A/n: So again this will be my only author's note or disclaimer for this story as I know most of you just want to read the story. I will only post an A/n if necessary :D.

Also a quick note I don't have a Beta for this story so if you guys notice any typo's or whatever could you let me know? Okay I'm done talking now on with the story!

Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling and whoever she licenses it out to. I'm just borrowing the characters for a while. Any OC characters are my own but you guys are welcome to borrow them just send me a message so I know :D Now onward to the story :p

Prologue

Neville was very confused, Harry Potter was nothing like he had expected him to be, Neville did not think anyone had expected a Harry Potter quite like they got. Harry was a good person Neville had to give him that but he didn't seem to take any pride in himself or his heritage. Now this went against everything Neville knew about Harry Potter and so he was confused. Harry was loyal, brave, unwavering in the face of trouble, and noble. Yet he seemed to have a complete disregard for the laws of their society and did not act like an heir of an Ancient and Noble House should. So knowing this Neville decided that, as the Ancient and Noble House of Longbottom had always been bound to the Ancient an Noble house of Potter in Close Friendship, as both houses had declared each other friend's of their respective lines, that it was up to him to fix this before Harry dug himself into a hole he didn't know how to get out of. So Neville researched all he could about House Potter in hopes of being able to introduce his friend to the heritage of his family. Nevile had hope that maybe Harry would accept his help in trying to remake him into a respectable heir to House Potter, as Neville had a sinking feeling that Harry didn't know a single thing about his Heritage or Lordship that he would be coming into at 15. Harry needed his Help and Neville was going to give it, it was as simple as that in his mind. So he started to plan, and gather help from others around him, there were many who thought the same as Neville and he was going to save his friend.

Chapter 1: The Beginning

Harry woke up in his room at Private Drive and groaned, his stomach tying up in knots. He hadn't had anything but cheese and bread to eat for days. Vernon had been vicious lately with the chore list and Harry was never able to finish them all in time for Vernon to think he deserved real food. He was really starting to hate Dumbledore's insistence that he needed to return to the Dursley's for protection. He knew there were blood wards to protect him from Voldemort's followers, but what was there to protect him from the petty people he lived with who wanted to have a normal boring life, then again it's true harry was anything but normal. Yet who work's family like a slave and treats them like something they wouldn't want on the bottom of their shoe and expect to be normal? He sighed and got out of bed to get ready to do his chores for the day, when he heard a tapping on the window and turned to see Hedwig holding mail for him. He opening the window and let her in saying, "Hey girl what do you have for me?" Hedwig handed him a letter from Hogwarts and he got out one of the owl treats he kept around for her and handed it to her. Hedwig took the treat gratefully with a tired hoot, and flew up to her perch with Harry looking on her fondly. Hedwig was one of the few precious things ever to be given to him, and she had stuck with him through everything that had happened to Harry since reentering the wizard world.

Harry opened the letter and found the book list for his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. If Harry had to say about the school it would be to admit that Hogwarts was the best and the worst thing to ever happen to him. Hogwarts gave him an escape from the Dursley's and introuced him to a completly new world of wonder and magic, yet it also introduced him to a world of danger, pettiness, and having to be a hero for people who should be able and willing to fend for themselves. He could acknowledge though, that after so much time people could be made to forget common sense and let fear rule them. Hermione was right when she said that some wizards didn't have an ounce of logic. Harry liked Hermione like the sister he never had, he really did, but somedays she really had a way of getting under his skin and making him wish she wasn't around. Growing up the way he had Harry had learned that you couldn't depend on adults to take care of anything, and no one was going to take care of him, but him. A horrible lesson for a child to learn for sure, but everyone had to learn it at some point, at least that's what his view was on the matter.

Harry noticed a second piece of parchment behind the Hogwarts letter, he pulled it out noting that it was a permission form for Hogsmeade. Harry snorted, as if Uncle Vernon would ever sign the form, Merlin forbid Harry ever do anything fun. According to Uncle Vernon freaks like him should have been strangled at birth not to bother normal people like him. Harry folded up the form and put it away it's not like he was going to need it. He opened his door and went down stairs to start making breakfast for the Dursley's knowing that if he got done before they woke up there was a chance he might be able to steal some breakfast before they came down to eat. Harry actually liked cooking it was a soothing task that required a specific set of skills that Harry was good at, considering the Dursley's had him cooking their meals when he wasn't at school. He sneaked a roll and a piece of bacon for Hedwig before going back up stairs to wake the Dursley's for breakfast.

After breakfast, in which Harry was graciously allowed to have an egg and some toast, Vernon pulled Harry aside and said, "Marge is coming to visit for a week, you are to clean up the guest room and behave while she is here." Now Harry hated Marge Dursley with a passion, the woman always had some reason or other to bring up Harry's parents and insult them. Harry always thanked whatever blessings he had bestowed on him that she didn't come around often, as it took all his self control to not want to kill the woman. Especially after he learned the truth of his parents, knowing that they had died so he could live, Harry's pride did not want to let Marge's comments go.

"Uncle Vernon I will make you a deal you sign my permission form for school and I will act like a complete gentlemen to Aunt Marge." Vernon glared his beady eyes at Harry and asked, "What permission form boy?" "The form for school to attend the trips to a local town I just got it this morning and I need a guardian's permission to attend. Or better yet sign the form and I will leave for the rest of the summer and you won't have to deal with me at all." Uncle Vernon considered Harry for a moment and said, "Where would you stay Boy I'm not going to have your kind coming here and bothering me bcause you're not here. It's bad enough that teytry to talk to me at all." "If you would be able to drop me off in London," at this Vernon's glare tightened, "I can rent a room at a place for my kind in London. No one will bother you then" Vernon considered this and then nodded and said, "Alright Boy get you stuff together I'll sign your form and I'll drop you off in London and I don't want to see you for the rest of the summer."

Harry breathed a sign of relief inside, Merlin forbid he ever let Vernon think he was doing Harry a favor. He nodded and went up stairs to gather his things. When he got to his room he couldn't help but grin and give a slight cheer as he was escaping the Dursley's for the summer. He gathered his things, making sure to get his posessions from under the floorboard under his bed, and grabbing Hedwig, then he made his way back downstairs towards Uncle Vernon. He held out the form to Vernon saying, "Here's my form Uncle." Vernon took the form, gave it a critical once over, and once he was satisfied that the form was what Harry had said it was, he signed it and thrust it back at Harry with a sneer. Then he went over and unlocked the cupboard and said, "Alright grab your trunk Boy I want to get you dropped off now so we don't have to deal with you the rest of the summer." Now Vernon was quite happy to get rid of the Boy, yes it would mean he didn't have a slave to do all the work this summer, but in his mind it was better to get the freak away from the house then have him there reminding Petunia and him that their life was anything but normal.

Harry grabbed his trunk and headed to the car wanting to get this over with and get away from Private Drive as soon as possible so he could enjoy the rest of his summer. He knew he would have to visit the bank for money from his vault to tide him over for the summer, but once he did that he would be set to have his first enjoyable summer since ever. He loaded the trunk in the car and got in the backseat, watching Vervon tell Petunia what was going on, then Vernon gave her a kiss on the cheek and headed towards the car. "Alright Boy where am I dropping you off at?" Vernon asked as he got in the car, the car shaking slightly with Vernon's weight as he settled into the seat. "Charing Cross Road, Uncle Vernon." Vernon nodded and started the car then drove in silence towards the road the Boy had indicated. Harry enjoyed the silence as Vernon drove, for him it was always better when the Dursley's pretended he didn't exist.

Harry was trying very hard not to show how very happy he was when they got to the Leaky Cauldron, because for once he would be away from them for the rest of his summer. "You better know where you're going from here Boy. Get your stuff and get going and remember I don't want to see you or you're kind until I have to pick you up from the train next year!" Vernon shouted at him from the car. Harry nodded and happily grabbed his stuff and watched Vernon drive off. He looked at Hedwig in her cage and whispered to her, "Well girl I guess it just me and you for the rest of the summer lets go have some fun!" Hedwig hooted her agreement and Harry turned and entered the Leaky Cauldron ready for his first real summer ever, he couldn't wait.