A/N: I am writing this story because it is one of the "what if" situation that I think would be really interesting to explore, I think that this is an original concept, and if someone wrote on this topic before me I am in now **no** way copying any of your stories. This story is set at the very end of chapter 1 "The boy who lived" in the first Harry Potter book "Harry potter and the philosophers stone".

Disclaimer: I own nothing that can be recognised, so the only thing that I own are some of the back ground characters and the plot.




The Boy Who Was Not Wanted



When Petunia Dursley of 4 Privet Drive, woke one fateful morning she tossed and turned in her bed and noticed that her husband Vernon was already awake and she heard him open the fridge and Dudley screaming. She quickly got up and went to Dudley's room to comfort him. When she arrived she smelt an awful oder, which Petunia quickly realised was Dudley.

Vernon who had opened the fridge decided that he would cook breakfast today, because his wife Petunia had been up all night with Dudley. Then Vernon spent about thirty seconds looking in the fridge and realised that they had no milk or eggs, and he knew that every Wednesday milk and eggs were delivered, He then went to the door and was about to open it when he heard a cry outside and a shriek from the milkman. Vernon then froze and thought it was his neighbours who were playing a trick on him and were trying to make him look abnormal. However, he didn't have much time to ponder this because the milkman began to knock on the door very franticly.

Vernon opened the door and saw a pale looking milkman who was carrying a bunch of rags which that looked like they had a baby wrapped in it, and on top of the rags was a open letter which was written with black ink. Vernon looked very strangely at the milkman and asked him what he thought what he was doing.

Vernon got his answer immediately, he was told that the milkman found this baby on the Dursley porch, and that this letter was on the child, which was very weird. Vernon grabbed the letter off rags and began to read it,


Dear Petunia and Vernon,

With my greatest sorrow, I have to write this letter. Let me begin by introducing my selfmyself. I am Albus Dumbledore, the head master of Hogwarts, which I am sure you know about, and a dear friend of Lily and James Potter. I write this letter because I ask that you care for little Harry here, and this is the only place where he will be safe from the Dark lord Voldemort Lily and James were killed while trying protect Harry, which they managed to achieve, by giving their lives.

You are now the only living family that Harry has and I hope that you can forgive Lily and James by caring for Harry and makeing their life sacrifice. I myself can't care for him because it is very dangerous for him in the magical world.


Thank you,

Albus Dumbledore



When Vernon has finished reading the letter the delivery asked him what type of joke this was and if he knew who Lily and James were. Vernon quickly thought about if he wanted to keep the child, and decided against this. He knew how much his wife hated her sister and he didn't want to waste money on an ungrateful child of common riffraff. However, his main concern was that there would be an abnormal child in his house, and that his life would then be intertwined with the wizarding world, which he hated with his heart.

When Vernon had made up his mind, Vernon told the delivery boy to go away and that this was a very sick joke that he was playing. He then grabbed the eggs and slammed that the door on the baby and the delivery boy. The boy then stood there and thought what he should do with the baby. He decided to take it to the police and that was all a 15-year-old fifteen-year-old could do.

The boy then ran to the police where he told them the story of how he had found the boy and what had happened with the man who took the eggs from him. The police thanked the boy and reassured him that he did the right thing and asked him to leave because nothing more they could done for the child.

The police began a search for the parents of the child and this so called Albus Dumbledore; however, they did not find anything because they thought there was no such thing as magic.They also thought that this was some cruel joke played on unsuspecting people with a child, which couldn't understand anything that was happening.

After a month of searching for Harry's parents they gave up as their only lead was an explosion that killed a couple called James and Lily, and their child Harry. They then decided that these weren't the child's parents, but this was a very sick joke played upon the love of Petunia Dursley for her sister.

When the investigation was finished, they handed Harry over to a local orphanage, where the child would grow up till he was 18 or if he was adopted.




A/N: this is my introduction to a story that will be written from what happened if Harry was sent to an orphanage and did not live with the Dursleys. The next chapter will be longer and please review. I can write the next chapter by tomorrow if I get some decent reviews and if people like this story and want me to continue. Thanks to Borgin for Beta reading the story :)