(1991)

(Harrys pov)

It has been 7 years since I had found my trunk. 7 years since I was last beaten up by my uncle, all because Dudley kicked the stool out from under me while I was cooking some bacon for his breakfast.

I had learned so much since then, about my family and the world I will soon be officially returning to. Until I go to Hogwarts no one except the goblins know that I am back in the world I belong in.

After I had decided to continue exploring I went upstairs, and found an enormous library. Books on so many different subjects. It was there that I found my mums journal and my dads journal, and also an amazing lineage book.

That was the day I found out that I was heir to Slytherin and Ravenclaw through my mother and Gryffindor and Hufflepuff through my father. It turned out that my mothers family had once been a pureblood family. Apparently 800 years ago there was a squib born to one of Slytherin and Ravenclaw descendants. That squib married a muggle and had kids who also all married muggles. The magic was gone from that family until my mum somehow had enough magic to be noticed when she was born.

I spent so much time in the library that night that I didn't have the chance to visit the goblins for help. The next day I got up early and got ready to leave. I called for Tippy, and in popped a small creature with long bat like ears. She wore a purple house elf dress, a uniform, she told me she later told me.

(flashback)

"Tippy is so glad to see young master again sir! What does young master need of Tippy?"

"Tippy, I'll be living here for a while, and if you don't mind, I need to get some food to cook here I have a list of food to buy. Do you mind going to the store for me? I have to meet with the goblins and I don't know exactly when I'll be back."

"Of course young master! Yous always been so kind to Tippy and yous so polite too!" She took the list and popped away. I used the portkey to go to Gringotts where I learned that I had several blocks placed on me. Many of my abilities were being hindered.

The Goblin had seemed shocked to see me, once I was able to prove who I was by showing him the Heir ring. He had explained all he knew of what had been happening in the wizarding world since my parents deaths.

Apparently, after Lord Voldemorts fall, which Nagnok told me was due to his failure to kill me, I had vanished. No body knew where 'The-Boy-Who-Lived' was. Not like anyone truly seemed to care, since no one had bothered to check up on me in the past few years I had spent 'with' my relatives.

When he took a good look at me, he had me do a blood test. He had a piece of parchment on the desk, and he used a knife to make a small cut on my finger. I was told to allow 3 drops of blood fall onto the parchment.

Harry James Potter Son of James Potter and Lily Potter (nee Evans)

Natural occlumens (fully blocked), Parselmagic (partially blocked, tongue fully unblocked) Photographic memory (fully blocked), animagus (fully blocked), Ward sight

Potential talents: Potions Charms Transfiguration

Partial talent Arithmancy, Ancient Runes

(End flashback)

Ward sight is the ability to see wards around places. I can see the wards that surrounds a property, and know what they are. Then when I am old enough and get trained properly I can take some wards down except for a Fidelius charm.

I had a curse on my scar, a muggle enraging curse, a loyalty charm, and my magical core was mostly blocked. The healer had said that I only had 35% of magical core available to use. They were also able to tell he who put what blocks and curses on me. There had only been 2 people who had done this to me. One was Dumbledore.

All of the blocks had been removed and curses destroyed, even the one on my scar. The healer had me take nutrition potions for a month to get me up to speed with everyone else my age. My next check up I was declared perfectly healthy.

Now it is my eleventh birthday. The day I've been looking forward to. Today I will get my Hogwarts letter. I looked over at the magical clock I got for my 6th birthday from Tippy. It showed 8:00, my breakfast time.

Ever since I moved into my trunk I have had a very strict schedule. I would wake up at 6, as was normal for when I stayed with the Dursleys. From 6:30AM to 7:30AM I would have a morning run in the Quidditch room I had upstairs. Then after a 15 minute bath I would have breakfast, from 7:45 until 8:30AM in which case will be time for my hour of Etiquette training in the training room. 9:30-11:30 was my potions lessons, 11:30-12:30 is lunch. 12:30-1 I would get ready for my afternoon stuff. Look over skills to work on for the day, look over notes for whatever Hogwarts class I was supposed to work on that day. 1-2:30 is skills training, 2:30-4 class training, 4-5 homework and studying, 5-6 is dinner, 6-7 was spent flying around the Quidditch field, 7-8 is usually spent in the library keeping myself updated on the wizarding world and learning more about my heritage. 8-8:30 snack and bath. 8:30 -9 meditation and then bedtime.

Today I will take a break from my schedule and go into Diagon Alley before all the other kids would be there. I lifted the owl ward. As soon as I did a small brown owl soared into my bedroom, a letter tied to its leg. After removing the letter I gave it some water and owl treats. I stared at the Hogwarts seal for a moment before opening the letter.

H. Potter Trunk in the Attic 4 Privet Drive Little Whinging, Surrey

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore (Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Mr. Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

I wrote my reply, that I will be attending and gave it to the owl that had been waiting patiently and I gave it an owl treat. It nipped my ear in thanks before taking off. I closed the wards once again, glad to have found out that the letters were written by a magical quill, and not seen by the Headmaster, Headmistress, or Minisrty. I don't want anyone to find out that I wasn't really living with the Dursleys.

After learning how to recognize wards I looked around the Dursley property. I had chosen a day where Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon took Dudley to the zoo. I had found a security ward and a tracking ward around the property.

Once I was back into my home I went upstairs to the library and looked up wards. Apparently the security ward was to make sure that no magical person could enter the property besides me unless they have permission from whoever put the ward in place.

The tracking ward was added to make sure I stayed on the property. It seemed odd to me because from what I read was that if a person keyed into a tracking ward was to leave the area it covered, the person who placed the ward would be notified and they could use the ward to find the missing individual.

Surely if that was the case Professor Dumbledore, the man who sent me here and placed the wards would have known that I have been to Gringotts and would have brought me back. I called Tippy, hoping that she could explain.

She said that since I was living in the Potter trunk the ward didn't matter. I was still technically inside the wards (because the trunk is in the Dursleys attic), the wards would show that I was on the property, but the hiding wards and protection wards on the trunk, as well as the invisibity ward, made it so that I could fool the Dursley wards.

She said that if I went to Gringotts or Diagon Alley while in the trunk the trunk wards would hide the fact that I was away from the Dursleys property. But if I wasn't in the trunk when I left, the wards would go off and Dumbledore would know where I was. She told me that I was safe from the Headmaster finding out the truth as long as the trunk stayed inside the Dursleys wards, unless I was at Hogwarts, If I had eventually decided to move the trunk to another place away from the wards around 4 Privet Drive, Dumbledore will be alerted to the fact that I no longer call my uncles house home.

He would find out about the trunk, and he will find out that I know about the wizarding world. He would also know that I had all of his blocks removed. I didn't want that, I don't trust the Headmaster, not after I found out that he brought me here, against my parents wishes.

That was why I stayed in the attic all this time, glad that no one ever came up here. There was only one time, 4 years ago that the attic door opened and it wasn't from me. Aunt Petunia had come up here, carrying several boxes, mumbling about having to clean the guest room for Uncle Vernons sister Marge, who would be visiting the next week. She sat several boxes down, mumbling about keeping the junk up here and out of sight until she had the time to throw the things away. She never even looked towards my secluded corner of the attic.

Looking over the list of school supplies I wrote down all books on a separate sheet of parchment. Then I took a look at my potions stuff, deciding that I needed a new set of glass phials. I decided to have Tippy get my books while I got my wand, uniforms and phials.