Chapter two: Replacing this pain

The storm was really picking up now, spitting lightning through the skies while in the same moment throwing rain from the heavens in endless torrents. And within a brilliant flash of power in the skies, a figure could be seen flying in the terrible weather. The figure being a seventeen year old man with untidy black hair and gleaming emerald eyes. The figure being Harry Jamison Potter.

"How could they do this to me?" Harry thought angrily in his head as he pushed his firebolt faster and faster in the wrath of the heavens. Diving left and barely missing a jagged spike of power, the flipping his broom right to avoid another. He knew it was a risky game to be playing, but this was the only release he had at the moment. And he took it in strides.

"Fools." Harry declared turning into a sharp dive straight towards the lake under him. And in the his diving he recalled all that had happened before the trial, even as the lake became to zoom in at a dangerous rate.


Flash back.

Harry sat swinging in the local park. his thoughts surrounding their most favorite topic. The war with Voldemort. Both sides seemed to be hiding in wait, ready to counter attack if either side began to take actions. He still held nightmares but most were glimpses of Voldemort plans and of his own terrible past. Ron and Hermione had gotten together in the past year, during newt potion's no less. The thought of it still causing a boiling hatred to rise within him. He was of course happy for them, but Ron was being even more of a prat since it happened. Always accusing Harry of trying to steal Hermione every time they spent more then a minute together without him around, even if they both had the same classes. Harry had dropped divination which he failed in the first place, along with history of magic, and care of magical creatures. Selecting Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, Healing, Spell creation, Defense against the Dark arts, Herbology and magical item creation. Ron taking only Transfiguration, Charms and Defense with him while Hermione took most of his classes except Healing.

"Bloody prat." Harry muttered kicking the sand under him. He didn't ask for any of his fame, and yet he was always forced to hide from it whenever he was around Ron. And now he had to hide from his best friend on top of that. And quite frankly he was getting sick of it. He knew he shouldn't hide from something he was apart of, nor more then he should hide from his best friend. The thought of confronting Ron about it causing him to zone out to the point he didn't hear his cousin coming at him until he was thrown from his swing and face planted into the sand. Harry spitting out the sand, angrily pushing himself off the floor to look at his cousin.

"What the hell are you playing at?" Harry snapped glaring up at his cousin who was looking at him with a sadist look in his eyes.

"I'm going to get you back for hurting me those two years ago." Dudley said walking around the swing, and Harry pulling out his wand to point it at his cousin. Who didn't seemed a bit phased by it. "You can't do that here, not around all this people." Dudley said smirking with a wave around the public, Harry sneering and putting away his wand.

"Go away Dudley, I haven't time for this." Harry snapped turning away from his cousin, who angrily grabbed his shoulder to wheel him around. Harry already at the breaking point glared at his cousin without realizing the magical discharge he was releasing. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" Harry screamed at the top of his lungs, his magical flaring from his body and causing Dudley to go flying into the air and slamming into the swing set behind him, both of which crumbling from the force of the push. Harry realizing what he had done rushed to his cousin's side. "Are you all right Dudley?" Harry asked in a panicked voice, only to have Dudley push him aside roughly before standing with great pain to his feet.

"STAY AWAY FROM ME FREAK!" He raged in a shaken voice, running as fast as he could with his heavily bleeding leg away from Harry.

"Dudley wait, you need help." Harry said trying to rush forward to help his cousin who was now in the street, pulling his wand out of his pocket to perform one of the healing charms he had learned from his last year.

"I SAID STA-" Dudley never finished his sentence. While both of them were in a panic they hadn't noticed the truck that was heading straight for Dudley until it was too late. Harry frozen in shock, even while the blood of his cousin splashed against him. His eyes wide and staring at the spot where Dudley once stood, shaking his head in disbelief as several loud cracks resounded through the air.

"Erase the muggle's memory and seize Potter." A voice called out just before everything went black. And that's how he was captured, covered in blood, wand drawn, with his magical signature covering everything in a two mile radius.

End Flash Back


Water two feet from his face Harry pulled his broom up, hovering above the surface of the water. Harry smirking to himself drew his attention to the shore, where another man stood at its banks gesturing to him. Harry nodding before pushing his broom in the man's direction, and jumping off of it when he had reached the man. Draco looking at him with mild interest.

"Enjoying the grounds are we?" Draco asked nodding at Harry's broom. "Aren't you going to upgrade that thing? They've got the new spirit rider out, out ranks the firebolt 3 to 1 in speed and power." Draco said lazily and Harry nodded looking down at his broom.

"Yea, I think I will." Harry said off handily, running his fingers through his wet hair.

"Its your birthday tomorrow isn't it?" Draco said looking Harry in the eyes, Harry staring back at the boy in shock. "Oh don't give me that, everyone knows when your birthday is." Draco said waving off Harry's stare. "So what are we going to do for it then? My first thought was taking you on a shopping spree, but Pansy as already bet me too it." Draco said smirking, Harry paling at the thought of another one.

"I thought she was never going to stop." Harry said in a groan. "Shop after shop, it was just plain sick."

"Well, what did you expect Harry." Pansy said walking up to the two of them, along with the others who didn't seem quite happy about being out in the rain. "We had to get you out of those horrible muggle clothes. And besides, I refuse to be seen with anyone that looked like you did." She said with a smug tone while wrapping her arms around Harry's waist. Harry raising an eyebrow at Draco who only sighed and shook his head while Luna did the same to him.

"So Harry, what are we doing tomorrow?" Luna asked while kissing Draco lightly on the cheek. Harry looking over everyone that was with them, Blaise, Vincent, and Greg. Figuring the other two were still in the house sleeping.

"I'll need to go to gringotts, the old man still has my key. And I need to pick up a new broom, so we'll decide after that I guess." Harry said with a shrug looking at Draco.

"That's fine with me. I need a new broom as well." Draco said with a smirk. "Besides, it'll be funny to watch all those people ducking and dodging when we storm down the street." Draco said wiggling his eyebrows, and causing Harry to laugh.

"Harry?" Luna asked pulling herself from Draco and tilting her head. "What about Weasel and Granger?" The other's looking at him for a reaction, Harry sneering in return.

"What about the blood traitor and Mudblood?" Harry said with a dark tone in his voice. "If they have something to say, they can say it to my wand."

"And mine as well." Draco said stepping forward. "After all, Slytherins look after their own." Draco declared pulling out a Slytherin patch from his robes, which Harry took with a smiling.

"Tomorrow is going to be fun." Harry said with a small laugh while Pansy promptly flicked her wand to his robes and sealing in the patch. "Fun indeed." Harry said looking back over the lake just as a red bolt of lightning struck the surface of it.


Hey there,

Decided to keep the story going eh. Might take back seat to my other stories though... but I continued it anyways... (was scared someone would hurt him) so there it is. Though yes, I did rush the first chapter and should have done it better... the idea was just bugging me and I wanted to get it out of the way before I lost it.

Leon