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Edited 10/3/17

"Demon" - Talking

'Demon' - Thinking

Chapter 4

It was later that night at around 7:30 that he heard his uncle come home from work. He was surprised that his uncle actually worked on a Saturday since he always said that the weekends were for families spending time together. When he heard his uncle go into the kitchen where his aunt was cooking their dinner; he went back to his 4th year DADA book. He just started on the 5th chapter which is about the Abarimon.

The Abarimon were a race that had backwards feet that still had great speeds despite it. They lived side by side with the wild and were very hard to capture because they were so savage. They lived in a great valley of the Himalayan Mountains which was called Mount Imaus before it was changed. It's advised that if one comes across one is to just leave them alone and get out of there as fast as one can. It wasn't a big chapter; the rest of it was the description of what they looked like and their living conditions and life styles.

"THAT FREAK SAID WHAT!?" His Uncle's yell snapped him back to reality before he could start the 6th chapter. He looked at his clock and saw that it was 7:56. He realized that his uncle has been home long enough for his aunt to have told him about the short conversation they had earlier today. "I'LL TEACH THAT UNGRATEFUL LITTLE BRAT A LESSON HE WILL NEVER FORGET!"

"VERNON!" shrieked his Aunt. "If you touch him then the other freaks will find out and use their freakishness on us as punishment. I will not have my son contaminated by that unnaturalness! Do you understand me?" she started off a little bit more quietly and calmly until the last part where she sounded a little bit hysterical.

"But…" he started.

"NO! Leave it alone. He will stay in his room and we will go back to pretending that he doesn't exist. We have spent too much time on the ungrateful freak as it is. I will not spend any more on him. When Marge gets here we will keep her away from him and the topic of him. Do you understand?" Harry guessed that his Uncle gave a nod when she continued. "Now, dinner is almost done so why don't you go to the living room and relax. You worked hard today so go sit and relax." She ended lovingly.

"Yes, Pet." He said submissively and gave his lovely wife a kiss on her right cheek that made her smile. Going into the living room to sit in his chair, he turned on the telly to his favorite show and forgot all about the ungrateful freak he had living in the smallest bedroom upstairs.

Harry let out a sigh of relief. He wasn't ready for a confrontation with his Uncle just yet. He wasn't strong physically nor can he use his magic against him either with the underage restriction on magic. He needed a weapon: a muggle weapon. He plans on using a knife from the kitchen that he still needed to get.

"I will be bloody damned if I just take the abuse anymore. If he comes after me – which is only a matter of time before that happens – I will be ready for him." He muttered to Hedwig who was on her cage cleaning her feathers. She had returned after a short flight around the yard since she couldn't leave with the Wards in place. He was just glad that the Headmaster allowed enough room for her to fly about when she wanted.

When he said something, she stopped and looked at him as if to say that she was listening to him. Encouraged, he went on. "I think it's about time that I took steps to protect myself. It would be really bad that I died from a fat walrus like muggle but can survive the darkest most powerful Dark Lord in centuries." Hedwig hooted in what sounded like agreement. "I should have gotten the knife earlier today before he got back. I am just lucky that Aunt Petunia was able to stop him before he did anything." He went on sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.

He shook his head to clear it; he would just get the knife later when he went down to get something to eat. He needed to start eating regularly so that he can get healthier and stronger. He had Voldemort, his Death Eaters, and maybe even Dumbledore, gunning for him. He's still iffy about him but it's not looking good at all. He also needs to find out if his friends are his friends or just using him for some reason.

For now, the only thing he can do is revise everything from the past 5 years. Since he's been slacking in his studies he knows that he missed a lot of information that can help him survive what is to come. The only thing that he doesn't need to revise in is Divination because he's not a Seer and that subject can't really be taught to be used by non-Seers. So he won't waste his time on it when he could focus more on a subject that he has more trouble with like potions.

In consideration of his decision to revise everything – starting with first year DADA – he needed to create a schedule to motivate him to get moving and to keep him going. The hardest would be potions – his worst subject – and history of magic seeing that he always falls asleep in that class. If it wasn't for Hermione's notes he would have failed a long time ago; though his grades are in the low bottom in that class regardless.

He got up off his bed to go to his trunk and dug around until he found parchment and more ink. He had a little bit of ink and a quill on his desks so he didn't dig out another quill. He went to his desk and laid everything out for ready use. After he sat down he picked up his quill to ink after he unstopped the bottle and got ready to write out a schedule for himself. The first two drafts were thrown out considering it seemed that something was missing from it. Thinking about it for a couple of minutes, he got that light bulb above the head moment and started to write excitedly. When he was done he was satisfied with the finish product.

Schedule: the only thing that would change is the subject per day

6:00am - 6:15am – Bathroom routine

6:15am – 7:30am – Exercise (stretches, sit ups, pushups, etc.)

7:30am – 8:15am – Breakfast

8:15am – 1:00pm – Start with first year subject of the day and go from there

1:00pm – 1:45pm – Lunch

1:45pm – 6:30pm – Finish reading the books that are left

6:30pm – 7:15pm – Dinner

7:15pm – 8:30pm – Revise what was learned that day

8:30pm – 10:00pm – Free time (including more stretching and showering)

10:00pm – 6:00am – Sleep

He added exercises because he knew wizards are lazy and he needed to have more stamina then his opponent as well as better reflexes. He would have added running but he knew that the guards that are watching the house would stop him before he got too far. So he can only do exercises that can be done in the house. He would also have liked to learn how to fight hand to hand since wizards and witches depend on their wands way too much; including him unfortunately.

Glancing at the clock, he saw that it was quarter past nine. "Wow, it took that long to get a schedule created?" he muttered in surprise. He looked at Hedwig and saw that she had her head under her wing sleeping. It saddened him that she couldn't go out and spread her wings because of the ward preventing her from truly flying free. He got up and went to pet her head softly. "One day, girl, you will no longer be caged and be able to fly the sky whenever you want." He told her softly with promise.

He gave her one last rub before going to his door and opening it quietly knowing that the Dursleys were sleeping. He crept out his room, down the stairs and to the kitchen. He paused inside the door to make sure that he didn't wake them up. When he heard nobody getting up, he went to the cold box to get the lunch meat out with the mustard before putting everything on the counter. He next got the bread out to make a quick sandwich before putting everything back and getting the milk out for a cup.

He ate the sandwich there then cleaned the plate he used to put his sandwich on while he chewed. When he put the now cleaned plate up, he paused to make sure that the others were still asleep. When he was sure no one was coming down he went to the knife drawer and took out a butcher knife. He paused again to double check that nobody was coming down; he carefully put the knife into his back pocket for safe keeping. He knew it would have been better – not only safer for him – if he were to hold the knife in his hand except that he knew that if the Dursleys were to ever see him with a knife it could end up turning to a bloodbath in a heartbeat. So he decided to put it in his back pocket where he usually put his wand.

He grabbed his glass of milk before slowly and stiffly going back to his room. He made absolutely sure that he never bent his right leg to prevent from stabbing himself. It took a little bit longer going up the stairs but he thought it would be more than worth it to have a weapon to protect himself with. When he got back he went to his bed to hide the knife under his pillow with the handle facing the room and the sharp edge facing the wall after putting his glass of milk on his desk. He sat down with a relieved sigh at not having to hold his body so stiffly to prevent him from getting cut. He pick up his book to finish reading what was left of his DADA book still being careful with not stabbing himself with the knife.

'At least I now have some form of protection against those beasts.' He thought in satisfaction.

Around 10:13pm he was done with the book and his milk. Getting up, he went to use the bathroom quickly, came back, turned the lights off and went to bed knowing that he had a full day the next day – or rather week. It took a couple of minutes before he was able to fall asleep. It was the quickest that has ever happen to him since the Ministry of Magic fiasco.

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A/N: There will be a time skip the next chapter. I will start on the day of the Gringotts trip. I will say what happened during the week up to that day but it will be an overview. I hope you review and tell me how you thought of my story. Thank you to everybody who read and liked my story so far. I said this in the last chapter, put I did put up a pairing pole for Harry, it's on my profile and I hope that you vote for the pair you want. Please review.