A/N: Just a heads up,In the future, all of the chapters from the Hufflepuff chapters will be released on Tuesdays, with the Ravenclaw chapters being released on Wednesday, and the Slytherin chapters released on Thursday. This allows me to have time to work on all of the chapters over weekends and give each one to my beta(s) to review and get back to me.
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Chapter Two: Growing up a normal child
Harry had heard this bedtime story a thousand times before, but it was always his favorite. It boasted of a brave young family of wizards who had a son, of course Harry imagined that this was him. But their son was no ordinary boy, this boy had amazing powers that could get rid of any dark and evil wizards that tried to harm his family or friends. But then, one day an evil and terrifying wizard same to town and demanded that the boy be turned over to him, and the family went into hiding because they knew that this man could very well hurt their son. So their family left town only telling one person where they were going, a peg leg pirate that had a fake eye. Everyone thought that their secret would have been safe, because the pirate hated the evil wizard with all of his might, but one day he told the evil wizard where the family had went in hopes that the dark man would be able to heal his leg and fix his eye.
So the evil wizard went to go find this family and poison their son, but when he got there he found that the father and mother were both very skilled and put up a challenge against his dark magic. Eventually though, the parents were overwhelmed and defeated, but not before the mother cast a love shield over her son, protecting him from any evil that may come his way. The Wizard had not known this piece of information though, if he did, then he might not have pointed his wand at the baby and whispered a terrible curse, because when he did, it bounced of the shield and hit him square in the chest blowing him into a million pieces, saving the world, but destroying the family as well. The End.
Harry always loved hearing this story, but always wondered why the pirate had betrayed his friends just for an arm and an eye. Whenever he would ask his parents though they would share a look, and Harry wasn’t quite sure what this look meant, but it always made his dad unhappy and his mom sad so he learned to stop asking that question after a while. But once his dad had left the room and his mother tucked him in for the night she would always assure him that the pirate was locked away on an island in the middle of the ocean, and would never hurt anyone again.
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Harry was the happiest five year old in the world at the moment… well new five year old. His birthday party had been modeled after one of his favorite stories of Merlin’s achievements, the sword in the stone. His mother had enchanted a foam sword to be stuck into a chocolate cake square for all of the kids, making it impossible to eat a piece of cake that wasn’t yours. She had invited all of his friends from tutoring, including the Patil Twins, Terry Boot, Michael Corner, Blaise Zabini, and Neville Longbottom. The last of these Harry wasn’t particularly friends with, but his parents always told him to be nice to Neville because he had done a lot for Harry, even if he didn’t know it, but Neville always made sure his friends knew it. Every week around on Tuesdays when their tutoring group went to Diagon Alley during the summer they had to deal with Neville claiming that he used to have to fight off so many people asking for autographs, Harry never believed it but he was sure not to bring it up, out of fear of his mother’s retaliation if he ever spoke up about it.
The Longbottoms had always been a touchy subject in the Potter household, Harry grew up being told stories of their bravery and courage during the war. He wasn’t sure what this had to do with their son though, Harry had come home on numerous occasions from tutoring where Neville had picked on him for either having glasses, or being smaller than the rest of the boys. Whenever Harry told his parents about the situations his father always told him to brush it off, if he didn’t give Neville a reaction he would just get bored of it. His mother on the other hand told him that one day the boy would grow out of being a bully and they would both be friends eventually… Harry seriously doubted that, but he always did what his parents told them and kept up with his studies.
