Many fans of the Harry Potter series have asked why Harry never developed into an Obscurial, according to his upbringing at the Dursleys. According to J. K. Rowling, "An Obscurus is developed under very specific conditions: trauma associated with the use of magic, internalized hatred of one's own magic and a conscious attempt to suppress it. The Dursleys were too frightened of magic ever to acknowledge its existence to Harry. While Vernon and Petunia had a confused hope that if they were nasty enough to Harry his strange abilities might somehow evaporate, they never taught him to be ashamed or afraid of magic. Even when he was scolded for 'making things happen', he didn't make any attempt to suppress his true nature, nor did he ever imagine that he had the power to do so." Well, what if the Dursleys were aware of exactly what Harry's "freakishness" was, and tried to suppress it? What if they sent him to a psychological ward frequently, and Harry grew up thinking that his "freakishness" caused his parents death, caused the only family he'd ever known to despise him and neglect him and beat him, caused others at school to hate him and bully him? What if Harry grew to hate his magic so much, that he didn't want anyone to know, that he just wanted to be normal, and he pushed his magic so far down that eventually it just had to explode? Well, this is the story of what would happen if Harry Potter's magic had been forced into an Obscurus. In this tragic tale of magic, Harry Potter's Obscurus kills his Muggle family, as well as a weird giant-looking man trying to tell him that everything he knew about magic was wrong, on a deserted island in the middle of a ferocious sea storm. The boy runs away from England, from all he's ever known, on the eve of his eleventh birthday, not knowing that his date with death is looming soon…