alley.

"Ha! I still remember! So, where do we have to go first? Gringotts?" Petunia asked, walking along the street and dodging different people as she went.

"Yeah, I need to get some money out of my vault 'cause I'm not so sure how much I have left in my bag." Harry said, leading the way to Gringotts.

"Oh yes, I need to go to mine to. I still have the key." Aunt Petunia said, then she pulled out a thin silver chain and on it hung a silver key.

They walked up to the front doors of the building and they were shown by the goblins who normally stand there to open the doors.

When they got in there, they were shown to their vaults, Harry's first.

As the door to Harry's vault opened, Petunia exclaimed in surprise at the mounds of gold Galleons, columns of silver Sickles, and stacks of bronze Knuts. Harry scooped quite a bit into his bag and shut the vault.

Then, after Harry's vault, they went deeper under London to Aunt Petunia's.

When her door swung open, Harry was amazed to see how little she had. 5 columns of silver and 9 stacks of bronze is all she had. Petunia scooped all the silver into her purse and shut the vault.

Once standing outside, Petunia asked, "So, where do you need to go now?"

"I need new robes, mine are a bit short so I'll meet you at Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions in about 15 minutes or so." Harry said, walking towards the robe shop.

"Okay," Petunia said.

Harry entered the shop and Madam Malin asked, "You're from Hogwarts, right?"

"Yeah," Harry answered.

"Okay,follow me. Two other Hogwarts students are being fitted now." Madam Malkin said, heading towards the back of the shop.

As Harry followed her, he heard two voices from the back of the shop.

"Hermione! Do you have to be so picky?" Harry heard a familiar voice say.

"Yes! I do! I can't help it either." Hermione said.

Why do they get to have all of the fun together while I'm stuck on Private Drive? Harry thought bitterly.

Harry continued following Madam Malkin to the sourse of the voices, who were still having their disagreement.

When Harry entered the room, both Ron and Hermione stopped what they were doing and exclaimed, "Harry! How'd you get here? I thought you were stuck with the muggles?"

"Uhh..... hi. I was, but ya know how I was telling you that I had a lot to tell you? I'll explain it all later." Harry said, sorta hinting that there were ears around that didn't need to hear.

Madam Malkin, getting the hint, said, "I'll be back in a few minutes." Then she left the room.

When the door shut, Ron and Hermione said, "Okay, now tell us!"

"Well....." Harry said, and he explained everything to them. About his aunt and about the cuts and how he got there.

When Harry finished, Hermione asked, "So why did she hide it from you for all of these years? I mean she's your actual mother and she never told you?"

"Well, she said she hide it from me because of my Uncle Vernon. I know she never told me, I don't like that she didn't but I have no control over that now do I?" Harry asked, his last words sounding cold even to his own ears.

"We know you have no control over it! What is wrong with you?" Hermione asked, getting slightly irritated.

"What is wrong with me? What is wrong with me? You know what is wrong with me! I've just had everything told to me! Everything I once knew and believed has been proven wrong! You two have been having a peachy time together while I'm stuck on Private Drive with those EVIL MUGGLES!!!!!!! I have no one now! SIRIUS IS DEAD!!!! Don't you think that it would have a bit of an impact on me???" Harry yelled at them, all of the feelings he'd harbored inside of him finally spilled over the edge, causing Harry to burst out in a fit of rage.

"Okay! Calm down! We know you've had a rough summer! Calm down!" Ron said, not knowing what else to do.

The door to the room opened. "Who's yelling?" Madam Malkin asked, looking from Harry's furious face to Ron and Hermione's scared looking expressions.

"Nothing, everything's fine. No one's yelling, it was just something that we were doing." Hermione said, covering up for Harry's anger and yelling.

"Well, if you say so." Madam Malkin said, seriouslt doubting them. "I'll be back in a few minutes to measure you for your new robes." Then, once again, she left the room.

"Harry, please calm down!" Ron said, urging him to calm down.

"Okay, fine! But you know what's wrong with me!" Harry said, anger seething inside of him.

"Yes, we know what's wrong, we understand you completely." Hermione said, trying her best to use a soothing tone of voice to calm him down.

After that was said, no one really spoke to one another, and when Madam Malkin came back in, still no one said anything.

The rulers and things measured all three of them out as Madam Malkin went about getting all of the materials needed for making the robes.

Since it hadn't been fifteen minutes when they got out of the robe shop, they went to the sweet shop and got themselves an icecream.

"So, how are taking all of this news your aunt has given you?" Ron asked, taking a big bite out of his icecream and leading the way back to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.

"Well, I don't really know what to feel about this. I mean, all I've ever known has been proven wrong. All that was told to me about my parents was a lie. I just don't know what to think of all of this." Harry said, breathing a sigh and continuing to lick on his icecream cone.

"Oh Harry, umm..... about the cuts, why'd you do them?" Hermione asked, throwing him a curious look between bites of her icecream.

"Well, I went to write a note to Sirius, thinking he was still alive, but then I realized that he's dead. I grew depressed, I felt as if I were sinking into a deep dark hole atht now one could help me out of. So, I took my only escape and tried to kill myself." Harry said, his face becoming dark and shadowed.

"It's okay Harry." Hermione said in a comforting voice, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"No! It won't be okay! The only person whom I really ever looked up to died! One of the only people who'd ever tried to be a parent figure left me!" Harry said, the lump in his throat returning.

"Harry, just take a deep breath! It will be okay! We all miss Sirius to, he was a good person. Just don't think about missing him." Hermione said, drawing him into a hug.

"But I can't help but miss him." Harry said, tears forming at the edge of his vision.

"We know, we know. Just don't ponder on it forever, you have to go on with life. We know you miss him, but don't let your grief consume you life." Hermione said, rubbing his back in small little circles, trying to get him to calm down.

Harry took a deep breathe and blinked a few times to get rid of his tears and then he said miserably, "I guess you're right. I know I shouldn't let it consume my life."

"So are you going to be okay now?" Hermione asked, continuing to rub little circles on his back.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Harry said.

Harry and Hermione broke apart and while they waited for Aunt Petunia to come, they finished their icecreams.

Before long, someone called for Hermione, "Hermione dear, it's time to go!" It was her parents.

"Hey, I'll see you guys at school." Hermione called over her shoulder as she waved good-bye to them.

"Well mate, I better go find mum before she starts to worry." Ron said as he walked away.

Harry sat down on the bench infront of the shop and leaned back against the wall to wait for Aunt Petunia.

He sat there for a good ten minutes before he saw his aunt trying to make her way over to him.

Harry stood up and and picked up his bag that contained his school robes and went to her instead.

"Sorry I'm so late, I got caught up in Flourish and Blotts. I got myself a book and I was reading it, oblivious of the time." Petunia said. "Where to now?"

"I need to get some potion ingredients, my supply is running low." Harry said, heading towards the Apothecary.

Ten minutes later, Harry was standing outside of Flourish and Blotts with another new bag. He opened the door and went in.

Harry handed the book list to the man behind the counter and pointed out his new books that he'd need.

While the man got his books, Harry let his mind wander, reliving some of his memories.

"Here you go." the man said, putting Harry's books on the counter, snapping Harry back to reality.

"Huh? Oh thanks." Harry said. He paid the man and walked outside.

Petunia was looking at her watch. "We better go soon before Vernon gets home. He should be home any minute now."

Five mintues later they were standing outside the Leaky Cauldron. Petunia raised her wand hand and the gleaming purple Knight Bus was standing infront of them.

One wild bus ride later they were back on Wisteria Walk, blinking against the bright setting sun.

They started walking along the side walk towards Private Drive but all the sudden it turned cold, very cold.

The bright gleaming sunlight disappeared and they were surrounded by a black lightless night.

Dementors can't be here, can they? Harry thought.

Well, what do u think of it? Should I keep going??? that is a good question, should I leave u hanging on what's going to happen next? I dunno,

Nah

Harry started gropping for his wand but someone to his right muttered "Lumos, " and Petunia's wand blazed into brilliant white light. She held it above her head to cast light all around them. They were surrounded, there was at least ten dementors there.

Harry grabbed his wand but couldn't think of a happy thought fast enough so he had problems saying the charm. His mind kept going over all of the terrible events in his life.

Then, like a light shining in his head, Sirius's face popped into his head and he then shouted, "Expecto Patronum!" All he got was the silvery mist.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!!" Harry bellowed and a huge silvery stag burst forth from the end of his wand.

The silvery stag charged all of the dementors down and they all flew away into the night. The light of a natural night returned and so did all of the noises. The sun had set so Petunia kept her wand lite.

"Are you okay Harry?" Petunia asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Harry said.

"I wonder why there are dementors in Little Whinging in broad daylight?" Aunt Petunia said curiously.

"The dementors are no longer under the ministry's control, at least some of them aren't. Voldemort has returned so he now controls alot of them." Harry said.

"Voldemort has returned? How do you know?" Petunia asked.

"Because the night he returned, in the grave yard, I was there. I witnessed it." Harry said, his mind flashing back to that night a little over a year ago.

"Oh," Aunt Petunia said quietly.

They turned onto Private Drive and walked along the sidewalk. They came into view of the house and Vernon was standing there waiting on them.

Unfortunatly, Petunia still had her wand out and it was lite. Vernon just found out.

"You-you're one o-o-of them? One of his kind?" Vernon spluttered out, the vien in his temple throbbing.

"I-I should've told you but yes, I am one of Harry's kind and I'm sorry." Petunia said. "Nox," and the wand light went out.

"B-b-but I didn't think you could be! You hate his people!" Vernon said in disbelief.

" I don't hate them, I just told you that." Petunia said.

"Fine! Tomorrow, start looking for another place to live. I don't want someone like you living in my house." Vernon said, then he turned on his heel and went inside.

Petunia's eyes filled with tears and one single solitary tear fell down her ckeek.

"Aunt Petunia? Are you okay?" Harry asked.

"Yes, yes I'm fine." she said, wiping her eyes. "Go on inside and start packing your stuff, I know where we can go, the house down the street. Just go start packing, I don't want you living here if I can't be here with you."

"Okay, I'll go do that, but are you sure you're going to be okay?" Harry asked once again.

"Yeah, I'm fine, just please go do what I told you. I'll be along in a few minutes." Petunia said, wiping away more tears.

"Okay." Harry said and he walked toward the house.

Aunt Petunia just stood crying for a minute but soon, once again, wiped them away.

When Harry went inside and passed his Uncle, all he got out of him was a sniff and an upturn of his nose.

Harry shrugged his shoulders and walked away.

A few minutes after Harry had put his stuff up, he heard the front door close and then he heard Aunt Petunia coming up the stairs and then the bathroom door closed.

I do hope she's alright. Harry thought as he pulled on his night clothes.