Fics like ‘We have scorched the snake, not killed it.’

Harry has taken all of the Dudleys blows as well as he could. He kept the secret, hides his scars. He knows his friends care about him, but they don't understand, they never have. Harry is tired of pretending to be the chosen one everyone thinks he is, he's so tired. Now, the summer after fifth year with Sirius's death fresh in his mind, traumatised and exhausted, he runs away. He descovers hidden secrets, finds new alliences. People he thought he knew, people who he begins to trust. Amidst his emotional turmoil as he runs from his trauma, and anger at people who were supposed to protect him, who will he become?

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