The Child between Good and Evil

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This is my first fanfiction in English and it's not my native language. So please, don't eat me alive because of my grammar. I don't want to keep you up for long so, enjoy the show...

Harry P.o.V

I slowly left King's Cross with my trunk and Hedwig in her cage on top of it. I didn't want to go back to the Dursleys. Even though Hogwarts was full of lies and manipulations, it was still better than my "home". I stayed in the nearest alleyway to wait for uncle Vernon to finally pick me up. I didn't even try to wait inside the station since I knew he wouldn't want to be seen with me. He would never pick me up in a public place. Then finally three hours after the train arrived uncle Vernon's car stopped in front of me. Hurriedly I threw my trunk into the car and climbed in myself. I was just in time before he drove off again. We didn't exchange any greetings at all or even any words. He drove as always, a bit slower than the speed limit allowed, to not stick out of the masses. We arrived at Privat Drive and surprisingly uncle Vernon opened the door for me. Such a kind gesture. One could think he would be nicer to me now that we hadn't seen me each other for so long. But I knew better than to even hope something would change. To them I'm just a freak and they would never treat me any different. He then pulled me inside and forcefully shoved me into my cupboard under the stairs. So, the room I had before the school term started was just temporally because of the letters Hogwarts had sent and the Dursleys fear of stalkers. Uncle Vernon left all my things in the car, but luckily I had kept Sindra underneath my clothes. Sindra was my familiar, a baby basilisk I got in the chamber of secrets. Even though she was just a baby, she could easily curl around my torso two times. Yeah, I know about the chamber of secrets or how it was originally called, the chamber of the founders. All four founders created the chamber together and the basilisk inside it was never meant to kill muggleborns like everyone now thinks. She was the familiar of Salazar Slytherin and lived down there with the familiars of the other founders. The shadow cat of Godric Gryffindor, the phoenix of Rowena Ravenclaw and the badger of Helga Hufflepuff. The animals on the Hogwarts crest originally were these familiars, but changed a bit over time. She is now the only one left of them since the others died over the time because of their old age. I also discovered the secret library of the founders which is located inside the chamber and studied there by myself. Most of the books were about subjects, that weren't taught in school anymore, but were originally part of the classes. Like that I learned the school subjects in advance and even more, that may come in handy in the future. I may even be able to take my OWL's already, even though I only spent one year at Hogwarts. Right at our first evening there I overheard Weasley and Granger talking about how they get payed by Dumbledore to be my "friends", keep me under his control and hinder me to learn on my own. But the worst is, they get payed by my parents' money, Dumbledore is steeling from me. Luckily both of them are very bad with keeping secrets, so that I could hide intelligence from everyone. It was really difficult in potions because it's by far my favourite subject, but Weasley helped with it al lot, just by being so bad with anything related to potions. Before meeting him, I wouldn't have thought this was even possible to this extend. But even with all this, Hogwarts was the first real home I ever had. Here I was just treated worse than any house elf and the Dursleys couldn't be considered family. I wish I could have stayed over the holidays, but Dumbledore had made sure I got back to what he called my "home". Put Sindra in the corner of my cupboard where she was hidden by the shadows. Like that nobody expect for me could see her. I feared for her safety if uncle Vernon found her. I then waited for them to finally let me out again.

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Disclaimer

I don't own Harry Potter and most of the pictures aren't mine as well.