Disclaimer:
I do not own the characters of Harry Potter, these belong to that wonderful author JK Rowling and the various publishing companies used to publish her works. I am however borrowing them, no not to make money but for fun and fun only. Only JK Rowling, her publishers, Warner Brothers and who JK Rowling says can make money and she has not given me permission for that, so no I do not make money off this, again it is for fun!
Summary:
WBWL, Harry is sent away when Charlus is declared the BWL. World meet Harry Robert Evans, beloved youngest son of Vernon and Petunia Dursley. Ravenclaw and master schemer.
So yea, I have read wrong boy who lived stories where Harry is sent away and abused by the Dursleys. Yet I don't think that is how it would happen. So here is Petunia getting her revenge and raising Harry as a beloved son, a son with magic yes but a son nonetheless. No Harry will not be Slytherin (overdone IMO) but he will not be Gryffindor either. He will not be dark or evil but he will be sneaky as anything oh yes indeed he will.
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Rosewood Hall, Crawly England July 1995:
One Mr. Vernon Dursley was a very good businessman. So good in fact he was able to buy a small hall and fix it up for his family. Once the home of a rich noble family it had been abandoned in the sixties when the last of a once noble stock that refused honest work died off. Vernon had bought it, had it fixed up so that it was above code and moved his beautiful family in. It was not a large hall, it had six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, one drawing room, a library, parlor, dining room, breakfast room, game room and ball room in addition to servants quarters now turned to a media room and potions and magical space for their youngest son. The Dursley family had land and had restored a village there turning it into an expensive resort where one could stay. Most that did came from Asia and America to experience "English country life".
Let's meet the Dursley family, there is Mr. Dursley, an average height man with strong build with a bit of a stomach that like to wear polo shirts, crisp trousers and wellingtons when not at work and on cooler days one of his wives hand knitted sweaters. He rode a horse over his lands and looked like a modern day lord, though he had not been knighted and had not bought a title either. Many a time Petunia could be seen riding with him in proper modern riding habit and when Dudley was home from school he would ride in jeans, cowboy boots and band tee shirts. This Dudley was a strongly built boy, boisterous but not overly so and more kind than cruel, and if he were cruel he was corrected quickly.
Less seen was the youngest boy, adopted son and pride of the family. Dark haired where the rest of his family was blonde, green eyes were his family had blue, more dark of hue than fair was Harry Robert Evans. When he rode he dressed like a lord of old and carried himself well. He was gracious with a good sense of humor, and had always been a happy well liked child. Nothing ever was said of his birth parents and for Petunia it was a sore spot, she looked angry and had only said Harry was adopted from parents who only wanted one child and not him, and she had the letters to prove that. Petunia had been a petty woman and on taking Harry all those years ago vowed Lilly would pay dearly. At first her good care had been to spite Lilly but then she grew to love the lad and things got good for the family, two years after taking him Vernon was at the top of his company and able to buy the hall, when the lads were seven they moved in.
"How was school Em?" Dudley asked Harry (when he was younger he tired to call Harry Emerald for his eyes but only could come up with Em, and it stuck), "you seem pensive."
"It was not as fun as I could wish." Harry replied bringing his horse to check, "the dark lord V is back, though I cannot support Charlus publicly, I have far too much to do and a reputation to keep clean, I do not like the politics."
"Well, sometimes politics helps make things better." Vernon said, "you are using them for good?"
"Yes dad, to find I am the heir of a real magical line called Evans, that was a surprise, I thought that would go to my birth mother."
"It could not, she rejected anything Evans after marrying James, she had to, as a muggleborn she could not keep any titles." Petunia replied, "the law is changed now but you inherited before they were."
"At eleven." Harry said, "and now I am lord Evans, though that is but a title. There is some wealth, and more since I killed the basilisk."
"Yes well I really was not pleased in that." Vernon said.
"I was kidnapped by a professor dad, had no choice but to fight my way out and rescue two beautiful ladies" Harry said watching red haired Ginny and flaxen Harried Luna ride up, "ladies you are more radiant than ever."
"You will have to pick one or the other." Vernon warned Harry.
"Luna is my sister, Ginny, well I would wed her now, but we must wait, I know she is the one, and we will wed."
"Daddy allowed a marriage contract so that Charlus can't claim me, there are laws to stop that but that would not stop him." Ginny said, "Harry saved my life, and I love him."
The first ten years of Harry's life had been in the muggle world. The last four in Hogwarts, his idiot brother had destroyed a trap (for trap Harry thought of it) to capture a dark wizard. Next year at Christmas Lockhart had kidnapped Harry, Ginny and Luna and tried to kill them with a basilisk, when that failed he was impaled on his own spell as it were and ended up with no memories. Third year his brother botched again in allowing Pettigrew to escape by sticking his nose in places it did not belong. This last year he ended up in a the tournament as a fourth champion and won it and brought back the dark lord V. Harry was grateful he was not in Gryffindor or Slytherin but safely tucked away in Ravenclaw with his best friends, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood and the love of his life Ginny Weasley. His biological brother knew who he was but after the first dressing down Charlus left him alone and dared not come anywhere near him. Of course the Weasley twins made sure to let him know he was in error and not doing the house of Gryffindor any favors by the points he was loosing. Charlus was many things but stupid was not one of them. He was in the top five every year in his class after all.
Harry had heard rumors and he did not like what he heard, laws to restrict the rights of muggle born, which should not pass as Sirius Black was fighting those. To restrict the muggle born would risk exposing their world he argued again and again. In fact he had set up the muggle born education act which required all those raised in the muggle world to take Wizarding custom classes and pass them. In the same vein all those raised in the magical world had to learn about the muggle world to not endanger the statute. Harry had been working with the muggle born to give them a way out of England if things went south as he feared they might. If the dark lord V was back then funneling people out was a safe way to deplete his base. Already he would find no help in the werewolf colonies, they had their Wolfsbane and the right work as long as they were on it, refusal to take it was instant death, Greyback had died as had most of his pack in refusal to take it. Those left alive were under Remus Lupin.
"I am going to head over to the Burrow." Harry said, "if that is alright?"
"Stay safe son." Vernon said.
"Tell Mrs. Weasley hello for me." Petunia replied.
"Later Em." Dudley said.
Harry and the girls rode back to the stables made of the same warm stone as the hall. Here they gave the horses over to the groom who was a squib and headed into the house taking the floo to the Burrow. They came out in a shed close to the house, this was in fact the original Burrow which at one time been a crooked house. Ten years prior Arthur had saved the life of one Vernon Dursley and Vernon had hooked him up with investments and the like to help his family. He had suggested the family fix up the WWII bunker on their property and move in. Now the Burrow was underground and was a four bedroom three bathroom house with a master suite, a large family room, large eat in kitchen and a parlor that housed a salvaged library collection. The teens took residence in the family room after getting Coke Zero ™ for the girls and Mountain Dew ™ for Harry. The teens liked muggle soda but drank it sparingly. Ron, red headed, tall and gangly came in with his own soda, Pepsi ™ and sat on one of the long maroon couches.
"So you hear what that Daily Prophetis doing?" Ron asked.
"Yea, and you know I can't get involved with what Charlus is, you know that." Harry replied.
"Yes and I don't like it, not because of you but because people will not listen. You think Charlus is going to be a fool this year?" Ron asked.
"I hope not, but then if he is my plans still go forward, your brothers still not going back?" Harry asked.
"No need, dear Harry, we have our NEWTS already, took them early we did." Fred said sitting by him.
"And we should be able open our shop soon." George replied.
"Mum is resigned, but she sees you see value in what we are doing." Fred added, "we have good product, very good product and should be in the black by the time school starts."
"Good, I need to start making money off this." Harry said, "who am I kidding, of course I will." Harry said.
"Wish I had the funds to invest." Ron said.
"Well, we have a proposition for you brother dearest." Fred said.
"Yes, your hired, you start tomorrow." George said.
"You want me to work for you?" Ron asked looking stunned.
"Well yes, with Harry and Hermione as your friends your summer homework is done, so you have time, you will get seven weeks in of pay."
"Brilliant!" Ron said smiling, "er what is the uniform?"
"Well we were going for bright but decided that would not work, so simple, elegant and purple." Fred said taking out the uniform from his pocket, "you like it?"
"Thank you, much better than maroon, I have had to turn mum's sweaters to navy, she has funny ways to get me to do magic." Ron said.
"Nice, classy." Harry said.
The uniforms were, the suit was dark purple with a purple and cream checked waistcoat. A light yellow shirt and solid purple tie completed the outfit. Harry was happy for Ron, he would do well and being sorted to Ravenclaw had done him wonders. He was still as brave as a lion but he thought through things far more and enjoyed studying, and fighting with Hermione. Harry wondered when they would realize they were in love already. Sure they fought but they had each others backs and Ron always apologized, even when he was right. Then again Hermione was good with a wand. Harry picked up the Daily Prophetand saw Charlus' picture on the front, he looked a carbon copy of his father, every feature was the same but for his eyes being green. Harry looked more like his aunt but had his grandmother's green eyes and his grandfather's curls but his birthfather's coloring. He could not be mistaken for a Potter at all.
"Huh, looks like the ministry tried to have Charlus tried for underage magic, but he can't be, he was emancipated by the tournament." Harry said.
"They will not come after you, you have nothing to do with any of this." Ginny said.
"No, you are protected by house Black" Luna said, "good house to be protected by."
"Yes, but how much you want to bet that the Umbridge woman will be put into the school to take over?" Harry replied.
"Then we tread carefully and rebel behind closed doors." Ginny said.
"That is a most excellent idea." Harry replied, "I can trust you to get the word out?"
"Of course." Ginny replied, "Luna we have work to do."
Harry sat back reflecting on his life and where it was now. He could have grown up in a loveless home, but his aunt, no his mother had grown to love him. At first her raising him had been to get revenge but now? She loved him and had been honest with him in how she had felt at first, but she loved him now and he was her son and belonged to her not the Potters. In all honestly he didn't feel one way or another about them, they just were and that was that. They were strangers to him and would remain that way as he did not see a need to even ask why they left him. They had and made their choice, and so too had he, he was part of a loving family with a good mother and father and brother. Why would he wish to change that?
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Wrong boy who lived stories are fun to write, but I wanted to do one a bit different. Here Harry is loved, and cared for by the Dursleys and they have accepted him for who and what he is. Petunia has got some of her own back too. I skipped the first four years as they remained mostly the same, it was Pettigrew that escaped from Azkaban and was guilty and he escaped again in the shack. Severus saved Sirius and Charlus along with Dean who went with him. The tournament was with Charlus, not Harry, and now we are at the end of first year.
Anyway review please!