This is a challenge fic, the rules are:

1. it must have "from the top" in the title

2. It must be a Harry Potter crossover that hasn't been done before or isn't done a lot.

From the top: Harry Hammato: Harry Potter is dropped off in New York while the Dursley's are on vacation. The strangest people pick him up.

Harry couldn't believe it, the Dursley's were actually going to take him with him on their vacation to New York! And all because Mrs. Figg had broken a leg on one of her cats and couldn't take him, of all the luck! He almost wished he could stay at home by himself where he could at least eat what he wanted without his "family" breathing down his neck. But as if sensing his thought the Dursley's agreed that as horrible as it was to be seen with him, it would be worse if while he was home alone someone investigated and found out how they really treated their nephew, or worse, that his freakishness would lead to something dreadful happening that would reveal to the whole neighborhood just how unusual their family really was.

So with no other option they had packed a small backpack with Harry's clothes and forced him into the backseat with Dudley who whined the whole trip to the airport about having to share space with the freak. Harry just tuned him out, glad that for once in his life he was going to be able to get out of the house without having to do chores. He was even allowed some of those airline peanuts and called a good boy by the stewardess. He didn't think his day could get any better. he should have known that it wouldn't last.

For most of the day Harry was happy to just tag along behind the Dursley's who ignored him except when Petunia had insisted on buying new clothes for Dudley and he was forced to carry all 40 of the bags to the hotel. On the way back to the hotel Harry started to feel tired, not noticing that his aunt had taken a wrong turn own a dark alleyway.

"give me all your money!"

"Please sir, don't hurt us, just take the money and go!"

Harry, hidden behind all of the bags could not see what was going on until someone brushed past him. Looking up he saw an ugly looking man with a strange *dragon tattoo on his face. The packages Harry was carrying fell into the water, splashing Harry with its foul smell.

"You just had to use your freakishness to attract that thief didn't you, and now look, you've gotten our packages soaking wet! You'll pay boy!"

The first smack caught him by surprise. Sure, Aunt Petunia had hit him before, but never while they were out in public, and never this hard. His cheek smarted. then Dudley, as if sensing that it was open season punched him in the stomach, causing him to double over. Dudley then tripped him and started kicking him.

"You will not hurt the boy any longer!"

The last image Harry saw before his world went dark was the rat standing over him...

End chapter

* this man was Hun. He was introduced as the leader of the purple dragons.