Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or the cover picture. If you see anything in this fic you think is familiar, the odds are it's not mine.
Chapter One: Not Normal
Harry Potter had always known he was not normal. He was pretty sure everyone else had known too.
He knew he was not normal because he had noticed, early on in his life, that he could do things that no one else could. When people talked, he always somehow knew what they were feeling. He was stronger and faster than everyone else his age. Even his senses- his hearing, his eyesight- seemed so much more...enhanced then everyone else's.
And strange things always seemed to happen to him, like when his relatives tried to force him into a really ugly sweater that his cousin Dudley refused to wear. The sweater kept getting smaller and smaller until eventually, it had shrunk to a size so small that even a doll would be hard pressed to fit in to. Or when, on one of his primary school's show-and-tell days, one of of the students brought his older brother's pet snake to class, and Harry could have sworn he heard it talk!
But no one else knew about those things, and they still thought that he was strange.
Even his appearance was so much different from the other boys his age. He was tall and slender, with unnaturally pale skin that clashed with his messy black hair. With his black-and-white coloring and bland, ill-fitting clothes, the things that people noticed most where his startling dark green eyes and his vivid red scar, which was curiously shaped like a lightning bolt.
He was always set apart from everyone else. Even those in school willing to overlook how strange and ethreal and foreign he was were driven away quite physically by his cousin. It quickly became a rule- any and all contact with Harry would result in direct contact with Dudley's fist. His classmates soon shied away from Harry when he tried to make friends, and after a while, he stopped trying.
All of this created mixed views to the people of Private Drive. Some thought that there was no way the, admittedly unusual, but none the less quiet and obedient little boy could be the delinquent that his uncle made him out to be. Others found it quite easy to lay the blame for whatever things that Harry's bullying cousin did on someone they knew nothing about. Many just wanted to unravel the mysteries behind the enigma. They all, however, agreed on one thing.
Harry Potter was not normal.
Author's Note: I wanted a chapter that would help describe Harry, even if most of it is just physical. Let me know how you think my story's shaping up (even if I've barely written anything yet) by leaving a review. Try to go easy on me, this is my first story.
Next chapter: Past Revealed: Petunia tells Harry the truth of his origins.