Chapter 4: Rubeus (Ru-BAY-us) Hagrid

There was another big BOOM! And this time came down the door. Now Uncle Vernon came down and we saw he had a rifle in his hands. He asked in a frightened voice, "Who's there?" The answer came at once.

There came a big, tall figure in the doorway. A soon as he came, everyone backed off immediately. When he came in, he had also knocked over the door in the progress.

This man was so massively huge, he was at least twice as tall as an average man and at least three times as wide. This man was also so hairy on his face, that the only part of him you could see was his eyes. This man was Rubeus Hagrid.

He went and picked up the door. As he did so, all of the Dursley's huddled together and Harry was alone, standing there in the middle of the room. Hagrid came up to him and said, "And you mus' be Harry."

"Yes, I am," he replied.

Vernon said, "get out you are breaking and entering!"

"Draw up Dursley, you great prune." Hagrid went over and totally bent the gun in a pretzel, and when he threw it over at the wall, the gun backfired and exploded.

As he watched Hagrid sit down, Harry had a million questions to ask him. He wanted to know where he came from, first off. But all Harry could get out was, "Who are you?"

He just chuckled. "I'm sorry I didn' introduce meself. Name's Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and grounds of Hogwarts, but I suppose you have learned all abou' Hogwarts. "

"Sorry, no I don't."

"What? You don' know about Hogwarts? About yer world, my world, yer parent's world?'

"What? I don't understand."

"DURSLEY," Hagrid yelled at the top of his voice at the Dursley's, who started to shrink in the shadows. "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU HAVEN'T TOLD THIS BOY ABOUT ANYTHIN'! HE DOESN'T KNOW NUTHIN AT ALL?"

Harry seemed to think Hagrid was making fun of Harry. "I know some things like math and reading."

Hagrid just chuckled, "Harry I mean about the world yer from. See Harry, yer a wi-"

Vernon seemed to have found his voice at last. "You will not tell him! We swore we would smush it out of him!"

"Smush what out?" Harry asked.

"See Harry yer a wizard."

Behind, the Dursley's made a weird sound and Vernon yelled, "He will not be one!"

"He will be a wizard and he will one of the best!"

Harry was confused and he said to Hagrid, "They told me my parents died in a car crash."

Now Hagrid was completely outraged. "DURSLEY! A CAR CRASH! A CAR CRASH KILL LILY AND JAMES POTTER!"

This time Petunia talked and she said, "We had to say something."

"Oh, I almost forgot. Harry this is yers."

Harry grabbed the box Hagrid just pulled out of one of his huge pockets on his coat. He opened it and it was cake that said, 'HAPEE BIRTHDAY HARRY'

"Thank you," Harry replied.

Dudley saw the cake get set down and stepped slowly over to it, meanwhile Hagrid and the Dursley's were having a huge part of the argument.

"Harry this is also yours." Hagrid said.

Harry grabbed the letter he had in another pocket and opened it. It said,

Dear Mr. Potter,

We are pleased to inform you are invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You are to get on the Hogwarts Express at 11:00 at King's Cross Station on September 1st. Your reply is to be sent by your owl no later than August 1st.

Signed,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts

While Harry was reading his letter, Hagrid and the Dursley's were still arguing.

"He'll not be going." Vernon said again.

All of a sudden, Petunia just lost it. "He will not be going because he will be like my sister being what she was. My mother and father were so proud of what she was. We had a witch in the family. Isn't it wonderful? I was the only one who could tell what she really was……a F-freak, and then she met that Potter and she had you, and I knew you would be the same, just as strange, just as abnormal. And then, if you please, she went and got herself blown up and we got landed with you."

Hagrid said, "He'll be under the finest headmaster that Hogwarts has ever seen, Albus Dumbledore."

Then Vernon said, "I will not pay to have some crackpot old fool teach him magic tricks!"

Hagrid reached his limit now. "Never-insult-Albus-Dumbledore-in-front-of-me!"

Hagrid saw Dudley eating and threw a curse at him. He hit Dudley and out of his pajama bottoms, came a long, curly pig tail. The Dursley's screamed and screamed. They ran up the stairs and stayed up there.

He told Harry, "Best not tell anyone I used magic, wasn' suppose to use any after I got you."

He laid on the couch and put his big coat on Harry and Harry laid on the floor and went to sleep and right before he fell asleep, he remembered Dudley's pig tail and fell into a deep sleep.

My readers: it is like the original in the beginning ONLY! You will see a few different characters in the next chapter. Ideas I got from one of my friends Harley A.K.A. hp3605 on here.