Chapter 4- The Triggered Memory
Still July 25th, 9:42am
Harry was minding his own business playing with some of Dudley's toys when he overheard some voices downstairs. "That's weird," Harry thought to himself, "Aunt Petunia rarely calls anyone over on Mondays. Or this early in the day."
Being too curious for his own good, Harry slowly crept towards the stairs to see who was here. Coming back from the kitchen were three people he had never seen before. They were dressed in odd clothing-no, robes-and were holding a stick-no, a wand-Harry's mind corrected himself as he studied the trio. Looking at them triggered a memory Harry didn't even know about.
It was Harry's first birthday and Lily and James had decided to throw a party. There were many people in attendance, including Severus, Minerva and Poppy. Severus had gotten Harry a book called 'Potions for Toddlers'. "Never too early to start learning." he said as Lily laughed and shook her head.
Poppy and Minerva had gotten him a half-kneazle kitten named Crookshanks. "He will always find his way back to you, wherever you are." they said as James freaked out over the fact that they now also had a mischievous kitten to take care of.
"-meet Harry and Dudley and explain the situation to them? The last thing we need right now is for something to go wrong."
Harry snapped out of his flashback and scrambled back to his room just before he heard his aunt leading the three wizards up the stairs.
"So Harry usually plays here and Dudley plays here." Petunia said, pointing to two doors adjacent to each other.
"We want to talk to Harry first as we have a lot to explain to him. How about you go and start explaining to Dudley what is happening once we start talking to Harry?" Minerva decided, motioning for Petunia to open the door and introduce them.
Petunia knocked on Harry's door. "Harry? Could I come in?" she asked.
"Sure!" Harry opened the door to find the three wizards and aunt Petunia standing right outside his door.
"Hello Harry. I'm Minerva, this is Severus and this is Poppy. Could we come in and talk to you?" Minerva asked subconsciously giving the boy a lookover to see if anything was amiss.. to her relief, he looked perfectly healthy.
"Auntie Minnie? Uncle Sev'vy? Auntie Poppy?" Harry breathed before fainting on the spot.