Harry Potter and the Deadly Summer

Disclaimer:  The characters/setting and anything else that JK Rowling made up are her own creations, everything else is mine!

This is my first attempt at a Harry Potter fanfic… so enjoy!

Chapter One

            "WORMTAIL!!!" An evil voice thundered through the house.

            "Y-yes master?" The clueless servant to the first voice answered, stuttering as usual.

            "Wormtail, we have to FIND Harry Potter!  He has gotten away way too many times; Four times he has gotten away from me!  This just cannot be permitted!  I can't wait for the time that he is at Hogwarts, for there Dumbledore protects him!  Wormtail, faithful servant, where is Harry now?"

            "I D-don't know M-m-master"

            "COME ON WORMTAIL THINK!!! You should have heard something when you were that Weasley's pet!  Where is he now!  TELL ME!!!"

            "T-t-t-the Dursley's I-I t-think my m-master"

            "THE DURSLEY'S!!! Well that is a start Wormtail.  Do tell me who are the Dursley's?"

            "T-they are his a-aunt and uncle a-a-and cousin I t-think, m-master," stuttering a little less now that he thought that his master was beginning to calm down, or at least focus his attention elsewhere.

            "The famous Harry Potter has an Aunt and Uncle protecting him has he?  Tell me, how powerful are these relations?"

            "M-master, they are m-muggles"

            "MUGGLES! Even better, they must have been Lily's relatives!  So famous Harry is being protected by Muggles," a chuckle escaped the evil ones lips.  "This shall be easier than I thought!" Voldemort then sat, obviously in deep concentration, trying to come up with a plan to rid the world of Harry Potter forever!

            "M-master?" A very timid Wormtail said.

            "WORMTAIL!!! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I AM CONCETRATING!" Voldemort was furious at the interruption to his careful planning.

            "S-s-sorry m-master, but I-I th-thought that y-you might w-w-want t-t-t-t-to know t-that n-no-nobody knows w-where these D-D-D-Dursley's l-live."

            "WHAT?  Nobody knows where they live huh?  Well we are going to have to do something about that, o yes we will.  I remember a certain time where the Weasley's came through the chimney to their house.  Aw yes, my spy in the ministry is doing an awfully good job to come up with that information.  We will just have to connect it to the Floo powder system again…"

            "Y-yes Master," Wormail said and proceeded to shrink into a dark corner of the house, trying not to distract his master again.

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            Meanwhile…

            "HARRY!! Can't you do anything right?  You are supposed to be sweeping the entire floor!!! Not just that one square foot!" As usual, Vernon was finding something to complain about that he could also take out on Harry.

            Harry Potter was a 15-year-old wizard who, about 14 years ago, was the only person to survive Voldemort and the Avada Kedavra curse.  In fact, it was Harry that caused Voldemort's downfall.  14 years ago, Voldemort had found out where Harry and his parents lived through their secret keeper who was supposed to be guarding the place from Voldemort.  Instead this secret keeper was on Voldemort's side and took this information to his master in attempt to get his praise and honor for such a good tidbit!  Instead this Death Eater helped to cause the downfall of Lord Voldemort.  After storming into the Potter house, Voldemort killed Harry's father.  Then he proceeded to kill Harry, but Harry's mom was in the way.  All he wanted to do was kill Harry and his father, James; Lily Potter wasn't even on that list, until she attempted to protect Harry from Voldemort, forcing him to also kill her.  Because Lily had died to protect Harry, her love acted like a shield for Harry.  When Voldemort attempted to kill him, the curse rebounded and instead struck Voldemort, not killing him because he had taken measures for immortality, but stripping him of his body so that he was no longer quite human.  Because of this spell that Lily had put on Harry, Voldemort couldn't touch Harry without experiencing extreme pain.  Now, Voldemort can because, to get his body back, Voldemort had used Harry's blood, and so the spell was extended to Voldemort and he was allowed to touch him now.

            Now Harry lived with the Dursley's, his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and Cousin Dudley.  Petunia and Vernon enjoyed bossing him around while Dudley's favorite pastime was either taunting Harry or beating him up.  Then Harry discovered that he was a wizard when he was invited to attend Hogwarts, a wizarding school.  Then his life changed, at least during the school year, during the summer, he was back at the Dursley's, forced to do chores and practice his dodging techniques.

            "HARRY!! Since you are taking so long on sweeping that floor, you will do the rest of the wooden floors in the house, and then scrub them on your hands and knees!" Harry imagined his uncle going purple in the face from rage, as he usually did when having anything to do with him.

            Why do I even do this anyway? Harry thought, I do wish that that underage wizard rule didn't exist so that I could do magic in the summer as my defense against people such as the Dursley's.  I wouldn't even use my magic on anyone other than the Dursley's during the summer!  I can't wait for this summer to end!

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