*Sorry for the long wait, guys, but much tanks for ur patience :: shields herself nervously::!! For the record….I am such an idiot!!! Eek!! Yeah, reason I took so very long was that I was on probation by the admins of the site for a while….he he he yep…apparently ur not allowed to have the same fic under more than one category, which I did….obviously I didn't know that!! But it was my mistake so….here it is now!!!

Chapter 10

Ahh those lazy, wonderful, sweet days of summer, when time itself seems to stand still as children run freely across freshly watered green lawns, playing endless games of freeze tag and chasing after that hero of the streets, the ice cream man, with his jolly music blaring loudly for all to hear.

Harry, lucky teen that he was, could almost see all of this happening first hand through the cell-like window scarring his wall. Yes, the poor young wizard was, once again, banished to his room for an inhumane period of time.

Sighing as he slowly drew back from his barred window, Harry decided that he thoroughly hated his life. It wasn't that Harry was upset over his severe grounding, but rather over the reason behind his entombment. Several weeks after summer had begun, Harry was sitting with the family over breakfast, his head buried into the Daily Prophet, it was disguised as a muggle paper, mind you, when he came across a very interesting article regarding the vain measures currently being taken by the Ministry in order to catch Voldemort. Unfortunately for Harry, it was just a bit too exciting and he let a gasp escape. His uncle, hearing a gasp from his normally sullen and uninterested nephew, looked over and, seeing Harry's vivid green eyes bulging out in what, had he known Dobby, he would have thought an excellent imitation of the high-strung house elf, immediately tore the paper out of the teen's hands.

"What's gotten you so excited, then?" asked Vernon snottily.

"That's mine!" cried Harry, jumping up and attempting to reclaim the Prophet. Yet the poor boy was sorely out numbered and just as he almost had the paper within his grasp, his nasty uncle simultaneously threw it to his wife while restraining Harry. All the while Dudley simply sat back in his chair, a smug satisfied look plastered on his red, pasty face.

Throwing a pointed look at her sister's only child, Petunia shook out the paper smartly and settled down to quickly peruse the contents. Cursing himself for being so daring, Harry cringed as his aunt's face dropped into a horrified scowl and she threw the paper away from her as if to touch it a moment longer would soil her oh-so delicate hands.

"What is it, Petunia?" inquired the beefy uncle, already tightening his already vice-like grip on his nephew.

"Its…its…one of their newsletters," cried Petunia in a shrill voice from her spot at the sink, where she was currently washing her hands with curious furiousity.

"Their?" asked Vernon, his face, first blank and confused, quickly turned a disturbing shade of blotchy purple as knowledge dawned over him, an experience to which the dull man was certainly not accustomed.

'And the rest is, as they say, history,' thought Harry sardonically. Yet had the young persecuted wizard known what, or rather, who, waited literally just around the corner, he would not have despaired.

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"You are certain this is the address, Ron," asked Legolas, uncertainty thick in his voice.

"Yes, Legolas, this is it for sure. I have been here before you know," answered Ron, sounding quite insulted.

"Need I remind you of the last three houses you were wrong about, little one?" asked Legolas with a smile lighting his expressive eyes.

"Well all these new houses look the same, anyway. Anyone could have made the same mistake," replied the red-faced, er, red-haired, young man, trying his hardest to ignore the large and quite obnoxiously smug grin on the elf's face. He had been both surprised and honored when the elven prince had come to his home, asking the teen to show him the way to Harry's home. Ron, expecting at least some what elegant behavior from an elf and a prince at that, was surprised to find that Legolas was much like the twins. And, though he loved his brothers, they would not be his first choice as traveling partners. Traveling on foot, so as not to bring unnecessary attention to the party of two, had taken quite a few days, during which Ron had been confused, pranked and embarrassed on more occasions than he cared to count, but, thankfully, they had finally made it to Harry's.

Standing side by side on the sidewalk before the Dursley home, Legolas glanced at his companion, once more asking, "Are you absolutely positive?"

"Yes!" cried Ron, "A guy can't get a break around here…"

"As you assure me that this is indeed Harry's home, I believe I shall inquire for him if you do not mind," said Legolas as he strode purposefully across the grass towards the Dursley's front door.

"No! Legolas you can't!" cried Ron as he rushed after Legolas. "Harry's family are muggles! They won't understand what you are!"

"I care not for impressing Harry Potter's family, young Ronald," assured Legolas with a grin at Ron's scowl over the use of his full name. "Worry not," he added as he knocked sharply on the door. Ron exchanged his scowl for a furrowed brow and worried eyes as he heard heavy foot falls approaching the door and saw the door knob slowly turning….

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Yeah yeah yeah….if you really have to tell me how much it sucked, can you at least try to make it sound like constructive criticism? I know not that much junk happened in this chappie but it will get more exciting, I promise!!! I just had to get to a certain point, ya know….I'll seriously try to update very very soon alrighty? Tanks mucho!!!

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