Chapter One
The Boy Who Visited
August 1995
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Jeff
had been in London for two weeks and hadn't had the best of times. His
hopes of a summer vacation to help him get away from all his family and love
problems had not gone as smooth as he hoped and he was getting ready to leave
that very night. But he decided one last walk before that long flight back to
the states. There was of course
one little problem to this walk. He was lost
In fact he hadn't know where
he was going for some time now but decided that it would be easy enough to get
to airport and meet up with his friends there. He had called to let them know
that he would just that and if they wouldn't mind bringing his bags with
them.
He
wasn't at all surprised at the situation, as everything had been going
wrong since he got there. His parents kept calling him making him even more
upset with them then before he had left. And his ex-girlfriends favorite band
being in town for 3 straights the first week certainly didn't help him get
his mind off her. And of course this was about the fifth time he had gotten
lost but it was the first time he had alone.
THWACK!
Suddenly a book had come out of
nowhere and hit him in the head as bumped in someone who seemed to come out of
the wall. Jeff hit the ground like a ton of bricks and found himself next to an
oddly dressed platinum blonde guy who seemed to be two or three years younger
then him. The kid made some nasty
sounding comment under his breath, something about "getting
potter", and then disappeared again in to the wall.
As Jeff started to stand up he
realized that the book that hit him and it felt like had left a nasty mark was
laying next to him with some paper sticking out. He leaned over and read the
title
The Daily
Prophet Presents
Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived
He
pulled the paper out of book to discover it had been ripped but it appeared to
be from what looked like a scroll version of a newspaper. He read the headline,
Sirius Black Is Innocent
By Albus Dumbledore
As no one seemed to be coming back to claim it he decided he
was take something away from his trip even he was, sort of, stealing it. It was just 2 weeks till he started his
second year at the University Of Michigan, it had been the worst summer of his
life but he was determined to take something from it. Lets call it an early
birthday present, he thought to himself even though is birthday wasn't
for months.
