AN: Hello everyone! As you can see I've wrote another fanfiction! This is something from my brain that's probably already been written somewhere on the internet.

Harry sat in the park looking at his shadow with his emerald eyes full of tears. "Why do they hate me? I didn't do anything wrong…" He sniffled upset and bleeding, watching Dudley and his friends playing on the swings. "Hey kid! Why not burn 'em? It'd get rid of 'em" His shadow told him with blood red eyes looking back at him. Harry shook his head, It was the third time it had been suggested. "I can't… They'll hurt me." He told his shadow quietly. "I'll help you! Just head to the hidey hole you found earlier! I think I saw a chest in there…" The shadow told him as he sat up and went to a hollow cave in a forest by the park. "I don't see anything…" He muttered before he fell down a hole and found a chest on the floor with dirt and leaves around him. "I told you Harry!" His shadow exclaimed happily as he opened the chest to find a note on top of a large number of items he couldn't understand. Hey there harry. Thanks to your shadow you found this note. I used to have my own shadow to help me… But you need to know this. This chest contains a large number of tools to help you on your way, it can be shrunk by twisting the dial on the side so you can take it with you. I left a book in here so you can learn in your own time. It'll explain why only you can hear your shadow when nobody else can. The words on the note were scratched and old. "Harry lets shrink it down and get back." The shadow told him as he did so and climbed out of the hole to get to the dursleys before they got angrier at him.

Harry opened his eyes and grinned. It had been a month since he'd found the chest and his shadow had started helping him more to get his own room, It was also his 11th birthday. He looked at his shadow who grinned at him, "Hey kid! There's a bird outside!" It yelled to him as he opened the window to find an owl with a letter addressed to him as well as a raven with a letter also addressed to him sat next to the owl. "Hey buddies… Come here," He muttered kindly taking the two birds into his room to take the letters. He opened the one the owl was holding first.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Mr Potter.

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

He frowned and threw it to the side to read the ravens letter but couldn't open it. "Hey kid! Look!" His shadow yelled to him having opened the shadow of the letter and reading it. "It's the same letter you got but with a different name on it!" The shadow yelled. "Apparently I'm Yrrah potter!" "Yrrah" Said. "I'm going to keep calling you shadow" Harry muttered to himself.