It was Harry's Birthday in the Potter household and everything was frantic. It was 6 o'clock in the morning and James and Lily were running around putting Harry's presents in the kitchen. Without their knowledge the now 7 year old harry had been awake since 5 but had decided it was best to pretend to be asleep when his uncle Sirius checked if he was still asleep at half 6. Lily had made a chocolate frog cake with iced cards as decorations. James had then placed it on the dining room table and remus was blowing up balloons with his newly found girlfriend, Tonks. Harry like Tonks because she could change her hair colour and always make harry Giggle.

When harry had decided that he could now go downstairs, the scar on his head burned. It made him let out a gasp in pain. It had not hurt like before. He saw flashing visions of green and blue and sat down again, waited until his head stopped spinning. Harry knew that he should tell his dad, James but thought it best not to until lunch when he would be able to talk to him quietly. He hoped down from his bed and put on his slippers and was going to open the door when Lily, his mother, came in. 'Harry, Happy Birthday sweetie, everyone is down stairs waiting for you' She said beaming. Harry hugged her and followed her down stairs making sure to hold onto the railing after falling down the stairs two months prior and breaking his wrist.

Harry looked back on this for a moment and remembered the panic that insued the house. His dad was holding his wrist with awe and kept it completely still. Sirius had stopped his mum from using the wrong spell to fix harry and remus had made sure that the banister had gotten told off after he had been fixed. This made Harry happy and a warm feeling spread from his chest as his mum opened the kitchen door now.

Balloons were enchanted to fly around the kitchen in funny shapes and sizes. There was the chocolate frog cake on the table and his dad was standing with Sirius and Remus. They looked like they were arguing seconds before but now they all had a huge smile across their faces. 'Happy Birthday!' they all shouted and Tonks had changed her hair to rainbow colours that flashed. In an instant, his Dad was there lifting him up into a big hug. Seconds later, Remus had done the same. And when it came to Sirius he just said, 'oh come on, let's open your presents.' and ran off with harry in his arms laughing crazily, out of the kitchen. Much to Lily and james annoyance. They had planned for harry to blow the candles out first. They all followed and harry opened his presents. And the day seemed to fly by. At lunch, Harry tried to talk to his dad but just as he did, the doorbell went and in came the weasleys closely followed by a man that harry did not recognise. Harry was knocked over by his best friend, Ron. before he could see who it was. The weasleys were, from eldest, Mr Weasley, Mrs Weasley, Charlie, Bill, Percy, Fred and George, Ron and Ginny. Ron was looking at harry and he was shouting Happy birthday to him and Harry soon forgot about the mysterious man.

Ron had short red hair that stuck up on end. He wore messy clothes that looked like they had been patched hundreds of times, his shoes were always muddy. Harry and Ron spent the afternoon running around with Ron's older brothers Fred and george outside on the road ,pretending to be on brooms. Harry had given Ron his old play broom when his had broke and the fun continued until the street lamps flickered on. Harry noticed that no one had come out of the house to tell them to come back in even though it was getting pretty dark. He turned to the other boys and saw that they were busy messing around so he turned and went up the stone steps and into the house.

The Corridor was unlit. Harry's dad always turned on the lantern at the bottom of the stairs when it got dark. This was very strange. Harry adjusted his glasses that had slipped from the sweat on his nose and carried on down the dark corridor. He reached the end and heard talking from the kitchen.

'Well i don't know, James … maybe he is!' it was sirius talking in an angry tone.

'No you don't understand. You weren't there were you!?' said his dad's voice.

'James-' said His mum's

'Dont Lily, i have had it up to here with his idea of safety.'

'Yes but …. he knows what he is doing.' she said sharply.

'Does he?!'

There was a pause in speech and Harry felt as though he should move and return outside but his feet were stuck to the floor. He was frozen to the spot.

' I just feel like we should tell him now. He is not like you James he has grown up with all of this support from the order.' said sirius' voice slightly quieter.

'DON'T YOU TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD TELL MY SON OR NOT !'

'I -' sirius went to say,

'No, don't. Everytime you suggest something and we do it, someone ends up dead!'

'James, that is not fair.' said Remus' voice in a stern voice.

'Yeah and all you do is side with him! You always have done.' Said his dad

'This is stupid.' said a voice Harry did not recognize, it was a sharp husky voice that sounded oddly familiar. 'You-know-who is still at large and is hunting us off one by one. He knows the Boy is still alive. James and lily, it is up to you weather you tell the lad or not. I dont care. But arguing about it is not going to help. Sirius-... No sirius!' and at that Harry turned and ran up the stairs and proceeded onto the landed where he lay flat on his belly, looking down into the corridor and at the kitchen door. He could hear muffled voices and where seconds before he was standing a big black dog walked out of the kitchen and down the corridor. Harry heard the front door go and looked back into the open kitchen. He could clearly hear the voices of his parent discussing something quietly and someone disapparating. He looked through the door and saw his Dad with his head in his hands and lily resting her head on his shoulder looking tired and drained. Harry had never saw his parents like this. Vulnerable. Harry couldn't get the conversation he had heard out of his head. You know who? He had heard that name before but only in stories. And why does it matter if he was still alive? At this point, harry looked back at his parents at which point, Lily looked up and made eye contact with Harry.

Harry sprang up and ran up another flight of stairs and up into the attic. His heart pounding in his ears. He ran to the other end and hid behind the biggest, dustiest box he could see. Up in the attic, it was cold and made harry shiver; It was also very dark. No one ever came up here. His heart in his throat harry's mind was racing. Had his mother saw him?! Would she tell his dad? Or the others? Harry had a dreadful idea of the mysterious man he had seen coming up and turning him into a toad for eavesdropping. Or worse, his dad knowing. He wasn't as much scared of his father but more that he didn't want to annoy or disappoint him.

Moments passed and harry couldn't hear a thing. The silence was deafening. It also allowed his mind to wonder, was you-know-who looking for him? Why me? He thought and he heard footsteps below him. He stayed completely still. Maybe he could sneak back into his room in a couple of hours and pretend he had been there the entire time. He heard the front door open and close and knew the other boys had come in now Because he heard hearty goodbyes from the weasleys and the front door go again moments later. Harry still didnt move. 5 Minutes passed and Harry had been up in the attic for 7. He knew he would be able to stay up here forever but couldn't seem to move out of fear that someone would hear him. 'Lumos' a voiced whispered in the darkness where the door was. It was his Dads friend Remus. Harry stayed where he was. After everything he had heard and the anticipation of being found, his eyes filled with tears. His mum must of told his dad and remus and were now looking for harry. Remus moved around the attic. His wand alight. Long shadows were cast along the carpeted floor. Remus moved even closer to where Harry was.

Harry held his breath. 'Anything Remus?' he heard his dad shout from the door.

'No, i'll be down in a minute though, i think i've found a boggart!' Remus shouted back.

'Okay, but do hurry, lily's going frantic.'

At this, remus smiled. Harry dared a look above his box and saw that Remus was facing the other way with his back to Harry.

'Hey, Harry, If your up here, come out. Your mom is worried sick.' he said in a loud voice that echoed around all of the old boxes. Harry felt hot tears run down his face. 'Your not going to be in trouble. In fact, i still haven't given you my present from me and tonks.' Remus turned around and moved once again to where Harry was hiding. He felt him getting closer and closer…. 'Leave me alone.' He said timidly, knowing that Remus had saw him and was just going to say something.

'Harry-' Remus said quietly, 'Oh Harry' he said again as he saw the tears in his eyes behind his glasses. He knelt down and sat down next to him and put one arm around him. 'Dont be upset' Harry hiccoughed and burst into more tears and buried his head into Remus' shoulder.

' I didn't mean to, I was only looking for Dad, The lights were off in the hall, I-I-I wanted to see if he could turn the lamp on and i heard -'

Remus cut in and said, 'you heard us all talking'

'Yeah.' Harry said looking and feeling worse than ever. 'I didn't mean to …'

'Come here.' Remus said and took harry in his arms. Harry felt all of his worries melt away. 'Lets go and find your mum and dad, hmmm? They are going to start sending out search parties for you in a minute!' He joked and stood up with Harry following closely behind, ashamed. Remus went first, back down the ladder and waited for harry to start his decent. He held his arms out and helped harry on the last two steps. Just as he did, Harry felt another pair of arms around him and the familiar scent of shampoo, mum. He hugged her and sobbed. 'Sorry' he managed and he felt her hug him tighter. The next thing he knew, he was being hugged again by his dad.

'Harry…. Are you okay? Where have you been hiding?' He said as he checked him all over.

'Im fine,' he said wiping his eyes 'I wanted to come and find you-'

'And he heard a few things' Remus finished with both eyebrows raised at lily and James.

'Oh,-' Lily said. 'I wouldnt of thought you had heard any of that, oh harry, im so sorry.'

'Tomorrow' James said, 'Tomorrow, we will explain everything, but now you must sleep.' He said and picked Harry up and into his room. Harry changed and said goodnights. As he was climbing into his bed, he saw a parcel there waiting for him. He smiled, Remus. He opened it and inside was an egg. Next to it was a card which read,

'Dear Harry,

I thought that you could use this, its an owl egg.

Happy Birthday

Love,

Remus and Tonks.

X x x

Harry felt better but still had a feeling that something was not quite right as he drifted off into an uneasy sleep.