/* See my profile for standard ownership disclaimer. This is a challenge I first saw on LifeJumper123's story Harry Potter-Lee. The requirements:
Harry must be raised by famous person or reincarnated famous person. DONE.
If Harry is raised by a famous person, he must return to his timeline before or during any of the school years. DONE.
Harry must somehow change the Muggle World, Magical World, or both. If he is raised by a famous person, he can change the past, present, or both. DONE.
Relationships: Harry and anyone female or Harry/Harem. Absolutely no slash. DONE. To be honest, I never got the Harry/Draco and Harry/Voldemort slash stories out there, but that's may be just me.
OPTIONAL: Super/Godlike Harry. DONE.
Note: I may be loose and free with dates, places, and facts, but it's fiction. Deal with it. Leggo!
*/
Lily and James Potter were sitting on a sofa in the living room of their cottage in Godric's Hollow thinking about the prophecy that Dumbledore had just told them. "For neither can live while the other survives" was as clear as prophecies generally came. They knew that either their baby boy or the son of their good friends the Longbottoms would be destined to defeat the Dark Lord Voldemort.
So, the Potters started thinking about ways to keep their son alive long enough to defeat Voldemort. While they already had the Fidelius on the cottage, they also wanted a backup plan in case the worst were to happen.
James and Lily, with their intelligence and access to the extensive and ancient Potter library, started researching. After a few weeks, they finally found a solution: a ritual that a Potter had created as an ill-fated attempt to go back in time to meet Alexander the Great. Lily quickly got to work recreating the Arithmancy of the ritual in an attempt to successfully modify the ritual to not only send Harry back in time, but bring him back to the present time.
After weeks of nearly continuous work, Lily managed to modify the ritual enough to incorporate a block on Harry's core in an effort to blend in with the most likely Muggle society he'd be placed in. The block would be broken when his magical maturity hit at the age of 17, at which point the ritual would be reversed and the ritual and return Harry to his time.
Unfortunately for the Potters, they could not effectively determine where or when Harry would end up, other than the fact that he could be sent back between 100-200 years back. They determined to go along with the ritual, despite the unknown factors, hoping he would be sent to a time and place without the bloody war he was destined to win in Magical Britain.
On the fateful night when Voldemort came knocking, Lily and James both met their deaths with a smile, denying Voldemort the satisfaction of their begging while also providing the sacrifice necessary for the ritual.
October 31, 1845
Clarksburg, Virginia, USA
Thomas Jackson was on a short leave of absence from the Army before taking a position teaching at Virginia Military Institute under his old friend and comrade-in-arms Robert Lee. Taking a late-night ride around his parent's land, he saw a bright flash of light a couple hundred yards away. Drawing his cavalry sabre and sidearm, he cautiously nudged his horse Sally towards the light.
Not seeing anything suspicious, he dismounted his horse and approached on foot. He was shocked to find a baby wrapped in a blanket looking curiously at him. He decided to pick up the baby and take him back to his parents. His mother, Julia Jackson, immediately took to the baby with his jet-black hair and glowing green eyes. She noticed a letter tucked into the baby's blanket, opened it and read it aloud.
"His name is Harry James Potter, and it says here that he was born in 1980, and was sent back in time when his parents died this day in 1981 by a magical ritual." Since both Julia and her husband Jonathon were both Squibs, the idea of magic was not a shock to the family.
"His magical core was blocked as a part of the ritual, and he'll go back after his magical maturity, and that he'll have to fight a war against a Dark Wizard. Until then, it asks that we look after Harry as if he was our own. That shouldn't be a problem, right Jonathon?"
"Yes dear, that shouldn't be a problem. We can put him up in Thomas' old room. We can tell him about how we found him when he gets older."
And thus did Harry James Potter become Harry James Jackson, resident of the great state of Virginia in the United States in America.
