Jeremiah

This is my first time writing so any help is appreciated. I have been reading HP fanfiction for years so if I mention some thing in my story that reminds you of another and you are the author or know who is let me know so I can get proper rights to continue with the story. I am not trying to copy anyone. I hope my story is original.

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Chapter 1

A Place to Call Home

At the tender age of three, a young boy was abandoned on the steps of a monastery by his only living relatives who no longer wanted him. The boy was small for his age, looking more like a two year old, due to the abuse and neglect at the hands of his relatives. He has a fairly large burn on his forehead marring his elegant features. His emerald eyes shown with fear and sanded few could understand in a child that young. His body was covered in cut and bruises from the abuse and never ending chores he was forced to do. His clothes were meant for a child at least twice his size. Not only were the clothes to big but they were threat bare from being worn every day for the last two years. The boy is a very special child to a hidden world, The World of Magic, for he is known as Harry Potter in this hidden world. The boy however, does not know his own name for he had been called Boy and Freak ever since he can remember.

When the child was discovered in the early June morning hours the monks first saw to the child diminished health. Harry was scared of these men for he did not understand what was happening. Some one was actually being nice to him. He had had a proper bath in warm water, warm not freezing cold, or boiling hot but warm. Then he was given new clothes, warm and comfortable, he liked them even tough they reminded him of a dress but, all the men were wearing them so he didn't think much about it. After all he was only four and was never aloud to go any where with his so called family so what did he know. He was given oats and fruit and milk for breakfast, the most he had ever eaten in one day.

The monks were finally ready to ask this child who he is. Harry did not know though. The monks asked his name and he said, "Freak Boy" for that was all he had ever been called. The monks were saddened with this and decided to give him a new name. From that moment on Harry Potter became Jeremiah Zechariah Matthews. Remi, for short, told his new family about the abuse and neglect his relative did. He also new he was three and not two much to the surprise of the monks. He had once heard his aunt complaining about him having to start kindergarten with his cousin the following year because they were only a few months apart in age. His cousin had just had his fourth birthday so he knew he would be four soon.

What the Remi's relatives didn't know when they left him was that these monks knew of the Magic world, some of them were even wizards themselves. After being at Moonstone, the monastery, for a few days the monks discovered that Remi was a wizard. From then on he was taught everything they knew about magic and religion and how the two could be together for, they saw magic as a gift given to them from God, to help others. Very few saw it this way, those with magic didn't understand how they could believe in God, and those with out magic didn't understand how they could believe in magic. So Moonstone became the only place for the monks raised with both beliefs could live with out the persecution from either side.

Remi, developed well in this new environment. His soul was healed by the religious teachings and way of life and his magic was nourished from his magical teachings. After only three years of teachings the monks could no longer teach Remi anything new. It was time for Remi to be formally educated. Many letters were sent to the Magic schools all around Europe in hopes one would accept a seven year old boy.