DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter. I also would like to say I am not transgender so please correct me if you feel that I have portrayed a transgender individual incorrectly.
The Dursleys are very normal, thank you very much. They would be the last people one would ever thought to hear about the developments in the magical world. If you asked them, they will refuse adamantly of ever having any ties to Magical Great Britain. The Dursleys moved from their cookie-cutter house on number four Privet Drive, however. Whenever they settled down somewhere, the Dursleys would pick up and move. Vernon Dursley would move around in Grunnings different branches so they would not have to stay in one place. He even taken jobs outside of Grunnings just to move. There was a time the Dursleys would have ridiculed anyone with a nomadic lifestyle. Now, they have become the people they have derided on for all those years. Their lives all change some years ago on one November night in 1980.
Vernon Dursley had noticed an unusual amount of odd people on that November day. All of them were wearing capes, cloaks, and funny hats. Mr. Dursley had heard a group of them gossiping about some child which made him afraid that it had something to do with his sister-in-law's crowd. He never dreamed that the next day, Petunia would find her sister's child asleep on the doorstep. Nevertheless, they, begrudgedly, took the child in to raise it as a non-magical being. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley made a pact; they would raise Harry Potter, but he would never go to Hogwarts to become a wizard. The Dursleys never really had to worry about Hogwarts. They had a different problem when Harry was five years old and said, "I'm a girl."
There were no immediate reactions from the Dursleys. Both had agreed that the boy was just confused or in a phase. He would grow out of it, eventually. They had begun to emphasized Harry's gender by referring to him as "boy". It had gotten to the point that Harry was continously referred to as "boy" and not by his name. At first, Harry would acknowledge this new name for him but he soon stopped answering to it. He would get spanked for his rebellion as well as been given numerous chores to complete before dinner.
The Dursleys took Harry on one shopping trip and he was forbidden to go on any more shopping trips; he had run to the Girl's Department and showed his Aunt Petunia a dress that he would like to wear. The family were embarrassed to learn that Harry's class had divided by gender and Harry refused to be associated as a boy. The Dursleys kept getting phone calls or notes saying that Harry would go into the girl's restroom and refused to go to the boy's. He had peed on himself by refusing to go to the boy's restroom. Petunia Dursley would cut Harry's hair embarrassingly short to only have it reach past his shoulders the next morning. The phase grew into a year that the Dursleys knew they were dealing with something worse than a child wizard; it was frown-upon in any society to have a transgender child.
By a year, the Dursleys, feeling anyone who were in their position would do the same, abandoned Harry Potter at a bookstore. They never expected to see "it" again. A few hours later, they found themselves as relunctant guardians of one Harry James Potter. They had received a warning about child abandonment, what this child means to the Wizarding World, and how they and the child were protected by remaining as a family. So this strange family remain so for a few weeks until the Dursleys found another opportunity to abandon Harry.
The Durlseys sold their house, miracously, and driven for hours until they abandoned Harry in the middle of a forest. Arabella Figg, the lady who babysat Harry, told Dumbledore that the Dursleys moved. Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, rallied together the remaining members of the Order of the Phoenix, a secret group that had been formed to fight Voldemort and his Death Eaters, to search for the Dursleys. The trace was still on Harry so they should be able to pinpoint his location because the Dursleys would most likely abandon him in a Muggle area. Also if they find the Dursleys, the Dursleys would tell where they had left Harry. All they were waiting for was a burst of accidental magic to notify that a young underaged wizard's whereabouts as well as finding out where the Dursleys are.
A few members of the Order finally found the Dursleys living in Cokeworth. After a few minutes of questioning, a sleight of the hand with veritaserum in their drinks, the Dursley told the wizards that they abandoned Harry in a forest and proceeded to give them the location. So they found Harry Potter, frightened, wondering around the middle of the forest. Harry Potter was now back living with the Dursleys in Cokeworth and Mrs. Figg remained in Surrey because Severus Snape, a potions master and spy for the Order, lives in Cokeworth. The wizards placed a memory charm on each of the Muggles, planted false happy memories of them with Harry, and left without a moment's notice.
It was not long before Harry, angrily, started proclaiming that he was a girl and requesting them to stop using masculine pronouns in reference to Harry Potter. A For Sale sign was on the Dursleys' lawn and Harry Potter was no where to be found. Snape alerted Dumbledore who told the Order and everyone went looking for the Muggles again. They repeated the process again, right down to giving the Dursleys fake happy memories with Harry Potter.
The Order of the Phoenix held a meeting to discuss about the almost non-existent wards that is suppose to protect Harry Potter. Albus Dumbledore knew that it was a matter of time before the wards start to collapse. He was looking for suggestions how to protect The Boy Who Lived; every Order member heard that a prophecy prophesized that the boy was destined to vanquished the Dark Lord. They all heard about the prophecy, Lily Potter's protection, and why it had been so important for Harry to remain with his remaining family. Most of the Order had volunteered to adopt Harry Potter so they could already indoctrinate him on the Wizarding World.
"Why don't we ask the Muggles how come they are so keen on abandoning Harry Potter?" asked Snape as his eyes looked at the room in large.
"The Dursleys don't like anything that is abnormal, that includes wizards!" exclaimed Mrs. Figgs.
"Arabella, you have babysat Mr. Potter, have you noticed any signs of child abuse?" asked Dumbledore quietly.
"The boy doesn't talk. I actually think the Muggles have coached him not to say anything to anyone outside of his family. He wears his cousin's hand-me-downs which are bulky clothes that may hide signs of abuse. He appears underfed but that might also be due to his clothes. He is mute, but he will do whatever I tell him. He always seemed sad though. "reported Mrs. Figg.
"Can Harry have an intellectual disability?" questioned Remus Lupin, a friend of Harry's parents.
"I don't think he has a disabillity. Although, I can not have a look at his school records. Of course, I still think his selective mutism is due to the Dursleys ordering him to speak to no one. I have seen him working out in the yard and would see him talk to the family." said Mrs. Figg.
"You say that these Muggles value being normal, yet they have Mr. Potter behaving strangely towards people outside of his family. Again, has anyone bothered asking the Dursleys why they want to abandon Mr. Potter? They seemed to have taken him in until he reached the age of six, so what has happened that makes them want to no longer be associated with Mr. Potter?" asked Snape.
A member of the Order was sent to see the Dursleys when the wards collapsed. Kingsley Shacklebolt walked up to a flat in London expecting to talk to the Dursleys about Harry Potter. He was assured by Dumbledore that the wards did not collapse because something fatal has happened to the boy. Shacklebolt realized that this must mean that there has been love lost between Harry and his relatives. Dumbledore had always talk about the difference between Voldemort and those who oppose them. Voldemort did not understand love and Shacklebolt became concern that Harry was going to be the new Dark Lord.
Shacklebolt came at a time when he thought Vernon Dursley was off from work. It was in a nice area of London and he thought to himself that Harry did not have to worry about working outside anymore. After hearing how these particular Muggles did not like anything different, Shacklebolt took pains to blend in with the Muggles. He was wearing a suit and tie so he looked like a CEO of a company. He came to the door and rang the doorbell. He looked in the peephole and was surprised to find a pale eye already looking at him.
The door yanked open and Shacklebolt was face to face with a blonde woman that has a long thin neck and a face of a horse. "Who are you?" she asked suspiciously.
"I'm Kingsley Shacklebolt, I'm associated with Albus Dumbledore. He brought Harry to you the night after your sister died. May I come in? I'm here to talk about Harry." Kingsley Shacklebolt did not realize how powerful his words are until he notice the woman became very pale and it seemed that she was having a battle in her head. She dearly seemed to want to slam the door in his face but felt it was not wise to do so. To his surprise, the woman yanked him inside. He did not think she had the strength in her to pull a big black man into her flat.
"Can you take it? Please, say you will take it back with you?" beseeched Petunia Dursley.
Shacklebolt's eyes widen. He surely hope that Mrs. Dursley was not referring to wizards as its. "What are you talking about?"
"My sister's child! You will take it back, won't you? We are not fit to raise it!" said Mrs. Dursley.
That was the understatement of the year. Shacklebolt was starting to feel that Harry Potter was becoming an object in his relatives' eyes. Why didn't his relatives refer to him as the proper gender? Shacklebolt had a dark thought about Dumbledore; why didn't Dumbledore check to see if these people were fit to raise children? Why didn't Dumbledore sent Harry to live with distant relatives on his father side instead of his mother's side? He was sure that Lily felt more related to her husband's relatives than she would ever feel about her own sister. Shacklebolt knew almost every wizarding family would have not only wards but an added protection of having a grown witch or a wizard.
"Is your husband at home? I would like to speak to him as well." asked Shacklebolt in a veil attempt to prevent himself from asking the woman what is wrong with her.
"I'll go get him." and Petunia Dursley made a mad dash upstairs to retrieve her husband. Shacklebolt found him a seat on a recliner. He looked around seeing pictures on the wall of a small family missing one particular family member. He was sure the kid in those pictures was not Harry Potter. Wouldn't the Dursleys' have any pictures of their nephew? He stood up to extend his hand for a handshake when Mr. Dursley came in. The man had black hair, a furry mustache and looked like he could stand to lose a lot of weight. The man did not bother to shake hands with Shacklebolt.
"I'm here to speak with you about your nephew. I understand that there has been misunderstandings." said Shacklebolt as he sat back down in his recliner.
"There are no misunderstandings on our part." Vernon Dursley bristled, "The kid thinks he is a girl!"
"What?" Shacklebolt least expected this. He was expecting to hear a diatribe on how Muggles can't control a wizard or something like that. This explained why Petunia Dursley had taken to call Harry a "it".
"Whenever we refer to the kid as a boy or give it male pronouns, it becomes hostile! We've tried explain to the kid the difference between a boy and a girl, but it still thinks it is a girl. We've taken to calling the child "it" because we refuse to take part in it's game of wanting to be a girl. It won't have a tantrum if we refer to it as it but it will if we call it a him, he, or boy." explained Vernon Dursley.
"How does," Shacklebolt cringed, "it take to the name Harry?"
"Surprisingly well. I've actually heard no complaints on how that name is masculine. Take it with you, now! We are not equipped to handle a transgender child. It probably needs tons of therapy to realize that it is indeed a he! It is not safe for it to reside in your world as stated in that letter years ago, but it is not safe in this society either. It keeps getting bullied at school over something it has a control over!" Petunia responded.
"May I see the child?" asked Shacklebolt. Mrs. Dursley went to collect the child as Mr. Dursley and Shacklebolt waited in awkward silence. Shacklebolt felt it was for the best to not bring up the topic of how the Dursleys kept discarding Harry Potter.
Petunia Dursley entered holding Harry Potter's hand. The kid looked very pale and solemn. Harry had his mother's eyes but Shacklebolt never had seen them this sad before. The child's unkempt hair went just past his shoulders. Anyone would not know Harry Potter's gender by looking at him. He was wearing his cousin's old clothes which helped his underfed look.
"Hi, Harry. I'm Kingsley Shacklebolt. I was a friend of your parents. I'm here to take you to Hogwarts, a school for Witchcraft and Wizardry." Shacklebolt was observing Harry's expression at this but the kid still had a sullen look. He knew it was too soon for Harry to receive his education but Hogwarts would be the safest place for Harry Potter. "We're going to find you another guardian." The face remained gloomy. Shacklebolt thought any kid who heard that statement, their eyes would light up at the mention of witchcraft, and with anything he heard about the Dursleys he was willing to bet any child would be excited about leaving them. Harry did not seem excited or emotionally upset about leaving the Dursleys. The Dursleys' little boy was not anywhere to be seen; Shacklebolt was sure that he must be staying with friends because he did not think that child would be the shy type. Shacklebolt shooks hands with Harry. Harry didn't start talking but remain quiet. Shacklebolt did not think this kid was shy though.
"Take IT with you and never have IT or anyone associated with IT come anywhere near us again!" snarled Vernon Dursley. Shacklebolt was only too happy to oblige. Dumbledore had sent him to revive the blood wards but he felt it was Harry's best interest to never have anything to do with the Dursleys.
He left the Dursley's flat with a mute Harry. Shacklebolt thought it was odd because most children would have been talking his head off about witchcraft and asking what would happen to him. He walked a few steps down the street with Harry in tow. He came to the conclusion that he would avoid ever mentioning Harry's gender and will only refer to the child as"Harry".
Shacklebolt raised his wand and looked at Harry to see his reaction. The Knight Bus appeared suddenly and Harry's face did not show any reaction. This is really starting to alarm Shacklebolt. Any kid would show a sign of surprise or fright but Harry still had not shown any signs of alarm. He was going to turn Harry over to Madam Pomfrey and have her check him out while he talks to Dumbledore. Maybe talking to a woman will make it easier for Harry instead of talking to a man.
Despite Harry going to a new stage of his life, the Dursleys still kept their nomadic lifestyle in fear of Harry or anyone else from the Wizarding World showing up on their doorstep. The Dursleys were already on the phone to a realitor after Harry and Shaklebolt left.