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Hello guys, Badger here. Glad to see people enjoyed the previous chapter. I am also glad to see people are voting on the poll. I don't know how long I will keep the poll up, but I won't be taking it down anytime soon. The results so far, are:

James/Harry: 4 James/Pansy: 2 Harry/Susan: 3 James/Daphne: 1 James/Tonks: 2 Harry/Fleur: 2 Harry/Tonks: 1 James/Luna: 3 James/Astoria: 1 Harry/Daphne: 1 Harry/Astoria: 0 Harry/Ginny: 0

A James/Harry pairing seems to be very popular, and I can see why. At the end of every chapter, I will have a poll result in the A/N, unless nothing has changed. Just so you are aware, these results won't be guaranteed. I will be taking the results into account when I do the pairings for James and Harry.

For now, please enjoy the new chapter.

Chapter 14

A birthday visitor

Vernon was not having a good time. He had only been in prison for almost two weeks and he had already lost several pounds. Honestly, the food in here was absolutely horrible. How could they pass the slop they serve as food? He spent a lot of his time internally raging. Did they not know who he was? He was a well-respected worker of Grunning's. He was above the filth that he sat amongst with. It was all the freaks fault! Because of him, and that freaks friend of his, he and his family were placed here. Never mind. It wouldn't be long until one of his close contacts paid his bail, claiming the accusations were proven false, where he will then find the freak and give him a lesson he'll never forget. Maybe this time, he will kill the freak for good measure!

When he was first thrown into the men's ward, he immediatley started ordering the other inmates about, demanding respect. After all, he always got what he wanted. Unfortunately, this didn't work and it didn't take long for them to find out the reason for his imprisonment. Now, they will steal his food, or throw things at them and whisper about him behind his back. What did these people know? They didn't know how much of a freak his nephew was. If they knew, they would thank him for what he did to him. He currently sat in the canteen, eating whatever the slop was made from, when one of the inmates passed, knocking his tray off of the table. That was it.

"How dare you!" He roared, all the other inmates now looking towards him "I am a respected British citizen, I don't deserve to be here with you lot!"

"Oh I dare" The inmate replied "Everyone here may be thieves, murderers and bad people, but at least none of us would abuse an innocent child!"

"You know nothing!" Vernon growled "That boy is a freak! He deserved everything I did to him!"

"Right now the only freak I see is you" The inmate said

Vernon's face went purple with rage, before he hit the inmate across the face, with his fist. Immediatley, the other inmates piled on top of Vernon, hoping to get a hit in. It would take 5 minutes for the guards to break everything up. After that incident, the inmate will glare at Vernon, whenever they were in the same room. It would be another three days, when Vernon would be found dead in his cell, hung with multiple deep cuts on his neck and arms, with one of the cooking knives from the kitchen by his body, covered in blood. Though a certain inmate was heavily suspected, the case will go unsolved.

Petunia was not having a good day. She was once the source of envy of her street, because of her beautiful gardens and delicious cherry pies. Of course, none of them knew the freak was the reason for that, but they didn't need to know that. Now though, she sat in the female wards of the prison, where she quickly found out, she was at the rock bottom of the pecking order. When she first entered the ward, she immediatley began bossing them about, believing she'll get her own way. These people were just filthy commoners. People she likes to look down on. As soon as she started bossing people about, things were thrown at her. She had definitely made enemies of practically everyone. She even had a scar on her hand, when one of the inmates rammed their fork, deep into her hand, during lunch.

As it turns out, word travels fast in prison and one of the inmates found out the reason why she was locked up. Within a matter of hours, the entire female ward of the prison knew what she had done. Now, people mocked, insulted and threw stuff at her on a daily basis, but they don't know everything! The boy was a freak! Just like her sister! If everyone knew how unnatural the boy was, they would understand! He was an abomination! If they knew the whole story, they would thank her, praise her and treat her like royalty in this hellhole! All of this was his fault! When the freak came back from his freak school, they were angry that their normal life will be infested once more with his filth. They still hoped they could beat it out of him and was going to, but one of his freak friends had to turn up, didn't he? Though Petunia would never admit it, the freak with the purple hair scared her. She doubted she will last that long when her sentence is over, but when it was, she was leaving far enough away, to a place where the boys freakishness won't bother her again. She counted down the days until then. Only 10938 left to go.

Though everything could be better, Dudley supposed everything wasn't that bad. The Juvenile Detention Center they sent him to, was actually pretty nice. However, though it was good, it wasn't perfect. Somehow, one of the other kids found out why he was here in the first place. Though they sometimes looked at him in disgust, they didn't treat him like an outcast. Though, it did kind of hurt, to see some of the younger kids look at him in fear.

Dudley had only been for less then two weeks and he had thought about everything he had done. He found himself wondering why he did everything to Harry. This all started a few days after he was delivered to the Detention Center. A bunch of kids were bullying a much smaller and younger boy, tying him to a tree. For whatever reason, Dudley decided to step in and help. Dudley may have been beaten a little, but the kid he saved was very grateful. Ever since then, he began to reflect on what he saw and compared it to himself. What those boys did to the kid was similar to what he, and his mates, did to Harry. Since then, he thought about the last few years, the way he treated Harry and just thought, why? Why did he do it? A few days ago, he heard some of the adults talking and one of them mentioned how he was heavily influenced by his parents.

Was that true? It seemed so. Dudley didn't join in with the beatings until he was around 5 or 6…with his parents encouragement. Until he was around 8, it would always be his parents encouragement that made him hit and beat Harry. But why? Why would they do that? He wasn't sure…and perhaps never will. He had another 6 years until he was released from juvie, then he had to look forward to five years in prison. One thing was for sure though. Once his sentence was over, he will look for Harry and apologise for everything. Dudley wasn't sure if Harry would forgive him, and he wouldn't blame him if he didn't either. Still, he had to at least try. Until then, all he could do, was wait.

The last couple of weeks were the best Harry has ever had. The Albrights were kind and fun people and James had taught him a lot about the duties of the Lord of a House, giving him a book on the subject, as well as the Alliance. It took a few days to notice, but the potions the Ministry Healer had given him did their work. He had grown a few inches, so he was now of average height for his age, standing at about 5ft and 2 inches. Still not as tall as James though. Whilst he was still skinny, he at least had some muscle mixed in and wasn't malnourished. James, Jinx and Abigail made sure he had decent portion sizes.

His scars were also looking better then before. Most of his scars were healed entirely, leaving unblemished skin. However there were a few, like the deep gashes on his back that were unfortunately didn't heal fully. They may have faded, but were still noticeable. Over the past couple of weeks, they had exchanged letters with Daphne and Susan, as well as the Weasley Twins. However, the two of them noticed something was amiss, when Hedwig informed Harry of something trying to intercept the mail she carried. Until they could figure out what was going on, Harry agreed to give Loki his mail, instead. It had been three days since then, but nothing had come up so far. Amelia Bones had also kept to her word and checked up on them every couple of days, sometimes bringing Susan round, and spent time with them both, before she left again.

Harry was currently in his room, getting dressed in some of the clothes he bought in the Muggle world. James had even gotten Harry a couple of leather jackets. James seemed to have a love for them. After he tried, and failed, to sort out his messy hair, he left his room, only to jump when a party blower echoed across the room. He looked to see James standing there, a party hat sitting crooked on his head, a smile on his face.

"Happy Birthday mate!" He said, wrapping Harry in a one arm bro hug

"You remembered?" Harry asked

"Harry…I think everyone in the Magical World knows your birthday" James chuckled "So, how do you feel?"

"Brilliant" Harry replied "Everything has been so much better since I became free from the Dursleys"

"Speaking of the Dursleys" James said, grabbing a newspaper and handing it to Harry, a slight hesitant look on his face "You should see this"

Harry looked confused, as he took the paper. His eyes widened when he saw the headline. VERNON DURSLEY FOUND DEAD IN JAIL CELL!

"You good man?" James asked, concerned about his silence

"I…don't know" Harry replied, after a moment "I'm not sure what I feel…Happy? Shocked? Ecstatic? Guilty? All of the above? I just don't know…"

"Understandable" James nodded "Apparently one of the other inmates have been heavily suspected but have no proof…anyway, forget about that for now…you have presents to open"

Harry nodded, as he put the paper down. James was right. It was his birthday. Just forget about his uncle for the time being…even if he got what he deserved. He sat down on one of the sofa's taking notice of the presents. This was the first time he ever had birthday presents. Did the cake Hagrid brought him last year count? He wasn't sure. For the next fifteen minutes, he attacked the presents. He had a spell book of defensive charms from Susan, a cake from the Albrights, a book on Pureblood etiquette and a charms book on offensive spells from Daphne, some new inventions from the Weasley Twins that they will ask about next time they see them, some sweets from Hagrid and a long black leather coat from James, which was similar to the one he was currently wearing, along with some kind of arm bracer, which made him look at James in mild amusement.

"Don't I already have enough?" He asked

"If you are living under my roof, you have to have loads of leather jackets" James replied, in mock seriousness

Harry let out a laugh, where he was soon joined by James.

"What is the arm bracer?" Harry asked, after they calmed down, taking a closer look at it

"It's a wand holster, I got myself one as well" James answered, rolling his sleeve up to show a similar bracer around his arm "I'll teach you how to use it, but I thought that having one would be a good idea"

"Thank you" Harry smiled "So, do you have any surprises for me today?"

"I might do, I might not" James smiled back "I do know the Albrights want us to have lunch with them today though"

"I don't mind that, I like them" Harry replied

It was later that day and James was currently alone in the sitting area. Harry seemed to love lunch with Marty and Abigail. They had thrown him a small party, between them. It was quite fun, though he wished he didn't eat so much cake. Right now, James was reading through another one of his fathers journals. This one was from when he was a Fifth Year. When he was reading it, he found that he, and Harry's father became an Animagus, along with their friends. James would need to read about it, but he would ask Harry if that was something he would be interested in. It was then, when he heard some weird noises coming from Harry's bedroom. James wasn't sure what was going on inside, but he approached the door and entered to see what was going on. He looked inside and immediatley walked out, closing the door behind him. A few seconds later, the front door opened, where Harry appeared, who approached him, when he saw James standing by his bedroom door, staring into nothing.

"James, what's wrong?" He asked

"You…have a visitor" James said slowly

Harry was confused, until he opened his door, to see what looked like a House Elf, jumping on his bed. He was laughing and cheering, as he continued to jump, until he stopped, noticing their presence, where he bowed.

"Harry Potter" He said "Such an honour it is…"

There we are, I hope you guys enjoyed chapter 14. This chapter was purely filler and build up for the start of the next chapter, I hope you don't mind.

I also hope you liked the start of the chapter, with the Dursleys imprisonment, seeing what they are going through. Vernon got himself killed. Nothing else to say about that, he got what he deserved. Petunia is being treated like scum, which is what she also deserves. It is very unlikely that she'll show up again in the Fanfic, but she might do. Dudley, on the other hand, is not receiving as much hate as his parents. I like the idea that he was influenced by his parents, allowing a chance for redemption. What do you guys think? Dudley redemption, yes or no? I do not know if he will turn up again in the Fanfic. He may have a brief mention in the Fanfics epilogue, but is still up for debate.

The small mention of James reading about his and Harry's parents becoming an Animagus was there, to see what you guys think. Should James and Harry become an Animagus. I know one person does and I would be interested in doing so, if you guys want that.

We also had the introduction to Dobby. I know his name wasn't mentioned, but you all know its him, I'm sure. As I said, this chapter was mainly filler, but the next chapter will start off the second year, where we will also have an introduction to, in my opinion, one of the worst and most annoying characters in the franchise, can you guess who it is?

I hope you enjoyed the chapter and I hope to see you in the next one.

Second Year is around the corner, where there will be changes to canon.

Badger out.