In a cage

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it is a quiet summer evening in Surrey.

Yn and Harry Potter is in there bedroom looking at the picture book that Rubeus Hagrid gave Yn at the end of her first year at Hogwarts they looks  at the pictures of them as baby's with there parents, then turns the page to look at a picture of both of them with there closest friends, Neville Longbottom, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. She then hears harrys owl Hedwig chirping and hooting in her cage.]

Yn: We can't let you out Hedwig.

Harry: I'm not allowed to use magic outside of school.

[Hedwig nibbles at her lock, squawking loudly]

Yn: Besides, if Uncle Vernon--

Vernon: [angrily from downstairs] YN Potter!

Yn: it's not even my owl

Harry: [glances downstairs then looks at Hedwig before closing the book and as they both head downstairs] Now you've done it.

[In the kitchen, Petunia is working on a cake as
Yn Harry enters.]

Petunia: there in here, Vernon.

[Yn enters the living room with Harry behind her, where Uncle Vernon is getting Dudley dressed up.]

Vernon: I'm warning you. If you can't control that bloody bird, it'll have to go.

Harry: But she's bored.

Yn:If we could only let her out for... an hour or two.

Vernon: [chuckles] So you can send secret messages to your freaky little friends? No, sir.

Yn: But we haven't had any messages from any of my friends. Not one. All summer.

Dudley: Who would want to be friends with you?

[bumps Yn harshly]

Vernon: I should think you'd be a little more grateful. We've raised you two since you were babys, given you the food off our table, even let you both have Dudley's second bedroom, purely out of the goodness of our hearts.

Petunia: [to Dudley] Not now, bumpkins. It's for when the Masons arrive.

Vernon: Which should be any minute.

[motions for his family to come into the living room]

Now, let's go over our schedule once again, shall we? Petunia, when the Masons arrive, you will be...?

Petunia: In the lounge, waiting to welcome them graciously to our home.

Vernon: Good. And, Dudley, you will be...?

Dudley: I'll be waiting to open the door.

Vernon: Excellent. [the three of them turn to Yn and Harry with scornful looks] And you...?

Harry: We'll be in our room,

Yn: making no noise and pretending that I don't exist.

Vernon: Too right you will. With any luck, this could well be the day I make the biggest deal of my career, and you will not mess it up.

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