Disclaimer - I don't own Harry Potter or the Saint from the Leslie Charteris novels. Later I want to write a multi chaptered story of this.

Birth of a Saint.

The boy was quiet, wilful and determined to cause trouble.

The priests had tried lecturing him and making him accept his given name, the name of a saint, John Cantius.. The boy refused and had to be beaten for his own good.

The boy, short, with messy black hair, extraordinary green eyes which blazed with a willpower not seen in any one, man or woman. The boy stole, the priests and nuns knew, but they couldn't prove it since no one even spoke out against him.

One day, the boy escaped, one day away from being 9 years old.

They knew one thing of the boy, the name he gave himself.

Simon Templar.

The boy the rest called the Saint.