Harry Potter and the Year of Unveiled Secrets

Chapter 1: What's been going on at the Dursleys?

It was a hot day in July during the summer break. And the occupants of Privet Drive, Little Whinging were enjoying it inside their 'perfect' air-conditioned houses or swimming in their refreshing swimming pools. That is all except for the people of no. 4; Vernon and Petunia Dursley, their son Dudley and their nephew; Harry Potter.

To many the Dursleys looked to be normal people just living happy lives, but that's not even close to the truth. Not many knew that Petunia is a witch and her nephew, Harry is a wizard. For the last two years the people of Privet Drive believed Harry to be attending St. Brutus's Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys, during the school terms. But they were all so wrong. Harry had been schooling in Scotland at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

At Hogwarts he had two friends, the best anyone could have; Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. They had helped him through his first two years as a wizard. At the end of his second year they'd helped him when he needed them the most but now they couldn't help, for the reason being that they didn't know he needed it, since his 'Uncle' had forbidden him from telling anyone about what was happening this summer and all the years before this ever since he was only a small child.

You see, Harry Potter's Uncle abused him; he had since Harry was the age of four. He was abused verbally, mentally and physically in almost all aspects of the word. Ever since the start of the summer holidays, Harry could see a strange glint in his Uncles eyes, every time he was beaten, that gave him a very bad feeling. At this moment in time, Harry was reading his mail from his friends, asking how he was, if he was able to come to the Leaky Cauldron the last week of the break, because that's where Hermione and Ron were going to be since both were out of the country at the moment. Hermione was in France with her parents while Ron was in Egypt with his 6 siblings and two parents. They had been asking this for the past week and Harry's replies had been the same; 'I'm fine and I won't be able to make it to the inn because my relatives want to keep me home, so that I don't cause trouble.' Though this was a bunch of lies. Harry was not fine and his Uncle didn't know that he'd been asked to leave their house a week early. He just didn't feel like seeing his friends any earlier then he needed to. Although he had learned how to hide the bruisers and cuts and his Aunt Petunia fixed any broken bones, he still thought they'd figure it out.

Now, if she is a witch, some would think she would have left Vernon a long time ago, but she hadn't. One reason was that she had no where to go, another reason was Vernon would kill her if she tried and lastly, she didn't want to get Harry taken from her, no with the secret he was from everyone.

Ok now, Harry was only allowed to read and answer his mail so that no one suspected anything, he didn't want anyone to know of his home life, not when he and Aunt Petunia had kept it from everyone fro so long. Also Vernon didn't want to lose his second play toy.

Though Harry wasn't sure how much longer he could last under Vernon's treatment, not to mention having to go back to school with a few of the changes he'd gone through over his 13th birthday. Now what were those changes?

Hey, I'm back. Sorry its so short but this is sort of just a run down on what's been happening during Harry's holiday. Okay thanks for reading the start of this story and if you have started reading my other one; Harry Potter: The Wings of the Legendary Phoenixes, well here's a small note for it.

Chapter 15 is at this point in time being written and while soon be reviewed by my beta and should be posted in 1 to 2 weeks tops. All my readers please don't hate me if I can't get it out on time. I've just gotten my 3rd D in Maths and am now being moved from Advanced Maths to Ordinary Maths, so my parents are drawing the line at what I do with my time at home and in class, as I use that time to write my stories, not a real good idea.

Hope to see some reviews,

The Love Dragon.