Heey guys~

Yes! I finally wrote a new chapter for you all to read~

Once more it is not beta read, but my beta is finally almost over with her finals, so I can start sending her chapter after chapter...

And now, enjoy reading and tell me please what you think...!

CHAPTER 6

ENGAGEMENT OF HARRY POTTER TO GINEVRA WEASLEY NEVER HAPPENED!

My dear reader, can you imagine my surprise yesterday, when I got a visit here at 'The Daily Prophet' from a beautiful young lady that was accompanied by a handsome gentleman, who brought me a letter written by the Boy-Who-Lived himself? The same young man that disappeared on us about three years ago after quitting auror training. For three years, we heared nothing of him at all, and now he wrote this letter to all of us.

"To the British Wizarding World

I wrote you, to clear somethings up for all of you, which then will also include some of my reasons to leave without so much as a good bye to any of my friends... But for that, I have to start with my childhood.

As some of you might know, after my parents death, I was sent to live with my maternal aunt, her husband and her son who was the same age as myself. Meaning, that Albus Dumbledore left me, in the middle of the night on Halloween on my aunts doorstep, in a basket with a single blanket and a letter...! And just so on the side: my godfather, Sirius Black, to whom I should have been given, was not arrested until the 6th of November...

My life there was that of a badly treated house elf, then, starting with the age of 4 I had to clean and cook. I also was treated as my uncle's and my cousin's personal punching bag. And everytime something "strange" (my accidental magic), I was punished extra hard, what usually ment a week to be spent in my cupboard with no food, and only being allowed outside of it to cook for them.

Until I had to start primary school at age 6, I believed to be called 'boy' or 'freak', the son of a useless alcoholic who killed himself and his wife while driving drunk.

And during all that time there never came someone from Child

Services to look after me, to check that everything was alright...

Well, imagine my surprise, when I, around my 11th birthday received a letter, without a sender on it, that was adressed to : "Harry Potter, The Cupboard Under The Stairs, 4 Private Drive, Little Whinning, Surrey".

But it wasn't as if I was allowed to actually read my letter. No. Instead, my letter got taken from me, was destroyed and I was told to move my two broken toysoldiers, which were all my personal belongingsm apart from my cousin's cast off clothes, to my cousin's second bedroom. Yes, you read correct... Up until then, my cousin had two bedrooms, my aunt and uncle had one they shared, and then there was also a guest room for when my uncles sister came visiting.

But enough of that. As I didn't receive my Hogwarts letter, more and more were send, in lots of different ways, some even where inside the eggs...

After more than a week of getting letters without being able to read them, I got visited by Hagrid. And I like him, I truly do, but I can't believe that the grounds keeper is the right person to explain the wizarding world and Hogwarts to an eleven year old boy who didn't know of any of it. Though, I don't thinm that sending the invitation and supply list out to a muggle raised childhood without any explenation isn't that wise, either...

But, well...

I was happy to get a way ojt from my aunt and uncle's , so I never wondered, why Hagrid had my key to my vault, or why he never told me where plattform 3/4 was or why he didn't give me the pamphlet that all muggleborn and muggle raised children usually get, where a lot of stuff was explained to them about the world they were about to enter.

But my time at Hogwarts wasn't entirely how I expected it...

Instead of learning new stuff and just having a good time with my peers, I had to fight a troll, fight the dark Lord Voldemort who was on the back of the head of Prof. Quirrel for a whole school year (shouldn't Hogwarts' wards have recognized his existance and warned the headmaster?), had to fight a 1000 year old basilisk because a diary that was enchanted with dark magic (again, wards...?!) used a little girl to send it off against pupils, was attacked by hundreds of dementors, a werewolf, was illegaly entered in the TriWizard tournament, was tortured with a blood quill repetedly, had to watch as my godfather fell through the veil, and so on...

And every summer, I had to go back to my aunt'sm even though I pleaded at the end of first year with Dumbledore not to be sent back there, I even told him how I was treated and showed him my scars... Though , until today, I still don't have any idea how it was actually his business where I was spending my summers... After all, as he was never convicted by a trial, Sirius Black was, until his death in '96, my guardian.

After I finished my seventh year at Hogwarts, I, as was expected of me, started auror training, although I wasn't really on it with my heart...

And I alsp moved in wih my girlfriend since sixth year Ginny Weasley.

But one day, I was home early and heard my girlfriend and her mother talk in our kitchen... What they talked about was a wake-up call for me...

Because they talked about the dosage of love potions they were giving to me, and that, if I didn't propose to her within the week, she'd up the dosage.

After I heard that, I went to check my vault movements from the beginning... And what I saw there, shocked me. (You can have a look at all the withdrawels on page 3)

It looks like Ginny Weasley was only with me for the title of Lady Potter-Black and my money.

After all those revelations, I just packed all my stuff, reset the wards on my house to evict everyone, locked my vaults to only be accessed by my blood and left to somewhere where I finally could be myself, without any expectations... Where I could live the way I wanted, without any of you people who either were after my fame, my money, wanted to blame me for everything, or were just plainly hiding behind a child, a teenager, and expected me to win a war for you that started long before I was even born...!

And now, I want to officially announce, that I was never engaged to Miss Ginevra Weasley, that the one withdrawel of Bill Weasley from my vault was with my permission, and that Bill, Charlie, Fred and George Weasly were not, in any way, involved in the whole deception... On contraire, the twins got their starting money from me, namely the TriWizard winnings...

And with this wishes you all a happy life and good luck for your war

Harry James Potter

Lord Potter-Black"

That, my dear readers, was the letter from Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived... It appears, that we all treated him unfair, thiugh the treatment he received by parts of the Weasley family and some other individuals, that you'll see on the bank statement on page 3, treated him even worse. And to be honestm I can understand that he wants nothing to do with our world or , as he correctly said, our war any longer.

And so, I wish him good luck with whatever he is doing and wherever he is and hope to sometime see him again.

Yours truly, Rita Skeeter