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Summery- Dursleys are being evil so Harry gets rescued. But he gets rescued by somebody who shouldn't be there. Lily and James come back to life!
A Very Good Reward
Chapter 1
Summer was going by slowly at Number Four, Privet Drive. The Dursleys were being meaner than ever, though. Harry had always shown signs of neglect at school, but nobody knew what happened over the summer. The Dursleys, especially Vernon, could never tolerate Harry's "Freakishness" and often tried to "beat it out of him". It could never work. Harry knew Vernon knew this, but Vernon liked to beat Harry, just for fun. The "attempts to get all of the freakishness out" had come more often this summer. He could now expect a beating at least once every day. You could say that the attempts to "stamp out freaks" had been a very big failure. And Harry was paying the price.
It was the summer after the Triwizard Tournament, and Harry was feeling terrible guilt at the thought of Cedric Diggory. A week earlier, Harry's "family" had received an oddly colored letter sent by Albus Dumbledore. It explained the goings on at the Triwizard Tournament, namely, the Third Task. Harry could curse Dumbledore for sending that letter. Why did Dumbledore feel the need to inform Harry'sfamily of his life?The Dursleys found the news humorous, and tortured Harry in any way they could. They would bring up Cedric in conversation, or "punish" Harry for killing an innocent person. Harry could tell Aunt Petunia was trying to poison every bit of food that came near Harry. So now that meant he would either starve to death, be steadily poisoned and then die, or die of a very bad beating. Life did not have a positive outlook on it right now. And yet, Harry felt that he deserved the life threatening situation. Hadn't he been the one to tell Cedric to take the cup with him? Hadn't he been the one to stay in the Tournament? Why couldn't his life be a normal one. Not in a muggle way, just normal like Neville's or Dean's? They weren't internationally famous or looked at by the public eye. They had never battled Voldemort or done anything dangerous. Why did everything bad always seem to happen to Harry?
Right now, Harry was laying on his bed, staring at the ceiling in agony. He was a bloodied mess (after the beating only minutes before). He could taste the blood coming out from everywhere. He wondered how it came to be this way. Then he started to play the BlameGame again. After minutes of tossing names around and pointing fingers, he figured out two people he could blame for all of his problems.He and Voldemort. The two of them always caused trouble. People always died when they were around. He toyed with the idea of ending it all. He decided against it and tried to think about more pleasant topics. He cameup with thenever ending pain in his head, but dismissed the topic. Nobody caredabout the pains inhishead.He decided to stop thinking about his pain. He went on tothinking about his friends and loved ones. They had already sent loads of letters, but Vernon had been on owl patrol. He would sit by the window with a telescope or binoculars and scan the sky for any approaching owls. He even quit his job to stay on owl patrol. Vernon was a bit mad. That was okay, though. The government gave money to the Dursleys just because Vernon was mad. That meant he had time to go through every letter that came into the house. He ate meals at the window, but he did sleep in his room, only for two hours. When he got a letter to Harry, he was happy. He did the same thing to every letter. He took every letter, read it, tossed it into the fire, and made Harry write back a happy reply. His letters told of wonderful holidays, his wonderful family, and best of all, how he wanted to spend the holiday on Privet Drive. He wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. With one final groan, he passed out.
Hours passed and Hedwig the owl came waltzing up to her master. She knew this was bad. He wasn't responding to her shrill call or sharp claws. She took off into the night with nothing, just hoping to get some help from a very worried Sirius Black.
End chapter 1