I own nothing except the idea for the story. Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling. I just like to play with the characters.

Chapter one

Ever since Professor Dumbledore explained about the triwizard tournament that would be held at Hogwarts that is all the students could talk about. Even in classes the teachers usually threatened detention so they could teach, naturally Snape did give everyone detention, apart from the Slytherin's.

'We did it,' Fred said as he sat beside Harry.

'Yeah, we're going to go for it,' George said as he sat beside Ron with Lee beside him.

'So, are you two in?' Lee asked.

'I might, if the twins can get through than I will.'

'I'm not, I don't really want any more attention and I have more than enough money in my vault. I don't need to add one thousand to it.'

'I thought you were going to Harry,' Ron said sounding disgruntled.

'I was half asleep when you asked me Ron. But after the last three years, I just want to sit back and watch what the others do in this tournament. But I hope one of you make it, a Gryffindor champion.'

'Angelina's entering, she just had her birthday, I'm not sure who else is going to enter though,' Fred said.

'If you change your mind Harry, you know where we'll be,' George said.

'I know, but I won't,' Harry waved to the twins and Lee with his fork before he turned back to Ron who kept staring at him, 'I get enough unwanted attention now. Imagine skeeter if I end up champion, no thanks.'

'Alright, fine,' Ron sagged, 'You can help me study spells, if I make it.'

'Deal, we'll borrow some of the advanced spell books from your brothers and Angelina. There is a spell I was looking at the other night. It's for copying, we might be able to copy just the spells that sound interesting.'

'Cool, we'll ask Fred and George later.'

'Hey, what do you think the twins would do if you got picked over them?' Harry smirked.

'Prank me, so I'll have to watch everything I eat and drink. But where's Hermione?'

'Trying to free house elves, every time I try to talk to her about it she rambles on about slaves. Okay, I know Dobby was miserable and he was being mistreated, but the ones here aren't treated like that.'

'No, but the Malfoy's are death eaters, they torture and kill people so it's not unusual for them to do the same to house elves.'

'We'll try to get through to her later. I doubt it will do much good, but we can try. Anyway, it's the weekend, I would like to go back to bed.'

'Yeah, let's sleep for a few hours then have a fly.'

'You're on,' Harry grinned then left the great hall with his friend.

Harry waited until Ron was snoring before he snuck out of the dorm room and the tower. He hurried down through the castle, outside and down towards the quidditch changing room. Harry had no idea he had been seen and he was being followed, by three Gryffindor's who were curious as to what Harry may be up to. They thought he might have a secret girlfriend and they were meeting where a lot of students meet, in the quidditch changing rooms.

Half an hour later the girls from the Gryffindor quidditch team grabbed hold of Fred, George and Lee, dragging them into an unused classroom. They explained what they had seen and wanted advice on what they should do. Fred and George went on to explain what happened two years ago, then again before the quidditch world cup. It was Lee who said they should tell McGonagall.

The group heard their head of house call to come in, they looked nervously at each other then stepped into the room.

Minerva pursed her lips when she saw who stepped into her office, 'What have you lot done now?'

'Nothing Professor,' Fred said.

'Honestly,' George said.

'It's true Professor, we found out something…disturbing,' Angelina said.

'We talked and thought you should know,' Alicia said.

'We're not sure of the facts but it must be terrible,' Katie said.

'Don't you have anything to say Mr. Johnson?'

'Um, no, I was just involved in the talk, I didn't see anything. I just figured something was wrong.'

'You are going to give me a headache, so please, one of you only, explain.'

The group looked at each other then gestured to Angelina, 'Okay, we were curious about why a student said he was going back to bed, then when his friend was asleep he left the tower. He was being sneaky and cautious, so we decided to follow him in case there was trouble.'

'And was there trouble?'

'Um, not in the usual sense, but the student went into the quidditch changing rooms, to have a shower. We weren't sure why he didn't use the showers in Gryffindor tower,' Angelina looked nervously at her friends.

'There's a hole in the wall Professor, we went into the girls showers and had a look so we could figure out what was going on,' Katie said.

'We weren't in there to perve at him, his younger than us, only a fourth year,' Alicia said nervously.

'They said they wanted to find out why he went in there,' Lee said, 'They saw something.'

'Just get on with it.'

'The boys back, legs and backside are covered in these scars, long thin scars. It looked like a giant's fork carved up his back,' Angelina said.

'They told us so Fred and I explained about a situation we were involved in with the boy,' George said.

'One where he was locked up and starved, we rescued him, this was two summers ago.'

'We think this boy's being abused at home,' Lee said sadly.

'He never talks about his home life or his family,' Katie said.

'We know his parents are dead and has no siblings. We're not sure who did this to him or if maybe the scars were because of some accident, like a muggle car accident. But then the twins told us about how they rescued him, how he hadn't eaten in four days and how his owl was even locked up,' Alicia said sadly.

'We felt that between us we realised the boy has been hurt or abused, something, we had to come tell you about it.'

'Very well, I hope you are wrong, but I will investigate. Now tell me who the boy is?'

The group looked at each other, 'Harry Potter.'

'I have it on good authority that Mr. Potter's family care for him, I also know there is a squib in the neighbourhood who keeps an eye on him.'

'Then she's done a rotten job,' George blurted out.

'Harry was locked in a tiny room for weeks, they even had bars on the window. We pulled them off using dad's car. We took Harry home, but we found out he had been locked in there for a month. He had to use a bucket for a toilet, that he could only empty every third day, when they let him have a wash,' Fred said.

'We picked the lock on the door because Harry said his uncle always locks his trunk and wand in the cupboard under the stairs. While Harry and Ron were getting Harry's few things in his room, which was mostly second hand clothes that belonged to his whale of a cousin,' George said.

'We went down to the cupboard, we found something Professor, writing on the wall inside the cupboard. It said Harry's room, and happy birthday Harry, there was a drawing of a cake with candles on it. But the writing and the other pictures looked like they were done by a small child, you know, about five or six,' Fred said.

'They locked him in a cupboard then a bedroom, they don't feed him and now we find out he has scars. If you've been told he's being looked after then they lied,' Lee said, 'I always thought he was small for his age, skinny, I notice that his skinnier the first few days here after the holidays than he was when he left.'

'You're our head of house, so we brought this to you. But if you don't do something than we will, even if it means going to the auror department.' Angelina said.

'For now say I was lied to, then I will need to find out why. But I will never allow one of my students to be hurt without trying to stop it. Give me a few days, I will try to get to the bottom of this. But I must ask that you not mention this to anyone else, mainly so word does not get back to the wrong person.'

'We won't be obliviated or anything, will we Professor?' Katie asked nervously.

'No, only the seven of us know, that will remain until I can speak with someone who might be able to help find the truth, without alerting others. Tell me this if you know, say this is true, why would Harry remain silent about this?'

'Harry hates attention, he finds out his the-boy-who-lived a month before he arrives here,' Fred said.

'He has everyone staring at his scar, but we think it's because he's embarrassed. His supposed to be some hero yet his being mistreated and can't stop it.' George said.

'But think of people like Malfoy who might find out then tell the Daily Prophet. Harry's already seen things written about him, mostly lies. Imagine how he would feel if his abuse was splashed across the front page of the newspapers,' Lee said.

'Harry does put his name down to stay here during the Christmas break,' Fred said.

'He tells Ron he can't wait to get to the Burrow,' George said.

'Do you think Harry may have told your brother, or Miss Granger about his home life?' Minerva asked.

'Ron was with us when we rescued him, maybe he got Harry to tell him when they were alone. Mum put a bed in Ron's room for Harry, so they share,' Fred said.

'That's another thing, when Harry comes to the Burrow, he sleeps on a camp bed but he acts like it's the best bed in the world. He always tells mum he wants to help since she allowed him to stay, it's like he is really grateful, more than he should be. He even tells Ron he wants to help mum instead of fly or goof off,' George said.

'But we, um, dad, me, George and Ron went to get Harry before the quidditch cup. Now we do know that Harry's cousin is a git, Harry hasn't said much, accept the cousin is a bully. We pulled a prank on the cousin while we were there. But we saw the looks that the aunt and uncle were giving all of us as soon as we arrived, but they look disgusted,' Fred said.

'That's another thing, they have a nice home, money, fancy car, all wear good clothes. But Harry's clothes are too big, usually worn out. Mum often fixes his stuff, she mends the holes,' George said.

'We overheard dad telling mum that they kept calling him a freak, dad I mean. He helped reverse the prank we did but he said that they want nothing to do with the freaks,' Fred said.

'If you talk to Ron, he might know more, they do share a room at the Burrow and here,' Lee said.

'He's back looks terrible, if it happened here or at the Burrow, anywhere where there is a witch or wizard then they could have healed him until you couldn't see the scars,' Angelina said.

'We know about the scars done by dark magic, how they never fully disappear, but these are different,' Alicia said.

'I will look into it, and I will speak with your brother before anything else. I truly hope you are wrong and these scars are due to some innocent accident,' Minerva sighed, 'But I already know it's not. I saw those muggles, I never believed Harry should have been left with them, but I could not stop it.'

'If it's an accident or abuse that caused these scars, does that mean he can have them healed?' Katie asked.

'I will mention it to him, but it would mean a stay in St Mungo's. If they are old then it will be a few weeks at least. I will keep you informed, but again give me a few days to speak with someone who just might be able to find out what is going on in that house. Ten points to each of you for bringing this to me.'

'Thanks Professor,' the group sighed as they left, they hoped Harry wasn't being abused. They already knew he was being mistreated, but they couldn't figure out how he got the scars if he wasn't being abused. They would just have to wait until McGonagall spoke with them, and hoped it didn't take long.