Harry Potter had never looked anything like his mother- even from the day he was born. When he came home from St Mungo's, 3 days after his birth his pitch black hair was messy, always sticking up at the back- just like his father's. He had the same facial shape as James Potter too. And for the first one and one-third year of his life he had a pair of brilliant blue eyes. Just as bright as his mother's green, but a brilliant sky blue. There was something truly magnificent about these eyes, they saw things, and they held age no infants should.
He grew for those 1 and one-third years of his life like any wizarding child should. Moving pictures, spells all over the place, animagi, and of course- Quidditch. James Potter had always been a Quidditch Fanatic.
Harry also had some "uncles" that came to play with his any chance they could get. Two of these men would do anything to keep young Harry alive and happy. Even kill. But the third man would ruin Harry's life. Not once, not twice, but three times.
Even though people that loved him-and things any young child should know surrounded Harry, there was something amiss in the world of magic. This thing was called Voldemort. Or as the wizarding world knew him "You-Know-Who" or even better "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named".
Voldemort had been terrorizing the wizarding world for almost a decade- ever since Harry's parents had been in school. And he didn't show any signs of letting up his Reign Of Terror. (As this was called. Though some did prefer Rise To Power. IT didn't really matter. Lord Thingy was Terrifying!)
Now, Voldemort wasn't not being countered. There were the aurors (magic police) fighting him, and one secret organization dedicated to fighting the dark (headed up by none other than Albus Dumbledore. The greatest wizard alive, and Headmaster of Hogwarts. Greatest wizarding-school in Europe.)
This secret order was known as the Order of the Phoenix- an order that Harry's uncles and parents were a part of. No one was supposed to know who was part of it, but there was a leak in the order. So, the members were slowly being hunted down, and killed. This leak in the order, and this war in their world put a rather large strain on the Potter's life. But soon life was going to get a lot more stressful…
At a job interview for the post of Divination professor at Hogwarts a prophecy was made. This prophecy was made by Sibyl Trelawney- great-great- granddaughter of a famous seer. This prophecy had the power to turn the course of this decade-long war.
"The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord approaches…
born to those who have thrice defied him,
born as the seventh month dies…
and the dark lord will mark him as his equal,
but he will have a power the dark lord knows not…
and either must die at the hand of the other,
for neither can live while the other survives…
The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord will be born as the seventh month dies…"
Of course, this could have worked out better for everyone in the order, if a Death Eater (follower of Voldemort) hadn't been listening through the door. But as he was detected part way through the prophecy the whole thing could not be related to his lord.
There were two people whom this prophesy could relate to- Harry- and one Neville Longbottom. Both families chose to go into hiding. They used a complex charm (called the Fidelus Charm) to hide. This charm included a secret keeper to hold the information of where the people hid. The Longbottoms chose Gideon Prewitt- Alice Longbottom's best friend. The Potters chose Sirius Black- James' best friend. But under the insistence of Sirius Black they chose Peter Pettigrew. No one would think to go after Peter Pettigrew. He was the weakest of the group of four- and not as close to James and either Sirius or Remus Lupin.
This plan really was a stroke of genius on the part of Sirius- except for the fact that Peter had been the leak in the order.
Now, Voldemort got the information out of Gideon Prewitt right before he killed the Prewitt brothers. And Peter Pettigrew wilfully told Voldemort where to find the Potters, almost right after the charm had been completed.
The fateful night arrived and Voldemort attacked. On Halloween 1981 Voldemort attacked Godric's Hollow and killed both Lily and James Potter. But as Lily shielded her son's body with her own, begging for mercy she unleashed a powerful and ancient magic. And at the very moment the killing curse hit her the magic leached itself into her son's veins and ran in his blood. Voldemort could not kill Harry. And as he tried, he was torn from his body, and disappeared for the next 13 years. Everyone thought he had been defeated, and so they rejoiced. Making Harry Potter saviour of the magic world.
After that night, the baby Harry's brilliant blue eyes, started to turn the striking emerald green of his mother. And finally a full two years later- to the hour Harry Potter's eyes had fully turned to the green colour everyone knew. This signified, that the protection was fully imbued in his blood.
But his guardians- Vernon and Petunia Dursley (Petunia being Lily's sister)- didn't see it this way. They saw it as magic, for the child had come to their door a lightning shaped streak of green down his right eye. And they saw magic as an abnormality. Therein lay the proof that Harry was as abnormal as his parents.
So, for the next two years the Dursleys treated Harry very poorly, in hoped to stamp the "magic nonsense" out of the small boy. And finally the time came for young Harry to get his Hogwarts letter, they burned it. As well the subsequent hundred-plus letters that came. And the only reason that Harry got his letter was because Albus Dumbledore sent Hagrid- a friendly half giant, to get him.
And thus resulted a pattern. Harry would go to Hogwarts for ten months with things about him being hidden from him, and coming home for the summer and being treated like swamp.
For the entire ten years Harry was with the Dursleys, Harry thought he was a normal boy and that his parents had died in a car crash. Harry was anything but normal- and his parents were killed by Voldemort. Then Harry thought that Sirius Black was a craze enemy of his parents. Sirius was the Potter's best friend. A fact Dumbledore conveniently forgot to tell Harry. And through out the first five years Harry thought the attack on his family was just a part of the war. And then he found out that a bloody prophecy had been made about him- therefore the attack had been premeditated.
All this was a giant shock for Harry when he figured it out- especially the prophecy. Albus Dumbledore had been using Harry- and he claimed he cared. And for all Harry knew, maybe he did.
But Harry was exhausted, tired of life and tired of the lies being told to him on a daily basis. Yes, it was definitely time for a change.