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Happy Birthday
Harry didn't leave his room for the entire day. His uncle was probably still angry with him, and the best thing to do about it is wait until he calmed down a bit. Well, at least enough to stand being in the same room with the boy without wanting to strangle him to death. It wasn't Harry's fault that Vernon had to stay with him-- they could have sent him to Arabella as they usually done when he was younger. Now he wouldn't complain it outright. But this way he's stuck with his furious uncle without any hope of having somewhat relaxing holidays. He went to sleep thinking about his godfather. If he could only see him for one more time...
The next morning Harry woke up with an awful headache. It was another nightmare about Voldemort. Every morning he was becoming more and more exausted because of these constant nightmares, which were slowly getting worse. It was still dark outside so he assumed uncle Vernon was still sleeping. I't was almost five o'clock. This was the perfect chance to go downstairs and have something to eat, that way he will avoid his uncle. He went downstairs and grabbed a sandwich. After he eating it, he went back to his room.
The following few weeks his rutine was pretty much the same. Except for his nightmares. It came to the point when he couldn't sleep at night. They were slowly geting the best of him. Aunt Petunia and Dudley were still out, and he only had to avoid uncle Vernon. Luckily for him, uncle almost always got up at the same time so Harry knew when he cuold leave his room. It seemed to him like uncle Vernon lost some weight while aunt Petunia was on the trip. That only made him angrier because the majority of the day his uncle was in the kitchen trying to make something to eat. Harry found this hilarious, because when his aunt was at home uncle never went near the kitchen. So he wasn't surprised when uncle put salt in his coffe, instead of sugar.
The day before Harry's sixteenth birthday Dudley and aunt Petunia returned. No one even remembered Harry being in his room. Thruth to be told, he was perfectly fine with that. Maybe now Dudley would leave him alone and mind his own business. He spent the whole day in his room reading a book, which he bought at Hogsmeade. It was about nine o'clock when he went to sleep, although he only dreamt there three hours later. He was woken up in the morning by a loud knocking on his door. When the person knocked for the tenth time, Harry sat on the bed and muttered
''Come in.''
He was fairly surprised when he saw aunt Petunia entering his room with a bothersome look on her face. He gave her a drowsy stare before she showed him some kind of a badly wrapped package. He looked at her with a questioning look on his face.
''It came for you this morning.'' - she said in a somewhat formal tone. She put the package on his bed and left.
Harry was looking curoiusly at the small packet wondering who is it from. He doubted that Hermione or Ron would send him something the muggle way. He was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard an owl outside trying to get in. Harry hurried and opened the window. The owl was carrying an envelope attached on her leg. He took the letter and gave her something to eat. He opened the letter and started to read:
Dear Harry,
First of all, Happy Birthday! I haven't heard anything from you for a while now.
I hope you don't have any problems with your aunt and uncle.
By the way, did you get the N.E.W.T results? I didn't.
Inside the envelope you will find a necklace I bought in Paris. It's purpose is
to protect anyone who wears it. Well, at least that's what the person who sold it
to me said...
Hope to see you soon,
Love,
Hermione.
Harry sighed and took the necklace. It had a lion shaped pendant. He smiled and put it in a drawer. Looking at the clock he saw it's almost noon. The owl was getting impatient so Harry let her out. Before closing the window he saw another owl approaching. He knewwho sent it immediately. Pig, flew inside forcing Harry to step aside. He managed to take the letter after giving the hyperactive owl some food. Harry opened the letter:
Mate,
Happy Birthday! How are you doing? Things at my house aren't doing so well.
Dad and mom are worried about Percy so we all have to listen to them arguing.
Horrible! I will tell you everything when we meet at the Diagon Alley.
You should receive a gift after getting this letter. Pig couldn't carry it so I sent it
After him. Hope you like it,
Sincerely,
Ron.
Few minutes after through the window flew beautiful yellow owl carrying his gift. The owl joined Pig and started to eat. Thankfully, Hedwig wasn't at home. Harry unfolded it and saw a muggle chessboard. It reminded him of his first year at Hogwarts. Then he didn't knew that this thing would ever be useful to him. He was wrong. Maybe Ron was trying to show him that he should be prepared for anything. Harry just smiled bitterly and put it away. After the two owls flew away, Harry remembered that he got something else for his birthday. He took the package from the bed and unwraped it. He was surprised to see a small vial filled with some kind of a green potion. A letter was atached to it. Harry took it and started to read:
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