Taking Charge (rewrite)

Reflecting Life

"Prat" -talking

"Enough" -familiars speaking/beast speak/gobbledygook

'Dumbfuck' -thinking

'Interesting' -familiars/magical creature/goblin thinking

"Hello" - speaking a different language

§open§ -Parseltongue

Hello -letters/news

'Salazar'- will being read/memories being seen/visions

Chapter 2: Reflecting Life

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Third pov:

Harry James Potter is 12 years old and known by many as the boy who lived. He is a boy with thick unruly charcoal-wavy hair (A/N: It is a mix of both his father's thick loose curly charcoal hair and his mother's straight thick silky dark crimson red hair), a round but slim face, below average height standing at 4'3 being the one who was closest to his half-goblin charms professors height, undernourished scrawny slightly muscular build, pale skin, scars littering his upper body, thin pale lips, and oval-shaped dull emerald green eyes. Harry is in his second year of studies at the prestigious school known as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry which makes him believe what people say. Of course, it didn't help that Harry had suffered 11 years of nothing but neglect and abuse from his relatives along with growing up clueless about the wizarding world. Not many know but Harry has never been used to praising or someone actually caring for him. Right now Harry is alone in the Room of Requirements thinking over his life and as he does he doesn't realize that his mindset slowly starts to change deep in his subconsciousness.

When Harry was 15 months old his parents were killed by a dark wizard and he became famous for something he doesn't really remember. He lived with his abusive relatives for the past 11 almost 12 years being treated as though he was his relative's slave since he was 3 years old. Since the age of 3, Harry had been forced to do chores. He was forced to do all of the cooking, cleaning, and gardening. Every summer he woke up every day at 5 .a.m. cooking for the Dursleys their breakfast. He then spends his days working until 3 to 6 .p.m. slaving away always trying to be done by 3 but if he can't he always makes sure to be done no later than 6. He tries to get all his chores done on time. Anytime he gets his chores done early like he likes to do and manages to not get beaten, Harry would spend most of his time at the library a few blocks from Dursley's home. Where he was adored by the old librarian who worked there and the elders who spent their time there. This was one of the few places Harry felt safe and happy during the summer. During the summer the library is one of the places Harry took refuge most from his bullies and abusive relatives.

While his cousin Dudley and his friends were running around trying to find him playing the game they refer to as 'Harry Hunt' Harry was usually in one of two places they couldn't find him because they never caught dead in the places. If he wasn't in the library he would hide in a secret cave in the woods near the park a few blocks away. Over the years When Harry visited the library, he would read just about any of the books he could get his hands on over the years he has read through nearly the entire library in Little Whinging. Harry did not care what type of book it was he read nearly all both fiction and non-fiction. The types of books Harry tends to read most at Little Whinging's small public library are astronomy, Greek mythology, history, different languages, romance, Shakespeare, anatomy, and many other things. With all, of Harry's reading and his decently excellent memory he is very smart but because of the Dursleys, he was forced to dumb himself down and hide his true smarts. By the age of 11, he was able to read, speak, and write multiple different languages fluently (The Languages Harry knows: French, Welsh, Greek, Gaelige, German, Turkish, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Irish, Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Bulgarian) which he tends to practice in a lot since the librarian only allows him to talk with her in different languages which she happens to be fluid in. Another thing Harry can do is cook meals from many different nationalities thanks to all the times at the library he looked up recipes on the internet and in cookbooks.