The next day, the Dursleys were going to some reunion, the Baudelaires were offered to go, but they politely refused. The Dursleys went to the reunion and the Baudelaires stayed home with Harry. They were chatting happily in the living room, Harry was telling them all about Hogwarts and the adventures he had there, all about the teachers, how he loathed Snape, about his best friends Ron and Hermione, about how he had lost his godfather just last month, but with having them here, he had coped with it in a way he'd never been able to if he were still alone with the Dursleys…

"What time is it?" asked Harry,

"10:00 pm" said klaus looking at his watch. Harry's stomach gave a strange lurch, in 2 hours he would be sixteen… but his thoughts were interrupted by something he saw outside the window: Three owls were flying outside the house, and heading for Harry's window upstairs, Harry went upstairs followed by the Baudelaires. The 4 of them saw the 3 owls, the Baudelaires were amazed to see so many owls at once and so up close. Harry reached first for Hedwig.

"What are all these, Harry?" asked Klaus

"They're presents from my friends" said Harry smiling

"Presents?"

"It's my birthday tomorrow"

"Why didn't you tell us?" said Violet

"I didn't remember…"

"You didn't remember it was your birthday?" asked Klaus astounded

"Umm, yea…" he said unwrapping the package Hedwig was carrying" this one was from Hermione. When he opened it, he saw that it was a black belt. He read Hermione's card:

Dear Harry

Happy Birthday!

I thought you'd like this, it's a belt with a wand pocket, and so you don't have to go carrying your wand around and risk snapping it. It's jinxed so it will grow along with you, and it's everything proof, and when I say everything, it's everything! Fire, water, magic, you name it! Hope you like it, and concerning my last letter, I still think that. Please, Harry, do take care of yourself, please? Hope you like your present

Love

Hermione-

Harry looked closely at the belt and noticed that there was a little loop at the side of the belt that was for his wand; he immediately put it on and put his wand on the loop. It was certainly much more comfortable to have your wand at your side that having it on your pocket and it was certainly safer. He looked at the other owl, though he didn't recognized it, he saw the package and he did recognize Hagrid's untidy scrawl and saw a tiny package. He opened the square package and out of it came a zooming, golden, something, Harry, due to his seeker reflexes caught it in a second, and his heart jumped to saw that it was a snitch with the letters "HP" on it. He let it go and caught it again, and repeated this move once or twice until…

"What is that?" asked Violet, her gaze perplexed at the magical, flying, golden ball.

"It's called a snitch. It's the most important ball of a wizard game called Quidditch," he said not looking at her once, simply continuing to play with his new snitch.

"There's a note," said Klaus handing Harry Hagrid's letter, it was rather short…

Dear Harry

I thought you might like this, it's good for practicing and it won't go more than 10 feet away from you, so you can let it fly around your room. Hope you like it

Hagrid-

Harry certainly loved this detail from Hagrid, he let it go and indeed it flew around the room but it didn't go out the window. He saw the clock, it was already 12:01, he was alreadysixteen years old.He smiled andsaw the other owl and saw that it was carrying a letter with the Hogwarts crest on it. It was the usual letter that told Harry to be on the Platform 9 ¾ the 1st of September and the usual schoolbook list. But there was something missing… Ron… Harry looked outside the window; there was no sign of another owl. Harry was worried, but pulled himself together, it'll probably arrive tomorrow, he told himself.

"What is it, Harry?" asked Violet as Harry kept looking out the window, but he didn't have the time to answer. He had his face as pale as snow; he grabbed Violet a little harder that he had intended out of fear, lifted Sunny with his other hand and he called Klaus. He led the orphans hastily towards the Dursleys room and opened the Dursleys closet and pushed the orphans inside, they fitted more than easily since it was a walking closet.

"Hide in here, don't make a sound, don't you dare come outside if you truly appreciate your lives, don't come out unless I tell you to," he whispered, "I'll be right back…" and he headed hastily to his room, grabbed the first parchment and quill that he could find, and scribbled as fast as he could in really big letters:

Lupin

HELP! COME TO PRIVET DRIVE!

DEATH EATERS!

Sorry for the extremely short chappie, (and the extremely vicious cliffie... muahahaHAHAHAHA!),but I'll write more soon :D The first one to guess what happened to Ron will get the Golden star! Upcomming chappie- lots of exitement and weird things the Bauds or even Harry and the restnever thought possible...