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Harry clambered into his Uncle Vernon's car and started to stare out the window. It was always quiet in the car ride home from platform 9 and 3/4, Vernon glancing angrily at Harry every couple seconds in the rear view mirror. His Aunt Petunia foldingher
arms and looking straight in front of her,a look of pure hatred on her face. Then there wasDudley, who would always belooking at harry like he was an animal in a zoo.

Harry was lost in thought,he could of had a life with Sirius, away from the Dursleys. A loving,caring home. Finally a properparental figure,but stupid Snape had to mess it all up. Harry wondered if it was Snape's life goalto make Harry's life
as difficult as it could be. Siriuswas now on the run, Harry had no clue where he was so he couldn't write to him until Sirius wrote to him first. For all Harry knew Sirius could be in a completely different country by now.

Suddenly he heard his aunts screeches to get out of the car.

"Sorry Aunt Petunia I- " he was cut off by his Aunt's meanicing tone,

"Get in the house Vernon will sort you out, you and your freakish ways."

'Great.' Harry thought, 'this summer is going to be as bad as all the others.'

As soon as Harry walked in the door he was met by a very purple looking facebelonging to his enraged uncle.

"Now boy we have some new rules to set downyou will do well not to break them. You will now callus by sir and ma'am nothing else. We will not tolerate this Aunt and Uncle buissness as we don't want you thinking you are part of the family.

"You willbe locked in your room unless to do chores. Every day we will give you a newlist of chores which you will complete by the time I get home from work unless you want to suffer the consequences. We will be gracious and letyou
out once a day to goto the bathroom andonce a week to have a five minute shower, rest assured you will be the last to have a shower on that day so you don't use up all the hot water. You gotall that?"

Harry stared back at his uncle he had been locked in his room before but not like this,not constantly monitoredand he could go to the bathroom pretty much whenever he wanted.

"Yes sir." Harry replied lost for what else to say.

"Good" Vernon growled.

He grabbed Harry harshly byhis shirt coller and dragged him up the stairs. Harrylet himself be dragged he was tired and he couldn't be bothered getting into a fight on his first day back. Surely they will forget about all therules in
a couple of days -a week at most- and everything will go back to normal. Just in case though, Harry thought it would be better to stay out Vernon's way until he could go back to Hogwarts.

Vernon slammed the door shut then went to complete the next part of his grand plan. He pulled Harry's trunk and broomstick to the cupboard that Harry used to call his bedroom and locked them in. Finally he pounded back up the stairs withHedwig,
still in her cage, ripped the door open thenshovedher into Harry's room andlocked the door.

Harry's days at the Dursley's were from then on identical to each other.

-Wake up at 7am.

-Make breakfast but don't eat anything at 8.

-Get a list of chores by 8:30.

-Dudley leaves for school,Vernon for work and Petunia to meet up with friends to gossip at about 9.

-Do chores and be finished by the time they get home unless youwant a beating.

-Start making Dinnerat 5.

-Somehow anger uncle Vernon.

-Nightly beating because of that said thing.

-Locked in room for 7.

-Try to get to sleep.

-Have a nightmare.

-Another beating for having that nightmare.

-Stay awake till 7in the morning to start it over again.

The only things that changed was the beatings and they changed for the worse,getting more and more severe every night. After a particular bad beating Harry lay on his bed trying to find a position that didn't anger his ribs, when Vernon came in.

"Freak"

"Yes sir"

"I bought a belt today do you know why I bought it boy?"

"No sir"

"Well then because punching and kicking isn't doing it anymore you deserve to feel even more pain than you already are isn't that right"

"Yes sir"

"Yes it is because what am I?"

"Always right sir"

"And what are you?"

"A freak who deserves to feel pain, who is unlovable, who is a burden and who people pretend to like because they feel sorry for me I am a freak and am useless sir"

Harry had, had these answers drilled into his brain from the moment he'd arrived. He was a freak. A freak who didn't deserve love or affection or apparently the basic needs for a human to survive, such as food, water and the ability to relieve ones selfwhenever
it wasnecessary.

"Correct and you know what freaks get?"

"Nn-oo ssi-rr"

"Freaks get pain that's what they get, do you know why?"

Harry swallowed thickly, knowing what was going to happen next.

"No sir."

"Because they are different. They are not normal. They are strange, and that is most certainly, a crime."

His uncle finished with a smirk and a wicked gleam in his eyes. He kicked Harry hard in the back before coming down onto his body repeatedly withthe belt he had recently purchased,unfortunately for harry he had a very god aim.

"Pple-asse ss-i-r please". Harry begged for him to stop the torture he was inflicting on the young teen.

"You deserve everything I give you" Vernon hissed.

And Harry believed it, he did in fact deserve this. He abruptly went quiet letting his second beating in a matter of half an hour happen before finally slippinginto an unconsciousbliss still hearinghis uncle cackling at his obvious pain.

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