Reading Iris Potter and the Scorcerers Stone.

Chapter 4 Felix

Felix began reading once everyone settled down.

As night fell, the promised storm blew up around us. Spray from the high waves splattered the walls of the hut and a fierce wind rattled the filthy windows. Petunia found a few moldy blankets in the second room and made up a bed for Dudley on the moth-eaten sofa.

"ew" The kdis scrunched up their noses with a look of disgust.

"Ive slept in worse" Bella muttered causeing Tom to look up at her. Seeing this Bella quickly explained. "It was in a POW camp" she says

Gasps were heard all around the room.

"how..." JMR trailed off.

"They came in the night," Bella says with a sigh. "I dont know what happened, they had used a sleeping gas to keep me unconscious for the most part." she explained. Seeing that she was not going to say any more, Felix continued.

She and Vernon went off to the lumpy bed next door, and me and Harry was left to find the softest bit of floor we could find and share the most thinnest and ragged blanket. I let Harry use the blanket and just sat on the floor criss-crossed .

They all scowled.

"He should have let her use it" Tom rolled his eyes.

"Im surprised they had a blanket at all" scorpius commented.

Bella looked very sad at this.

"That just proves she has a good heart" Jasmine smiled.

I pull James from my pocket and try to warm him up in my hands. He squeaks and looks up at me while he shivers from the cold. "I know...I know..." I whisper as I try to warm him as much as I can with my frozen hands.

"Awwww" Jasmine and Tom says grinning.

The storm raged more and more ferociously as the night went on. I watched as Harry shivered and turned over constantly as he couldn't sleep. Dudley's snores were drowned by the low rolls of thunder that started near midnight.

"I dont know if that is me or dad" Bella mumbled to her self thoughtfully.

Tom glanced up at her confused, but did not ask.

Me and Harry looked over at Dudley's fat wrist to where his lighted dial wrist watch was and told us that we have ten minutes until we turn eleven. I sat James down and crawled over to Harry and lay next to him.

I drew a birthday cake in the dirt and Harry added in the candles and words that said, 'Happy B-Day Harry & Iris.' I looked at the watch which told me one minute left. I waited until it struck midnight and looked over at Harry.

"Happy Birthday, Harry." I say.

"Happy Birthday, Iris." He said back in the same sunken voice as me.

"Thats sad" scorpius looked upset at this. "They deserve better."

We blew at the same time just as the door came falling in. Me and Harry jumped up in fear as Dudley rolled off the couch with a thud. "Huh..? What..?" He asked stupidly and still tired.

"I do believe he says everything like that" Jasmine says with a scowl.

"jasmine! Dont talk like that, just because you dont like him" James started scodling her, but hearing the laughter from his siblings and Bella he huffed and turned away rememberig what Bella had said about him earlier.

I bent down quickly as James came running at me. I scooped him in my hands and held him to my chest, wanting to protect him as best I can. We looked up at the doorway and saw a giant man standing there. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard. But I could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair.