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CHAPTER SIX-HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Harry woke up five days later still lying in bed in his room. He was quite surprised though for the fact that he felt pretty good. He could completely open both eyes, in which he realized he wasn't wearing his glasses. He reached out onto his nightstand, found them, and put them on. Also his swollen knee was back to normal, and his ribs, stomach, and head no longer hurt. He slowly pulled himself up into a sitting position and immediately took back what he said about his ribs not hurting. At least two of them were still extremely sore. Harry then noticed he wasn't wearing the oxygen mask anymore and he wasn't hooked up to the bag of nutrients either.

'It must have run out.' Harry got out of bed extremely slowly and carefully. He felt quite weak and actually even a little hungry.

"I wonder where Sirius is", Harry mumbled to himself. His throat was very dry. He very difficultly and painfully hobbled to the door of his room and opened it.

The whole house was extremely quiet. Harry was begging to get a little worried. He had no idea how long he had been asleep for. He made his way down the hall to the stairs.

'This is going to be hard. Why couldn't we have an elevator.' He was right. The trip down the stairs was long and painful. He continuously had to stop and rest, but he finally made it to the bottom. Harry then hobbled into the living room. What he saw made his heart jump. He was so happy. There was Sirius fast asleep on the couch. Harry hobbled over to him and sat down in an armchair next to the couch. He just sat there watching Sirius sleeping and plunged deep into thought. 'He cares about me so much, probably more then anyone before. My dream has finally come true. I have someone who loves me like a son. I have a home that I truly feel I belong in. Things are perfect. I don't know how it could get any better.'

Suddenly Sirius stirred and slowly opened his eyes. He starred at Harry smiling back at him from the armchair, blinked a few times, then jumped up, ran over to Harry, bent down, and wrapped Harry in a warm loving hug. When Sirius pulled back he had tears pouring down his face.

"Harry I'm so happy you're finally awake. How did you get down here? Are you ok? How are you feeling? Does anything hurt? Are you hungry? Do you..."

"Sirius calm down. I'm fine. I woke up a few minutes ago and came down to look for you. I'm feeling much better and guess what...I'm a little hungry."

"You're hungry? Great! I'll go make pizza. Pepperoni sound good?"

"Yah great!"

"Alright you just wait here and I'll be right back!" Sirius was so happy. He rushed into the kitchen and immediately started working. Sirius returned about 20 minutes later carrying a huge pizza and two goblets of butterbeer.

He brought it over to the chair where Harry was still sitting.

"Here, don't get up. We can eat it here." Sirius set the pizza and the butterbeers on the nightstand. The two sat there eating until there wasn't a pepperoni left. "Boy, where you hungry", Sirius chuckled, "Oh and that reminds me, Hedwig delivered your school list yesterday, so we better go to Diagon Alley today."

'Hedwig delivered it? Good, that means she's been staying at Hogwarts', Harry thought to himself.

"Harry, Harry are you listening..." Harry was jutted out of his thoughts.

"What?"

"I was trying to say that we have to go today, because tomorrow your getting your casts off, and the next day you have to leave for school."

"Alright then, let's go!"

"Uh, Harry are you forgetting something?" Sirius said pointing at Harry's clothes. Harry looked down. He was still wearing his pajamas.

"Ohhh...all right, let's go... after I get changed", Harry replied laughing.

He started to hobble over to the stairs.

"Harry do you need some help up the stairs?"

"No, that's alright. I managed to get down the stairs. I should be able to get back up them." Sirius watched sadly as Harry made his way slowly and painfully up the stairs. When he finally reached his room he sat down on his bed to rest for a moment.

'Boy that was exhausting', Harry thought to himself. He slowly got up and hobbled over to his closet. He picket out a dark green robe to match his eyes and changed.

"Hey wait a minute, where's my wand?" Harry thought back to the last time he had it. 'Let's see, I was using it on the train and then'..."I put it in my trunk!" He hobbled over to his trunk and swung the lid open. Sure enough there was his wand, lying on top of his invisibility cloak. "We've been through a lot together", Harry said sighing as he picked it up and put it into his robes.

He then got up, left the room, and went back down the stairs. When he got to the bottom Sirius was standing there with a smile on his face and crutches in his hands.

"Here, Madame Pomfrey left these for you." He handed them to Harry who reluctantly took them. It was bad enough that he was wearing casts, but to limp around on crutches. He didn't want people to think he was weak. "Let's travel by floo powder!"

"Do we have to", Harry wined.

"I think it would be safest that way, since we can't apperate there", replied Sirius, remembering the dream he had had the night he spent in Dumbledore's office.

"Ok", Harry sighed. The two of them walked over to the fireplace as Sirius used his wand to light it. Sirius then picked up a small pot on the mantle, which was full of floo powder.

"Would you like to go first?" Sirius asked.

"Sure", Harry replied as he took a hand full of floo powder. Harry stepped into the fire and threw the floo powder as he clearly shouted, this time, "Diagon Alley!" The flames engulfed him and he tucked his elbows in close to him, as he began to spin past fireplaces. Suddenly he stopped and tumbled to the ground out of a fireplace. He had a lot of trouble getting up, but suddenly he felt a hand grab him and pull him to his feet.

He couldn't see anything since his glasses were covered by ash. He took them off and cleaned them on his slightly darkened robes. When he looked back at the person who had helped him up, there was no one there. Suddenly the fireplace behind him lit up with green flames and a moment later Sirius stepped from the fire. Sirius saw Harry and was about to ask how his trip was, when he tripped over Harry's crutches and fell face first to the ground. Harry burst out laughing.

Sirius slowly got up," So you think that's funny do you?" Sirius pulled out his wand and pointed it at Harry. The next thing Harry knew, he was rolling on the floor laughing, not because Sirius was clumsy, but because the jinx was tickling him. He couldn't stop laughing and was soon laughing so hard he was literally crying. Sirius was laughing at him, but stopped suddenly when he realized that they were in the Leaky Cauldron, and that everyone was starring at them. He quickly undid the jinx on Harry and helped him up. Tears of laughter were still pouring down Harry's face as Sirius handed him his crutches and the two of them slowly made their way to the Diagon Alley wall, with everyone's eyes following their every move.

They came up to the wall and Sirius tapped the certain bricks. The wall opened and they entered.

"Let's see we need to stop just about everywhere", Sirius said as he looked at a piece of paper in his hand. They restocked his potions kit, stocked up on ink and parchment, got some owl treats for Hedwig, and even got Harry a new school robe after his clothes got torn up by the horrible events during the third task.

"Alright Harry, last stop Flourish and Blotts, and then we can head home."

"Can I see the list of books we need to get?"

"Sure", Sirius replied as he handed Harry the list and nearly dropped the bag of school supplies.

"Wow that's a lot of books. Hermione must be happy!" Harry said as he examined the list.

They walked into Flourish and Blotts and up to the counter. Harry handed the list to the old wizard behind the counter.

"Do you have these books?"

"Sure, one moment young lad", the old wizard said as he walked into a room in the back of the store. Harry turned around to ask Sirius if they could stop by Quality Quidditch before they went home, but to his surprise Sirius was gone.

Harry was beginning to panic. He didn't want to be alone. Then he saw him. Sirius was just outside the store talking to Reamus Lupin, his old defense against the dark arts teacher. The door was open and Harry could just barely make out what they were saying.

"So everything's ready and it's all set up, right?" Sirius questioned Remus.

"Yes. It's gonna be great!"

Suddenly the old wizard returned with a huge stack of books. Everything from "Reading the Final Signs" by Helga Magica to "Getting a Hoot of O.W.L.S." by Daric Mandarin. Harry jumped a little as the old wizard set the books down on the counter. Harry swung around quickly.

"Here are your books, lad." Harry paid for the books and picked them up. He had a lot of trouble trying to use crutches and carry over half a dozen books at the same time. "Do you need some help?"

"No that's alright. I can manage, thank you", Harry replied. He slowly hobbled to the door and left the store. Sirius immediately grabbed the books from Harry.

"Here I got them Harry." Harry suddenly realized that Reamus was gone.

'I wonder what they meant about everything being ready?'

Sirius interrupted Harry's thoughts.

"All right, that's everything, let's head home." Harry decided it was better not to ask. Anyways he was beginning to feel a little drained. They made their way back to the Leaky Cauldron and over to the fireplace with everyone's eyes once again upon them.

"I think I should go first", chuckled Sirius as he stepped into the flames," The Cave". And with that he disappeared in a burst of green flames.

Suddenly Harry began to worry.

'Wait a minute. What did he just say? What am I supposed to say? I think it was something like the cavern. Yah, I think that's what he said, but what if it wasn't!'

Suddenly he heard someone whisper in his ear," The Cave." The person's breath was cold and Harry jumped. He turned around as quickly as he could but there was no one there. Harry was really creeped out. It was the second time today that had happened.

He hobbled into the fire, threw the floo powder, and said," The Cave". He was already dizzy and feeling a little sick and the trip was making it worse. He felt like he was about to pass out, when finally it all stopped. He toppled out of the fireplace and slowly stood up. He looked around. It was his house all right, but everything was pitch black.

'Where's Sirius? Did he make it home safely?'

"Sirius are you..."but he was cut off as the lights all turned on and all of his friends and teachers jumped up and yelled," SURPRISE!" Then magically decorations, presents, and even a huge cake appeared. There was a huge banner hanging on the wall that read 'HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY HARRY', with the 'belated' word squished in. Everyone was starring at Harry and smiling, when suddenly tears began to pour from Harry's eyes.

"What's wrong?" Sirius finally asked.

"Nothing's wrong", Harry sobbed," as a matter of fact this is the best day of my life! I've never been so happy!"

This was Harry's first birthday party ever. Harry never had so much fun in his life. They ate cake, which was every flavor and made by the same people who made Berttie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, they played games like magical chairs and pin the tail on the unicorn, and they even hit a piƱata with jinxes.

Harry got tons of presents, but his favorites were Sirius's and Dumbledore's. Dumbledore had gotten him a beautiful dragon hide broom case that even had space for his broom servicing kit, which Hermione had gotten for him a few years back. Sirius had gotten him his very own snitch that had his name 'HARRY POTTER' engraved on it. It was a little different from the normal ones though, because it had silver wings instead of gold ones. Sirius told him that it was a new model called 'THE SILVER WING', and that it's a lot faster and a lot more challenging then the old ones.

The party lasted for hours, but slowly, one by one, everyone began to leave. Ron was the last to leave.

"Well mate, I'll see you in two days."

"Yah and don't miss the train", Harry joked. The two laughed a little and then Ron left with the rest of the Weasleys.

Harry and Sirius were now alone.

"Sirius?"

"Yah Harry?"

"Thank you so much for everything!"

"Your welcome Harry!"

"I mean you've done so much for me", Harry replied as they cleaned up the mess," You saved my life, adopted me, gave me a home and a family, a birthday party...all of this when you didn't have to."

"Of course I didn't have to, but I wanted to Harry. You mean so much to me. I care about you so much. Anyways you deserve everything you've gotten. After everything you've been through this is the least I could do." Harry just smiled back. He was at a complete loss of words.

As soon as they were done cleaning up Sirius helped Harry to his room.

"Good night Harry. Get some sleep, ok? Remember your getting your casts off tomorrow."

"Ok. Goodnight Sirius." Sirius closed the door and went to his room. Harry changed into a pajama that had snitches all over it. It perfectly matched his bed.

'So that must have been what Sirius was talking to Reamus about.' With that Harry took off his glasses and set them on his nightstand. He just laid there with his eyes open for a little while thinking about everything that had happened since he had gotten his letter to Hogwarts.

'So many lives have been ruined because of me", Harry thought to himself. "If I hadn't live, if I had died with my parents, would things have been better?" Harry let out a huge sigh. He then closed his eyes and fell into a dreamless sleep.