Harry Potter and The Legacy of The Potters
AN: This is my first ever fanfiction, tips and constructive criticism are always welcome. There is gonna be romance in later chapters of this story, I have not decided the pairings yet. This is part AU.
This chapter was beta read by Red Renera, so thank you for that
I don't own Harry Potter; I only have the pleasure to work in this amazing sandbox of a world that Rowling created
With a Family name that comes with pressure and expectations, will Harry be able to find his own legacy and put his mark on the Potter name
Chapter 1
It was the beginning of the summer holiday and a young Harry woke up in his broom closet on number 4 Privet Drive, he walked in the living room and saw all the presents the Dursleys had stashed out for Dudley, it was his eight birthday after all.
"Boy, get started on the breakfast for this lovely day" Petunia said to him. "Oh, there is my Duddikins, happy birthday, my sweet boy," Petunia squealed when Dudley walked through the door into the living room. Dudley didn't hear half of what his mother said to him as he was already counting the presents, "Twenty presents," he shouted, "Last year there were twenty-one!"
"This year there are some bigger ones," Vernon said to his son.
"I don't care," Dudley replied.
"We will buy some more when we go to the zoo today,"his mother said to him.
"Okay, okay but does the freak have to come?" Dudley asked his father.
"Yeah, he does, Mrs. Figg fell down the stairs and is in the hospital," Came the grumbling voice of Vernon.
While all this happened, Harry was in the kitchen cooking the eggs and bacon, he was standing on a stool, because compared to other boys his age, Harry was small and really skinny. When he moved his stool to get the pepper, he fell, "Ouch!" he yelled.
"What are you doing, you freak, get up and back to cooking!'' Vernon yelled at him, in the meantime there came smoke from the bacon and Harry realized what had happened - he burned the bacon. Dudley noticed this and yelled: "Freak, you burned the bacon."
"He did what?" screamed a raging Vernon and ran to Harry, with his belt already in his hand. Smack, Smack was ringing through the house, while Vernon whipped Harry on his back with his belt. Tears were in Harry's eyes, "Please stop", he yelled. After twenty whips he stopped and dragged Harry, with his hair, to the hall and stuffed him in his broom closet. "Stay here until we go to the zoo," he grumbled to his nephew. When he walked back to the living room to join his family. Harry was silently crying.
'I wish I could get away from this place and never come back,' he thought to himself. Trying not to make too much noise afraid he was gonna get whipped again.
Meanwhile in the living room. Dudley said to his mother, "The freak is worthless, can he do nothing, can't he really stay here?"
"Sadly not, Dudders, otherwise we would have done it," Petunia said to her son, who was eating a toast his mother made him.
"Dad, when do we leave for the zoo?" he asked.
"We leave in one hour," his father replied, "so let's eat a quick toast and get ready."
An hour later when they were ready to leave, Petunia opened the door of Harry's closet and let him out, "Let's go freak, you're just as worthless as your good-for-nothing drunk of a father, behave today or there will be hell to pay," she said.
"Okay" Harry said to his aunt. During the drive, all Harry did was look outside. There is so much to see here, 'I would love to live here,' he thought when they drove to London. When they arrived at the zoo, Vernon took Harry apart, "I know your aunt already told you to behave, but I'm gonna tell it to you again, I want none of your freakishness today or I will lock you in that closet forever," he said in a voice which scared Harry a bit.
"Y-y-yes" he gulped.
It was around midday after they walked around all morning, they stopped at the restaurant, Petunia said to Harry, "We're gonna eat here, you can stay outside in the playground, you understand, frea?"
"Yes," he said. Harry climbed on the swing and started swinging, after a while, a girl around his age sat down on the swing next to him. The little girl had blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Hello," she said.
"Hello," he replied.
"I'm Daphne, what's your name?" the girl asked him.
"I'm Freak," he said.
"That is not a name," Daphne said to him.
"They always call me a freak so I think that is my name," Harry replied. Daphne looked at him with a sad face, what horrible people call their kid freak all the time she thought to herself.
"How did you get that scar on your head?" she asked him.
"I got it in a car crash," Harry said in a really sad tone to the girl next to him. Daphne looked at him feeling sad for him. All of a sudden a little girl came to them.
"Daphne, come play on the slides with me," squealed the little girl.
"Okay, Tori," she said, then she looked at Harry. "You wanna come to the slides with us?" she asked him. "Yeah, sure," Harry said to her, and he walked with the girls to the slides and had fun playing with the girls.
A few meters away there was a couple watching their two little girls, playing with this boy, who looked really familiar to them.
"Cyrus, the boy that Daphne and Astoria are with, looks really familiar, don't you agree," the woman asked her husband.
"You're right, Liz, he does look like James, could it be little Harry?" he said. After the murder on that night of James and Lily Potter, all their friends were in disbelief. The person who betrayed them, according to the Ministry, was Sirius, who was sent to Azkaban without a proper trial. Liz could not believe that he was Harry's godfather and James was his brother in all but blood. Liz, who was the best friend of Lily, had looked for Harry since that night but could not seem to find him - every attempt to get the will of the Potters read was blocked because the will was sealed away by Albus Dumbledore, "It's for the greater good" he had said.
Liz called for the girls, "Girls, come eat your lunch."
Two girls walked to their mother, leaving Harry by himself. Cyrus noticed Harry's sad look, and said to him, "You can join us if you want, we have more than enough."
Harry didn't know where to look, "Um, okay, sir." Harry joined them and was given a sandwich.
"Thank you," he said and started eating.
"What is your name, dear?", Liz asked Harry.
"I don't know what he said, I thought it was Freak, but Daphne said that was not a name". The boy said to them while eating away on his sandwich.
"Freak is not a name, it is an insult." Liz said to Harry.
"Why would they call you a freak?" Cyrus asked the boy, who was almost an exact replica of the husband of his wife's best friend.
"Sometimes strange things happen to me, one time Aunt Petunia shaved my head bald because my hair was all over the place, the next morning my hair had fully grown back. Or there was a time when I was running from Dudley and his gang at school, I ended up on the school roof." Harry said to Cyrus. After hearing that Cyrus looked at his wife in shock and nodded to her. Liz knew enough it was Harry, Lily had told her about her sister whose name was Petunia and had a son named Dudley as well.
"I gotta send something real quickly," she said to her husband.
Liz walked away from the table and into the toilet. The toilet was empty.
"Flopsy, come here," she whispered, all of the sudden a strange looking creature with long hanging ears stood in the toilet.
"Mistress Lizzy summons Flopsy, what can Flopsy do for Mistress?" The strange looking creature named Flopsy asked.
"Can you get me a glass phial Flopsy and bring it back?" Liz said to Flopsy, poof, and the creature was gone for a few seconds and poofed right back.
"Here you go, Mistress."
"Thanks, Flopsy, now wait a minute and deliver this phial to you know who." She took something that looked like a wooden stick and placed it to the side of her head and extracted a white wisp and put it in the glass phial Flopsy had given her. She gave the phial to Flopsy and poof, Flopsy gone.
"Tipsy, come here," Liz said, another of those strange looking creatures appeared.
"What can Tipsy do for Mistress Lizzy?" The strange creature said to Liz.
"I want you to make yourself invisible and follow the boy who is with us at the table until he gets home, then come back to us."
"Yes, Mistress Lizzy, Tipsy shall follow a boy that looks like Mistress Lizzy's friends," the strange creature said to Liz.
"Good, thanks, Tipsy, you're the best," she said.
In the meantime Harry had the time of his life talking with Daphne and Tori, eating sandwiches, something he never had before. When all of a sudden he heard a loud voice shouting "Freak, it's time to go now!" He looked around and saw the Dursleys standing there.
"Um, I gotta go now, thank you very much sir, Daphne and Tori, it was great meeting you," Harry said and he stood up and walked towards the Dursleys.
"Bye, till next time!" the sisters said to him in unison. When he got back to the Dursleys, they immediately started walking to watch the rest of the zoo and after a couple of hours they got back in the car, to go back home, or in Harry's case his closet. When they got home, Harry got stuffed in the closet and while laying in his closet he started reminiscing about his day at the zoo.
"Daphne and Tori were fun, I hope to see them again," he said to himself, after a while he fell asleep.
The next day he woke up due to the heavy footsteps of uncle Vernon on the stairs, he opened his closet door and walked to the kitchen to start on the breakfast for the Dursleys. When he walked in the kitchen uncle Vernon shouted "Don't burn the bacon this time, freak". After that he gave his wife Petunia a kiss on the cheek, "Good morning, love" he said, while Harry was preparing breakfast his cousin Dudley walked in the living room.
"That smells good, too bad you will get nothing of that, freak," he yelled at Harry. While the Dursleys sat at the kitchen table eating their breakfast, Harry started washing the pans he used to cook, when all of the sudden the bell rang.
"Which idiot rings the bell at this hour?" shouted Vernon, "Freak, go open the door and tell them to go away!"
Harry walked to the front door, he opened it, and saw an old man standing there in the strangest of clothes Harry had ever seen.
"Can I help you sir?" Harry said to the strange looking man, the man looked at Harry and started smiling, "I finally found you Harry, do you wanna come home and be with your family and learn more about your parents and the world they came from," the man said to Harry who was looking at the man with the most surprised look an seven year old boy could have.
"Y-y-yes sir," stuttered Harry to the strange looking man.
"Take your stuff and let's go then," the man said to Harry.
"I don't have any stuff," he said to the man. Now the man looked surprised.
"Freak, who is at the door and why haven't you told them to go away?" Came the loud voice of Vernon, who came in the hall, and saw Harry, standing there with the strange looking man. When he saw the man his face went red, "I don't want anything to do anymore with your kind, thanks to your kind we got stuck with the little freak over there!"
"I only come for the boy to take him home to his family," the man said calmly to Vernon, Harry in the meantime didn't know where to look.
"We're all he got left," Petunia said to the man, she came in when she heard her husband shouting.
"Take him away then I don't care," Vernon shouted.
"That's where you are wrong," The man said to Petunia, "What do you say, Harry? You want to get out of here and never come back?" Harry looked around to the Dursleys and all he said to the man was "Yes." The man put his hand on Harry's shoulder.
"Hold on," he said, and, poof, they were gone.
A few hundred miles away in a big castle called Hogwarts, sat an old looking man named Albus Dumbledore in his headmaster office, drinking a glass of firewhiskey when his ward instruments broke, He jumped up and ran to his instruments, "Damn, the wards broke, Potter is gone," and walked to his floo, threw floo powder in it and shouted, "Arabella Figg," he disappeared from his office.
Who did Liz send the message to and what family did the man take Harry to, stay tuned to find out.
Although Daphne is already introduced in the story does not mean this will be a Harry/Daphne fic, I have not decided on the pairings in this story
This is my first ever fanfiction chapter I ever wrote, tips and constructive criticism are welcome.
Leave a review so I can learn to be better at this ;p