Chapter One

Reminiscing

The moon was full this night and well past midnight in Surrey. On Privet Drive the number four house on the second floor there was only one inhabitant awake in the whole house. A young teenager was lying on his bed wide awake. He is a skinny boy with jet-black hair which is very untidy and behind his round-shaped glasses was his emerald green eyes, and upon his forehead there is a cut shaped like a bolt of lightning. His name is Harry Potter.

Harry Potter is a very unusual person. He always hated the summer holidays and he has much more on his mind than just the holidays. This past June, Harry came face-to-face with the very person who gave Harry his scar and murdered his parents, Lord Voldemort. Lord Voldemort tricked Harry into going to the Ministry of Magic with other students in tow and down into the Department of Mysteries to retrieve an orb containing a prophecy. Harry ran the prophecy through his head multiple times just as he had heard it in Dumbledore's office.

The prophecy had predicted that someone would be born near the end of the seventh month and whose parents had defied the Dark Lord three times. That one would be marked as an equal to the Dark Lord and has the power the Dark Lord does not know. The final part has Harry worried the most since it said that they must kill each other for they cannot both survive.

The prophecy has rung in Harry's ears for the past week. Harry has been stuck at Number 4 Privet Drive for fifteen years and it is thanks to Lord Voldemort that he is stuck there. The Dursleys were Harry's only living relatives and he is always unwelcome there. They have kept Harry from the true of his parents' deaths and the truth about himself. The Dursleys failed miserably in keeping his "unnaturalness" a secret from him and Harry knew that he is safe on Privet Drive since he is protected by his mother's blood, his Aunt Petunia. Harry Potter was never a normal boy; even by wizard standards.

Harry has just finished his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is awaiting his O.W.L, Ordinary Wizarding Level, results. Harry has not even heard from his two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and he hoped that they are not hurt or in any danger. Harry ran the past events through his head. He lost the only person who was even close to being a parent to him; his godfather, Sirius Black. He still remembers that scene when Sirius was dueling with his cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange, and falling behind a veil. Harry finally fell asleep with his last thoughts on his deceased godfather.