Disclaimer: See Ch. 1

Hi guys. Sorry if my chapters are short in the beginning, but they will get much longer once I hit the Wizarding world. There just isn't much that I wanted to add until we get to Hogwarts. So enjoy, and look forward to longer chapters coming soon!

Harry sat in his dumpster lit only by a small glowing orb, reading his new Batman comic when he heard a knocking on the metal of his little home. Cautiously he opened the lid to find a smiling blond haired blue eye girl.

"Hi! You must be Harry; my name's Alyssa. I'm from the Dagger. We were wondering if you would like to join our little group for the day?" Harry stared at her in shock. Here was his chance to figure out if he wanted to be a part of the Dagger! So he nodded and followed after an excited Alyssa.

After walking for about ten minutes, they finally reached a small shack on the edge of the forest. The shack itself looked small, but as Harry knew from past experiences, looks can be deceiving. And Harry was right. On the inside, the space seemed much larger with the brightly painted walls to the comfortable looking chairs. Why, they even had a fireplace. All of this looked like heaven compared to Harry's current living space aka a dumpster.

Occupying one of the chairs was a large burly man that Harry believed was Chuck. He was hard to miss around town, but his charming attitude and semi-decent clothes left him unnoticed to regular people. But for street people, he was known as a high-class street teen. From what the stories told he had ran away at seventeen. Too old to be recruited, he started his own gang, named after his trusty dagger, and his skills with it.

Another chair held a slightly smaller boy, but still big for being about fourteen. Shawn wasn't known around town very well, and he liked it that way. But Harry wasn't the majority. Harry made sure to know about everybody and anybody that could be of use to him, or a possible enemy.

"Ah, you must be Harry," Chuck said, "are you ten yet?"

"Today sir."

"Pah, don't call me sir. It makes me sound old. Name's Chuck. Thought you might like to hang with us for a day, see if you would want to join us?"

"Sure," Harry said with a calm expression, but in his head he was smiling hugely.

"So who wants to see who can snag the biggest prize?" Chuck just smiled at Alyssa's enthusiasm and nodded.

"Sure. Why don't we give harry the reward, regardless if he decides to stay with us. Think of it as a birthday gift."

"Thanks," Harry replied as they walked out of the door. In the end, Chuck got the biggest prize, a sterling silver ring, which Chuck gave him a chain for, as it was too big to fit him.

"So Harry, what do you think," Alyssa asked at the end of the day,

"I think I would love to join!" And so was the beginning of an era.

1 Year Later

"Hey Harry," Alyssa yelled from the other side of the room, "It's almost been a year since you've been with us. Whatcha wanna do to celebrate?"

"Well," Harry started, but was interrupted by a huge owl banging at their window. The Dagger looked at each other it confusion. Owls weren't native to the land. And why was it holding a letter addressed to Harry?