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A 5 year old Harry Potter was asleep in the pantry under the stairs in his Aunt Petunia Dursley house when 2 ghost like figure appeared rising out of the floor.
One of the figures said "Here we are Master, as you requested."
The second figure said "Thank you Death. I will do my best to see both of us will be happy with the future."
The figure now known as Death said "Good luck master." as he touched the second figure who began to float before being placed inside the body of the 5 year old Harry Potter.
Harry opened his eyes and saw Death standing there and said "Thank you Death...Until we me again old friend."
Death said "Before I leave you Master, I have something for you." as he held out his hand and Harry saw all 3 Deathly Hallows.
Death said "I have recalled these items and cleansed them of thier taint. These are yours Master Harry Potter, decendant of Ignotus Peverell. Use them wisely."
Harry took the ring, wand, and cloak and saw Death began to fade away.
Harry looked around and said "Well I guess it's time to change things." as he waved the elder wand hand and the locks on the pantry began to unlock.
Opening the door Harry got out of the pantry and waved his wand to silence his feet and cloths before he began to silently climb the stairs. When he got to the top of the stairs he moved toward his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon room and opened the door slowly and as quitely as possible.
Walking over to the sleeping form of his relatives Harry placed his wand over his Uncles head and mumbled to himself as a small light left Harry wand. Moving over to his Aunt he repeated the process before leaving the room and entering the room where his 6 year old cousin Dudley was and repeated the same process again.
Sweating heavily Harry left his cousing room and went back down stairs and went back into the pantry and fell asleep.
The next morning Harry awoke as he heard his Aunt Petunia walk by the pantry door and Harry quickly got up and went into the kitchen and stood beside his Aunt and said "Can you hear me now."
Petunia didn't even react to his presence and Harry thought "I have place everything they know about me under a spell similar to a fidelius charm as well as a notice me not spell on myself. They now have no memory of me and can't even see me." as he smiled to himself
6 years later
An 11 year old Harry Potter walked onto train platform 9 3/4 with a gray cloak pulled up over his head that hid most of his face so nobody could see who was under the cloak. As he headed toward the train he ignored the few people who glanced at him and quickly found an empty train car that was near the back of the train before he sat down and reached into his pocket and pulled out a book and began to read.
An hour later the train whistle was heard signalling last call before the train would begin to leave. When the train began to move the door to his compartment opened up and Harry saw a red hair 11 year old boy he knew was named Ron Weasley standing there and Ron said "Hey, have you seen Harry Potter."
Harry glanced up from his book and said "Yous cherchez à lui." in french. (Your looking at him)
Ron blinked and said "Huh."
Harry shook his head and said "Ne parle le français, tant pis idiot." (No speak French, tough luck idiot.)
Ron turned bright red and said "What ever you foreign bastard. I got to find Harry Potter." as turned and quickly left.
Harry got an amused look on his face and went back to reading.
40 minutes later the door to his compartment opened up and a bushy haired girl with buck teeth that Harry recognised as Hermione Granger looked in the compartment and said "You haven't seen a Toad have you."
Harry said "Que se passe-t-il si j'ai vu un crapaud." (What if I have seen a toad.)
Hermione said "Then I would ask you to please tell me where. A boy named Neville is searching for it."
Harry said "Your either muggleborn or muggle raised."
Hermione said "I'm muggleborn, how do you know."
Harry said "Bigotry. Most magical's who grew up in this country are very bigotted because of thier fear and ignorance of either things they don't understand or have been tought to believe. The fact you could understand french and didn't react negatively toward me for it show's me that you are more opened minded so you either had to be a muggleborn or muggle raised. My name's Harrison by the way but most call me Harry out of ignorance." as he held out his hand.
Hermione took it and said "Hermione Granger." as she shook his hand.
Harry said "Pleasure. As for the toad. I haven't seen it but I can tell you that once the train began to move a magical barrier activated around the train making it where nothing can get on or off until the train stops and the Hogwarts house elves will recover it and give it to the Hogwarts grounds keeper to return if you lose it on the train so if you are unable to find it then the person who lost it will have it returned when we get to the castle. You might not know it but all your personal posessions that you bring with you to Hogwarts has a magical trace on it from where your magic automatically bleeds out of your body that will let the house elves or any adult whose trained to detect these traces in knowing who they belong to."
Hermione looked confused and asked "What's a house elf."
Harry sighed and said "That's a simple but complex question. If you want to know I can tell you but you might want to take a few minutes to rest your feet while we talk so you can return to finding that toad if you want to." as he motioned toward the seat across from him.
Hermione glanced at the seat and then back at Harry a moment before she moved to the seat and sat down and Harry smiled and said "Now you ask what a house elf is. Generally they are considered a servant like a butler or maid but others consider them slaves though both views are right from a certian point of view they are both terribly wrong."
Hermione eyes had gone wide as she heard the slave part and Harry waved his hand and Hermione froze and Harry said "Sorry for freezing you but I could see you were about to get upset and with what little information you have so far you have a right to be upset but please let me tell you everything so you can make a properly educated decision and not one off of ignorance. That ignorance is what leads to bigotry and caused the deaths of so many lives in the past including my parents so I ask you to please hear me out on this issue before reacting." as he waved his hand and Hermione found herself able to move.
Hermione asked in a shocked voice "How did you do that. That was wandless magic."
Harry looked at her and said "Because of the statue of secrecy revolving around the magical world the Ministry of magic has had to give false information out to make it easier to control the magical people in the world so they could keep everyone safe. The belief that wandless magic is impossible unless you are extremely powerful is one such lie. After all, children do wandless magic when they are young which they classify as accidental magic to trick people into not realising the truth. They just tell you that so you will become dependant on a wand that is easily traceable and gives them the ability to tell if you are breaking the laws they made or other things. As a child I trained myself to do my accidental magic on purpose but I ask you to keep that a secret. It could keep me safe and save my life one day if someone thought the only way I could use magic was with a wand."
Hermione bit her lip and nods her head and Harry said "Now I believe I would explain to you about elves. You see, many years ago before humans learned to control magic, we humans were actually slaves to elves. Elves had learned to control magic to a point where they could live a thousand years before they died and so they were able to learn about magic and use it to enslave the humans of the world as well as other creatures. If you learn about the 13 magical families who are given the title of Ancient, then they can trace thier family line back to the time when the humans were able to secretly learn about magic and were able to revolt against the elves and freed themselves. Those 13 families actually either killed most of the elves or forced them to flee to another world and yes there are other worlds out there...sort of. You would have to learn about parrallel dimensions and time travel and things like that to be able to understand it and yes time travel is possible. We wizards have magical devices that are mostly controlled by the ministry called time tuners that allow a form of time travel but that isn't important right now to this discussion."
Harry marked his page in his book and closed it and said "What you need to understand is the elves when they fled the ones who were left behind became prisoners to the humans but eventually they were able to escape and then over time used thier skills in magic to become thieves and assassins until they tried to enslave the humans again and they were forced into a magical binding contract in exchange for not being executed for thier crimes...For a long time peace lasted between our two species and we humans slowly forgot about how elves truly saw humans...Bigotry isn't a one way street...I believe it was in the 13 century a human who grew up being cared for by an elf after his parents died decided as his last act before he died was to free the elf who raised him and left him the home and land the human's family owned...The elf kept his kind and gentle nature and humans had forgotten to be cautious with elves...The elf trained himself on his land until he was ready and began hunting humans...infant humans."
Hermione's eyes widen as she covered her mouth and a shocked horror look appeared on her face.
Harry closed his eyes and said "Over 4000 human infants were killed in thier cribs before he was captured and put down...it was actually this event that caused the founding of the Ministry of Magic. All the major magical families united together for the first time to deal with the elf threat and then after killing the elf they had to figure out a way to make sure something like that wouldn't happen again because humans might forget. They created a very special poison potion that they began to give elves as soon as they were born. As long as the elves served a magical family the poison did nothing to them but if the elves were freed they would start to loose control of thier magic where either they would have to find another magical human family to serve or they would get sick and die...Because humans didn't trust elves who had been freed from thier magical families after the massacre I told you about they decided that if an elf wanted to keep thier magic they could goto magical places like Hogwarts and start working thier where the students magic would be able to make sure the poison didn't hurt them."
Hermione looked like she didn't know what to think and Harry said "I know this is a difficult situation to consider. Do I think that elves need to be treated fairly and not abused, yes...do I believe that elves should be freed...if the situation the elf lives in is in human and cruel then yes...Should the elves not be given the magical poison...perhaps someday...but I can't stand the thought of freeing them and then having one of them kill my future wives or children. If a better option presents itself that makes sure history won't be repeated then I would agree...but elves knowledge of magic and thier ability to use magic is so different from our own that should we free them and they revolt then there is no telling how many lives will be lost and there is no way to make sure the statue of secrecy remains in tact if they go rogue...As a muggleborn you are going to face all kinds of bigotry and descrimination because you don't understand the wizarding history like the history of elves I just told you about and other things like that so you will come here and think to change things without fully understanding. Also the fact that muggles continue to grow in numbers while magicals shrink and muggleborns are so easy to adapt to our world and then go back to the muggle world while magicals have a greatley harder time of entering the muggle world and surviving."
Looking down Harry said "Magic is both a gift and a curse...You might have missed it earlier but when I said my future children and wives I meantioned wife in plural. In the muggle world it is rarely ever heard of but in the magical world having more then one wife is possible. In my situation it is actually a necessity and do you want to know why."
Hermione frowned and said "Why."
Harry said "When you marry someone in the magical world, your magic and the person you marry will begin to merge together to try and balance how long you live. If a magical marries a muggle it will cause the muggle to live maybe 10 to 25 years longer then they normally would but it would also take about 7 to 15 years off the magical person life. Now in my situation I am actually the head of 7 of those families who can be called Ancient that I referred to and each of those families have thier own magic they are connected to that will extend thier life...I might actually live as long as an elf does if I never marry...but if I married a muggle my magic would most likely be to strong for her body to handle and will most likely kill her."
Hermione looked shocked and Harry said "So that means I can't marry a muggle...Now if I marry a single magical wife and my magic doesn't kill her like it would a muggle then we both will most likely see at least 500 years old...but any children we concieve will most likely die because thier bodies won't be able to handle it...that means for the life of any wife I have I have to have at least a second wife to even safely marry them without most likely kill them...but even with a second wife we may never actually have children...Because I have other titles besides those 7 I told you about I have 2 others as well that don't have as much magic in thier family but it still adds to mine...the absolute lowest number of wives I could marry without the chance of killing them or without killing most of our children will have to be 9...I've been advised by someone who knows more about magic then I do that it would be best if I marry at least 12 wives to make sure all my families will survive and thrive...My advisor has actually got me in a life debt situation and is forcing me to marry 3 girls who are sorted into Hufflepuff, 3 from Slytherin, 3 from Gryffindore, and 3 from Ravenclaw...So you see, magic is a blessing and a curse...but as a muggleborn or muggle raised you wouldn't know these things about magic and if you heard that I had to marry 12 wives you would think I was some perverted freak or playboy, wouldn't you."
Hermione looked down and Harry reached across with his hand and raised her chin and said "First lesson of the magical world. If you are going to take a stance on something then make sure that you have researched and understand the situation. Don't just trust one source of information. Sometimes the person who will give you the best advice on something you don't know about isn't your best friend but someone who hates your gut's and is cruel to you."
As he sat back in his seat he looked out the window and said "Remember how I told you the Ministry has lied about things like wandless magic. In the magical world, deception is everywhere. There are no laws about printing lies in the daily newspaper or making books that they claim are true but are all either lies or half truths. Even those like Dumbledore are not as nice and honorable as they appear. I could prove to you that an innocent man has been held in prison for over 10 years without ever being questioned or given a trial because of Dumbledore and I can't do anything about it because if I try to reveal the truth there are those who would most likely lose thier job because of this so they would arrange for this innocent man to have an accident that would end with that man's death."
Hermione covered her mouth in shock again and Harry said "Don't believe those in power blindly. Even teachers...also you should know there is a type of mind magic that allows people to look into your eyes and read your surface thoughts. If you are telling a lie but are thinking that you can't let them learn the truth and the person you are lying to looks into your eyes there is a chance that they could see the truth. If you don't absolutely trust someone then don't look them in the eye. Look at thier lips or thier chin or maybe the hair on thier head. Just don't look directly in thier eyes."
Hermione bit her lip and said "Why are you telling me all this."
Harry said "Truthfully...I don't care about blood status, wealth, status, house, or political status. I am trying to befriend you so that if sometime in the future you and I might decide to get closer then we have a relationship built on trust and friendship. I am also trying to befriend you so that if we decide not to get close and we just remain friends then if you want someone to talk you for advice I could tell you what I know or point you in what I believe is the right direction and if you learn something that I don't know you can help me...and if you find out that some girl I might be interested in is only using me for my status, name, wealth, or something else, then as my friend you could come and tell me what you find out to help protect me and if I find out someone is being nice to you only so they could get in your pants or some other reason, I can tell you...In other words I want to be your friend because of everyone I met on this train so far you were the first person who proved to me they weren't a bigot and bigotry is what caused my parents to be killed. I want to protect you like I wished someone would have protected my parents so that in 30 years when I most likely have children on this train for thier first year at Hogwarts they won't have to be sitting here where I am talking to a possible new friend and telling them that thier parents died because of bigotry...and I hope if you want to be my friend that your children will be here with mine as friends at least if they aren't family."
Hermione looked at Harry for several moments before a small smile appeared and said "I think I would like to be your friend Harry."
Harry said "And I hope I can be your friend as well Hermione...Do you have a nickname. Like my name is Harrison but everyone call's me Harry."
Hermione shook her head no and Harry said "Then if you don't mind when it's just the two of us can I call you Mione."
Hermione thought a moment and nods slowly.
Harry said "Good...Damn." as he glanced at the door.
Hermione looked at the door as a couple of boys passed and Hermione asked "What."
Harry said "The blond that was in the front who just went by is most likely looking for me. My family has a high status in the magical world and he's going to try to befriend me to use me and my status for his own agenda."
Hermione looked confused and said "How can you be sure."
Harry said "Because the little idiot is a distant cousin of mine about 8 generations apart and his father has trained him since birth to be just like him. He will most likely call you a mudblood as an insult when he meets you and that is an insult because he's saying your blood is dirty and not pure like his because your a muggleborn. His dad is a major bigot who is one of those who would make sure the man I told you about that is in prison would have an accident. The two boys with him are also the same way but both are followers whose fathers have told them to make sure to protect the blond because thier families owe the blonds direct family."
Before Hermione had a chance to say anything the door to the compartment opened and the 3 boys that Harry was talking about stood there and the blond said "They say Harry Potter's on this train. Is he in here."
Hermione gasped and looked at Harry and Harry said "Isn't it proper manors to introduce yourself first when greeting someone and isn't it also proper manors to knock before entering a room."
Draco face turned red and said "Do you know who I am." in a snobbish tone.
Harry said "Even if I did know who you are it's rude to barge into a room and start demanding answers and trying to make yourself look big powerful leader when it's obvious that your nothing more then an weakling whose father has had to pay two other more powerful families to protect you. Now leave." as Draco and the other two boys who were with him suddenly found themselves flung out of the room and the door slammed and locked after they left.
Harry turned back to Hermione who was wide eyed and Harry said "Sorry about that."
Hermione said "Why..."
Harry interupted her and said "Power Hermione...You will learn very quickly Hermione that there is no good or evil...There is only power and how you use it. Draco is looking all up and down the train for Harry Potter because he want's to walk into Hogwarts with the famous Harry Potter by his side so he can use that fame as power to make himself look like he has power. With Goyle and Crab, the two boys who were with him, looking like followers of him by adding Potter to his little group will make Potter look like a follower as well and will give Draco the image of a powerful leader."
Hermione said "And that's a bad thing."
Harry said "Considering that Draco father has tried to pass laws 6 different times in the last 10 years that would make it illegal for you as a muggleborn to goto Hogwarts and that you and every other muggleborn should have thier magic sealed off and have thier memories obliviated of all knowledge about magic including accidental magic and how can they obliviate knowledge from when you were a baby without obliviating everything between then and now...Also because our magic makes us healthier so we can live longer, if your magic is sealed off you would actually start getting sick and within a year, two if your lucky, you would die because your immune system couldn't fight even a common cold since it is so dependant on our magic...No, giving the Malfoy family more power would be a bad thing."
Hermione frowned and Harry said "Welcome to the magical world Hermione...the sad thing is your stuck with it because if you try to leave before you take your owls then you will be obliviated and your magic will be sealed off which as I explained will end up killing you...that's something they didn't tell you when they told you about the magical world, did they."
Hermione who had went paled shook her head no and Harry said "I'm sorry for destroying your image of this magical utopia that you most likely imagined...but as long as we magicals are forced to hide ourself from the muggles then it's not going to change much. Our government is built on lies and in order to hide those lies more lies have to be told and then more lies to hide those lies that hide the original lies and as the lies grow so do the corruption and soon the leadership of our world goes from being the ones who will do the best job for our people to who can keep the lies hidden the best."
Hermione frowned and said "I don't think I'm going to like it here."
Harry looked at her sadly and said "Hermione..."
Hermione looked up at him and said "Why are you telling me all this. Do you get enjoyment out of this."
Hermione found herself frozen in place again and Harry said "No, I take no enjoyment out of this.
