THROWN AWAY

J K Rowling owns all the rights to the books and the amazing characters she created. I write only to satisfy my imagination and use my creativity and make no money from my writings.

Chapter 1 – Not Needed Anymore

Harry Potter wasn't of any use to Albus Dumbledore – anymore. In fact, it was Dumbledore's opinion that Harry Potter didn't need to be alive. It would be better if he were dead then at least Dumbledore could seize what was left of the Potter fortune, put a permanent end to an Ancient and Noble House and all of the worthless fools who belonged to it and last but not least, put a permanent end to Voldemort once and for all.

You see Albus Dumbledore had created Voldemort so he would again defeat a new Dark Lord and become a hero for another generation and have unlimited power. However, Tom Riddle had proven to be stronger than Dumbledore expected and since Dumbledore had been fighting the war his way (which he really started not Tom)…well drastic steps had to be taken to win. He set a trap, cast a bit (okay a lot) of dark magic and the not-as-smart-as-he-thought Tom Riddle had fallen helplessly into it. Dumbledore had won not in the way he had originally planned because the baby Harry Potter survived and was made into a Horcrux.

Dumbledore quickly recovered from this little setback and proclaimed Potter as the Boy-Who-Lived, hid him away from everybody for the boy's safety, sent him to a place of true hell where he would be raised an abused, malnourished, unloved, actually hated child who knew nothing of his heritage and true place in the world. The boy was raised to KNOW NOTHING and wouldn't even when it was revealed to him that he was a wizard and known as a hero in the new and exciting world he was returning to.

However, all of that was carefully choreographed by Dumbledore from sending the naïve, uber faithful to Dumbledore, Hagrid to take him shopping, indoctrinating him to hate Slytherins (who were bad, wicked, etc.) and yearn for Gryffindor and begin to worship, adore and obey without question Albus Dumbledore "the greatest wizard since Merlin" and all of the other propaganda thrown at the boy from Hagrid to the Weasleys.

Harry's magic had been sabotaged due to his treatment at the Dursleys and once Harry Potter came to Hogwarts, he had been spelled with all sorts of charms, hexes, curses and illegal potions to not only further weaken him but make him reckless, absentminded, lazy, indifferent to learning and tending to goof off (which was reinforced by his arranged "friendship" with Ron Weasley) and have no interest in learning anything (worthwhile at least). He also had many loyalty charms cast on him to want to associate with only the Weasleys (and then later the Mudblood Granger when Ron did his job too well and was causing both of them to fail), not to ask questions or seek help and most important do all of the worshipping, adoring and trusting Albus Dumbledore to a fault and his own detriment.

But Dumbledore hadn't stopped there. Magic was done to all of the teachers at Hogwarts to "not notice anything was physically, mentally or emotionally wrong with Harry" much like it was done to Harry's neighbors, teachers and police. Even the medi-witch Pomfrey was spelled to only treat him for only the obvious injuries of the moment and not to treat him for anything else, let alone help him with the obvious malnutrition he suffered from, the noticeably broken and not healed properly bones.

The most important people (other than Dumbledore) such as Minerva McGonagall, Harry's Head of House, never helped him because as she was told constantly and repeated like a zombie "Albus has his reasons for Harry's treatment and Albus is never wrong and we all must obey him completely."

Severus Snape on the other hand had been spelled to see only James Potter, his mortal enemy who had bullied and nearly destroyed Snape's life (all with Dumbledore's blessing) and not the boy who was all that was left of Snape's "only love" the lovely (but really naïve and spelled Lily Evans). Dumbledore had tricked Snape into spying then serving Dumbledore totally as well as vowing to protect Lily's/Potter's spawn with his life. It was bad enough Harry was considered to be a veritable clone of James Potter in his physical looks but just to complete Snape's utter hatred of the boy (and because Dumbledore was a sadist bastard) the curses on the boy's glasses negated all chance of Snape liking the boy or feeling pity for him. Snape of all people should have picked up on the boy's abuse but hadn't.

Harry never had a chance. He was merely a pawn in Dumbledore's great scheme and now…he just wasn't needed anymore. The reason he wasn't needed was because Dumbledore knew Tom Riddle had made three Horcruxes. The first had been a diary Tom had during school. It was finally found in the Chamber of Secrets when Harry went to save Ginny Weasley's life. The second was Slytherin's Lordship ring and Harry was the third.

After saving Ginny Weasley's life, Harry had freed Dobby the house elf and made an even bigger enemy of Lucius Malfoy, which was never a healthy thing to do. Harry had been sent back to serve another summer of pure hell at the Dursleys and ten days after school ended Dumbledore had finally found the ring. He happily destroyed it and now the only thing holding Voldemort's essence on this earth was…Harry Potter.

It was so easy to arrange. Vernon Dursley would be finally allowed to do the one thing he had always wanted to do, namely kill Harry Potter. He had "accidentally" come very close to doing so in the past but due to the monitors placed on the boy, Dumbledore always arrived just in time to "save" the boy and warn Vernon of the consequences. He'd cast another restraining charm on Vernon to "curb his enthusiasm" and heal the boy's injuries, the ones his own magic couldn't heal due to the severity of Vernon's excitement. The little bastard had nearly died eleven times due to physical injuries, near starvation and malnutrition and severe illnesses which the Dursleys only treated by throwing him into his cupboard until he recovered. Now there was no need.

So to speed things up so that Dumbledore could collect "his inheritance" he went to the Dursleys and removed the restraining charms and just for good measure added a few more hate charms directed to Harry. He also obliviated any trace of his ever going to the Dursleys or sending them money every month for Harry's "special care" only to pay for his keep. Other than that, the Dursleys would only remember seeing him once since Harry's placement with them when he arranged for the money to be paid. Again nothing concerning Harry's treatment could be traced back to him. He did the same with Arabella Figg, the Squib he had placed to check on Harry. Her memory was modified to say she never witnessed any abuse being done by the Dursleys other than Harry being dressed so poorly and made to do chores "But all boys have chores, don't they" she could testify to when asked.

He then went back to Hogwarts to observe his monitors and wait for the "happy news" that Potter was dead. He had already removed the magic preventing the neighbors, police and primary school teachers from not seeing Harry's abuse or how the Dursleys had always treated him. No doubt Vernon would try to hide the body but then Dumbledore would arrange for it to be found and…well things would be all tidied up and as usual Dumbledore would come out innocent as a lamb.

Two days after the removal of the dark magic, the monitor tracking Harry's life force had melted. It sounded an alarm and a gleeful Dumbledore went to observe Vernon's handiwork. Much to his surprise it wasn't Vernon who killed Harry but Dudley and his gang. Petunia had sent Harry to a shop to get him out of the house and so that Dudders and his fine, upstanding little friends could indulge in one of their favorite games – Harry Hunting.

They waited until he came out of the shop carrying the bags of eggs, cartons of milk, soda and cream, as well as a few glass jar items so that when they attacked him, all of the items would be broken and Harry would be doubly punished when he got home not only for fighting but breaking everything.

Harry left the shop heavily burdened. They pounced and all four boys began beating the stuffing out of the helpless boy. However, unlike other times people actually watched and noticed. A shopkeeper called the police and a few brave individuals started yelling at the boys to stop but received curses for their trouble from the rude boys. Two of the boys had brought their cricket bats and were whacking Harry with those while Piers and Dudley used their fists. Finally Harry fell to the ground and all four boys started kicking him in the ribs, stomping on his arms, legs, hands and then Dudley gave the death blow.

He started jumping up and down on his frail cousin's torso. He hadn't done that before and he wanted to try it. Despite some people coming over to order him to stop, his friends rudely told them to bugger off as the "victim" was nothing but a worthless freak who deserved this treatment and more and "We give it to him every chance we get and Mr. Dursley gives up money for the movies and McDonalds afterwards" a smiling Malcolm informed the audience.

About this time an off-duty policeman arrived and he tried to rescue Harry. The wail of sirens was heard as the man received reinforcements. Another shop owner had been filming everything on his videocam. It would make the national evening news as well as the newspapers. The lead in/headlines would be tell how four bully boys brutally and ruthlessly beat another boy to death in the cruelest of manner. Nothing Vernon could do this time would save any of them especially after what Malcolm told everybody.

Thus, the entire country would hear the story of the sad life and tragic death of Harry Potter. Hermione Granger, Dean Thomas, Colin Creevey, Sally-Anne Perks, Justin Finch-Fletchley and other Muggleborns at Hogwarts and alumni were shocked at the news. Amelia Bones had been tipped off by Muggleborns who worked at Scotland Yard and she brought a full investigation team to assess the tragedy. It was the worse scandal since…well most Magicals couldn't think of anything this bad happening for decades.

As usual Albus Dumbledore expressed shock and indignation at the "misfortune" and swore he would not rest until the guilty were brought to justice. Actually he had no intention whatsoever about doing anything as Amelia Bones would only find the dead body of the boy and all examinations were being done by Muggles who would probably not find anything incriminating against Dumbledore.

Dumbledore had changed the wards on 4 Privet Drive making them into simple protection spells "which failed upon Harry's death by Muggles" and anything else which was found would not reflect his magical signature because he had used some very dark charms to disguise his signature and that could be blamed on Death Eaters. He couldn't be charged with anything in Harry's death and that was all that mattered.

Because of Harry's untimely death, Cornelius Fudge never did his bi-yearly inspection of Azkaban and thus Sirius Black never saw the Daily Prophet showing a photograph of the Weasleys on holiday with their pet rat. Actually that photo would never be printed as Harry's death was the main news story whereas the Weasley holiday was only a fill-in for a slow news day.

So that was the end of Harry Potter and Dumbledore could turn his attention to other more important things – like creating a new Dark Lord. He couldn't tell people the how and whys of finally defeating Voldemort yet he now needed a new foe who would be frightening and powerful enough to use as a villain but one easily defeated by Dumbledore. He had so much to do but all the time in the world to do it.