The Gift From Death

Chapter 1: Prologue

1st August, Sunday, 1998...

It was almost three months after the Battle of Hogwarts that took place on May the 2nd 1998, it was the start of August and the Wizarding world was returning to a state of normality. Kingsley Shacklebolt had been voted as Minister of Magic. Most of the known Death Eater's had been caught and punished for their crimes. Hogwarts castle had been restored to it former glory. It was relatively peaceful for most of the Wizarding world but not for one man.

This man's name was Harry James Potter, and he hadn't had it easy. You see Harry was one of the main people involved in the Battle of Hogwarts, he was responsible for Voldemort's final downfall, as a result of this he was more famous than before when he was, to the Wizarding world, 'The-Boy-Who-Lived', but now after two years of being called 'The Chosen One' he now finds himself being called many different names such as 'The-Man-Who-Won' and 'The-Man-Who-Conquered'.

Harry had been used to the fame as he was the only person to survive the killing curse (Avada Kedavra), when he was a baby causing Voldemort's first downfall, but he wasn't prepared for how much more fame he would get after bringing about Voldemort's downfall for a second and final time.

All Harry wanted was a nice quiet life, something he had never had since he entered the Wizarding world. He had went to live with his Muggle Aunt and Uncle and their son, as his own parents were killed on the night he became The-Boy-Who-Lived, they never told him anything to do with his parents or even his own story he'd had to find out from Rubeus Hagrid, the gamekeeper at Hogwarts, when he was 11 years old, and then he'd been thrown into the Wizarding world where he had to fight Trolls, deadly plants, Werewolves, Dragons, Death Eater's, Giants, reporters, the Ministry and Voldemort.

So as anyone with two eyes could see, Harry had a good reason to want some peace and quiet. Unfortunately for Harry he wasn't that lucky and kept getting swarmed by people and reporters wherever he went, although he was safe when he stayed at the Burrow, home to the Weasley family, which he didn't mind as he could spend time with his adoptive family, his two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger who together with him were called the 'Golden Trio', and his girlfriend Ginny Weasley, Ron's younger sister.

It was reasonably quiet at the Burrow as the family was still grieving the loss of one of the Weasley twins and many good friends at the moment, but little did the people living at the Burrow know that everything would soon be turned upside down in a most unexpected way...