Disclaimer: I don't own it, if I did I wouldn't be going nuts waiting for
the 7th book to come out.(O.o does that tell you how long ago I wrote
this??)
Rewritten Chapter 4: Harry's Birthday Party
Petunia was in the kitchen washing dishes when the doorbell rang. " Dudley,
go see who's at the door please." She called to her son who was in the next
room.
She heard Dudley get up from the couch and shuffle towards the door he had
been complaining all day that he was bored and Petunia couldn't really blame
him it had been raining on and off all day and none of Dudley's friends were
home.
A few seconds later she heard the door close and the sound of footsteps
walking into the kitchen, " Petunia," said someone behind her.
She turned around to say something and then she saw who it was and almost
dropped the plate she was washing.
"James," she said once she regained her voice.
She relaxed somewhat when he smiled, " I came to see if Dudley would want to
go to Harry's Birthday party," he said, "it's going to be with other muggles
so you don't have to worry about him being exposed to magic."
Petunia looked at Dudley who looked like he wanted to go, " Dudley, do you
want to go?" she asked her son just to make sure.
" Can I mom?" he asked her hoping that she would say yes.
" If you want to go then yes, but hurry upstairs and get changed and come
back down." She told him and smiled as she watched him dash upstairs.
When she was sure her son was upstairs and out of hearing range she turned
to James, " We don't really have a present for him," she said softly and
then, "I'm surprised you're actually inviting him."
James laughed, " Don't worry about presents, Harry has plenty already and I
figured that if Lily were here she would invite him."
Petunia just nodded and they waited in silence for Dudley to come back down
the stairs, which didn't take him long at all.
James took him out to the car that he had rented to come pick Dudley up in
and waved goodbye to Petunia.
" See you later mom," yelled Dudley as he waved before he opened up the car
door and sat down.
The ride there was very awkward for the both of them and Dudley sat and
stared out the window and answered the questions that James asked him about
school and hobbies.
They arrived at their destination to a very surprised Harry, " Dudley what
are you doing here?" he asked him as soon as his cousin stepped out of the
car.
Dudley turned around to see where the voice was coming from, " I'm here for
your birthday party." He said smiling.
Harry smiled he was shocked to see his cousin and more shocked to see him
not gigantic he was a lot smaller than the last time Harry has seen him and
a lot less spoiled.
" Glad you could come," said Harry remembering the manners that his Father
and Remus had made him learn though his father didn't really force Harry to
use them as much as Remus did.
Dudley nodded, " so this is where you live now," he said looking around.
Harry laughed, " Yeah come on I'll show you around."
Harry and Dudley both disappeared and all the cool things in Harry house
awed Dudley and then, too soon for Dudley's liking they both had to go
outside for the party.
Dudley recognized Sirius right away as the man who came barging into his
house looking for Harry a few years ago.
" Hey Harry, who's that?" he asked pointing at Sirius wanting to know his
name.
" Oh that's just Sirius he's my godfather and you remember Remus, right he
was the man who stayed with Mrs. Figg before I left."
" He came Barging in our house a few days after you left looking for you he
was really mad when he found out you weren't there."
" Yeah he told us about that, he said your parents weren't too happy about
that." Said Harry.
" Yeah mom was angry and dad…." Dudley cut off he didn't like talking about
his dad so he changed the subject, " hey Harry look here comes another car."
He said pointing towards the car that was pulling into the driveway.
They watched as the car pulled up into the driveway and stopped and they
watch four people get out of it.
The man introduced himself and the others and handed Harry a present, the
girl that he had introduced as Hermione Granger walked up and wished Harry a
happy birthday and handed him a bag of candy.
" Thank you," said Harry, " oh and this is my cousin, Dudley."
" Oh it's nice to meet you too Dudley," she said giving him a bag of candy
too.
" It's sugarless," she explained after she gave it to them, my parents are
dentists and they don't like the idea of having to much sugar, even on
birthdays."
Dudley sat down and watched as Harry opened the presents that Bane and Aly
had brought him and he could tell that Harry thought the magic kit was
funny, he still didn't know that much about the magical world but he knew it
was nothing like the kit that Bane had bought Harry.
He watched Harry open his other presents and then he saw Sirius come out of
the house with a fully loaded water gun and he and Harry barley managed to
duck in time, unfortunately when they ducked it hit Hermione.
" HEY!" she yelled looking around to see where the water had come from she
saw Sirius with the water gun and ducked under the table with Harry and
Dudley.
Soon they had a full water fight with balloons and everything the Water gun
had run out of water and Hermione distracted the adults and Harry and Dudley
ran over and grabbed the cooler full of water balloons and threw most of
them at the adults before they knew what had hit them.
After they won the water balloon fight, they ate and then it was time for
Hermione, Bane his wife and daughter to go home.
Harry and Dudley said goodbye and watched as Hermione left and they went
into the house to play one of the new games that Harry had gotten.
" Hey Harry," said Dudley trying not to yawn he knew it was late and he knew
he would have to go home soon but for some reason he didn't want too.
" Yeah Dudley?" said Harry not bothering to hide that he was tired.
" Do you think your dad would mind if I spend the night?" he asked hoping
that he would be able to stay.
" I dunno let's go ask." He said getting up and running off to find his
father and Dudley got up and followed.
" Hey dad Dudley wants to spend the night, can he?"
James turned around startled and looked at Dudley, "Sure but I'll have to
see if it's okay with his mom."
James walked out of the room and Dudley heard a popping noise and then a few
minutes later he heard another popping noise and James was back in the
kitchen. He handed Dudley a bag of his things.
" Your mom said you could stay." He said at the confused look on Dudley's
face.
" Awesome," said Harry, " come on we can go put your stuff in my room."
Dudley smiled and ran up the steps after Harry and put his stuff away James
put some sheets and a blanket on the extra bed in Harry's room and left them
together.
Both Dudley and Harry were asleep before they knew and they woke up before
everyone else.
" Hey Dudley," said Harry getting an idea.
" Yeah," said Dudley sleepily.
" Let's go downstairs and get the water guns and wake Dad, Sirius and Remus
up."
Dudley stared at him like he was crazy, " but won't they get mad?"
Harry laughed quietly, " no I do stuff like that all the time it's just a
harmless prank."
Dudley agreed seeing as they wouldn't get in trouble and they both snuck
down stairs and filled up the water guns.
" Ok lets go wake Dad and Sirius up first, they're both upstairs." Said
Harry leading the way, he opened the door without it creaking and turned
around to motion Dudley into the room.
Sirius was on one bed on one side of the room and James was in one on the
other side of the Room.
" You get Sirius and I'll wake up my dad," whispered Harry.
" Ok," said Dudley
They looked at each other and both silently counted to three and started
spraying the two slumbering adults with the water guns.
" THAT'S COLD!" yelled Sirius waking up expecting to see Harry spraying him,
but instead he saw Dudley and saw James waking up the same way he just had
with cold water to the face.
" Good job Dudley we can go wake Remus up now," said Harry laughing, they
both crept out of the room, but Sirius and James stopped them.
" Come on you two lets let Remus sleep, you and Dudley can go out in the
yard and play with the water guns and if Remus isn't up by 11:00 you can
wake him up."
They both said " Awwwww" but ventured outside and had each other soaked
within minutes.
They both sat in the sun to dry while they waited for 11:00 to roll around
and Dudley asked Harry questions about the magical world.
It was 11:30 before either one of them knew it and they ran to wake Remus up
with the water guns, Remus woke up and tried to get them to go wake Sirius
and James up but it didn't work because they were already up.
He left to change and came back and helped James and Sirius set up the back
yard.
Soon enough everyone arrived and they were eating cake and Dudley decided to
have a piece even though he didn't really like cake anymore. He was one of
the first to notice that there was something odd about the cake, and then he
started belching up multicolored bubbles.
He was amazed it was awesome, he watched as everyone else started burping up
bubbles too, it only lasted for a minute and then the bubbles were gone.
Dudley had decided to be quiet he felt out of place everyone else seemed to
know each other, but he didn't know anyone but Harry, though he did laugh
with everyone else when Harry's dog Lily ate some of the cake, which made
her burp up bubbles.
After Harry opened his presents, someone suggested that they play Quidditch
and he had no idea what Quidditch was. " What's Quidditch?" he asked after
he realized he was the only one who didn't know what it was.
"How do you not know what Quidditch is?" asked two of Harry's friends at the
same time.
He just shrugged and waited for them to explain it, they did and he found
out that it was a game that wizards played on brooms. He didn't really
understand it, because he had never flown on a broom before.
He sat on the ground and watched everyone else play and he wanted to try it,
" How do you do that?" he asked his cousin after Harry had flown around a
bit.
" I don't really know how to explain it." Said Harry.
" Oh," said Dudley disappointed that he wouldn't be able to learn how to
fly.
James over heard their conversation and asked Dumbledore if he could try to
teach Dudley how to fly, the old wizard saw nothing wrong with it so James
summoned two of his old brooms and called Dudley over.
" Ok so first you put it on the ground and stand next to it." He instructed
Dudley.
Dudley wasn't sure about it at first but did it anyway, and then he watched
what James did and copied him.
He let out a small gasp of surprise when he said "up" and the broom actually
hopped into his hand.
James told him how to turn and make the broom go up and down and how to slow
down and then let him take off.
'This is great,' thought Dudley to himself as he went to join Harry and the
others in their game of Quidditch. He was told to be the chaser, which had
to be explained to him again, but he was pretty good once he got started.
Dudley was a bit sad when it was time for him to leave, he had had a lot of
fun here and he wondered if he would be able to come back to visit sometime.
He was getting into the car and was getting ready to have James take him
home when he asked, " would it be okay if I come to visit again?"
James smiled and Harry yelled "sure" and he got in the car and left, they
were almost to his house before Dudley said anything. " Thanks for teaching
me how to fly, Mr. Potter."
James jumped slightly at the sudden noise and laughed, " it was no problem
Dudley and no Mr. Potter stuff its just James." He said as he pulled into
the driveway, " See you next time Dudley."
Dudley nodded, " thanks for inviting me," he said softly before he shut the
car door and ran up the steps to his house.
His mother was cooking supper when he ran into the kitchen. " did you have a
good time Dudley?" she asked him.
" Yeah mom it was really fun and I met all kinds of kids that were the same
age as me and we had a water balloon fight and Harry's cake made you burp up
colored bubbles and James taught me how to fly a broom."
Petunia knew she ought to be shocked, but she wasn't and she was quickly
realizing that this was going to be normal soon enough.
So that was a bit longer than the others and I hope you enjoyed
that chapter and I think the next chapter will be the last one for this
story anyway. :D