It was a lovely sunny day in mid June. some may say it was the perfect day, the sun was out, there were a couple clouds shifting thier shapes and a small breeze ruffling the tuffs of black messy hair on a young baby's head.

This day was indeed perfect for the young James and Lily Potter, playing happily with thier young baby boy Harry underneath the sycamore tree. Lily Potter was a beautiful young woman with fiery red hair cascading down her back, her emerald green eyes shimmered every time she smiled at her handsome husband James who had very messy black hair, a trait of which he passed down to his baby son, James hoped he would pass every trait he had onto his son, well except his eyes of course. He had his mother's eyes.

A screech of a bird could be heard from where the family was sitting, an unmistakable screech of a tawny owl. It was coming directly at them and in a swift motion Lily lifted her arm and the tawny owl landed smoothly onto it. Lily was very adept at this and they were all quite used to it as they were all wizards and owls were the wizard way of sending and receiving mail, in fact this owl was holding a letter of its own in its beak addressed to the family. Lily took the letter and the tawny owl swooped off to presumably go and collect or deliver other letters in the wizarding world.

Lily opened the letter and there were two pieces of paper inside, she read the longer one first and rolled her eyes and then read the shorter one.

"who's it from Lil?" James asked still preoccupied with thier infant son

she sighed "well one is from dumbledore, he's congratulating us on having Harry and says he's sorry for being a bit late in congratulating us but he's been a bit busy as always. he also said that this other letter was coming to us so he put both in one letter to save the trouble of us getting more than one and him being even later in congratulating us"

"and the other letter?"

"petunia"

"oh" said James now looking Lily who was still scanning the letter

"what does it say?"

Lily sighed again not wanting to say what was on the parchment "Well... Petunia has invited us to a family dinner"

"What?!?" James was starting to crack a smile now

"James its not funny!"

"Yes it is! I mean they hate us and now they want to play happy family's? I knew something was wrong with that family but there must be something seriously wrong with them if they think we're actually going to go"

"James, what if something is wrong with them? what if thier son is ill or Petunia or Vernon?"

"Then Hell will have to make some room?"

"James!"

James could no longer help it, he started laughing uncontrollably. Making Lily frustrated was always fun for him, it always made him laugh even at school and sometimes, just sometimes she would laugh too.