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The Spidermage

Harry James Potter doesn't do anything the easy way, not even dying.

The first time Harry Potter should have died was when he was 18 months old.

He was attacked at his own home by the Dark Lord Voldemort. The Dark Lord Voldemort was a terrorist with a neo-fascist agenda about the purity of wizarding blood, he believed that only those people who could trace their wizarding family for generations should be allowed to have magic. He began his reign of terror in the 70s, killing indiscriminately. Thus raising his profile and fine tuning his control over his followers. He personally killed people in the hundreds, his followers in the thousands. By the 80's he was at the peak of his powers thought to be nearly unstoppable. And then he was stopped.

Not by the magical police or wizards of great renown, but by a baby.

On Halloween of 81 Lord Voldemort went to attack the Potters. This was nothing completely out of the ordinary; the Potters had opposed him on 3 occasions and escaped alive. A message had to be sent. He walked into the house and dispatched James Potter (Harry's father) within seconds. He walked up the stairs to find Lily Potter in the nursery and soon killed her too. He then turned his attention to the baby Harry Potter and fired a point blank killing curse. And then Voldemort died.

No-one knows how, but somehow Harry Potter survived the killing curse.

Having survived the killing curse from when he was a babe, Harry went on to have a miserable first eleven years of life. (The first eighteen months were probably ok, but he doesn't remember them). He lived with his aunt and uncle the Dursley's, in Little Whinging, Surrey; where he was treated like a servant. He was forced to live in the cupboard under the stairs even though there were two perfectly unused bedrooms upstairs. He was forced to wear ill-fitting eye-glasses even though prescription glasses for kids were free through the NHS.

He was forced to do the cooking, cleaning, gardening, the washing (even though they just bought a brand new dishwasher) and every other menial talk that his OCD neat-freak of an aunt could think of. He was told he was a financial burden on the Dursley's despite them receiving government benefits for caring for him and them not spending any the money on Harry's things.

Despite all of this Harry was a relatively well adjusted child. He went to school, had a few people he talked to; he even did well on his studies for the first few years when there was no grading. This all changed when he entered Yr3, which was the beginning of Key Stage 2 for Harry. Classes got shuffled and he was forced to join the same classes as his cousin Dudley Dursley. Dudley was the only child of his Aunt and Uncle and he was to put it bluntly a spoilt, fat, moron. This didn't stop Dear Diddy Duddykins from being the apple of his parent's eyes. He could do no wrong in the eyes of the Dursleys: He did poorly in reading comprehension, the book was poorly written by a foreigner. His basic maths test had the teachers think he may have had dyscalculia, they raised up such a fuss that the teacher quit and became an investment banker.

Dudley Dursley (and his gang, because all kids have a gang) became the primary school's terror and nothing teachers tried would change that. Eventually it became so bad that the parents had to be called in to curb the problem, which it did for about 2 weeks.

Although he could in no way called smart Dudley had a low cunning about him, he soon realised that if he went after the truly defenceless, the kids with problems at home, he would get into less trouble. And there wasn't a more defenceless kid than Harry. So Harry became their favourite punching bag, to the point that their favourite lunch time game became something called Harry hunting.

Harry's life for the first eleven years of his life was not happy.

So Harry was exceptionally pleased when on his eleventh birthday a nine foot tall giant, (half-giant, though he didn't know that at the time) named Rubeus Hagrid showed up and told him that he was a wizard. This wasn't a total surprise to Harry, as strange things seem to happen around him: Like him being able to talk to snakes. Him somehow growing his hair back after a particularly bad hair-cut and never needing another haircut again. That time he somehow managed to get on the school roof (particularly impressive since there wasn't a door that lead up to the roof). And let's not forget the few times when wizard cosplayers at the supermarkets went out of their way to shake his hands.

His extraction from the Dursleys care could have gone better though. The Dursleys hated anything not "normal" and having a nine foot tall man show up to your house cannot be called normal. Things didn't get better when they refused to let him go to magic school and in the process his uncle Vernon somehow managed to insult the Great and All-Powerful Albus Dumbledore. Now Hagrid wasn't a violent man but he would not abide any insult the "great man" that was Albus Dumbledore being insulted in his presence; so he punched him.

No a punch from a normal man hurts, a punch from a 9ft tall half giant who spends his time wrangling dangerous magical creatures… let's just Vernon was lucky to be alive. His jaw was fractured in 5 places.

Harry didn't care, he was off to see the wizards.

The second time Harry potter should have died was on the Halloween of his first year at Hogwarts.

Harry potter had been befriended by a boy named Ron Weasley on the train ride to Hogwarts. Desperate for friends and wanting to fit-in in a new situation Harry ignored Ron's bad points and accepted him as his closest friend.

Harry also met a bossy little witch called Hermione Granger. Harry liked Hermione, she was nice to him. She repaired his glasses.

Ron didn't like Hermione.

Harry's first couple months at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry were very eventful: he was sorted into Gryffindor house along with both Ron and Hermione; he started learning magic; he managed to get into the house quidditch team; Ron somehow managed to drag Harry into a midnight honour duel against Draco Malfoy, Hermione actually tried to stop them from going but Ron somehow bulldozed through everyone to drag them all to the Midnight duel. That was also how they found a giant Cerberus hidden behind a locked door on the third floor corridor.

Hermione understandably was rather upset at both Ron and Harry about the Cerberus incident and refused to speak to them. Ron was actually rather happy about this.

Things all came to a head on Halloween. Ron and Hermione were paired together in charms class, they were trying to do the levitation spell and Ron was struggling. Hermione was trying to help, but she wasn't the most socially well adjust child and often came off as a bossy little know it all. After about 10 failed attempts Ron gave up in a huff and told Hermione to do the task. Hermione being the over achiever that she was managed a successful cast on the first attempt and then proceeded to enunciate the correct incantation for the spell. Ron spent the rest of the class in a huff not even attempting the spell again.

Things only got worse after class. As they were exiting the class Ron proceeded to mock Hermione, doing exaggerated impressions and commenting that Hermione had no friends. Hermione overheard and as 12 year old girls are want to do she got very upset and decided to spend the next hour crying in the first floor girls bathroom. Normally this wouldn't be that big of a deal, except that during that next hour the Halloween feast was interrupted by the defence against the dark arts teacher Professor Quirrell barging into the great hall and announcing that there was a troll in the dungeons. He then fell over in a dead faint. He wasn't a great defence teacher.

The great hall was in pandemonium over the news and didn't calm down until the headmaster fired off a large canon blast charm drawing all the attention to him. He then instructed the prefects to calmly guide the student to their house common rooms.

On the way up to the Gryffindor common room, Harry remembered that Hermione wasn't with them and guilted Ron to take a quick detour with him to get Hermione. Unfortunately when they got to the first floor corridor they found the troll. Fortunately they managed to trick the troll into a nearby room. Unfortunately that room happened to be the girls' bathroom.

They realised this fact when they heard Hermione's terrified scream from inside the bathroom. They quickly rushed into the bathroom to see half the stalls destroyed and Hermione huddled in a corner trying to hide.

They first tried to distract the troll by throwing things at the back of the troll's head. That achieved precisely nothing, the troll didn't even seem to feel the impact, meanwhile the troll kept swinging his massive wooden club destroying more of the bathroom and further endangering Hermione.

Getting desperate Harry did something incredible, he somehow parkoured himself of one of the sinks and jumped on to the troll's shoulders. He clamoured on to the shoulders and tried to distract the troll this seem to have some effect as the troll started to shake his head to dislodge Harry. Not wanting to get shaken off Harry somehow managed to lodge his wand up the troll's nose and using his left hand grabbed on to the trolls eyebrow. This caused the troll to get angry and the troll tried to swipe at the top of his head. Now one undisputable fact about trolls are that they are stupid, the term pea brain would be a massive compliment. So in the spirit of this stupidity the troll didn't realise that the hand doing the swiping was also holding the massive wooden club.

Harry seeing this closed his eyes praying for his life and tried casting the first spell he could think of, the full body bind spell petrificus totallus, Harry had learnt this spell specifically for the duel against Malfoy. Normally due to the troll's incredibly thick hide casting this spell at a troll would have zero effect on the troll, but luckily for Harry his wand was up the troll's nose and pointed directly at the troll's microscopic brain.

At the same time Ron in a panic also fired off the first spell he could think of, the levitation spell wingardium liviosa at the troll's club. Somehow in his desperation Ron managed the spell perfectly and levitated the club to the bathroom ceiling. Ron then looked at the troll and was relieved to see that the troll was frozen in place, however in his relief Ron let go of the spell and the club fell down towards the troll and Harry. Harry seeing this had to dive off the troll, landing awkwardly and spraining his ankle. Then the troll proceeded to fall almost on top of Harry, Harry managing scramble away at the last moment.

The third time Harry potter should have died was the day after his final first year exams

After the troll incident Hermione joined Harry and Ron to become what would eventually be known as the famous Gryffindor golden trio. Being young and precocious children in need of adventure, they fixated on the mystery of the giant Cerberus in the forbidden third floor corridor.

Harry was the first to suggest that it may have been a guard dog which triggered something in Hermione's memory and she told them that the Cerberus was standing atop a trapdoor. Their investigation led them to Hagrid who told them that the dog belonged to him and the GIANT CERBERUS was called fluffy. Hagrid also let slip that he had lent the dog to headmaster Dumbledore and that it was guarding something on the behalf of someone called Nicholas Flamel.

It took them a few months and a massive coincidence involving chocolate frogs for them to figure out that the Nicholas Flamel mentioned by Hagrid was the famous 15th century alchemist Nicholas Flamel and that the Cerberus was probably guarding the philosopher's stone.

Now at some point during the year the trio had become convinced that the potions professor Serverus Snape was evil (which he sort of was) and that he was after the philosopher's stone.

The trio started being suspicious of him when he showed up to the aftermath of the troll incident with a mauled left leg. They suspected that the professor was up on the third floor instead of searching for the troll. Their suspicion was further exacerbated by what happened at the first Gryffindor quidditch match, Harry's broom had been jinxed and Hermione had seen professor Snape chanting at the broom. Their suspicion was all but confirmed in their minds when Harry had seen professor Snape confronting professor Quirrell and threatening Quirrell to not do anything stupid.

Also professor Snape was mean to them.

Also at one point during the year they found out that Hagrid had somehow managed to acquire a highly illegal dragon egg and he planned to hatch it in his wooden hut. The trio tried to persuade him not to but Hagrid couldn't be convinced. They somehow managed to convince Hagrid to send the hatched baby dragon to the Romanian dragon sanctuary where one of Ron's brother worked as a dragon handler. That plan got scuppered a couple of days before it could work, as Ron managed to get bitten by the baby dragon. Dragons not satisfied by being just fire breathing flying majestic monstrosities also had a poisonous bite. (Actually as it turns out it's the dragon's mucus which has flame suppressant properties which lets the dragon breathe fire without burning itself, and that the chemicals that gave it those properties were poisonous to humans.) Ron had to be rushed to the infirmary where the Matron Poppy Pomfrey promptly called in their head of house Minerva McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall glared them into submission and the trio crumbled under her stern gaze. They told her about Hagrid's pet baby dragon and their plan to send it to the Romanian dragon sanctuary with Ron's brother Charlie. She then proceeded to dock them 50 points and assigned them a week's worth of detention with the caretaker Argus Filch. Incidentally she met with Charlie's friends two days later at the top of the astronomy tower and told them to come back the next day with an appointment to retrieve the dragon.

The detention with Filch somehow turned into a midnight excursion into the forbidden forest with Hagrid to find out what sort of creature was killing unicorns in the forest. Hagrid split them into two teams, Harry, Hermione and Fang, Hagrid's pet boar hound in one team. And Hagrid and a still injured Ron on the other team.

Harry and Hermione found what was attacking the unicorns, only the what seemed to be a who. It appeared to be a humanoid creature under some dark cloak, when the found him attacking the unicorn they were frozen in place terrified. The man (if it could be called such) turned its attention at the terrified pair, they couldn't see any of the man's features under the cloak except that he had red eyes. The man flew towards them to attack but luckily for Harry and Hermione he was driven away by a pair of centaurs bursting into the clearing with their bows drawn.

When McGonagall heard about the incident the next day she cancelled the rest of their detentions and they didn't see Filch for the rest of the term.

They did learn a few things from the forest incident. They learnt that you had to be incredibly desperate to attempt to kill and drink unicorn blood. That unicorn blood had incredible healing properties but the blood was also a cursed object and would result into an incredibly painful half-life. From what they learnt the came to the conclusion that the person Snape was working for (they were pretty set on Snape being the bad guy by this point) was the dark lord Voldemort.

This all came to a head on the day after the final exams (history of magic). On a side note Voldemort always seemed very conscientious about only attacking after the school exams, maybe it was because of the immense respect he had for the only place he called home, or maybe he really valued the importance of education and its impact on children (A.N. it is this author's personal belief that Voldemort was scared of Madam Griselda Marchbanks who was the head of the Wizarding Education Authority). The trio had been getting increasingly anxious over when Snape was going to go after the philosopher's stone and they thought that the time was running out. The trio had come to the conclusion that the stone was probably safe as long as the headmaster was still in school as it had been well established to the wizarding community that the only person the dark lord Voldemort was afraid of was the great and powerful Albus Dumbledore.

So when they noticed that the headmaster seemed away on business the day after the exams they quickly came to the conclusion that now was the only time for Snape to make his attempt. They tried to warn McGonagall about the likely attempt, but she dismissed their concerns for two reasons: 1. She was still wroth with them about the dragon incident and 2. She thought it absurd that professor Snape would be after the stone.

Getting desperate and fully believing that if they didn't stop Snape, he would resurrect the dark lord they decided that they would go after the stone, in order to protect it.

The trio rushed to Hagrid's hut and managed to coax out that the stranger who gave him the dragon egg was very interested in Fluffy the Cerberus and that the Cerberus fell asleep every time it heard music. The trio then rushed to the forbidden corridor went through the door holding back Fluffy only to discover fluffy asleep and a harp playing in one corner of the room. Their worst fears confirmed they jumped down the trapdoor into a soft mass of wriggling tentacles. Having quickly realised that the tentacles were part of a devil's snare plant they managed to escape the situation by casting a lighting charm. They then had to capture a winged key, which involved Harry having to fly some conveniently placed brooms. They then had to get past a giant chess set, where Ron got injured and had to be left behind. They then had to get past another troll, but luckily "Snape" had already knocked it out. They then had to get past a logic puzzle involving flames and potions to get to the stone. There was only one dose of the potion left so Harry decided he would go forwards and try to stop Snape and Hermione would go back and take Ron to the infirmary.

Harry bravely walked through the flames after drinking the potion. He entered a large chamber to find the room all but empty except for a very large and ornate mirror and a turbaned man standing in front of the mirror muttering something to himself.

Harry was momentarily taken aback for two reasons:

1. He was familiar with that particular mirror; he had come across that mirror before. Harry had been sneaking into the library late at night during the Christmas holidays in order to look for references to Nicholas Flamel and had almost been caught by Filch. Harry had only managed to escape thanks to his new invisibility cloak; Harry had received the cloak for Christmas, it had once belonged to his father and the anonymous sender thought it was time it was returned back to Harry. Harry had been hurrying back to Gryffindor dorms when he had come across the mirror on the way back. It seemed out of place in the empty classroom and Harry being a curious boy decided to have a look at the oddity. Harry hadn't expected what he saw when he looked into the mirror, he had been expecting to see his own reflection, instead what he saw was an older Harry with an unknown blonde next to him and him surrounded by family including his parents and grandparents. Having been enthralled by the scene Harry spent the rest of the night and several subsequent nights sitting in front of the mirror and gazing longingly at the images of his family.

Harry was only broken out of this routine by headmaster Dumbledore, who then proceeded to explain that the mirror was called the Mirror of Erised and that the mirror showed the viewer their deepest desire, he also told him that many people had wasted away their entire lives sitting in front of the mirror. Dumbledore informed Harry that the mirror was going to be moved away to a different place and that Harry should not go looking for the mirror.

2. The person standing in front of the mirror muttering incomprehensibly to himself was not Snape. It was the ever stuttering professor Quirrell. The meek and quiet professor Quiriness Quirrell who was said to be afraid of his own shadow.

At first the professor Quirrell didn't even seem to notice Harry entering the room, but soon he turned his attention towards Harry and quickly had him bound in ropes. He then proceeded to monologue about how Snape seemed to be obvious choice and how no one would ever have suspected the poor stuttering professor Quirrell. He also confessed that it was he who had released the troll into the school on Halloween and how he had been thwarted from reaching the stone by professor Snape. He then turned his back on Harry and went back to analysing the mirror. Eventually he started to get frustrated from the lack of progress and seemed to grow distressed and started muttering even louder; he seemed to be pleading with himself, which seemed strange. It became clear that there was more going on when Harry started hearing a raspy hissing voice coming from the back of Quirrell's head telling Quirrell to "use the boy". Quirrell dragged the still bound Harry in front of the mirror and then told Harry to tell him what he saw. Harry was expecting to see his family again, but instead he saw something completely different. This time he saw a reflection of himself and the reflection showed him taking a strange glowing red rock out of his trouser pocket and putting it back in. then to his utter shock he felt the weight of the stone in his actual pocket.

At that point Quirrell started violently shaking him demanding to know what he saw in the mirror, not having a lie readily available to him he decide to say what he had been expecting to see. Harry surrounded by family. Quirrell started shaking him more asking what else he saw and then he stopped shaking him. Harry then heard that strange raspy voice demand to speak with him. Quirrell turned around and started taking off his turban. What he revealed at the back of his head terrified Harry, it was a man's face. The man was bald his nose seemed to be almost completely missing and he had terrifying red eyes. The same terrifying red eyes as the thing that was attacking the unicorns in the forbidden forest.

He introduced himself as the dark lord Voldemort. He then proceed to tell him about how he had attacked Harry at his parent's house. Voldemort lamented the fact that he had been reduce into a wraith and had to spend the last 10 years hijacking the bodies of animals to stay alive. He told him about how Quirrell had come across him in the forest of Albania. He told him about Quirrell being an average wizard and willingly joining with him for more power.

He told Harry that Harry was the target and his parents need not have died. How he had offered to spare his mother if she had simply aside and let Voldemort kill baby Harry. How she had begged for his life and how she had died trying to protect him. He then offered Harry a chance to switch sides and join him, how he had offered the same chance to his father on several occasions and how sad he was to spill his father's pure blood.

Harry then rather emphatically rejected that offer and that he would fight Voldemort to his dying breath. Harry then flung himself bodily into Quirrell's body and the mirror behind them. Whilst Voldemort saw the attack coming the body was facing the wrong direction and thus was not able to react properly, he tried sending a cutting curse but the cutting curse only hit Harry's left arm. Harry and Quirrell went tumbling into the mirror and the mirror toppled over breaking into a thousand jagged pieces. The pair (three people two bodies) started struggling on the floor, somehow in the struggle the stone came out of Harry's pocket and was on the floor. They both saw the stone and went for it, normally Quirrell would have simply summoned the stone to him, but his wand had been knocked out of his hand in the initial collision. Harry was still tied up in rope and could not use his hands so he did the only thing he could think of he dived towards the stone trying to protect it with his body, but because he couldn't use his arms his dive was shorter than expected. As it turned out this was actually a good thing as somehow through the devil's own luck he had ended up with his face right next to the stone. Harry did the first thing he could think of, he bit into the stone trying to grab it with his teeth.

What happened next was quite simply baffling. The stone broke apart, the smaller half outside Harry's mouth simply cracked and crumbled away whereas the larger half inside Harry's mouth turned into liquid and suffused itself into Harry's system.

Both Voldemort and Quirrell were stupefied and then the stupefaction turned into an apocalyptic level of rage. Quirrell threw himself on top of Harry and started to choke him. But again something strange happened, as soon as Quirrell touched Harry his skin started blistering and burning, but in his rage Quirrell was past caring, he put his hands back on Harry's neck and redouble his attempts to kill him. Harry in his desperation managed to use a broken shard of glass to cut himself free from his binding and desperately swung his hands at Quirrell. Unfortunately for Quirrell both hands were holding jagged pieces of glass and Harry had in his desperation managed to stab Quirrell in the neck.

The last thing that Harry remembered seeing was Quirrell's shocked expression and then… Darkness