Privet Drive

Harry woke up to the sound of Uncle Vernon banging on his bedroom door telling him to get up now and made him some breakfast. Looks like everything is back to normal Harry thought to himself. He slowly pulled himself out of bed and got dressed. He walked down the stairs into the kitchen to start making the Dursleys usual bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans, toast, hash browns and some more bacon. About five minutes later Dudley walked into the room and started to do his early morning hungry routine by banging his fists on the table and shouting "I want food, I want food, I want food……". Petunia walked in and started to help me finish making the breakfast after she had patted the mini whale on the head and said "Ickle Duddikins needs his nourishment. Vernon walked just as I had finshed putting the food on to the table. I was about to sit down when uncle Vernon pushed me to the side and said "you can have your breakfast when you have finished those chores I told you to do yesterday". He slowly walked out the back door into the garden thinking well I suppose that was quite nice for them.

I collapsed onto my bed a few hours later after doing my chores in the garden and tidying the table after breakfast. Petunia had left quite a bit of food for me (by their standards) which I ate greedily even though it was very cold. I got up off the bed and picked up the phoenix egg that was wrapped in Dudley's old jumper. I got a small sense of power again when I picked it up but it was so small I didn't even notice. The egg was quite warm from being wrapped in the jumper all day which was supposedly good for it (being warm)and little cracks were starting to appear on the hard yellow surface of the egg. I wrapped it back in my jumper and put it on the drawers wondering how long it would be until it hatched. I got out the book I had been reading yesterday and continued from where I had left off. A phoenix is a very helpful creature to have as it can carry extremely heavy weights like they weigh nothing, they are also loyal, there tears have healing powers, their song is very uplifting and fills you with warmth, they live for hundreds of years and they can release the power within you. Harry stopped for a second because he was intrigued by that last one, it might explain a bit about how Dumbledore is so powerful he thought.

The more Harry read about phoenixes the more excited he got about getting one. From what he had read Hedwig and his phoenix would get on fine. That reminds me thought Harry, he hadn't thought of a name for his phoenix yet. He would have to do that before it was born and preferably not at the last second. Harry didn't know much about giving anything names so he would just choose a name which he liked and would go well with a phoenix.

Harry was just about to start reading again when out of the corner of his eye he saw Hedwig souring towards his window. He quickly got up off the bed and opened the window just in time for hedwig to fly into his room. She was closely followed by another owl that Harry didn't recognize carrying today's issue of the daily prophet. The owl stuck out it's leg and Harry quickly paid him and let him fly back out of the window. Harry put the daily prophet on the side and turned his attention back to his own owl, which was now pruning herself. Harry gave her a few owl treats before putting her back in her cage. He looked at the letter and instantlyknew who it was from, from the scribbly handwriting, Ron. He opened the letter and picked up the piece of paper that fell out onto his hands.

Dear Harry,

I'm glad you are finally writing back to me. Hermione has been going spare worrying about you and why you weren't writing back to us. Anyway to answer your question we are fine. I was writing to ask you if you wanted to come to our house next week, say Saturday at 12:00. Well, of course you do so get ready to go at that time. Hope you got that slip from your uncle because Fred says it is absolutely fantastic and you know how hard it is to impress him.

Dumbledore stopped by a few days ago and dropped your broom off here so don't worry about it. He also said he was going to give you a very special present to try and make amends for last year. But he wouldn't tell me what it was, he justsaid to wait until Harry came to find out. If he has already given it to you can you please tell me what it is. If Dumbledorecalls it every special present it must be great.

See you soon.

From Ron

They will be in for a surprise thought Harry when they see the phoenix egg or the actual phoenix if it has already hatched. It was tuesday, so it was four days until he would be rescued by Ron from the Dursley's. Harry couldn't wait for that day to come because he was getting a bit bored of the books and the weights in his room. He also wanted to find out what everyone thought of his new friend. He could guess how his best friends would react when they saw it for the first time. Ron would say how cool it was that he had a phoenix and that he really wanted one. Hermione would say how exciting it was and how she couldn't wait to study it and find out about one of the most famous magical creatures first hand. He wasn't sure how the rest of the Weasley's would react, except maybe the twins. They would think of all the trouble they could have caused and the pranks they could have pulled if they had a phoenix, especially if it was trained to keep silent or to do whatever you want.

Harry hadn't thought of the twins much since he came back to Privet Drive but he remembered they had just set up a joke shop in DiagonAlley (Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes). He also remembered seeing an add in the daily prophetfor the joke shop and there had been an article about it recently. It had talked about how the ministry had bought loads of the defense things the twins were selling for it's employee's. Apparently as well as making things for jokes the twins were making defense things for the war against Voldemort that were selling by the dozen's. I might as well get some reasoned Harry, he had nothing better to do with all the money he had in Gringotts. The amount of my money in their has probably tripled by now thought Harry with the money his Godfather would have seen to him. He still hadn't got the will from Sirius but he was quite glad because he didn't think he would have been able to cope with the pain of reliving it all and thinking about it until yesterday. Harry got a piece of parchment and his quill and started writing.

Dear Forge and Gred

I saw your add in the paper and that article about you andI was wondering if you could send me some of those dark devices. I am giving you some money for the best things you have got and alot of them. Don't refuse the moneyI want to give it to people like you and since you are not that found of charity this seems like the best way.

Hope you are feeling well and can't wait to see the shop.

From Harry.

Harry opened up Hedwigs cage and tied the letter to her leg. He also got a fistful of galleons and put them in a pouch that he had strapped to her other leg. "Take this to Fred and George ok girl". She nodded and nibbed his finger affectionately before flying out the window and souring off into the distance. Harry watched her go until she was out of sight, then he turned his attention back onto his room. He walked over to his drawers and saw that the cracks on the egg were starting to get bigger. It looked like it would hatch soon, really soon. Harry slowly started to walk out of his room and down the stairs, better get started with those jobs he thought.

He walked into the kitchen to get the cloth and the polish. Dudley was sitting down at the table doing his favourite pastime, eating loads of fatty foods and watching two t.v.'s at once. "What are you looking at", he snapped when he noticed the scrawnylooking at him.

"An ugly whale", Harry replied. Harry was about to dash out the room when he saw Dudley move to get up but Dudley stopped halfway and just waved a hand before going back to the food and the t.v. Harry walked into the lounge with the polish and cloth in his hands and stopped before the big trophy cabinet. He opened the cabinet and started to one-by-one thoroughly polish them. He spent a lot of time on each one because Aunt Petunia would always check them after he had done them and if they weren't up to her high standards he would have to do them again and wouldn't be allowed to eat any food until a day after they were done wright. The first one he picked out was one of Dudley's boxing trophies that he had won a few years ago. It wasn't very large but it was hard to get polish into all the nook and crannies. Polishing stuff was one of Harry's least favourite chores because of how long it took, how boring it was and how repetetive it was. When Harry first started doing this it used to take ages because he wasn't very good at it but now he was alot better so he could finish it quicker. This meant it took alot less time so it was no longer his most hated chore.

The final trophy to polish was one of Dudley's and it looked like he had won it at a fair for eating the most dougnuts in 5 minutes. Harry got this from reading what it said on the trophy of course because he would never have been allowed to go to a fair. It was a simple gold (coloured) trophy of a man holding a dougnutin his hand. Harry quickly polished it and set it back in the cabinet with the rest of the trophies. He got up and went to the bathroom to wash the polish off his hands. Next he had to set the table and make the dinner. He would have to watch while the Dursley's ate it and then eat his cold after they had all finished and left the table. He walked into the kitchen and saw he was making a pasta bake tonight. He got the food out the cupboards and started to make tonight's meal. He could see out of the corner of his eye that Dudley was watching his every movement with those fat piggy eye's. Harry didn't know how eye's could look fat but somehow his cousin had managed it. " Hurry up,hurry up, hurry up...". Dudley would always shout this at dinner when he was alone with his strange cousin while he was making dinnerand he was especially hungry ( he was always hungry). Harry signed, he couldn't wait until ron would pick him up in four days.

Hours later Harry collasped onto his bed in his room. He had just finished tidying up after eating his cold food, Harry couldn't even remeber the last time he had had nice warm food at the Dursley's. He relaxed into the bed and felt the cold breeze against his body. Wait a sec, how come there is a breeze inside. He looked at the window and saw it was a tiny bit open. He got up off the bed and went over to the window to shut it. He was wondering how that had happened and was going to sit back down when he noticed another letter on his drawers that read Will of Sirius Black.

an: Remember to read and review. I only got two reviews for the first chapter which isn't good enough. I don't care if you just write to say you don't like my story but if you do say that can you say why as well.

I need some names for Harry's phoenix so tell me what you think. If I like it I will use it.