A/N: i hate myself i hate my self i hate myself and i depise my computer it keeps breaking and that's why i haven't been able to post but it's fixed and now i should be updateing again more regularly. this is the next chapter and it's really funny jsut read and enjoy. (you'd think that after 3 months i would have more to say but i don't so see ya!)
WARNING: if you hate grammer mistakes then you probably don't want to read this story or any of my work i suck at grammer but i love writing fanfics so deal please!
Harry's life was exactly what he wanted and today was his sixteenth birthday and the only thing he was gonna do was practice with his band all afternoon. Harry's band consisted of Ron on drums, Hermione on keyboards, Seamus on backup guitar, and lastly Harry was lead singer and lead guitar, Harry played bothe acoustic guitar and electric guitar.
When Harry got to the floor that his band used to practice, the fifth floor of Marauder's Manor, he discovered the lights weren't on but when he did turn the lights on he found that his friends had decorated the practice room with red, gold, and dark green confetti that was floating in midair. He also found that his band members had gotten him a new guitar. "Wow guys this rocks. I love it. Thanks" "Don't mention it, we would have had a cake but m—" but Ron was cut off by a jab in the ribs by
Hermione who swiftly said "So how about we break in that guitar?" "Did you see the switch that changes it into a bass?" Seamus asked "No, that's wicked." Harry said. "So about we get started Seamus was telling us about a new song he wrote that had a really strong bass part." Hermione said. "Okay let's try it." Harry said and everyone got into place while harry adjusted the strap and the strings on his guitar.
They continued to play all afternoon paying all of there songs which were about 6, and then some of Harry's favorites because it was his birthday. When they took a break all the band members went into their break room where the walls were covered in poster's of their favorite bands like, Linkin' Park, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Dashboard Confessionals, and a few others as well as some wizarding bands. Everyone was sitting in their retro rockers : Harry's dark green, Ron's blue, Hermione's red, and Seamus' orange.
Harry said "You know I love this guitar it rocks but we still need to find a bass player." "Yeah but we can have audition at school and we'll have more luck their anyway." Said Hermione encouragingly. "Yeah probably. Gods guys this guitar really is wicked. Thanks again." Harry said to all of them "We've got other stuff to but you never mind." Ron said after he received a death glare from his new girlfriend. But it didn't matter Harry had tuned out and was admiring his guitar it had looked black to Harry at first but when the light reflected off it Harry's realized that it was a deep hunter's green and it had a magnificent blue and whitepheonix that had a tail that reached down the neck of the instrument.
"So what do you think Harry?" "Huh?" Harry mumbled "Who called me?" "I did." said Seamus "We were just questioning whether or not we should drop the lyrics from Seamus' song or leave them. What do you think?" Hermione asked from Ron's lap. 'When'd that happen?' "Well what if we did two versions of the song one with the vocals and the other without?" Harry questioned "You know that would be a great idea." Said Ron. "Okay so what time is it?" Harry asked. "It's 6 pm" said Hermione astounded. "Wow we've been up here for nearly four hours." Said harry "How 'bout we call it a day and find something else to do?" "Sure harry let's go" the other three said and stood to leave. All four of them got up and left harry taking his guitar to show Sirius and Remus. Harry had no idea what was waiting for him downstairs however.
Harry walked into a dark kitchen but as soon as he walked in the lights flared and Harry heard everyone he knew shout "SURPRISE" at him. Everyone Harry knew was there: Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, Sprout and Hagrid, all the Weasley's including Bill and Charley, Sirius and Remus, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Nymphadora (sshhh don't tell) Tonks, Alastor Moody, Arabella figg, Justin Flinch-Fletchley, Dean Thomas, Colin Creevey, Dennis Creevey, and Professor Snape and Draco Malfoy, the later two much to the shock and horror of Ron and Harry.
Harry was so shocked that Ron had to hold him up and then escort him to a chair at the head of the table, which had been enlarged and was covered in all of harry's favorite foods. "What are Snape and Malfoy doing here?" Harry asked Ron and Hemione "I'm here because I need to speak with Professor Dumbledore." Said Proffesor Snape and then he left to have his talk. "And I'm here because Snape wanted someone decent to talk too and because I need to talk to you after your done being the hero and swelling your brain." Hermione and Seamus had to hold Ron back who settled down under Harry's gaze "Fine" he mumbled. And Harry said "First it's my birthday and secondly I'm not acting like a hero." "You're right, of course. I shouldn't have insulted you and I was wrong but we should continue this later." Draco said looking Harry up and down and then turned and disappeared into the crowd. "Someone pinch me-" Harry was cut short "Oww." Harry had been pinched
"Did I see and hear Draco Malfoy say that he was wrong to me Harry Potter AND admit he was wrong?"Harry asked Ron thunderstruck. "Yeah he did." Ron said just as amazed. "Hey what did the magical farret, sorry harr. What did Malfoy want?" Seamus corrected himself as he walked up. "Well it was really weird he said he wanted to talk to Harry later but then he insulted him and then appologised about it and said he'd explain later. Hermione said. "Okay that one gets classified as bizzar." Seamus said.
"Yeah but did you see what he was wearing." Harry said in awe. Draco Malfoy was wearing black cargo pants, which had silver chains and leather strings hanging from the pockets and belt loops. And he was wearing a close fit t-shirt that said 'BITE ME . . . YOU MIGHT ENJOY IT!' and hugged his torso in all the right places. "You know if he comes over here again I might just bite him." Harry said. "Well if you do could you warn me first, I mean I'm all for you and Malfoy if that's what'll make you happy but any physical contact is really unessecary to prove to me that your in love." Ron told Harry causing everyone to laugh. "It's cool Ron I get it it's not like you'd ever kiss Hermione in public." Harry said goading Ron, who to this day Harry had never seen refuse a challenge and true to his word, Ron turned took Hermione and dipped her kissing her and then lifting her back up. You could hear cat calls from the twins and other people who had seen the kiss and Ron just smiled looking smug as Hermione buried her head into Ron's shoulder.
"You know what?" Seamus said all of a sudden "No, What?" Ron asked sarcastically. "Well I was just thinking if Draco's here already then I should ask him something and now I'm gonna." "Wait, What are you going to ask him?" Harry asked trying to keep the panic from his voice. "I was just going to ask him which way he swings?" Seamus said off-handedly "Oh, why do you care? You're hopelessly in love with Dean." Harry said. "Who likes me?" Dan asked joining the group. "Thanks, Harry." Seamus muttered under his breath and harry just smirked. Everyone was quiet and looked at Seamus who was finding the floor or his shoes quite interesting. "Seamus" Harry answered for him. Seamus wouldn't look up at Dean until Dean took his chin in his hand and made him look him in the eyes. "Do you really like me?" "Yeah" he answered breathlessly because that's just the effect Dean had on him. "Cool" Dean ansered and then leaned down to the shorter boy and kissed him.
"Finally" Ron said "Listening to you was getting almost as bad and listening to Harry go on about about Draco." Hermione finished after Seamus and Dean broke apart. "Hey I'm not that bad am I?" Harry asked hurt. "YES" They all answered. "Hey, I'm still asking Malfoy which way he swings." Seamus said "Why?" Dean asked looking worried "Because Harry is interested in Malfoy but won't ask so I'm gonna." "Bloody hell Harry likes Malfoy that's weird but hey who's to argue with love. Hey can I come I don't want to miss that." "Well, Duh." Seamus said "I just got a hold of you I'm not letting go for a while." Seamus continued. "Great." Said Dean looking satisfied as Seamus started to lead them away from the others, but then he turned back and said "Hey Harry, Happy Birthday." and then they disappeared into the crowd.
"Well this will either be the best or the worst birthday of my life." Harry said not taking his eyes off the spot where Seamus and Dean had just left in. "Don't worry Harry, even Trelawney couldn't have missed the way Draco was looking at you when he was over here." "Yeah mate he was practically fucking you with his eyes." Ron said sounding a little crass and grossed out. "Wait but if Trelawny could have seen it then why didn't I notice?" Harry said skeptically "Harry you're the one in love of course you wouldn't notice. Love's blind." Hermione said in her brainy voice. "Oh Yes, Yes, Yes!" Harry screamed causing all the occupants of the room to look at him asif something was wrong. "Sorry I just can't wait to eat this food lets eat" at Harry's word everyone started to find their seat all of Harry's favorite foods were present. There was lasanga, shrimp, pineapple scewers, there were all sorts of soups and steaks as well as chunky mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese. All along the table were bowls and boxes of Harry's favorite wizard candies and a few muggle candies.
Ron and Hermione were sitting along his left hand side then the rest of the Weasley clan except bill then the Creevey brothers followed since Ginny had recently gotten together with Dennis. On Harry's right hand side were Sirius and Remus flirting and sitting very close to each other. 'cute guys! They really do make a great couple' then there were Seamus and Dean flirting as well 'well at least they're making up for lost time rather well' nest on Harry's right was the missing bill Weasley and Tonks who Harry noticed were sitting rather closely and thought 'Bet they're together' Harry leaned over to Ron and said "Take a look at your brother and my god aunt they look rather close I bet they're together" "Yeah they do look like it how 'bout we corner Bill later and talk it out fo him?" "Sounds like a plan." Harry said but Hermione had been listening and chose now to remind them of her presence by saying "Ron if you pester Bill about his new relationship I'll not sleep with you for a week."
"Oh but Hermione if Bill has hooked up with Tonks then I need to know whether or not to get her a Christmas present and as far as the sleeping thing I could probably convince you to reconsider anyway but it's Harry's party and he might not like it." "Oh don't worry about me I'd just consider it an early present besides this could be interesting." With that Ron wrapped an arm around Hermione and brought her into a crushing kiss and really put his back into it drawing most of the people's attention from their food. When Ron and Hermione broke apart panting everyone started clapping and the twins did cat calls again. "You can ask him once and you had better tell me." Said Hermione turning back to her food staying close to Ron. Ron looked at Harry and winked. Harry continued his scan of the table and saw that after Bill Snape was talking to Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall 'sitting close.' Who was talking to Arabella Figg.
Finally at the opposite end of the table and in Harry's direct line fo site was none other than Draco Malfoy. As Harry examined Draco he realized that he had allowed his hair to grow out slightly that he had also aquired some rather attractive piercings. Draco had 1peircing, in his lower right lip; 2 peircings, in his right ear one of which was connected to a chain in his right ear. 'WOW, his piercings are the exact opposite of mine. Weird and incredibly sexy' Harry smirked at the last part.
After dinner harry was blind folded and the lights were turned out Harry heard a fluttering noise and when the blind fold was taken away Harry was shocked by what he saw. Ther were 16 greenish golde pixies floating underneath a huge cake that looked as if it would feed every person thrice over. The cake was four layers tall and the ase layer was at least 36" wide and 2 of the layers were green while the other 2 were gold. Sparkleing candles also adorned the cake. "wow" said Harry after a long pause. "where'd this come from. He asked amazed "Mum made it." Said Ron sounding proud. "Oh thanks a lot Mrs. Weasley." "Okay so you like the cake but I don't know how many of us want cake with wax on it so please blow out the candles already." Ron said.
"Oh yeah!" Harry remembered he took a big breath and somehow managed to reach all of the candles and Hermione told him that because he got all of them his wish would come true so Harry wished and told them all that he couldn't tell them what it was until it came true but Hermione and Ron saw Harry look at Draco before he wished they were sure they knew what it was. After Harry made his wish they all sat down again and the cake was served along with Harry's favorite ice cream, white chocolate raspberry cheesecake. (a/n: my favorite again and it's really good.) Everyone ate the cake quickly and Harry couldn't stop trying to thank Mrs. Weasley who wouldn't hear it and insisted that he call her mum instead because he was practically a part of the family everyone started to get up to Harry's bewilderment and Harry asked "What's going on?" "We're all going up to the drawing room so you can open your presents" Ginny said grinning.
"What but you all shouldn't have." "Don't be ridiculous mate of course we should've" said Ron pulling Harry up the stairs. All the teenagers walked up to the drawing room, which had been redone in green and gold. There was a large stack of presents in the middle of the room and a circle of chairs around it. "Now Harry you sit here, and everyone else just sit wherever you like." Mrs. Weasley chided. "Quickley Harry wants to open his presents" . When everyone was settled Harry started to open his presents starting with the ones from the Weasly's: from the twins, Harry got a Weasley Wizard Wheezies sampler; Mr. And Mrs. Weasley, a new belt with a holster for his wand, Bill Weasley, gave him an earring that was like bill's earring with a dragon talon; from Charlie, a book on quidditch tatics; Ginny, gave him the new the calling CD "Two" (cd rocks); and Ron gave Harry a broom case that shrunk when you closed it but enlarge when you opened it. "wow thanks guys these all rock." Next Harry opened his presents from the Auror's from Moody he got a sneakoscope. "That ones more powerful and doesn't react to the minimal stuff" From Tonks harry received an mp3 player and already had all his favorite songs on it. "Wow how'd you do that?" Harry had to ask. "Your friend naturally just lipped me the list and I got some help from a muggle friend of mine." Tonks replied coolly "and that one has charms on it so that the battery doesn't die and it will work at the school even around all the magic." Tonks added.
From Kingsley Shaklebolt Harry received a book on quidditch teams and player bios that had recently come out. Arabella Figg got Harry a digital camera and printer that she had charmed to rwork at the school and got charmed to take moving pictures. "Thanks everyone they all rule and I well really enjoy the camera I've been thinking about getting one for a while now." Next harry unwrapped his present from Dumbleodre it was a brown leather bound book with a red velvet strap and a brass buckle when harry pulled the wrappings away everyone heard remsuand Sirius gasp and Sirius buried his head in Remus' shoulder and harry looked at them worriedly. "Don't worry Harry just open the book and then you'll understand." Remus said quietly while rubbing Sirius' back. Harry did so and when he saw the first page he too gasped. "what on earth is in that book Harry?" Hermione asked cautiously. Whatever it was it was a sensitive subject to the three men. Harry read the first page out loud and it said "This is the journal of James David Potter. It was my dad's journal." Harry said as his voice cracked. This time there was a collective gasp and everyone looked at Dumbledore for an explanation. "Yes Harry you father gave me the journal before he went into hiding and said that if you survived that I should give it to you on your 16th birthday." Harry got up and walked over to Dumbledore and hugged him. Dumbledore was caught off his guard but quickly hugged Harry back. "Thank you Professor this means a lot to me." Harry said wiping a tear away from his eye and returning to his seat.
"So Sirius," Harry asked :what will I find in this book of my father's?" "Well Harry your father started writing in that book from his first year at Hogwarts and everyday so basically you get all the adventures of the maurauders." Remus explained. "Oh, and Harry your father was a very detailed writer so there maybe some relationship details that you just want to skip obver." Sirius said smirking. "And how do you know about those?" Harry asked looking smug. "Well Harry as you know very well I too am a marauder and so naturally I peaked once or twice." "Sirius" Remus exclaimed." "What you peaked too Remus." Harry and the other's looked at Remus flabbergasted. Remus however just punched Sirius in the arm, blushed and buried his face in Sirius' shoulder. "Oh yeah, Harry there's a name in there that you might not recognize, it was more of a nickname we had really for one of our lesser favorite classmates-" Sirius started but Remus snapped his head up and said firmly "Sirius don't you dare not now while he's in the room." But Sirius wasn't to be dissuaded and continued "Snivellus or Snivels is short for Severus Snape." Sirius said looking smug.
Harry's head did a flip around the room and looked at Snape who was glaringat Sirius. "Enough, Harry dear continue opening your presents." Mrs. Weasley said. "and Ron stop it." Ron was trying and failing miserably to suppress a hearty laughter. Next harry opened his present from Sirius which turned out to be the book on animagus transformations that James Peter and he had used in their fifth year. "wow that's really cook." Harry said "yeah it's got all our notes in there and a few little adjustments that we found in the transformation and the potion that you have to brew for it." Sirius explained. "There's also a spell you can perform to see what form you'll take, we can try it tomorrow if you'd like." Harry opened his present from Mcgonagal next and it turned out to be a newer version of the book that Sirius had given harry. "Now Harry that book has a registration form in it that you send in when you've completed the form although Sirius' copy probabl still has it's form in it as well." McGonagall said looking at Sirius. This caused for a hearty round of laughing and Sirius' maturely stuck his tongue out at his former Professor. "Oh very mature Pads." Remus said. "Hey Harry who's the last one from?" Ginny asked. "Harry looked at the last present in the pile it was a little box and only had a not attached to it. The note read:
Open the present and if you want to know who it's from step outside. I will warn you thought that we don't get along to well but I hope that starting today we could change that.
Harry opened the box and saw a beautiful ring it had two bands a gold ban with rubies set into it and a sliver band with emeralds that were twisted together. "Wow Harry who sent it to you?" Ginny asked. "I don't know but the card say to open the present and that if I liked it to meet them in the hallway and I think I will." He responded smiling and stepping into the hallway. "So you liked the present then?" Harry turned around saw to his amazment one very handsome Draco Malfoy. "Yeah definately and you were right we don't get along to well together but I was hoping we could change that too." Harry responded evenly not letting any of the nervousness show in his voice or his face because in truth he was scarred shitless. "So lets talk for a second," Harry said sitting down against the wall and Draco followed. "first off friends call each other by their first name and don't insult each other now I think I could manage that could you?" "Of course Po-Harry." Draco said smiling. Similing not smirking or glaring just smiling and harry noticed he looked twice as good smiling as he did when he smirked. "You should do that more often." Harry said kindly "What?" Draco asked quirking an eyebrow. "Smiling you look really sexy when you do" "But anyway if you really do want to be my friend that means your friends with my friends which means no more weasels and no more mudbloods got it?" Harry asked.
"What? Yeah of course I didn't like insulting you or your friends it was because of my father but now he's out of the way I'm free to make my own friends please you really can't judge my charater on what I have shown you from the past five years it was all a ruse I had to use around school to protect me from my father and you don't want to know that and I'm not ready to tell you about that yet. You however have a party to get back to so I'll let you go now owl me and we'll set up another meeting I'd love to see what your god father's have done with the place I've heard lots about it but from the way it looks now it seems as though any other black would have a cow.
Anyways we both need to go and warm your friends u to the idea before our meeting Severus told me they were staying with you for the rest of the summer here. G'bye Harry." Draco said without letting Harry say anything. "Yeah I think I could agree to all of that and your right about the whole cow thing and I will deffinatly tell my friends about us before you come back but they have had sometime to get used to the idea of us." Harry said smiling and standing with Draco then Harry shocked Draco by hugging him close and saying in his ear very softly. "Bye Draco darling see you soon." And then without another word he walked back into the room smiling.
When harry told harry who the present was from they freaked "Don't wear it Harry it's probably covered in dark magic." Ron said. "No, I don't think it is." Harry said sternly "He sounded very clearly that he felt like his father was the scum of the earth and that when the time came he would tell me but that on my birthday was not it. Also he called me Harry not Potter and not The - Boy - Who - Lived or any of that crap. So drop it Ron if you don't like it then fine but I'm gonna wear it and I'm gonna be friends with him so pretend to be civil at least."
"You know harry the ring is really gorgeous and I hope bothe you and Draco as well as others benefit from this friendship." Remus said looking at ron when he said others. "Ugh!" said Ron under his breath which earned him another elbow from Hermione. "Ow, you know that really hurts." Ron complained. "Well so do your words to Harry." Said Hermione. At this Ron looked at Harry and noticed that he did look a little depressed and Ron jumped up and grabbed harry saying "Oh, Harry I'm so sorry I don't mean to be negative I'm just being warry of the situation because I'm stubborn and it's hard for me to break a habbit but I know how important this relationship is to you so for you and you alone I will try my hardest to become more than civil at least to Mal-Draco. Okay? Just please get that look off your face I haven't seen it in a long time and it kills me to think that I caused it." Harry smilied when Ron corrected himself and nodded happily to answer Ron's question. "That's better " Ron said giving Harry a one armed hug. They spent the rest of the night dancing to harry's favorite bands and around 2 am. They all crawled into bed "Hey Ron thanks for everything mate." "You deserve it mate." And that was how harrry ended his birthday. He had decided that it was the best day of his life.
a/n/p/s: okay I know that I probably didn't find all the mistakes but i'm trying to post before my father comes in and if your waiting for an update to meant only for each other but i'll try to update tomorrow. i love you all and bear with me for a while as i get back into my routine. it's hard balancing five people and an alterego. (yeah i got one of those too!) okay dad wants the computer so i gotta go and i can't answer reviews but i'll try next chapter. i miss you so please read and review and don't flame to hot. i hate hot wheather. thanx mizukimarr910