Ad Astra Per Aspera
Summary- Through Difficulty to the Stars. The summer after Harry's 5th year and the tragic incident at the DoM, an abused Harry is sent on a training mission with Tonks. What happens when he gets lost in the woods by himself when looking for firewood for the injured Tonks? He gets Bitten. By what? A Were-beast. To be exact, and were-leopard. This is the story of Harry's 6th year at Hogwarts, filled with adventure; a myriad of were-creatures; and of course, a devious plot by Voldemort.
Warnings- Rated T for now, rating may go up. Possible slash, mild abuse, mentions of sexual content, violence. If I miss anything, let me know.
Disclaimer- NOT MINE DON'T SUE! Thanks for choosing Fullmetal Flame Alchemist as your authoress, have a great day!
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Most good, happy stories start on a warm, clear summer day, perhaps with the main character lying outside, enjoying a nice day in the shade, or lying in his cool room reading a book. This is not one of those stories. Our story starts in the evening, of course, with it storming outside. By now, you're thinking to yourself, 'Well, surely the main character is inside in front of the fire –maybe with a mug of tea or hot chocolate- watching the storm outside!' But yet again, wrong! Our main character, one Harry Potter, is outside mowing the lawn. Yes, mowing the lawn. Now you ask 'How is he mowing the lawn in the rain? It's just not possible!' Right you are. Its not. And that, my friends, is just Harry Potter's problem at the moment. Catching on yet?
Anyway, let's get on with it. Where were we? Ah, that's right! Harry, mowing, raining, etc. Now, Harry was mowing in the rain. As we have already come to the conclusion that this will prove to be a slight problem, you ask why. Well, the answer to that is because his uncle told him to. Think classic Cinderella story. Evil step-mother/sisters, chores, ball, prince…well, you get the picture. Except the dubbed 'evil step-mother/sisters' are actually a an oversized uncle, a thin aunt, and an ugly piggy cousin, there was no ball for him, and no Prince to ride to the rescue; now that I think about it, really, only the chores are the same. Oh well. You get the idea.
Of course this has raised even more questions, Like 'Why is the Savior of the Wizarding World being pushed around by this overgrown, mustached, and slightly purple, excuse for an uncle?' Well, the answer to that is simple my friends. It's because he's not aloud to do magic over the summer. You should have known that! Plus, that 'heavy' (yeah, right. And I'm actually sane. Me and Grace both) uncle of his, Verinen (Vernon, dolt! Get it right) is scary! Ack! Getting side tracked again.
Now, Harry is mowing the lawn. I realize we (ok, 'I') have stated this at least three times by now. But it's important! (Not really.) Okay! You shut up now! (But I'm you.) ENOUGH!...Don't ask. You're better off not knowing…
"BOY!" Harry flinched as he heard 'The Voice'. Yes, 'The Voice'. As in his uncle. "GET IN HERE!" Harry put the lawnmower in the shed and limped to the house. "Did you finish the lawn?" Vernon hissed as he grabbed Harry by his upper arm, pulling him really close to his face. Close as in could have kissed him close, but in this case Vernon was just spitting on Harry.
Harry shook his head mutely. He was only able to get about half the yard done (give him a break, it was raining!), and he knew what was coming now. A beating. Now, your asking 'I thought he was scared that if he even laid a hand on Harry a psychotic mass murderer would come torture and kill him slowly. What happened to that? It was wonderful blackmail material!' Well, he somehow found out that our favorite pooch was dead (damn mail! Who sends mail to someone about his dead Godfather!), so yeah, he knows. And he's making up for the years off, interest included.
A few things changed. First, Harry's trunk, and obviously everything in it, was locked in the shed, along with Hedwig, as soon as Vernon found the letter at the beginning of the second week of summer. Harry, despite obvious protests, was locked back in the cupboard under the stairs, only to be let out to do chores and go to the bathroom once a day. He only got fed if he somehow managed to finish his lengthy list of chores each day. If he didn't finish, he got beaten…well, he got beaten regardless really, so let's say he got beaten worse.
Now on to the subject of letters. The ones that he was told to send the Order every three days. He still wrote the letters, but he had stopped trying to send a 'secret message' in them after the third time Vernon caught him. Let's just say it wasn't pretty. And I mean 'not pretty' as in clowns (devil spawn!), not 'not pretty' as in walking in on your parents having sex. Now that's just scary (then what do you call clowns?).
Vernon dragged Harry up to Dudley's second bedroom and proceeded to beat him soundly. This included the use of manacles, a bed, belt, whip, fists, and steel toe boots (sounds kinda like rough sex, huh?). Let's not get into detail. After he was done, he tossed Harry back in the cupboard. Harry just whimpered. "You deserve everything you get, you freak! All you have ever done is mooch off us hard working and respectable people. It's your fault that stupid Godfather of yours is dead. No doubt he was glad for it though, if just to get away from you!" Vernon laughed evilly as he locked his bloody, bruised nephew in the cupboard.
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T.B.C.
Well, what did you think? Any good? I wanted to say that when the story is in the Third Person P.o.V, I tend to do the annoying little A/N's in parenthesis. There's nothing to worry about (usually) while it's in First Person, but if it annoys you too much, let me know so I can try to work on it. If you like my comments let me know as well.
Constructive criticism please. Flames will be used to operate the flame-thrower!
Oh, and I need a vote on the pairings for Harry.
-Harry/Ginny
-Harry/Tonks
-Harry/Remus
-Harry/Other (insert name)
If you pick Harry/Ginny, Remus and Tonks will end up together, but if you pick Harry and another one, then Ginny will probably end up with Draco, unless you can think of something better.
-Fullmetal Flame Alchemist-
PURPLE!
Don't let the door hit you on the butt on the way out!