Post by skii-chan;; on Aug 3, 2009 0:42:04 GMT -5
It all started on the night of October 31st of 1981.
Living peacefully in Godric's Hollow, James and Lily Potter had been living in secrecy in a muggle town. Dumbledore had passed his secret keeper duties to one of James' best friends from Hogwarts, Peter Pettigrew. Unfortunately, the man tended to act like his animagus morph, instead of being a true friend to his best friend, and wife. Being the rat that he is, Peter had ratted the location of where they were staying to the Dark Lord, giving him a one-way ticket to find one of the hallows that James had in his possession.
The Invisibility Cloak.
Upon arrival, Lord Voldemort had no intention of killing Lily Potter, but was set on killing James Potter, and his one year old child, Harry, just to gain the token that he had come for. Instead, James had jumped into his path, allowing Lily to run with Harry. The Dark Lord killed him with no second thoughts. He traveled through the house, wandering now on the red headed female in her bedroom, hiding the young boy behind her. Severus Snape had begged him for the chance to show mercy on the female, and spare her life. Only because he loved the female had he begged. He had told her to get out of the way, but she had refused, remaining in front of the boy. That was when he had killed her. No regrets, nothing that would make him doubt that what he had done. Nothing that would make him pity Severus Snape's nonexistent love life.
This was it. Only the boy was left. He cast the curse at the boy, wand raised, a flash of green light. An infant's crying voice pierced the lit room... Then there was nothing.
'This was not right. Why didn't he die...?'
If there was one thing that the Dark Lord could never get the grasp of... it was love.
On the night of November 1st, Hagrid had delivered the infant to Albus Dumbledore, who had made sure that Harry was safely incorporated into the Dursley household.
We move on to the night of June 15th of 1985.
As the years go by, Harry grows older. He grows up, raised by his Aunt Petunia and his Uncle Vernon; not even knowing what he truly is, or the true way his parents had died. He knew nothing about magic, except for the small details in fantasy books, and the fact that it did not exist at all in the small household that he been welcomed into, and was generously offered a roof over his head, and a bed to lay on.
A month before he turned five, Aunt Marge had decided to pay the Dursley family a visit. It was Dudley's birthday party, exactly two months before his birthday was supposed to actually take place. Harry and Dudley were playing a nice game of Musical Statues, and he was winning! Unfortunately, this oversized woman of an Aunt, whacked him in the shins to keep Dudley from loosing the game. Harry hated the woman, but who he hated the most, was her bulldog, Ripper.
During the next five years, Harry attends primary school. He is laughed at because of his oversized, hand-me-down clothes and taped glasses, and ostracized because none of the other kids will brave Dudley's gang to befriend him. On one occasion he turns a teacher's wig blue. On another occasion he inexplicably finds himself on top of the school kitchens when he was being chased by Dudley's gang.
Harry unexpectedly finds himself coming along on Dudley's birthday outing to the zoo, where he accidentally releases a boa constrictor - he is locked in his cupboard until the summer holidays have begun. Only a month after this, letters begin arriving via owl post to invite Harry to Hogwarts. After moving to various places to escape the letters from coming, Hagrid rescues Harry from the Dursleys and from the Hut on the Rock. He visits Diagon Alley with Hagrid to buy his supplies, meets Draco Malfoy in Madam Malkin's shop.
On the start of the new term, Harry meets Ron Weasley, the twins, Percy, Ginny, and Molly on Platform Nine and Three Quarters; meets Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom aboard the Hogwarts Express. Begins first year at Hogwarts, sorted into Gryffindor. Only a week, or so into the school term, they have their first flying lesson for Gryffindors and Slytherins; Harry finds out he's a natural at flying and is made the Gryffindor Seeker.
Harry with Ron, fights a Mountain Troll and rescues Hermione, on Halloween night. The three become friends. Then on Christmas, Harry has the best Christmas of his life and receives his father's Invisibility Cloak, one of the hallows, for a gift. Harry discovers the Mirror of Erised and sees his family for the first time in his life.
Harry serves his first detention in the Forbidden Forest with Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, and Draco Malfoy. Near the end of the term, Harry, Hermione, and Ron follow Quirrell after the Stone, overcome the various protections, and defeat Quirrell/Voldemort's attempt to steal the Stone.
On Harry's twelfth birthday, Dobby the house-elf visits Harry Potter in Privet Drive; the Dursleys hold a dinner party for the Masons which is disrupted by a falling violet pudding. He is locked away in his room for the rest of the summer, afraid that everyone else might soon find out about Harry, and where he goes off to for the school year. Ron, Fred, and George rescue Harry from the Dursleys in a flying car. The Weasleys take Harry to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies for the coming year. Lockhart presents Harry with his complete works, which Harry promptly gives to Ginny.
Harry and his friends start their second year at Hogwarts. They attend the 500th Deathday for Nearly Headless Nick, the ghost of Gryffindor House. Harry hears a voice threatening death and follows it to discover Mrs. Norris, Petrified, soon after. Gryffindor-Slytherin Quidditch match, in which Dobby's rogue Bludger breaks Harry's right arm at the elbow. Lockhart removes the bones of Harry's right arm in trying to repair them, and Harry spends the night in the hospital wing.
At the newly formed Dueling Club, Harry publicly speaks Parseltongue for the first time; Ron and Hermione explain the rarity of the ability to him later. Harry, Ron, and Hermione take Polyjuice Potion, to see if Draco is the heir of Salazar, and opened the chamber of secrets (Harry takes the shape of Goyle, Ron the shape of Crabbe, and Hermione... a cat).
Harry receives an anonymous singing Valentine, and in the subsequent uproar realizes how to work the diary of T.M. Riddle. After discovering what he truly is, and after Ginny disappears, the spirit-form of Voldemort is defeated by Harry Potter in the Chamber of Secrets.
We move on to the night of September 1st of 1993.
Harry's thirteenth birthday. Harry first sees Sirius Black on Muggle television. Aunt Marge comes for a visit to the Dursleys. On the last day of Aunt Marge's visit, Harry blows her up and runs away. Harry first encounters Sirius Black (in Animagus form). The Knight Bus picks Harry up in Magnolia Crescent and drops him off at the Leaky Cauldron. Harry stays at the Leaky Cauldron and spends his days in Diagon Alley. Quality Quidditch Supplies displays the new Firebolt broomstick. Harry meets Hermione and Ron in Diagon Alley. They are all staying at the Leaky Cauldron.
Harry and his friends begin their third year at Hogwarts, which is now surrounded by dementors. Harry suffers his first dementor-induced flashback of his parents' death. Harry suffers a second, more severe flashback during Gryffindor - Hufflepuff; passing out, he falls 50 feet, to be saved just short of being killed by Dumbledore. His Nimbus 2000 is destroyed by the Whomping Willow.
The first Hogsmeade visit - Fred and George give the Marauder's Map to Harry as an early Christmas present. In the Three Broomsticks, Harry overhears the conversation between Flitwick, Fudge, Hagrid, McGonagall, and Madam Rosmerta revealing the crime for which Sirius was condemned to Azkaban: the betrayal of Harry's parents. Harry receives his Firebolt as an anonymous Christmas present (from his godfather, Sirius Black, as it turns out). Harry and Ron become estranged from Hermione when she reports the gift to McGonagall, who confiscates it until it can be verified to be free from jinxes and hexes.
The first week of January, Lupin begins tutoring Harry in the Patronus Charm outside class. Harry notices Cho Chang, Ravenclaw's Seeker, for the first time during Gryffindor-Ravenclaw. June 6th at sundown, Buckbeak is scheduled to be executed; Sirius Black is captured that evening and narrowly escapes suffering the Dementor's Kiss by riding to freeedom on Buckbeak.
Harry's fourteenth birthday, for which he receives four birthday cakes, one each from Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, and Sirius. Harry attends the Final of the 422nd World Quidditch Cup.
Harry and his friends start their fourth year at Hogwarts. The Goblet of Fire selects the champions for the Triwizard Tournament - Harry is chosen, and becomes estranged from Ron Weasley as a result. First Task of the Triwizard Tournament. Harry and Ron reconcile afterward.
Yule Ball, 8 PM until midnight. Rita Skeeter, Ron Weasley, and Harry Potter overhear Hagrid talking about his half-giant ancestry to Madame Maxime. After the ball, Cedric advises Harry to take a bath with the golden egg clue. Next, Second Task of the Triwizard Tournament. Then the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament.
Voldemort kidnaps Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory. Cedric is killed by Wormtail using Voldemort's wand. Voldemort is restored to his body in an ancient ceremony. The Death Eaters are called back to him and they gather. Voldemort and Harry duel and Harry manages to escape with Cedric's body.
Harry's fifteenth birthday. He later learns that his cousin Dudley beat up a 10-year-old neighbour, Mark Evans, this same day. Harry picks a quarrel with Dudley, who retaliates, saying that Harry has been talking in his sleep during his nightmares. The quarrel ends when Harry and Dudley are attacked by dementors; Harry casts a Patronus Charm and saves Dudley from being kissed. Mrs. Figg reveals her identity to Harry. The Ministry expels Harry, then rescinds the expulsion under pressure from Dumbledore.
Harry's disciplinary hearing is held before the full court of the Wizengamot, where through Dumbledore's efforts and Mrs. Figg's testimony he is cleared.
Harry and his friends start their fifth year at Hogwarts. Harry's first clash with Umbridge, who gives him nightly detention for the remainder of the week (Tuesday through Friday). Harry encounters Cho Chang in the Owlery (he was sending a letter to Sirius, she a birthday present to her mother). Filch attempts to search Harry's outgoing mail but arrives too late to do so.
Another Hogsmeade visit, resulting in the meeting at the Hog's Head. A Gryffindor-Slytherin match. Gryffindor wins the match, but Harry, Fred, and George are kicked off the team. Hagrid returns. At the last DA meeting of the year, Harry and Cho Chang kiss under the mistletoe. Harry's dreams are later brutally shattered by his vision of Voldemort's snake attacking Arthur Weasley outside the Department of Mysteries. Dumbledore sends Harry and the Weasleys to Grimmauld Place.
Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione accidentally encounter Neville on the closed ward at St. Mungo's. Harry begins Occlumency lessons with Snape. Harry's first official date with Cho Chang, "a complete fiasco", and Rita Skeeter's interview for The Quibbler. When The Quibbler interview is published, both Cho and Seamus reconcile with Harry.
Marietta Edgecombe betrays the D.A. to Umbridge; Dumbledore takes the blame to shield Harry. Harry and Cho Chang quarrel over Marietta Edgecombe's treachery, and Harry has his fateful final Occlumency lesson. Ginny Weasley persuades Harry to tell her what's bothering him, and arranges with the twins to help him communicate with Sirius.
Harry's O.W.L.s begin. On the night of Harry's Astronomy practical O.W.L.: Harry witnesses the Ministry's attack on Hagrid and McGonagall's injuries. The final day of O.W.L.s.: Harry (who's been pulling all-nighters for days and didn't get much sleep after the Astronomy fiasco the previous night), falls asleep in the History of Magic exam and has a vision of Sirius being tortured in the Department of Mysteries. The Battle of the Department of Mysteries is fought later that night, and Sirius Black is killed before Harry's eyes.
After the battle at the Ministry Dumbledore reveals the contents of Trelawney's first prediction to Harry.
End of Prologue
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