Alternate Universe – 009734 – Opposites:

Again, I do not own the theory of multiple realities. I do not own Harry Potter nor any canon concepts, plots, ideas, or other canonical parts of the story.

Characters; Harry, Hagrid, and the rest of the teachers, Barty Jr., Tom Riddle Jr. Bellatrix

Mentioned: Lily and James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Dark Lord Dumbledore, Minerva

This universe is the opposite in many ways of our universe. Only the major things are opposite. Well, I didn't change James Potter or Sirius Black, very much except to make them extremely lazy or Lily Potter. I didn't change Nymphodora Tonks either, except she's a bookworm and wants to own her own bookstore instead of being an Auror.

Mistakes found and fixed

Intro:

Mr. and Dr. Dursley of number four Privet Drive were very proud to say that they were a progressive and forward looking couple. They were proud of how their house stood out from the others on Privet Drive by being a darker shade of tan than the rest, and by having yellow roses and green lilies and blue daffodils. Doctor Petunia Dursley was a botanist, one of the foremost botany experts in all of Great Britain and had a professorship at Oxford University where she taught 3 advanced courses in botany; they lived near Oxford during the school year and commuted during the summer. She also experimented in botany, to create the unique green lilies and blue daffodils that grew in her gardens.

Mr. Dursley was a muscular gentleman and former European Weight Lifting Champion of 1983, 1984, and 1985, a back injury preventing him from competing since then, and he was the owner and operator of Petunias and Lilies, a national chain of flowershops, opened in honor of his wife and sister-in-law.

The Dursleys had a young son named Dudley, who was a healthy and very mild tempered child, who was well behaved for his nanny.

Even though they had a nanny to watch Dudley while Dr. Dursley was teaching and while Mr. Dursley was minding the business, they did not neglect Dudley. Every Wednesday and Saturday night they went to church together as a family and spent all day Sunday, after church, as a family.

They were very proud to be connected to Lily and James Potter and thought of them as fine people. Their son Harry was often invited over to play with Dudley.

It was just too bad that Lily and James were so very poor.

James was from an old pure blood family, which meant that a lot of jobs were closed to him. Lily was a muggleborn, which would have opened the doors for all kinds of opportunities, if only she hadn't let James get her pregnant. Still, they made do on Lily's salary as a healer for St. Mungo's. If only James would get a job but he was lazy and content to wile away his day with Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew who were in the same house as him when they went to school at Hogwarts. Of course, Peter had graduated Hogwarts last year, as Headboy and top of his class, but James and Sirius had failed both their OWLS and their NEWTS, and were currently enrolled in a ministry remedial course to try and get them to pass. Peter tried his best to help them but there was just not much even he could do when James and Sirius refused to study or rather they refused to answer certain questions on their OWLS and NEWTS correctly.

Their fourth friend, Remus Lupin was a werewolf and Junior Assistant to the Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, a job that he got because of his werewolf status, because Remus was quite stupid. Oh he did manage to pass his OWLS and NEWTS, but just barely.

Little did anyone know that James Potter would die a hero defending his wife and son against Dark Lord Dumbledore. Of course, they did expect that Lily, a brilliant healer and youngest Charms Mistress in centuries, would find a way to protect Harry even from the infamous killing curse.

Dr. Dursley was disturbed to find her nephew on her doorstep and she mourned deeply for her sister. After calling the police and having them investigate, they found that Lily and James Potter supposedly died in a bomb, and Harry was somehow the only survivor. He was hailed as a miracle child in the newspapers for a while. When Harry was about 5, Petunia and Vernon told him the truth about the wizarding world and what happened to his parents, that they didn't die in a car crash, having been killed by a drunken truck driver. They tried to explain all they could about the wizard world, which was made easier by the multiple pamphlets and booklets that Lily's family had been given when she was told she was a witch.

Harry's trip to Diagon Alley:

Madam Malkin was a tall, skinny witch, a serious look on her face, dressed in neutral earth tones.

"Hogwarts?" she said when Harry started to speak, "Got the lot here, another young man being fitted up just now, in fact."

In the back of the shop, a boy with a tan, pointed face was standing on a footstool while a second witch pinned up his long black robes. Madam Malkin stood Harry on a stool next to him, slippeda long robe over his head, and began to pin it to the right length.

"Hi," said the boy, "Hogwarts too?"

"Yes," said Harry.

"My Father's next door buying my books and my mother's up the street looking at wands. It was awfully nice that they could both get off work and come up here for my first trip to the alley for school. I'm so happy that my Father got a bonus at work and can afford to buy me new robes as mine were getting old, but I don't mind. I love my mother and father both and sometimes I get to go to work with my mum and help her around the shop. She helps manage the apothecary down the alley. She's going to buy my stuff with her employee discount. That helps us be able to afford getting me my wand. I wish I wasn't pureblood, because if I was muggleborn, then I would be more valuable to society. Well, at least I was raised muggle. My father works at Asda. He's a store manager. The muggles don't know that he's a wizard. Muggles are such fun aren't they?" asked the boy, "My name is Daniel Malfoy, after Daniel in the Bible, one of my favorite books. What's your name?"

"Harry. Harry Potter," said Harry.

"Oh I know about you. My father told me all about how you defeated the Dark Lord Dumbledore and had to go live with your muggle aunt and uncle. What are they like?"

"Oh, my aunt is a professor at Oxford, my uncle owns and operates a national chain of flowershops that just recently got bought out by Asda and Wal-Mart and will open a chain in the states," said Harry, "and our Nanny, a woman named Bella is a very nice lady. We used to have a nanny named Mrs. Figg, but she was fired because she hit me in my head when I asked about my mum and dad," said Harry, "She was taken away to jail because she was found guilty of stealing from her clients. Then, there's my cousin Dudley," said Harry, looking sad, "He has ALS and is in a wheelchair, but I'm hoping that magic can help heal him."

"Well do you know anything about Hogwarts? I was muggle-raised but my parents still told me about the four houses. There is, let's see, Slytherin for the brave and noble and muggleborns, Gryffindor for the ambitious and sly, Hufflepuff for those who love learning and knowledge, and Ravenclaw is for the rest, mostly the leftover purebloods. I'll probably go there because I'm a pureblood unfortunately. Headmaster Tom Riddle was a Slytherin and Dark Lord Dumbledore was a Gryffindor," said Daniel suddenly sounding sad.

Just then Harry's nanny walked in the store, "Harry, dear, are you finished," asked the nanny.

"Aunt Bella?" said Daniel.

"Danny, it's good to see you. How's Cissy?" asked Bellatrix Lestrange, a notorious muggle lover who denounced magic to move to the muggle world. Imagine her shock when she got hired to raise the Harry Potter. She was delighted.

Harry and the boy shook hands and Harry was glad to have made his first friend in the wizard world.

Later:

They bought Harry's school books in a shop called Borgins and Burkes, a very lovely shop with lots of books, both wizard and muggle. There was a very large section of muggle literature and muggle science-fiction. There were 3 shelves dedicated to Star Trek and another 4 shelves dedicated to Doctor Who. Harry knew these stories well; he had every single book at home, thanks to his and Dudley's love of science-fiction. Bella had to drag Harry away from books such as "Healing for the world" and "Health and magic" and "How to heal almost anything" and "Potions that heal" and "So you want to be a healer," by Gilderoy Lockhart.

He asked the clerk, a young woman named Tonks, "Lockhart is the world's most brilliant healer. A few years ago, people accused him of being a fake, because he's a pureblood, but it turns out, he's not a fake nor a pureblood. Apparently, his grandmother was a muggle. Also he trained in the states at Harvard Medical school after he graduated Beauxbatons," said Tonks, as her hair turned pink, "He's advanced the field of healing by at least 100 years. We've got cures for things we weren't able to cure 15 years ago, like Dragon Pox and Splattergroit."

"What about muggle diseases?" asked Harry, "Do you think he'd look at my cousin?"

"Well, he has started researching muggle diseases, for muggleborn families. Given your fame, I'm sure you could write to him to see if he'd at least consider it," said Tonks, pulling out a business card, "He does a lot of work with my mum and my dad, who are Healers at the new hospital that they helped build called Ariana Memorial Hospital. It's named after Ariana Dumbledore, a witch who became the very first female auror. She died in the line of duty, saving 3 muggleborn orphans from a fire. Aurors are our police and firefighters."

Harry thanked her and left the store. Next stop was Olivander's, a wandmaker and old family but they weren't like other purebloods. For one thing, they always had males, and every single male in their family always married muggles or muggleborn witches. That made them one of the few respected pureblood families.

Harry and Bella approached the building which looked muggle in nature, and like it had just been rennovated. It had a brightly lit neon sign that said, "WANDS" and a picture underneath of someone's hand waving a wand. Harry was pretty sure the picture underneath was magic. A tinkling bell rang somewhere in the shop followed by a loud 'DING DONG' sound that echoed around and around. Harry was sure both were done by magic. There was a small couch by the window, upon which Bella took a seat.

"Ah, Ms. Black, I thought I would see you soon. Ebony, dragon heartstring, 9 inches, good for defense," said Mrs. Olivander, "How is the muggleworld these days deary?"

"It's fine and it's actually Mrs. Polkiss now," said Bellatrix Polkiss, showing her simple gold wedding ring. She had met Jonathan Polkiss, a young man whose wife had been sick with cancer, about 11 years ago. Anne Polkiss died a few weeks after they met. A month later, Jonathan asked her out and they fell in love and got married. They had 3 children, including her stepson Piers. "It will be our tenth year of marriage next week. He's taking me to Canada. Young Harry here is in my charge; I'm his nanny."

"Ah, yes, Mr. Potter. I do hope that you will bring respect back to the Pureblood name of Potter. James was a good lad, but lazy. I don't know why my son Oliver was friends with him. My husband Gary is out today; he's in Romania looking for wand wood. I don't know why, we've got at least seven thousand wands in stock but Gary says that the wand chooses the wizard. Ah well, let's get started Mr. Potter. Please extend your writing hand. That's a lad. Now," said Mrs. Olivander, as she stepped away and the measuring tape began to measure him on its own. "That'll do" said Mrs. Olivander and the tape crumpled on the floor.

"Now, the measurements indicate that you would be compatible with ebony, holly, and ash, and that your most compatible core would be unicorn hair. Let's try these shall we, the first one is ebony, unicorn hair, 7 inches" said Mrs. Olivander. He tried many different woods and core combinations but they didn't seem to work as well. Some were compatible but not ideal. Then Mrs. Olivander stopped and tapped her chin, "I wonder, perhaps...let's try, apple and unicorn hair, an unusual combination as apple is not usually a wand wood, but Gary found an apple tree that was planted in a magical greenhouse.

Harry tired the wand, and was a success, giving off yellow and purple and gold and blue sparks.

"Ah yes, the perfect wand for you. Good Day Mr. Potter," said Mrs. Ollivander.

They walked out of the wandshop, their shopping at an end for the day.

Journey to Hogwarts Summary:

Harry met quite a few people on the train. There was Ron Weasley, a halfblood wizard, with dyed blue, green, and yellow hair, raised in both worlds, Hermione Granger, a 3rd generation pureblood, Neville Longbottom another halfblood. His mom was a muggle and he knew almost nothing about magic until his letter came, due to his dad having been killed as an Auror while putting out a fire shortly after they were married and him being raised by her in the muggle world. His gran never told him he was a wizard until the letter came because he didn't do much accidental magic so they didn't know if he was a wizard or a muggle. His gran didn't want to tell him about magic just to have him be disappointed and jealous if he turned out to be a muggle. So she kept it from him; he knew that she taught at an exclusive school and you had to pass some sort of special test, and that not even she could get him in if he failed the test, but that's all he had known. Now, of course, he knew about Hogwarts because he'd gotten his letter.

It was Percy Weasley who gave them some advice about the teachers.
"There are 4 professors for each of the core subjects, Defensive Magic, Charms, Transfiguration, and Potions. You want to get Professor Snape for Defensive if you can; he's good at his subject and loves teaching. For charms, you want Professor Longbottom, she's the foremost expert on charms in Great Britain; if you can't get her, then get Professor Pettigrew. You want to get Professor Flitwick for transfiguration if possible but Professors Fudge and Prewett are very competent. Professor Fudge is really easy in the first year but he gets harder in second and third years. You also have Professor Prewett this year. She is the world's top transfiguration expert, recognized 17 times by the ICW, but she is very strict and gives a lot of work. She doesn't usually teach the first years, only the fifth, sixth and seventh years, but Professor Walburga Black passed away in August, so they haven't had time to hire a replacement, but Headmaster Riddle is trying. Deputy Headmaster Orion Black is not here because he's in mourning for his ex-wife, so Professor Prewett is acting Deputy. If you get any of the others, they are good teachers too, but I haven't had any of them. My first and second year, I had Professor Fudge for transfiguration, for charms I had Professors Longbottom and Pettigrew. Professor Pettigrew is a muggleborn witch and is very good at teaching. I had Professor Prewett last year for transfiguration and scored an almost perfect score on my Pre-OWL exam. I've had Professor Snape all 5 years so far, and scored very high on my pre-OWL defense exam. You want to get Professor Hagrid, Filch, or one of the Lestrange brothers for potions as they are all very good teachers, but watch out for the Lestrange brothers; they love and favor muggleborns and halfbloods. Professor Hagrid is the most fair of the four."

Sorting Summary:

The door swung open and a short, skinny, red haired witch in Emerald-green robes, stood there. She had a very kind face and a very soft smile.

"The first years, Professor Prewett," said Hagrid.

"Yes, I'll take them from here Hagrid," said Professor Prewett, and she turned and led the first years in. The entrance hall was very grand, but it looked distinctly muggle. In fact, Harry recognized right away as being the same as the entrance hall to Buckingham Palace. He asked Ron Weasley about this and Ron stated that it was to honor the muggles and the muggle Queen. "She's still Sovereign over Wizard Great Britain, and the Minister is her direct liaison," said Ron, "My dad is a halfblood from a family that was 7 generations of pureblood, and my mum is muggleborn. She is the Court Magician to Her Royal Highness the Queen. The Wizengamot, of which my Dad is Chief Warlock, is her representative court. If one is convicted by the Wizengamot, they can appeal to my mum, then the minister, and then directly to the Queen herself if they feel it was unjust. The Wizengamot is mostly halfbloods and muggleborns, the purebloods being kicked off during Dark Lord Dumbledore's reign."

"Now, I don't normally give the introductory speech, as that is Orion's duty, however, I have my own speech to give. You will be sorted into one of four houses. Each house has a long and noble history. You will sit with your house during assemblies, and during dinner, but during breakfast and lunch and afternoon snack, you may sit at whatever table you wish. You are also required to sit with your table at any major feast, and it will be posted in your common room. Common rooms are no longer in the house, due to the increase in the wizard population, we had to rennovate all of the houses to make more dorm rooms. Instead, 2 classrooms near each house are now designated as a study room, with silencing charms and a common room with a place to hang out and play games. Mrs. Umbridge is our caretaker and she sees to the cleanliness of these rooms and asks that you clean up after yourselves. Curfew is at 9PM on weekdays and 10PM on Friday, and Saturday. Sunday we have a small chapel for muggleborns who are religious and is open for prayer during the week. We have a Chaplain on staff, Father Barty Crouch Junior, who will introduce himself during the feast. They should be ready for us now."

She led them into the great hall to be sorted.

Sorting goes like Canon until we get to Malfoy:

"Hm, a Malfoy eh, oh ho, and what's this, Muggle raised. I know just what to do with you," said the Hat to Daniel, "SLYTHERIN"

Then on to Harry's sorting:

"A Potter, and a halfblood, perhaps you will be more like your mum than your dad. He was quite lazy you know. I know right where to put you," said the Hat.

"Not Gryffindor, Not Gryffindor," said Harry.

"Not Gryffindor? You could be great, and Gryffindor could lead you to greatness," said the hat.

"Not Gryffindor, Not Gryffindor," said Harry.

"I suppose you want to be in Slytherin like your dad and mum," said the Hat, "Very well then, better be SLYTHERIN"

Two identical twins stood up and clapped loudly and with dignity. Percy Weasley was wolf whistling saying, "We Got Potter, We got Potter, OH YEAH!" he said doing an air guitar riff.

The red headed twins rolled their eyes. Later Harry would find out from them that Percy was a notorious prankster, even though he had top marks. They were both Prefects, because the twins never did anything apart. Percy said this was his greatest shame, "You try to raise them right but they turn out like this," said Percy, wiping a fake tear from his eye, "Oh where did I go wrong with you two" as he turned and fake-sobbed into Oliver Wood's, his best friend, shoulder. Oliver Wood was the Head of the Slytherin Study group; he also stated that he absolutely hated Quidditch with a passion. "They should ban the game; it's a bloody stupid menace, always distracting people from important things like studying." The twins were nodding along while Percy had a horrified look on his face,

"Blasphemer. Heretic, how dare you befoul the sacred Qudditch," said Percy.

Oliver rolled his eyes, "Percy is captain of the Slytherin Qudditch team and a fanatic about the subject."

"Yes, and I am going to play for the Chudley Cannons, the best team in the league. They've won the championship 5 years in a row. Of course, if I don't improve our scores this year, I'm likely to end up playing for Puddlemere United, worst team in the world. Ugh," said Percy, then he leaned over and pointed at Harry and said, "Pull my finger" to which the twins and Oliver said, "No, don't do it" and Percy nodded and then let out a very loud fart that had the twins and Oliver coughing and gagging, while Percy looked proud of himself. Hermione looked at Percy with a dreamy look, like maybe he could teach her how to do that?

Headmaster Riddle stood up and clapped his hands, "Everyone, it is good to see our returning students and our new first years as well. The prefects will be having an orientation meeting in the morning during breakfast for all first years. Second through seventh years are not required to attend the meeting but are encouraged to help their fellow first years adapt to the school. Now, please let us join Father Barty, our chaplain. If you are not Christian, there is a ring to the left of your plate which has a special silencing charm on it that will block out the prayer. No one here will judge you if you use it. Also, this year we will be having a new chaplain, Rabbi Benjamin Yaxley, for our Jewish students. We are still trying to get other chaplains for other belief systems."

"Let us bow our heads," said a young man, who was wearing the traditional vestments of a Catholic Priest, "Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for your gift of magic, and for the safe return of our students. We pray that you will lead and guide us this year, helping us to stay on the path of goodness and righteousness and helping us to see humanity as you would see it. Oh Lord, our God, who art worshiped and Glorified, we pray that you will help us to better ourselves and each other. Lead us in our lessons and keep us safe from harm. Be with the professors as they teach the students this year and grant them your wisdom. Be with the students as they learn this year and grant them learning. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages Amen."

After the prayer, he waited until the students who had chosen to use the rings removed the rings and made an announcement, "I will be holding prayer and other services, each Wednesday night and Saturday night and Sunday morning. I will also have open office hours from 8AM to 10AM everyday. From 10AM to 5PM, are my counseling hours, and you will require an appointment except on Fridays, when I have walk in appointments of 15 minutes each. You may come by my office any time and leave a note on the desk in the outer office and I will speak to you at Dinner to setup an appointment. If the inner office is open, it means that I am not with a client and I may have time to speak with you. I will also have some limited appointments on Saturday from 10AM to 3PM. If you wish to serve on the altar, please contact me." He then sat back down.

Harry noticed that he had an American accent and asked the twins about it.

George (or Fred) leaned toward Harry, "That's Father Bartemius Crouch Junior. He has a Master's in Developmental and Adolescent Psychology. He has a Doctorate in Theology from some school in Greece. When he was a kid, his father, a devout follower of the Dark Lord Dumbledore, took him to the states, mainly to escape the stigma of being pureblood and a supporter of Dumbledore. He grew up in the states and attended Salem Institute for Mage-craft, and Harvard College of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is a very good chaplain; you can talk to him about anything. You also won't get in trouble and you can go to him if a teacher is being unfair or if you feel that a teacher is being mean or negative toward you, and he will do his best to help you," said Fred (or George).

Ron ate with dignity while Hermione and Percy shoved a lot of food into their mouths. Ron just rolled his eyes wondering where Percy got his horrid table manners from. For that matter, he wondered how a supposedly dignified 3rd Generation pureblood could eat like such a pig. Or how she could possibly giggle at Percy's table manners, and laugh out-loud when he farted on purpose.

Okay I'm going to stop there, because you get the general gist of things. It pretty much continues on like this with people being the opposite of how they were in the books. Percy is a big prankster with horrible manners, the Twins are like canon Percy, Oliver Wood is a study fanatic and hates Quidditch. The Dark Lord Dumbledore in this story that Harry 'defeated' is actually Albus Dumbledore, but his father was a Dark Lord before him.

In this AU, prejudice is against purebloods, because they are thought to be killing magic by inbreeding. So, muggleborns are seen as the most valuable members of society and 1st Generation purebloods; Halfbloods are about equal to muggleborns and purebloods are seen as very low in society, often seen as being the products of inbreeding and therefore inferior. So, a 3rd generation would be highly respected and expected to marry a Halfblood, muggle, or muggleborn to preserve the respect of their family.

In Hermione's case, all 4 of her grandparents were muggleborns; her parents were considered 2nd Generation and so she is 3rd Generation. Her grandparents and parents have seats on the Wizengamot. Harry's mother would have a seat on the Wizengamot, so he would inherit his mother's seat, being halfblood. However, his father's seat was lost due to being an old pureblood family; the seat was regained when he married Lily. Same with Neville Longbottom, whose mother is a muggle. His father's seat will be given to him when he comes of age. The seats don't go away; they are just suspended until such time as a pureblood from an old line marries a muggle or muggleborn.

Arthur Weasley married a Muggleborn witch, also a redhead; he still has his fascination with muggles, which is why he married a muggleborn.

Molly Prewett never married; she became a transfiguration mistress and professor at Hogwarts. She is secretly in love with Headmaster Riddle.

I also made Barty Jr. a priest because pretty much a priest is the exact opposite of canon Barty Jr., especially one that is true to Christianity and a true follower of Jesus Christ. He's not Roman Catholic; he's Wizard Catholic; they have their own Pope, Gellert Grindelwald, who dueled and defeated Dark Lord Percival Dumbledore, when he was just a Priest. I figure the Pope is the opposite of Grindelwald.

Harry defeated Dark Lord Albus Dumbledore.

Ariana became the first female Auror as mentioned in the story and Aberforth is minister for magic, a known spotlight loving politician.

I figure Abeforth in Canon is the exact opposite of Fudge in canon; so in this story, he is exactly like canon Fudge.

Umbridge is the caretaker of the school and loves the children and the children love her. She is kind, gentle, and a generally loving and kindhearted person in this story; In other words, the exact opposite of Canon Umbridge. She is also a squib. Filch, by contrast, is a full wizard and a professor of potions. He is also a very competent teacher and is opposite of his canon self as well, being fair and kind to the students.