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Harry Potter and the Beauxbatons

Fanfic by rooster24

Chapter 1: a trip to France

It was morning in little whinging in Surrey, England in number 4 privet drive a family lived to the outside world. They were a nice and caring family who was kind to others. But to one boy living with them it was an unending nightmare unable to escape, Harry Potter at the age of 8 was hardly ever fed anything and commonly abused by his aunt and uncle as well as his cousin and his friends, this caused Harry to have no friends of his own out of fear of also being bullied by his cousin. Harry had just finished school for the summer at St. Gregory's and it was a long holiday which he dreaded each year.

Sound asleep little harry didn't know what awaited him that day all he knew was that it wasn't going to be any good his mornings started at 5:30 in the morning and his days did not end till gone 11 in the evening not leaving much time to get comfy and sleep on a mouldy old mattress in a broom cupboard under the stairs parts if it is green and yellow from piss stains and mould harry laid curled in a ball hunched over in pain because he was not allowed to eat the day before as well as trying not to piss himself from having an over-full bladder which no 8 years old should have to go through and he was locked in by two bolts on the door one at the top and one at the bottom of the door at 5:30 there was pounding on the door causing harry to flinch.

"GET YOUR LAZY ARS OUT OF BED NOW! AND MAKE BREAKFAST! " his aunt Petunia yelled through the door and unlocked the bolts with a lot of force.

Harry slowly got up from the bed and opened the door and went to go up the stairs to go to the toilet when his cousin Dudley pushed past him slamming him into the wall and punching him in the gut the force from the punch had caused him to slide to the floor and his bladder to let go and pissed himself which his uncle Vernon saw and went into a fuming rage at Harry.

"YOU HAVE PISSED ALL OVER THE CARPET YOU FREAK! YOU WILL CLEAR IT UP AND MAKE BREAKFAST! " Vernon shouted at Harry while Dudley laughed and then Vernon leaned next to Harry's ear "and boy you best remember I will punish you later for pissing on my CARPET!" After Vernon told Harry what was going to happen, he pinched Harry's right ear so tightly it went 5 different shades of red and purple and launched him into the cooker "BREAKFAST! NOW!"

Harry started cooking breakfast for his aunt, uncle, and cousin, knowing that Vernon likes bacon and eggs he makes them hoping to get a slightly less painful punishment but that did not go as planned, the fire alarm went off due to it being too sensitive, and Harry forgot to turn the heat down on the frying pan which caused the bacon and eggs to burn slightly. When Harry noticed this he gulped and served it to Vernon who had an extremely disgusted look on his face "YOU CAN'T DO EVEN ONE TASK CORRECTLY CAN YOU, YOU FREAK! HERE LET ME SHOW YOU HOW IT'S MEANT TO BE!" Vernon yelled at Harry, making him flinch as he grabbed Harry's left hand and placed it on the frying pan scorching and cooking the flesh, Harry cried and screamed and passed out from the excruciating pain that had been inflicted upon him.

When Harry woke up he was on his bed he looked at his hand which was clearly burned and numb with pain all he could do was cry because no matter what he did to the hand he could not feel it anymore, Harry got off the bed and went to find Vernon of Petunia nether was home only Dudley he looked at Harry and told him to start cleaning the floor and that he was to punish him. Harry went and started cleaning the floor where he had urinated when Dudley came out into the hallway "your punishment is to be whipped until you have cleaned the floor completely" he explained as the sound of a belt on his back rang through the house.

CRACK

CRACK

CRACK

Once Harry had finished an hour later his back was covered in cuts and blood when his uncle and aunt came back home with shopping and ignored him completely, luckily for Harry his body healed quickly that night all that was left was scars, scabs and welts, dried blood caused Harry's top which was five sizes too big for him to cling to his back and when he tried to unstick it from his back reopened the scabs when he was able to take the top off he had passed out again from pain and loss of blood.

When Harry woke up the next day he looked at his burnt hand and tried touching it again but still couldn't feel anything, he could hold stuff into the hand but he couldn't feel the texture of anything all there was, was a numbing sensation after harry put a clean top on and was released from his 'room' his uncle told him and his cousin they were going on holiday to France and because they couldn't find a sitter for Harry he had to come along as well much to their disapproval. At Heathrow Airport as they were walking to the check-in desk Vernon turned around to Harry "Now listen carefully boy, you will not do anything to disturb the holiday you will not make a sound from now until we get back got it?" Vernon asked and Harry silently and shakily nodded, and they continued on their way once they were checked in and seated very uncomfortably for Harry because of his back Harry closed his eyes to imagine what France was like.

After a while, Harry woke up due to Dudley kicking the back of his chair violently causing him more pain but he soon forgot about Dudley as he saw the Eiffel tower below him the only thoughts going through 8-year-old Harry's mind right now was how cool it looked, once they landed in France Vernon went to look for a car to rent and Dudley started bullying Harry and because Dudley tripped and fell on his shoelaces which was untied Petunia was angry at Harry when she saw him smiling, when Harry noticed this he went deathly pale, Vernon reappeared with a car and they all got in and headed for a hotel they got two rooms, one for Dudley and home for Vernon and Petunia and Harry was in with them to keep him 'under control' once they were in their room Vernon basically threw Harry into a wall "thought it was funny did you seeing Dudley on the floor, did you do it? You freak" Vernon questioned him Harry quickly shook his head "no, sir I didn't" harry pleaded "worst thing your drunken parents did was leave us with you" Vernon snapped at him and threw him across the room giving Harry carpet burn on his right side and reopening some of the scabs, Harry curled into a ball and cried as they left and locked the door leaving Harry in the room.

Crying himself to sleep slowly he kept wishing for a family to love him like he had done for every Christmas and birthday since he can remember especially as his birthday was in three weeks' time on the 31st of July. When harry awoke the next morning he and his relatives went down to the cafe to get something to eat everyone but harry had bacon, eggs and tea but harry had a croissant and butter with juice, under the table Dudley kept kicking harry in the leg and shin each time getting harder and harder, "come on let's get moving I want to see how different the French zoo is compared to the one back home" Vernon said to Petunia and Dudley, when they had gotten up to leave due to the constant kicking harry and almost fell to the floor because of his leg being bruised and painful but he placed his scorched hand on the table to stop himself falling not being able to feel the table which he knee felt like wood which a thin strip of metal across the edge if the table because he felt it with his other hand at the same time when he was sitting and eating, a mind numbing pain we t through Harry's hand from the pressure on the seared tissue and flesh of the hand, his face twisted with pain as he tried ever so hard not to scream and cry. But unbeknownst to harry and his relatives an 8-year-old girl with silver blond hair and dark blue eyes was watching them when she realised it was Harry Potter sitting across from them and had a face of shock and horror when she saw his hand she turned to her father, mother, and sister "papa, mama, can we go to ze zoo? Please" the girl asked and they both agreed, and they all got up to leave.

The girl walked to the door and stood waiting first while her sister and parents went to pay for their meal while waiting she saw Harry getting into a car but he had his head bowed as if he was apologising when the man he was with struck him against the face causing him to fall to the floor this caused the girl to jolt and flinch as Harry got up slowly holding his right cheek which looks slightly swollen and got in the car with them. At the zoo Harry had finally managed to sneak away from the Dursleys and was looking round in awe of the place when he found himself in the snake section he found a chair of the in front of a python enclosure and sat down with his legs curled up to his chest staring at the python after an hour he got up to leave when Dudley came in and found him and started to walk towards him, when Harry spotted him it was too late and he grabbed Harry by the scruff of his top and pulled him close to the python pen where the snake rose up and looked at the boys when suddenly the glass vanished and they both fell in out of panic Dudley got out and ran but Harry was left staring eye to eye with the python when the glass suddenly reappeared and shattered the girl with silver blond hair walked in at the time and saw everything happen and ran to get help and when she returned the python was curled on Harry's lap with Harry either asleep or passed out when the boy came to he was in an office alone or he thought he was till he turned to see a girl with silver hair but he remained silent "hello, harry" the girl said to him with a smile "h-hello, how do-do you know who I am" he asked very sheepishly then looked around more "wh-where's the snake?" he asked in conjunction "the snake is in a new enclosure, I was surprised when I saw it on your lap coiled because the last two people to try to feed it, it tried to attack, and everyone in the wizarding world knows who you are harry, you stopped the darkest wizard of all time when you was still a baby" she said with so much admiration and a big smile but harry looked at her confused "b-but there is no such thing as ma-magic everyone knows that and I need to get back to my relatives" he said cowardly when the girl grabbed both his hands without thinking "my name is Gabrielle Delacour, my parents will be here soon so please wait with me" Harry jolted his left hand away and held it tightly to his side to avoid it being seen and for some reason at that time he decided to stay with her when her Gabrielle's parents and sister walked in and gave them a hug each then she introduced him to them "mama, papa, Fleur, this is Harry, Harry Potter" Fleur went wide eyed at here his name and monsieur Delacour held his hand out and Harry looked shy and skinny when he slowly held his hand to shake it trying to hide his other hand in the overly long sleeve "hello harry, I am monsieur Delacour, you can call me mon, this is my wife Apolline and my daughter Fleur and you have met Gabrielle" monsieur Delacour introduced "he-hello" harry shook his hand and bowed slightly so the top didn't rub his back "i-i must be leaving my aunt and uncle might be looking for me" he quietly said to them and started to leave when he turned around to Gabrielle "I h-hope that I can see you again" and ran out.

Gabrielle turned to her parents "papa mama, is there anything we can do I saw harry pushed into a snake pen and he was being abused by them and he doesn't know about magic he thinks it's not real " she asked teary-eyed monsieur and Apolline looked at each other " I can try, but I can't promise anything" later that day they went to the French ministry of magic. Back at the hotel Vernon and Dudley turned on Harry Vernon shoving Harry into a radiator and then to the floor "thought it was funny, did you?" Vernon snarled and Harry shook his head "n-no, sir I didn't, and I don't know what you mean" this caused Dudley to kick Harry's stomach "the snake pen you freak! you almost trapped me in there! " Dudley snapped and kick his back again curling into a ball to protect his head Harry was helpless to do anything when suddenly a burst of energy pushed Dudley onto the bed "YOU FREAK! YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT!" Dudley shouted and started kicking Harry harder when suddenly there was a crunch from Harry's shoulder which caused him unending pain till Dudley finally stopped for the night and went to his room and left "you are worse than your freak drunk parents!" Petunia snarled at Harry and then they got ready to sleep for the night leaving Harry to sleep on the floor of his aunts and uncles room, Harry curled into a ball t try and get as comfortable on the carpet as possible and crawled next to the radiator for some sort of warmth that was being produced.

Author's notes: I hope everyone enjoyed the first chapter I will start working on the second one now as I have a vague idea of where to go from here