Harry Potter and The G.I. Joe: The Philosophers Stone

Prologue

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"Parseltongue"

Writing/Reading

"YELLING"

RMS Anne Boleyn, June 6th, 2006

For the first time in as long as he could remember, five-year-old Harry Potter was enjoying himself. A couple of weeks ago, Vernon Dursley, his uncle, won a free cruise trip in a contest that Grunnings Drilling, the company he worked for, was offering. Whoever made the most deals, won the grand prize of a free family cruise, and Uncle Vernon, being the company's best deal broker, won the contest by a landslide. When he informed Harry's aunt Petunia of what happened, she was ecstatic, but there was one little hiccup in their joy; to get the prize, Vernon had to give the exact number of everyone in his family, including Harry.

This meant that instead of getting three tickets, one for Vernon, Petunia, and their son Dudley, they had to get four, the last one for Harry. While this was something that they weren't going to be happy about, they begrudgingly agreed to take him along, so long as he stayed away from them while they tried to enjoy their time during the cruise. Something that Harry happily agreed to do, as he was able to have fun for himself. Except for whenever he had to return to the cabin that he and his relatives slept in because even though his relatives were able to sleep in beds, he had to sleep on the floor with nothing but a blanket. Regardless, Harry was able to find some fun things to do on the deck.

In truth, Harry hated his life with the Dursleys; they were always belittling him, calling him names, treating him as nothing more than a servant instead of a family member, and telling him bad things about his parents. Harry was only a baby when his parents had died, and thus he didn't have any memories of them. Regardless, even though he was only a baby when his parents died, what memories he did have, he knew that the stuff that his aunt and uncle were saying about his parents wasn't true, especially about his mother. From the few memories that Harry had, he knew that his mother and father loved him. Surprisingly, he was able to vividly remember his mother's appearance: beautiful, heart-shaped face, prominent cheekbones, long flowing auburn red hair, and almond-shaped emerald green eyes; eyes that Harry had happily inherited from her.

During the trip, Harry was able to do several things; he had learned how to swim, he was able to watch a movie in the cruise ships theater and played shuffleboard. He got to do all of these, and without his relatives telling him no. Of course, that didn't stop his relatives, especially his cousin, from making his time on the cruise as miserable as possible. Whenever he crossed paths with Dudley, he would always trip Harry, or if his aunt and uncle saw him, they would glare at him, almost as if they were daring him to make it look like he was with them, or ruin their vacation. So, Harry made it a point to keep his distance from them at all times.

As Harry dwelled on his thoughts, he looked up along the calm waves of the Atlantic Ocean and spotted something. As he looked harder, he realized that it was another ship, but it was a different kind of ship than the cruise ship that he was on. This ship looked like it was more fitting as a warship, almost like a battleship from World War II, but modern. It had armor plating along the hull, and massive three turret guns on the deck, but it also had several guns sticking out of the sides of the hull, on special platforms.

What impressed Harry, was the size of the ship. To put it simply, it was massive. It made Harry think of the German World War II battleship, the Bismarck, but ten times bigger and longer. Another thing about the super battleship, as Harry called it in his head, was the warship's colors; it was predominantly blue, with some red detailing, and a large red symbol in the shape of a cobra head on either side of the hull. What truly concerned Harry, was that the super battleship was sailing straight towards the cruise ship that Harry was on.