A/N: You're probably thinking, 'whose birthday?' well, J.K.R. never says when anyone but Harry's Birthday is, so I'm going to give someone a party.

Chapter 15: The Who, What, When and How of a party. Plus: Harry's Story!

"So…." Sakura started. She, Hermione, Fred, George, James, Simon, and Tommy were standing in the vacant hallway on the floor below the one that the hospital wing was located on. Why, you ask, well it was because they were going to throw a surprise party. Hermione and Tommy had already tried to convince the rest of the group that it wasn't a surprise party because Ron already knew about it, but they refused to listen. "We're supposed to have all this ready by Friday?" Fred nodded.

"But…" Hermione said uncertainly, "That only leaves us two days…"

"We aren't the-murrfersss" James started to say happily before Tommy's hand was quickly placed over his mouth, blurring out the last word. Fred and George raised an eyebrow while Sakura and Hermione sighed on the inside.

"We can get it done!" Simon grinned like nothing had happed. "James and I can get the food from hogsmede and-"

"I want to get food!" Sakura interpreted hastily.

"OK… then you and Tommy can get the food..." Simon continued, not using his brain like he should be, after all he was in the future. People from his 'childhood' years could recognize him in the place he'd spent 1/5 of his Hogwarts years at. "James, Hermione, and I will get...decorations and… Fred, George, what do you guys want to do?"

Fred and George were silent as they thought the question over. "We'll plan the when, where, who, how, stuff…" Fred said after a few minutes.

"Great! We can get started then!" James clasped his hands together happily

"Wait…. How will Harry fit into all this?" The group was silent as they pondered this. "He'll get seriously" A small snort was heard from Simon, "pissed at us if we leave him out"

"I can't believe we forgot about him!" Hermione gasped.

"Harry could be the Ron distracter" Tommy suggested.

"Brilliant!" The four pranker boys exclaimed.

"Come on!" James held his hand in the air, pointing toward the high ceiling and started off in the direction of the one-eyed witch. The rest of the boys followed him, leaving Sakura and Hermione standing next to each other in the empty hallway.

"What now?" Sakura asked Hermione lazily.

"We should go back and see if Harry's ok" Sakura nodded and they headed back to the hospital wing.

…

Harry lay still until he heard the door slam shut. "Ron?" He asked as he made a move to sit up but decided not to when a sharp pain shot through his left arm when he put weight on it. Besides, he also had a terrible headache.

"Harry!" Harry heard a rustle as Ron stood up and foot steps before Ron pulled the curtains aside. "What happened to you?" Ron asked as he looked at Harry. Sometime while he was asleep bandages had been placed on his arm and head. Harry looked down at his arm; the wound had seemed to have opened up a little bit because the white bandages had started to turn red.

"Long story…" Harry said, not really wanting to tell the same thing over and over again.

Ron opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by the door opening, revealing Sakura and Hermione. "Harry!" They both smiled and walked over to him.

"How are you feeling?" Hermione asked.

"Tell us what happened!" Sakura said the same time as Hermione.

"Well…" The three of them stared at him with piercing eyes; it made Harry a little scared so he decided to tell the story. "OK" They smiled. Harry took a deep breath and then started to tell the story.

"It all started after Potions, Ron you remember when I left you because I forgot my book in the common room?"

Ron nodded. "Yeah, it was right after lunch…"

"Well, I went up to the common room and sat the rest of my books down and started to look. Then out of nowhere I saw a hooded figure come up behind me. I was so surprised that I stepped and tripped over the table. Then another hooded figure came over and took a wand out, which he pointed at my neck. He told me that if I didn't corporate then he'd kill me." Harry paused and gave a long sigh before continuing. "I didn't really have any choice, so I agreed. They led me over to the window where a ladder was located. One of the hooded figures –I couldn't tell which- climbed down then the other one- the one with the wand- told me to go down. Of course I obeyed him and went down. The other hooded figure followed me down. After that the three of us were down we walked toward the forest. Now this is where it gets weird." He stopped again and took another deep breath.

"We reached the forest quickly and they told me to stand next to one of the trees. Then another hooded figure came up and spoke to the other two. I should have escaped then, but I didn't because I had a feeling that there were others else where, plus, they would have killed me on the spot is I tried to run away. After they finished talking the hooded guys took out some rope and tied me to the tree. Then it just got weird... They started to beat me." Sakura and Hermione gasped and covered their mouths.

"T-They beat you?"

"Yeah, I don't know why, but they punched, kicked, used spells, and one of them had a whip, which they took turns with." As Harry said this he threw the covers aside and rolled his pants legs up and his shirt sleeves up, revealing tons of cuts, scrapes, and bruises all over his body. He ignored the grapping headache that was still pounding his head open as he did this. "Oh, something I forgot to mention, when they tied me to the tree they put a silencing spell on me so that when I screamed no one could hear me." His three friends started at him in awe, hanging onto every word he said. "I don't know how long it lasted, it seemed like forever. When I was on my last strand of consciousness it stopped. I opened my right eye a small amount –they had been closed before- and saw that the hooded figures, that were now very blurry, were being attacked by someone. The new guy beat the three hooded figures easily, I saw him start to turn around, his hair was really shaggy, well, I think it was, everything was getting darker and darker, he took a few steps toward me... then I blacked out." Harry finished.

The trio started wordlessly at him. The story was a lot to take in; it also aroused many questions inside their minds.

Sakura's first thought about the cloaked men were that they were death eaters, but beating Harry? No, they would have taken him straight to Voldemort, right? And the guy that saved him… it didn't make sense. Why save someone then leave?

Hermione, being who she was, took the most logical approach she could to the situation. She hadn't been there when Sakura and Simon found Harry, nor had she seen the spot, this made it more difficult to figure things out. From what Sakura had told her there were no men laying near Harry, and same with the rope Harry had been tied with. She guessed that the man, who ever he was, had taken the hooded guys and rope off somewhere and was going to come back, but saw Sakura, or was he to late and Sakura had already started to head toward the castle.

Ron's thoughts were blurred. His absolute best friend in the entire world had been attacked. Sure, when you were best friends with Harry Potter this should be expected, but not only was he attacked, but right under his nose. Ron felt like it was his fault; he should have gone to find Harry after he noticed that he wasn't in History of Magic. Then Harry might not have been kidnapped. But then again, both of them could have been kidnapped, Ron knew he wasn't the best wizard, he'd admit that, and Harry was, and Harry had been taken over easily.

One thing flashed threw all three minds at the same time, something, someone was after Harry, everything about them was unknown, but it was quickly decided, in all three of their teenage minds, that they would protect Harry from whatever was after him.

Chapter 14's special reviewer: BakaIka

Sorry 'bout that… It should be fixed by now… lol

SHIKAMARU-KUN! –CHASES-

Sasuke: just ignore the crazy authoress in fan girl mode… she's sane… I think... hope… she was sane at one point…. I promise!

Remus: Sasuke! Where's Naruto?

Sasuke: that idiot…. Don't know….

Remus: he wasn't with two black haired boys our age, was he?

Sasuke: -thinks- He might have been… James and... Sirius?

Remus: Oh no…

Sasuke: kuso!

Remus & Sasuke: -run off-