PROLOGUE

As Harry stood before Voldemort preparing for the final face off he thought of all those he'd lost to the war and all the hard work and studying that had brought him to this point. Ron and Hermione dying in each others arms after being overrun by death eaters during a supply run, Neville sucoming to Nagini's poison after managing to kill her, Ginny's lifeless gaze after jumping in front of a killing curse meant for him, and Luna's peaceful look before blowing herself up to take out most of Voldemorts' inner circle. The countless hours spent pouring over books in the library searching for anything that would help him win the war, and learning everything he could, starting with occlumency to help him learn faster and make sure he would remember it all. It had all come down to this, one final battle between himself and Voldemort where he planned to send Voldemorts' soul to the lowest level of hell, never to return.

Both Harry and Voldemort were staring the other down, waiting to see what the other would do until suddenly both snapped into action and spells started flying left and right. Spell after spell was sent across the gap each more vicious than the one before. Harry was dancing around any spells sent his way while Voldemort held fast and shielded himself against all spells sent his way. It didn't take long to see that the battle was slowly starting to turn in Harry's favor. For every attack Voldemort sent his way Harry was sending two back until it was all Voldemort could do to shield himself, no longer having the time to return the volley of spells sent his way. They were at a stalemate, Harry attacking constantly but never getting through Voldemorts' shields until Harry managed to push Voldemort back and cause him to trip slightly over a rock behind him. That slight stumble was all the opening Harry needed as he managed to bind Voldemort and take his wand. Harry knew that this wouldn't stop Voldemort long so he quickly started the long incantation that would banish Voldemorts' soul to the lowest level of hell and in return send Harry through a portal into the unknown.

"Ego vocare te spiritus Terrae mittere hoc malum in puteos infernum ad obturatioregni terrore. Offero me pro lubitu hoc facere."

Just as Voldemort managed to free himself a hole opened up beneath him and sucked him down with nothing but the echo of his screams remaining. Once Voldemort was gone another portal opened up in front of Harry. He turned to look at those who remained, gave them a sad smile, and walked through, never to be seen again.

CHAPTER 1

Upon stepping through the portal Harry lost consciousness only to return to awareness in total darkness by a strange squeezing sensation. Moments later the darkness seemed to be getting a bit brighter and his head was being squeezed harder than before, reminding him of when his Aunt Petunia attempted to force that horrible sweater over his head only for it to keep shrinking. However this time his head did pop out and he was startled to realize that he was in fact a baby and that he had just been born.

When he first discovered the spell that he used to banish Voldemort he had just lost the last of his friends and as such he didn't care what it would take to end Voldemort, he just wanted Voldemort gone. In the description of the spell it stated that no one who had used the spell was ever heard from again after they stepped into the portal. As such Harry assumed that he too would die from the spell but since he no longer had anything tying him to this world he thought that he would simply get to finally be with his family and friends again. The idea of dying didn't bother Harry so he just made sure to have his affairs in order so that more than just the goblins and the ministry would profit from his death.

However now that Harry found himself in a new world, in the body of a newborn, he was thinking that maybe he should've paid more attention to the warning. Harry looked around curious to see what his new world would be like. Would it be super advanced scientifically? Would it be stuck in the stone age? Would the grass be blue and the sky red? Blinking rapidly his eyes started to focus and clear allowing him to see that he appeared to be inside a wood cabin with some less advanced gadgets and some gadgets that were definitely more advanced than he was used to.

Harry turned his eyes to the woman who was holding him, getting his first glimpse of his new mother. She looked exhausted but happy with brown hair, brown eyes and tan skin. A man who Harry assumed was his father stood next to his mother smiling happily at the both of them. He too had brown hair, brown eyes, and tan skin. On the other side of the room was a pregnant woman who appeared to be putting things away and cleaning some towels and such. She had blonde hair and appeared to be a bit lighter skinned than his parents. Harry thought that she might have been the midwife.

His attention was returned to his parents when his father opened his mouth and asked, "So what should his name be?" "Harcos. His name should be Harcos because he's my little fighter. He almost didn't make it through but he held on and now he's here with us, our little miracle." "Harcos Antley, I like it. What do you think little Harcos? Do you like your name?" Harry managed to gurgle happily, glad that his new name wasn't all that different from his last.

As Harcos lay in his mothers' arms being showered in attention by his new parents his magic kept drawing his attention back to the pregnant midwife. Since he wasn't sure what it was Harcos decided to simply ignore it for now and enjoy the time he had with his parents, after all, he had already lost one set of parents early in life, what's to say that he wouldn't lose this set too.

Harcos was taken home shortly after his birth, which turned out to be just next door to the midwife and her husband. Life continued as normally as it could for a wizard turned infant until he was brought over to the midwifes' house again when his mother went to help out during the midwifes' birth. Again Harcos felt the tugging sensation on his magic drawing his attention towards the midwife, or at least it was to the midwife until she finally gave birth to a healthy daughter at which point his magic was drawing his attention to her. Something about her soul was screaming to his magic that she was his soul mate. She would be the one person that he would tell everything to, to be his anchor.

CHAPTER 2

The first few years of Harcos's new life passed slowly. His mother and Mrs. Everdeen caught on quickly that Harcos and Katniss liked to be together and would fuss less if together than apart. Since it was easier to take care of both of them then it was to take care of either one of them alone they developed a sort of schedule so that both mothers had time to themselves and a chance to work a bit.

Throughout this time Harcos was slowly figuring out everything he could about the world that he had been dropped into. He learned that he was in the country of Panem in District 12. He discovered that everyone knew about magic and its existence but that it had died out a long time ago during the Dark Days. He also learned about the Hunger Games where they took two children between the ages of 12 and 18 every year to fight for survival with only 1 or 2 people surviving. The only way for two people to survive was if both were from the same district but so far that had never happened.

Harcos told Katniss about his magic and past life around the time that little Primrose was born. He didn't want to wait too long so as to make Katniss feel like he didn't trust her but he also didn't want to tell her before he thought she could keep it a secret.

Once Katniss and Harcos got a little older they started to spend a lot of time in the woods with Katniss's father. He taught them about nature, hunting, how to use a bow and arrow, how to make a bow and arrows, and how to swim. When they weren't in school or in the woods they were with Harcos's father playing games of strategy and learning how to defend themselves with a knife. Both Katniss and Harcos were well aware of the dangers of the Hunger Games and their fathers motives for teaching them what they did but regardless of the reasons why they were being taught what they were they still enjoyed themselves.

Both fathers also tried to teach Primrose but she resisted the fighting, she wanted to be a healer like her mother and couldn't stand the thought of hurting someone so instead Harcos's father made sure that she knew how to keep out of sight and strategize well enough that she would stand a chance.

However disaster struck when Katniss's father was killed in a mine explosion. Her mother sunk into a terrible depression and would hardly move and since she wasn't bringing in any money Katniss was terrified that she and Primrose would starve or be sent to the community home. She was terrified until Harcos managed to snap her out of it and remind her that she could hunt, that he would be with her every step of the way, and that his parents wouldn't abandon her and Primrose either.

Harcos's mother remembered that there was medicine to treat depression and managed to find it among Mrs. Everdeen's things. She gave the medicine to Mrs. Everdeen and Mrs. Everdeen managed to pick her life back up without completely losing her daughters faith in her. However she still didn't make all that much money from her healing so Katniss and Harcos made sure that their families had enough to eat by hunting and gathering in the woods. On top of that once they hit twelve they both signed up for tesserae.

They continued on like that for a few years before Harcos finally asked Katniss out when they were 15. They had already been inseparable before that but afterwards they were seen holding hands and such. No one had ever doubted that they would get together eventually so no one was really surprised when they announced to their families that they were dating.

Even with the loss of Mr. Everdeen their lives were almost idyllic until the fated reaping of the 74th Hunger Games.