Summary of "A New Kind of Normal" - contains major spoilers for this fic.

Harry doesn't want to learn magic or go to Hogwarts – he just wants to be normal, like the Dursleys. But a meddling, crazy old wizard won't take "no" for an answer. Harry might have to learn how to be a normal wizard instead. But who will teach him what that means – Light wizards or pure-blood friends?


In Harry's first year at Hogwarts, the Sorting Hat wanted him in Slytherin, or perhaps Ravenclaw as a second choice. After it outright refused Harry's preference for Hufflepuff, Gryffindor was the compromise choice.

Harry made friends with Neville, whom he'd met and bonded with in Diagon Alley, Hermione, Ron, and also his second cousin Pansy Parkinson. His relationship with Pansy led to the beginnings of friendships with other Slytherins and an introduction to pure-blood cultural etiquette and their pagan religion. He was curious and keen to integrate, but Hermione found the traditions unappealing and bigoted.

Harry did not enjoy Quidditch after almost being thrown from his broom, and he quit the team to focus on his exhaustingly "average" studies. He slowly made friends with the Voldemort-possessed Professor Quirrell who'd sent Harry a picture of his mother (it was actually from Snape) and, at the end of the year, fell for his sob story and helped him abscond with the Philosopher's Stone.

Through confidential correspondence with "Quirrell" the next year, Harry learnt that Quirrellmort had discovered that the Stone was a fake and that its creators, the Flamels, were in hiding, though neither fact became public knowledge.