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Summary: Harry grew up in an orphanage picked on and beaten up, but with a new friend they rise to the top of the hierarchy and became the feared duo. Now they are off to Hogwarts, a bigger challenge for the pair. Watch out Hogwarts here they come, the fearsome duo strikes again.

First year; AU, dark.

Mentions abuse, swearing, (drugs, drinking; eventually).

Dark and Evil Harry, Own Character (not a Mary-sue! She's only wearing my clothes once again!)

Pairings: undecided, most likely slash (Harry with a boy).

To The End

Chapter One

Luc's Orphanage in lower middle class London, was home to children of many ages, and was run by a middle-aged woman by the name of Jane Reid, and her husband David Reid. Jane Reid was a slightly plump woman of 5 foot 4 inches in height with light brown hair that appeared dull and lifeless, it was thin and stringy, almost a greasy quality and her eyes were also brown and were small in size. Her face was always held in a pinched way, like she is constantly sucking on an extremely sour lemon, her thin lips pursed together to form a line, and deep wrinkles invading her face. David was a burly man of 6 foot 1 inch in height, with light blonde hair that was thinned greatly; it contrasted with his darkly tanned skin, from days out in the sunny weather of London. He had hazel eyes which held a concealed hatred and annoyance from other adults; however, it was not concealed from the children who lived at Luc's Orphanage.

The orphanage itself was three stories in height, and the yard was a fair size, the property was enclosed in high fencing with gates at the end of the driveway. The grounds surrounding the building were maintained, creating a welcoming atmosphere to the potential adopters, however the children knew better and it made them wary of how things looked to how things really were, they never took things at face value. Inside, the first floor held the kitchen the living and dining rooms and the Reid's office and adjourning bedroom and loo. The second and third floors held the children's rooms and a loo on each floor; each floor was designated to a gender.

However what the common public didn't know was that there was a cellar off the kitchen, it was small, dark and wet, it was used as punishment for those who were exceptionally bad. It was the worst place any of the children wanted to be, and to be locked up in there for who knows how long, made the children do as they were told, and kept them in line at least for a little while. Other punishments that the Reid's inflicted, with the locking up of children in the cellar, were; the belt/cane, no food, and humiliation. The children were often cruel to each other as well, ganging up on the weaker children, creating a sort of hierarchy among the orphans.

The Reid's ran a strict 'household'; the children would wake up promptly at 7:00 am, and help the younger children get ready, among getting ready themselves. Then they would take turns cooking breakfast and doing the morning chores, which included the dishes, cleaning the loo's and tidying up after the initial morning rush in all rooms. At 8:00 am, the children who were old enough to go to school would pack themselves lunches and leave for the local schools, the younger children who did not go to school, would then go outside and help around the yard, and if they were good they could play. When the school's let out at 3:00 pm the children would come back to the orphanage and do their homework, assigned chores and the making of supper, after which the children would do as they wanted until it was time for bed.

When at the local schools the orphanage children were not treated very well, they were picked on and beat up. Often the children of Luc's Orphanage would band together, and protect each other; however, there was always the odd one out, for whatever reasons it was. This odd one out had no protection from anyone, and was left to fend for themselves, getting picked on and beat up from all side; at school and a the orphanage. This was the life of one Harry Potter. The Reid's found Harry on their doorstep one morning a couple of days after Halloween five years ago, there was a letter with Harry giving his name, birth date, and parents' names, it also held the reason for why little Harry was there; his parents died in a car accident a couple nights previous.

Harry had just started school and already he wished that he had died with his parents. Before going to school, Harry wasn't picked on a lot, he was mostly ignored, that all changed when he made something very odd happed and no one could explain it. This was just before the start of the school year, from then on he was labeled as a freak, and no one wanted to be associated with the orphanage's black sheep. Harry's life was very hard indeed. He was the favourite whipping boy of the Reid's and was often punished because many things were blamed on the young boy, often when the boy had done absolutely nothing wrong.

On Monday in the month of October, there was a new arrival, she was the same age as Harry she was dropped off by a worker from Children Services and a couple of policemen; during the day. Harry was forced to stay at the orphanage instead of going to school because of the recent punishment given by David Reid, Harry was still recovering from a couple of days previous and was expected to be back at school the next day. Being a curious young boy Harry snuck out of the kitchen, where he was cleaning the floors, to listen in on the new arrival's story. According to the worker and policemen, Annika's (the new arrival) step-father had snapped and killed her mother and step-brother, older by a couple of years, and then killed himself, all in front of Annika. She had yet to say anything but a few words since the incident, which occurred a week ago.

When the police arrived on the scene they found Annika, covered in blood, sitting on an old trunk which seemed to be filled with her possessions, she was sitting there staring at the front door seemingly oblivious to the scene next to her. When she was cleaned up, they found that she had numerous bruises and scars that with the proper care could heal properly and without leaving any marks. From what the worker and police could gather was that the step-father was abusive and had often went after the mother and daughter, the son was relatively free from the marks of abuse. It was assumed that the son was well liked and the abuse would often occur when the son was not around. What stumped the police was the fact that Annika was left alive when the rest of the family was dead.

Annika, with her trunk of possessions was set up in a room on the second floor with two other girls in the room with her, a fairly empty room compared to the rooms with up to five girls in one room. Harry was called in from the kitchen to help Annika settle in, and to tell her about the schedule, rules, punishment and chores within the orphanage. Harry was also set to show Annika around the building and the surrounding grounds, Harry was extremely nervous and it was not helped by the silent Annika. When they were out by the back corners of the grounds Annika stopped and sat down with her back resting against the fence. Harry sat down next to her, where they sat silently for a bit.

Harry finally broke the silence when he confessed that he heard what the worker and policemen were talking about with the Reid's, that he knew her 'story'. He went on to tell her about his own 'story' and his life here at the orphanage, about how he was hated for no good reason. That sometimes he could make things happen, things that should not be able to happen. He told her what he wanted to achieve, which was control and power over all those who had hurt him; he wanted to be feared, not picked on. He wanted to be the hierarchy, the top of the food chain.

When he was done talking, Annika asked why he told her this; Harry answered that he knew that she would understand, that she could do the same weird things happen. That she would be treated the same way as him, by the other children, that together they could achieve this common goal. Being six years old at the time, words like these were very strong and with the innocence that comes with that age made the words more truthful, stronger. Said with pure intention, accepted in pure intention. Together that day the two children made an alliance; to stick together when no one would protect them, to attack with the same venom that they were given. To rise to the top of the food chain and rule the hierarchy of the orphanage and the local elementary school, and to always stay together no matter what, to the end.

Through the years, Harry and Annika did exactly that, they rose to the top of the hierarchy exceptionally fast and stayed there, no one was willing to try to take them out. The other children knew that if there ever was a hint that there might be a 'revolt' of sorts, Harry, and Annika made sure that the thought of such a thing would no longer exist. Children of all ages were ruled at the local elementary school along with all the children at the orphanage, by the duo. They were feared by their peers and loved by their teachers, they were at the top of their classes and created order within the classroom. The only adults not submitting to their influence were Jane and David Reid. The punishments given by them were beyond cruel, yet the duo made it out alive and with their influence over the children never wavering.

Many of the other children tried to get into the good graces of the feared duo, many of them never mentioned that goal again in their life, the rare ones who were worthy, never went to Harry and Annika, Harry and Annika went to them. This was a rare occurrence, the jobs of such lucky children were spying and enforcement of the 'rules' that Harry and Annika created. They did not interfere with the petty squabbles of the schoolyard, they were the 'court' that the petty squabbles came to, to resolve the disagreement. They did many things in the school, creating an underground 'trading ring', they controlled the trading, buys, and selling of things like cards, lockers, lunches etc. It might have seemed juvenile, but they were in elementary school, anything more dangerous then that and it would have been lost on the student population. However, they did get into things with the local high school, and no one at the high school questioned Harry and Annika.

Harry and Annika worked on their magic, since Annika's mother and biological father were a witch and wizard Annika had knowledge of the wizarding world, she also had her mother's spell books, which were enchanted to look like muggle books when muggles looked at them. They had managed to get into Diagon Alley, and pick pocketed some wizarding money from unsuspecting witches and wizards. With the stolen money they managed to get some books about the history of the wizarding world and more spell books to help them with their dealings with the muggles and to further their knowledge before going to Hogwarts. They also went to Knockturn Alley in their wanderings things were much more sinister in the alley, yet the duo felt more at home there then they did in Diagon Alley. Harry also found out about his ability to talk to snakes, which of course was used to their advantage.

Annika got her Hogwarts letter on her birthday, December 2, a Hogwarts staff member, a Professor Vector, came to inform Annika of the wizarding world and to take her shopping for her school supplies. Annika played up not having been to Diagon Alley before, however, what she didn't have to fake was the reaction from the fact that her mother had opened and account at Gringotts for her when she found out that Annika is a witch. Annika had teared up at that fact, and she was glad that no one but the professor had seen any trace of that traitor of a tear leak out of her forest green eyes, glide down her smooth cheek and drip off her chin. That was a rare glimpse of emotion that she had not shown for years and the only person to have seen that was Harry.

The professor had of course informed Jane and David Reid of the fact that Annika is a witch, the aftermath of that day did not end well for Annika, she suffered greatly for her 'freakishness' and 'abnormality'. After that night however, nothing was mentioned of it again. When Harry asked her about it, Annika told him that she read a book about the altering of people's mind, she told him about how she had taken out the knowledge of her being a witch and going to Hogwarts and replaced it with a false memory. Harry and Annika had studied the recomended class books and by the end of the school year, they both knew the material front to back. When they had finished the recommended material, they went back to Diagon Alley and bought more advanced books with their stolen money.

When Harry's birthday drew nearer he had received he Hogwarts letter, however there was no mention of a professor coming to take him to Diagon Alley. Which didn't surprise him because he had found out about himself in a couple of books that he and Annika had bought. It surprised him that no one knew where he really was, hell even he was surprised to find out that he was supposed to be living with relatives, not in an orphanage. Harry and Annika discussed the pros and cons of telling the headmaster where he really is, but in the end, they decided to leave it a secret. If Dumbledore found out that he was in fact living in an orphanage, he would take it upon himself to either keep Harry there or take him out and adopt Harry out to a family that he approves of. Harry would never leave Annika behind, they made a promise to each other, and they were willing to do anything to keep that promise. And Dumbledore was not a man that Harry wanted screwing around with his life.

The duo went to Diagon Alley, Harry had gone to Gringotts and got the key to his account and took out the needed amount of money for his shopping excursion. They had done the needed shopping and had gone back to the orphanage, they had a ton of work to do now that they were going to a boarding school, and they needed to find their replacements. Harry and Annika had picked a select few, they were watching them for months previous. Those picked would run things in both the elementary and high schools, the duo taught them the do's and don'ts, the how-to's, and the secrets to their success, but not all the secrets. By the end of that final month before the duo went to Hogwarts, they found the perfect replacements and they retired their positions to them and backed away from what was their dream. They had a new dream, and it involved Hogwarts and possibly the wizarding world.

September first had Harry and Annika officially entering the wizarding world for the first time, many had waited the return of the boy-who-lived, seeing him for the first time since that Halloween night ten years ago.

Boy was the wizarding world in for a big surprise.

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