Hi everyone! This is my first fanfiction. Before you'll start reading, I want to warn you about some things. Firstly, I'm from Ukraine, and I'm not a native English speaker. I have only B1 level in language, so there's going to be really a lot of different mistakes(please, tell me about them in comments). Secondly,fanfictionwill be about child abuse theme. And finally, I don't own Harry Potter or any of J. K. Rowling's characters or her stories.That's all. I hope you'll enjoy this story!
~"Home"~
Morning. It was the first he thought about. Aunt's yelling, noises from the kitchen, and sounds of starting the car. Exactly morning. Not that he was surprised, but the last time he remembered was lunchtime. Most likely he fainted again, just while doing his chores, and uncle Vernon moved him to his cupboard.
Unfortunately for him, it wasn't a good occurrence, even not because he worried about his health, no, but because he knew that just after his aunt will notice that he's already awake, he would need to finish all yesterday's and today's chores. But he just can't. All the dizziness, weaknesses, pain, and hunger that feel will never let him continue work until the uncle comes home.
He hated this helpless feeling. This cycle repeated day today: he wakes up, cooks breakfast, gets an impossible-to-do list of daily chores, doesn't finish them in time and Vernon beats him. And he even hasn't got a chance to stop all this. He just couldn't let anyone know about it.
When he was seven, Dudley's band had badly hit him during the break at school. He came to class beaten with bruises and a broken wrist. His teacher – Ms. Martin noticed that and had left him after lessons. She rang his aunt and called the school nurse, who told him to take his shirt off. Except for the new ones, they discovered some other, almost healed bruises. Of course, they said that he can tell them anything about his home life or something. He was too young to understand and answered that his relatives don't love him a lot. After Petunia came, Ms. Martin had a long conversation with her. That evening, when his uncle came home, he beat him hardly, than ever before and said that if he'd tell anybody again- the consequences would be much worse.
After this case, Harry always tried to hide all evidence of his household. Even when he came to Hogwarts he put up only long-sleeved clothes. Sometimes Ron or Hermione noticed bruises and asked how has he got them. But the last times they most likely didn't trust his excuses about fights or falling down the stairs.
Before the ending of last year, Harry went to the library and found some glamor charms. So, he'll arrive at King's Cross earlier, get to the train's bathroom and use this spell to make him look normally. He didn't see another way out.
Actually, his uncle didn't punish him so hard during the last years. All this began after aunt's Marge visit. It was three weeks ago. She always hated Harry and started to insult his parents. And after the outgiving that his parents crashed because they were driving drunk, he inflated her by the accidental magic. He never saw uncle Vernon so angry. After the ministry workers are gone, he got up to Harry's room and said that this isn't his room any more and he's going to live in his old cupboard again. But it wasn't all punishment, the main part began when an uncle took off his belt. Vernon hit him so many times, that he could say there was nothing left of his back. He could no longer feel all this pain and was so happy that after another beat he finally felt the saving darkness and went into it. When Harry awoke the next day, he realized that uncle wasn't joking about moving to the cupboard. After a few minutes, Petunia opened the door and gave a list of tasks that he had to do. When he asked her about getting some food after dinner she shouted at him and said that he'll deserve to eat only if he does all chores, which meant – never. Last Saturdays Harry was writing letters to Ron and Hermione under the control of his uncle because Dursleys were worried so that no one knows about his relatives' treatment.
After one of these beatings, besides the old weakness and malnutrition symptoms, he started to feel troubles with breathing. Maybe some of his ribs were broken or cracked.
This morning, the 30th of August, wasn't an exception to the cycle. Vernon has calmed a bit and last week was ignoring Harry. He had cooked all meals and even finished his work in time. But while washing the dishes after dinner he felt really bad dizziness and fell with the loud noise of crashing plates. Uncle turned to him instantly. Harry knew that nothing good is going to happen and he needs to do something. In the next second all dishware were standing in neat piles on the table.
«WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? - Vernon yelled hysterically. WE GAVE YOU A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD, CLOTHED YOU, FED YOU. AND THAT'S HOW YOU THANKS THE US!?»
He finally exploded all anger and hatred on his nephew. Then he told Petunia with Dudley to go out for a walk because «he is going to deal with a freak». After that grabbed him by the shirt and threw it in the middle of the living room.
Uncle's face turned purple as the seconds were passing. He turned his head looking for a belt, but it wasn't there. Harry relaxed a bit feeling small dizziness and relief, but then he saw that uncle's hand is approaching him. Than he felt a thin trickle of blood that flowed from his lip. The next hit came from Vernon's leg. It was really hard and hit clearly in the stomach. The pain level shocked him. The first that Harry thought was: «Perhaps he decided to kill me and pointed to some of the important organs». Then the darkness swallowed him up again.
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