Harry's happiness is your paramount concern, and he will be much happier with the Weasleys than with the Dursleys.  You arrange with some Aurors to protect Harry and then you bring him to the Weasleys, who are delighted to take him in.  He and Ron grow up to be best friends and they protect each other from Ron's mischievous older brothers Fred and George.

  When Harry and Ron turn eleven, you send them invitations to begin studying at Hogwarts.  They get sorted into Gryffindor House, although the Sorting Hat would have liked to put Harry into Slytherin House instead.  They later make friends with another Gryffindor student, Hermione Granger.  Harry also makes enemies with everyone in Slytherin, especially Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy's son Draco, another first-year student.  He shows such talent for flying that he is chosen to become the Seeker on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

  Harry is as happy here as he is in the Weasley home, and you are reluctant to spoil his happiness by revealing to him another part of Trelawney's prophecy: he must either kill Voldemort or die trying.  At the end of his first year, he shows that he has the right stuff for the job: with the help of his two best friends he succeeds in preventing Voldemort, who has possessed the current Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Quirinus Quirrell, from getting the Philosopher's Stone, which would have given him the immortality he so desperately craves.  You debate with yourself: should you now tell him about the prophecy or should you wait until he is older to avoid upsetting him at such a tender age?

  If you choose to tell Harry about the prophecy, turn to Chapter 23.

  If you choose to wait until he is older, turn to Chapter 25.