TH3 G4M3 Chapter 1: G4M3 5T4RT, a harry potter fanfic

Notes: As I am writing this waiting for Neon Evangelion to load. Something went strange and my old author's note was deleted, so I am here now fixing it. Please read on!

FF screwed up my word count, darn it.

Competitions and Challenges this is entered in: The Long Haul Competition lll,

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. I only own my idea and character that is far from being a perfect human being, thank you.

THE GAME

HARRY POTTER: THE JOURNEY OF ENGIMA

Would you like to start the game?

Yes

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Would you like to start the game?

Yes*

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Welcome to Harry Potter: The Many Years of a Wizard, a game filled with magic, danger, Dark Lords, and fun for every one of all ages! Please pick one of the following characters to begin, or choose the 'make your own character' button to make your own!

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

Ronald Weasley

Ginevra Weasley

Draco Malfoy

Sirius Black

Narcissa Malfoy

Albus Dumbledore

Moaning Myrtle

Gellert Grindlewald

Arthur Weasley

Salazar Slytherin

Make Your Own Character

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Harry Potter*

Hermione Granger

Ronald Weasley

Ginevra Weasley

Draco Malfoy

Luna Lovegood

Sirius Black

Nyphadora Tonks

Narcissa Malfoy

Albus Dumbledore

Bellatrix Lestrange

Arthur Weasley

Make Your Own Character

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Would you like to use 'Harry Potter'?

Yes

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Would you like to use 'Harry Potter'?

Yes

No*

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Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

Ronald Weasley

Ginevra Weasley

Draco Malfoy

Sirius Black

Narcissa Malfoy

Albus Dumbledore

Moaning Myrtle

Gellert Grindlewald

Arthur Weasley

Salazar Slytherin

Make Your Own Character*

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Would you like to use 'Make Your Own Character'?

Yes

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Would you like to use 'Make Your Own Character'?

Yes*

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Greetings player! You have joined the magical community of Harry Potter and now inhabit the body of Your Character and shall continue doing so until the end of the game! The rules and idea of this game are simple.

You shall go through Your Character's life from beginning to end (for characters that survived the War, this means the epilogue) and experience the true Potter experience!

The rules of the game are:

-YOU CAN'T EXIT THE GAME ONCE YOU HAVE STARTED. Once you have joined the game you are unable to exit until your character is dead. You may only eject from the game if you have passed the first checkpoint. In reality the only time that has passed will be approximately 5 minutes. You will feel the need to eat, sleep, and relieve yourself like your character would through the game's simulators.

-YOU CAN'T PREVENT ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN CANON. This means that Draco must be a Slytherin, Sirius Black MUST die in the Ministry, the Weasleys must be poor, and all the other canon sequences. You can't go to London and kill Tom Marvolo Riddle to prevent Lord Voldemort. Anything changed in the canon universe shall immediately eject you from the game and you shall be banned from the game for an indefinite amount of time.

-YOU MAY NOT TELL ANYONE IN THE GAME THAT YOU ARE PLAYING THE GAME. This is for secrecy reasons and all creatures playing in your universe are computers, or people disguised and monitoring your progress. Depending on who you would tell, you would either end up in jail at the Ministry (an immediate eject from the game) or being brought forth to the game animators, also an immediate ejection.

-YOU WILL RECEIVE THE MEMORIES OF YOUR CHARACTER AND ALL MEMORIES OF YOUR REALITY SHALL BE PUSHED TO THE BACK OF YOUR MIND UNTIL YOU RETURN TO REALITY. You shall not forget the memories, but they will be shoved in the dusty corner of your mind until you have awoken in reality.

-YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF EXTREMELY DIFFERENT WHEN THE GAME IS OVER. [Potterhead Inc. is not to be blamed for any suicides, insanity, bipolarness, or any other mental or physical health issues one might have received at the end of the game.]

-THIS GAME IS DANGEROUS. YOU ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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Would you like to start the game?

Yes

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Would you like to start the game?

Yes*

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The screen went black around the player, and he panicked. 'Did I click something wrong?' he wondered, hastily letting go of the mouse and began pawing through the stacks of papers on your desk, looking for the instruction manual.

However, just as the boy let out a cry of 'Ahaha!' and held triumphantly the packet, pixels began to emerge from the screen, and he felt the rest of the world fade away- his bedroom was gone from his sight, as was his computer, manual, and computer chair. The boy learned the hard way with the last one, as he fell unceremoniously to the floor.

"W-What?"

He scrambled to stand up, and looked around. As far as his eyes could see, he saw black. Just blackness. Up and down, nothing. He couldn't see what he was standing on, or how far or high the darkness lasted. The player felt extremely unsettled, and nervously peered around, beginning to wonder if the game was fake and he was forever stranded in darkness.

"H-Hello?"

As soon as the last syllable left his lips, the blackness slowly morphed into a dark grey, then a lighter grey, and finally a bright and shining light that secretly might have made him prefer the noir. The background became frosted over, and a mysterious chair appeared right next to the boy.

-SIT- the words flew across his vision, directly in front of him.

"Huh?"

-SIT, SO YOU MAY BE ABLE TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR CHARACTER AND GO OVER THE RULES-

"O-Oh, okay."

Very strange, he thought, as he sat down uncomfortably at the provided chair. He had no idea how he was sitting- if he was actually there physically or instead having the game control his mental landscape- but either way, it was pretty awesome. And disconcerning. But he would have to admit that this place was pretty cool.

As soon as he sat down, the words on the (screen? Air? Whatever it was.) wall changed again.

-MALE OR FEMALE OR AMBIGUOUS?-

"Where's the controller?" The player asked confusedly, looking around for the item so he could choose.

-MALE OR FEMALE OR AMBIGUOUS?-

"I know, I know. Male-"

There was a 'click!' and the words changed again. He, who was looking around, glanced at the screen to see that more words had replaced the others.

-SHORT OR LONG HAIR?-

"How did-? Short?" The boy watched as it changed once again. "I just say the words commands out loud?"

-COLOUR OF HAIR?-

"Uh, brown?"

-COLOUR OF EYES?-

He smiled jokingly as he said, "Red!"

Wait-

Oh no.

It went through.

Where was the backspace button?

He didn't want red eyes! "Back! Back!" It was a joke!

-PLEASE SAVE THE GAME-

"No, back! Delete!"

-PLEASE SAVE THE GAME-

For every time he yelled out the word 'back', the screen flashed again with the saving screen.

Finally, he decided to give up and mutely called out "Save game."

The screen created a loading bar for a brief second, before the room became dark again. A lightning bolt flashed on the screen, pulsing with green and yellow energy, before a green spider web slowly emerged from behind it, encasing the lightning bolt before the lightning bolt shined a startling white blue and destroyed the spider web.

The teenager let out a gasp at the display- it was like fireworks were going off in front of him, with bright colours and flashing lights- and was slightly disappointed when the lightning bolt pulsed once more and disappeared in a swirl of a green web.

One moment he was watching the lightning bolt, and then next the world was black again, and a strange feeling of sleepiness overcame him. He tried to fight against the impulse, thinking that he couldn't fall asleep at a moment like this, but his body didn't listen as he slowly closed his eyes, his breathing evening out as the darkness covered him like a blanket.

He knew no more.