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Italics – 'Thought'
Bold – "Spells"
The Guardian of Hogwarts
Chapter 1: The Rise of a dragon
Prologue - 31st October 1981
Fifteen month old Harry James Potter cried out as the strange man came closer to his crib. He watched the man with wide innocent eyes as the man raised the stick in his hand, pointing at the infant in the crib. Harry seemed un-phased by Voldemort raising his stick, and just sat in his crib looking at the man with a look of confusion. Voldemort simply spoke the same phrase for the third time that evening, "Avada Kedavra." The green streak of light emerged from Voldemort's stick but unlike the last two times this happened, the green light hit some sort of shield that was surrounding the child.
Voldemort was shocked beyond belief as to how this was possible; he knew full well that Avada Kedavra couldn't be blocked by any means, so how was it that an infant had managed to do just that. Voldemort tried to stop the light, but he was unable to move his arm in anyway. Both he and the baby were left to watch as the green light tried to penetrate the shield. The baby began to cry out in obvious pain from whatever was happening. Were he not experience pain himself Voldemort would have been pleased.
As the light show continued Voldemort noticed a lightning bolt slowly begin to carve itself onto the child's forehead, just above his left eyebrow, which caused the child to scream in agony. The lights were becoming dangerously bright, and Voldemort soon realized that this impossible event would destroy his body. However, for two reasons he was none too affected by that. The first of which was his knowing that he could not die in the full sense of the word, and secondly, the Potter boy would be destroyed entirely. Voldemort's confusion re-emerged when he saw that the baby appeared to be fading out of existence. Soon, the baby had completely disappeared, leaving his baby clothes behind. With his disappearance, the lights suddenly absorbed into each other and all of a sudden exploded.
The other cloaked figures had no understanding of the events taking place inside the house. Some five minutes ago, a strange light had begun to glow from a window on the second story of the house. The fifteen masked men and women were debating whether they should enter the house, when all of a sudden the whole house exploded in fire. The entire second story was incinerated, whilst the ground level was left in ruins. Unsure of what had happened to their master, and realizing that the Ministry would soon be arriving, the cloaked figures all turned on the spot and vanished.
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"Harry wake up, its time for breakfast." called a voice from somewhere in the house.
Five year old harry woke up sweating and panting. 'that same dream again'
Quickly forgetting about that all too familiar dream, harry soon remembered what today was, and as fast as he could, got washed and dressed and ran down stairs into the dining room.
"Happy birthday Harry my boy" Godric said smiling down at the small boy.
"Happy birthday dear." Rowena said softly while giving him a gentle kiss on the head.
"Thanks mom, thanks dad," harry said excited "wheres uncle Sal and aunty Helga?"
"they will be here shortly Hun, here open your present." she said while handing his a present that was obviously a book.
Ripping off the rapping paper he looked at the book with wide eyes."beginners guide to magic," he said out loud "you mean i finally get to learn magic?" he asked with his excitement barely contained.
"yes, but as long as you let us teach you, we don't need you destroying the house" she said with a smile.
"Thank you mom, i love it!"
"your welcome dear, just be careful" she said
"here son open my gift now, i know you will love it" Godric said handing him a long box that was about 4 feet long and about 1 foot wide.
Harry took no time in shredding the paper from the box and opening it quickly to find himself looking into the shinny surface of a silver sword with the name "Harry Ambrosius" inscribed on the broad side of the sword.
"Its an exact copy of my sword, except for your name and emerald color stones of course, i had the goblins make it specially for you."
"wow... thanks" was all harry could say.
"your welcome son, i will teach you how to properly use it later" Godric said.
"thanks mom and dad, its the best ever." he said with a huge smile on his face.
"were glad you like them harry" Rowena said
"I think your aunt and uncle are here now" Godric said.
just then the front door opened to reveal two people standing in the doorway.
"Uncle Sal, aunty Helga!" harry said as he ran and gave them a hug.
"happy birthday harry" Helga said.
"happy birthday harry, 5 years old already huh?" Salazar said.
"ready for your present?" Helga asked.
"yea, i got a beginners magic book from mom and a sword from dad" harry said.
"wow, then im sure you will love our gifts" Helga said as she and Salazar handed him book shaped presents.
Harry opened them as quickly as he could. harry got "potions: beginners to masters" from Helga, and "Master the mind: beginners guide to occulemency and Legilimency" from Salazar.
"wow, more magical books? i get to learn all this?" harry asked with even more excitement than before.
"yes harry, now that your magical core is forming, you can start learning all sorts of magic now, altho i suggest you start with occulemency, as that will help you learn magic even easier and faster" Salazar stated with a hint of pride.
"ok uncle Sal, im gonna go start right now!" harry said as he ran to the living room and plopped down in a comfortable chair and opened the book on occulemency and began reading.
"nice to see he has inherited your will to learn Helga" Salazar stated.
"so when are you going to tell him?" Helga asked.
"soon, i want him to enjoy his time here, just in case he doesn't take it well" Rowena said.
"i hope he does, he's such a great kid" Salazar said.
"i have confidence in him, his ability to overcome challenges is astounding" Godric pridefully stated.
"yes, but for now, lets head to Hogwarts" Rowena stated.
they all started walking to the door then to the unfinished Hogwarts.
"Harry well be back before diner, be careful son" Godric said.
"ok bye" he quickly replied before going back to his book.
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'hmm so all i have to do is clear my mind and find my core...should be easy' harry thought to himself, as he sat up strait and started to relax.
after 30 minutes, harry was in a deep trance. 'huh i wonder if this is my core, its kinda foggy. the book said it would be somewhat chaotic, but its not, i wonder if i can start organizing everything like the book said' he thought to himself as he started to organize his thoughts into piles.
after another 30 minutes harry returned from his trance, but his head was hurting, and he had trouble concentrating. "i wonder if i did it wrong"he asked to no one, as he started flipping though the book again.
"OH," he said out loud "now i understand, that's what it meant by organizing it in a easy to understand form"
10 minutes later he was back in his mind turning his memories and emotions into book and stacking them like Rowena stacked her book is her library, soon he had many book shelves with many books on each. 1 shelf for emotions, 1 for magic when he was learning it, 1 for memories, and 1 for anything else he would need.
After what felt like many hours he was done categorizing and sorting all of the random things in his mind, he then looked around and then he noticed that he was simply there in his mind surrounded by the light fog, he didn't notice before cause it wasn't on his mind, but now that it was, he realized that there was nothing but him and his book shelves, no floor no sky no sun or anything, wondering how he had made his book or shelves out of nothing, he wondered if he could have a place to put his books, so he closed his eyes and imagined himself standing on the grounds of Hogwarts with the castle just in front of him, with every detail of the castle flashing in his mind he opened his eyes and he was amazed, the castle was there, right in front of him, smiling to himself, he quickly took his books to the school library and then exited the school, but noticed it was still foggy, even though it was clearly sunny, there was a lingering fog, he focused on trying to make the fog go away, but he couldn't make it go away, so he wondered if he could change it into something else, so he focused on a small bit that was in front of him, when he closed his eyes and focused on it, it was like nothing he ever felt, it felt like water that was almost solid but mold-able, an unusual constancy hes never felt before, as he opened his eyes, he saw for the first time what he was feeling, in front of him was a floating ball of liquid blue with a hint of green, as he touched it, it felt like a small shock entering his whole body, but it didn't hurt, it actually felt really good, not wanting to keep it or the fog as it was, he quickly came up with an idea, from his spot, he extended the school past the castle itself onto the grounds, he made the fields, then the forest past that, with the cliff and the great lake and when he was done, he filled the lake with the now liquid fog, altho it barely filled a fraction of the lake, it made the fog go away and it looked really good, now satisfied wit how things looked he left his mind and was back to reality.
he was amazed by the clarity of his mind, he could remember details of almost anything with perfect recollection, then he realized that it was almost time for the sun to set, and that he was extremely tired, and he soon fell asleep.
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"Harry. Harry wake up, why are you sleeping?" Godric asked while lightly shaking harry awake.
"hmm? what time is it?" harry asked a little groggy.
"its almost diner time son, why were you asleep so early in the day?" he asked a little confused.
"well i was sorting my emotions and memories like the book said, and after i did that and put them away in Hogwarts library, then I moved the fog into water to fill the lake then i came out of my mind and was really tired" he explained.
"you sorted your memory's and put them away?" he asked a little disbelieving .
"yea why? i only did what the book said." he stated.
"well it should have been almost impossible for you to find your core let alone do anything there" Godric stated.
"it was pretty easy, all i did after i found my core is organize my thoughts, emotions and memories into books and put them onto shelves, after that, i needed a place to put them so i imagined Hogwarts in my mind, and it was their, so i put them into the library, I didn't like the fog, so I turned it into water and started filling the great lake, altho its basically empty compared to the real lake" harry stated like it was the easiest thing to do.
"well considering what you have done is advanced occulemency, i would say that your a natural occulemens, congrats harry, ill have to go buy you more advanced books on the subject and tell your uncle Sal to give you lessons immediately" Godric said, still in disbelief 'i wonder what other hidden talents he has.' he wondered to himself.
"as it is, i wont you to read and learn the rest of that book, the faster you learn it the better you will be at it." Godric said as he started to the kitchen to tell Rowena about Harry's natural talent.
"yes dad" harry said as he continued reading the book, altho he only learned how to do simple things like make simple buildings to place your memories, but since harry had a castle to store his mind, he quickly finished the book and started on the magical book from Rowena.
End chapter.
AN- well this is the first chapter of my story, this is the first story im writing, so feedback is welcomed, im aware spelling and grammar will not be perfect, but im more into writing this for myself and others for fun, and because this story was floating in my head and i felt like writing it.
hopefully my spelling, grammar, and general story telling skills get progressively better as the chapters go on. i will probably just add chapters as i finish writing/editing them, with no set schedule. thanks for reading.