Extra Information: To tell you the truth, this chapter was originally chapter one.

Chapter 6: Birthday

Two weeks later,

"He looks so peaceful." Ginny said as she watched Harry sleep.

"C'mon Ginny. We have to wake him." Ron told his sister.

"It's his birthday." Hermione said. "Let him sleep."

"But Tiria! The par…"

"Shut up Ron!" the girls scolded.

"Fine." Ron pouted.

"What's keeping you lot?" Fred asked as he and his twin stuck their heads in.

"We want cake." George added.

"How can you wake THAT up?" Ginny asked pointing to the sleeping figure of Harry.

"Easy." George said.

"Like this." Fred added as they both whipped up their wands and conjured a bucket of ice cold water over Harry's head.

SPLASH

Harry woke up with a start as ice cold water poured over his head.

"FRED! GEORGE! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Harry yelled.

"Wake up Sleeping Beauty." George teased. "It's noon."

Harry grabbed the corner of his comforter and dried his face.

"Next time," Harry said. "Can you wake me up a drier way?"

"Okay." Fred said. "Next time we'll tell you You-Know-Who is back."

"That won't work." Harry said. "I'll just say I'll deal with Tommy boy later."

Harry grabbed his glasses from his nightstand and put them on. Now that he could see, he noticed the rest of the Golden Group standing around his bed. The girls were eyeing him.

"What?" Harry asked.

When he had reached for his glasses, the comforter had dropped from his bare torso. Since all the Quidditch and training, he had developed QUITE a bit of muscle.

"Sorry." Hermione apologized while looking away. "It's just, when we first met you, you were this skinny, malnourished, eleven year old. Now…"

"You're a teenage hunk." Ginny said truthfully.

Because Harry had yet to outgrow his modesty, he pulled the covers back up and blushed.

"I'm not so sure I like my little sister calling my best friend a "hunk."" Ron said.

"If you had let me get up by myself, she never would have seen me like this." Harry retorted.

"It's not like I'll never…" Ginny said.

"GINNY!" Hermione exclaimed.

"What is THAT supposed to mean?" George asked.

"Figure it out." Ginny told him.

"If your talking about what I think your talking about…." Harry told her. "We've only been dating two months!"

"It's called swimming." Ginny said.

"It's called you-won't-see me-in-the-water-for-a-long-time-after-the-second-task." Harry said. "Now will you lot let me get dressed in private?"

"Fine." They said.

"Come down to the dinning room when your ready." Hermione instructed.

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When Harry got down to the dinning room, he found the lights turned off. He reached into his back pocket for his wand as he fingered the wall for the light switch. When he turned them on,

"SURPRISE!"

Harry whipped out his wand and quickly pointed it to the crowd.

"Whoa Tiger." Sirius said noticing that Harry's wand was pointed right at him. "Watch where you point that thing. You'll poke someone's eyes out. Namely mine."

"Sorry." Harry apologized. "Can't be too careful."

"You're starting to sound like Mad-Eye." Sirius said.

"CONSTANT VILIGANCE!" Moody yelled. "And I heard that, Black."

"You hear everything." Sirius argued.

"Why is everyone here?" Harry asked as he noticed practically everyone one he knew and people he didn't know.

Ginny pointed to a red sign with gold letters.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!

"Oh yeah." Harry said as he realized what the day was. "Hold on."

He turned to Remus, Sirius, John, Sara, Spica, and Melissa. "When did you six get back?"

"LATE last night." Remus said.

"Cut the chatter." Fred said.

"We want cake." George added.

"I second that!" Sirius said.

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While everyone was eating, Harry learned that Ginny was the one responsible for planning the surprise party. She had James and Lily invite the people who had appeared to Harry's first birthday part. One of which was a witch Bill Weasley's age.

"Harry." Sirius said bringing the witch towards the birthday boy. "This is Nym…"

"Don't say it." She warned.

"Tonks." He told Harry. "She's the daughter of my cousin, Andromeda Black Tonks."

"Wotcher Harry." She greeted shaking the boy's hand.

"Nice to meet you." Harry said.

"What do you think Sirius?" she asked turning to her newly married cousin. "Think blue isn't my color?"

"Not really." Sirius told her.

"You're going to leave the party to dye your hair?" Hermione asked.

"Are you kidding?" she asked before scrunching up her face.

Her hair turned from blue to purple in two seconds.

The younger kids starred in shock.

"How did you DO that?" Harry asked.

"I'm a metamorphmagus." She told him.

"So," James asked moving towards the birthday boy. "Oh. Hi Nymphadora."

"DON'T call me that, James Potter." She threatened as her hair turned orange.

"What do you want Dad?" Harry asked before Tonks could kill James…again.

"I was just wondering when you were going to open your presents." James asked.

"Let's go check it out!" Ron said as he overheard.

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A few minutes later on the patio,

The Golden Group was starring up at the LARGE stack.

"That's a lot of gifts." Ginny said.

"Too much." Harry said. "Not even Dudley got this much."

"We have 15 years to catch up on." James told his son. "Birthday AND Christmas."

"Hold on." Sirius said. "I thought we agreed that I was the one who was going to spoil Harry rotten."

"We NEVER agreed on that." Remus told his friend. "And you've had time to catch up."

"Want to help?" Harry asked his friends motioning the large stack.

"Sure!" Ron, Fred, and George said diving for the presents.

"Okay." The girls said with more self-control.

Harry received a multitude of gifts that ranged from books (Hermione got him Hogwarts: a History) to prank items.

(Too much to list)

It was the best birthday ever.

TBC

Next time:

"It's going to be great." Ron said. "A nice, quiet year."

He opened his chocolate frog and looked at the witch or wizard he got.

"So," he said quickly as he tried to hide the card, "Who wants to sneak out of Hogwarts and look for Death Eaters?"