Harry Potter & Grimmauld Place, Harry Potter & Black Family, Goblins & Harry Potter, Walburga Black & Harry Potter, Number Twelve Grimmauld Place - Character, Portrait Walburga Black, Petunia Evans Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Goblins (Harry Potter), Albus Dumbledore, Portrait Phineas Nigellus Black, Arabella Figg, Minerva McGonagall
AU. Harry accidentally Apparates to an empty Grimmauld Place when he’s nine instead of to the top of the school roof when he escapes Dudley’s gang. The house is empty except for portraits and sometimes a speaking wooden face, and Harry has to kill his own food, and there’s something nasty in the cellars, and some of the portraits are mad. But this is still a vast improvement over the Dursleys.