Chapter 5

When Harry walked into the kitchen, there was Tonks, Lupin, Moody, Hagrid, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, Charley, Bill, and even Dumbledore, shouting and setting off Fred and George's fireworks, so there were dragons circling the ceiling. It took a few moments to Harry get over the shock and realize they were all yelling surprise.

"Surprise?" Harry asked, confused.

"Harry! Are you completely thick? It's your birthday today!" Ron shouted at him.

"It is isn't it? But this is all for me?" Harry asked, pointing at the table sagging with food, and another table, straining with the weight of presents.

"Yes! Now, come and eat, because we're starving," George said, pulling Harry out of the doorway and practically throwing him at the table of food.

Soon, everyone had a plate full of food, and was happily stuffing their faces. Harry couldn't stop muttering his thanks to everyone, especially Mrs. Weasley, whom he knew had to have been cooking the entire afternoon to pull this off.

"No worries my dear," Mrs. Weasley said, beaming, "I'm more than happy to do it for you."

Harry had an excellent time, eating and catching up with everyone, that he completely forgot about his presents until Fred shouted, "Alright you lot, pull up a chair so Harry can unwrap his presents!"

Everyone obliged and waited for Harry to open his presents. Harry grabbed one out of the pile from Ron. He opened it and was happy to find an assortment of Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Chocolate Frogs, and some Honeydukes chocolate.

"Thanks mate," Harry said, smiling at Ron.

"No problem," Ron said, grinning back ear to ear, as he filched a chocolate frog from the assortment.

Harry went through his presents, thanking each person as he opened the gift. From Hermione he got a book on the History of Quidditch, and his next package was a long thin one.

"Who's this from?" Harry asked.

"Well it's from Remus, Tonks, Moody, and us," Mrs. Weasley said, pointing to herself and Mr. Weasley,

"We all chipped in for it." Tonks said beaming.

Harry opened the package excitedly and a silver broom came tumbling out of the package but, caught itself, and started hovering in mid air. Harry looked at it with his mouth hanging open. It was smooth, with not a single smudge or twig a hair out of place. The handle was, in fact, so bright, Harry had a hard time looking directly at it. When he managed to see the name, it was THUNDERBOLT.

"A thunderbolt?" Harry asked, tearing his eyes away from the broom, "Err...I don't mean to be rude, it's great, I just haven't heard of it." Harry asked, looking quickly at Ron, who shrugged and shook his head.

"Well, you couldn't have, it's not a model that has been released yet, I know some people down in the Quidditch office, and they let me buy it early, it'll be released later this year," Mr. Weasley said, blushing a bit.

Harry sat in open mouthed astonishment before hurriedly thanking everyone for the great gift.

Harry opened the rest of his presents, which included a book of dragons from Charlie, a wallet that would only open to Harry's touch from Bill, a big bag of pranks and jokes from Fred and George, a book about creatures from Hagrid, which had beautiful illustrations of Unicorns, Dragons, Werewolves and even Centaurs. Harry also received a photo album from Ginny, filled with pictures of all the people around him, including the new Order, and pictures of him and everyone, including Sirius.

"I don't remember being in half of these pictures," Harry said in a raspy voice to Ginny. At this, she blushed and explained,

"Well, I planned it for awhile, and I didn't want to ruin the surprise by asking you to get into a picture every few minutes did I?"

"Wow, that's really great Ginny," Hermione said, looking over Harry's shoulder at the album.

Harry setting down the photo album, somewhat reluctantly, picked up the last package, which was marked as being from Dumbledore.

Harry opened it and found an empty stone basin. He looked at Dumbledore and asked,

"Is this a pensieve?" Dumbledore nodded and smiled broadly.

"I thought, that after all you go through, you would want to empty your head occasionally, although I must admit, I have found that summer does that to a great effect to Hogwarts students," Dumbledore said, with a wink and a smile.

Harry laughed and Dumbledore proceeded to show Harry how to use it. After the presents were done with, everyone went outside and ate their deserts and butterbeers murmuring sleepily to one another. Eventually, most of the people had left, except for Bill, Charley, and of course the other guests and Weasleys. They all said goodnight, and Harry thanked them all one last time. When Ron and him got to their room, Harry put his presents in his trunk, and pulled out his Firebolt and handed it to Ron.

"What?" was all Ron could manage, with his mouth almost hanging of its hinges. Harry laughed,

"It's for you! I mean, I got such a great broom, so take my Firebolt, just promise you'll give your Cleansweep to Ginny, alright?" Harry said, smiling.

"I will! For sure," Ron said, looking at his new broom and running his hands over the handle. Harry smiled as they both changed into their pajamas. "Goodnight Harry, Happy Birthday," Ron murmured. "Thanks," Harry said, as he drifted off to sleep.