It all started a month before the boy turned four.
It began as a perfectly normal early spring day. The little raven haired boy was on the kitchen floor, scrubbing away. His aunt was on the phone a foot away from him, gossiping to one of her friends. She turned to look out the window, not noticing her tiny nephew cleaning just behind her.
There was a loud crash, and the boys uncle, waddled in to see his wife bleeding on the floor. The angered man called for an ambulance then turned to the child that was now watching him with fear. The whale of the man grabbed that small boy by his neck, cutting off the air until he was nearly blue in the face.
When the ambulance arrived, there appeared to only be two people in the house, the injured woman, and her concerned husband. Petunia Dursley was loaded into the ambulance and the man followed them to the hospital, only pausing long enough to pick up his son from his play date.
No one had noticed the blood vanish from the floor.
When the male Dursleys returned home that night Vernon tucked his young son in bed, before going downstairs to punish the boy who hurt his wife.
20 minutes later an exhausted man went to bed, leaving the bleeding child to cry softly in his cupboard, where the blood barely hit the floor.
The man and his whale of a son left the raven haired child locked up to go and visit his wife in the hospital each day, leaving before breakfast and only coming home to go to bed.
A week after the accident the house was put up for sale.
The next day the real estate agent arrived to look the house over when she heard soft sounds coming from the cupboard under the stairs.
She unlocked the door, expecting to find rats or some other vermin to be removed, but was shocked to find a tiny boy instead. She immediately called the police, who brought the child to the same hospital his aunt had been sent to.
The staff told the officers about the family, which led to an APB for their arrests for child abuse, and abandonment.
It would take a few weeks of healing and therapy before the nameless little boy would be ready to find a new home.
The picture the child painted of his life with his relatives told everyone involved just what would happen to the family when they were found.
It wouldn't be until July 1991 that Albus Dumbledore would realize that his plans for Harry Potter have failed.