Hello fanfiction readers! Here is my brand spanking new Harry Potter fanfiction. It's an AU and it starts before Harry Potter finds out about the magical community and Hogwarts and gets his letter and stuff.
The Harry in this story will be smarter (not that Harry's stupid or anything -swifty eyes-) and he will be more mature even though he's only eleven. Hope you enjoy the story.
Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, which I don't, Fred would still be alive! Why, J.K?! Why!?
Prologue
They say that time heals all wounds. I've come to accept that fact that I am an orphan and will never feel the love of a parent. I will always be stuck with a family that despises me.
I've accepted the fact that I am no longer human.
I've also heard that evil is a choice. But sometimes we don't have a choice, sometimes evil is in our nature and even if we don't mean to, we can cause pain. We have to cause pain to survive.
As I think of everything that has happened this past year, I wonder what I did to be given such a cruel punishment. Is it because I did not listen to Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia and snuck out that night? Or did my parents, who I had never known, commit a crime so horrible that God decided to punish me for it?
I remember my last night with a beating heart with perfect clarity.
I've lived with my aunt, uncle, and cousin since I was a baby. My parents, the Potters, died in a car crash when I was a one year old. My father had no family to speak of and the only relative my mother had was her sister, Petunia. She and her husband grudgingly took me in.
Life with the Dursleys was not the best. They treated me like a strange and unwanted creature they were not allowed to get rid of. They made me sleep in a closet under the staircase and they fed me left overs. If I was in a room with them they would either ignore me or complain about how troublesome I was.
My cousin, Dudley, was treated quite the opposite. He was only a few months older than me and was treated like a pampered prince. His parents would give him brand new toys and games. If they didn't, he would throw a fit loud enough for the neighbors to hear. All Dudley did was eat, sleep, or bully me. My glasses had to be duct taped back together several times.
The Dursley's never treated me like a member of the family. So I was never suprised when they would make me spend a month every summer with Miss Figg while they went on family vacation. I would be forced to look after the old lady's multiple cats while the Dursley's spent their time sun bathing on some beach.
The summer I turned ten, I was suprised when Uncle Vernon came to the dinner table seething with anger. My aunt asked him what was wrong. He said that Miss Figg had to go to the hospital because one of the stray cats she picked up off the street has gotten her sick and that she couldn't watch the boy. After he announced that, everyone at the table turned to glare at me like I was the one who had gotten Miss Figg sick. That night they called everyone they could think of and asked them if they could watch me. All of them declined.
The Dursley's had three options. They could bring me on vacation with them, leave me here by myself, or cancel the vacation all together. They whole point of the vacation was to get away from me for a month so they would never bring me with them or cancel it. So that only left them with option two, leave me here by myself.
Aunt Petunia wasn't to happy with that idea. She thought I woud wreck the house or get arrested. Uncle Vernon and Dudley thought I would break the T.V. or eat all the food. Eventually, though, they agreeded to it.
They day they left they cut off the cable on the T.V. and cut the phone line. Aunt Petunia labled all the food and separated it all into portions so she would know if I tried to eat more than she thought I was supposed to. They told the neighbors to watch me and make sure I did not try to make a run for it.
After tell me all the things I was not to do and saying what a problem I was, they finally left. As I stood in the middle of the living room, it finally hit me.
The Dursleys would be gone for a month.
I will update as soon as I can. Reviews make me write faster. I promise more stuff will be explained in the next chapter!