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Chapter 7 – An Unexpected Attack

Harry woke up in a panic again that morning luckily it was early and no one was awake. Harry let himself have a moment before composing himself before the alarm went off. Harry decided to get changed into his muggle clothes a long sleeved top and some jeans which he had to put a belt on to hold them up. At least with the clothes being baggy no one could see how thin he actually was, Harry was putting on his shoes when the alarm went off that morning. He waited to see if Ron would turn it off but he didn't move so Harry turned it off and threw a pillow at Ron's head.

"Hey! What was that for?" exclaimed Ron jumping out of bed quicker than a snitch being let out of its box. He grabbed his pillow and started to hit Harry with it, it soon turned into a pillow fight with a lot of giggling and noise.

"Well at least you are up now, quick get changed before your mum comes in" said Harry finally as he heard the rest of the house awaken. It didn't take Ron to get changed and the two boys went downstairs with their pyjamas under one arm to put into their trunks. Mrs Weasley smiled as they walked in and served them some toast and went out to hurry everyone else along.

By 9.30 everyone was waiting by the door, trunks were loaded in the car and everyone was going to get in the car. The car comfortably held all seven Weasleys and Harry with four at the back and three in the front. They set off and everything looked like it was going well. Mrs Weasley was saying that for once they would be early, that was until about twenty minutes into the car journey Ginny screamed and shouted. "MUM! I've forgotten my wand!" Mr Weasley sighed and turned back Mrs Weasley scolded her daughter but soon stopped when she saw her face.

"I can make us not late again if you give the car a chance Molly" said Mr Weasley as Ginny got back into the car.

"No! Arthur, It's a death trap! And we will be seen"

"You haven't seen my invisibility booster yet!"

"No chance, now drive Arthur!" Mr Weasley stepped on the acceleration and they hurried to the station. It was five to 11 as they found a parking space and dragged their trunks inside. Everyone was running to the portal, Fred and George went through first, after them, it was Percy then Mr and Mrs Weasley went with Ginny. Harry and Ron then ran at the wall between platform 9 and 10 and like the previous year Harry was expecting to feel a sort of slowing feeling as he went through but it didn't come. Instead a crash and some pain as they had crashed headfirst into the wall.

"What do you think you are playing at!" shouted a security guard.

"Lost control of the trolley sorry sir" replied Harry. The man shook his head and left them to it.

"Why can't we get onto the platform?" asked Ron panicking. "What shall we do?"

"I don't know!" replied Harry worried "Should we go and wait by the car?"

"The car!" Ron yelled, Ron picked up his things and started running towards the exit and out to the car. Harry did not like the way this was going and followed Ron to the car to stop him doing anything crazy. Harry would normally be up for this sort of thing but the daunting thoughts of the punishments that could follow this.

"Ron think this through! We can't steal their car!"

"But Harry! Wouldn't it be cool to drive to school! The best thing anyone has ever done" Harry was considering his options, much to the impatience of his best mate. Though he was thrown from his thoughts when he heard a familiar voice that he hadn't heard properly in weeks.

"Dad! Look! The freak is there" It was Dudley Dursley waddling over to him followed by his aunt and uncle. Harry was frozen in fear it took until Dudley and his Uncle were nearly on top of him before he fled, he ran as fast as his feet could carry him down the street dodging people here and there, he soon found an alleyway to go down. He thought he was too far ahead for them to catch up; he was wrong, two overly large people had grabbed him by the upper arms and cornered him.

A few seconds later Harry was making himself as small as possible as two sets of fists connected to every part of his body, they kicked his ribs until they heard cracks, stepped on his ankle until it was visibly crushed and finally his uncle grabbed him by the scruff of his collar smashed him against the wall and yelled.

"IF YOU DARE MAKE A FOOL OUT OF OUR FAMILY AGAIN I WILL FIND YOU AT YOUR FREAK SCHOOL AND END YOU" He then let Harry go and they walked out of the alleyway as if nothing had happened. It took Harry a while to get to his feet, his ribs were in agony and so was his ankle to walk on, Harry looked at his reflection in a window which told him his Uncle and cousin had been careful not to leave any marks on any parts of his showing skin.

He walked back to the car, every step getting a little easier as he pushed his pain to the back of his mind as he usually did. He saw Ron still waiting in the car when he got back.

"Who were they?" asked Ron concerned

"Some common thugs from my neighbourhood, I don't know what they are doing here"

"I tried to come after you but you disappeared so fast, I tried to see if mum had come back through yet so they could find you but they haven't come back yet so I got in the car to find that the emergency ministry button didn't work with a note on it saying 'need to finish'"

"It okay Ron I'm back now, and so are your parents, look!" replied Harry looking at the entrance to Kings Cross Station and a worried Mrs Weasley rushing over to them.

"Thank Merlin you two are here, we didn't see you get on the train and then there was a problem with the barrier, I'm glad you didn't do anything stupid! Come on let get you home and we can floo Hogwarts" everyone got back into the car and Mr Weasley drove them all back to the Burrow. Mrs Weasley made some sandwiches for Harry and Ron before going to the fireplace and asking to speak to the headmaster of Hogwarts.

It wasn't long until Mrs Weasley was back in the kitchen and telling them that they were able to floo through to Snape's office in hour or so. Just enough time to double check they had everything from their room and stand by the fireplace. It soon turned green and Harry found himself being hugged by Mrs Weasley saying goodbye and walking into the fireplace. The spinning was intense and the suction feeling he had crushed his ribs and made him whimper in pain. In Snape's office, he stood up quickly making sure not to show anyone he was in pain.

"Mr Potter, welcome back to Hogwarts" welcomed Severus Snape

"Thank you professor"

"I would like to speak with you after your lessons on Friday. During your potions lesson on Thursday you will receive detention but only so it does not seem strange to your peers that I want to talk to you, understood?"

"Yes Sir" Harry replied as Ron flew out of the fireplace.

"Ah Mr Weasley, welcome back to Hogwarts, now enough with the welcoming from me, please go up to the great hall everyone should be arriving soon.