Summary: After learning everything he did in the 5th book, Harry does what every normal teenager would do – rebel. (Prologue)
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Author's Note: I'm introducing a new character: Michaela Katelyn O'Connor. She's a 6th year Gryffindor. She's about 5'7" with dark auburn hair, dark green eyes, with a fiery Irish temper. Think Scarlett O'Hara but not as manipulative and annoying. She's also considered very much an outcast because she doesn't have many friends and does her own thing. She usually wears black, not because she's Goth but because she likes it. She doesn't go completely against the fashion trends, but she uses them within the parameters of her own personal style. Her entire family was a member of the original Order; her mom was Lily's best friend. Her father, her mother's parents, and her father's father were killed in Voldemort's first reign, so she lives with her mother and grandmother.
AN 2: I'm also beta-less until you see it noted otherwise. I'm pretty okay at grammar and spelling, but forgive me if there are any errors.
Prologue:
Harry Potter's 5th year at Hogwarts had definitely not been an easy one. Between Voldemort's return, getting kicked off the Quiddich team, the whole mess with Cho, the death of Sirius, and then the whole prophecy, it was surprising that Harry wasn't in St. Mungo's sharing a room with Lockhart. But, somehow, Harry survived it all surprisingly intact. Or so everyone thought. Okay, almost everyone. The truth of the matter was that Harry isn't fine; it had affected him a lot more than he thought it would.
No one understands what it's like for him. His friends, as good as they are, don't know everything; they're still expecting the Harry they met in their 1st year. The also get to spend their whole summer with the Order; they don't spend their time lying in wait, wondering if something major is going on that they don't know about. Although Harry isn't quite sure he wants to spend as much time with the Order now that his one familial link is gone.
Even though Harry now knows why he still must call 4 Privet Drive home, it doesn't make it any easier to return this summer. It will be nice to have a bit of normalcy back in his life, although it seems the unexpected has become normal for Harry. It would be somewhat okay to be back in a place where he is hated and ignored constantly versus being in the spotlight 24/7. It's a place where everyone's not looking for him to always do the right thing, to always be the leader.
Harry doesn't always want to be the leader or always want to do the right thing. He wants to be a normal teenager. He wants to be free to screw up without it possibly killing someone else; he wants to be able to have normal relationships without worrying about putting people in danger. He wants to be able to follow someone else's lead once in a while.
Poor Harry. If only he knew that this summer would be different. That this summer would lead him to me, Michaela Katelyn O'Connor, and a chance to finally be a teenager. I wonder if he would have changed his mind. I'm not saying that I changed Harry; no, he made that decision all on his own. I just helped him realize it; I helped him see that just because he's Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, does not mean that he can't be Harry Potter, the teenager who can rebel.
Well, what do you think? Should I continue or what? Let me know. I'll probably write another chapter or so today or tomorrow. I'll upload it if you think it's worth me continuing.