A/N: I was reading The Wizard of the Kaleidoscope by OnTheImportanceOfLungs when I was inspired to make my own crossover with the Nasuverse and this is what I came up with.

In this story, I've replaced the Aozaki family with the Potters, with Harry having Aoko's role. He'll be three years older than canon and he will not be the Boy-Who-Lived.

Harry will be somewhat of a genius and he will be powerful, but I won't make him super or god-like, at least not in comparison to other characters. There will be people who can match him in terms of strength or surpass him in sheer brilliance. Then there will be those who completely overwhelms him. There's a lot of stories out there where Harry is ridiculously powerful and none can stand up to him and frankly, I find that it just makes the story boring if done so, so there should be no fear of mine having that.

As far as pairings goes, I'm thinking of pairing him with either Fleur Delacour or Tohsaka Rin, but I'm not quite sure which yet. It'll just depend on how well I like the characters in my story, I suppose.

Anyway, enough of that. Onto the story! ;)

Magician of the Fifth

Humanity can be split into two vastly different groups. The mundanes, all of whom goes through everyday life using skills that are not extraordinary, not outside the range of what a normal human should be capable of. These are the people who make up the majority of the world, most of whom live their entire life without once knowing anything of the supernatural save for what they learn in fiction and mythology.

Then there are the magi, humans who can control prana to manipulate the world around them using an art known as magecraft. They are made up of a very small portion of the human population but often highly regarded as wise men, scholars whom are decades and centuries ahead of their time. Back when magecraft was openly accepted by society, it was the magi that people looked to, to advise them.

Those ignorant of the art would oftentimes think magecraft is akin to Magic, but the difference between the two is as great as night and day. Magecraft can actually be replicated by even the mundanes through science. A fireball created with prana can be reproduced simply by setting a stick on fire.

Magic, True Magic, on the other hand, is the ability to do the impossible, defying laws of nature in ways that cannot be done with mere science. The very few who were capable of wielding True Magic, numbering at less than ten throughout history, were referred to as Magicians or Sorcerers, though it would not be inappropriate to call one a magus since they could still perform magecraft.

The knowledge between the difference of magecraft and Magic was known only to those who practiced the art and as such, magi started to refer to magecraft as magic while Magic became known as True Magic to lessen confusion when working with mundanes.

Magecraft was once utilized via divine words, words of power gifted to magi by god-like beings that allowed them to channel prana of the world, known as mana, to use their art. It was so powerful that some of the greatest magi of that time would nearly be on par with a Magician, a feat that's not easily reached.

Unfortunately, after the Age of Gods had come and gone, divine words were lost to the magi of the world, an event that would greatly diminish the powers granted to them by magic. They were forced to find different methods to perform their magecraft as they no longer had any way to properly control prana. This led to the discovery of magic circuits, a circulatory system magi are born with that allowed them to channel od, prana of the body, as opposed to mana and thus giving them greater control over their magic once more.

Merlin, a genius of a magus and a Sorcerer in his own right, sought to bring back the greatness of magecraft by artificially reproducing divine words and was successfully able to create incantations. That, combined with the increasingly popular staves and wands allowed for such great ease of magecraft that even a child would be able to perform it if properly instructed.

Those who worshipped Merlin as though he was a god thought this new system of magic was a blessing. It did, after all, give them fine control over their art and was ridiculously easy to learn compared to how it was previously done yet still allowing them to invent new spells should they wish to.

The other magi, however, didn't think as such. They saw this new system as an easy shortcut that doesn't give true understanding of the art and feared that those who used it would grow dependent on it and become lax. Anyone can be taught to swing a sword but only those who completely master all aspects of it will be able to wield it with great efficiently. The magi believed the same holds true to magic.

It was a topic of many great arguments over the years until wizards, those who use the new system now known as witchcraft and wizardry, having had enough, split away from the magi and formed their own society. Using Merlin's system of magecraft, they thrived for many generations all the while growing egotistical and arrogant in their 'superior' art. Because of the ease in which magic could now be used, wizards grew lazy just as the magi foretold.

Fortunately, not all of the wizarding world became as such. Among them, the Peverell line was one of the most renown family, using both systems of magecraft with surprisingly good results. But what really made this family famous was their discovery of the Fifth Miracle, one of the few remaining True Magic of the world. This led to them gaining great power and prestige in both societies.

As with all magical families, the Peverells passed down the secrets of their art to the heirs of the house. Sadly, True Magic is something one either gets or doesn't get, depending on one's mindset, and no amount of teaching can impart it's secrets to someone else, unlike magecraft. As a result, only three people in history had ever learned to use the Fifth Miracle.

While at first those in the family were greatly hyped up, hoping the next heir would manage what the previous one couldn't, they soon learned not to expect anything. Slowly, even as the Peverell line became the Potters, the Fifth Miracle faded into the background becoming nothing more than a tradition to pass on to the next heir.

And then, Harry Potter was born.

A/N: Well, there you have it. I know its short, but its only the prologue. I'm going to be aiming for 5 to 10k words per chapter after this. I'll try to update at least 2-3 times a week, hopefully more, but I'm making no promises there.

Anyway, the prologue here is just some basic history of the magical world, the birth of wizardry and whatnot. It was necessary to introduce this piece first so that you'd understand exactly how different the Potter family is from the rest of the wizarding world (magical world is everything supernatural while wizarding world focuses only on witches and wizards).

I'll go into more details on the history and explain the differences between the two magic systems as the story progress, but for now, my focus lies with the Potter family.

Until next time! :D