Start of a New Beginning
I've
put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
and for all
this
there's only one thing you should know
Linkin Park – In The End
Harry woke up suddenly on the night of July 30; it had become a habit of his over the long summers he had spent at the Dursley's, he would wake up at about eleven thirty like clockwork. He slowly got out of bed, rubbing his tired eyes, he went over to his desk, on it he had a couple of pieces of parchment, a quill, some books he had been reading and some matches. He picked up the box of matches and studied them, to any normal muggle these would seem to be a normal box of matches, but all magical folk knew that these matches were filibuster matches, promising that they would stay lit for hours and you would be able to have an intelligent conversation with them.
He put them back down and looked at his clock, it was already 11:45, and he needed to get ready, because Harry had a plan, for tonight was Harry Potter's birthday. The reason that this birthday was some important was that he was seventeen, and in the magical world he was now an adult, and an adult that could legally use magic outside of school, so long as it didn't breach the magical code of secrecy. He ripped a piece of parchment and put it on the desk, it was 11:57 he got out a match, it looked like a normal match, but Harry knew that it would be a purple flame, as was the style of the wizarding world. He put the match down, he looked at the clock again 11:59, he picked the match up and struck it, and it lit the room purple and started to talk.
"Why hello fine sir, what would your name be?" the match said, head and eyes appearing in the flame, Harry quickly lit the parchment and blew out the match, the parchment curled up as the fire consumed it, and smoke poured out, this simple task was very symbolic to Harry, it showed the finishing of one year of his life and the new beginning as someone different, such as the smoke this process helped him a lot with Sirius's death, it finally helped him accept that Sirius was actually gone and never coming back, he sighed as the parchment disappeared into ashes and floated out the window. He looked out the window, his green eyes following them expertly, as if he was looking for the snitch. Finally he looked from the window and to his nice comforting bed, but dismissed the idea, he wrote a short note to the dursley's. The note read
To Vernon, Petunia and my always welcome cousin Dudley
The time has finally come to say goodbye, well I can't say it's not about bloody time. I have enclosed some money to pay for all the care and support you have offered me over the years. Well that's about it, Thanks…..for nothing, and I promise not to talk to you again.
Your disappeared nephew/cousin
Harry Potter
And after he put a 50p coin on the letter on the kitchen table, he opened the door quietly and disappeared into the early morning darkness.
