Harry Potter, our Lord

A.N.

This is my first fanfiction. It is an A.U. and Powerful Harry story. All the plot-angles are probably already done in other fanfiction stories, and to all authors recognising their stories I submit my sincere apologies (and my thanks, I enjoyed reading the stories). I have read some truly great Potterfiction, of the quality similar to the original work of JK Rowling. For this reason and because Harry Potter shows such great potential for crossovers, I decided to create my own Potterverse. I am rather occupied, but will try to update as often as possible.

English is not my mother tongue and I have no beta, spelling should be ok (thanks to automatic spell-checker) but there could be some errors in language or simply bad and confused writing.

All comments are welcomed (don't be needlessly harsh). So far only general frame of the story is set, so if you have particular desire how this story should proceed I am open to suggestions.

Disclaimer:

Since official series of Harry Potter books is published and over, all Harry Potter worlds belong to fanfiction authors (Me! Bwahahaha! – evil laugh). All credits for original creation and commercial benefits go to JKR.

Part 1

Chapter 1 The birth

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'It has been one year (at least I think it has) since my imprisonment in this Hell-on-Earth. The Hell has become much worse now than it was before, courtesy of the new Ministry. It is quite an irony when you think about it: The Symbol-of-Light Family improving this place into the ultimate black hole of despair. The only way to keep my sanity here is writing these lines, and loosing sanity is not an option in this place any more. Luckily no one thought I could use my silver hand to write on the walls. Unfortunately I used one of phalanges for this year, which leaves eleven more years before some sort of unimaginable torment claims my soul, unless Lord takes mercy on it.'

'It took me quite some time to create this master plan, the time I wasted on writing gibberish on these walls. Now is the time I put in motion my little vengeance and practical joke against the Dark Lord. I pray this place is truly god-forsaken as its reputation seems to suggest.'

'Do not know what day it is, but in this glorious moment I am starting to write my knowledge of the Dark Lord. I hope those reading these lines will be worthy of this knowledge. Luckily, even without a wand and in the high security, I still can perform glamour on the walls. I am sure the Dark Lord would not be pleased with my writing, he values his privacy – it has been a major key to his success. Just as I am sure the he is not pleased when I am referring to him with the same title I used when kissing Tom Riddle's feet. The truth is that this designation is truly fitting, he is the Lord of the darkness and the unknown and the hidden, protector of all these unsuspecting sheep.'

'Many have coveted and pretended to rule the darkness. Where countless others have failed, he has succeeded. Where so many empires have crumbled, his achievement will forever remain unchallenged, and I am his humble servant. He rules the world in perfect manner, always remaining in the shadows, never letting himself be seen by either forces of good or of evil.'

'Betrayal of secrets is viewed as worse than any other crime in the Wizarding world. It creates weak spots and opportunity for other crimes in otherwise secured environment. To commit a crime one must necessarily use either betrayal or infiltration. Rat is my nature and he was always attracted by power. That is one of reasons why I like James, but James was never ready to use the power - at least not completely as Riddle was.'

Lines from the Book of the Dark Lord, the holy scriptures of the Council,

supposedly written by a human named Peter Pettigrew on a long disappeared world called "Earth"

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This is a story of the events behind what, in later years on British Isles, came to be known as "the Dark Lord incident". It is also a story of the things like quest, cosmic accidents and karma that shape one's destiny, but above all it is a story of the great unknown that lies all around us.

The version that will be related in these lines is unofficial, in fact it is probably even beyond fifth or six hand rumour. Nevertheless, this version is complete truth, and it is only because there are so many rumours about these events that we feel confident enough to allow it to be known, certain that nothing will be taken seriously enough to have any impact on our world. Although, the incident in itself was swift, some circumstances of the event are connected far into the past and are having durable consequences.

Our story starts on the warm evening of 31 of July 1980. At this particular moment the man named James Potter is walking nervously along the halls of maternity ward at St. Mungo's Hospital. He is about to enter the next phase in joys of fatherhood after valiantly supporting his wife Lily during pregnancy.

His anxiety has reached new scales as he is now alone. Some moments ago he was still together with his colleague in stress, Frank Longbottom. James has just left the room where Frank and Alice were saying first 'hello' to their son Neville, and is about to face his own predicament of supporting wife through labour.

To unsuspecting observer James Potter would seem like any other anxious father-to-be. That is of course if one neglected the fame status of the Potter family. Even to the most general public the Potters were symbol of the highest British aristocracy. Their status is equal to the one of the Spencers and the Windsors, but they always kept extremely low profile like the Hellsings. It was only during brief period, while James was at the Academy, that the spotlights were ever directed on the family. It was James' "dashing playboy" period. It started by some girl magazine publishing a story about a very handsome young man from a rich and noble family right out of boarding school attending some military academy. It got interesting because James really had the looks. He was probably the most dashing among young noblemen. And so the snowball started rolling, and soon James was sharing pages with all princes and princesses of the Royal family.

To the great pain of his parents, James fully enjoyed this sudden spotlight. It went well with his "bully" and "spoiled brat" act from the school and he was amused immensely to have an opportunity and built a new personality act he used to call "rich playboy", later in what became his favourite book he found similar character called Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Fortunately for the family, this phase ended quickly after one last great story concerning marriage of James Potter to his school sweetheart Lily Evans.

Though even in general public this story was big, there is a community where this story reached levels one could almost dare call "Messiah's coming", or as would be more appropriate for this community "Merlin's coming". This community call themselves "Wizards and Witches".

Like Douglas (a smart person) used to say: "Things are not always what they seem", or William: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, etc. – you know the rest", and though many aspects of this story could be told without involving magic what so ever, there are some points that require messing with the "supernatural".

So we are now going to open those invisible doors that separate our seemingly "normal" and "ordinary" world from its true complexity. Concept of "normal" is probably the most widespread concept in all realities and dimensions where sentient beings live. It seems greater the knowledge about true complexity of things (which is always incomplete for the greatest part) more people are paranoid and drastic in their means of guarding what they consider "normal". This attitude explains why such great number of "supernatural" communities ignore their mutual existence.

Unfortunately for many of our fellow citizens who already have enough problems with criminality, unemployment, politics, etc., we live in this particular reality where our world is literally swimming in a cosmic vortex of magic. We don't like using label "supernatural" for magic, as it is often used with misplaced belief that magic is beyond nature or not having its place in nature. If we follow the logic of naming extreme physical states "superconductor" or "superliquid", than the word that fits the best to describe magic is "superscience". Arthur said (another smart person): "When sufficiently advanced magic and science are indistinguishable".

To best understand the state of our world we recommend consulting the data base of the Unspeakables. The Unspeakables are the intelligence agency of the Wizarding world, they are often wrongly compared to the CIA or such muggle (wizard language for ordinary people) equivalent as they are actually more open, and all dangerous information is really dangerous and shouldn't be tempered with. The reason why Wizards and Witches completely ignore the activities of the Unspeakables is that Wizarding world was created (in the 17th century, after series of witch-hunts) with main purpose that majority could enjoy magic while being defended by the few, and they prefer to continue living in false security and are, like we said, even more paranoid about "normality" than Muggles.

The Unspeakable data base gives following information regarding world population:

Inhabitants belonging to endemic species:

Completely human population:circa 6'000'000'000

Percentage having any superior aspect or abilities: 10%

Percentage Wizards and Witches: 1%

Percentage all magical: 3%

Contaminated human population:circa 1'000'000'000 (data is incomplete)

Vampires

Weres

Hybrids (various genetic mixtures)

Other infections (demonic, possessions, etc)

Sentient species of non demonic origin:circa 3'000'000'000 (data is incomplete)

Elves

Gnomes

Goblins

Centauri

Veelas

Merpeople

Nymphae

Fays

Sentient species of demonic origin:circa 5'000'000 (data is highly incomplete)

Midians (demons dwelling in darkness – not necessarily vulnerable to light)

Lamiahs (Succubi, etc.)

Youkai (nomenclature borrowed from Japanese – refers to various human-shaped demons)

Ancients

Other (various transdimensional, etc.)

Artificial beings

Homunculi

Replicants

Higher beings (dwelling on higher planes of existence):circa 1'000'000'000'000 (data is highly incomplete)

Dead (all non demonic species)

Banished demons

Other higher beings

Inhabitants belonging to non-endemic species:(numbers are subject to important fluctuations)

Antarian

Thaelon-Jaridian

Khimera

Other life forms

Administrative organisation of magical population – Following communities have organised themselves in order to facilitate integration and hiding of magic

Wizarding world:

European Ministries

The Ancient Empire (Asian Wizarding communities)

The Caliphate

United States Magic community, regulated by the Magical State Department

Ministry of Others (regulates communities of "Others" in the Soviet Union and the Far East – term "Other" refers to any supernatural being)

Druids-Brujos-Shamans-Doctors (various hidden communities, practicing more nature-oriented magic)

Elementals

Nabari (Far East community of martial artists and chi practitioners, integrated in muggle-world)

Now that we have better understanding of our world, we can continue with the story. Let's check on our wizard, James Potter. He is currently encouraging Lily while getting his hand painfully squeezed. Although everything is physically normal with both foetuses, there is strange feeling of shroud or emptiness around one that is limiting the usual feel a magical mother has of her babies. The couple is being cheered for by other members of the Potter coven from the outer chamber.

While in their fifth year at Hogwarts, Lily and James discovered certain books in both Restricted Section and later in the Potter library. They discovered that all aspects of already extremely powerful Potter family magic could be made completely insanely and freakishly strong by applying certain rituals and practicing certain way of life. They could actually create something to stand against Dark rituals and the rise of the self-proclaimed Dark Lord. This something is called sex-magic. So they combined their powerful talents to devise rituals and create charms and jinks that could best use this magic, their motto was: "There are much better things to do with a virgin than sacrifices". Soon James coaxed his older brother Charles into joining them and they started gathering followers (read here horny wizards and groupie witches). Their inner circle, as they joked about it, consisted of Sirius and Remus (James' best friends), Frank and Alice (Lily's best friend).

It was the moment when James had outgrown his Marauder phase, and Peter just couldn't stop living in the past – after all the Marauders were his first chance to hide his weakness and pretend to be strong and brave like his fellow Gryffindors. The Pettigrews are after all eternal henchmen and servants like so many lower pureblood families.

As it was expected the little circle Potter and Evans created became huge success at Hogwarts. They recruited from muggleborns to purebloods without distinction, and soon became direct rivals to another circle, led by Lucius Malfoy. Malfoy was the Dark Lord's agent in Slytherin and charged with recruiting future Death Eaters (as his followers called themselves) among purebloods.

Due to the contents of the Dark Lord's propaganda, those ideals could be only popular among pureblood Slytherins, and so when the Potter circle started stepping on the territory belonging to the Malfoy's circle situation at Hogwarts became somewhat Shakespearian. Things got worse when the Black sisters set their eyes on Charles instead of Lucius and his goons – the Lestranges brothers.

After initial skirmishes, things got really ugly and some still unsolved circumstances led to Charles' disappearance during the wandfight at Hogwarts' Express. After that disaster James hit a bad phase, and Lily went completely overboard and seduced Severus Snape into helping her incorporate darker aspects into sex-magic and making it even more powerful and she became known as Mistress Lily. Her actions became strange and disgusting even to Severus and this led to the fallout with Snape and a nearly deadly joke played by Sirius involving Remus' lycanthropy.

Lily and James decided they needed to pull themselves together or they would be eaten by the very same thing they created to fight the Dark Lord. They decided to create extended family or coven: five couples, each representing corner of a pentagram – James and Lily, Frank and Alice, Sirius and Remus and their girlfriends, and Petunia and her fiancé. The type of magical practice practiced by Lily and James does not need actual magical talent or abilities, but family ties, closeness or intimacy of practitioners. Unfortunately this is one of those moments when "normal" showed its head because not even Petunia (though being exposed to magical world and even having minor abilities) let alone her fiancé could stand exposure to what was considered as strange and disgusting practices. This provoked the fallout between the Evans sisters and even the break of Petunia's engagement (in her quest for greater normalcy she later married one Vernon Dursley – the paramount of all things normal).

After this fiasco, James and Lily went bit apart and James went to Auror Academy (period during which he undergone his "playboy" phase), while Lily went to Oxford Occult and later was recruited by Sir Archibald Croaker into Unspeakables.

Lily started working at the Department of Cooperation, in the section that is also under shared authority of the Department of Mysteries. This one section represents what is most secret in the Unspeakables. They work both on most mysterious artefacts and in cooperation with agents from other supernatural communities and in the muggle world. Here Lily met perfect candidates to become fifth couple: Selene, her colleague, and her husband Xenophilius Lovegood. And plans and relationship of Lily and James were rekindled.

That is how in 1975, after a marriage ceremony between James Ambrose Potter and Lily Evans, the new coven was created: Lily and James Potter, Alice and Frank Longbottom, Lin and Sirius Black, Maritza and Remus Lupin, Selene and Xenophilius Lovegood. The name "Potter coven" was elected because of the fame and recognition associated with it (even greater than those associated with the Black family), though jokingly they almost elected "Lovegood coven" as the name.

After several votes of the family assembly and meticulous preparations, the coven decided to perform very special and complex ritual. Although, as they are genetically humans, wizards and witches basically reproduce the same way as muggles, magic plays important part in the process and it is magic that is often responsible for sexual practices often seen as morally suspicious by muggles. Some examples are: wizards and witches openly practice bisexuality – even if you are gay your magic will eventually compel you to seek a partner of opposite sex for reproduction; incest is not forbidden but is not considered as good choice – your magic protects you from creating degenerated children but even magic prefers variety (in pureblood families who employ this practice for the sake of conserving the purity, magically weaker children are discarded and don't participate in future reproduction process); there is no definition for paedophilia as in muggle-world – age of consent is fixed to the moment your magic awakens your sex drive (this age varies among magical species), also wizards and witches would not even consider sex without feeling mutual appeal; although almost non-existent now-days, due to spreading of the pureblood propaganda, in old times relationships between partners of different magical species were accepted occurrence. Of course magic does have its oddities, as it is not a simple tool, but almost a sentient entity, and one never knows what product will be no matter what sexual practice is in use and magic can choose to cease its protection upon the wielder, but I digress here.

As we were saying, magic plays important aspect in reproduction of all magical beings (quite logic when you think about it). Couples often practice rituals where not only do they mix their genetic material, but also their magic.

This led the Potter coven to devise "the Samhain ritual" - as its name says this ritual is performed on the night of Samhain (the most sacred night for all magical beings, not just those of Celtic origin). This ritual is organised into a three-year cycles, two to produce and one to thank the higher powers (it is of utmost importance to properly complete the ritual or else it backfires horribly). This is how the things were scheduled: Samhain(Halloween) 1979 for Lily and Alice, Samhain 1980 for Lin, Maritza and Selene, Samhain 1981 for thanking ritual. This would enable them to produce the magically perfect children.

Ted Tonks was a muggleborn, which meant that until he was 11 all he ever knew were ordinary people. It was only when at Hogwarts that he learnt of magic and what it does to women's beauty (not just as glamours, but as natural process that enhances the beauty even while foetus is developed and during the growing-up and later as defence against aging). He considered himself enormously lucky to marry such beautiful woman as Andromeda Black (even among witches considered as extremely beautiful). He was only happy to oblige and accompany his wife to a society event organised by the Potter family for Halloween 1979 (invitation received from Sirius Black, only member of his wife's family always keeping warm relationship with Andromeda). He never suspected how utterly odd evening he was going to live. This was his "Eyes Wide Shut" moment. He had never been to rich wizard family homes – while entering the Potter castle he felt like a little kid entering many times enhanced Disneyland (Andromeda tried to organise presentation into her family, but it was a disaster); though not known as such by any community, the Potters are the richest in this galaxy cluster (group of fifty odd neighbouring galaxies) – unknowingly to even the Potters the greatest addition to family estate came with Lily Evans (I digress again). It all started as what he assumed was normal evening in super-high society event housing some 5000 guests (all magical species Ted had ever heard of and some he had not) in the greatest hall Ted had seen in his life. Odd things started when floor opened to reveal huge concentric nine ring system of complex runes and patterns that Andromeda noticed was beyond anything seen in the Wizarding world – in the central circle was giant pentagonal mattress covered by silk sheets and pillows – it looked as something from 1001 nights. Guests were invited to move to particular ring they would feel magically called to. Then rings lifted to form a nine level stage, on the central the top-most stage were 10 people Ted learned were members of the Potter family (Ted found it odd as he recognised Sirius there and he knew nothing of covens and extended family practices of the Wizarding world). As some strange music started to play and people to dance something that was closer to disco or tribal dance than ball-room dancing, Ted embraced Andromeda and they started to kiss while dancing. Ted couldn't help himself and started to touch and grope his wife and it became a hot snogging session. As compulsion grew stronger Ted and Andromeda took off their clothes. In a short flash of lucidity they noticed they were on the outer-most and the lowest ring with bunch of other naked couples, all engaged in sexual intercourse, as were the two of them. As rings were getting higher so were the "perversities" that were performed on them. In the middle of that 10 people chanted around the mattress separated in 5 couples, one on each angle. After what seemed like eternity and after coming countless times with his wife, Ted fell down half loosing his consciousness. As he felt drowning himself in the invisible vortex spinning, he could hear from the central stage cries of pleasure and grunting. Lying on the ground with his head turned toward the centre, Ted could see 10 people performing all possible hetero, gay or bi combinations he could imagine and doing various positions, some of them he was sure were light years ahead of Kama-Sutra. He fell asleep half-amused, half-frightened by the sight and the events of the evening.

The Tonks, like the rest of guests, returned home a week later after spending time recharging their batteries (magical and physical). Ted was surprised that no tabloid what so ever (either magical or muggle) published the story of the greatest fuck-fest in the recent history of magic. It is needless to say that the Tonks joined for all festivities and group holidays the Potter coven ever organised after that.

Magic is like everything else in life, no matter how much planning you do there is always possibility of wrench falling in your carefully designed scheme – you know the saying: "the best laid plans for men and mice", etc, etc. In fact, wise practitioners know the more you plan the greater is chance that something will go differently. Question is: will this different be lucky jack-pot or nuclear disaster?

Lily is a very wise woman, highly respected at her work and in all communities she came in touch with. Everybody who witnessed magical, physical and intellectual powers of Lily Potter knew she was among the top level mages like Albus Dumbledore and even Nicholas Flamel.

The ritual was devised not to target particular women of the coven, but to treat them as equal sisters. The only specification was that it would pick two of them in the first year and three others in the second. Lily was therefore, not surprised when even after two weeks there was no feeling of change in her body, while both Alice and Selene showed signs of pregnancy. Three of them were more powerful women of the coven and had equal probability of being chosen by the ritual in the first year.

That was the reason she accepted a diplomatic mission to Moscow to defuse potentially dangerous situation between the Daywatch and the Nightwatch. She had close friends in both camps.

Some incorrect intel led her to being trapped in a crossfire between the two groups, and her situation got worse when, due to circumstances, she ended being swallowed by the gloom. All confrontation stopped immediately as all watched Lily falling to the deepest depths of the gloom. They quickly lost the sight of her as she penetrated the forbidden levels, and only the most experience of Others could feel by indirect means and environmental vibrations of magic how deep she was falling.

It took them 24h to extract her, and after a week in a coma and another week in rehabilitation she was back to her family with decoration for rendered services and an order for temporary retirement – it was discovered she was about three weeks pregnant. It was also cleared that it was false alarm for Selene. Of course Lily was overjoyed; though with apprehension how wrong things could have turned. She was being pampered by everyone and being made to promise not to take such risks in the future. Her only fear remained that though medical scans showed two perfectly developing foetuses, she could magically feel only one.

It was the first in line of strange events that would shape the life of Harry Potter.

This is how it ended with this situation some eight months later: Alice and Frank holding little Neville and cheering from behind the glass with the rest of the family, while Lily is giving birth to the twins – Harry and John (James and Lily were great fans of the Beatles and all the culture they represented and felt immense sadness when they disbanded. They decided to call firstborn of the twins Harry which could stand both for Harrison and Harold – name of James' father, and second John.).

After a final push Harry was out and Lily could now identify that he was a shrouded twin. She repeated the work and John joined his brother. She was so happy, they were so beautiful – and it was really the only thing that mattered. All her fears for Harry – which was the reason they opted for the hospital instead of their home – were now lifted.

Lily is a pragmatic woman when it comes to questions of genetics, childbirth and magic. Like James' mother, she follows some customs only on the surface and knows part of it is bullshit and avoids it. She knows magic has its own agenda when it comes to how it distributes its grace. Her research with the Unspeakables showed both James and she were top results of magically enhanced evolution spanning through many dimensions and species – even though they seem human, and they could expect pretty much anything especially after the ritual.

It is the moment she will hold her children for the first time. She takes John first, she feels the warmth of the bond between them and considerable strength. He is perfect, everything they were hoping to achieve and what the public would want him to be – like James. She already knows Alice and Frank are also happy with Neville. This is good, Harry will need all protection he can get, but not because of weakness or malformations. She knows this kind of shrouded pregnancy does not bring squibs into the world, which would almost be preferable. She takes Harry – at first there is the bond and a diffuse feeling coming from his magic, and then she can feel it, beyond what she was prepared to expect.

If she wasn't such a composed woman she would start laughing hysterically at the humour of the gods, the higher powers, the magic or whatever was responsible for the events. It's not the usual type of magic – thank god for small favours, at least it is not detected by the fools from the Ministry and she hopes by anyone else (they would have to touch him at least) – it is her own brand of magic, one she was keeping hidden away even from her own family. Actually this power is not magic as she had learnt to define it through her work. This power lies between what is considered science and what is the most basic nature-based magic; even before science becomes magic there are extreme phenomena it develops, one of them she calls "the force".

While touching Harry she got an image of the great galactic vortex of magic that is bathing stars of the Milky Way, and somewhere on the galactic rim she could see emergence of a new vortex of different nature. The force vortex expanded until it reached size of its magical counter-part. She could see this new object starting to emit waves equivalent to gravitational waves emitted by a black hole. This entire structure actually is a "force" hole – something she didn't think could possibly exist, let alone be created by a person. Looking at the waves of force spreading through the structure of the universe, she saw they created no disturbance either in magic or in ordinary substance and energy; even on the higher planes the force vortex attracted nobody. After several more moments of careful scrutiny and she could let herself relax a little, knowing that Harry's birth attracted no unwanted attention. One last thing needed to be done: Selene and Lily will take the boys to the echo-M chamber at the Unspeakables to make clear assessment of the boys' power.

And so everything was calm in the best of the worlds as the slow and silent tempest prepared to unleash the power. Those of the most powerful players in the power food chain of the universe who did notice something, and would normally crush the source of such disturbance straight away, were all misled seeing that destiny had organised an attack to take place that would either destroy baby's magic or kill the child. No entity of our universe, no matter how powerful, was able to see what was hidden in the shadows of beyond and what just entered our world.