Harry Potter & Carbon Copies of You

By The Short Fat Fag

Prologue

"Harry, hurry up!" Ron bellowed at his room mate. "The graduation ceremony is gonna start any minute."

"Coming, Ron!" Harry yelled back at his friend.

Both Harry and Ron were graduating from the Auror Training Academy today. After three long and hard years of training they were finally ready to become Aurors. Not that they truly needed it, as they fought against the darkest wizard the world had seen in a century and Harry had defeated him.

Harry and Ron lined up with the other graduates in the corridor nervously smoothing down invisible wrinkles in their dress robes, before they walked the precession into the hall to receive their diplomas. It was a special event in their young lives.

Up in the stands watching and waiting was Hermione Granger, the third member of the Golden Trio and the Weasley family. All of whom were proud of the two young men on their accomplishments.

On cue, the graduates walked single file into the hall and took their seats before the podium. As the master of ceremony made his speech about honor and sacrifice, there wasn't a dry eye in the entire hall, even Harry and Ron were misty-eyed. Of course, they didn't cry or anything, manly Aurors didn't do that after all.

One by one, their names were called out and each one walked up to the podium in front of the gathered crowd to accept their diplomas, before stepping back to the seats and waiting for everyone one else to get theirs.

"Now that all the diplomas have been handed out, I wanted to award a special award to a fine young man who worked twice as hard as anyone else in his class, and in fact harder than almost anyone who has ever been through this academy. I was like to present for 'Outstanding Performance in Auror Training' to Mr. Harry Potter."

Blushing in his seat as the crowd applauded so loud it sounded like thunder in the hall. He rose from his seat and went up to accept the award and as he was being presented with it, Harry looked out onto the crowd, out to his fellow graduates, out into the world he was about to enter.

Then it occurred to him, 'This is not the person I want to be.' Something that had been nagging in the back of his mind and deep in the pit of his stomach had finally made its way to the front of Harry's brain, this was not who he wanted to be.

However, Harry graciously accepted the award and stammered through a "thank you" before taking his seat once again.

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After the ceremony was over with, Harry had asked if he could leave some of his belongings with the Weasleys, until he could find a proper flat to live in. They of course had said yes, immediately to him, after all he was like their own son.

However, Harry did not stay with the Weasleys at the Burrow that night, he said he had wanted to visit his relatives for the evening and would see them later. As a result he only took a suitcase with him when he apparated away.

They never saw Harry Potter again.

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