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Harry Potter
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Chapter One: The Planning
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Nineteen year old Harry Potter looked out over the waves crashing against the massive seawall that protected the coastal city of Peterhead Scotland. Beside him was his backpack and tent and leaning against the pack was the mountain bike he had purchased in London. In the distance, a pair of blue and silver ships was heading out to sea to do whatever they were meant to do. With a sigh he pulled out a bottle of water and took a drink as he thought of his life of the last eight years. He had defeated Voldemort but that had caused him so many problems. Instead of the Boy-Who-Lived he was now the Man-Who-Conquered and had no life. At first it was ok, but then it turned into a nightmare as he couldn't even walk down Hogsmead let alone Diagon Alley without being mobbed and flying was out of the question unless it was at the burrow.
Then there was Mrs. Weasley trying to get him back together with Ginny saying they were going to be married and they would be a big happy family. Who was the woman to think she had a right to tell him who he was going to marry, besides Ginny was dating Dean Thomas. The last two weeks at the burrow had been a nightmare, so early one morning he had packed his shit and floo'd to Number 12 where he started to repair the house with Kreacher's help. He finally had to disable the floo because Molly Weasley kept calling him and yelling at him that he had to obey her because she was his mother and knew what was best and demanded he come back to the Burrow. He had refused and that made her angrier so he had Kreacher shut off the floo, and bar her from the house.
With Minister Shacklebolts help he had gotten his full inheritance from Gringotts but the constant snide remarks of 'thief' from the Goblins got to him. It was getting so bad when he went outside he wanted to just start drinking but then if anyone knew he was drinking he'd be called a drunk or a disgrace to his parents legacy. Like they knew what his parents would say. The mail he was getting was ridiculous and including naked pictures, food laced with love potions, and charmed mail to find this or that female as his lover. Thank god for Kreacher and his ability to detect the magics. He was also getting demands from the Ministry to A, finish his seventh year or B, become an auror to help track down the remaining death eaters. He had enough of fighting and didn't feel like returning to school to be stared at and dodging potions in his food from fan girls. What had hurt the most was Andromeda Tonks started blaming him for the death of her daughter and then barring him from his visiting rights to his godson Teddy. One day, a new plan was formed in his mind.
On the warm summer day of July first, he had gone to the alley in a disguise that Kreacher had put on him. Using his vault key he purchased a trio of seven compartment trunks, a four bedroom wizard tent that looked like a pup tent, and a backpack that had space enlargement and weight reducing charms on it. After buying the trunks and tent he had his eyes fixed and then he went to Gringotts, where he emptied his accounts and converted three quarters of it into pounds sterling, which he deposited in Barclays. He then vanished from the wizardly world after buying a ton of books, completed potions and potion ingredients as well as a pair of new Firebolt brooms.
Once in muggle London, he rented a motel room then went shopping. He filled the kitchen of his tent with food supplies, set up one of the bedrooms as an office/library and the second as a potion lab while the other two stayed as bedrooms. With Kreacher's help he set up the rest of the tent and then tied it to the side of the pack. The pack had his sleeping bag tied to the bottom of it and he filled it with new muggle clothes along with four pairs of shoes and two pairs of hiking boots along with some camping gear and food. A small collapsible military shovel was tied to the other side of the pack to balance out the load. Before he sent Kreacher to Hogwarts to help out rebuilding the castle he had him cast charms on himself to prevent detection and mail wards so he couldn't be found. Any mail would be routed to one of the upstairs bedrooms of number 12. His last purchase he made was a pair of sturdy mountain bikes that he could ride along with tools to maintain them as well as spare tires, inner tubes and a hand pump. With one bike as a spare and placed in the tent and the other his primary, he set off to see his home country for the first time in his life.
Harry decided to stay near the coast. He'd never seen the ocean as he grew up, so he took a train to Portsmouth. He started exploring Portsmouth, where he was amazed by the old city and saw everything he could. One day, after he saw the HMS Victory, he was left chilled as he read about how hundreds of men who sailed the mighty ship and went into combat with nothing but wooden walls to protect them from the weight of iron the enemy would throw at them. It was when he saw the captain's cabin that he saw the ghost. The ghost was pacing around the desk and then would lean down and point at a spot on the map that was laid out on the desk and mutter orders to men that were not there. Harry had stood there watching and that's when the ghost noticed him and looked at him with such intensity that Harry had left the ship, not knowing the ghost had followed him back to his rented room. Harry had closed the door to his room and turned around and jumped in surprise when he saw the image looking at him from across the room. After a few seconds Harry introduced himself and the ghost had as well. The next several hours they conversed and Harry learned that he was the man who led the fleet to victory over the French and Spanish fleets.
Harry told him about the war in magical Britain and how so many had perished and how he couldn't go anywhere without being mobbed and groped. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté gave him some sound advice. With that advice in mind the next morning, Harry left Portsmouth and headed north up the coast of England and into Scotland. Sometimes he traveled by train but most of the time it was by his bike. The advice Admiral Nelson gave him said he would know what he was looking for when he found it in his heart, and as Harry sat on the hill overlooking the town of Peterhead he thought … no, he knew he had found his new home.
Standing up, he slung his pack onto his back, and mounted his bike to ride into the town to find an inn to stay. Hopefully, later, he would find a job so he could keep busy even if he didn't have to work for a living, what with his inheritance. It was mid August and the wind had a bite into it as he rode into town.
In less than two weeks, the Hogwarts express would head back to Hogwarts.
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Edit By TeNderLoin
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