Chapter 1 - Dursley Damage

Harry awoke to horrific screams.

"Vernon, NO!"

"WE DON'T WANT YOUR KIND HERE ... AAAAHHHHH..." Uncle Vernon bellowed from downstairs.

"Dudley Run!" Screamed a very frightend Aunt Petunia

Harry didn't know what was going on be he immediately jumped from his bead and grabbed his wand from his bedside.

"Reducto!" Harry's locked door blew off his hinges.

This is what he's been waiting for since Voldemort appeared in the Ministry of Magic after his battle in the Department of Mysteries.

Harry flew down the stairs just in time to see Lucius Malfoy shout "AVADA KEDAVRA!", and see his aunt crumple to the ground in the hall. His uncle wasn't too far away and not moving. Harry felt a line of sweat fun down his back when Malfoy turned the wand on him. A crash was heard from the left, and both turned to see Dudley sitting on top of Bellatrix Lestrange with her unconcious and barely breathing. Harry took the opportunity of Malfoy's attention fixated on Dudley to shout "Petrificus Totalus!" Immediatley his arms and legs slapped together and he fell face first on the first stair.

Harry, wasting no time, grabbed Dudley and made him run out of the house. Dudley managed to snap out of the shock and try to stop Harry from leaving his parents alone with his attackers.

"Dudley, no! We have to get out of here!" Harry pleads, while trying to yank his cousin down the driveway.

"What's wrong with them! Why aren't them moving! Let Go!"

Harry, sick of trying to drag his cousin, stunned him and stuck his wand out to the street.

BANG!

A bright purple bus stopped at the curb. The Knight Bus appeared and Stan Shunpike stepped off the curb to a sweaty Harry and a stunned Dudley.

"Hey, Ern! Look! It's "Arry Potter! Hiya 'Arry! Stan soon got a good look at Harry and his cousin. "What the 'ell 'appen' to yew?"

"Stan, thank god, shut up and get us on board...we need to get to Dumbledore as fast at possible!" Harry grasped Dudley's arm and tried to drag him on board.

Stan, at first taken aback by the situation, jumped into action. Dumbledore warned him this might happen one day, he just hoped it wouldn't have to be so soon. "All righ', 'Arry, come on...Hey Ern, get this thing movin!"

Ern, grumbling about Stan's shout, got the bus in gear.

BANG!

Harry was flung to the floor and a very heavy Dudley landed on top of him. "Oof! Damn, get him off me!"

Stan hauled Dudley up and tossed him on one of the brass beds on the bus. "So what happen' 'Arry?"

"I rather not talk about it right now." He slowly dropped on a bed and fell into an exhausted sleep.

Harry awoke to a soft singing. He opened his eyes and noticed everything out of focus. He reached around for his glasses when they were handed to him. He put them on and, much to his suprise, found himself in the hospital wing at Hogwarts.

"What happend?" Harry said still groggy and not noticing anyone sitting next to him.

"That's what we were hoping to find out, Mr. Potter."

Harry almost jumped out of bed at the sound of the voice. He wipped his head around to see a certain sneering greasy git and Dumbledore looking at him, with a very dim twinkle in his eye.