Plot: The second the Dursleys laid their eyes upon Harry Potter they decided that they could not keep him. The dumped him on the curb in a slum part of London. But what happens when Harry Potter is picked up by somebody else? Somebody who was different, who would raise Harry in a completely different way, who would teach him to be a leader, a man and most of all… hos to be a Soldier.
Authors note: This is my first ever story outside of school so I would really appreciate it if you would comment and tell me what you think. I came up with this story because I have been speculation about it for some time how Harry would have been if he was raised in the military…. And nobody wrote one so I took it upon myself.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any other character the JK has created.
"Conversation"
'Thoughts'
Quiet, he needed to be quiet or the last week's hard work would be for nothing.
"We received five missiles today and we will be shipping them off tomorrow at 10.00 am" Harry hear a voice say. All he could see from his position from the bushes was two pair of boots standing at the edge of the camp.
"Good. Put up two guard tonight, one to the north and on to the south. Let the rest of the men sleep tonight" a darker voice replied before one pair of boots turned away from Harry and walked away. He could hear an engine start and then fade away. This was the moment he and his team had been waiting for. He hear the first voice call out some orders as the boots belonging to the voice walked back to the camp. He waited for a few minutes before slowly crawling back the way he came, away from the camp. After about a hundred meters he stood up and quietly jogged the half mile back to team.
"Bats" he called out as he approached their hiding spot. He shared the information he had retrieved to his team.
"Eric, John and Steve you'll be attacking from north east" he said and looked at the three young boys standing next to him.
"You will take out the guard and then clear out the tent here" he said and pointed at the crude map that they had spent a week making.
"Me and Sofie will approach from south west, take out the guard there and then clean out the other tent. If everything goes our way we will meet up here in the middle of their camp, take out the missiles and make our exit will all information we can get our hands on." He said and looked at the four ten year olds looking at him. Sofie had blond short hair and blue eyes, Eric was muscular and had brown hair and eyes, Johan and Steve were twins, both had black hair and blue eyes, they were both skinny and didn't have much muscles on their small frames.
"We'll attack at midnight" he instructed them before lifting up his riffle.
"Move into position" he instructed.
"Yes sir" they all replied and quickly picked up their riffles. The three boys headed out first as they had the longest way to go.
"Ready?" harry asked Sofie and looked her in the eyes.
"I was born ready" she replied with a smirk.
"Then let's move out." He said before turning around and leading the way.
Harry held his breath and pulled the trigger. He could see the boy on guard duty flinch and then raise his hand, showing that he was hit. Harry signaled to Sofie and they both stood up and quietly made their way past the boy and towards the tent. As he walked past Harry could see that his shot was perfect, it had hit the boy in the middle of the chest, the red paint showing it clearly. He nodded towards the boy as he walked past, Saga going up to him to search him for any intel.
Harry made his way to the tent and walked inside. He could see the fired burning in the middle of the tent and a figure sitting with his back towards him, being on fire watch. Harry placed his hand on his shoulder, the figure looked towards the person taking his shoulder and Harry could see realization and then disappointment in his eyes. "You are all now dead" harry said with a quiet voice, waking half of the tent. Those who woke quickly saw who he was and woke their friends quietly, whispering that they had been killed. Harry mad his way out of the tent and signaled for Sofie to get in there and search them just like she had done with the boy on guard duty.
A Different World Indeed
"Great work Harry"
Harry smiled at the man in front of him at the praise.
"Thanks William" He said and hugged the man.
"It really means a lot coming from you" he said into the man's chest. William pushed Harry to arm's length and locked eyes with the boy. Harry's green eyes looked into the gray ones of his mentor and father figure, his eyes took in his whole face, the scar that went from his left temple down to his right jaw, the nose that showed signs of being broken several times and the blond hair hanging down to his eyebrows.
"When you were in the field a letter came for you" William said and moved his left hand down and into his leg pocket. He pulled out a small letter and handed it to Harry. Harry looked at it. It didn't just have his name and address, which was secret by the way, it even said which bunk he slept in. Harry turned it around and opened it. Harry read it once, twice, thrice before looking up at William. "I'm a wizard" Harry said with a low voice.
"May I?" William asked and held out his hand for Harry to hand him the letter. Harry handed him the letter and William moved to his chair behind his desk and sat down before reading the letter. After a few minutes of silence William looked up from the letter in his hands.
"This is great Harry!" he said with happiness in his voice. He had always known that there was something special with this boy and now he knew what it was.
"But this means that I will have to leave you" Harry said with a sad voice that cracked a little bit at the end. He tried his best to cover the fact that he was on the brink of tears.
"Come here" William said with a soft voice and held his arms open for the boy. Harry rushed into the arms of his only family, the tears flowing freely. William stroke his hair as the boy cried.
"I will always be with you in your heart and you can always write" William said in an attempt to comfort the boy.
"Can I still come and live here when I don't have to be in school" Harry said with a snivel. William chuckled at that.
"I will be here when you want to come back" William said and placed a kiss on Harry forehead.
"Somebody will be here to take you shopping tomorrow" William said and looked out through the window, the sun was setting which meant that they didn't have much of time left before Harry would be initiated into the Wizard world.
"But that's my birthday. We always celebrate my birthday just the two of us" Harry said with sadness in his voice.
"I know but we will have to do that one day late" William said and smiled at the boy.
"Now off to bed, you have a big day ahead of you" William said and gently pushed Harry towards the door.
"Yes sir" Harry replied, saluted William, tuned around and walked out of the building. He walked straight to the barrack where he had his bed, walked to his locker, took of his uniform and hung it up as he should, went to the bathroom and prepared for bed. Sofie walked out of one of the stalls as he was brushing his teeth.
"So how did we do" she asked as she walked up to the sink next to Harry and started to wash her hands. Harry spit out the last of toothpaste that he had in his mouth before replying.
"We did great, the only negative think was that we cut it close in time but that was weight over with that fact that we got five enemy missiles" Harry said and smiled at Sofie before washing his face with a handful of cold water. Sofie nodded and smiled back before starting to brush her own teeth. "Officer in the room" they could hear Eric call out from their sleeping quarter and stood in attention as they could hear the sound of boots walking towards them.
"At ease soldiers" they could hear captain Stenemo command them.
"What brings the captain here at this hour?" Harry asked and looked at captain Stenemo. She was a woman in her mid-fourths, with black hair and bright blue eyes, she was the aunt of the twins and you could see the resemblance.
"The colonel wants to see you Sofie" Stenemo said and looked at the girl. The word now wasn't needed. Sofie quickly flushed her mouth clean from toothpaste before walking with captain Stenemo out of the Barrack. Harry cleaned his toothbrush before walking into their shared sleeping quarter and climbed into his bed.
"What do you think that was about?" Harry could hear John ask his brother.
"If it affects you then you will know in the morning but until then push it out of thought" Harry growled at them before closing his eyes. 'That was a bit harsh, but I'm really tired. I'll apologize in the morning' harry thought to himself before falling asleep.
A Different World Indeed
Harry woke up early, before everybody else. Just like he always did. 'What time is it' he thought to himself as he climbed out of his bed and turned to face his locker. He pulled on his uniform and put on his boots.
"Morning" He could hear from the bed next to him. He smiled and looked up at Sofie who lay in her bed.
"You want to go and grab some food?" Harry asked in a low voice and opened Sofies locker which was the one next to his.
"I'm starving" she said just as Harry tossed her her uniform.
"Let's get going then" he teased and sat down on his bed again, waiting for her to get dressed. They quietly walked out of their barrack and into the mess-hall. They scooped up some oatmeal, a toast each and some milk and took their usual table in the corner.
"I have to tell you something" Sofie whispered and looked around to make sure that nobody could hear them.
"Why are you whispering?" Harry asked. "It's just the two of us in here" he said and at that moment the doors flung open and about twenty dirty, tired soldiers walked in.
"That has to be Rush's group" Harry whispered to Sofie.
"I heard that they have been out in the field for almost a month straight" Sofie informed him in the same low tone.
"Any way" Harry said, turning her attention back to him. "What was it you were going to tell me?" he asked before taking a mouthful of oatmeal.
"I…" she started, tears threatening to fall from her eyes. Harry put his hand on top of hers and gave her a reassuring squeeze. She gave her a sad smile before continuing.
"I won't be staying here much longer" she whispered. Harry was shocked to hear this. They had been best friends since she came here when they were five and they had been inseparable since the age of six and now she would be leaving.
"Why?" harry whispered with a weak voice.
"I've been accepted into this boarding school and the term starts on the first of September" she said and looked down at her breakfast, not daring to look into Harry's eyes. A smiled spread across his face. 'It can't be' he thought to himself.
"and somebody is coming here today to take you shopping for school supplies" Harry said in a confident voice. Her head snapped up, surprise and confusion written all over her face.
"How… How did you know?" she asked him.
"Because I'm going to that school too" he said, his smile growing even bigger and Sofie's was matching his. They spent the rest of the breakfast talking about how cool it would be to be able to use magic and discussing how Hogwarts would be.
At seven thirty they were back in their barrack, messing with the other kids and playing around. They were allowed to do pretty much anything they wanted there since they were the once cleaning. They had learned the hard way what it meant to not be able to present a clean room for inspection. It had included marching halfway to London and back with full equipment and barely any food or water. At the moment they were throwing small rubber balls at each other, all of them were laughing and having a great time. The room was a complete mess, beds had been flipped over to be used as cover and pillows were everywhere, since they had decided that rubber balls wasn't enough throwing material. This was what captain Stenemo saw when she walked into the kiddy bunk as the adults playfully called the children's barrack.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?" she roared. Everyone in the room froze and then stood in attention when they saw that their superior was in the room.
"Potter tell me what the hell is going on here" Stenemo commanded as she quickly walked over to him. She leaned forward so that their faces where only inches apart.
"We were just messing around captain" William said, not making eye contact just as he was taught.
"If you were just messing around then why are the beds on their sides!?" she barked out in the face of Harry. Harry flinched at the power in her voice but stood still.
"John started to throw small rubber balls at everybody so I flipped my bed to have some covered and everybody mimicked me captain" he explained. She quickly walked over to John and leaned forward so that they were face to face.
"Is this true?" she asked him in a calm voice. 'To calm' Harry though and locked eyes with Sofie who gave him a reassuring smile.
"Yes captain" John said with a scared voice.
Good with the quick thinking Potter" She said and turned around and looked at him.
"Now get your ass over to the colonel and take Heart with you" she said and looked at them. Harry glanced over at Sofie and they quickly walked out of the barrack and waked towards the main building. He knocked on the door to the colonel's office.
"Enter" they could hear from the other side. Harry pushed the door open and walked inside. There, standing in front of William was a man in black robes. He had greasy black hair and when he turns around Harry can see that his eyes were black and has a cold glare to them and his nose was big and crocked. "You must be the person sent to take us shopping" Harry said and walked up to the man. "I'm Harry James Potter it's nice to meet you" Harry says and offers the man his hand. He can see the man flinch as Harry tells him his middle name. "You can call me Professor Snape" the man replies and shakes Harry's hand.
AN: That was the first chapter. I hope that you have enjoyed reading my story and that you tell me what I did good and what I can do better. Next chapter will be them visiting Diagon alley!
