Harry wasn’t shocked to see Dumbledore appear at the house to check on him, he was shocked that it took Albus a week to show up though. It made Harry realize that Albus was trying to stay as far away as possible so Harry wouldn’t learn the truth before he turned 11. Harry became angry thinking about how everything about him was controlled so that he wouldn’t know the truth about his heritage. Harry was trying to decide if it was worth putting up with the abuse he would get here for the next 7 years, or if he should just leave now and live at the manor.

“Blue can you come here for a minute”

“Yes master Harry how can I help you?”

“Blue would it be possible to make this room bigger without making it look bigger to my aunt?”

“Yes, I can do that, buts you need to keep her from looking in here closely or shes will notice, whys not just come back to the manor?”

“Did you see the old man; I think he was the dummydore who made me live here?” Harry laughed in his head about his new nickname for Albus, a perk of being 4 again.

Blue frowned at that comment, how could Dumbledore make a small child live through this? Blue was a good house elf though and would do whatever his master wanted.

“Blue will help Master Harry”

“Thank you Blue, I really appreciate your help. I was wondering if you could sneak me food every day, my aunt and uncle don’t really like to feed me.”

Blue was shocked to hear that they wouldn’t feed his master, Blue knew that his master was underfed but to purposefully keep food from a child was abuse! Blue did not like his master being hurt.

“Blue is there magic that can make me big and strong? I don’t want to stay weak.” Harry obviously knew the answer but knew he had to play a role as a little child just learning the truth about magic.

“Blue can get master potions that will help him grow into a big boy, Blue will bring the potions at night so the nasty Aunt can’t take them away”

“Thank you Blue, I really do appreciate all your help. Can I do magic without anyone knowing?”

“Master Harry can practice magic without issue, Blue removed the trace from Master to help keep him safe”

“Thank you Blue, can you bring the books Grandpa wanted me to read and put them in that cool bag for me?”

Blue went to get the books so Harry could “learn” magic while hiding in his cupboard. Harry knew that he planned to go back to the manor whenever he could, but keeping his cover here would help him in the long run.

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The next morning Petunia made Harry get up early so he could learn how to cook breakfast for the family. She only hit him twice for burning the Bacon, a new record! Harry knew he could easily cook breakfast without issue, but a 4 year old should not be able to do such a thing.

After a week of “learning” how to cook breakfast from Petunia, Harry was told that from that point on he was to wake up every morning to make breakfast for the family, if he tried to sneak food while cooking, he would be punished. He was only to eat what was left over. Harry thought to himself Thank God I have Blue this time around to give me food and nutrient potions, at this rate my body will be strong and healthy in a couple weeks. The only question is how to hide it from Petunia, she is the only one who would really notice.

Since it was summer, Harry had started to spend all his free time wandering around town, at least that’s what he told his Aunt Petunia. In reality as soon as Harry was hidden away from prying eyes he would have Blue bring him to the Potter Manor. Harry would then spend time learning from Grandpa Charlus and learning the secrets to being good at potions. Harry had never bothered to learn potions in his first life because of his hatred of Snape, but being you again he decided that it was time to bury the hatchet with his hatred of potions. In the end he did realize that Snape hated him because of how cruel his father James could be. Harry would do his best to not be like his father and try to befriend Snape this time around, well it would be easier since he didn’t plan on being in Gryffindor this time…

Soon summer was over, Harry forgot that he would have to attend primary school while he lived with his Aunt and Uncle, but he would make the best of it. The only really bad part was being forced to wear Dudleys clothes in public. The only good thing is that he could control his magic now so there wouldn’t be any “incidents” that would lead to his relatives beating him as much. Oh why did he decide to go back to being 4, it would have been easier to go back to being 8! Then we would have to deal with this for 4 less years. Sometimes it sucks getting older and realizing that you forgot about how bad things were as a kid.

Life began to fall into an easy pattern for Harry. Harry would meditate at night to help strengthen his core and learn occlumency this time around (sadly that didn’t come back with him). Harry would then go out early in the morning to exercise a bit to help his body grow stronger. Harry would then have Blue return him to Privet Drive and cook breakfast for his relatives, and then get ready for school. Dudley would bully Harry on the bus to school and yell at Harry if he beat him on a test. Harry would then return to the Potter manor to train some more, then go back Privet Drive so he could help cook dinner for his relatives before returning to the Potter Manor to go to eat a delicious dinner and go to bed. Harry had found that most of the damage from malnourishment had been taken care of already, at this point any potion just helped his recovery from the extra strain he was putting his body under by exercising and meditation.

Vernon spoke with Petunia “Honey the freak seems to have finally learned to behave himself, he doesn’t fight back against Dudley who is clearly better than him. We also haven’t seen any of his freakishness in several months. Did we finally beat it out of him? It just doesn’t feel right, but I’m not going to do anything to the boy until he steps out of line again. Just because his parents were freaks that got themselves killed doesn’t mean we should have to deal with him.”

“I agree Vernon, the little freak seems to have learned who his betters are. He may actually become a halfway decent cook at the rate he is improving. I may have to let him take over cooking dinner soon as well.”

As Vernon and Petunia laid in bed, Harry was laughing at his relatives. If only they knew the truth about what was going on, and with him not having the trace he was using more magic than ever inside the house. Harry then had Blue take him to Potter Manor to sleep in his wonderful bed.