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“Come on, Ryan!” Someone in the audience shouted. Several other people shouted alongside him.

“Hey let go!” Ryan yelled at the muggle as he struggled to get his leg back.

“I’ve got you Ryan!” Harry yelled as he gripped his cousin’s arm.

“Come here!” Vernon growled.

“Let go of him!” Harry shouted at his uncle as Ron turned around from the front and tried to pull Ryan in with Harry.

“Oh no, boy! You two and that bloody pigeon aren’t going anywhere!”

“Why is he not letting them go?” Cathy wondered. “Doesn’t he hate them?”

“I thought you wanted to get rid of us!” Ryan said. “That’s it! Don’t say I didn’t warn you!”

Ryan’s eyes turned bright yellow and a surge of yellow magic emerged from around his leg in the form of yellow lightning.

“Aaaah!” Vernon screamed in pain as he was electrocuted. His entire body spasmed and his hair stood straight. He let go of Ryan’s leg and the young wizard quickly got into the car just as Vernon’s body fell through the window and into the bushes below.

“Oooh! That had to hurt!” Professor Flitwick winced.

“I bet it did.” Professor Slughorn agreed.

“Dad!” Dudley screamed as he and his mother rushed to the window and looked down at his father.

“Oh...Damn.” Vernon coughed as a puff of smoke came out of his mouth.

 As the Weasleys drove through the sky, Ron turned around at his friends and smiled. “By the way, Harry, Happy Birthday!”

“It’s Harry’s birthday!” James exclaimed.

The scene changed from the night sky in London to the warm morning at the Weasleys home. It looked as though it had once been a large stone pigpen, but extra rooms had been added here and there until it was several stories high and so crooked it looked as though it were held up by magic, which it probably was. Four or five chimneys were perched on top of the red roof. A lopsided sign stuck in the ground near the entrance read, THE BURROW.

“Mummy look!” Bill and Charlie jumped up and down and pointed to their house on the screen.

Around the front door lay a jumble of rubber boots and a very rusty cauldron. Several fat brown chickens were pecking their way around the yard. The blue car drove through the air as it slowly descended and came down to a landing.

The scene fast forwarded ahead and showed the Weasley brothers leading Harry and Ryan into their house. The five of them were walking inside slowly not to make any noise.

“Come on. Okay, come on. Shh! Shh!” Fred whispered. “Ok, come on. Shh! Come on.”

As Harry entered, he saw that they were in the kitchen and that in the sink was a brush that was scrubbing a pan under running water. Ryan looked around and saw that on the wall was so sort of device that has the faces of the Weasley family on spoons. As soon as Ron and the twins arrived at the spoons moved to show that they were there.

“Hey you still have what I gave you for Christmas!” Fabian told his sister.

As Ryan observed the device closer, he made note of the different places that the device could list them. “Quidditch, lost, dentist, home, school, prison. Prison?” Ryan did a double take at one of the settings. he looked back at the siblings and was about to ask them about that when Ron spotted a plate of scorns on the table.