Welcome one and all to the revised version of 'It's A Kind of Magic'. This is set after the events of a story called 'Ashes to Ashes: The Curse of the Goblin King' although you do not need to read that to understand what is going on here. I will be taking down the previous incarnation of this story before too long.

This story is dedicated to everyone who I have kept waiting for an update on 'It's A Kind of Magic' and comes with my sincerest hope that you will enjoy this version as much as you seemed to enjoy the other version.

Summary: When, on his eleventh birthday Harry Potter walks into Gringotts bank, his life will be changed forever- his past, his present and his future. How will the story of the 'Boy Who Lived' be changed by a Harry Potter who knows his destiny and has a circle of allies the likes of which will make Albus Dumbledore look like a bumbling first year. This Harry Potter has real power that the Dark Lord knows not; the love part is just a bonus.


Prologue: Ashes to Ashes

Once upon a time in a kingdom far away, there lived a beautiful princess. Life wasn't easy for the young princess for her wicked stepmother worked her like a slave. But what no-one knew was that the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with the girl and had given her certain powers. The princess knew that if she wished it, the King of the Goblins would keep her brother in his castle forever and ever and turn him into a goblin. So one night when the princess could take the burden no longer she called to the King of the Goblins for help.

"Goblin King, Goblin King! Wherever you may be, take this child of mine far away from me!"

The King of the Goblins granted the princess' wish and took the baby away to his castle at the centre of a vast labyrinth. Too late the princess realized that she still loved her baby brother and so she pleaded with the King to return him.

"What's said is said," the Goblin King responded, for he took his promises very seriously. But the Goblin King did not have it in his heart to refuse the Princess for he still loved her a great deal.

"You have thirteen hours to solve the Labyrinth before your baby brother becomes one of us forever."

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered she fought her way to the castle beyond the goblin city to take back the child that he had stolen. The Goblin King offered the princess her heart's desire if only she would bow to him. But her will was as strong as his and her kingdom as great. He had no power over her.

The princess returned home with her baby brother confident that she had seen the last of the Goblin King. And sure enough, the Goblin King never troubled her again.

Yes, that is the story which you have most likely been told- however, as everyone should know, things are not always what they seem to be- while it is true that the princess wished away her baby brother only to win him back a mere eleven hours later; the princess did indeed leave the king behind- forgetting him entirely by the time she had woken the next morning.

Five years later, the princess, who had left her childhood home in favour of a foreign land, came across a woman who restored her memories of her time in the Goblin Kingdom. This woman, it transpired was the Goblin King's sister- the Queen of the Fireys. The Firey Queen told the princess of a terrible curse which bound her to the Goblin Kingdom and asked her to help break the curse. The princess agreed and was sent back in time to the very start of the present Goblin King's reign in order to win his heart and end the generations old curse.

The princess succeeded, and after falling as deeply in love with the Goblin King as he had with her, became the Goblin Queen. In time the Goblin King and Queen were blessed with the arrival of twin heirs- a beautiful little princess and a handsome little prince. While both of them had inherited their mother's raven locks, the princess inherited their father's blue eyes while her brother's eyes were the same emerald green as their mothers'.

All was well in the Underground, until the day the Kingdom of the Fireys was attacked. The land was plunged into war. In order to protect their precious babies the Goblin King and Queen sent them to the Aboveground, the mortal realm, separated for their own safety.

Soon, but not soon enough the war came to an end- happily in the favour of those who were allied with the Goblin King and Firey Queen; it was time for the Goblin Prince and Princess to come home. The Princess was found safe and sound, just where they left her, her surrogate parents were rewarded with a baby girl of their own. Sad to say then that the same could not be said for the Prince; the boy's guardians had been slain in an Aboveground war and their beloved son was lost to them; hidden by wards erected around him for his own safety.

The King and Queen never lost hope that one day they would be reunited with their son; little did they know that their prayers would be answered on the occasion of a lonely orphan's eleventh birthday.

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Next time: Harry Potter turns eleven and Jareth re-orders time