1991

10 year old Harry stood in the kitchen watching his mother cook. It was the first day of August and his father was due home from work any minute. The 10 year old had some exciting news to share with James and had been waiting for him since make today better Lily was cooking her son's favorite meal to celebrate. Today, thought Harry, could not be any better. Finally James Potter flooed in. "Dad! Dad!" young Harry shouted grabbing a piece a paper off the kitchen counter and running towards the fire place. Harry anxiously waited while his father put his things down. "Hello, Harry. How was your day today?" James said hugging his son. "Amazing!" shouted Harry handing him the paper. James didn't even begin to read when Harry again shouted ,"I'm going to Hogwarts!" James put down the letter without even bothering to read it "That's my boy!" he shouted giving Harry another hug.

"Mommy!" 7 year old Elena Potter came running in from the playroom , "Trevor ripped my princess dress!" She showed her mother the tear. "She through her doll at me!" Trevor enter the room and the conversation. Lily shook her head "and you two we're playing so nicely together." She helped Elena out of the dress up outfit and knelt down and look Elena and Trevor in the eyes. "I wasn't there so I don't know who started this fight but what both of you did was wrong. You need to apology to each other right now". "Sorry" both children. Lily stood up and pulled out her wand and repaired the dress. Elena and Trevor just then both noticed James had returned home and they each ran over to hug him. Lily turned to the stove to check on the food then turned back to her family. "Dinner is almost ready everyone go get washed up."

Harry had spent much of dinner asking James questions about his future school (much like he had with Lily the entire afternoon). He was bouncing off the walls all evening. It was about an hour past Harry's normal bedtime (and only after his parents agreed to go to Diagon Alley to get his school supplies tomorrow) that Harry was finally in his room being quiet with the lights out though he was not yet in bed. He looked at the calendar and again counted-He was going to Diagon Alley tomorrow, 2 weeks until his and Dudley's party, 30 days until his actually birthday and 1 month until Hogwarts. He climbed into bed and stared out his window for quite some time. Then finally his body gave out before his mind did and he fell asleep the happiest he had ever been in his life.

The next morning Lily woke Harry up at round 9. He got dressed and headed downstairs to breakfast. Lily handed Harry a bowl of oatmeal. Harry ate it trying not to fall back asleep tired from staying up late the night before. The rest of the morning was pretty lad back. James arrived home shorty after lunch (he had taken the afternoon off). The family arrived at Diagon Alley at about 1. After a short stop at Gringotts they headed off to purchase school supplies. After he got his wand and was fitted for his uniforms Lily decided to take Elena and Trevor who were at this point getting anxious to some "fun stores" , and Harry set off with James to get his books, and the rest of his school supplies.

After this was accomplished James told Harry they had one more stop. Slightly confused thinking he already had all his supplies Harry followed his father. Then ended up at "Eeylops Owl Emporium". "Well Harry," James said stepping inside, "your mother will be wanting tons of letters and it won't be fair to make Francis do all that flying. So which owl do you suppose will be a good one to take to Hogwarts with you?" Harry's eyes light up. He had always wanted a owl for his own. In fact he had been spending much of his time lately taking care of the family owl Francis to prove to his parents that he could do it. "Really dad? My own owl?" Harry asked half afraid he had heard incorrectly the first time. "Yes, Harry your own owl" James replied.

Harry and his father walked around the shop. He saw all different types of owls. He saw several owls he liked but wanted to be really sure. Then he spotted her. She was absolutely beautiful. She was Snowy White owl and Harry couldn't help but feel a connection with her. "I want this one" he told his father pointing to her. "She looks like a good one to me" James said , "you sure though?" Harry nodded and James picked up the cage and they head to the counter to pay. "What are you going to name her?" James asked Harry handing the women at the counter the money. Harry shrugged he had never named a pet before. He sat flipping through his books while waiting for his mother and siblings to go to dinner he spotted the name. He looked at the owl and back down at the name. "Hedwig" Harry announced, "Hedwig is her name."

Elena and Trevor were a bit jealous to say the least. Harry was too excited about everything to notice though. They stayed in Diagon Alley for dinner (mostly because the muggle restaurants wouldn't have let Hedwig in). Lily had to tell Harry to slow down with his eating several times. Harry had just wanted to get home and continue looking at his school books. This was going to have to wait though as after dinner James and Lily had reminded the children that they were getting together with their friends (or the Order as James had slipped and called them once). He told the children it was just a named they called themselves but Harry (and several of the other children whose parents were in the group) knew there was more too it then that.

Lily told Harry that she didn't want him to pull all of his school stuff with the other children because she didn't want it to get damaged on the first day he had it. Harry had protested saying that him and his friends just wanted to look at it. But Lily knew her son and the group of kids he would be spending the next few hours with and was completely against it. And Harry knew his mother and knew that she wasn't too strict but when she said no to something that was the final answer. Oh well at least he would get to show Hedwig off to Ron and Neville.

Sooo? What did you think of this chapter? Review please! Yes, that Order is the Order of the Phoenix (there are still death eaters out there). Was going to try to explain that in the next chapter but I figured people would either get it really easily or be super confused. Ha-ha. & Harry actually having a decent relationship with Dudley will be explained (eventually) just for anyone wondering about the line of them having a birthday party together. Okay well I think that's it for now. Lol. See you later readers!