Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past
By Viridian
He has already seen he Uncle becoming abusive, it would have been reasonable for him to anticipate this, but it's also reasonable for him to expect things to go like they did before. Great story.
Bummer, it is time for some payback.
gunny
This was well written. Canon does leave open the possibility of Vernon assaulting Harry. After all, he did send Harry to the cupboard for a week without food.
It just rips out my guts when such things happen to children.
Sad work, well done.
Isn't there an old saying about fate being a bitch and having puppies or some such thing?
Awful, Harry getting beat like that. I trust you to set Vernon straight later though. Sheesh, I was pretty relaxed before this chapter.
Oh, my God! I'm glad canon never has that bastard actually beat the crap out of Harry. Then again, it's not like it wasn't implied, right?
Very hard to take, that.
I absolutely LOVED this line: "'Harry Potter is always in danger at Hogwarts. Harry Potter is in mortal danger everywhere he bloody goes,' Harry growled." So true! And more true of Privet Drive in this timeline than ever before, between Malfoy's idea of an amusing birthday present (at least, I assume it was Malfoy, per or fils) and Uncle Vernon heading round the bend.
Also, unlike some of your reviewers, I thought Harry's miscalculation of the seriousness of Vernon's intent, and inability to do anything to stop it by the time he did realize how bad it was going to be, rang very true. None of his past experience with Vernon indicated that such an assault was in the offing, and no martial artist, no matter how well trained, is going to be able to defend himself effectively when he already has some broken bones and nerve damage, especially against an opponent who outmasses him four or five to one. Harry isn't a black belt at this point, anyway -- mastery of a martial art, like playing an instrument, is largely neuromuscular training rather than abstract knowledge, and Harry couldn't bring that training back in time with him.