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Prologue
Long ago two friends, with the aid of rings created by an eccentric man crossed from their realm to one that was just beginning. This lead to, among other things, a wardrobe being made that served as a bridge between the two realms. When one those realms was destroyed the bridge was broken, leaving only a wardrobe which changed hands multiple times as the years passed until it ended up in number 4 Privet Drive, which is where this tale begins.
If you were to look at No.4 Privet Drive you could be forgiven for thinking it was a perfectly normal house with a perfectly normal family, though perhaps one that is a bit too obsessed with cleaning. This however is not the case, for while the house is indeed normal, the family is anything but. With a mother bordering on anorexic with a jealous streak a mile wide, a father that is obese with a violent temper, a 6 year-old son that is well on his way to a heart attack before he turns 20, and a 6 year-old nephew who has his meals withheld from him on a daily basis and sleeps in the cupboard under the stairs. Their names, in order, are Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley and Harry Potter.
In the smallest bedroom of No.4, we can find Harry putting all his effort in keeping quiet as he searches through the mounds of discarded toys from his cousin in the hopes of finding one small enough to fit in his cupboard for him to play with. However this is not to be, as he trips landing on top of a pile and creating a large racket. Hearing the floorboards creak under the enormous weight of his uncle as he comes to discover what roused him from his sleep. Frantically searching for a place to hide from his abusive uncle Harry spots the open door of the wardrobe and dashes into its dark embrace. In another reality this would not have been enough, his uncle would have found him and beaten him until Harry passed out from the pain. However in this reality the wardrobe he dashed into was one that was once a bridge between realms, and though the realm it is linked to is gone the remains of the bridge was still there. In this reality Harry Potter has magic that can manifest itself if he feels a strong enough emotion. In this reality little Harry wished with all his might to be far, far away from his uncle and his magic responded, latching onto the magic of the wardrobe Harrys magic forced the bridge to once more open and sent him tumbling through the void between realms.
Once he arrived in a new realm Harry gained and lost more than he ever dreamed possible. He gained a family, friends and love. He gained power, titles and a new name. He became a hero. But everything came at a cost, for his new name he lost his old. For the family he gained, he felt the pain of watching them die, his friends left pursuing their own lives and interests and finally his name was forgotten and all that was left was the title attached to his legend.
After travelling for weeks Harry Ironthorn formerly Potter, the Hero of Neverwinter, finally returned to the first place he called home, the forest of Gulthandor. Among its leafy boughs was where he learnt the skills he needed to survive the many trials that spawned his legend, it was there that he was found cowering in terror by the woman who became his teacher and then his mother. It was there that a portal opened by the magic of a terrified child and a broken bridge between realms opened once more and took him back to the realm of his birth.
Finding himself going from a dense forest to a cluttered bedroom with a forgotten giant of a man bearing down on him before knocking him out with a Sleep spell, our hero could be forgiven for instantly blaming this occurrence on his absent friend.
"By the Nine Hells Linu, what have you gotten me into this time?"
AN: I decided to write due to having the idea of it dominate my thoughts for the past week or so. It is a crossover between Harry Potter and Neverwinter nights with the wardrobe coming from the Chronicles of Narnia. It only has the mechanics of Neverwinter nights included as it will continue from the ending of this chapter through the rest of the Harry Potter series. If I get a lot of interest I may write his adventures in the Forgotten Realms as separate story but if not then I'll just put snapshots of his time there at the end of each chapter.
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