It had only been a week into Harry's solitary confinement and he was already regretting his actions at the train station. When he had walked through the barrier that separated his home from the real world he had seen only one figure from the car he recognized as his Uncle's.

At first he had not worried himself because no one would want to come and help pick up the freak from his freaky school but when they arrived to the house and no one was waiting for them there either Harry began to wonder. He asked his uncle why neither Petunia nor Dudely were in attendance for this reunion and Uncle locked him in the cupboard for his troubles. It was a problem more now because while he had fit easily at eleven he was much too tall at sixteen.

It was through the door of his cupboard that his Uncle explained, "Petunia has decided that I am no longer good enough for her. I wanted to keep Dudely but she convinced the court to give me you instead, if you thought that it was bad before then you will be begging for mercy after this summer. I'm going to beat the freakishness out of you even if it it kills you!" then he had locked the grate on the door and left the poor boy in the dark.

It had been these exact circumstances that had left him in a state of fear without the small glowing orb he had found in a shop in Diagon Alley. It was lucky that he had hidden the lightly glowing night light in his jeans pocket, he removed the marble like dot from his jeans and blew softly on the surface so the soft blue glow dispelled the darkness in the small cupboard. The boy was prepared to perform the quick motion that would shut the light off if he heard Vernon on the stairs, this plan was perfect except for the fact that Harry hadn't slept since he had returned from school. Before Harry could tell what was happening he was waking up to a foot in his gut and his Uncle Vernon's beet red face. It didn't take him long for Harry to realize he had fallen asleep with the light still on and Vernon had come down and seen the glow from under the door.

"Get up you little freak! If you can't sleep like a man then you can't have a bed either, and if I catch you sleeping it will be the belt boy!" So he stood and by the time of his birthday a month later he was a walking zombie. He had stolen only one hour of sleep every couple of weeks and the lack of rest was beginning to impact his decision making process. That day had been one of the very few days where Harry had managed to avoid a beating so when the boy found his bit of wall to lean on for the night he was more relaxed than he had been all week, which is until the burning agony attacked his body.

The poor boy was unable to hold back the harsh scream and the high pitched sound called Vernon from the second floor. He was unable to hear what his Uncle said through the buzzing the pain caused but from the alarming tones that his face took and the ensuing beating he could be sure it was not anything nice. When the screaming couldn't be silenced by his fists Vernon took out his belt and used a scarf to gag the boy while he reddened his back with his belt.

After even this failed to silence the muffled wailing Harry was left to his own devices with the scarf still gagging him. At around 2 in the morning the changes taking place finished and Harry dropped off into a deep curing sleep which was how Vernon found him at noon when he finally woke from the exhausted sleep he had fallen into after the beatings he had treated Harry to last night, it was punishment that woke Harry the morning after his birthday and it didn't take the blustering walrus of a man very long to notice the differences in his nephew. Rather than the disgust or alarm that he usually felt toward his nephew the look Vernon gave the boy was hungry in a different way. Vernon used the scarf that he had brought down to potentially gag the boy further to tie the boys hands together then drag him up to Dudely's old room where the man tied the terrified boy to the bed and then used him for the only thing the terrible man thought his nephew was useful for… he raped his nephew without mercy or care.