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The Burrow

1st September

"Harry you lazy prick wake up!" Ron shouted at me from the doorway, this had been the forth time that he had attempted to wake me up.

"Okay, okay I'm getting up." I said as I swung my body round and pushed myself off the bed. The morning went smoothly, we arrived outside the barrier between platforms Nine and Ten at Ten Thirty.

"Okay, Ron, you and Harry first." Mrs Weasley called to us, Ron ran at the barrier and I followed quickly behind, we disappeared through the barrier and found ourselves facing a huge steam train.

"Wow!" I called as I came in first contact with the huge steam engine. The words 'Hogwarts Express' engraved in gold on the side of the train. I looked down the platform to see the endless carriages continuously going on. "Big fucking train isn't it!" I shouted to Ron over the noise of the crowd.

"Yeah!" He shouted back.

We were soon followed by the rest of the Weasley family. We placed our trunks in the luggage carriage. We said our goodbyes and after lots of hugs kisses and some tears we made our way onto the train. Percy left first quickly followed by Ginny. Ron, the twins and I quickly found an empty compartment and sat down. An hour passed of casual talk and laughs until I finally reached my limit of boredom.

"What do you normally do on the train then?" I asked.

"Talk, play a few games, sometimes we prank some people." Fred said as he pulled out his wand.

"I think I saw Malfoy going into a compartment a few doors down." Ron said excited.

"Well then lead the way dear brother." George said. We quickly left the compartment full of our stuff and made our way a few doors down.

Ron opened the door to find Malfoy sitting amongst his goons. "I see you recovered from me breaking your nose, Malfoy." Ron said as they all turned to look at him.

"Yes well at least I didn't have to smell your mudblood friend did I after that, there's always a silver lining." He said smugly.

"You prick!" Ron made to hit him.

"Ron stop!" George shouted as he and his brother pulled him back, though I had other plans. I pulled out my wand holding it next to my waist and pointed it Malfoys face. "Boilintrae" I whispered and a bright green spell shot from my wand and hit Malfoy straight in his face. Huge puss filled boils appeared all over his face. He then began to scream out in horror.

"Ha,ha,ha!" All four of us burst out laughing as we saw the sight of Malfoy trying to cover his face.

"You'll pay for that!" One of the huge boys that had been next to Malfoy shouted at me. He went to punch me but I had other plans.

"Sintrento!" I shouted, as if he had been punched in the stomach the beast of the boy moaned in agony as he clenched his stomach. "Flipendo!" I shouted. This time he was thrown on to the floor of his carriage. One of the girls pulled out her wand and pointed it at my face. "Expelliarmus," I whispered. A bright red spell hit her square in the chest her wand lurched from her hand and I caught instantly.

"Give it back!...who are you?" She asked looking me straight in the eyes.

"Harry James Potter." I told her. All eyes in the compartment now turned to me.

"Really?" Asked one of the girls.

"No I'm making it up, I just wanted to see your reaction, of course I am" I said severely sarcastically.

"No neee to be mean!" The girl standing in front of me commented.

"Or is there." I said and walked away from her and entered my compartment with the Weasley brothers following me close behind.

"Harry you legend, what you did to Malfoy, Brilliant!" Ron said as if he was about to wet himself.

"That was brilliant and you made Greengrass shit herself, taking her wand like that!" Fred said with a huge grin.

"Oh shit yeah I still have it," I said looking down at the girls wand which was firmly grasped in my hand. "Suppose I should give it back." I said innocently.

"Nah she'll come get it, hopefully." George said nudging Fred.

"Yeah!" Fred said "she is fit! Don't you think Harry?" Asked Fred very intrigued at my emotionless expression.

"Eh, she had a bitchy personality and plus she's one of Malfoys lackies, if he's half as bad as you guys say then she must be a fucking dumb! That's a big No No! For me!"

"Well at least someone is not vein!" Hermione said as she walked in from nowhere causing Ron to jump.

"Don't do that!" Ron grumbled.

"What is it Ronnykins did Hermione scare you? ah did the mean girl terrify you? Do we need to change your nappie." Fred said talking to his younger brother as if he were a child.

"Harry, why have you got two wands in your hand?" Hermione asked deeply concerned. Though I'd only met her once I new me and Hermione would become close, she was kind,smart and didn't care about my stupid scar.

"Huh?" I asked looking up towards the girl.

"Two wands? Why?" A irritated tone in her voice, her bossy side coming through in her.

"Oh right yeah, I sort of disarmed, what was she called?" I asked Ron.

"Daphne Greengrass." He said gritting his teeth, clearly he had a severe grudge against the girl.

"Oh little miss bitch face!" She said anger in her voice.

"You just don't like her cause she beat you in a couple of tests, you're just scared she's smarter than you" Ron said to Hermione.

I turned to Ron, "why do you not like her?" I asked him.

"She always calls me Weasel and dumb. It really pisses me off!" He told me as he turned bright red.

"Maybe I shouldn't give this back then." I said twirling the girls wand in between my fingers.

"Yes you will!" Came an angry voice from the doorway.

"Oh really!" I said looking towards the doorway. "And why is that!".

"It's my wand, if you don't give it back I'll just have to take it back!" She squealed at me.

"Feisty! I love it!" George said looking at the girl in excitement.

"Oh piss of Weasel!" She shouted at George. George merely laughed clearly used to that sort of talk from girls. "Give me my wand!" She commanded at me holding out her palm.

"Hermione?" I asked towards the girl who looked very distressed.

"What you not smart enough to figure it out on your own?! So you have to ask the bookworm!" She shouted. "Give me my wand."

"Ask nicely and possibly I will and apologise to Hermione." I ordered her not taking any of her shit.

"No! Give me my fucking wand!" She shouted at me, she had gotten so close to me I could feel her breath on my face.

"That wasn't nice was it guys, oh well, guess you'll have to leave."I said giving her a sarcastic frown. She lurched at me, she spent about four minutes trying to grab the wand but she couldn't and now lay on the floor gasping for air.

"Well, that was fun."

"Asshole!" She squealed. "Can I Please have my wand?!"

"Yeah" I said simply and threw her wand back. "Manners cost nothing you know." I said smugly.

"Dickhead," she mumbled under her breath.

"My, that is very rude, next time you want something how about you ask politely?" I told her in the most condescending way possible. She gave me a devil stare but I merely smiled back with a smug grin.

"Bye," I said as she stormed out the compartment. "That was fun." I said to the rest of them.

"That was, I don't know, you may have made a bad decision Harry." Hermione commentated.

"Why?"

"Well she, she's the most popular girl in our year and probably the school, she's well not exactly dumb either, last year during the Dueling champion she came first in our year and forth in the school as a whole." She said lecturing me.

"Dueling Championship?" I asked with a confused look cast upon my face.

"Yeah, it's held every year, years two and up, it's a battle of witts and power, I came second in the year last year. Everyone who enters, which is usually about half the year maybe more this year, competes in one on ones until a remaining victor remains." She told me with a huge grin on her face, clearly loved the tournament.She continued her speech"Everything is completely randomly picked after each round. The victors from each year are put against each other until there's one champion!" She said a glint in her eye.

"And she came forth?" I said unbelieving that the girl I had just come into contact with was one of the strongest Witches in the school.

"Yeah, she was scary, when we were pinned against each other it was like she was possessed. Insanely scary!" She said almost in awe of the girl.

"Really..." I was interrupted as the train lurched to a stop. We all fell from our seats and onto the cold train floor. "What the hell!" I shouted, "Does this normally happen!" I said getting back onto my seat.

"No, I don't know what's going on, hold on, I'll go check with the driver, maybe we've broken down." Hermione squealed and moved towards the compartment door.

"Something's moving out there." Ron said his face against the glass causing Hermione to pause by the door. "Don't leave Hermione!" He ordered her in a frightened and angry voice she sat instantly down on the seat. His skin went bone white as he looked back at us in horror. He gasped and stared behind us.

We all turned to see a dark hooded figure open the compartment door. It hovered above the ground, a black claw grabbed the compartment door and pulled it open. It stood directly in front of me. I felt as I stood there all the happiness that remained in my body begin to leave. All the abuse and horror I had received from the Dursley's returned, every single moment controlled my thoughts as I stood in front of the creature. 'What can I do, what do I do to stop it' it then came to me, 'The Sword' "Veni!" I shouted. The connection between the creature and my soul instantly broke at the peorcing light from the sword filled the room with hope. Instinctively and without a single thought, I lifted the sword and struck the creature. It cried out in agony. Every awful and ear piercing noise didn't compare to the sound the hooded figure mad. It cast out all other noises as it sorrounded everything, as if a baby being tortured it slowly began to collapse and the disappeared completely into the darkness, and then I collapsed.

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"Lift his head, please." A strange deep voice said above me. "Thank you." I heard him say as my head was gently lifted upwards. I squinted my eyes open to see the blinding light of the compartment, as my eyes slowly adjusted I made out the figure's of Ron, Hermione, Fred and George and a man I'd never seen before all looking down at me in terror.

"Harry, Harry can you hear me?" The strange man called to me leaning down on one knee.

"Yeah, yeah I can hear fine, what happened, Ah shit!" I said grabbing onto my head as a blistering migraine filled my brain.

"Harry!" Hermione squealed in horror from above me.

"Here Harry," The man said handing me over a large chunk of my own chocolate. "It helps the pain."

I took the chocolate and quickly finished, instantly the Migraine disappeared as quickly as it had come. Life filled me up again and my strength returned. I pushed myself from the floor and onto the train. "What happened?" I asked.

"Well, it was terrifying Harry, it came in hooded and dark, as soon as it entered I felt cold as if I'd never be happy again." Hermione started. "You looked like you were almost fading away as it stood in front of you, all the colour had left you and you seemed on the verge of collapse before you shouted something and this sword appeared in your hand." She said lifting the Sword of Godric Gryffindor. "You struck it down and it let out a scream of some kind.

"Yes I heard it from the other side of the train, it felt as if it was in the compartment with me, it was like nothing I've never heard." The man said.

"And then you collapsed almost instantly as it disappeared." She said, sadness came to her face and she paled. Ron placed an arm around her and sat her down with him where she then leant into his chest.

"What was it?" I asked utterly shocked and confused at the hooded creature that still pulsated through my brain.

"It was a dark creature Harry, they guard Azkaban, they're called..."

"Dementors." Ron finished with the same expression that Hermione currently held.

"Yes, well done Ron, they are indeed. They are creatures that feast on the human mind, taking all happy thoughts and leaving them only with fear and terror. Leave a man alone with it for a week and he'll come out insane."

The rest of the train ride was spent in silence, the man declared himself as Professor Lupin and left to speak with the driver. It didn't take long before we changed into our robes and we were on the platform. I had been forced to take the boat to Hogwarts, though the view was truly spectacular I couldn't truly appreciate it as I currently felt like pure shit. We arrived at the docks and I continued up the steps behind all the first years who were currently half my height. We then at the top of the steps met a stern faced women who looked extremely angry. I watched as all the other children passed her, finally I reached her and looked up to see stern brown eyes looking down at me in, in worry.

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"Dementors!" She squealed as we walked into a small room which contained another witch and Hermione. "Let alone a school! But on the train, in contact with the children!" The women who had called herself Professor Mcgonnagal continued to get flustered as another women dressed as a midwife grabbed my arm and pushed me into a chair.

"Dementors!" The nurse women squealed, "He won't be the first!" She said to Mcgonnagal, "They'll be more of the weak ones that will pass out!"

"I'm not weak!" I shouted at her, getting out of my chair. "I don't need chocolate, Professor Lupin already gave me some!" I said to the women in frustration as she attempted to push chocolate down my throat.

"Please dear, sit down, chocolate simply won't help the trauma you've faced!"

"I didnt face trauma, I killed the creature didn't I!" I shouted at the women, "I'm not some kind of wounded creature!" As I said this Professor Mcgonnagal went white.

"You killed it!" She squealed in shock.

"Yeah, so what?, I killed it with the sword, it kind of collapsed into nothing." I said worried as I saw the truly horror that appeared across the two women's faces.

"A...s...sw...sword!" The nurse mumbled out.

"Yeah, Veni." I said and once again the sword of my ancestor appeared with my right hand gleaming in the dimly lit room.

"Wow!" Mcgonnagal said as she jumped up in a sort of excitement, "Is...that...t...the sword of Godric Gryffindor!" She finally stammered out.

"Yeah," I said not understanding what was so interesting about it.

"You killed a dementor with the sword?" The nurse asked very confused.

"Not any sword Poppy, that holds magic that no man could understand, it was created by the Goblins as a gift for the founder himself. No one truly knows the extents of its powers but it's clearly got ward breaking enchantments, summoning charms and powers that are able to kill what we once thought immortal beings. Anyway, we must get you to the sorting, please wait outside a second Mr Potter I'll just be speaking to Hermionea a second." She said and I walked from the room and waited outside for about a minute until she exited with Hermione.

"We'll have to go through the big doors as Harry you'll have to join in the sorting ceremony, they won't have finished by now, you should probably lose the sword too." She said as they approached a huge set of closed oak doors.

"Right, yeah." I said forgetting completely about the sword I had in my hand. "Annaues," I said and instantly the sword disappeared into the air.

"Wow!"The Professor said before opening the huge oak doors.