The Wakening
In the smallest room of a second floor house, there sat a little boy about ten years old; sitting on the only furniture there was, just looking out the window with a blank look. His name was Harry Potter, but his relatives just call him boy and other meaningless names that has no affectionate feeling behind it.
Harry Potter was know as a loner, a boy with no friends. He would sit by himself in the lunch rooms and eat his lunch by himself. The only friends he had were his books. He loved books so much that every where he went there would be a book in hand. Dudley and his friends would try and steal his books from him, but try as they might they could never get it. Dudley couldn't understand how his cousin always knew how to hide his things without him knowing. He would always try and find his cousins secrets, but always came up to a dead end. He didn't how he does it, but gave up because there were more important thing to do like, beating up kids that are smaller than him, stealing candies from stores and running his gang. After that Dudley gave up anything to do with Harry Potter, because the boy was to mysterious for his liking and he didn't want to spend his whole childhood days solving his cousin's secrets. His Aunt and Uncle felt the same way. They would give him chores and books just so that, they would never have to see him often. Unless harry didn't do what he was suppose to be doing, then they would increase the chores twice as much. After that they just felt him alone.
Harry Potter knew what he was when he was four years old. It started the day he was walking back from the library about a mile away from his house. As he was crossing the street, a car turned the corner really fast and was coming straight at him at about 50 mph in a 20 mph speed limit. Harry saw it coming and froze. He didn't know what do to and just stood there and shut his eyes fast, thinking that the car would just stop. stop. When he opened his eyes he saw the car was about two meters in front of him, did stop. Shaking himself from an event that he was just about to die and sighing in relief, he walked to the drivers' side and smelled that the driver was drunk and passed out when he was driving. The man smelled really awful, that Harry coughed five times and cover his nose with his shirt, just to not smell the beer mixed with cigarettes smoke everywhere. As he stood there, he saw that the car was still on and the unknown man was pressing on the acceleration petal.
How can that be, the car is still on and his pressing the gas. This is so weird. Is the car broken or something but...He didn't finish his thought because a woman that was walking on the other side to the walk way saw what happened and was running towards him with a looked of concern on her face. So she pulled him to the walk way and forgot all about the car that was in the middle of the street.
"Are who okay", she asked.
" Yeah, I think so", Harry answered. He doesn't know what to feel right now. All he knew that this was to weird.
" Okay that's good, is your parents around? What were you doing in the street for, do you know that it's dangerous for a kid your age to be in the middle of the street." she said.
" Yeah ummmm"
"What is your name" she demanded
" My name" Harry repeated
"Yes your name, what is it, you do have a name do you not"she said with a look of concern again; hopping that the boy in front of her has a name.
"Ummmm, my name is ummmm", Harry didn't want to give this woman his name. To him this woman was a stranger a person that he doesn't know. So he did the next best thing, he made up one.
"Tommy"Harry said
"Tommy", the woman said a again
" Yes my name is Tommy Patterson", Harry said without a look that told he was lying. He had to thank the stars because that woman bought it.
" Okay Tommy were are your parents?" strange woman asked.
" There in the Supermarket, you see I wanted some candy and they gave me money to buy some; so I went and came back. There inside", he answered with a look of innocense.
" Good" said they woman, " I want to see them".
"Okay", said Harry as he walked in the Supermarket with the woman in toe. All the time Harry was walking looking for his 'parents', he was actually looking for a escape exit so he can ditch this woman. Finally Harry saw a couple that he had never saw before standing in the dairy section, picking out which one was the best milk there would drink. They were perfect, same looking age as his aunt and uncle, although the woman was much more handsome and the man was not a whale, like his uncle and they both had black hair as him; so Harry thought they were great.
" There, they are" Harry said. The woman nodded and walked passed Harry to give his 'parents' a piece of her mind. At that moment Harry ran as fast as his four year old legs can carry him all the way home.
He went straight to his cupboard and thought of the incident that happened with the car the only explanation was that the car was broken, but he stop himself because that was not possible, because the car engine was clearly on and the man was pressing on the gas petal all the way to its limit. So there has to be a different exclamation. As Harry thought and thought; then it finally clicked he said stop and it stop. Wait that can not be it, I can't just commend something that moving that fast. Can I. With that thought in mind, he tried to test out his theory. So he looked around in the little room in the cupboard, he found a book that he liked, that was a meter away and tried to summon the book to him. Harry tested it three times and to his surprise the book floated to him. Harry was in awe that knew new from that day on that he was special and was kind off like a wizard, warlock thing, kinda like Merlin; that could do magic because that was the only explanation he got from his books. From that moment on Harry would go to the library every spare time he had and look for any books that's on the fiction/fantasy section and start reading.
When Harry found out about Diagon Alley he didn't have to go to the muggle book stores and libraries for a long time. He remembered that day to his first trip to Diagon Alley, it was spectacular.
Flashback
On a bright sunny day, the Dursleys wanted to go to lunch at a famous restaurant called The Cadoc, that all the neighbors were talking about, that it had the greatest service there ever had. Wanting to out class the neighbors; Petunia Dursley told, more like demanded Vernon that they should go to this restaurant this week. As they got into the car with Harry in toe and drove 20 or so miles to the restaurant. Vernon didn't want Harry staying in the house because he might to something abnormal and wreck up the whole house; so they took him with them, but that doesn't mean his going to eat with them. As they parked, Vernon gave Harry twenty dollars to do what ever and don't come in to the restaurant till four o'clock. Harry nodded and walked away as his so called family went in to Cadoc.
With twenty dollars in pocket, Harry wandered around and looked at many shops. He had four hours to do as he wishes. As he was wandering around, he came upon a tiny, grubby-looking pub. If he hadn't looked at it twice, he wouldn't have noticed it was there. The people hurrying by didn't glace at it. Their eyes slid from the big book shop on one side to the record shop on the other as if they couldn't see the Leaky Cauldron at all. In fact Harry had the most peculiar feeling that only he could see it. So he tried it out and went inside. Harry noticed it was very dark and shabby. A few old woman were sitting in a corner, drinking tiny glass of sherry. One of them was smoking a long pipe. A little man in a top hat was talking to the old bartender, who was quite bald and looked like a toothless walnut. No one seems to notice that he came in and took a table that was empty in the corner which was in the dark and sat down. Harry saw that many people came in and out from the back of the room and went towards it. As he was there he saw the tallest man he had ever seen. His face was almost completely hidden by long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild tangled beard, but looking from the side you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair. He didn't seem to pay any attention to Harry, which was in the dark hiding in the shadows. As Harry watched the giant man counting bricks in the wall above a trash can.
"Three up ... two across..."he muttered. "Right"
He tapped the wall three times with the point of his umbrella. To Harry's surprise the brick he had touched quivered —it wriggled — in the middle, a small hole appeared — a second later he and the giant man were facing an archway large enough for the hairy man, an archway onto a cobbled street that twisted and turned out of sight.
"Beautiful Diagon Alley" the giant muttered and walked through the archway. Harry followed him out before it closed. He looked behind his shoulder and saw the archway shrink instantly back into solid wall. Harry was amazed at the place, he never knew a place like this existed; it was remarkable.
The sun shone brightly on a stack of caldrons outside the nearest shop. Cauldrons — All Sizes — Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver— Self-Stirring — Collapsible, said a sign hanging over him. Harry wished he had eight more eyes. He turned his head in every direction as he walked up the street, trying to look at everything at once: the shops, the things outside of them, the people doing their shopping. A plump woman outside an Apothecary was shaking her head as he passed saying, "Dragon liver, seventeen Sickles and ounce they're mad..."
A low soft hooting came from a dark shop with a sign saying Eeylops Owl Emporium — Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown and Snowy. Several boys about his age had their noses pressed against a window with broomsticks in it checking out the latest broom. There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and strange silver instrument Harry had never seen before, windows stacked with barrels of bat spleens and eels' eye, tottering piles of spell books, quills, rolls of parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon and finally he read a sign that read Flourish and Blots. Harry looked through the window and saw books, lots and lots of books. Getting all excited even though he didn't show it he went in side. Harry wanted to find out what is this place and why is it hidden and the only way to get in is a secret tapping on the bricks. He had so many questions he didn't know were to start, so he spent the next four hours in the book store learning everything about the wizarding world. Harry found out that he was famous, because he defeated the most evil wizard five years ago, the names of his parents, James and Lily Potter. And many spells on Charms, Transfiguration and Defense Against the Dark Arts; also a branch of magic that seals the mind against magical intrusion and influence called Occulumency. The opposite is Legimency, an ability to extract feelings and memories from another persons mind. So Harry thought that this were a good place to start. As Harry looked at his watch he had thirty minutes to get back to the Dursley. So he put the books away and only had muggle money, he didn't buy any books, but was determined to come back and see if there's any place that could change muggle money to wizard money.
End Flashback
Since then, Harry went to Diagon Alley again, and found out that he had a vault in his name from his parents and many more, that had loads of gold coins. Columns of silver and heaps of little bronze Knuts. The goblins were nice that they led him there rare books for him to learn. During those years up Harry studied and studied all the books he got. Till now.