A Ready Mind ||Harry Potter/Hogwarts AU||
Bruce’s mother, Rebecca, was a witch, and loved Dr. Brian Banner so much she hid her magic for him, leaving behind her family and friends, and even her wand in the magical world, and entered a muggle marriage, and lived an isolated muggle lifestyle.
Until her son came along. A part of Rebecca hoped that her son would be a squib, awful as it was, but that wasn’t the case, and Brian reacted violently to his ‘cursed’ son, his already horrendous drinking and anger management problems growing worse. Rebecca would try to intervene, but Bruce, ever brave, would nearly always manage to take any blow intended for his mother.
Rebecca raised her son to be aware of the magical world, but was unable to show him anything from it, save a few moving photographs she’d managed to hide away, and his first introduction to anything magical was on a secret trip to Diagon Alley after he’d received his letter to Hogwarts. The trip itself remains one of the happiest memories Bruce has, however what happened after is possibly his worst.
It was clear when Bruce and Rebecca returned home that their absence had been noticed, and Brian made his displeasure clear. However, this time he went farther than ever before, and threw Rebecca from the outside steps so hard that she cracked her head on the concrete and died.
Brian was placed in a mental hospital, while Bruce was taken in by his father’s sister, Susan, whom he’d only met once before, and who reluctantly agreed, when approached by a member of the Muggle Relations Department, to allow Bruce to attend Hogwarts. There he was sorted into Ravenclaw, where he found ample challenge for his mind, and even managed to make a few friends. He proved quite excellent in his Potions and History of Magic classes, and above average at most of his other classes, only struggling greatly in Transfiguration.
His summers were dull and lonesome in comparison, and he spent most of them holed up in his room, reading his books from school, waiting for the day he turned seventeen so he could find a proper home in the wizarding world.
Default verse is 5th-6th year
Still working on what he does after he graduates. ^_^;
