TFA: Chapter 1: Beginnings and Truths

> "*What your ministry foolishly deems as the dark arts are not viewed in such a positive light by your kind"*
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­— Vampire, in Knockturn Alley, after using blood magic to help Harry fix his eyes.

## Summary:

The first chapter of 'The Forsaken's Ascension', Harry Potter discovers that the source of his 'Freakishness' is magic, and is introduced to the wizarding world by Hagrid, who informs him of the school, his father, and his twin brother, Charlus Potter. He gets his eyes fixed and his wand, the brother wand to Lady Voldemort's.

## Plot:

**July 1st, 1982:** Albus Dumbledore contemplates the tough position he is in as the only two candidates for Minister in the wake of The Purity War are poor choices, The Conservatives' choice Daniel Shafiq and The Liberals' choice Bartemius Crouch Senior. The Neutrals don't put forward a candidate, weary of politics and the War.

**June 30th, 1991:** Harry Potter awakes on June 30th, 1991 and makes breakfast for his relatives. He reflects on the many bizarre things that he can do with his gift: Make his hair lie flat, summon objects, repair things, turn on lights, and speak to snakes, among other things. He also considers the various abuses he suffers at the hands of his relatives, and how he has coped with them. After making breakfast, when he gets the mail, he discovers a letter addressed to him.

When he opens the letter that evening, he discovers a invitation to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, to learn magic. He considers that Magic is the mechanism behind all of the strange things he can do. He is hopeful that it will be a good experience. Reflecting on his past with his near eidetic memory, he considers the first two words he remembers "Avada Kedavra", and how they may be connected to magic. He then considers the various abuses that have been heaped on him by the Dursley's and the coping mechanism he has for them. Finally, he writes a letter to the Deputy Headmistress asking questions about it, but as he doesn't have an owl, he is unsure of how to send it.

The next morning, he found an owl outside, and gave it the letter.

**July 2nd, 1991:** Harry is finished preparing breakfast when Rubeus Hagrid arrived at the door and talked with him. He is outraged that the Dursley's never told him about magic, and spirits Harry away to Diagon Alley

In a cafe in Diagon Alley, he is informed by Hagrid of his father, twin brother, the Dark Sorceress nobody seems to be able to name, and that his father intentionally abandoned at the Dursleys. Harry is overcome with anger and leaves, apparating to another place in the Alley. From there, he purchases his school supplies, including a top of the line trunk, and gets fitted for a full wardrobe in Madam Malkin's, where he meets Draco Malfoy. When he is finished, he wanders down Knockturn Alley looking for a wand shop, where he stumbles into a vampire run apothecary that performs a blood magic ritual to restore his eyesight. It is extremely painful, but his eyesight is good now. The vampire warns him to lie about how it was done, because the dark arts are frowned upon.

He then goes to get a custom wand from "Hephaestus's Custom Wands", where he runs into another natural legilimentes, Charlotte Weitts, and her mother. They have a brief legilimency encounter, and discussion, before Charlotte goes to find her wand. She is a fit for Ebony and a dragon heartstring from an old and powerful Ukrainian Ironbelly. The wandmaker intimates that he is curious about Harry Potter, and wants to have him find his parts before he starts on Charlotte's wand. They all agree he has a potent aura and something is different about him.

That evening, Hephestentine Gregorovich goes to bed contemplating the odds that two young children would come into his shop, both favour ebony for their wand woods, and both have wand cores linked to the greatest dark sorcerers of the century.

## Characters Introduced:

Dudley Dursley.

Petunia Dursley.

Vernon Dursley.

Rubeus Hagrid

Charlotte Weitts.

Adriana Weitts.

Hephestentine Gregorovitch.

Draco Malfoy.

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