A/N- this is a Prologue chapter. The real story begins next chapter. I just don't feel like having the numbers on chapter thing be off.

Chapter One

"Harry! Look out!" Hermione's scream tore the silence around Harry as he saw a small shimmer of green light out of the corner of his eyes. He ducked just in time, but could feel a burning sensation on the top of his scalp.

He turned to his right and saw a Death Eater aiming another spell, but this one at Hermione.

Being the clever witch that she is, she moved in time to avoid the Imperious Curse.

Before the said Death Eater had arrived, Harry had stood with his eyes transfixed to the house closest to him. If he strained his memory really hard, he could remember being in the front yard. This was Godric's Hallow, and this was his home when his parents were still alive. And 16 years to the day they were murdered. Today was October 31, and it was 3 o'clock in the morning.

Harry couldn't place the house in his memory, just the yard, which he guessed was because the house had been utterly destroyed when Voldemort's curse had backfired. It was night now, and the only thing that lit the house was a streetlamp across the street. And now this Death Eater wanted to kill him (as if that was new news).

Hermione moved to Harry's side, wand pointed at the black-cloaked figure, Harry the same way.

When the Death Eater began to take a few steps closer, Hermione bellowed, "STUPIFY!" and the Death Eater fell to the ground.

But the moment he fell, two more came out of the darkness behind them. One muttered aspell Harry had never heard of before and that was all Harry heard before blacking out completely.

Hermione, seeing Harry's body on the ground, turned and saw the two Death Eaters. She dodged over Harry's body to narrowly escape two spells, before firing one her self, "Petrificus Totalis!" Her aim was true, and one of the two fell when the full body bind hit them.

The next Death Eater shot a red curse at her, which she narrowly dodged before sending another spell directly at him, causing him to be knocked out. But Hermione knew that he would awaken soon, so she grabbed Harry's body and dissapareted to the Burrow, where she was sure Harry would wake up soon.

Hermione arrived just outside the Burrow, and abandoned Harry's body to go get help from one of the Weaslys.

She rapped loudly on the door, and was soon answered by a very bleary eyed Mrs. Weasly who was in her nightgown.

"Hermione dear, what are you doing outside of school?"

"I'm sorry Mrs. Weasly, but we need your help." She said, turning to where Harry's body was.

Mrs. Weasly gasped upon seeing the limp form of Harry laying about 9 meters away.

"Hurry, lets get him inside." She said, and the both of them heaved him up and set him on a couch in front of a fire that was nothing more then burning ash now.

Upon setting him on the couch, Mrs. Weasly went to the fire, muttered a spell, and it suddenly was roaring with life.

"Keep an eye on him, will you Hermione? I need to go wake Arthur and alert Dumbledore."

"Yeah, of course," was all she could say before Mrs. Weasly was buzzing up the stairs and out of site.

For the first time, she looked at Harry in proper light. His eyes were closed, and his sweat filled face had hair matted to his forehead. Although at first glance he looked like someone sleeping peacefully, the more she looked, the more he seemed to be living a nightmare inside his head. His lips were not straight across, but were frowning, and Hermione was guessing that if she had lifted his eyelids she would have seen eyes filled with ultimate fear.

Within three minutes, Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, Mr. and Mrs. Weasly, and Dumbledore were all awake and in the Burrow, crowding around Harry.

Immediately, Dumbledore kneeled next to Harry. He felt Harry's wrist for a pulse, and smiled, which the group took as a good sign.

Dumbledore did a few spells over Harry, and then stood with his face in a frown, and with no gleam in his eyes.

"He will be alright," A sigh went through all of them. "But I do not know when he will wake. The curse put on him will keep him in a permanent coma until he can find his way back."

"Find his way back?" Mrs. Weasly half asked, half said as a statement.

"He is on the edge of death. He has not been pushed into death, and thus will stay with us. But in order for him to comeback, he has to find his way. At least, this is what witches and wizards who have been in a prolonged coma have said. They will describe nothing more then that, so that is all I know."

"So, we have no idea when he'll wake up?" Ron asked, his face pale, his hand tightly grabbing Hermione's, her doing the same.

"It could be tomorrow, it could be in ten years. We just have to wait."

A/N- next chapter- what is happening to Harry where he has to find his way back from? Promise it will be interesting, please review what's here so far! And I know this was short, next will be longer, I promise!

There is always hope.

Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring (book not movie)

(At the bottom of each chappy I'm gunna put good, meaningful quotes from songs, movies, and books.dnt ask why, I just want to. usually they'll have some minor thing to do with the chapter)