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“Alright, guys see you both next term!”, Harry forced cheer in his voice as he said good bye to his two ‘best friends’.
“Right bye Harry”, Ron distractedly said before walking to his parents.
“Bye Harry see you soon”, Hermione waved good bye.
Soon after they left Harry miserably walked to the muggle exit to find his uncle. As soon as Harry spotted his fat whale of an uncle he could already tell he was getting a beating once he got home.
“Hurry up, boy, I’ve got places to be”, Vernon grabbed Harry’s arm and practically dragged him into the back seat of the car telling him to be quiet on the ride home.
Soon they arrived back to the Dursley’s house, almost as soon as they got to the house Harry was shoved into his room.
Vernon grabbed a tight hold on Harry’s Hair, “Listen here boy the family is going on a holiday for the summer, you’ll be staying here, don’t expect us to give you any money either you need to work. And once we come back I want this whole house cleaned top to bottom you hear me, boy”, Vernon shouted at Harry.
“Yes uncle Vernon”, Harry looked down trying to make his uncle beloved he was sad so he wouldn’t notice the joy in Harry’s eyes.
After Harry finished speaking his uncle let go of his hair and shouted to Petunia that they were ready to leave.
Soon after they got the car packed and left, Harry was now just lying on his bedroom floor and started laughing before shouting “Thank fuck they’re gone”.
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1 month after the Dursley’s left, Harry had gone to Diagon Alley multiple times after the first time where once anyone saw him they bombarded him, he got a necklace with a glamour from the surprisingly friendly goblins. Now when ever Harry was bored he’d get on a bus either go to Diagon Alley or just wonder around muggle London looking at all the shops.
Over the first month Harry was a bit scared to be alone till one day during the first week of him being alone, he was up late thinking he’d already realised that Hermione and Ron weren’t good friends let alone people but he also realised he was free, for the first time his Harry’s life he didn’t have anyone looking over his shoulder no more Dumbledore no more relatives. He was free and could do as he liked.
After realising all this he started off small going to muggle London and getting his ears pierced just the basic ones, till he got bored and confident, by the end of the month he was a regular at the piercing shop closest to him, they didn’t ask for id and now as soon as they saw him they just smiled and asked “what would you like today, Haz?”.
During the first month and a half he had gotten a two lobe, upper lobe, Helix, Daith, one eyebrow piercing and snake bites for his lips. He’d dyed his pitch black hair just the tips Green almost the exact shade of his eyes.
He’d also filled out more after visiting the goblins alone for the first time, they did a health check and were rightfully alarmed, after fixing all his old brakes, turns out his handwriting was shite because he’s left handed who knew?, they put him on so many potions ones that would help him with his malnutrition which also helped with his stunted growth so now he was probably taller than Ron. He was now around 6,2 which considering he was 5,6 a month and a half ago was great.
He’d also gotten a few tattoos nothing to big he got a doe and stag in honour of his parents, but after that he just got a few Chrysanthemums to honour the dead that helped him, it also help connect him more to his Spanish heritage.
which he’d always known about since his aunt started insulting him about it which used to bother him but not since he was 5 and he wandered into a library with a Spanish librarian who helped him become fluent, now he likes to think of Spanish as his first language it wasn’t like many people spoke to him when he was young especially not in English so he started only speaking Spanish which was fine till his uncle found out and beat him saying he’s not to speak it in front of his family again, unfortunately he took awhile to get use to speaking English again so yes he can understand it well, he’d make lots of mistakes in grammar and has an accent it use to be very thick but not as much anymore.
Speaking Spanish was actually quite useful especially when he got in trouble and he would just speak Spanish pretending he didn’t know English till they let him go.
No one at Hogwarts knew he spoke Spanish when one day after Harry had just awoken from a nap, he walked down to the common room and he started speaking to Neville that everyone stopped and just stared at him.
“What?”, he asked to common room irritated.
“Um Harry yo- you weren’t speaking English just now”, Neville looked a bit shocked whilst saying this.
“What? Oh wait sorry I just woke up so I was probably speaking my first language”, Harry said before turning back to Neville to try talk to him again.
“Wait English ain’t your first language”, Seamus said looking shocked but then thoughtful and saying.
“Ah actually that makes sense you do got an accent, I always wondered what it was”.
“My first Language was Spanish my father was Spanish, but it was my tía who taught me Spanish and had to re-teach me English”, Harry replied.
“Woah that’s actually really cool Harry”, Neville said before one of the older Gryffindors interrupted saying.
“Hablas español por fin te lo juro básicamente nadie en esta escuela lo hace”(You speak Spanish finally I swear basically no one in this school does).
“Oh Dios mío, lo sé. Llevo meses intentando encontrar a alguien que lo hable.”(Oh my God, I know. I've been trying to find someone who speaks it for months.)
After this Harry found out the name of the other Spanish speaker was Michelle, they’re now good friends and whenever one of they is tried they just got to the others because they know they’ll only speak Spanish till they either wake up or go to sleep.
Anyways now it was August and Harry got a letter from Ron reading.
Hiya Harry
Me and my family got tickets for the quidditch World Cup and top box seats at that we got two extra for you and Hermione so if you’d like to come meet us at the top of your street tomorrow at 5am.
Hope to see you there, your best mate,
Ron
Harry sighed reading the letter, he’d have to go or else Dumbledore would be suspicious, honestly for fucks sake. Whatever if Harry had to go he would enjoy himself probably try to hang out with Fred and George as much as possible all the others are insufferable, except Charlie, bill and Percy but it’s not like Harry’s actually talked to them properly.
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4:30am day of the quidditch World Cup
Harry awoke with a groan, Merlin Harry was use to waking up early to make breakfast for the Dursleys but even to Harry this was early.
Not wanting to waste time Harry walked downstairs with his trunk for school, wand and Hedwig, to make himself some tea before leaving to meet the Weasleys at 5.
After Harry finished his tea (Yorkshire tea the only acceptable tea), it was around 4:50am so he washed his mug, grabbed all his things and left.
Soon he got to the end of his street and only had to wait about a minute or two and pop the twins, Ron and their dad was there, the twins spotted Harry first.
“Hiya Harry, Merlin you got a growth spurt guess your not much of out little brother now”, Fred said before George’s eyes lit up and he said.
“You’re our little big brother”, which made The twins and Harry laugh.
As Harry hugged to twins saying hi he could see Ron looking him up and down before scowling.
“Seriously, Haz we barely recognised you”, Fred said laughing.
“Merlin all of Hogwarts is going to be drooling after you”, George said making Harry, Fred and himself get into another fit of laughs.
“Aright boys it’s time we get back to the burrow, before molly starts worrying you now how she is”, Arthur Weasley said laughing along with his sons and Harry.
“Yes, of course Thank you for taking me”, Harry said Grabbing Arthur’s arm as he took all the boys home.
Soon they all made it to the Burrow where as soon as Molly saw Harry she rushed over, looking him over a bit with a disgusted look on her face before she quickly disguised it with a smile.
“Ah Harry dear, so good to see you, I see you’ve finally filled out a bit but why on earth do you have those things on your body”, she gestured towards his tattoos and piercings.
Harry rolled his eyes internally before putting on a bashful face “oh well I just got a bit bored I suppose, but the tattoos are in honour of my parents”, ha take that can’t say much now with my dead parents involved, Harry thought and internally sneered at her.
“I think they look great Haz”, Fred said.
“Aw thanks Freddie”, Harry replied.
“I’ll never know how he tells us apart”, George shook his head slightly.
“Hey how come he can call you Freddie last time anyone did that you hexed them”, Ron crossed his arms and huffed.
“Once you can tell us apart you can call us Freddie and Georgie”, George rolled his eyes.
“Wha- t- that’s not fair!”, Ron shouted but before anyone could say anything Hermione walked down looked at Harry blushed and said.
“H-Harry?”
“Yeah hi”, Harry distractedly waved before turning back to Fred and George to finish the conversation they started whilst Ron had his hissy fit.
“Right come on children, Breakfasts ready!”, Molly shouted the last bit to get the other Weasleys attention.
All throughout breakfast Ginny the annoying git kept looking at Harry blushing and trying to talk to him before failing miserably and turning away. It was much the same with Hermione but she didn’t try to start a conversation she just kept looking at him blushing and turning back to look at her food.
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After breakfast, “Thank you Mrs Weasley”, Harry smiled politely and put his plate in the sink.
“Oh it’s no bother now off with you all we need to be in time for the portkey”, Molly said making everyone get up and put their robes on and leave.
“S-so um H-Harry d-do you want to know what a portkey is?”, Hermione interrupted Harry and the twins conversation.
“No thanks I already know, the twins told me”, Harry said before turning back to the smirking twins.
Soon they got to the portkey and the Diggorys, Harry remembers Cedric from last year with the dementors. Cedric’s father introduced himself to Harry as Amos and started rattling on about how his sons got talent to have beaten Harry in the game last year which Harry just tuned him out and nodded every so often but Amos’ son Cedric looked about ready to dig his own grave.
Soon after they meet up with the Diggorys they all walked to the portkey point together, Harry and Cedric walked at the back in step together.
“Merlin I am so sorry every time I try to explain what actually happened he just tells me to shush and continues rambling on”, Cedric put his hands on his face whilst explaining.
Harry just laughed and said “don’t worry Cedric, I get how dads can be, or well not really”, Harry laughed again.
Cedric looked a bit shocked before saying “I- yo- dads- oh my Merlin Potter what?”.
Harry laughed again and just said “don’t worry I was only joking but seriously it’s fine”.
Soon they made it to the portkey and were told to hold on, before it felt like they were spinning and Arthur said to let go, and Harry did what the twins told him to which was to lock his knees so he doesn’t end up on the ground.
After the spinning stopped Harry, the twins, Percy, Molly, Arthur, Amos, and Cedric were all standing whilst Ginny, Hermione and Ron were on the ground.
After everyone was up and standing Cedric said goodbye to Harry and walked off with his dad and all the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione all walked to the place where they could set up the tent, before all walking in.
“Would anyone like some tea?”, Arthur asked getting yeses from Basically everyone except the twins and Harry.
“I’ll be going on a walk trying to find some people I might know”, Harry said before walking out.
“Same, bye!” The twins said together.
“Alright remember to get to the top box on time”, Arthur said.
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Harry just started walking, he walked into the woods not wanting to deal with people recognising him, soon he looked at his watch and realised he should start heading to the top box to be on time.
Soon Harry arrived at the entrance to the Top box with all the Weasley family plus Hermione waiting for him.
“Hi Harry, good walk? It’s time to go up now we were just waiting for you”, Arthur said before turning to the guard and showing him all there tickets.
Once they got up there Arthur started showing Harry off to the important people there making Harry scowl and as soon as he saw an out he walked over to where the twins were sitting as they saved a seat in between them for him.
“Come on Harry, it’s nearly time”, George said.
“Yes, yes I’m come Georgie”, Harry rolled his eyes.
Finally the players start to fly out.