Author Note:

Chapter 1 has been reposted. I've made a few small changes in content and format. Hope it's a better read now.

Disclaimer:Harry Potter and other characters from the book belong to J.K.R

I have been reading fanfiction for around five years now and this story will have ideas I got reading other works. I hope it has enough original ideas to make it worth reading.

Summary: This story details the journey of Harry Potter during his discovery of the theory of magic, of himself and his use of these to become one of the greatest wizards the world has ever known.

My Discovery of The Theory of Magic

Chapter 1: History

The enlightened period of the magical world truly started when Walburga Black decided that she would prove once and for all that wizards were without doubt superior to non magical humans.

She came to this decision after a lengthy discussion with a distant relative of hers, old Jack Corvin. Corvin had been an unspeakable in the department of mysteries. He had a brilliant intellect and refused to believe anything without proof.

He wanted solid a solid theory backed by irrefutable proof. During his days in the Department, he had studied the theory of magic. His study had directed him to the muggles and their in depth study of every possible phenomena that they encountered.

Wizards had been taking and using theories that muggles developed for the past two hundred years in secret. They had during this time applied these theories and their ability with magic, an energy source the muggles had no idea existed to get a better understanding of the rules governing the universe.

They had built up on scientific theories, adding an extra source of energy that only they could access and manipulate. Magical children did get a very through grounding in the understanding of the rules governing matter in their study of transfiguration, charms and potions.

The basics of what the muggles called thermodynamics, classical mechanics, atomic theory, fluid mechanics, were understood by a fifth year in Hogwarts. They were essential after all to understand the subjects in the higher classes.

They had discussed a variety of topics. The concept of magic being a form of energy was very well understood in the 17th century. But modern day theorists had still not come up with a proof of where or how it came into being. The interaction of magic with matter was studied in depth during the early 19th century.

The muggles development of electronics was the main reason for the tremendous world wide effort to quantify magic. Until then, no muggle invention could detect magic. Electronic items though were affected, and thus would be able to detect it.

The development of the methods to hide magic from muggles was hastened and completely developed by 1951. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were sure enough good motivation. From then onwards, for every major scientific theory the muggles developed, a magical analogue was developed within a few years.

A worldwide effort to develop ward schemes to hide and if necessary, protect the magical world from every new development in weapons and technology was initiated and implemented by the International Confederation of Wizards in 1953 after a near total exposure of the magical world in the United States which required wizards from all over the world to control and finally completely cover up.

The America's had the misfortune of becoming the safe heaven for magical criminals. The vast continents had sparsely populated magical communities that were easy targets for powerful practitioners. The magical community of the US was rather small and the law was usually dealt by the rich and powerful families. In stark contrast to the muggle community, the magical community was highly disorganized. The witch trials had made the magicals highly distrust the non magicals and most methods developed by them.

The muggleborn had started trying to set down a functioning government, but were put down by the powerful families. These powerful families controlled the exploitation and export of the continents huge magical flora and fauna. The entire continent was still the Wild West in the magical community.

The poorer wizards and witches were tired of the oppression and had banded together and in true American spirit, started a fight with the established magical goons. The magical and muggle death toll was rising very fast.

This had finally led to the ICW to intervene. They had put down the revolt, held nation wide elections and established the basic law system that the people could build up on. They created a permanent base in the US to fully educate the magical population on magic and the dangers of exposure.

Until then, there were only small magical communities. Since then, the magical population of the US has increased tremendously both in power and number. They are at present the leading country in the development and worldwide implementation of security measures against muggles.

During their discussions, Jack Corvin had mentioned all these points to Walburga. He stated that with all this information, it could only be concluded that we were hiding from the muggles, scared of them. So how could the magical population superior to the non magical one?

As far as Walburga was concerned any species that wantonly destroyed or at minimum severely polluted the very source of our life had to be put down or at least controlled. This was one of the major reasons for the present generation of purebloods hating muggles to near fanatic levels.

To them the earth was almost sacred. They never needed to take more from the earth than it could replenish. It was difficult for them to accept the idea that anyone could be so greedy and foolish that they were making unlivable their only home?

But muggles had to destroy anything they touched. They wasted away entire countries worth of land in their quest for riches without any heed to the damage they were causing. Their uncontrolled exploitation had caused the extinction of over three hundred species of prominent magical flora and fauna in the past fifty years due to pollution.

They seemed to be showing no signs of slowing down their destruction of the earth and everything in it in any way. A community that seemed to want the annihilation of everything including itself was not worth being called civilized or enlightened.

There was a strong movement at that time in the magical community to improve warding methods and make sure that every resource that had been polluted beyond reasonable levels by muggles, including air and water be filtered by the wards before reaching the magical community.

The news about the possible deployment of satellites that could look through their present muggle repelling charms and led to the warding of many millions of square kilometers of land that had magical beings in them with improved wards. Every year more was being warded with these new muggle repelling charms to prevent both destruction and detection.

Walburga Black, the foremost magical theorist of Britain and powerful witch herself, using the intensive resources of the Black family had then hired a large number of magical theorists from all over Europe to study the difference between magical and non magical beings.

It was the largest effort by a private or governmental organization in this field. She had broken the basics of the known theory into small problems that were supplied to her employees. Only with all parts of the theory could a proper understanding of the framework be obtained. While many of the employees had guessed the purpose of the research, all of them were sworn to secrecy for a period of thirty five years after the completion of the theory.

Hearing of her work, some major proponents of the wizarding supremacy advocates asked to be allowed to help. She agreed to accept monetary help from them with their promise that they would leave her free to conduct her research as she saw fit. They agreed on the condition that they were told the final results of the work. At one point, about seven years into the work, there were around nine hundred and fifty people working on the quest for the theory of magic.

As the years progressed though, the trend she observed from experiments and statistics was deeply disturbing. The muggleborns were not inherently weaker in power. It was shown that in terms of Magical Channeling Capacity, they were the same as purebloods.

However, they did seem to lack most of the specific traits in magic the purebloods had achieved with over seven hundred years of selective marriages.

Many families had achieved affinity to specific fields of magic by careful marriages with those who also showed the gift. These traits were highly prized in the magical community.

Some had an affinity for transfiguration, some for potions, a few for divination and so on. While there were exceptions among muggleborns like Lily Evans whose affinity to charms had been greater than that of Filius Flitwick, over seventy five percent of muggleborns did not have specific gifts towards any branch of magic.

Most had an average affinity to all branches. This was one of the main reasons why many of them were not chosen for a job even when they scored better marks than the purebloods. It was not just because they were muggleborn.

But a study of the descendants of muggleborns who married into magical families showed that they had developed the affinities specific to that family within four to five generations.

This changed the direction of research to the source of magic in a magical beings body. There were many important questions. While the theorists continued their work, experiments were conducted on magical and mundane animals of all types, muggles, squibs, dementor victims and criminal muggleborns sentenced to life in Azkaban or the kiss.

Over time, the experiments which initially killed over sixty five percent of the subjects were refined. They were finally brought to a stage where they could finally experiment with only minor discomfort on purebloods. The tests on Purebloods were necessary to obtain information on the affinities.

The Department of Mysteries was by now involved in the research. Old Jack Corvin had used his considerable influence there to get them to cooperate. Their involvement was to be classified for the next seventy years. They provided the test subjects from prisons and the experimental facilities built by them over the last three hundred and fifty years were put at Lady Black and her group's disposal.

The major breakthrough was unfortunately not obtained for the next nineteen years. Her employees had included everyone from the most brilliant theorists of Europe to Hogwarts students who showed promise as theorists regardless of blood, birth or magical power. Walburga thought that she might as well as make use of the muggleborns minds if they were good enough.

The more gruesome experiments were conducted by fanatics who hated muggleborns. They were taken as long as they could follow instructions and complete the experiments. They had an outlet to their frustration in the form of conducting experiments that caused great pain on the subjects they could get.

Then came the silent revolution. With the help of Walburga's son, Sirius Black, a brilliant mind himself, who copied the entire research done till then, provided and helped with the material, Lily Evans, by then Lily Potter, a magical prodigy and genius, cracked the theory and obtained the answer at the age of twenty two.

She had combined the solutions to various theoretical problems into one detailed and complete proof. The experimental proof completely supported the theory. It took Lily and Sirius a total of seven years to complete the work. They studied the old and new theories for around three years to gain a proper understanding of what they were trying to accomplish.

Sirius had long had problems with the prejudice that the purebloods had. He was of the opinion that muggleborns had to be introduced and trained much earlier into the magical way of life. With witches like Lily coming from the muggles, he believed that most muggleborn would be as good as purebloods given the right training.

He knew of his mothers endeavor to discover the mysteries of magic. He started studying the theories in secret at the age of thirteen. He had been bored and was in his parent's room in an attempt to put some itching powder in his father's boots when he spotted his mothers journal.

With the same curiosity that led to his and his best friend's discovery of Remus Lupin's lycanthropy he opened the journal and found the opening discoveries of the research. On a whim, he copied the journal with a spell. As punishment for his prank, he ended up being locked in his room for next few days with the instruction to study.

In an effort to prevent boredom, he spent this time trying to unravel the work he had stolen from his mother. The challenge of learning something new and interesting spurred him on the first few days. He found that he had inherited his mothers capacity to understand the deep theories of magic.

Over the next two years he spent the time he was supposed to be studying for his classes in understanding the basics of the work his mother's journal provided. He had started it in an effort to surprise his mother with his knowledge and gain her appreciation.

At fifteen he learned of the experiments that were being carried out. At sixteen, he started copying the research and taking Lily's help in understanding it. During the Hogwarts break that year, his mother had gone to Scandinavia to discuss the work with some theorists there. It was also where some of the experiments were being carried out.

Sirius came home and copied the many documents of data that chronicled the confirmed discoveries of the research and the incomplete theories that had been formulated. It took him over a month to magically copy all the material without leaving any trace behind.

By then his support of the muggleborns and his lack of deference to many age old customs that he believed were antiquated had started the deterioration of his relation with his family. His complete lack of respect to the ideals of the Dark Lord who was just emerging in those days, refusal to accept a wedding contract with a pureblood witch from the eight hundred year old Accalia family had strained the relation to the breaking point.

The kicker was when he got into a duel with the Nott patriarch during a formal gathering because he said that all muggleborns should be killed. He had knocked out the man in a duel lasting a few seconds.

To add insult to injury, he informed the assembly that the patriarch of the Noble, ancient and pureblood family had been defeated by the use of curses and hexes invented by Lily Evans, a muggleborn.

As far as Arcturus Black, his father was concerned, this action was the last straw. Sirius Black was soon disinherited and his younger brother Regulus named the heir to the Black family.

Sirius stayed with the Potters for the next three years until one of his uncles left him enough money to buy a small house and complete training as a warder. He spent a significant amount of his free time working with Lily on completing the theory.

Arcturus Black had died two years after his disinheritance. Having rebuffed all attempts by his mother at reconciliation during the following year and a half, Sirius showed up all of a sudden one day in the Black estate with the completed theoretical framework and the corresponding experimental proof of the new, revised and completed theory of magic by Lily Potter nee Evans.

It nearly caused a heart attack in his mother and she attacked and almost killed him when she found out that he had stolen and provided the data to a muggleborn. After getting defeated and restrained by Sirius, she calmed down. She set about to disprove the theory. The effort failed miserably.

The completed theory was beautiful.

The experimental research work showed her that magical beings were just a small subset of the general human population. The study showed that in an evolutionary system the capacity to channel magic was a benefit.

A small part of the study involved the search and study of sites which showed evidence of human settlement during the early centuries of human civilization. It showed why wizards were not the predominant part of the human population in spite of having the evolutionary benefit. Most of the skeletons which showed evidence of being that of magical humans did not appear to have died of natural causes and were mostly found buried some distance from non magical skeletons.

There were clear indications of them having been killed violently in the bones. It seemed that at least one thing was common among early and present humans, the drive to ridicule and destroy that which was different.

Muggles had always been more numerous than wizards. This indicated that the complete secrecy of the wizarding community was vital to long term survival. That is, unless they already had the magical methods or developed such capabilities enough to skew the chances of victory in an all out battle in the magical populations favor.

There was one relief to her. While the mental and physical capacities of magical and non-magical humans were the same for untrained people, magicals had the potential to improve mental capacity by at least thirteen percent at most permanently. Physical capacity could be improved by an order of magnitude more than that of non magicals for short intervals.

Once trained, magicals had the potential to be the superior ones amongst humans on average. But non magicals were too far to reach in terms of population.

The research provided an answer to some of the oldest questions asked by people. Some of them were that of the origin of the soul, its description, its relation to the capacity to channel magic, the presence of muggleborns, squibs, etc.

(AN: The next bit is a bit dry… Bear with me)

The soul was actually found to be the essence of every living being. It is also what channels energy that can be used as magic. Therefore every living being is capable of containing magic due to its soul, but not to channel it. Channeling magic to the outside of the body requires more than just the capacity to store magic.

The necessary and sufficient condition for a system, i.e. a group of molecules that form a living being to contain a soul is the capacity to replicate.

The origin of the soul is still a hotly debated subject in academic circles. But the moment that a system obtains the capacity to replicate or reproduce without any outside assistance, it acquires an entity or a spark that can be called a soul.

It was theorized that a few billion years ago when life started evolving from single celled to multicelled organisms, the soul too evolved. From being unique to each living system, connections between the sparks started forming to those in neighboring cells.

Eventually they form one entity. It has been found that in higher level of living systems, the sparks of every cell in a body is interconnected to each and every other cell in the body by an essence that makes it unique. This interconnected essence forms the complete soul of a person.

The highest concentration of the connections is at the region where the heart is located. This region is called the magical core and accounts for sixty five percent of magical energy generation by a body. The dynamics governing the generation, storage and discharge of energy by the soul is not a simple algebraic function.

It is highly complicated and complete understanding will probably take many more years of work. The network of connections gives the capacity to channel magic from the core to other regions in the body.

As mentioned earlier, the presence of part of the soul in every cell of the body is why substances like blood and other tissue can be used in magics in connection to the individual from whom is came.

Once removed from a being, any tissue will within 24 hours loose connection to the soul even if kept alive by artificial means. During this period, it can be used to perform magics that can, if powerful enough affect the source of the tissue.

But even if the connection is lost in around a day, the soul's echo remains. If the tissue is kept under stasis it can still be used with sufficient power for minor magics.

Blood is a substance that is not stationary in a body. As such the connections between the cells present in it and the core are not only much more flexible and diverse but stronger. Even once removed from the body, the connections being stronger than for other tissue persist for the longest time making it the most useful item in long range casting on its source.

Every living organism on earth consists of genetic material. What muggle scientists have not been able to identify and that the magical ones have very recently is the presence of a magical analogue to genetic material. This is more of the root for the connections.

As in chromosomes, they occur in pairs in all higher living organisms. The system is different in lower organisms. The laws governing the transfer of magical genetic information are exactly same as those followed by organic genetic material as is made obvious by the information given below.

There are two varieties and have been designated M1 and M2 and are commonly called the soul genes. Any combination of these pairs, i.e.
M1M1
M1M2
M2M1
M2M2
in a cell can provide an anchor to the soul. Most non-magicals have a pair of the M2 soul gene. Around three percent of the non magical human population contains the pair M1M2. A child of two such parents has a twenty five percent chance of having the capacity to channel magic.

The occurrence of a pair of the M1 gene allows not just the anchor to the soul, but also the ability to channel magic through the soul to the outside of the body. There are two varieties of the M1 gene.
M1a
M1b.
The individuals having a pair of M1a genes or a pair contain one M1a and one M1b are what we call witches and wizards.

Around 1.5 percent of the magical human population contains at least one copy of the M1b gene. It appears to be a mutation of the M1a. Both provide specific traits. An individual with two copies of the M1b has a highly limited capacity to channel magic through the body to the outside.

These children are called squibs. It has been noticed that the complete magical energy that a squib generates is used by the body to improve itself. As such they are highly healthy individuals and remain so most of their lives.

They are immune to most magical and muggle diseases and have an average lifetime that is five percent greater than of witches and wizards. This immunity and longevity made wizards and witches previously believe that the squibs were stealing the magics from others. That's a small part of the reason for them being hated.

Witches and wizards also do utilize magic to improve their body unconsciously. But it is on a lower scale compared to that of squibs. Magical beings usually have a lifetime that is on average twenty percent longer than that of non magical beings. Individuals with M1a and M1b are found to be in the lower range of magical power.

The Magical channeling capacity of any being depends on the interconnections between the soul anchors in each cell occurs in a body. It has been found that while some might have wider conduits other individuals have more streamlined connections. They have finer control of the magics they cast.

Those having wider conduits have a larger absorption and emission capacity. While these people can cast more powerful magics they might never have the fineness that someone with more streamlined channels can.

While there were simple explanations to many questions that could be given to the common wizard and witch, understanding the theory's mathematical framework and its actual consequences would give one the capacity to perform intricate magics that would be beyond the scope of those who had not yet understand it.

A good analogy would be the follows. A muggle who only knows that an electrical appliance runs on electricity without understanding how exactly the appliance or electricity works cannot fix a faulty one even if given all the required tools. A trained technician understanding the basics behind them can.

She still suffered from shock. Having to discard centuries of beliefs in favor of facts that demolished some of her staunchest beliefs was terribly hard. She contacted a very serious case of dragon pox a month after reading the summary of the research and died around three months later.

Realizing her impending death, she prepared all the paperwork required to reinstate her eldest son as the heir to the Black legacy. This fact was known only to the goblin in charge of the Black accounts. It was sworn to keep it a secret under pain of death by Sirius. Her death lead Sirius to order the termination of funding and hence the termination of most of the still ongoing research.

The completed research was to be released to the public only by the determination of the head of the house of Black. The contract the researchers signed made sure of their silence. A major settlement was provided as compensation to each of them. It removed fifty seven percent of the Black fortune.

The other sponsors of the project were informed that it was taking too much time, resources and effort to continue. They got the data that was collected till then and told to formulate the theory on their own if they still wanted to.

Lily, James and Sirius under the guidance of a changed Walburga Black till her death and on their own later, set about in secrecy using the new theory and performing experiments that allowed them feats of magic that would have awed Albus Dumbledore and Lord Voldemort. On occasions they used snippets of this new understanding of magic in their fight against the Dark Lord that did just that.

It cemented their status as the brightest and greatest wizards and witch of their generation. It also led to the Dark Lord targeting them for recruitment. Their refusal to join his cause led him to actively hunt them as a threat.

Their refusal was not truly on an ideological note. They had refused to bow down to Albus Dumbledore for years now and they respected him as one of the most learned and greatest wizards alive.

They had refused to share the secrets of their feats with him for the time being. They would also definitely not bow down to any other living human, especially one like the Dark Lord who branded his followers and expected them to kiss his feet.

One year following the death of Walburga, using the side notes she wrote during her illness on improvement of future generations of magical children and the confidence in their magical skill which was acquired during their testing of the complete theory, Sirius Black, Lily and James Potter together completed a series of twenty one rituals spaced over the duration of a year that would allow Lily to birth to a child whose Magical Channeling Capacity and control would be at the least as good as that of the best living now

One fact that was kept a complete secret amongst the three of them was that Lily Evans had the love of both the men. While James publicly claimed his love for Lily, Sirius never did. Even Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew never knew.

Sirius Black had never stopped trying to win her over until the day they got married. He never hid this fact from James. The fact that is even stranger is that in the end Lily accepted both of them. She would eventually marry James with Sirius being their best man.

James and Sirius were as close as brothers. Even the quest for Lily did not break them apart. The dynamics were sometimes strained. But it held together until the death of James and Lily. Even after marriage, they were rarely seen apart.

While Sirius did love Lily, he was by nature a playboy, and to keep himself sane he frequently went out on dates with other women. He was already famous for his charm, wit, magical powers, being the bad boy in the Black family and his success as one of the brightest and best warder in the British Islands. He never had a problem in finding interesting and beautiful women to spend time with.

When Sirius heard that James and Lily were trying for a child, he convinced them to experiment on themselves so that they could create a child together. He was unwilling to have children with any other women. After very serious consideration James and Lily accepted the idea. Lily loved both of the men. She was willing to take the chance to have a child that would be the heir to both the Potter and Black legacies.

Unknown to most people, Lily, James and Sirius were not the type to follow the established trends. They did what they saw fit. They were in reality, not as the picture of kind hearted and law abiding individuals that most people painted them to be.

Sirius was a product of the Black family. They regularly taught their children magics that had been outlawed hundreds of years ago. He was brought up with the idea that the strongest survived and the weak perished.

James, a child of the Potters, was taught from an early age to think independently and to bow to no one. He was an equal to the scion of the Black's.

They had befriended a werewolf because it would be thrilling. They had become animagi to run with it on full moons.

Lily was an ambitious and courageous woman. She knew that in this world to win you had to take what you wanted. She was ready to perform experiments that were most likely to be illegal in every civilized country in the world (that is if they ever found out about the experiments).

The three of them were ready to use a theory for which the data was obtained by the experimentation and death of many live humans and animals. They valued safety enough to hide their location inside a human soul. They willingly experimented with unknown magics on their own bodies and souls. They were willing to take calculated risks as long as they personally hurt no one else. They had happily dabbled in the farthest reaches of magic they could find.

They decided to use their knowledge such that the child would have all the best genetic qualities they had in themselves and more. To make their child better they secretly obtained samples of blood from seven families with the strongest and most useful affinities in Europe and performed the equivalent of splicing the regions of the magical genes that carried those specific abilities together.

Many abilities were not compatible with each other. They had to calculate very carefully the chances of a healthy child. They achieved partial success twice. Lily miscarried both times. The trauma of loosing the children almost proved too much for her to continue. On what would have been their last attempt, after very, very careful trials, they created one last embryo with the greatest possible care. The experiment succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

The child would mostly have the magical signature of a Potter. The Potter signature would hide the fact that the powerful magic of the Black family also flowed through the child. The child would grow up to become one of the most legendary figures in magic in the future. The very, very careful series of tests they conducted on their child showed it to have the potential to control magic with a fineness that was unheard of.

That child was me.

My full and true name is Harry James Sirius Potter and this will be the story detailing my discovery of the theory of magic.

Author Note:
Hope to have many readers to this story. This will be a novel length fic. Please read and review. Constructive criticism highly appreciated.

The second chapter is also going to be a lot of theory. In the third chapter, Harry's childhood with the Dursley's and his initial discoveries of magic and his documentation of its properties will be described.

The real fun begins after that.