As always I own nothing... but I am going to play with the characters for a bit

Chapter 3

Arthur stood up; he cleared his throat "how about I read the next chapter?"

"Sure, here you go" James passed the book over to the red head.

Arthur sat back down "The Vanishing Glass"

"Wait... The Vanishing Glass?" Harry groaned. (Great now everyone is going hear about Dudley's Birthday. Merlin! They are going to find out about my cupboard.) Harry started to hit the back of his head against the couch.

Ginny saw this and walked across the room and sat down at his feet. Knowing something he didn't want out was about to be told.

Harry looked down and and relaxed. He always felt better when she was near. (Why does she have to be Ron's sister? Why does she have to have six brothers let alone Ron!) He sighed at the thought.

Snape groaned, (That is a terrible way to wake up, no matter who you are. It doesn't sound like Petunia has mellowed much over the years. Why could he hear everything that is happening in the Kitchen? Spiders? Does he not keep his room clean enough to prevent that?)

"A WHAT!" screamed just about everyone. There was some flickers throughout the room. Dumbledore was having a hard time controlling his magic; he was pale and had lost the twinkle in his eye. He was leaning against the back of his chair breathing hard through his mouth trying to get his magic under control.

As the adults turned on Dumbledore to yell at him, both Ron and Hermione turned to Harry. They were asking and demanding to know why he had never told them. Harry was just shrinking down further between his parents; he just wanted to disappear. The others teenagers in the room just looked at Harry, shocked and confused about what they had just heard. Neville just sat there confused. He could not comprehend that Harry had lived in a cupboard.

Malfoy was beyond shocked (Potter was not and is not treated as the heir to the potter family. He did not wear those rags to stick it to the social norms of the Wizarding world, did potter even know about the rules that he was disregarding?")This was the only reason he had come up with to explain why Harry did not wear proper clothing at school.

"STOP IT ALL OF YOU! Can you not see that this is why Harry never said anything? Almost all of you know how much he hates the attention he gets. How he doesn't want any special treatment and wants to be 'just Harry'. Can you imagine what would have happened if he had said anything, a school where nothing is a secret no matter how hard you try. Can you not see he is embarrassed about this, and to have you all yelling and carrying on? You are all making this worse, how would you like it if we had to read about your lives?"

She turned to sit down again, looked at Ron and Hermione, and said, "Especially you two, you both know better."

Ginny sat back down and waited for everyone to calm down so that the reading could continue. Lily bent down to whisper in her ear "thank you" and gave Ginny's shoulder a squeeze before letting go.

Harry just looked down at Ginny with Admiration and a small smile. James noticed this and smiled to himself "oh Potters and redheads, he found the only girl in a family of redheads, it is practically meant to be."

Once everyone had calmed down, Arthur cleared his throat and continued

Ron, Neville and Hermione looked at harry funny. They were all confused has they know that harry Hated his scar. He was always trying to cover it with his bangs. Not that it helped any. He looked too much like his father.

Flitwick was thinking about how the neglect was affecting Harry's schoolwork. (Wait what…. A CAR CRASH KILLED Lily and James, Don't ask questions? No wonder he does not ask anything when he is confused. He has been trained never to ask for help likely. No wonder he has such a hard time figuring out charms at times. I have trust that Ms. Granger will notice and help him because he never asked his professors.)

There was a snicker around the room laughing at Harry's description of Dudley

Fred was sitting there wondering what had happened to Harry's sense of Humor and wit. (Oh, merlin, that cousin of his is worse than I thought, dumber too. He can't even add numbers together to figure out how many presents he will have at the end of the day. He gets his parents to do everything for him, including his thinking apparently)

All the adults were thinking along the same lines. They were disgusted with Dudley and his behavior. Many of them were further disgusted with the parents, not only accepting his poor manners and behavior but also encouraging it; they kept giving in to their child. They also kept treating Harry as if he wasn't there or as if he was an unwanted pet that they couldn't get rid of. Sirius was wondering, (Does that walrus even know Harry's name, he keeps calling him boy or you)

Neville was horrified to think that Harry was punished for his accidental magic. Something that his family would have celebrated. He would have loved to have and as many, different types of accidental magic happen. He was having a hard time believing that anyone would put a child in a cupboard under the stairs. (Harry must be a pretty powerful wizard to have flown on to the roof of a building… oh no, he just jinxed himself.)

George was shaking his head at Harry's mistake of mentioning his dream about a flying motorcycle. He was checking at Harry's descriptions (A Blond Gorilla? Oh I wish harry would speak up more often. Oh, Dudley is going to be pranked to within an inch of his life at this rate. He needs to learn some important life lessons.)He turned to look at Sirius and Remus. (I wonder if they would have any ideas to help us prank Dudley.)

Moody was looking at Harry intrigued. (So he really is a parselmouth. Is he having a conversation with a strange snake? That boy is far too trusting when strange things occur.)

Flitwick gasped (he managed to vanished the entire glass out of the enclosure? That is powerful magic for a ten year old even if it was accidental.)

Sirius and Remus looked at each other sadly. They were feeling guilt about not being there for Harry as he was growing up… how they that been unable to rescue him from the Dursleys like he had wished.

"That is the end of the Chapter. Who wants to read next?" inquired Arthur holding up the book.

"I will" Amelia Bones offered, reaching for the book.

"Letters from No One" she read

Harry looked over at his Godfather, surprised to hear him growling. Sirius was growling at the treatment of his pup and at how lonely he was. (His longest ever punishment? Do I even want to know how long that actually was?) As depressed as Sirius was, he still chuckled at the description of Dudley's uniform. he was joined by everyone at Harry's thoughts about wearing old elephant skin.

Neville burst out laughing at Harry's thought that no one would want to write to him. The Weasley boys joined in "Harry, you probably have more fan mail than Lockhart. You are one of greatest wizards in our world. I would be very surprised that it all hasn't been collected somewhere for you to deal with another time. Merlin, I even wrote to you several times before we went to Hogwarts." All the rest of the room was nodding at that.

"More than Lockhart? Merlin kill me now." Harry looked pained at thought at having that much mail.

Oh dear, thought Remus, looks like he inherited the red headed temper from lily

(Snort, why would we be spying on you?) Thought Malfoy with disgust (we have better things to do with our time. If there had been someone spying on them, Potter wouldn't still be living there. The savior of the wizarding world living in a cupboard. They have four bedrooms, there really wasn't any reason that he didn't have a bedroom. I mean he is being treated worse than our old house elf. Ok, even I am not that bad, my father would never let me talk back to him in that manner. It is definitely his way and no other. )

(Not a bad plan as long as nothing goes wrong. Oops like that.) Remus covered his face with his hands as the whole room groaned at the failure of the plan.

Ron leaned over to Harry and whispered, "So were you training for Halloween?" Harry snorted in response.

Professor Sprout looked over at Minerva. Pomona was amused by all the different tactics were used to try amused her and get harry his letter. There was a reason why Pranksters always seemed to be in Gryffindor, the head of house was just as bad. (In the eggs, who thinks up these things? Maybe the Marauders rubbed off on her more than she thought. He thinks that WE are Mad. He is the one pulling out his mustache. And trying to "shake them Off")

Harry was listing to Amilia read about Vernon's breakdown. (i'd forgotten that Dudley was spoke nicely to me. He did realize that his dad had gone crazy. Only Dudley would keep track of the days of the week by what TV shows he had missed.)

Molly was grumbling "that is not a proper meal for anyone let alone a growing boy. I surprised that they fed him at all" Molly was trying to keep herself quiet about Harry's treatment at than had of his relatives. (No boy should think about whether he would be warmer if the roof caved in or not. Oh that sweet sweet boy thinking about how it was his eleventh birthday. Maybe he knew deep down how important his eleventh birthday was.) Molly jumped as Amelia shouted out "BOOM"

A/N : Ooops so it's been like 6 months. It is amazing how easily time gets away from you. I hope that you all enjoy this chapter and I hope to have another one soon