Harry Houdini: The Eye of Horus

by randomrunner14

The Dursleys died in a car accident when Harry was five. Growing up on the streets taught Harry Potter many things though he would become most famous for his skills as a Street Performing Magician. Now 15 Harry is finds a tarrot card in his performance money. AU Multiple Cross Overs

1. Prologue

A/N: I do not own Harry Potter or any characters from that universe. Some Ideas have been taken from the movie Now You See Me. I do not own that movie either.

Fifteen year old Harry Potter stood in the middle of a quick moving crowd in the middle of London. He sighed deeply as he reached in his pockets for his tools of the trade, a deck of worn cards, a couple of coins of various sizes and currency, some string and rope, and some other slight odds and ends and of course the always present and always useful, pocket knife. Now some might question the exact trade that required such objects others might question why a fifteen year old boy would need to know a trade to begin with in the current age after all this was the end of the twentieth century this boy should be in school!

Both of these points could be addressed with a quick history lesson on the life of the Boy-Who-Lived as he was known by a portion of the English and indeed worldwide population. After Harry's parents died; or at least he figured they had died since he wound up living with his aunt and uncle in Surrey, a baby Harry had been left of the front porch of his aunt and uncles like the morning post or the milk delivery. Over the next several years Harry grew up with his family largely ignored though never mistreated directly even occasionally joining the family for outings into town. It was on one suck outings into London that Harry saw his first Magician, not your fantasy magic with a wand and spells as everyone knew such things simply did not exist and were just for bed time stories, no this was an illusionist, a sleight of hand, an escape artist. Over the next year Harry taught himself the early basics of being a magician the simplest of card and coin tricks and some basic escapes from ropes. This newfound love of magic tricks would save Harry's life when Harry and the Dursley's were in a car accident with a drunk driver and his new skills would allow him to escape the burning blaze. The Dursley's were not so lucky

Now ten year later a far more talented Harry Potter began his first performance for the day.