Ft. Runaway!Harry
After his aunt knocked him out with a pan, 6 year old Harry magically apparates himself away from England to the elegant Black chateau tucked away magical along the coast.
Intelligent as he is, he makes a nest of sorts in a tree and does his best to survive.
Wandering lost in this strange place, he soon comes across the impressive castle, surrounded by hills of grapes and vines on the sides opposite the woods. A house elf notices him and little Harry struggles to understand this new world around him. Being so young, he accepts this new strange world and decides to befriend the strange elves and hide from those who visit the castle for as long as he is able.
He has learned some interesting tricks about magic and is intuitively paying attention to the world around him, learning more everyday. The elves visit him and bring him comforts and food. It is about eight months after he appears in France when he is popped away to Cassie and Arcturus Black when they return for their annual stay at the chateau.
His stay in the forest changes him greatly and he refuses to simply live by the constricting rules "Aunt Cassie" and "Uncle Arcturus" attempt to bestow on him. With the introduction of brooms, pleasant dinners, and interesting stories, Harry begins making small concessions and, after witnessing their impressive magical tricks, he accepts their offer to teach him magic and some of the finer things of society, yet maintains a rejection of all things that are normal and accepted for the sake of being normal.
Shortly after Harry starts spending more time with the aging Blacks, they take him to the French Magical Quarters, Place Cachée. He hears something that sets him on edge and seeks it out. Lady Delacour is being threatened by a wizard who manages to have pulled a wand on the mother out with her baby and older daughter. Harry gets the wizards attention, yelling at him, and the witch sends a stunner at him that hits true.
When Aunt Cassie and Uncle Arcturus finally make it to them, they are rude to the Delacour's, who's oldest daughter is suddenly keen for a noble penpal to practice her English writing with. Arcturus rudely dismisses the gesture from there Veela child, and Harry defiantly rejects that and nearly begs Fleur to send him letters, promising to start learning how to read and write (mostly to piss of his cranky aunt and uncle).