SUMMARY: Harry saves this kid that was his age from his cousin and later on becomes friends with him to find that their friendship will be tested through trials and love. Post-Ootp and AliveSirius!
RATING: T
PAIRINGS: HARRY/OC ; SIRIUS/REMUS ; SEVERUS/OC ; RON/HERMIONE ; DRACO/GINNY ; NEVILLE/LUNA ; SEAMUS/DEAN ; PARVATI/LAVENDER ;
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN IT
Chapter 1
It was a hot summer day, right around lunch time, after 5th year and Harry Potter was laying on his aunt and uncle's front lawn. He was remembering the last events of the school year.
Dumbledore returning to Hogwarts, everyone finding out Voldemort was back and Sirius almost dieing while battling Bellatrix. Thankfully Kingsley Shacklebolt had a very strong Accio charm or Sirius would've been dead.
"Big D, why don't we go find that new kid?" Harry groaned inwardly. It was Piers.
"No way. He's freakier than the freak." He heard Dudley say/answer.
"Oh come on. Not like he fights back." That was Malcolm.
"Fine. But only if we find him can we beat him up." Dudley said.
Harry sighed and got to his feet. He might as well see who else could hate/fear him in this town. So quietly he followed Dudley and his friends to the park to see a boy about a year or so younger than him sitting on the swing reading. He could only see the color of the boy's hair and that was dark grayish color.
"Hey Kowal. What are you up to now?" Dudley asked the boy.
The boy ignored him, so Malcolm grabbed his book. "Give that back." He said, looking up. Harry was shocked. His eye color was an apricot color, but it seemed to somehow suit him.
"What are you up to now?" Dudley repeated.
"Well, I was reading. But now I'm looking at your ugly face." He replied.
It must've been a 1 second thing because next thing Harry knew the boy had fallen off the swing and his legs were laying on the seat of the swing.
It was then Harry realized that the boy had done this himself to avoid getting hit by Dudley. He decided it was time to go to the boy's rescue before he really got hurt.
"What are you doing now Dudders?" he asked his elephant of a cousin.
"Well if it isn't the freak." Gordan said. Harry rolled his eyes.
"So original. Did that take all night to think of?" he asked, smirking as they stopped to think about what he meant. "Go pick on someone your own sizes. And if you don't know what that means, then go look for someone who's double extra large. You know, like your own size?" he said.
"I'm telling Mum!" Dudley said.
"Then I'll tell her how her perfect angel is doing drugs, drinking, stealing and beating up others." Harry gave a few examples of what they do for fun.
"Fine. Come on guys." He said before they left. Malcolm had thrown down the boy's book before they left as well.
"Do they really do that?" the boy asked, pulling himself back onto the swing from the ground. Once he got on it, he got off it and picked up his book.
"Well, from how they reacted I guess so." Harry shrugged.
"Anyway, thanks." The boy smiled. "I'm Sosa Kowal." He said, holding out his hand to him.
Harry shook it.
"Harry Potter." He replied.
"Where do you live? I haven't seen you around here yet." Sosa told him.
"I go to Boarding School during the school year. So you must've moved here during school then?" he commented, the last part sounding like a question.
"Around Mid-June. I guess my school got out earlier than the schools around here." Sosa shrugged, a bit of a blush coming to his face.
They started walking towards the exit gate of the park.
"So, what school do you go to?" Sosa asked him.
"My Uncle tells everyone I go to St. Brutis For Incurable Criminal Boys or something like that, but I go to special Boarding School that's up in Scotland. It's called Hogwarts." Harry said.
"That's a funny name. Then again, St. Brutis isn't any better." Sosa told him.
"It's definitely not better." Harry replied. "Where did you go to school, Sosa?" he asked, feeling weird calling the boy in front of him that.
"I didn't. I was home schooled. That's why I said my school. Because it was MY
school. I was the only student, besides my sister anyway." He shrugged.
"What did you learn?" he asked Sosa.
"Not much, Astronomy, Arithmacy. My Mum tried to teach us Alchemy." Sosa told him.
"Where do you live?" Harry asked him.
"Across the street from Privet Drive." He shrugged.
"I live at number 4 Privet Drive." He told his new found friend.
"So, you're Dudley's cousin?" he asked.
"Sadly." He replied. "So what does your last name mean?" he asked.
"I'm not too sure, but I think my Mum said it means Blacksmith. I like your last name better though. It sounds normal." He told him.
Harry smiled a bit. He was anything but normal.
"Do you want to come over my house?" Sosa asked him, smiling at him.
"Sure. I'm not busy." Harry shrugged, so they went to Sosa?s home.
"Mum, I'm home." He called when he closed the door.
"Sosa, kitten, I'm in the kitchen." They heard a female voice. Sosa blushed a bit at being called 'kitten.'
"I brought some one. Is that alright?" he asked quietly as they went into the kitchen.
They were met with a thin blond haired woman, with olive colored eyes. She was smiling at them.
"That's alright. So, are you a new friend of my dear Sosa?" she asked.
"Yes. I think." Harry actually wasn't sure.
"Well, you'll be staying for lunch then. You're deathly thin and look like you could use a good meal. Both of you boys do. Sit, sit, sit." She said, before pulling some items out of the fridge. "I'm Alyssa Kowal by the way. You can call me Lisa." She smiled.
"I'm Harry Potter." He said, and she dropped something.
"Did you say Potter?" she asked him, before going to pick what she dropped, up.
"Yes. Why?" he asked.
"Oh, no reason. No reason at all." She smiled warmly at him, before going to make lunch.
"Ignore my Mum. She's nutters." Sosa mumbled.
"That's right. And proud of it too. As I say, I'm not suffering from insanity, I'm enjoying every minute of it" She smirked at her son, who lowered his head into his arms embarrassed, making Lisa laugh. "So, tell me about yourself Harry. If you're a friend of Sosa's you're bound to have something wrong with you." Lisa said, teasing Sosa as she talked to Harry.
"There's not much. I live with my aunt and uncle and cousin across the street,"
Harry began as Lisa began to make grilled cheese sandwiches, her back to him, "and I got to a boarding school called Hogwarts." Lisa froze.
"Oh shit!" she said before rushing to the sink turning on the cold water. She held her wrist under the faucet.
Sosa got up and went to the stove to turn the grilled cheese sandwich over. He then looked at his Mum curiously, wondering why she was acting so weirdly.
"Mum? Are you feeling okay?" he asked worriedly.
"Yes. I'm fine." Lisa replied.
Sosa nodded and helped his mum continue making lunch.
After lunch Harry and Sosa went into the living room and hung out.