Here is the second book in the 5 book Avatar: The Tale of Harry series. There is little to add here that isn't either in the summery of this story. The only thing I will not here is a word of warning for those who do not like politics in their stories. Just as the Voldemort and the Death Eaters in Purity represent the alt right and fascism, the antagonists of Equality, the Chosen and the Enlightened, represent Antifa and communism. The purpose of this is to show that both extremes are two sides of the same totalitarian coin. Given the nature of this story and the primary antagonist being a national ruler who's regime has to be brought down, this story will focus more on the effects of a communistic system. At least Books 3 and 4 will address similar issues, Book 4 more so than Book 3, so if this is not to your tastes then that is understandable. At the time of publishing the entirety of Book 2 has been drafted with each chapter being reviewed and edited prior to publishing and the publishing schedule will be the same as for Purity, one chapter a week starting from the date of publication. Book 2 is significantly shorter than Book 1 at only 32 chapters long (as is Book 3) and as such when it is complete I will be publishing at least one, if not two novellas associated with this story as the release date for Book 3 is set. No change in pairings and the rating is still M for language, sexual references and violence. So without further adieu here is the second Book in the Avatar: The Tale of Harry series.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything from either the Harry Potter or the Avatar: The last Airbender or Avatar: The Legend of Korra universes.

Avatar: The Tale of Harry

Book 2: Equality

Chapter 1

Harry woke from his dream with a start drenched in sweat. Well not a dream so much but a nightmare. He had been having them for years now, ever since he defeated Voldemort. They varied but mostly his nightmares had him failing and dying at Voldemort's hands as all his blood was ripped from his body by the mad bloodbender. Others had him seeing the cold, dead eyes of all the Death Eaters and Purists he had killed during the Second Purity War. Harry knew it was foolish, that he had killed them in fair combat in life or death situations but that didn't stop him from dreaming about them.

Harry sighed as he rolled over in his bed and looked at the clock, it was 4:30 in the morning. Once again he hadn't slept well. Over the last few weeks he had not been sleeping well. He kept having vivid dreams that would wake him in a cold sweat in the middle of the night and it was not just the nightmares of Voldemort brutally killing him. There were dreams of the Spirit World and Korra, dreams of the world out of balance, and Harry knew exactly where that imbalance was coming from.

Putting his glasses on Harry checked the date next to his clock and sighed. It was 5 years to the day that Harry had placed Voldemort in his solitary cell to serve out his life sentence, 5 years since he had learned of the coup in the Fire Nation and the murder of Firelord Iroh, 5 years since the Enlightened had taken over the nation and rechristened it the Fire Utopia, 5 years since Hermione had declared herself Fire Empress for life. 5 years ago today the Fire Nation had been thrown into imbalance and subjected to a tyranny that if even half the rumors Harry had heard over the years were true, was the worst dictatorship in human history.

Rolling onto his back Harry closed his eyes and tried in vain to go back to sleep. Instead of sleep, Harry remembered that day 5 years ago vividly. He had relived it in his waking and sleeping mind on a regular basis ever since he had been informed that one of the things they feared had come to pass, the Chosen had made their move and now controlled an entire nation. The thing that stood out the most from that day was always the speech Hermione had given when she had declared herself Empress Hermione the Savior, the enlightened Fire Empress for life of the new Fire Utopia. Once again Harry felt his mind drifting back to that day.

Harry just nodded to the Warden when the man confirmed Harry's suspicions on who the new Fire Empress was. He had known that Hermione would come out from under the rock she had hidden beneath after her attempt on his life and strike when the world was least expecting it. This had likely been the Enlightened's plan all along, launch their coup while the rest of the world had its back turned to them when it was focused on the Voldemort Threat. It was clear that in order to succeed in their coup, the Enlightened had blockaded themselves in the Fire Nation to prevent from being toppled and arrested while they established their no doubt brutal dictatorship. They should have seen it coming but alas the threat of Voldemort had been too great and Harry wasn't going to blame anyone for their collective failure to rout out the Enlightened as soon as they had come to light. They had fucked up and underestimated the Enlightened's reach, resources and abilities and now they had to rectify that mistake as soon as possible.

As soon as Harry was on the United Air Force airship he hurried to the operations command room located in the center of the ship. The room had a VV hookup that was one of the most advanced in the world so that Commander Vane, Shacklebolt's replacement as Commander of the United Air Force when he had been elevated to General, could keep abreast of the news from all the nations. Right now all the senior crew along with Team Avatar, who had joined Harry in dropping Voldemort off at his prison cell, were gathered staring at the screen. Harry walked over to his friends, put his arm around Ginny and looked at the VV to see the scene that was about to unfold.

Hermione stood on the steps leading up to the entrance to Royal Palace. She was standing at a lectern in front of a large crowd of Fire Nation reporters, supporters who were waving signs and shouting support, and everyday citizens who had heard that something had happened and come to see what the fuck was going on. Hermione was surrounded in a semi circle by guards, along with a line of guards a few steps below her in front of the crowd. More guards enclosed the crowd, keeping an eye on the crowd. All the guards were wearing clean, crisp, military style fatigues in either red, green, blue, yellow, gray, or purple camouflage patters likely depicting their nation of origin or bending proficiency. They were all were armed and looked ready and willing to use force at her command.

Hermione herself was beaming in triumph as she looked out over the crowd. It disgusted Harry to see such a twisted, evil, person in a clear position of power but there was absolutely nothing Harry could do about it right now. Despite her barely 16 years Hermione looked calm, composed and confident which didn't surprise Harry at all as this was what she had always felt was her birthright. She was dressed in a double breasted blood red, military style tunic and cream pants that wouldn't have looked out of place on an officer. Around her neck hung a medal of an orange flame on a red ribbon that Harry would learn represented the Flame of Enlightenment the highest honor for valor in Hermione's new Fire Utopia. Other medals graced her left breast that would be revealed in time to have been awarded to her, by herself, for liberation of tyranny, valor in battle, and the restoration of equality. Her bushy hair hung lose around her face, trimmed so that it was shoulder length, and on her head was a circular gold crown made to look like a ring of flames and inlaid with rubies. It would become known to the world as the Crown of the Eternal Flame and it symbolized her status as Empress and as the only authority in the land. Hermione turned to the cameras to begin her speech, a speech Harry had a feeling Hermione had been waiting years to make.

"People of the Fire Nation, you are now free." Hermione declared loudly with utter authority and conviction that came from whole hearted belief in what she said. "The yoke of tyranny has been lifted, your shackles of oppression have been broken, and the inequality of the Firelords is now a thing of the past. You are finally free. Today while the combined military forces of the world converged upon Republic City and while the Avatar, in the only good act in his life, fought and defeated the evil incarnate that was Lord Voldemort, the Enlightened, of which I am their leader and the most enlightened and brilliant among them, were executing our own long planned liberation of the Fire Nation."

Hermione paused her beaming at the bemused crowd in front of her. Her expression didn't falter despite the limited reaction of the crowd. Her supporters were cheering but they were few and far between, most of the citizens were looking around confused while the reporters continued to take pictures and murmur to themselves. Given the fact that Hermione was the second most wanted person in the world and was now standing triumphantly on the steps of the Royal Palace, the media was clearly intrigued as to why she was so brazenly in the open.

"A few hours ago several teams of Chosen, benders born to parents without bending thus chosen by the spirits to have the gift of bending and are therefore inherently better and more intelligent beings, came to Royal Caldera City with me and took control of the various important buildings within the capital." Hermione continued after her pause. "It was thanks to our valiant, loyal, and brave supporters within these institutions, that had been loyal to the tyrannical regime, that we were able to take these inherently racist, sexist and bigoted institutions down. Our senior allies within the military have taken their rightful places in command of the armed forces and have called back our forces to protect our air and nautical borders from those who would wish to restore the tyranny of the Firelords."

Once again Hermione pause expecting the crowd to cheer at her statements as if they had been waiting all their lives to hear them. Again the only cheering came from her supporters, the rest of the crowd just continued to look confused at her words. Hermione seem unperturbed by the lukewarm reaction and instead continued her speech.

"Once we had control of the institutions of oppression that we needed, those among the enslaved servants of the Firelord allowed the final team of Chosen, with me as their enlightened leader into the palace. There we overthrew the tyrant Iroh and ended the reign of tyranny that the Fire Nation has suffered for millennia at the hands of the Firelords. I myself brought down the dictator once and for all. Iroh was executed for his countless crimes by my noble and just hand. I succeeded where many have failed before me and finally liberated the Fire Nation from his oppression and that of all previous Firelords. Unfortunately we had to kill all of the Kyoshi Warriors who fought to the death to protect their slave master as he cracked the whip of oppression over them in one last attempt to save his worthless life. They were noble nonbenders who we are only initially here to help heal us after the 100 year war but who have been enslaved by the Firelords for over a century and brainwashed into believing the tyrannical beliefs of Firelords Zuko, Izumi and Iroh. Their deaths were pointless as we were there to liberate them and they will stand as a stark reminder for years to come of how badly years of institutional oppression can effect the minds of a once proud order."

Here Hermione paused again and again she was expecting the crowd to cheer at the fact that she had just murdered Firelord Iroh, a benevolent ruler, and his loyal and very free guards because she saw Iroh as a tyrant and therefore the world must see him as one. It sickened Harry to see the glee and pride Hermione took in her actions. He had known that she had at best a tentative hold on reality but now it was clear that she was completely delusional. The crowds weren't cheering but muttering now while the reporters frantically began scribbling in notebooks on the developing story. Again Hermione didn't let the clear lack of support deter her as she silenced the crowd once more by resuming her speech.

"From this point on the citizen of the Fire Nation will no longer be oppressed by its ruler, they will no longer suffer from the structural inequalities that have plagued this nation since its inception. I am pleased to announce that as of this very moment the noble pureblood establishment has been abolished and those who have horded their wealth, who have enslaved their own citizens and who have aided Iroh in his oppression will be arrested for their numerous crimes and their wealth redistributed equally to all the poor working class citizens who deserve it, regardless of merit. My fellow citizens, from this point on the Fire Nation is no more. From now on it shall be known as the Fire Utopia, a nation where all are equal, where all will be treated fairly within the bounds of my laws. It shall be a place of peace and prosperity that will become a beacon for the entire world to follow, a beacon they should have already followed and if they had any sense will begin to follow right away."

Hermione once more paused at the apex of her point with the clear expectation of cheers at her announcement that a new nation had been created. However Harry knew that most of the Fire Nation had loved Iroh and while there were inequalities that all nations suffered from, Iroh made it his goal, as did his mother and grandfather before him, to address and end them as best he could. Hermione was clearly out of touch with what the majority of the Fire Nation had wanted but it didn't seem to both her as she plowed on.

"All this will be achieved because I am Enlightened, I know what is right and best for all. I and I alone am fit to lead this nation. There will no longer be a need to compromise with fascists, with bigots, there will be no need for debate or discussion, No, there will only be my views of the world that are needed and those views, the views of the Enlightened are now supreme law in the Fire Utopia. From this point on what I say is law and to go against me and my views is to be a fascist, a bigot, a racist. Hate speech is finally illegal in the Fire Utopia after it was legal under the tyrant Iroh. I and I alone will be the judge of what constitutes hate speech and violating it will constitute a conviction in the eyes of the law and subject to whatever punishment I have deemed necessary. Equality of outcome is now a reality. Those who have been oppressed will no longer be oppressed while those who have done the oppressing will feel the lash of their own whips. Those who do not follow my laws will be punished for the fascists, the bigots, the racists, the intolerant people that they clearly are simply because they do not agree with my enlightened views. Furthermore, all forms of press, business, and entertainment are hereby nationalized and placed within my power to do with as I please and must now act subject to my ultimate approval. This has been done for the benefit of all for I know what is best for all citizen of not the Fire Utopia but the world. I, and those who loyally follow me without question, will ensure the preservation of equality within the Fire Utopia by any means I deem necessary."

At this Hermione paused but not to elicit a reaction from the now speechless and shocked crowd, except her cheering supporters. She had done it to gesture to the surrounding guards who had closed to encircle all present.

Harry could see that the press that were present were now looking very wary about what Hermione had said and they should be Harry thought. Hermione had just announced that she was personally going to censor the press and end free speech in the Fire Nation. Harry knew that as much as people hated it, hate speech was free speech and to allow one person the power to determine what hate speech was to basically ban any speech that offended that person and when that person was as easily offended as Hermione was that was not a good sign. Furthermore, it was clear that the guards were there to ensure that the press complied with Hermione's laws.

"Around you are members of the Chosen, my personal bodyguards and the roving enforces of my will, which is law." Hermione said proudly. "They will be my judges where I am not present and will be kept abreast of all the laws that I make. Remember that what I say shall be your new law. There will also be other institutions that are being set up as I speak that will ensure that my enlightened laws are followed."

Again Hermione paused so that all could see her new elite police force. It was clear that Hermione was going to rule with an iron fist and while Harry was sure that long ago when Hermione started down this path she had done so with good intentions but now she was going to become the very thing she hated, a tyrant. Harry shuddered at the extent to which Hermione had already instilled a totalitarian rule in the Fire Nation and once again was reminded by how badly they had underestimated the reach of the Enlightened.

"Today by authority of three of the five original members of the Enlightened." Hermione continued the triumph clear in her voice. "I, Hermione, a Chosen firebender from a poor, oppressed, peasant village in the northern Fire Utopia, whose family has suffered under the yoke of tyranny, has been crowned your new Fire Empress. I, Fire Empress Hermione the Savior will now lead you into the light of equality, fairness, tolerance, and wisdom by enforcing my views as law. All I ask of you is to follow what I say without question and we will achieve my goals for making the Fire Utopia the greatest and fairest nation on the planet. Already those who are criminals to the Fire Utopia are being identified, sought, and arrested while those who are heroes who were locked away on false charges of terrorism are being freed. Unfortunately one of our greatest sympathizers and hero, Assemblyman Corbyn, was brutally murdered in a way that I shall not go into shortly after he was sent to the Boiling Rock to serve a life sentence as a political prisoner of Iroh's so he cannot be freed but his memory shall be honored for all times as a hero of the revolution. The evil Purists who murdered him have already been thrown into the waters of the Boiling Rock as punishment for their crimes."

Harry just stared slack jawed at the screen when he heard what Hermione had done. Yes Corbyn had been brutally gang raped and murdered by the 10 Purists that they had sent to the Boiling Rock with him within a week of his arrival but his killers and the Purist sympathetic guards who allowed them into the administration segregation wing that housed Corbyn didn't deserve that horrific fate. No one, no matter their crimes, deserved to be thrown into boiling water while still alive. It wasn't a good sign for Hermione's so called benevolent and enlightened rule that she had begun it by slaughtering all the Kyoshi Warriors, personally murdering Iroh and then brutally killing a group of vile murderers who were already serving life sentences for the crime they had committed. It shocked Harry so much that he almost missed Hermione's next statement.

"Under me, you are all finally free from tyrants and oppression. Free from inequality and servitude. We are all equals now in both status and importance. No longer will there be classes, genders, races, nationalities. We are now one people under my enlightened leadership. After I have left today my Chosen, both those here with me now and across the Fire Utopia, will be handing out the Enlightened Constitution which sets forth all my initial new laws and expectations for this now infinitely better nation under my benevolent and wise rule. These laws will be updated and added to in time as I come up with more enlightened laws to lead you into the future. I know this adjustment for all citizens as we go from a life of oppression and oppressors to one of true equality. It will be a hard transition as you have all been conditioned to accept the tyranny of the Firelords but I am here to guide you and lead you in the transition from inequality to equality. My laws may not be fully understood to begin with as they were created by my enlightened, superior, mind but that is why my Chosen and other soon to be created authorities will enforce all my laws and be there to ensure this peaceful transition from tyranny to equality."

Once again Hermione paused here beaming as if she had just given the Fire Nation the greatest gift that the nation had ever received and not just usurped power in a violent, blood coup. After a moment Hermione turned her gaze to stare directly at the camera as she delivered the next part of her speech.

"I now turn from domestic to international affairs." Hermione began in a serious tone as if she was about to scold the world for its wrong think. "And first I address King Wu. I implore you to release the nonbender Enlightened Warren and the Chosen Tremlett from their wrongful imprisonment for life in the Catacombs Prison Complex in Ba Sing Se and return those heroes to us. They are innocent of any false crimes that the Avatar and former Firelord have accused them of and I order you as the sovereign ruler of the Fire Utopia to return my citizens to me so that they may receive the hero welcome they deserve. I now turn to all the leaders of the world and demand that they either also implement my laws in their respective nations or if they prove to not be enlightened like I am then to be removed and replaced by those loyal only to me and my views. Only a being who has been enlightened like me has a right to rule a nation on this planet as only we know what is best for all. The world has seen what a madman like Voldemort is like, he was a racist, a bigot, a fascist and a tyrant who believed in the superiority of benders over nonbenders and the subjugation of the latter to the oppression of the former. Fortunately Voldemort finally been stopped and I applaud all of those who valiantly fought and in some cases died to end his reign of evil and terror but that fight is not yet over. There is still so much more to do."

Once more Hermione paused and continued to stare at the camera. Harry knew that Hermione was at last about to address him personally. It was time to see the mental gymnastics she had gone through to make him out to be the evil one and not her.

"I know personally address Avatar Harry." Hermione said doing exactly what Harry expected from her. "When you were revealed to be the Avatar I offered you my wise and enlightened council. I offered you my views on equality, tolerance and justice and all I required from you was blind obedience to my views. However, you foolishly scorned my offer and proved to be just like the vast majority of the world who are not enlightened or chose to not follow the teachings of those like me who are. You then cheated in your firebending mastery test against me and then lied about it to the entire school thus conclusively proving my theory that you are the wrong person to lead the world into a better, equal, peaceful future that is greater than the one than it has been for millennia. I know that only I can do that. I thank the Avatar for finally doing something right in ending Voldemort and his evil but he is not enlightened and until he is he cannot be that symbol for equality, social justice and hope that I am right now. Therefore he is not welcome in internal Fire Utopia affairs and the Fire Utopia will not interact with the world in anyway shape or form until all the world leaders have agreed to enact my laws as their own. That is why our fleet and Air Force will permanently patrol our borders to prevent my legitimate and rightful rule from being overthrown by intolerant bigots unfit for their own rule until such time as I am satisfied all nations have followed my enlightened example. Only those who are confirmed to be truthful in their intents will be allowed in, those found to be trying to lie or deceive their way into the Fire Utopia will be executed for the spies that they are. If the Avatar or the now former Crown Prince Druzok, who unfortunately was busy continuing the vile oppression of the Northern Water Tribe and thus evaded the justice he so richly deserved, ever set foot in the Fire Utopia again they will be arrested and jailed for the rest of their lives as enemies of equality and social justice. Your Empress has spoken and now you are finally free unless you are from the media, you must wait so that my Chosen can ensure that you only print the truths that I speak. So go forth and follow my new enlightened laws for they are all this great Utopia needs going forward. Thank you, and now do as I have commanded and go forth and spread the glorious word of my rule and new enlightened laws that ensure equality and social justice for all."

Hermione finished her speech, which she had articulated with hand gestures to emphasize her points, smiling proudly at what she had said as if it was the greatest speech of all time, though Harry knew that it would be remembered as the speech that birthed a tyrant. If she had expected shouts, cheers of joy and praise for saving the Fire Nation at her words she hid her disappointment well as many of the citizens gathered just continued murmured and looked stunned, upset, sad, or confused at what Hermione had just said. Those who supported her did cheer but it wasn't the jubilation she was likely expecting and Harry knew why. Hermione had just confessed to murdering a benevolent ruler who was seen as the second best Firelord of the last millennia being his grandfather Zuko and denounced Iroh as a tyrant and oppressor when in fact Iroh had been neither and actively fought against both tyranny and oppression throughout his long life. She had basically just announced herself the actual tyrant of the Fire Nation. She was clearly not a legitimate leader, no matter how much she thought she was, just an illegitimate usurper who needed to be removed and arrested as soon as possible. She had to be ended and soon but Harry had no idea how. The timing was absolute shit for them which was exactly why the Enlightened had struck when they did. They still had so much crap to clean up in the aftermath of Voldemort's defeat that they couldn't afford to be spread so thin or to fight yet another war so soon after ending one that had been raging on and off for 25 years.

Harry turned and looked at his friends and knew their expressions of shock and sadness at the kind Iroh's death at the hands of an unstable, sheltered, girl mirrored his own mortified expression. They all knew that there was little they could do in the near future but that wouldn't stop Harry from trying to find a way to end this tyrannical regime before too many Fire Nation citizens suffered from Hermione's authoritarian rule. Harry needed to do this soon and quickly bring Hermione to the justice she so rightful deserved for murdering Iroh. Harry didn't know when but he vowed that he would bring Iroh's murderer to justice and restore the Fire Nation to what it had been under Iroh, Izumi and Zuko.

Harry opened his eyes again and sighed. Glancing over to look at his clock Harry saw that the time was 5:15 in the morning. Harry groaned as he knew that wasn't going to be getting back to sleep anytime soon so he decided that he had better get up. Iroh's death and Hermione's ascension to power and the beginning of her dictatorship had now been 5 years ago and a lot had happened in those intervening 5 years. Getting up and dressing in a pair of loose green pants and a plain gray shirt Harry left his room on Air Temple Island and walked barefoot quietly out of it and then walked out of the Temple. The pave stones were cold to Harry's bare feet but he barely noticed it as he calmly walked across the small island that Avatar Aang had made, enjoying the clean, cool morning air and the light of dawn breaking as headed to the meditation pavilion to clear his head . The pavilion was a peaceful place, especially in the early morning fog, that over looked Yue Bay, Avatar Aang Memorial Island, Republic City and the Spirit Portal that rose in the center of the city. Once Harry got there he sat down in the center of the pavilion and settled into a mediation position. He wasn't planning on meditating too deeply though, no Harry had to think about what had happened in the last 5 years and the pavilion was a great place to clear his head and think. Once again Harry had to try and come up with something, anything, that he could do going forward to restore balance to the Fire Nation. As Harry closed his eyes to meditate he thought back to what they had accomplished in the 5 years since his defeat of Voldemort.

It had been a busy 5 years for Team Avatar. After Hermione's declaration creating the Fire Utopia, a name Harry and the rest of the world refused to use as it would legitimize her rule, it was the same reason why they didn't use her self-proclaimed title, the world leaders had tried to reason with her diplomatically. That exercise had lasted less than a day before Hermione, who was communicating via radio from the Royal Palace, terminated all discussions and repeated the unconditional demands she had made in her speech, demands that Harry knew no one would follow. Then Harry and Commander Vane had gone to see the blockade that Hermione had created and realized that they couldn't penetrate it. Hermione had been serious when she had said that they had infiltrated the military. Harry realized that they couldn't do shit about the blockade as the new military leaders had sworn fealty to her and the soldiers had to follow orders. Pretty much all the remaining Fire Nation ships and airships were now constantly circling the Fire Nation's air and see borders in two circles, one clockwise, the other counterclockwise. In the end Harry realized that the only way through would be by force and after a bloody battle at the Elemental Academy and 25 years of on and off war no one wanted for fight again so soon. They had been forced to leave Hermione for the moment and turn their attention to cleaning up the leftover mess from Voldemort's Second Purity War.

That cleanup had taken longer than expected. It took them a month of hard word to fix the Academy so that it was back to the way it was before the battle. Then the world leaders had dedicate the wall to those who had fallen defending the Academy and recreated the statue of Korra that graced the center of Academy Square. The memorial wall lined one side of Academy Square and was made of white marble with the names of all those who had given their lives in defense of the Academy engraved upon it. The world leaders, with the approval of the High Chair of the Academy, had also created a statue of Harry stripping Voldemort of his bending to symbolize his victory over the Dark Lord and thus the end of the war on the very spot it had occurred, once the ground was raised back to normal from the giant crater Harry had created there. After some lobbying by Harry a second wall made of black marble was erected in Academy Square directly opposite the white marble one. The black wall listed all the students who had sided with the Purists and Death Eaters, both those who had died in the battle and those who had been captured and were now either in prison or who had served their time and been released. The wall was to serve as a permanent reminder that not all students had followed the light but rather strayed into the dark and paid the price. Next to the names of the Lost Students, as they had become known as, was what had happened to them, be it death or prison and for the latter how long their sentence was.

Speaking of prison the White Lotus Supermax complexes had been restored with the exception of the waterbending prison as that had been in the Fire Nation prior to its fall into Hermione's tyranny. In addition the Firebending Supermax Prison had been moved back to the Northern Tundra now that the Northern Water Tribe was no longer a Purist stronghold. At the moment all waterbenders deemed dangerous enough to be classified as supermax prisoners were housed in an airship prison designed to be a facsimile of the volcano prison but it wasn't the same and Harry was always nervous about its vulnerability to attack by fanatics. The prison did house the former Chief of the Northern Water Tribe, Lucius, as well as former Councilman Nott, two of the eight surviving Death Eaters serving life sentences. If the prison was attacked then there were two dangerous bloodbenders who could be freed along with several Purists who had been sent there after their convictions. Otherwise all the prisoners had been moved to their rightful prisons and there had been no incidents in them in the last 5 years. Those who had served their sentences and been released were few and they had gone into obscurity to avoid the stigma of their actions.

Once the Academy was reopened Harry's time there was sporadic. As a master in all four elements and now a fully realized Avatar he wasn't really needed there for bending other than learning the subbending arts of the other 3 elements. Harry still tried to train every day in each pure element as well as metal and lavabending. He was basically there for academic purposes, as were his friends. He had graduated 2 years ago, the same year Jinora's term as High Chair of the Academy ended, subsequently she retired as a teacher, and the cycle moved to the Water House and the new High Chair, Horace. Harry had spend those 3 years partially at the Academy and partially cleaning up the remaining messes with the other members of Team Avatar occasionally helping him.

The first mess that had to be cleaned up had been the remnants of the Unified Triad. With Scabior buried and serving a life sentence in the Firebending Supermax Prison in the Northern Tundra, the triad collapsed and an internal gang war for control had begun. Initially the gang war had been for full control of the Unified Triad but it had devolved into multiple new, or reformed, splinter gangs fighting for control. Harry realized that Scabior had been even more of a skilled leader than he had given the crime boss credit as it appeared he had held the Unified Triad together through a lot of internal problems that only came to the surface with Scabior finally getting convicted and sent to prison. The gang war had taken 2 years for Harry and the RCPD, still under Chief Robards, to end and the death toll of both the war amongst the gangs and with the RCPD had been in the hundreds. However by the end of it the city had never been cleaner. There was still crime but the organized triads had been broken and would take a long time to reform.

Harry had also been forced to deal with the 4 Imperial States that had sided with Voldemort during the Second Purity War and declared independence from the ISEK. After the war the states had to be reintegrated back into the ISEK as peacefully as possible while also punishing the leaders of the States who had sided with Voldemort and the many crimes they and their cronies had committed during their brief independence. King Wu had also ordered an Imperial Commission to investigate the states, punish anyone who had sided with Purists if they had broken Imperial law, and reform the states to bring them back in line with the rest of the Earth Kingdom while still maintaining their state sovereignty.

Three of the states; Kuei, Tor Blinn and Skrit had all been sorted out within 6 months of Voldemort's defeat. Kuei because then Governor Odinsor was grieving for his fallen son and had not stopped the Imperial Army sweeping right after the defeat of Voldemort. Odinsor had been swiftly arrested, removed from office, convicted of multiple crimes including treason against the ISEK and sentenced to death, the only death sentence handed out to anyone arrested following Voldemort's defeat but a sentence that was mandatory for Odinsor's actions. Odinsor was currently on the Imperial Death Row in a specialized wooden cell given his earthbending abilities awaiting execution while the other members of Kuei's government were currently serving long prison sentences. Tor Blinn and Skrit had been sorted out quickly because of deals the former governors of those states made with the Earth King to hand over power peacefully and return to the ISEK in exchange for spending the rest of their lives in the Earthbending Supermax Prison and not following Odinsor to the Imperial Death Row. The governors also had to help the Commission in sorting out who needed to be punished. The Imperial State of Yi, however, had been a problem.

The mineral rich Imperial State of Yi had fallen into an internal civil war with the arrest and conviction of now former Governor Goyle for his activities as a Death Eater and had been shipped off to the the Earthbending Supermax Prison. It had been unavoidable as Goyle didn't have a successor due to his paranoia, his system had been based on patronage and favors so when he was arrested those who benefited wanted to keep their riches while the oppressed, lead by agents of the Enlightened, rebelled. Add in that Yi was the most isolated and hardest to reach of the 4 traitorous states meant that by the time the Imperial Army reached Yi, the civil war had already begun. That civil war lasted 3 years and cost countless lives as both sides committed war crimes during the conflict before the Imperial Army enter and fully take control of Yi. The State was still a militarized zone as the Imperial Government tried to figure out what to do with it. There was still no official governor there but at least the civil war had ended and the leaders of both sides were being still being prosecuted for their war crimes. While the rebels there had been backed by the Enlightened, the IBI still hadn't found any link between them and Hermione's government.

The rest of the world had gotten on with their lives as well and fortunately with less drama or violence. Shortly after the Battle of the Elemental Academy Sirius returned to the Northern Water Tribe when it was finally stabilized. Sirius was then confirmed as Chief, along with establishing his family as the new Royal Family bloodline, by 76% of the voting population. In addition the citizens of the Northern Water Tribe had voted 64% in favor of the new constitution the Sirius had helped draft in Ba Sing Se during the war.

Under the new constitution the framers of it had decided to keep the 5 member Tribal Council system headed by the Chief. The position of Head Healer would also continue to serve on the Tribal Council in a permanent role but now would be a full member of the Tribal Council with full voting rights on the it. That position was now occupied by Sirius's cousin and fellow former exile Andromeda. The one big change to the Northern Tribal Council was that the 5 Councilors would be elected positions, rather than life positions that were hereditary and the positions would be open to women for the first time. The elections were held each year starting with the Sirius's own confirmation as Chief with the last one happening in a few weeks thus removing the last acting councilor appointed by Sirius upon his confirmation as Chief. Each councilor would serve a term of 6 years so that after the last was elected the first would be up for reelection the next year and there were no term limits for the councilors. At the moment 3 of the 4 elected councilors were nonbenders, 2 were women and the lone bender was a former exile who's false criminal record that had lead to her exile being expunged by Sirius.

Also, Sirius's brother Regulus had been formally granted immunity from all charges from his Death Eater days due to his actions and now taught waterbending at the Academy as well as course on the lures of extremism, brainwashing, breaking from both, and survival and evasion without bending. Finally the Northern Water Tribe was back on the path to balance but with such an ingrained history of discrimination Harry knew that it would still be a few years before the North was truly balanced.

Remus too had become a teacher at the Elemental Academy in the Air House, rejecting an offer from Milo to lead the small Air Nation military on a permanent basis. He had also fallen for and married Commander Dora. They had met during the cleanup efforts and started dating soon after. Two years ago they had had a son called Ted who was named after his grandfather who had died in the battle at the hands of Macnair and who was Harry's godson. Young Teddy was already showing signs of being a talented earthbender and Harry was looking forward to teaching him when the boy was old enough. Dora was now second in command of the United Forces under Admiral Williamson who had been elevated to the position following Shacklebolt's election as President, removing the acting label he had assumed after the war, and subsequent retirement from the United Forces. Due to Williamson's position as Commander of the United Navy he was entitled to use the rank of Admiral rather than General when he became the Commanding Officer of the United Armed Forces. The United Republic had also been safely restored and President Shacklebolt was expected to be reelected next year with little opposition.

In the Southern Water Tribe things hadn't changed much as it had been relatively unaffected by the war after Lucius's failed invasion. Bill and Fleur had married and moved back to Republic City where Bill continued to serve as the Southern Water Tribal Ambassador to the United Republic while Fleur worked part time at the Academy. Fred and George had married Angelina and Alicia respectively, two of the girls on their bending team from their Academy days. Fred and George had opened the joke shop they had always dreamed of in Republic City's fashionable Diagon Ally and been an instant success, so much so that they had opened branches in Harbor City, the capital of the Southern Water Tribe, Ba Sing Se, Zaofu and Omashu. Meanwhile Percy had married some girl he had met in Ba Singe Se called Audrey, the daughter of a wealth Ba Sing Se businessman and as rule orientated as Percy. Percy was now the Southern Water Tribe Ambassador to the ISEK and was loving the rigid rules, regulations and traditions of Ba Sing Se. Charlie had been training dragons in the Dragon Sanctuary and Population Growth Center in the Fire Nation when Hermione's coup occurred and was unfortunately trapped there and his status was unknown. The only think to note was that Fleur had just given birth to a daughter, Victoire, who was now the second in line to the Chiefdom of the Southern Water Tribe however if she was an airbender then there may be a constitutional crisis in the South but as of right now she was too young to show signs of bending.

The last nation Harry's meandering thoughts turned to was his own, the Earth Kingdom. His parents were still primarily based in Ba Singe Se and his father was expected to be reelected to second term as an Imperial Senator from Omashu in a year's time. Wu was still the Earth King though that was only because he was constitutionally banned from resigning or abdicating. He had gotten too frail to travel in recent years and the whole nation knew the King who had reformed and modernized the Earth Kingdom in the wake of the Earth Empire debacle would die soon. His son, Prince Zhan, had taken over as his agent and voice outside of Ba Sing Se as Wu was unable to leave the palace. Harry knew that Wu's death would be a sad day for the ISEK after all he had done for his nation but it was one the whole nation was preparing for.

The saddest thing that had happened, outside the reported horrors of Hermione's tyrannical dictatorship, had been Asami's death 2 months after the restoration of the Academy. She had died peacefully in her sleep after passing her spirit on to the spirit world, at least according to experts, and as with Korra she had received a state funeral as befitted a hero and member of Korra's Team Avatar. Dignitaries from all over the world paid, except those trapped in the prison camps of the Fire Utopia, tribute to her. As Korra's reincarnation Harry was part of the team that took Asami's body from where it had lain in state in Republic City so that the masses could pay respects to her before it was transferred to the Southern Water Tribe so that she could be buried with Korra. As for the rest of Korra's Team Avatar, Bolin was now in Zaofu, which was finally a state in the ISEK, with his wife Opal and their children and grandchildren. Suyin had died 3 years ago and the transition had been a smooth one. Meanwhile Mako still lived in Ba Singe Se with Wu and many believed that Wu had passed a law ordering Mako be buried with him when Mako died. Both surviving members of Korra's team were getting on in age but they were still healthy.

Harry's thoughts then turned to his friends and what they had all been up too since they graduated from the Academy 2 years ago and while he had been running around the world, cleaning up various pockets of remaining Purists to officially end their movement. Along with Harry, Team Avatar had all moved to Air Temple Island and taken up residence here right after they graduated from the Academy. Both Aang and Korra had lived here during their times as Avatars so Jinora offered Harry and his friends the chance to do so as well when she retired to the Temple and they had all accepted. Harry felt it was right to live here at least temporarily as his previous two lives had done and it allowed him monitor the world from a central location.

Ron and Neville had been accepted into the RCPD without hesitation upon graduation, graduated from the RCPD Academy as the top two in the class and were now two of their finest and fasted rising officers. Ron in particular was loving the job and had proven he had a knack for it. Chief Robards had taken the Avatar's best friend under his wing as his protégé and it was expected that Ron would rise through the ranks very quickly. Neville was enjoying it but spent more time as an instructor at the Academy than on the streets and Harry expected that in time Neville would leave the RCPD and join the teaching staff at the Elemental Academy. Meanwhile, Luna had taken a researcher job at the Avatar Wan Research Center that dealt with research in and on the natural and spiritual worlds and was loving it. Though of all of them Harry knew that Luna suffered from the worst nightmares in the aftermath of the Battle of the Elemental Academy but she had been seeking help and doing much better, all of them had and were. Harry also knew that Ron had the betrothal necklace for her but had yet to find the right moment to propose.

That thought brought Harry to Ginny and his own plans for proposing to her. He had known for a while that he would propose to her, he already had the betrothal necklace, and that they would be married in time but like Ron, Harry hadn't found the time to do it due to their busy schedules. Harry had only just finished his hunt for the last remaining Death Eater and Purist at large, the only one to escape the Battle of the Elemental Academy and an old family friend, Peter. That 4 and a half year long search had ended 6 months ago when he had cornered the traitor in the Lower Ring of Ba Singe Se and finally caught Peter, after causing the traitor to blow off his right hand when Peter tried to surprise him again, thus ending the Death Eaters once and for all. Peter was now in the Firebending Supermax Prison finally serving out his life sentence without parole.

While Harry was doing this, Ginny had been studying at Raiko University to become a fully qualified Healer. She was one of the best at the art but she still had a year's more training to do to become a fully certified Healer. While Ginny was a gifted warrior she preferred the healing arts to the art of war and Harry knew she would become a great Healer in time. He knew that he would propose when the time was right and he knew that that right time would present itself to him soon. Harry had found the perfect stone, a sea green topaz that he had had craved with the symbols of the Earth Kingdom and Southern Water Tribe overlaying each other and set into a platinum holder on a fine blue silk band. It would be perfect when the time came.

Harry sighed as he felt the warmth of the rising sun as it crested over the horizon. Voldemort and his legacy was finally over. The former Dark Lord had died 10 months ago in his cell and his body cremated and scattered to the wind so as those who supported him could not create a sick memorial to him or try and rally support for his memory. Stripping Voldemort of his bending had destroyed Voldemort's credibility within the movement as it showed that he was not as good as the Avatar and now an inferior nonbender in the eyes of his supporters. The loss of his bending had deeply affected Voldemort from what Harry had heard in the reports from the prison warden. According to the warden Voldemort had never spoken a word during his incarceration and had eventually lost the will to live. The former bloodbender and Dark Lord stopped eating, wasting away alone and without his precious bending in his isolated cell. With all that finally gone Harry could at last turn his attention westward and deal with Hermione. He knew that was why he had been having his dreams and it was now time to act. He had been too busy to bring his full attention to bear on her but now he could and he would do his best to end the suffering of the people of the Fire Nation.

First Harry thought of Crown Prince Druzok who had been in the Northern Water Tribe helping Chief Arthur clean it up after they liberated it and thus been spared from the coup that took his grandfather's life and captured his sister. Druzok had immediately moved to Republic City and was running the Fire Nation Government in Exile there with the aid of the other world leaders and expat Fire Nation citizens who could not return home with Hermione's blockade in the way. Shortly after her now infamous speech Hermione had revealed that Izra was alive and serving a life sentence without parole in an undisclosed, single prisoner prison for her alleged crimes, all of which were known to be false and based purely of Izra's status and not actual crimes. Why she kept Izra alive was a mystery though Harry assumed it was for potential leverage in the future. They were doing everything they could but they could not penetrate the blockade without significant force and loss of life. Alas the little news they were getting about the now isolated and closed off nation, all of it from the few who had managed to survive an escape from Hermione's tyranny, had not been good news.

From what they could gather Hermione's regime in the Fire Nation made Kuvira's Earth Empire look like a peaceful, utopian state by comparison. Hermione had swiftly and brutally consolidated her power through fear and intimidation. If you didn't follow her laws to the letter you were sent to the work camps for education in equality and tolerance. These camps were just slave labor prisons that held all of those who were dissidents to her regime, those who had been pureblood nobles and those who even question her ideas, authority or rule. Anyone who spoke out against her were sent there, anyone who made a joke that she found offensive, had a wrong thought, basically anything that wasn't approved by Hermione would result in a lengthy sentence in these reeducation camps. The current estimates from the few who had managed to flee put the death toll at close to 100,000 of her own citizens dead. They had either been execution for treason, a very low bar apparently as a joke could be seen as treason, of which her state records claimed that 5,389 had been convicted and executed for, including the 10 Purists nobles Iroh had impassioned that she had thrown into the boiling lake alive. Others had died by being worked to death in the reeducation prison camps to fuel the industrialization and militarization she had built up to protect herself. Harry had a feeling that the death toll was at least 10 times higher as there was almost certainly abuses by the authorities throughout the nation that Hermione would turn a blind eye to in exchange for support. Her Chosen had become a secret police and enforcers taking any potential dissidents away in the middle of the night, many were never heard from again. It was truly oppressive and Harry knew that they weren't getting the full story.

From what Harry could tell the Fire Nation was now truly a tyranny under Hermione who had no qualms crushing revolt and dissent with violence and death. The Fire Nation had always been ruled by an absolute monarchy but for the most part the Firelords never abused this and were fair rulers, with a few notable exceptions, but Hermione had become a totalitarian, the power corrupting her immediately. Her rapid industrialization, and prioritization in building up a military force to defend any invasion, had lead to reports of famine in rural parts of the nation and as such countless deaths of starvation. Those who had joined her, either for power or because they believed her warped and twisted bullshit, had become the new elite and were living it up off the wealth they had stolen while millions starved or worked to death in the factories and other industries Hermione had set up. Despite this industrialization her forced nationalization of everything had lead to a stagnation of competition and Harry knew that competition drove development as the combination of pride, greed and ambition lead to inventors and businessmen to compete with each other to create the best products. Without it you stalled progress. In addition she had apparently changed the educational system there and only taught her own views while demonizing, lying about and vilifying anything that didn't agree with here. It was straight brainwashing and there was nothing that they could do about it.

Scholars were already calling Hermione's government a socialist government though Harry had no aptitude for political theory or philosophy, all he knew was that Hermione was a dictator and tyrant who oppressed and killed her own citizens in her own warped and misguided view for a perfect society. Her inability to accept compromise or her own fallibility and incorrectness on issues only made it worse and those who supported her fueled her convictions that she was always right.

Those who had joined her had been the outcasts, the poor, the opportunists, and those who saw her as their ticket to a better life through her own warped philosophy. In addition the worst scum of the Fire Nation had risen to the top when they realized that so long as they espoused Hermione's views and enforced them they could get away with anything. Those who did this abused the power they had to the utmost, Harry had seen it with the Purists and he knew it was happening in the Fire Nation with those who followed Hermione and her views. Harry was certain she believed all that she said and believed that all she did was just and right and that she could do anything necessary to enforce her will on others. It appalled Harry as much as Voldemort and the Death Eaters had as they were exactly the same. Hermione was no better and in fact a lot worse that Voldemort given that within 1 year the death toll reported in the Fire Nation because of Hermione's laws, actions and orders, had exceeded 25 years of war with Voldemort, including the occupation of the United Republic and the treason of the Northern Water Tribe and 4 Imperial States.

Yet despite all this Hermione still preached that the Fire Nation was the only truly equal nation, that she was their benevolent Empress, the savior of the Fire Utopia, and that their nation was succeeding where all others had failed. Every week Hermione would use the one international media channel she kept to broadcast these insane speeches proclaiming her greatness and accomplishments but they only accomplishment was to show her madness to the world, clearly in hopes others would follow her. She would occasionally try and induce revolts across the world, call out Harry and the other false world leaders as she called them and generally ignore the suffering and oppression of her own citizens.

The other nations still had to be careful as the world leaders knew the Enlightened and the Chosen were a global terrorist organization that could strike anywhere, their ties to the revolt in Yi and the clear sympathies of members of Malum state government to the Enlightened showed that the group still had some reach. However, Harry was certain most of the Chosen had been called in for the coup in the Fire Nation and as a result stuck there, most outside of the Fire Nation were just sympathizers and cronies. Harry just didn't know how to get into the Fire Nation, remove Hermione either in chains or a coffin, and restore peace and balance to the Fire Nation. Harry did know that it would have to be a small team, just him and his friends, and they would have to take her down from the inside but he had no idea how to do so.

Harry felt a small tremor in the earth that broke his meditations and brought him back to the present. Smiling Harry got up, opened his eyes and stretched after sitting in the lotus position for so long. The sun was up now and Harry guested that it must be around 7 in the morning. He hadn't realized how long he had been thinking but he just needed to clear his mind of all that had happened over the last 5 years so that he could look to the future. Walking over to the tremors that were emanating from near the bison stables Harry closed his eyes once more, 'saw' the source underground and sent out his own tremors at the source before opening his eyes. Moments later he felt the ground shift just in front of him and a large, snow white head with red blank eyes emerged from the ground sniffing the air around it. The creature's head was followed by the large, white, body until it was fully out of the hole it had created. The animal sniffed the air once more before leaping on Harry and licking him affectionately.

"Easy Hedwig. I'm happy to see you too girl." Harry said extricating himself from under his animal complain and patting her affectionately on the neck. The albino badgermole leaned her head into his chest and nuzzled him affectionately. "I know I'm not usually out this early but I had to clear my head. You had better not be burrowing too much again, this is a small island and Jinora wouldn't be pleased if her home suddenly became unstable because of a badgermole."

As Harry spoke he checked the earth with his seismic sense to make sure that his badgermole hadn't caused too much damage and was pleased to see she hadn't. Badgermoles liked to burrow but Hedwig was well trained in limiting her activities on the island as there was only so much earth available. Harry continued to pat her absently, she always helped him calm down. He had found the albino badgermole as a pup 2 years ago shortly after graduation. He was in Yi at the time and trying to root out the last pockets of fighting when he stumbled across her abandoned in a cave. Her parents had been killed by poachers and he felt an instant connection to the poor badgermole and took her in then and there. He had never seen an albino badgermole before but he knew they were very rare. Harry had taken her back with him, raised her and trained her on Air Temple Island. Now she was fully grown and had become his animal companion. Why he called her Hedwig he didn't know but the name had felt right at the time and was the only thing she would listen to. He was so engrossed in petting her that he didn't notice the light footsteps behind him until he heard her voice.

"She really is a beautiful creature." Jinora said making Harry jump slightly and turn to face the former High Chair of the Academy.

Jinora's time in prison had aged her more than her 80 some years and she looked a lot frailer than he remembered. He knew she must be near the end of her life and that in time she would transcend peacefully into the spirit world the way Zuko's uncle Iroh had, as had many others after him most notably Zaheer and recently Asami if the experts were to be believed. Harry thought that that time would be sooner rather than later for Jinora but while she was still alive so he would use her advice whenever he could.

"I would think she was a spirit had I not seen her earthbend." Jinora continued giving the badgermole and affectionate pat on her snout before turning back to Harry. "So Harry what troubles you so much that has caused you to spend 2 hours meditating. Not more nightmares I hope."

"How do you know I was troubled?" Harry asked with a slight blush, somehow airbenders seemed to have this kind of intuition but then again it may just be Jinora and Luna. "Or that I was meditating."

"Well to answer the first question I knew you were troubled because you were meditating." Jinora said with a smile. "And meditating at around 5 in the morning at that. You are a lot like Korra, you were both Avatar's of action and only resorted to meditating when times were desperate and you didn't know what else to do. As to why I know this I wake at 5 everyday to feed the lemurs, they help keep me young and I have always enjoyed their company, more so in the last year since Kai's passed on to the Spirit World. So what ails you Harry? Were you seeking advice from Korra."

"No I don't think Korra can help me deal with what's on my mind." Harry said glad to talk to someone with age and wisdom. "Not that I haven't already spoken to her about my problems, she just hasn't been that helpful."

Jinora's council had been a key reason why he had accepted the offer to live here, she was wise beyond her many years and Harry wanted all the help he could get. Also many in his generation tended to forgo the wisdom of those who had lived life and had the wisdom of experience to give so that those with a life still to live did not make the same mistakes or suffer under the same hardships as those who had come before them. Hermione was a prime example of this rashness of youth and the idea that because they were young they knew everything already and as such best as they would inherit the world. It was an argument with some merit in the sense that yes they would inherit the world but still the complete and willful ignorance of experience wasn't wise as the only way to really move forward was to learn from the mistakes of the past. For spirits sake sometimes those of age and experience used that to make decisions that the young hated but were done in their best interest so that they didn't have to live with what they had to live with. Often wisdom and experience was unappreciated in this world but Harry did appreciate it and would seek it out whenever he could. He was only in his early 20s and while he was smart and powerful he knew he didn't know everything so when he needed advice from those who knew more than he did he would take that advice.

"I was just trying to clear my head, I've been sleeping poorly lately." Harry continued. "Though it hasn't all been nightmares, those still occur but as time continues to heal the mental wounds they occur less and less. About once a week these days."

"We can tell by the bags under your eyes." Jinora said kindly. "You have been so busy since defeating Voldemort that it has been hard to find a moments peace in the last 5 years."

"That's the thing I was fine when I was busy but with the world but now with Voldemort dead, Yi stabilized, Peter in prison, the triad broken and the world for the most part back to normal I find it hard to sleep." Harry said rubbing his face and yawning slightly. "My mind just won't let me rest at the moment."

"It's the Fire Nation isn't it?" Jinora asked clearly knowing it to be the answer. "You want to end the threat Hermione is to her own citizens and possibly the whole world don't you?"

"I do but I just don't know how to do it." Harry said with a sigh still absently stroking Hedwig's head. "I saw the blockade and I don't think even in the Avatar State I could successfully overcome such firepower. I tried asking Korra shortly after the issue but she didn't know what to do because she had never had to deal with a situation like the one Hermione has created. Sure she has dealt with fanatics, tyrants and madmen but not an impenetrable blockade. Thanks to that asshole Unalaq I can't go further back and ask other Avatars for advice. I feel like Aang would be useful right about now. I just feel so helpless letting all those people suffer for years while I can't do anything to help them."

"My grandfather would know more about the Fire Nation true." Jinora said. "Though he would probably have an odd saying to sum it up. I never met him as he died a few years before I was born but my father often spoke of him and his teachings. I think Aang himself learned them from the old General Iroh but regardless they have been passed down over the years."

"Anything useful?" Harry asked without giving into hope. "Cos at this point we're all little desperate. Even Ron is struggling to formulate a plan to get into the Fire Nation and take her out and he's one of the best tacticians in the any military or law enforcement department in the world."

"I don't know." Jinora said thoughtfully before pausing for a moment as she thought back to her youth. "I know one thing my dad would say, something Grandpa Aang taught him about airbender philosophy is to always look for another way around the problem right in front of you. Remember airbending is a style of defense and counter but it is also one of learning from the wisdom and mistakes of the past. Dad would occasionally say to us, and often to Korra, that there are times when the only way forward is back. Remember Harry we cannot forget or erase the evils of the past but keep them fresh so as we can learn from them and grow as a society."

"What does that mean?" Harry asked confused at the statement. "Remember Jinora your not talking to an airbender scholar but a stubborn earthbender who prefers to solve his problems by punching them rather than opting for the diplomatic approach."

"I do forget that sometimes as you can be quite thoughtful Harry." Jinora said with a smile. "I know you know when to use violence and when to not use it but your training is primarily in combat as a method of resolution, after negations fail that is. Korra was the same way, always getting infuriated by my father's sayings and preferring to settle her disputes through bending. At least she wasn't around to hear old General Iroh's, apparently those are even more confusing but there are books on those and twice as many on trying to understand the meanings in the former Crown Prince's words. Anyway in this case it means that there are times, of which this may be one such time, when in order to see the path forward you must look to the past be it yours, Korra's or an older Avatar's though for that you will need the scholars to aid you, to find something that will illuminate the way forward. Does that make sense?"

"Sort of." Harry said thinking deeply on Jinora's words.

Harry thought back to his own past but nothing stood out at first. Then a nagging thought came into his mind out of nowhere, something he had heard a little over 5 years ago, something shouted at him and subsequently forgotten as he walked away from a special prison embedded in the top of a snow capped mountain in the far eastern reaches of the Earth Kingdom.

"One day Avatar, maybe in 5, 10 or 15 years an issue will arise in the world and you will realize that the only way you can solve it is with my expertise and help. You will be back soon to free me Avatar, this is not the last time our paths shall cross."

Harry gasped as the memory came unbidden to his mind. He realized he may have a chance to get into the Fire Nation covertly and have access to the resources that Harry would need for a small, clandestine operation to take down Hermione. It was a long shot and a very risky chance but at this point he was willing to try anything to free the Fire Nation from tyranny. Harry had always felt that the man he had left on that mountain top had much more than he provided Harry a little over 5 years ago, a trump card to ensure his eventual release despite a life with parole in 40 years sentence. The man was the best survivalist Harry knew, other than Peter, he was a man who had a more resources than Harry could imagine, and he was from the Fire Nation so what did Harry have to lose. Also Harry was convinced the man had a network of contacts that he hadn't revealed to Harry and the other authorities in the Fire Nation that weren't associated with the crimes he had plead guilty to. Desperate times called for desperate measures.

"What Harry?" Jinora said taken aback by Harry's sudden gasp, so was Hedwig for that matter as she had smacked Harry in the face with her muzzle. "Did my advice work?"

"I may have just had a crazy, insane, risky, desperate, plan to get into the Fire Nation and take the raving bitch oppressing it down." Harry said a smile gracing his lips. "But I need you to contact President Shacklebolt and tell him I want a meeting of all the world leaders here on Air Temple Island one week from today. I have never done this before but I am exercising my Avatar privilege to call the world leaders, or their heirs as is the case with the ISEK, to a meeting that has global implications. First though I need to talk to Ron down at the station, get all the relevant info from him and Chief Robards as they are the necessary info in Republic City, and plan with them to make my pitch. Y'all will probably think I'm insane but at this point we're pretty much out of options when it comes down to trying to restore balance to the Fire Nation."

"Ok Harry may I ask why you need the world leaders?" Jinora asked clearly wary of Harry's sudden realization. "This has to be something serious if you are exercising this privileged. Korra seldom used it in her time and only for the most serious of issues."

"Because only they can approve of my plan." Harry said as he patted Hedwig goodbye and began to walk towards the Temple with Jinora in tow. "After the defeat of Voldemort the Council of World Leaders, in accordance with international law, ruled that only with the consensus of the world leaders could any of the surviving Death Eaters receive a deal that might let out of their prison cells. I now have to persuade them to make a deal with the smartest and slipperiest of all the surviving Death Eaters. I can't say for certain but I'm sure our only way into the Fire Nation, short of an all out assault that could lead to countless deaths, and to take down Hermione, lies in the white gloved hands of Voldemort's former spymaster. Once again this man could play a pivotal role in ending a ruthless, murderous, tyrants hold on power and restore balance to the world. I can't believe I am saying this but our only hope to get the chance to take down Hermione and free the Fire Nation from her tyranny might be Pyrites."

Sorry this first chapter is so long but there was a lot to cover and catch up to fill in the gap between Purity and Equality. Some of the stories mention, such as the hunt for and capture of Peter, will likely either feature in the Avatar: The Tale of Harry. The Lost Adventures story or as a small novella at some point. For context, the Fire Utopia will be based of a mixture of the USSR under Stalin, China under Mao, North Korea under Kim Jong-un and Venezuela under Maduro. That's all for here. As usual the next chapter will be released at midnight one week from today and any questions in reviews or PMs will be answered at the start of the next chapter. Anything constructive in the reviews or PMs will be listened too. Until next week.

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