Blood of a Vampire

Blood of a Vampire

Nightmares and Presents

"Hello is anybody there?" asked a frightened girl of about fifteen. She was a pretty girl, with long black hair down to the middle of her back, which had bright pink and blue streaks in it. She had several piercings on her ears and one on the right side of her lower lip. She had heavy black make-up on and a spiked collar. She wore baggy black cargos with black and pink skater shoes and a blood red belly top with black letters on it which read 'I rule you'.

The girl was walking alone down a dark corridor in an old abandoned castle. She was searching for her friends that she got separated from. There was a soft tapping noise, which she followed thinking maybe it was her friends. But when she grew nearer, the noise grew louder, it wasn't tapping, it was banging.

"Harry, is that you?" she had asked the dark hallway.

When she got to the end of the hall she stopped at a door. The banging was coming from inside, but when she stopped, so did the noise.

"Okay guys, you've officially scared me. Can we stop now?"

She had reached out her hand to turn the doorknob when it gave a violent jerk and the noise started again, worse then ever. The door started shaking, like someone or something wanted out. She stepped away from the door scared and shaking.

"That's not the way out."

The door started breaking and the girl turned around and started running back down the hall as fast as she could, screaming for her friends, but suddenly she realized, she was alone.

Harry awoke with beads of sweat streaming down his face. It took him a few seconds to realize where he was.

"Some dream," he thought, "what did it mean?"

Harry heard a clicking noise coming from the foot of his bed. He put on his glasses, then turned on the light and he saw three owls starring up at him. One of them, his own Hedwig, was clicking her beak. There was one, a beautiful tawny, he didn't recognize but the third he knew immediately, Pig, Ron's minute owl. They each had a package and a letter. He checked his alarm clock, it read 3:00AM, he was wondering what they were doing there so late when he realized he'd been fifteen for three hours. Harry was receiving presents from his friends, the only ones who cared to remember his birthday. You see Harry lives with his uncle Vernon Dursley, his aunt Petunia and his whale like cousin Dudley. They didn't care much for Harry because he was a wizard. They took him in when his parents died, when he was one, murdered by Lord Voldemort, and Harry was left with naught but a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead from a spell, the Killing Curse, which rebounded off him and reduced Voldemort to something close to dead.

As soon as Harry untied the parcels the tawny flew out the window and into the night. Harry started with the letter from Ron.

Happy birthday Harry, I wasn't going to get you much, but

Fred and George chipped in, I still don't know where

They got the money but hope you like it.

Ron

Harry opened the package and inside was a crystal ball with a miniature Hogwarts inside. There was also another note from Ron.

Isn't it great, it goes by the actual time, day and season,

So when it's winter it will be snowing in the

Globe. It also shows you the inside or any other

Place you want to see just pick it up and speak

Aloud the room or person you want to see.

But it won't show the inside of a dormitory or lavatory

(Fred already tried), and you won't see much now since

It's summer but there are a few teachers. And be careful

You don't break it, there's a lot of magic in that thing.

P.S. Do you think the muggles will let you come over

For the rest of the holidays, I hope so, Hermione's

Coming. Send me an owl, even if they say no we

Will pick you up on the third. Bye.

Ron

Harry picked up the globe and inspected it, he held it to his face then loudly and clearly said:

"Dumbledore's office." Within seconds the miniature Hogwarts was replaced by the office, it was like looking in a pensieve, he saw Fawkes the Phoenix sleeping on his perch and the pictures of past Headmasters snoozing in their frames. Of course he didn't see Dumbledore, seeing as how it was three am, he's probably sleeping. He decided to check out the rest later, so he put down the globe and immediately it changed back to the Hogwarts castle. Harry then moved on to the parcel that Hedwig brought, it was from Hermione.

Hello Harry, happy birthday. I hope your having

An okay summer, if not, don't worry you'll be

At Ron's soon enough. You know I had a very

Hard time figuring out what to get you,

I mean you already have Quidditch through

The ages and a broom servicing kit

So I didn't know of anything else. Then I

Found this, maybe you could use it on

Fred & George this year, then when

You turn seventeen you could use it on you

Cousin. Hope you enjoy it.

See you soon,

With love,

Hermione

He opened up the parcel and inside was a golden book with red letters which read: Inside jokes, funny and friendly tricks to play on your friends. The things he could do with this book, Harry smiled at the thought. Harry laid the book aside and picked up the final parcel, it was from Sirius, his godfather.

Harry, happy birthday, I was going through some

Boxes the other day and I came across this,

It was your father's. He took it from school

One year, and left it at my place over the summer.

Harry look at it closely, you might

Find something interesting on it.

Snuffles

If the muggles give you a hard time send

Me an owl and I'll be there as soon

As possible.

Harry opened the parcel as quickly as he could, inside was a little black box with a lock and key. He inserted the key, and opened the box, inside was a tiny golden ball, a snitch. He went to the window and closed it, then he picked up the snitch and two little wings came out. He did what Sirius told him to do, he looked closely at the snitch, he turned it every which way, and then finally he saw it. Engraved on the snitch were the letters J.P., James Potter. He smiled, and then he noticed more letters, L.E., Lily Evans. Harry couldn't be happier than he was at that moment. He played with the snitch for a while then put it back in the box and hid it with his other presents under a loose floor board under his bed. He then looked at the clock. It read 3:45AM, he decided to go back to sleep for a couple hours, so he opened the window; Pig was still there resting. He put his glasses on the night stand, turned off the light, and then went to sleep.