Chapter One: Harry's Desire
Just five years ago, Harry Potter
was a normal boy. There was nothing unusual about him in anyway. Unless you account
for the times when he was upset or angry, and then not so normal things
happened. Then one day, he got a letter in the mail. Of course his Uncle Vernon
tried desperately to keep Harry from getting his letter, but he was
unsuccessful. He even moved the whole family to a hut in the middle of the sea.
But that didn't change the sender of the letters determination. They sent
Hagrid, the gamekeeper of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, to
deliver Harry's letter to him personally. Harry's life changed dramatically.
Not only did he find out that he was a wizard, but that his parents where also
and that they weren't killed in a car crash. They were killed by Lord
Voldemort, and when he tried to kill baby Harry his powers broke. When this
happened, it left Harry with a scar on his forehead in the shape of a lightning
bolt. Harry then went to live with his aunt and uncle, who were both very
against magic.1
Over the years, Harry's life at Hogwarts was anything but dull. He, Ron
Weasley, and Hermione Granger had a specialty for "meddlin' in things that
ought not to be meddled in".2 Harry had also had face to face confrontations
with Lord Voldemort himself. There was no doubt that he wanted revenge for what
Lord Voldemort had done to him. But Harry also had a desire to know his
parents. He got to see them in the Mirror of Erised 3, but he could not hug
them or hear them speak to him.
Harry lay awake in his bed,
listening as the other boys in the dormitory snored as they slept. He wondered
about how things maybe if his parents were still alive. What kind of house
would they live in? Would he have siblings? What would his life be like? He
would have probably been friends with Ron way before coming to Hogwarts. He definitely
wouldn't have that constant reminder on his forehead of Lord Voldemort's
actions that caused him to be orphaned. "I need to go to sleep," Harry thought
to himself, "it's getting late." He rolled over on to his right side and wished
to himself silently. "I wish I could meet my parents, if just once. I want to
see them, and talk to them." Right when Harry had finished this thought, he
heard a noise down in the common room. It was voices, a male and a female, that
he didn't recognize. After a minute of debating, Harry decided to use his
father's invisibility cloak and went down stairs. When he got to the common
room, he stopped suddenly. "Oh my…." He said as he saw who the voices belonged
to.
1
I summarized J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" to give a
good introduction to my story.
2This is from J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Scorer's Stone" (movie
version). Hagrid tells them this when they are asking him about what Fluffy,
the three headed dog, was protecting.
3 The magical mirror from J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Scorer's Stone".