Authors Note: Hello everyone, this is my first ever story on and I am extremely excited to see how this will turn out. As you can see from the title it is called Harry Potter And The Curse Of Time
SUMMARY: Harry Potter grew up in Potter Manor after escaping the Dursleys and being kidnapped by an over-enthusiastic house-elf, there he learns about the wizarding world and capitalizes on his political and magical power. But he isn't free from fighting darkness, mercenaries and assassins are coming after him, hunting his blood. He makes some unlikely friends and finds allies in the most unexpected places, he is ready to fight and he will survive.
YEARS 1 - 7, as well as a couple of chapters of time before he goes to Hogwarts, and an epilogue. It will all be written in this 1 story.
I will also use the author's note space before the story for every chapter.
Reviews are supported but please don't flame or use curse words, criticism is alright.
Also, I obviously don't own Harry Potter but am obligated to do this.
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Harry Potter groaned as he heard a voice wake him from his restless sleep, although it wasn't a pleasant sleep, it was still much better than when he was awake and in the clutches of beatings and chores. Harry was also pretty sure he had seen his parents in the dreams (or nightmares). Except they didn't die getting hit with a green light, they were killed in a car crash, which didn't make sense to him. How did they die being hit with a light?
He turned on his side, pretending to be asleep when Aunt Petunia opened the door to his cupboard. "Get up boy!" she shrieked in his ear. The 7-year-old boy covered his ears and hurried out of his tiny room, as fast as his feet could carry him. Which unfortunately wasn't too fast due to the fact that even though he had practice running from his cousin, that was outdoors where he had space to go, here there was the sitting room, kitchen, and stairs, for which he would have to pass Aunt Petunia or the door which would only cause him to get punishment. So Harry complied and headed to the wash room
Another downside was the fact that it was also Dudley's birthday, so he would have to cook food perfectly and even a bit too much salt to put him in a position of being locked in his cupboard for a week.
Now, even though he was 7 years old he had a lot of experience with punishments and thankfully they were only when he was at Number 4 Privet Drive, and not in public, for this to make sense you have to understand that the Dursleys were a well-respected family and they were considered normal in the sense that they didn't get caught up with dangerous activities nor did they act oddly. This explains part of why they hated Harry.
Weird things would happen around him and Harry didn't even know what caused them.
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Harry Potter internally whooped with joy as he sat down in the back of Uncle Vernon's car, they were actually taking him to Dudley's Birthday party, besides the skinny 6-year-old was Aiden, a member of Dudley's friend group, also known as Dudley's gang. Each year Dudley could have on friend with him at the excursion they went to. For Dudley's 9th birthday, Uncle Vernon had proudly proclaimed that they were going to an aquarium which his company had a part in building. Now the only reason Harry was allowed to come along was the fact that Ms. Figg, an old lady obsessed with cats and cabbage was currently out of town visiting her nephew.
The car ride wasn't exactly enjoyable as Aiden and Dudley took turns poking him until they finally reached the aquarium.
When they exited the car to enter the line for the aquarium, Harry was pulled aside by Uncle Vernon who grasped him by the shoulders, "I want to no funny business here, behave well and you won't get punished for a week, you cause problems and you are locked in the cupboard for 2 weeks."
Harry was seriously worried now, Uncle Vernon would find one reason to lock him in his room. Even if it wasn't causing a problem.
As they entered the large structure, Harry felt trapped, the group walked towards where the tanks began to appear,
Harry had found the different types of fish very interesting but the trip really started getting fun when Dudley fell into the ice-cold water, he had shoved Harry out of the way so he could see some different types of sand sharks and the 7-year-old landed on the ground, Dudley somehow went through the glass and landed in front of the huge fish.
Harry burst out laughing before dashing away from the group, he knew his uncle would be coming after him and his time of joy was currently limited.
As he sprinted through the aquarium, descending deeper into the ground. "Come back here and fix him!" screamed Vernon, who was now dashing after the youngest Potter.
Harry sprinted through a crowd of people and his eyes widened in shock and he crashed face-first into a wall of glass.
He was terrified for his life now, his uncle wouldn't have any mercy on him. Not after Dudley fell into a shark tank, hopefully, he stayed there. Harry groaned as his head was throbbing. Vernon was here.
Harry stared at his uncle and felt himself being yanked away by a strong arm.
"You shall not harm Master Potter!"
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Harry woke up on a cozy bed, he wasn't even sure where he was. It certainly wasn't Number 4 Privet Drive, and it most likely wasn't the hospital. He got up and picked himself up, "Master is awake!" cried a voice from nearby.
He turned towards the source and saw a weird-looking creature. "AHHHHH."
It was about 2 and a half feet tall, it had a large head and eyes, which stared at him. Its pointy hat-like ears weren't even the creepiest bit, it had bony arms and overall looked like an alien.
It was wearing something similar to a pillowcase with a symbol on it.
"Why is Master screaming?" the creature asked, a worried expression adorning its large head.
"Wh - who are you?" Harry asked, now fearful once again as even though the being didn't seem angry at him, it could be dangerous.
" I am Tipsy, I serve the house of Potter!" the creature now known as Tipsy exclaimed.
"W - wait. House? House of Potter?"
"Why of course, does Master not know of his own house?"
"Um, as far as I know, my parents are dead, and could you also tell me where on earth I am?" he asked in a confused tone.
Sensing his frustration and confusion, Tipsy responded, her eyes beginning to well up with tears "Master's parents were killed by a very bad wizard, and you are at Potter Manor, your ancestral home."
"Wait, my ancestors? Did they live here?" he asked, his face brightening up, he didn't know this place existed. His face lit up with a smile and he got out of the bed, before he was about to leave the room he stopped and asked, "Wait, but what are you?"
"oh, Tipsy is a house-elf, there are 5 more elves in the house."
Harry walked out of the room to begin exploring his new home.
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Harry had just found the first stairwell, he had just wrapped up exploring the second level, where the kitchen, the infirmary, and the sitting room, all were located. There was a series of portraits who could surprisingly talk. They had just begun explaining the concept of magic when he told them that he would finish exploring the house and then he would rejoin them.
There was the first level, but he would go there and see it once he had explored the higher levels. Harry had already met the cook, a cheerful house-elf named Candy, she had insisted that he was underfed and that she would feed him loads, as she hadn't had anyone to cook for in a long time.
The third floor of the house contained multiple bedrooms plus something that resembled a chemistry lab with large bowls and closets full of weird labeled ingredients. There was also a trunk that held 2 large portraits, one for each of his parents but they for some reason didn't move or speak.
He decided there was nothing magical about those and if perhaps he could add magic to them, so perhaps he could speak to his parents, that would be a gift worth more than anything else.
He spent a good hour and a half on the third floor deciding which room he wanted and searching through some boxes to decide what to put in his room. To his shock, he found some of his baby toys, neatly put into trunks in a room he assumed was his as a baby.
When he finally came down to the kitchen he was able to meet the other 3 house elves, Bibby, Mogly, and Tripsy, the last of the group was the head of the Potter house-elves.
The dinner was an exciting affair as Harry began to understand exactly how the house was run and what the elves thought were goods ideas for him to do, they had certainly been surprised when he asked for their opinion, apparently in the magical world, they considered like servants but they didn't even get paid for their services. Talk about weird.
The group decided that they would continue discussions the following day, allowing the Potter Heir to enjoy his first night at Potter Manor.
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His dreams were torturous as he saw visions of blades striking each other and flashes of light. There were masses of wizards and witches charging towards each other, animals were battling it out and giants were throwing rocks. There were battles happening everywhere. Harry spotted a blonde-haired witch dueling a man with a burnt face. His dream self called out "Stupefy!" before firing a curse at the man, who collapsed to the ground, the witch finished him off, with a spell that severed his head from his body.
Harry smiled and shouted, "Let's go see who else is in desperate need of aid, fair lady." the girl smiled at him before being nailed by a bright green light, she fell to the ground and somehow Harry knew she was dead.
Harry woke up the next morning covered in sweat and terrified, also he didn't remember where he was. He definitely wasn't at the Dursleys, fortunately, he remembered the events of the previous and shuddered thinking about his uncle, but here he was safe from the man and punishments, and here he could just be Harry, Harry Potter.
Thanks for reading the prologue and I hope you liked it, once the actual chapters begin their length will massively increase but this was just meant to introduce Harry, to the world of magic. In Chapter 1 of the story, Harry will learn more about magic, receive a wand, visit Gringotts and meet some future allies.
I will update once a week, on a Saturday and if I do post a chapter during a weekday then that is a bonus and you will still get the Saturday Chapter. However occasionally if I didn't have any time on Saturday to edit the work, then it will get posted on a Sunday.
Thanks, everyone and don't forget to review.
Signing Out,
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