Another chance

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Arrival

Another school year for the students of Hogwarts ended. The boy named Harry Potter just finished his fifth year at Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This year was stressful for him. His godfather, Sirius Black was killed by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange. The Black family was known as a big defender of pure bloods. But in every family there are exceptions. Sirius never shared their opinion that only pure bloods should be trained for wizards, and for that he was considered a traitor of his family, for that he was eliminated.

Harry was snapped of his thoughts when the Hogwarts Express stoped at the platform nine and three quarters. He wasn't very thrilled with the fact that they already arrived, because he had to go back to the Dursleys. The Dursleys were muggles who didn't have very good opinion about wizards. In fact, they didn't have good opinion about anyone who strayed from their concept of normality. They didn't stand each other but Harry still had to live with them. If he had had any freedom of choice, he would now live at his house at Grimmauld's Place. But this way, he was in for a very exciting summer in his room.

The boy managed to get out of his copartment although it was rather crowded. Hermione and Ron were the first ones who left the train. Harry walked right behind them dragging his enourmous trunk. He hugged his friends before they left with their parents. He saw his uncle waiting impatiently away from the other people who came for their children. It was more than obvious that he was feeling uncomfortable among wizards. His uncle's glare made him wonder what did he do wrong this time.

''Hi.'' Harry greeted his uncle, trying to be polite.

''Let's go!'' Vernon muttered and headed for the exit.

He didn't even bothered to greet Harry properly. Harry just rolled his eyes and trailed his trunk to the uncle's car. He sat on the back seat trying to avoid uncle's glare. On the halfway home Harry realised that something's wrong. Dudley and aunt Petunia didn't came with uncle Vernon. Harry knew that he did something wrong again but didn't know what.

''Where are Dudley and aunt Petunia?'' Harry asked curiously.

''Don't tell me you miss them?'' uncle said with a sardonic tone.

''Yea...right.'' - Harry whispered but fortunately Vernon didn't hear him.

The rest of the trip passed in silence. Harry was trying not to annoy to much his uncle with his breathing. They stoped in front of the house and Harry got out dragging his trunk upstairs. Twenty minutes after Harry was heading downstairs to greet the others. He entered the living room and was surprised by seeing his uncle siting alone and reading newspapers. The boy sat next to him and got another glare for doing that. It was odd not seeing his aunt in the kitchen. He decided to try again and find out where's the rest of his so called family.

''I haven't seen aunt yet. May I ask where did she go?'' Harry asked carefuly this time expecting an answer.

When he saw that the boy won't let go, Vernon answered in a frantic voice.

''If you must know, Dudley isn't doing well after what happened last summer, so we decided that the best thing to do is to go away for a week or two. Dudley doesn't want to see you again because he's still afraid.Your aunt and he are taking a trip.''

''And why didn't you go with them?'' Harry asked but after recevieng another mad glare from his uncle he decided to drop it and go to his room. He very well knew that someone had to stay at home with him. It seemed like uncle Vernon wasn't really happy about it.

''Okay... See you later.'' Harry muttered and hurried upstairs before his uncle really loses the patience.


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