A new begining

by Phanmander

At age 8 harry is taken from the abusive Dursleys by the muggle social services and placed in foster care and eventually adopted by his carer. This allows harry to grow up as a normal child and when he eventually gets that all important letter he has a mother and sister to back his corner all the way. Eventual Draco/Harry

Chapter one

''This way ma'am'' said the police officer as he lead the smartly dressed woman through the gate of number 4 pivet drive. They had received a warning that a small child by the name of Harry Potter was being mistreated at this address, when they had checked the records they found there was no record of the Dursleys ever being the guardians of a boy other than their own son.

The tall woman knocked on the door and patiently waited, soon a tall, blonde haired woman opened the door. ''Can I help you?'' she asked with a fake sweet smile.

''Yes, I am Elizabeth Craig from child services, we have received a report that a small child was being treated wrongly at this address, and upon further investigation found yourself and your husband have only one child but have been reported to have two. May we come in?'' Craig asked. Petunia spluttered trying to refuse, ''we do have a search warrant'' at this the police officer raised a piece of paper.

Without waiting for an answer the police officer and Craig went looking for the child, as they went they noticed there were many pictures of a fat blonde boy about the age of 8 but no photographic proof that another child lived there. The officer searched the spotless kitchen, the dining room and the lounge finding only the fat child from the pictures sitting eating crisps in front of the TV. Craig searched the upstairs of the house, she first cam upon a room that was obviously the fat child's room as it was filled with expensive toys and a single bed, the next was a pink room with a neatly made double bed which she assumed was a guest room due to the lack of personal possessions. The third room she reaches was a neat room that she assumed belonged to Mr and Mrs Dursley, lastly was a smaller room with a small bed shabby wardrobe and broken toys littering the floor. 'This must be the second child's room' she thought, however there were no signs that anyone had been in this room in some time.

As she walked back downstairs to ask about the second child's whereabouts Craig heard muffled crying coming from the cupboard under the stairs, it was then that she noticed the multiple locks on the door of the little cupboard. ''Hey, open this door for me'' she asked petunia who refused, ''there's only shoes and laundry in there'' she excused.

''Break it open'' Craig asked the officer who obliged. Inside there was a small child, much smaller than a child his age should be. He wore a tatty red stained white t shirt and no trousers. He was covered from head to toe in bruised, cuts, welts, burns and all other kinds of injuries you could think of.

''Oh my god'' The officer said as he requested a team of 6 from his radio while Craig tried to coax the boy out of the cupboard. ''Come on now harry, were going to take you away from these people. We will get you a nice new home, some food and will make sure your safe, please come out''.

Just as they thought it was fruitless the smell of urine and blood got stronger as the boy disrupted his blankets in an attempt to crawl out. As he was being picked up and warped into a clean blanket by Craig the extra help arrived to take petunia into custody and others went to the drill company to arrest a resisting Mr Dursley.

''Don't worry harry'' Craig said, ''we will make sure your taken care of very well from now on'' with that harry hit his face in the woman's neck as they got into the car and soon drifted off to sleep as they started to drive to his new home.