Chapter four:

Harry: age 11

"Happy birthday Harry," Uncle Vernon grinned the moment that Harry entered the living room on July 31st 2005. Harry smiled back at his uncle and accepted the gift easily,

And just as easily ignoring glares from his aunt and cousin,

Ever since they'd attended Kaizan Academy Dudley had been furious at Harry, a few days at the academy and he was begging to be allowed to go home – but the teachers along with his roommates all prevented him telling Petunia that, threatening to speak to Vernon and get Dudley on the full-time boarding scheme.

"Thank you Uncle Vernon!" Harry said walking over and hugging him,

Inside the box was three pieces of jewellery – a silver ring with a half-band of emeralds running through the centre, the next was a silver bracelet with a name plate with 'Shadow' inscribed onto the front and on the back/underneath was his initials – the final thing was a silver chair with a cross, covered in diamonds on the front except for four that all pointed to the centre in emerald green.

All pure silver, none of that mixed or stainless-steel that was silver-coated.

After putting them on and getting ready for the day (Vernon said someone was visiting but not who) in a pair of dark blue designer jeans, a light green button-up shirt that had the two top buttons open showing his white t-shirt underneath. A pair of black and green plimsolls and finally his gift, the jewellery.

The choice of outfit had been Vernon's and it showed off his thin but toned body, despite his under-average height it made him look twelve or thirteen instead of eleven…though most said that was because of his eyes that shone with intelligence and power, unless he dressed childishly you would over-guess his age.

Everyone always did.

After getting ready and having his morning shower, after doing his morning rounds karate, taekwondo practices and the 2 mile morning run – he entered the kitchen where Uncle Vernon was speaking to a man who was dressed in funny clothing that looked like robes, dark brown hair and a slightly built body…natural and definitely not from working out like Harry was used to,

"Harry, this is Professor Shayden Vector," Vernon introduced nodding to the chair beside himself – Petunia was stood in the corner of the room gritting her teeth angrily, he wondered why this time, "Professor Vector, this is my nephew Harry – I decided to leave it to you to explain everything since I don't know anything but the basics…"

After taking a seat Harry listened carefully as Professor Vector explained about the wizarding world – that he was a wizard and that he was famous because he had survived an attack from the dark lord Voldemort that hadn't been heard from since.

It was meant to be Hagrid who came to give him his letter and take him shopping but the man had fallen ill with a summer cold and Professor Vector had owed Professor McGonagall a favour and had been sent out to a few muggleborn students including Hermione Granger, Dean Thomas and Abigail Samson.

"The Leaky Cauldron," Professor Vector informed Harry as they entered the dark pub, has had Vernon drop them off. It was 11am by that time, meaning that they were running a little late to meet with the others, "Sorry Minerva! Traffic was bad."

"Muggle transport?" the woman asked smirking,

"Aye,"

"You aren't too late," She assured turning to the group of nine students who had either one or two of their parents (guardians) with them, "Right everyone, now Professor Vector has decided to join us we can start shopping."

"Harry?"

"Justin?"

Both boys looked at each other for a second before high-fiving each other and following after the group, out of everyone in their dorm there was three students that had been drawn to each other – those two and Matthew Poleax who was a year older than them and had left last year,

The trip to Gringotts bank was only slowed up a little bit because they had to make a stop at Harry's trust account to get the money for his supplies, the others were all given a key to their new account that would get money from the Hogwarts funds every August 1st and then whatever money they wanted to have after that – all muggleborn students were given an account and so were half-bloods if their parents hadn't already sorted that out, so they had one for when they finished school and went on to getting a job in either the muggle or magic world.

The trip to the book shop, Florish and Blotts, showed truly who the bookworms were including Justin and Hermione Granger…the bushy-haired girl didn't seem too socially adept though, unlike Justin.

He, himself, had added some books to his school list including some introductory to the wizarding world, basic arithmacy and ancient runes (making Professor Vector smirk) along with some other books for the subjects he'd be studying at school for background reading plus some more spells and charms to learn,

Uniforms was where it caused some, hem, arguments,

Harry and Justin were point-blank refusing to wear robes that constricted their movements and it took a message (Patronus?) to Headmaster Dumbledore who agreed to allow them to dump the robes and just keep the black trousers, white shirt and school jumper and tie but they had to wear the robes during things such as feasts, yuck.

While Justin bought the things from there Harry merely snorted in disgust at the scratchy material, stating that he'd buy his uniform at another store in the muggle world and specially ordering the robes to be tailored to him and in a softer material.

He knew he'd hate potions just by the look of the Apothecary,

The final store (after getting a three-compartment trunk) was Oliverander's that the students had been taking turns to go into since it was so small,

Justin got a pre-made wand that was 9inch willow and dragon heart-string,

Harry's was custom made though – 8inch holly entwined with oak, with the centre of a phoenix feather and pure-silver. One of the purest in the wizarding world that was actually more expensive than gold in the wizarding world.

It was surprising that no one had actually realised that he was among them, since he was assumedly famous – in the muggle (non-magic) world he was careful not to reveal his name or draw too much attention to himself because he was famous there too for his Martial Arts,

He was a Dan – Blackbelt 2 in Taekwondo,

He was also onto his first Blackbelt belt in karate as well,

Winning three international tournaments in Karate at 1st place, and some nationals, locals and regionals in either 1st or 2nd place – another reason why petunia couldn't stand him…Dudley hadn't managed to even reach the local tournament entry requirements until recently and Harry had been fighting in them since he was nine,

Once back at the Dursley's house he put everything away before going through his nightly routine that was the exact same as his morning routine. He couldn't wait until he went to Hogwarts, Vernon had already arranged for him to come home at weekends to attend the academy lessons still – his sensei's and gymnastic teachers were willing to do private lessons, and permission for him to be outside of his common room earlier and slightly later than usual.

One thing was for certain – he wasn't going to give up his hobbies up for anything. He'd worked way too hard for that!