Ron knowing why his best friend would be feeling down today decided to punch Harry in the shoulder to snap him out of it. “Cheer up mate,...there is nothing you can do about it so you might as well enjoy your birthday.” Ron handed Harry a badly wrapped package which turned out to be the latest broom maintenance kit on the market. Hermione unsurprisingly got Harry a book, it was a very large one and he wondered why she got it for him until he read the cover. It was a book on Wand Making. " Roger. Have your AI link to the site AI to coordinate the shield passage and dock at Pad Three. Do you need anything in particular?" Negative. Baxter and his Number One are gone, huh?"Tom switched gears. "Yes. They were caught outside." I can see the hot spot on sensors. Things look pretty good, though," Hu offered."Baxter was underachieving," Tom grunted. "Seems like he couldn't do two things at once." That concubine of his kept him busy," Hu grunted. "That one taking care of you?" He nodded. There was a second whack only thistime it was a little harder than the first one. I jumped again, as Isaid the words she wanted to hear, but was told to say them much louder.Jennifer told me I want you to say them loud enough for Nanny Rose tohear over at the other side of the room. Again, I was given a good whackon my butt, which really hurt this time, as I yelled out, "I will be agood girl and curtsy to all adults before I ask to speak." I knew I hadthe saying wrong, but Jennifer must have. Playing and marching was great, but he spent more time admiring his girlfriend while marching than looking straight ahead like he was supposed to. He marchd through the show segment, then hit his spot. No mistakes, he thought, now to make it better. That was for tomorrow though. He'd have plenty of time to perfect the show for the back half of the week. Eight hours of work every day would clean everything up. Now, he got to have some fun. The director went over the final notes. What to do.