Chapter 1
October 31st 1981
It was an usually cold night in Little Whinging, Surrey when a crack was heard. A long bearded gentleman wearing kaleidoscopic robes appeared out of thin air. Suddenly all the lights in the area started going out one by one racing to a lighter. With each flick of said lighter a light was swallowed into the lighter. As darkness fell, a cat which had been sitting on a wall observing house number 4 on Privet drive jumped down and transformed into a woman. She was one of regal bearing with a face that had been used to having a strict expression on it for long periods of time. Minerva McGonagall the teacher of transfiguration at Hogwarts approached the bearded gentleman with the name of Albus Dumbledore of too many titles. Dumbledore was the headmaster of Hogwarts and he was here to receive the little bundle which would be arriving soon. He was planning on leaving it on the doorstep of number 4.
McGonagall approached Dumbledore "Albus, these are the worst sort of muggles. I have been observing them all day and I cannot imagine leaving them Harry!". Dumbledore replied "But we must Minerva, as you know the boy will be famous in our world and it will be hard to protect him from the followers of Voldemort. He must stay here to be safe and away from the wizarding world to grow up in love and not let the fame overwhelm his character. It is for the best Minerva and these are his only relations from his mother's side that are alive. Here the wards I will set, shall protect Harry and all those that dwell within. They shall be safe from all those meaning harm to Harry and them."
Minerva answered "If we must Albus, but let it be known my dislike of this option. Albus had you seen them you would understand, though it seems regardless of what I say on the matter your mind seems made."
" Yes Minerva as I said and reiterate to you again this is for the best. Ahh here is Hagrid with little Harry, come we must not tarry and leave him on the doorstep. I am going to place this letter with him which shall explain everything to Petunia Dursley the aunt of Harry. So Hagrid did you get out alright from Godric's Hollow?"
Hagrid replied "Yes professor Dumbledore I got out alright, Sirius Black arrived just as I came out of the house with Harry and he offered his bike to me to get Harry here quickly and safely."
Dumbledore inquired about where Sirius took off to after, but all Hagrid could tell him was that he heard Black mumbling about it all being his fault over and over again. Then he just took off telling Hagrid to make sure that Harry arrived safe to Dumbledore. Minerva asked Dumbledore why Harry was not taken to Madam Pomfrey the nurse at Hogwarts for a check up as he had just survived such a massive trauma. After all no one had yet survived an avada kedavara before and come out alive. But Dumbledore reassured McGonagall by stating that as Harry was in obvious good health other than the lighting thin thunderbolt shaped scar on his forehead and that the charm he just performed on Harry told him that other than the avada kedavara spell's signature coming of Harry that he was fine. McGonagall and Hagrid were than dismissed by Dumbledore as he told them that he was just going to leave Harry on the doorstep and then follow them. After McGonagall and Hagrid left, Dumbledore took some of Harry's blood and put it in a vial. After waving his wand in a complex manner Dumbledore put up a ward to hide magic happening in his vicinity for a short time. Next before healing Harry he took some of Harry's blood and touched it to a pre-charmed parchment which would tell him of the magical strength of Harry when he was an adult. This was just a precaution so Dumbledore could know to bound Harry's magic for how long as without it Harry would be prone to powerful bouts of accidental magic. Usually this was not done only after magical maturity by purebloods to increase magical core size and to teach refinement to wizards and witches when casting. Long after Hogwarts was finished in fact as magical maturity usually set in around 19-20 years of age. Also bounding one's magic had been illegal for the past 200 years as the ministry of magic did not want to produce super wizards/ witches who could not be brought down easily. After checking the parchment Albus gasped as he saw the power Harry would wield at his maturity. If one imagines a core like a reservoir of magic, squibs or those with magic but so little that does not translate into actual use they would have a small bathtub for a magic reservoir. Weak magicals had a core that could be equated to that of a home swimming pool, where as those considered as medium powered had a 500 m2 area for a reservoir. Powerful magicals have cores equivalent to a 1 km2 area and these were maybe only 10 percent of the population. The most powerful magicals or super wizards/witches like Dumbledore and Voldemort had magical cores in the region of 2-3 km2 area. Harry's core was at the moment 1.5 km2 area in size. This was very strange as children even those destined to be superpowered had a core that would only be a couple hundred meters squared. This meant that when Harry become an adult and his core stabilized it could be anywhere from 5-6 km2 making him very dangerous to the whole planet as no one would be able to meet him head on in regards to magical power. For now this meant that Dumbledore would be very tired as he had planned to make Harry a squib with regards to being only able to access a bathtub amount of magic from his core. But with such a large core Dumbledore would have to expend most of his energy to bind Harry's core, he had not expected such a large adult core on a child. In fact this was so rare that Dumbledore would never know that binding so much power would make Harry so much stronger. Bindings were only used for small amounts of magic to improve finesse of the magicals application of magic. So taking a large breathe in Dumbledore started placing the binds on Harry's magic, he thought that after binding most of Harry magic's till he was atleast 5 years of age and was capable of understanding what magic was and could do he would unbind him. What Dumbledore in his haste missed was that he bounded more than he wanted to, all that was left to Harry for use was 10 m in area. But the body is magical and this was anathema to it, it was like beating someone to an inch of their life and leaving them to survive. This would lead to core instability which could happen and Dumbledore basically made a pressure cooker with a very tiny pressure release valve. The effects of this decision of Dumbledore will have a big role in Harry's life.
After doing all this, Dumbledore planted ward stones to the North, South, East and West of the property of number 4 and dripping Harry's blood on each wardstone, tied Harry's magic from the reservoir which was behind the bind to the wardstones. This would power the wards to keep Harry and his relatives safe as long as Harry called this house home. Being done Dumbledore placed Harry on the doorstep, rang the doorbell and disapparated from the property. The temporary ward then failed and Number 4 became hidden to the rest of the Wizarding world except Dumbledore and those he informed. This was different from a Fidelus charm as those that were informed could tell others of the location. Dumbledore would not mention Number 4 again till Harry turned 11 years old to anyone. Dumbledore had also tied to the wards to a magical instrument that would spout vapor every few seconds as long as the wards stood. The failure of wards would only happen if Harry Potter died, or if he openly renounced his relatives place as not his home or one of his homes.
