Harry Potter:The Shadow Warrior
Harry Potter sat in his room, all alone like usual reading a book that was way too advanced for someone his age. He understood all of what he was reading though, of course he had been reading this kind of books since he was three and a half years old, why wouldn't he be reading this book now that he had just turned a respectable age of five years. One would think that a young child who could read material that was at a second year educational level meant for children of the age of twelve, and understand and comprehend the text would have parents who were proud of said child. Yet Harry was sitting in his room all alone, his parent were downstairs dotting and spoiling their other son, Harry's twin brother, Nathan Potter.
You see, ever since October 31st 1981, when the Potters were attacked by the vilest and darkest of wizards Lord Voldemort, Nathan had become instantly famous. He had become known throughout the wizarding world as the boy-who-lived because Voldemort had been defeated that night. Nathan had received a scar because of the encounter, a scar that was mere diagonal line which was two inches thick on his arm. The scar together with him being the only conscious person found after the attack was the main reason he was given credit of the defeat of Voldemort. No one even questioned whether his twin could have been the one to vanquish the dark lord, no one even checked Harry to actually see if he had any hidden scars.
In fact if one had been observing that faithful night they would have seen baby Harry cast a pure gold shield when Voldemort had cast the Killing curse towards the twins. One would have seen the curse rebound back on its caster, the gold shield creating a breaking apart right after that, and a scar in the shape of a lightning bolt appear on baby Harry's head right before the killing curse struck back at Voldemort. That and also one might have seen a tired baby Harry looking at a mirror, frown and watch as the scar seemingly disappearing as baby Harry had cast a strong illusion over it before passing out of magical exhaustion.
Oh, Harry always knew about the scar, in fact he had to cast the illusion spell many time during his 5 years of life. You see, Harry was an exceptionally brilliant child, at the young age of two and a half Harry had tried to mimic his parents doing magic and managed to actually produce it, which was the day Harry had discovered he could do wandless magic. As time passed he found out that he didn't even need to say the words, all he had to do was want it to happen, focus on it a lot and it would then happen. It was during this time when the illusion he cast had expired and he had to renew it every year.
His parents, till this day did not know though, they would if they ever had paid any attention to Harry, but no, most if not all of their attention was given to Nathan. After all, he was the boy-who-lived, the one to vanquish the most evil person seen since Grindelwald. Nathan was the one that deserved all their attention, the favourite one among the twins. Harry was just their other son.
This was how Harry had lived his entire life, surrounded by love but never getting any. Nathan always got what he wanted, Nathan was the one that was truly loved by their parents. Nathan was the one that, when he got nightmares was allowed to sleep with his parent, while when Harry tried that he was told to face it like man, that there was nothing to be afraid of and go back to sleep in his room.
Today was the twin's birthday and tonight would be a party, the Potters only always invited their closest friends to this birthday party's, mainly because Nathan was still targeted by people. Harry was anxious for the party, just like any boy his age would be, he loved to get presents, of course he only got presents from his parents and those were nothing to what Nathan received from them. Yet it was still a gift, a gift from the very people that Harry wanted love from, so in turn he loved it.
As Harry made his way down for the party the guest started arriving. The only ones who were invited, Sirius and Remus, godfather to Harry and Nathan respectively.
The party started off the same as any party, Harry pushed to one side as the adults fawned over Nathan. The cake was then served, this was where Harry noticed something was wrong, the writing on the cake read Happy Birthday Nathan, nowhere was there mention of Harry's name.
A tear slid down his face, he knew he was not loved by his parents, but to be forgotten entirely especially on his birthday was devastating. He had always craved for his parents to love him as much as they did Nathan but he knew they did not and lived with it, but to be forgotten entirely was just too much to take. He ran up to his room, closed the door and cried. As he cried a single thought repeated in his mind, a single wish turned into will in his mind, 'take me away, I want to go away to a place I will be loved'. He did not notice that he body glowed as his magic responded to his wish, after all his practice of magic had only increased its power, and with that Harry Potter vanished from his room.
Downstairs, the party was going on when Lily Potter suddenly felt a sharp pain in her heart, along with her motherly intuition going haywire, it was too much to take for her frail pregnant body that she fainted.
It was more or less half an hour letter when she woke up in hysterics, looking around the room, her eyes landed on Nathan and seeing that he was okay she started looking for Harry. When there was no sign of him she turned too James.
"James, where is Harry?" she asked, concern evident in her voice.
"I don't know, must have gone back to his room, love, are you okay?" he replied, he too with a tone of concern, but one directed to his wife and unborn child.
Lily immediately tried to get up but was quickly held down by James. "Honey, you need rest, you just fainted for Merlin's sake, lie down and don't move from there" he scolded to her.
"James I need to go to Harry, something has happened, I know it!" she cried worriedly.
It was then that James, trying to calm her down called for Harry. When there was no answer he then ran from the living room to Harry's bedroom looking for him. He practically knocked the door down entering Harry's room, only to find no signs of life. He knew that the only way to calm his wife down was to find Harry and fast, so with his knowledge gained from years of working as an auror he cast a locating charm for one Harry James Potter on a piece of paper.
Name: Harry James Potter
Location: UNKNOWN
Status: UNKNOWN
James face was white, he couldn't think, his body somehow managed to walk back to he living room, where, as he entered he was stared upon by his wife. Lily seeing the expression of her husband knew something was wrong.
"James, where is Harry…. James please tell me, you have to tell me, JAMES?" she cried out again, all James could do was show here the printing of the location charm. Upon seeing it she gave one last cry before fainting again.
In a far away land, young Harry Potter appeared in front of a lone figure, never to be heard or seen from again from most of the wizarding world for a long time.
A/N: I know this kind of thing has been done before, in fact I am incorporating many ideas from similar fics I have read which are similar to this. I am also looking for a beta. Please read and review.