Part 5

Harry was woken up later by Hedwig rattling the bars of her cage. Sitting up and rubbing his eyes, he looked at the clock and was surprised to see that four hours had already passed. "I didn't think I was that tired," Harry muttered, straightening his glasses and getting out of bed.

Hedwig quieted down when she saw that Harry was up.

Taking Ron's letter off his desk, Harry unlocked Hedwig's cage and tied the letter to her leg. "Take this to Ron and come straight back, all right? I want you to be able to give Hermione her letter tonight. After Hermione, you can go wherever you want, okay?"

Hedwig hooted her assent and went to the window.

"Good luck!" Harry whispered. "And be quiet until you get out of Privet Drive!" he added as an afterthought.

After Hedwig left, there was nothing to do but wait. To try to take his mind off his friends, Harry went to see what books were on his shelf. The ones there he had read at least five times before. Getting a chair, Harry stood up and looked at the top of the shelf to see if there was anything up there. Not seeing anything, he almost jumped down, but then something caught him eye. It was a little, leather book that he had never seen before. Sitting down on his bed, Harry opened it and gasped.

In the front of the book, it said, " Property of Lily Evans."

Turning the front page eagerly, he gasped again, shocked at what he saw. Quickly, he read on. The writing in the book was in Lily Potter's beautiful writing.

It read:

" Dear Diary,

I can't believe it, I've been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! It was such a huge surprise that I almost fainted. Mum and Dad are so happy! Petunia is the only one who is upset though, something is wrong. I'll have to find out what is wrong with her later, but soon, Mum is taking me down to central London to buy my school supplies. The letter told us to go to a place called Diagon Alley. Apparently, it is only a place that wizards can get to, so hopefully Mum will be able to get in. I can't believe that I didn't know I was a witch before. You would think that I would have shown some powers before now, wouldn't you? According to the letter though, I need to buy some robes and spell books. I can't wait to start doing magic. It will be hard leaving Petunia and all my other school friends behind. Mum says that I will make lots of new friends at school. I hope that she's right. But when Mum mentioned new friends, Petunia's face fell. I have no idea what is wrong with her. She is the older one, but sometimes I feel older. She's always been the homely one, and I've always been the pretty one. And I'm not being vain here, it really is the truth, everyone says that! I still love Petunia though. I've always looked after her, and we've always been the best of friends. I feel sort of bad about leaving her while I go to Hogwarts, but I'm too excited to feel really bad. We leave tomorrow, I can't wait!!"

Harry put the little book down with trembling hands. He had just made an amazing discovery. He had just found Lily Potter's diary!