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Tags: Abused!Harry, RunAway!Harry, RunAway!Hermione, RunAway!Seamus, Mute!Hermione, Bullied!Hermione, SexuallyAbused!Hermione, Harry/Hermione, Neville/Luna, Resorted!Luna
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Harry Potter's bedroom was the cupboard under the stairs on Number 4 Privet Drive. But Harry Potter did not live there. He cleaned that house, and he cooked the meals for the people who did live in that house, and he turned 9 in that house. He did not make messes in that house, or eat a meal in that house, and he never had a birthday party in that house. Harry Potter did not receive his childhood in that house. Instead, the people who lived in that house gave him very different things. The people who lived in that house called themselves his Aunt and Uncle, but they gave him rags to wear, scraps to eat, and beatings that left him unable to move for days as gifts for his birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of Number 4 Privet Drive had been proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to have been involved in anything like child abuse or the imprisonment of a child; they had absolutely spoiled and doted on their son Dudley Dursley.
Dudley had died a few years back though, the day of his 6th birthday when a poisonous snake bit him at the zoo during his birthday party. The zookeepers were confounded when the boy had started seizing halfway through 'Happy Birthday' and didn't think to grab the kit that had the ability to save his life; after all, 'the poisonous snakes were kept in very secure containers on the other side of the zoo'. In the commotion of people trying to save Dudley Dursley, no one had noticed how a little boy, with bruises covering his entire body, breathed a quiet sigh of relief and whispered 'thank you' as a tear fell down his cheek. Harry Potter thought his life had caught a break now that one of his three tormentors was dead, he had no idea what he would go through in the next three years.
Perhaps the abuse was why Harry Potter felt only curiosity, wondering what caused the fire, as he watched his Aunt and Uncle burn to death in the house that he cleaned. 'Probably one of Uncle Vernon's cigarettes', he thought to himself as he walked away from the fire.
