Harry Potter Goes to Day School by Jeremiah2006

Summary: After being rescued from the abusive Dursleys at the end of second year Harry is placed in the Tonks custody. After hearing about the escapades happening at Hogwarts his new guardians decide that a day school would be better for Harry.

Authors note: This is AU so I will take the liberty to twist the HP world to my wand. The cannon characters will be out of character. There are some cannon characters that are given very little background or definite age so I am making them up. I will have other character that I make up also.

Disclaimer: HP belongs to JKR not me.

"Speech"

'thoughts'

Writing such as letters

Chapter 1: The Journey Back

June 30th

After this years end of year events Harry had a lot on his mind as he stared at the passing landscape out the window of the train on his way back to prison for the summer.

'Man what a mess this year has been. Finding out I am a parsalmouth and everyone thinking I'm evil and the heir of Slytherin. This year sucked! I really don't want to go back to the Dursleys again I wish I had some where else to go. Man there goes Ron and Hermione arguing again. Why do they do that all the time? Sometimes I wish I had different friends than them. Uhh would they ever stop?'

Hermione: "Ron quidditch is not everything books and school are more important than some silly game and no I don't want to play chess or exploding snap either."

Ron: "Quidditch is not just some silly game and I didn't ask you to play chess or snap."

'Why do they always have the same argument over and over again? I should go find some where else to sit but then Ron will just follow me like a lost puppy dog. I can't do anything on my own probably not even to the loo. Its worth a try though I'll go nuts if I have to listen to them any longer.' With that thought Harry got up and walked to the door.

"Hey where you goin' Harry?"

"Just to the loo Ron."

"Hey I'll go with you."

"I'm a big boy Ron I can go by my self."

And with that parting statement he left. He did go to the loo just in case he was followed. When he was done he made sure neither Ron nor Hermione were in sight then went looking for Dean, Seamus, and Neville. He found them three cars up in a middle compartment.

"Hey guys mind if I join you for a while."

"Sure Harry," Neville said and the others nodded in agreement. With that Harry went in, shut the door behind him, and sat down next to Neville and across from Dean and Seamus.

"Thanks. I needed to get way from Ron's and Hermione's constant bickering."

"Why do you stay their friend if you find them so annoying?" asked Seamus the other two looked to Harry wanting to know the answer just as much.

"I don't know really. I guess part of it is that they were my first friends. The other is that I don't want to hurt them by not being their friend and what they would do to make my life miserable if I did break off the friendship, especially Ron. And besides Ron's taking our stuff they haven't really done anything wrong besides be annoying."

"Did Ron ever get in trouble for taking our stuff?" Dean asked.

"No, because there was no evidence when McGonagall came to our room to check and Ron denied taking anything, even though Fred and George told her how they helped us but she didn't believe them, she thought that they were pulling a cruel prank."

When the boys were packing up their stuff to go home they noticed several of their things were gone. Seamus was missing some of his football magazines, Dean was missing some of his art supplies, Neville was missing some of his Herbology magazines, and Harry was missing his map and invisibility cloak. They looked all over the dorm room and none of them had each others stuff, they double check to make sure something wasn't tossed into the wrong trunk. Ron was down in the common room playing chess leaving packing for the last minute like always. They all believed that their missing stuff would be hidden in Ron's trunk but they didn't feel that they had the right to go through it to look. Harry decided to go and get Fred and George to look through it for them. When they did they found all of the missing stuff and were quite pissed that their brother was stilling stuff from his room mates. They said that they would report it to Professor McGonagall but when they did she didn't believe them thinking that it was a prank to get Ron in trouble and she wouldn't even bother to ask the four boys if it was true.

The four boys sat silent in thought for awhile going back to what they were doing before Harry came in. Dean to his drawing, Seamus to his football magazine, Neville to a Herbology Journal, and Harry watching the landscape go by.

"Dean."

"Yeah Harry?"

"Can I use some of your stuff to see if I can draw?"

"Sure, just let me get some out of my trunk." Dean then proceeded to get out a sketch book he hadn't used yet and some pencils and handed them over to Harry.

"Thanks," Harry said with excitement in his voice. Harry opened the book grabbed a pencil and tapped it against his chin in thought thinking about what he wanted to draw. He settled on a picture of Hedwig and set to work. He was so focused on drawing he didn't notice the other three looking at him at first in confusion and then wonder. Confusion because he was drawing with his left hand quiet naturally as if he were left handed not right as they thought he was. Wonder because of what they could see of the drawing was amazing in its life like resemblance taking form of an owl. Dean had activated the table charm in the compartment after he handed Harry the art supplies. The table charm made a table come out of the wall under the window that expanded the length of the compartment. Harry was sitting with his left side to the window. The three boys continued to watch Harry in stunned silence abandoning their own activities. None wanted to interrupt the master piece forming before their eyes. An hour passed before Harry looked up from his work with a thoughtful look on his face to see the other three looking at him with wonder.

"What. Why are you guys looking at me like that?"

Dean looked at the other two, took a deep breath, looked at Harry and said, "We are looking at you like this because your drawing is amazing, its so life like. The other reason is that you are drawing with your left hand and this is the first time you have drawn something like this, right?"

"You really think its that good?" Three resounding yes's followed.

"Thanks. And to your questions, yes this is my first attempt to draw something other than simple doodles. And I am actually left handed when I write and in this case draw but I can't write with a quill left handed without smearing the ink all over the place. Right handed I can write with out smearing the ink but it's not very legible. If we were aloud to write with muggle pens then I could use my left hand because the ink in those pens is not wet when it comes out."

"Oh. Well that makes since. When you looked up you looked like you had a question."

"Yeah, do you have any color pencils I could use?"

"Yeah, here," Dean said as he put the pencils that he had on the seat next to him on the table.

"Thanks." With that Harry picked out some colors to add light coloring to the picture. He spent the next hour drawing finishing his first and the second without color before he noticed the time. They would be getting to the station in about a half hour and he needed to go back to change clothes and get his stuff. He slowly put away the color pencils he had used in their case and gathered the graphite pencils to give back to Dean.

"Hey guys, we'll be there soon so I need to go change. Thanks Dean for letting me use your stuff," Harry said as he stood up and handed Dean the pencils and the sketch book with his drawings still in it.

Dean took his pencils back and put them away and made the table retract. He paused looking at the sketch book not seeing Harry take the drawings he opened the book to see if they were there, they were, he closed it again, looking at the cover for a moment, and then turned around to give the book to Harry but he was gone. He sighed and shook his head. He left the book on the seat as the three boys took Harry's lead and changed themselves. Dean shrunk his trunk and put it in his pocket knowing that his dad would resize it when they got home.

"Hey, guys I'm going to find Harry to give this to him," Dean said holding up the sketch book, "I'll see you guys next year, and I'll write you over the summer and good bye for now just in case we get there before I get back."

Seamus and Neville said good buy and wished him a good summer. Dean made his way down the train looking for Harry. He found him as the train was slowing down pulling into the station.

"Hey Harry," Dean said leaning into the compartment from the open door, "I want you to keep this, I have more at home," he said as he held out the sketch book to Harry.

Harry slowly reached out to take it and held it in his hand as if it were a precious gift that he was afraid to break. Harry looked at the book with great longing for a moment and then slowly looked up at Dean and said, "thanks, but could you keep it for the summer, if the Dursleys found it they would burn it?" and held out the book for Dean to take back. Dean did but asked, "are you sure?"

"Yeah, they go through my stuff when we get back and that's too big too fit into one of my pockets to hide from them. I don't want them to find that and then burn it because I'm not aloud to have special things like that."

"Okay Harry, but you get it back when we get back to school." With that Dean said good bye to Harry and left the compartment. As he left he could hear Ron and Hermione round on Harry badgering him to explain what that was all about. He winced wishing he had been able to talk to Harry without those two there.

Harry winced at Ron and Hermione's interrogation, it couldn't be described as anything else, he had just been through one about where he disappeared to earlier when he said he was going to the loo and didn't fancy going through another one. 'Who do they think they are having to know everything I do and everything about me? Why don't I have the same right to privacy that they do? Why?' Harry thought as he listened to them badgering him to spill his soul. He had had enough as he rounded on them and said, "guys would you stop already, I don't have to tell you two everything that goes on in my life or have to account to you everything I do every minute of my day!"

Ron looked red in the face after that and ready to blow up at him but Hermione beat him to it first, "Harry! We are you friends we're just looking out for you. You don't have to get all bent out of shape about it!"

"I am not getting bent out of shape. I don't ask you two what you do every waking moment of your day. And this train is safe, Dean is my friend, he is not doing anything to hurt me, I don't need you to look out for me right now. Now, it is time to get off the train. I will see you two in September, good bye." With that Harry grabbed his trunk in one hand and Hedwig in the other and exited the train.

When Harry exited the magical platform into the muggle world he saw the large masses known as his uncle and cousin and the horse of an aunt. Walking over to them he failed to see the magical equivalent of child social services workers stationed around the area to observe the muggle parents of magical children. They were there every year and knew how to blend in so it was no fault of Harry's for not seeing them, but he would be glad that they were there soon. What Harry didn't know was that Dean's uncle was one of them, who a few minutes before Harry had exited Dean had relayed his concerns for Harry's welfare. Mr. Thomas had sent a message to all the other CSS workers over their radios, ones like the secret service use with the ear piece and the part you talk into at the wrist. So, as Harry walked over to his animal resembling family several CSS workers were observing not liking what they were seeing.

Vernon grabbed Harry by the back of his neck pushing him toward the station exit not offering to help with either the trunk or Hedwig. One of the CSS workers followed keeping a little distance so as not to be noticed but still being able to observe. An auror attached to the division for this day also followed incase he was needed to intervene. Neither expected anything like what happened next.

As the group neared the parking lot Vernon was looking madder by the moment tightening his painful grip on Harry's neck making Harry wince. Vernon taking his chance to get rid of the freak pretended he didn't see the car coming and pushed Harry out in front of it also taking a small step as to follow making it look like an accident. Harry was hit by the car causing himself his trunk and owl cage to go flying into the air.

Harry screamed as he was hit more from the horror of seeing Hedwig go flying, landing on the ground, rolling away, and being ran over by another car.

The auror and CSSW watched in horror as this all happened in front of them. As Harry screamed they were startled into action. They called for backup and healers as the auror arrested Vernon and the CSSW ran to Harry.

Within fifteen minutes Harry had been taken to St. Mungos; his trunk collected, shrunk, and placed in the CSSW pocket; Hedwig was collected and sent to the CSSW office in an evidence box; the Dursleys were taken into auror custody; and the muggles involved were obliveated and given false memories of a less serous accident that all walked away from with no need for the authorities to get involved in.