A/N

I'm sorry this took so long, but I got distracted with The Animagus Champion, and nothing short of me running into a hole with no idea of how to proceed, along with the wonder that is Team Fortress 2, to get me back into this story. So, until I figure out what I'm doing with the fic as well as my life, I will be focusing on this story. Sorry. I would like you to remind you all that I am one of the least sane people you will meet, short of someone with a mental disability.

Chapter 2

Two Halves of a Core

Joseph and Dumbledore appeared under a tree in the same park as Harry and the others. They walked over, and AJ spent a few minutes teasing Joseph, which culminated in Joseph chasing AJ up a tree, making barking noises until Emmi dragged him back to their group, where Nathaniel was laughing his butt off, at least until Joseph smacked him upside the head.

Dumbledore was going to just bring Harry back to privet drive, until he realized the strange niggling sensation was Harry's magical signature coming from two directions, and it had changed.

Further investigations revealed that in order to power the apparition, Harry's core had bound itself to Joseph as well, and had adapted to reflect the both of them with their personalities. With two souls powering it, it was growing at an unusual rate, leading Dumbledore to decide that he needed to bring them both to Madam Pomfrey.

Getting Joseph's parents to agree with it was much harder, until Dumbledore pointed out that this could be Joseph's life on the line. Even harder to explain, was that there was a good chance that they couldn't unbind the core, and Joseph would have to begin attending Hogwarts.

The thing that proved to be impossible, was to get Joseph's siblings over the fact that Joseph was suddenly magical, and they weren't. This was most notably present in Ella, who was a huge Harry Potter fan, and Isak, who felt that Joseph always got everything. Dumbledore was getting worried that he would have four new Petunia Dursley's on his hands.

However, all was well, and Harry and Joseph went with Dumbledore went to Hogwarts, where the theory was indeed proven correct. Joseph could no more be unbound from Harry's magical core, than one could cut a diamond with a stick. Well, at leased a stick that wasn't a wand. That would be fairly easy, as there were charms for that sort of thing, as well as just straight up transfiguring it into multiple pieces.

The two souls, had proceeded to increase the magical cores strength, and the core had already increased in size by twenty percent. Harry was shocked to discover that he was a fictional character in the muggle world. This was soon cleared up. As it turned out, the original author was a squib by the name of J.K. Rowling. The first three books were accurate to the tiniest detail, but the next for were clearly wrong, as Joseph had gone completely unmentioned, and Harry was confused as to how this was possible. Joseph had a theory to explain it.

The possible science behind the theory was vastly complicated, but the gist was that in accordance with the theory claiming that every choice made split into several universes, one for each possible choice, every story or fanfic was a universe where something had gone different, and split the story. As such, Joseph was here, and likely in another universe, it had been possible to unbind Joseph from the core.

The staff of Hogwarts began to tutor Joseph in the magical classes, and he took to it like a fish took to swimming. Joseph was also sorted, but into Slytherin, which annoyed both Harry and Snape, but Joseph seemed to have expected it.

It took the entirety of the summer, as well as judicious use of a time turner, but by the end of it, Joseph was at Fourth year level. The time turner had also resulted in him aging to the age of a fourth year, instead of that of a third year.

By this point, everyone had accepted Joseph as a part of the magical world, even snape, who had taken a liking to Joseph, as Joseph seemed to excel at potions, accepting that while it was structured, it wasn't limited as a normal field of study, something most muggleborns, including miss Granger seemed to fail to grasp.

At last, it was September first, and the students were about to arrive. Joseph had remembered to inform Harry and Dumbledore of the likelihood that Harry would be entered into the tournament, but it had been decided to not interfere on that point, as they didn't know what negative effects might happen, instead opting to take advantage of their knowledge to avoid Cedric's untimely death.

With that settled, they sat down and waited for the other students to arrive.

A/N

What do you guys think? I know that Self-inserts are commonly looked down upon, but I feel that my ideas will create an original spin on the concept. Before anyone asks about the Animagus Champion, I got stuck on how to write the next chapter, as it involves a news article, and I don't want to devote the entire chapter to repeating the previous one. Have fun.

Tankinator175.