Harry James Potter grew up in a normal neighborhood. There were green lawns, playgrounds with kids, postmen, strays, etc. But in this world of normalcy, the occupants of Privet Drive had no idea what was hiding behind the doors of the Dursley family's house.

Vernon Dursley, an ambitious worker at a drill manufacturing company always seemed to push people the wrong way. Everything would always start the same. He would get along with people fine and then out of nowhere it would all end. Vernon's sheer size alone was enough to intimidate many of the neighbors.

Petunia Dursley on the other hand got along well with the neighbors. She enjoyed embellishing her stories to her neighbors. Vernon brought in a decent paycheck each week to have her fit in with the other ladies of the street just fine. Her house was always cleaner than the others, but she would never tell them how. While she had many likable attributes, one in particular bothered the other housewives, the fact that she resembled a horse more closely than she did to a human being.

Dudley Dursley had the worst traits of his parents. This plump boastful boy enjoyed picking on the younger children of the area. He was well hated by everyone, but no one would admit it, not even his so called friends.

That's all there is to the Four Privet Drive. Well that's all there is that is supposedly normal. Unbeknownst to many, the fourth and final resident of Four Privet Drive was far from what they believed he was.

Harry James Potter was the same age as his cousin, but as different as could be. While Dudley was fat and obnoxious, Harry was skinny and far too polite and quiet for a boy his age. The Dursley's had led the neighborhood to believe that Harry's parents were no good people that had left their no good son on the step of two amazing people that decided to keep him.

As much as the occupants of Privet Drive disliked the Dursley's, they despised Harry even more. He was a troubled child from the beginning. Troubled couldn't even begin to describe the fourth and final occupant of the Dursley household. While the community believed that "the unruly Potter boy" was soon to be attending St. Brutus's Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys, he was in fact about to embark on one of the most amazing experiences in his life.

Little did he know that many lives were going to change… some for the better and some for the worse? It's hard to say how everything will lead our young hero for every choice there is two decisions…

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Hey this is a two-version story. It's going to be the same for the most part. There will be some changes around second/ possibly third year. So for now it will be basically the same story posted twice. The romance in this version will get heavy prob around third year and will drift further away from canon han "A public affair." One version is slash while the other is not. The two titles for the series are:

1) Come clean: say it like you mean it (Harry and male character)

2) A public affair: we don't need to whisper (Harry and female)