Summary: 5 year old Harry potter is abandoned when the Dursley´s went on vacation in the Netherlands, lost in the streets of Amsterdam Harry meets a family and gets adopted, how will Harry´s live turn out now that he is raised in a different country with a different perspective on magic.

Author note: this will be my very first story so I already apologize before hand if it is bad written ore something, also I am not from any English speaking country so don´t take offence if the story is badly written because I have already warned you beforehand.

Now on a brighter note (ore not) I am going to explain how the education system works in the Netherlands (this is not compulsory for the story so you can skip it fi ou like ore go to wikipedia where it is better explained but if you get further in the story and get confused with the education the dont blame me): children are compulsory to go to school at the age of 5 but most family´s already send there children at the age of 4. Primary school in the Netherlands has 8 years, but we call them groups, you have group one through eight, group one is for children from 4 until 5, group two is for children from 5 until 6 etc etc.

In group three they learn how to do math and how to read and write in group four we get extra subjects like history and geography. In group six we get English as another subject (an at least that was the case in my school some other school´s add that subject later in group 6, 7 ore 8) and please note that in the Netherlands our main language is Dutch and some other places have other dialects like Brabants Fries ore Gronings. Some people come to the Netherlands for vacation ore business and think that the name from the country is our main capital Amsterdam or that our main language is English it is easy to understand since the Netherlands is such a small country compared to other lands in Europe and easy to overlook but has its importance and a rich history.

Well back to the educational matter in group six there are no subjects added but they are at a higher level and in group 7 you get a test that every child has to take the entreetoets or literally for you guys the entry test. In group aight you have in the middle of the year a test called the cito test ore for some other schools the nio test these test show at wich level you can learn at in secondary school, you have mavo (also called vmbo) , havo and vwo and it depends on with wich of these levels you graduate to which university or any kind of other school you go,mavo is the lowest, you have also mavo/havo if you have that score it means that in the third year of secondary school your grades and the teachers decide to which level you go the same is for havo/vwo the second level is havo and the third is vwo.

On secondary school the years you go to school depends on the level you have mavo is four years, havo is five years and vwo is 6 years but is you have graduated havo already you could go spend another year at secondary school but this time at vwo, with mavo it works the same.

I am not going to explain further than this because I am still at secondary school and don´t know much about the school options after this but is you want the school education system better explained than I can go to Wikipedia and search for education in the Netherlands there its better explained and in English.

I am going to do the same education system in the magical world in the Netherlands it's something I know and the education system for example in America or great Britain only confuses me so I stick to what I know for my first story, but Harry will go back to Engeland in fourth year during the triwizard tournament, and I don´t know yet with which pairing I will go but I see where I get also this Harry will be smart and will be powerful not from the start and it will only increase with age, training and knowledge but he will eventually be at he same magic level as Dumbledore and voldemort, I am also thinking about giving Harry some kind of special power like metamorphmagus or shadow elemental but I'm not shore which kind.

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Dutch

A Dutch Family

A little boy with black hair was running through the streets of Amsterdam, he was very young not yet five years old, and that was the strange part of it all what would a boy so young do alone in the streets with no adult in sight to see.

Where are aunt Petunia, uncle Vernon and Dudley , Harry wondered, he was asked by his aunt to buy a football shirt from the Dutch national team for Dudley, but when he came back there was no trace of them so he went looking for them and he did that for hours, walking through the empty and dark streets but he couldn't find them.

Emerald eyes filled with tears and Harry tried to blink them away but this whole experience was to much so harry let the tears fall and walked further.

Harry didn't feel well he was hungry and cold and didn't know what to do he walked into a street with many lights and restaurants and saw through the windows people talking and eating in the warmth.

Harry watched this with envy and his stomach grumbled from hunger but harry didn't do anything, he didn't knock on the glass ore came inside to ask for food, he was scared that the people inside would be angry with him and would punish him just like his aunt and uncle would do if he asked for more food so he walked further and further until he was at the end of the street and saw some children playing in front of a restaurant with cards, Harry found this strange why would those children be outside and not inside in the warmth, so harry walked towards them.

There where three girls one with blond hair and two with what looked like black hair but it wasn't easy to see that in the dark and there was one boy, he also had black hair.

One of the girls noticed him looking and smiled at him she beckoned him over.

Harry had no idea what to do should he come over to them, but what if they where bully like Dudley, in the end Harry made his decision and walked towards the table they where sitting around.

By now all the children noticed the appearance of the strange child, they watched him when he came by there table with curious looks in there eyes, the girl who had beckoned him over smiled at him again and said something against him, hoe heet jij (AN I am going to give you the translation of this because I hate it when I don't have the translation immediately when others do it in French ore another language I don't understand) (what's your name) Harry didn't understand what she was saying and thought that he had misunderstand he so he asked, what did you say? The girls face took a look of confusion but the other black haired girl seemed to understand what he said so he looked at her, Hij is Engels, (He is English) he heard the taller black haired girl say to the group of children and immediately there faces lit up in one of understanding.

The tall black haired girl looked at the smaller one and said something again, Alex kan je iemand van binnen halen dan kunnen we hem beter begrijpen. (alex could you get someone from inside so we could better understand him), the smaller girl nodded and went inside and then the taller one looked at him again and she said something again but this time Harry could understand her, what's your name the girl asked and the other looked with confusion at what the girl said but harry didn't mind, he could finally understand them, Harry he answered her a little bit shy with how everyone looked at him.

The girl gave a bigger smile when he answered her, hello Harry my name is Melanie, her name and with this she pointed at the blond haired girl is Isabel and that is her brother Sam with that she pointed at the black haired boy who gave a wave at him when he heard his name.

The door of the restaurant went open and two people came out one of them was the little black haired girl who bounced back to her seat with a big smile on her face and the other person was en older girl with what looked in the light of the restaurant as brown hair, she walked over to them and kneeled before him at his eyesight, hello little guy what is your name?

Harry he answered again, but this time he didn't look up from his feat a little bit shy with the attention that he was getting from the older girl and the other children.

Ik had dat al gevraagd! (I had already asked that) Melanie said with annoyance, but went silent when the older girl gave her a look.

Harry? The girl said and he looked at her again.

My sisters and her friend want to play with you do you want that?

Harry nodded at her, he was actually pretty hungry and wanted to go inside the restaurant for the warmth but he also liked to play, plus those kids looked pretty nice and he was never allowed by his aunt and uncle to play with Dudley and his friends, not that Dudley's friends where nice ore that other children would play with him in the neighbourhood.

The older girl smiled at him, okay but first lets go ask your parent if you are allowed its pretty late and we don't want them to look for you this late, so in which restaurant are your parents then we can also pick up your coat it is a little bit cold to walk outside without one.

Harry went silent he didn't know where his aunt and uncle where and his parents where dead wasn't he allowed to play with the children without there permission but he didn't know where his aunt and uncle where, I don't know where they are he said to her.

The girls face turned in one of confusion ,you mean you don't know in which restaurant your parents are.

He shook his head, no my parents are dead he said with a sad voice and a downtrodden expression on his face.

Oh the older girl looked with sympathy at him, I'm sorry but where are the people who take care of you then.

I don't know Harry answered her. With tears in his eyes and then he couldn't hold the tears anymore he sobbed and sobbed and the tears rolled over his cheek and landed on the street and his body was shaking from the sobs he tried to stop but it didn't work, and then he felt arm envelop him in a hug and he stiffened first but then relaxed and lay his head on her shoulder and continued with sobbing.

There, there we will find them don't worry, and she patted him on the back, they are certainly somewhere in a restaurant and worried about where you are.

B..bu.. I I di …dn't lo..ss..t them here harry sobbed.

Where did you lost them then? The girl asked with a friendly smile.

I don't know, Harry said when he stopped with sobbing, My aunt asked me to buy a football shirt for Dudley but when I came back I couldn't find them, I went looking for them but I can't find them anywhere, and I am hungry and cold and I don't know what to , and with that said he hugged the brown haired girl with a strong grip and cried some more, the girl said something but harry didn't care to try to understand it he was exhausted from the crying and walking and with a last sob he finally fell asleep in the arms from the brown haired girl.

AN this is my first story so please be a little nice against it if you have any questions please ask and if you see something amiss with the grammar ore something else please say it I have en dyslexia for grammar (yes it exists) and English is not my main language just school English so there definitely will be something wrong there oh well I see it when it comes.

Thank you for even trying to read it I guess niesje917

Oh yes the disclaimer

I don´t own anything in the world from harry potter ore anything else J. K. Rowling will write ore imagine the only things that will be mine are the oc´s