Chapter two:

When the Hogwarts Express wasn't far from King Cross Station anymore Harry sighed. Now he needed to go back to the Dursleys, back to "his" cupboard, back to his wizard hating relatives. He had to go back to his live of being a slave. When he looked around he saw Ron and Hermione looking at him.

"Are you okay Harry?" Hermione asked "We have been trying to ask you something for at least five minutes."

Harry noticed that she and Ron were wearing concerned expressions. "I'm okay guys, really." He added after seeing Ron looking as if he didn't believe him. "I was just thinking about how much life has changed and the difference between Hogwarts and the Dursleys."

Well it wasn't a complete lie. Harry thought.

"Oh, okay, but, anyways, I was trying to ask you if you would want to come and stay with me the last two weeks of the holiday?" Ron asked him.

"Sure, mate." Harry said. "Are you sure it is okay with your mom, I mean, I don't want to be a burden."

"Harry, you won't be a burden, my mum specifically asked me to ask you if you wanted to stay with us." Harry nodded and smiled. At that moment the train arrived at the station and the three started to pack up their stuff.

When Harry came out the Hogwarts Express he didn't have time to look around before Mrs. Weasley gave him a bone-crushing hug.

"Oh my dear, I am so happy you three made it out there alive. How dare you do that, the teachers are perfectly capable of protecting that themselves. But I'm so happy you all are still alive." By this time Harry felt that he was in desperate need of some air.

"Mom," Ron interrupted "Mom, he still needs air."

Fortunately Mrs. Weasley him go. Harry just stood there for a few seconds, trying to get some air to his lungs. Mrs. Weasley came walking to him, after lecturing the twins on the pranks they had played that year, and asked him if Ron had indeed asked him to stay at the Burrow for the last two weeks of the holiday. Harry just nodded and Mrs. Weasley told him to come with them through the passage. At that moment he realised he still hadn't seen the Dursleys. He asked Mrs. Weasley about it.

"Well if the Dursleys are a family in which the males are big in their waist and the women are quite skinny, I believe they are waiting just outside the passage." Harry replied that that were indeed the Dursleys and that he better should hurry. With one last hug he said goodbye to Ron and Hermione and went through the passage.

"Well, finally you are here boy, it took you long enough." His uncle Vernon said to him as soon as they noticed him.

"I'm sorry" Harry murmured.

"Yeah you better be sorry, Freak." Snapped uncle Vernon at him. "Get in the car and don't you dare to eat anything from Dudley's sweets."

Harry just nodded and putted his trunk in the back of the car and sat on top of it. He knew he wasn't supposed to sit in the backseat. He always had to sit in the back with his trunk. Not that he complained about it. It was better than sitting in the backseat with Dudley giving him punches all the time. He listened as His aunt and uncle stepped in with their "precious" Dudley, who grinned at him.

Back at Privet Drive his uncle dragged Harry out the car and dumped him in his cupboard. He locked the cupboard and spoke to Harry through a small window.

"You are going to stay in here unless we tell you different, you will do all we say and we will absolutely not accept any of your freakiness. I will put all your stuff away and you won't get access to it all summer. Do you understand that boy?"

Harry said with a small voice: "Yes Uncle Vernon."

"Well said Freak."

The following two weeks Harry was let out his cupboard at six o'clock in the morning, He had to have prepared a complete English breakfast, readied the table and dusted the eating room by eight. If he was lucky he got it all done and het got a sandwich and a glass of water. If he hadn't finished it he wouldn't get anything and he would have to wait for lunch. If he really had bad luck his uncle would also slap him. After that he got different chores to do. Every day was different. He always got a list for the morning and had to have lunch ready by one in the afternoon. If he hadn't he wouldn't get lunch and a kick from Dudley. He then got a list for the afternoon and would have to have dinner ready by seven. If he was lucky he got three sandwiches and three glasses of water a day. If he had bad luck he got none. After dinner he would get ten minutes in the bathroom. If he went over the ten minutes his uncle would punch him. After that he went to his cupboard to sleep until six the next morning. Saturdays were different, he still had to prepare breakfast, but it was to be ready at a later time. Which meant he had more time. After that his uncle decided to check his freakiness. If he had done anything freaky, he got a beating, the more freakiness he showed. The more he got beaten. The Dursleys were very clever in their beatings. He always had bruises at places where it would look like he had just fallen out a tree or something. It never showed that he was abused.

Harry was gasping in his cupboard. His uncle had just decided that he had done something freakish, Harry didn't even know what, and had beaten him quite hard in his ribs. Harry was sure there was at least one bruised and probably more. Harry didn't know what he had done wrong to have to live with the Dursleys. Why had he been placed here, why had no one ever tried to get him out. Harry closed his eyes and the darkness overtook him.

Outside the house a man had been watching Harry. He knew Harry must been thinking why no one ever tried to come and get him. Oh, if Harry only knew how much he wanted to, but Dumbledore would never let him. He had seen the uncle beating Harry. He really wished he could take Harry. He remembered that once he had looked up at Dumbledore. He had thought the man never could make mistakes. Until he had placed Harry with his aunt and uncle and had ignored Lily's and James' will. At that moment he saw the door opening and Harry himself stepped out the door.

A short time before Harry had woken up with his head pounding. His back was hurting and he just wanted to get out of here. He decided he would. He would just go away. He wanted to get his stuff, but then he thought of something. Where was he going to stay and how was he going to get there. After he had thought of it, he decided he would go to the leaky cauldron first. There he would write a letter to Ron, asking if he could stay there for the time being. He would take a room in the leaky cauldron, hoping he was able to, if the Weasleys couldn't take him. He would go to the leaky cauldron with the Knight Bus. He had heard Ron talking about it. He just had to stick his wand out and it would appear in front of him. But that brought another problem. He had to get his stuff. Silently he slipped out his cupboard. The Dursleys were already asleep and fortunately they were heavy sleepers. After a quick thought he remembered his uncle putting his trunk and Hedwig in another cupboard, next to the door. That cupboard was mostly locked, but Harry knew how to pick a lock. He got his stuff out and listened if it had awoken the Dursleys. Thank merlin, they were still asleep. Harry got his stuff and stepped out the door.

A/N: Well first I am amazed at how much people have already read this story and it has just been online for a day. Really that's great! And it's my first story, it's even the first time I've written something in English!

I wanted to give an answer for the review I got, so here it comes: Well, I also really like Ron, so don't worry about that, I think Harry and Ron are like brothers and Ron can be dumb sometimes, but he won't be all the time and I think he can actually be very clever. As for Neville, yes they will become better friends, but I don't know yet how quick that will go I have an idea at how the relationships are in the end, but I'm not going to say that just yet. I'm not sure about Luna, but Ginny will join them. But you will have to wait for it to see how. Snape will come around in the end, but that won't be the next two years or something and I don't know if he will ever become a big person. I hope you can rad between the lines for the last answer. I know it is a lot, just wait or I don't know yet. But a lot of the answers on the questions you asked are going to play a key role and I don't want to give the whole story away.

I also wanted to say that the title will be explained in the next chapter or the chapter after that.