Harry Potter The Avenger
AN: Thank you to everyone who read the first chapter, and thank you to everyone who reviewed
To answer some of your questions, The story starts before the first Iron man film, sorry I think I forgot to mention that.
I glad that people liked that I didn't make Harry immortal, I'm sorry but unless that is done right it seems very strange when he becomes immortal and then settles down with the avengers after leaving because he doesn't want to see his friends grow old.
About magic being a tool, that's all I see it as, I get some spells need different emotions to cast but everyone has those emotions.
Chapter 2:
It had been almost a year since Hela and brought Harry to this world, and he was lying awake on the bed in his apartment above his café, he knew he didn't really need to work, but he wanted to, if he didn't he would probably end up doing something crazy or stupid or both. He thought back to the first time he had arrived in the city and learnt how much money he actually had.
-Flashback-
Harry walked into the bank and up to the help desk. The young woman behind the desk smiled prettily at him.
"How can I help you today sir?" she asked
"Hi, yes, I'm here to check my accounts, I've just got back from England"
The woman Mary, Harry read from her name tag nodded "Can I please see some Identification"
Harry panicked for a moment, before feeling the weight of a wallet in his pocket mentally thanking Hela, he pulled it out and flipped it open pulling out a New York driving license. The woman checked it before entering a few details into the computer before nodding.
"Follow me Mr Potter" she said and stood up smoothing out her skirt and lead him to a private meeting room.
Harry sat down in the seat opposite her. He restrained from rolling his eyes when he noticed several of her buttons of her shirt were now undone. "Mr Potter" she said, "I am assuming you are not aware of of what your parents left you?"
Harry shook his head. "Nope I have no idea"
Mary nodded "Well then your parents left you a lot, and I mean a lot of money, about $75 million" Harry just stared in amazement. Mary gave a small smile "That money is split across three accounts, an investment account which holds about $50 million. A savings account which holds $20 million and a banking account which holds the rest."
Harry nodded the shock of the fact he was now rich.
Mary continued to talk "I can get your family investment manager to come talk to you when your done here if you'd like"
Harry thought for a moment before nodding "Yes, please"
she nodded and quickly sent off an email, receiving a reply within moments "Ok, Mr Brand will be here in about 10 minutes, is there anything else you require" Harry nodded "I require a credit card, linked to my account and some directions."
Mary smiled and reached into a draw pulling out a form, "fill this in and we can have your credit card ready for you within half an hour"
Harry pulled a pen from inside his jacket and began to fill it in.
"As for directions where do you like to go?" she asked leaning forward slightly and exposing her cleavage.
Harry thought deliberately ignoring her, "I guess an estate agent, if I'm going to be living here I'll need a house."
Mary thought for a moment, a slight look of disappointment on her face "Wait here I think your parents left you a property let me go check" with that she stood and left the room leaving Harry to finish filling out the form.
Mary returned with a set of keys and a map. Her shirt now done up again. She handed them to Harry.
"Here are the keys to your parents property, I don't know what type of property it is but it's listed as having an apartment. The orange dot on the map is its location"
Harry nodded his thanks and handed her the form for his card, There was a knock on the door.
Mary moved over and opened it "Mr Brand, this is Mr Potter" Harry stood and shook the man's hand. "I'll go get your card sorted" Mary said and left the office. Mr Brand took a seat opposite Harry as he sat down.
"Right, as you know I'm your investment manager, do you know much about investment?" he said
Harry gave a half shrug "Not really, I know how they work, but I've never made any"
Mr Brand nodded "Well anytime you wish to make an investment you need to contact me, either by email or phone, I will make the investment for you and send you back a confirmation. It is advised you keep a record of all the investments you make, now I have several suggestions to companies you would like to invest it if you would like to hear them"
Harry nodded "Yes please"
Mr Brand nodded and pulled a set of papers from his briefcase. "Well the three companies I suggest you invest in are Stark Industry's, they are currently the one of the most stable companies in the world and have a recorded growth since world war 2" Harry nodded. "This bank you should also invest it, it's one of the biggest banks in the U.S. And will allow you better interest rates if you invest. The third company is the Osborn Corporation, a research company"
Harry nodded "Ok well invest $1million in each"
Brand looked at him in astonishment "Are you sure?" he asked.
"Harry nodded "If the numbers on these files are correct and they increase at the same rate I should double my investment within a year maybe a year and a half."
Brand smiled "Good, It's good you can see that" he filled out three forms and handed them to Harry to sign. "Now are there any other companies you wish to invest in at this time?"
Harry thought for a moment before shaking his head "I will have a think, do some research and get back to you"
Brand nodded and collected the files. "I will send you those files by post to that property you now own" Harry nodded "Thanks" he said as he shook Brand's hand.
Mary walked back into the office as Mr Brand left. "He's your credit card"
Harry took it nodding his thanks. She handed him another card "Here's my business card, if you need any help don't hesitate to call"
Harry smiled"Thank you" he replied shaking her hand.
She nodded, smiled and lead him to the front of the bank before returning to her desk. Unfolding the map Harry located both the property and his current location. It was about five miles, but Harry wasn't confident of getting there with out help. So after withdrawing $200 not sure how much everything cost he took a taxi from outside the bank to the property."
-End Flashback-
Harry glanced at the clock, it was still an hour till he opened the café, of course Pepper would the be the first one through the door as always. He smiled as he remembered the first time she had come though the door, she had been in a rush, barely having time to say hi and order coffee before rushing off.
Now though she would normally stay and talk to Harry for half an hour or so before going over to Stark Industries where she was Tony Stark's Personal assistant, and in Harry's opinion probably the reason the company ran as smoothly as it did. Pepper was also one of the few people he could honestly call a friend from both his old world and his current one. Of course he wasn't sure how someone as nice as Pepper ended up working for an egotistical playboy such as Tony Stark, but that wasn't something he was ever going to ask her.
Making his way downstairs he switched on the power to his coffee machines and oven before switching on the TV over the bar and moving over to the door and unlocking it, of course the door was also tied into the rune ward system he had built around the café and apartment so unlocking it dropped the wards allowing people to enter. He gave a smile as he saw Pepper's Audi A5 pulling into the park lot. He blink in surprise when he realised much he looked forward to seeing Pepper every morning, not in an I fancy her way but in an I enjoy her company way.
"Hi Harry" Pepper said with a smile as she walked though the door and took her usual seat at the bar.
"Hey Pepper, the usual?" Harry asked as he smiled back. Pepper nodded and he set about making her, her one shot vanilla latte. He slid in front of her with a smile before sitting down on the stool behind the bar. He looked at he thoughtfully, she looked like she hadn't gotten much sleep last night and there we the signs of worry in her eyes.
"What's up?" he asked.
Pepper smiled sadly "It's Tony, He's heading off to Afghanistan in a couple of days to show off his new weapon and there's nothing I can do to stop him" Harry nodded in understanding, he had seen the press report on the TV that morning.
"Well he's got the entire military watching his back, so I'm sure he'll be fine" he said with a soft smile. Pepper smiled back gratefully as Harry moved off to greet the customers that had just come through the door and collect their order.
Harry came back over and slid several bacon baguettes into the over to warm them up. "You know" Harry said with a smirk that Pepper had come to know normally meant trouble or a really bad idea."You could give him an incentive to stay"
Pepper looked at him warily "What kind of incentive?" She asked. Harry put the baguettes along with the coffee onto a tray and shrugged "You could sleep with him" Pepper just sat there in surprise not really sure what to say.
Harry came back over tray empty. "
I can't sleep with him, he's my boss" Pepper protested.
Harry shrugged "So, he's Tony Stark no-ones going to care"
Pepper just shook her head "I can't it would be wrong of me, anyway he doesn't look at me that way"
Harry raised his eyebrow "Really? Your funny, beautiful and smart, he's an idiot if he doesn't"
Pepper smiled at him. "Thanks" she said, almost shyly before standing up "Well I've got to go now"
Harry waved as she headed off to her work. With a sigh Harry turned up the TV so he could hear the news and settled down for a day of serving people who would be in and out as quickly as possible. Of course his day could never be that simple.
It was late afternoon when a black SUV with black out windows pulled up. Three men in crisp black suits and sunglasses stepped out, Harry's eyes noticing the concealed weapons beneath their jackets. He went to palm his wand before remembering what had happened several months earlier.
-Flashback-
Harry had just closed the café for that day and he made his way into the basement which he had built himself and shielded as best he could. He had transformed the basement into a gym with a punching bag as well as weights, a training ring with a dummy he had animated to fight against him and a range down which he could practice his spells. He hadn't yet tried out any offensive spells with the elder wand. He stood at the end of the range and drew the elder wand.
"Stupefy" he cried out. Pain shot through his hand, so intense it made him fall to his knees, the wand and his hand were encircled by a glowing white light. The wand began to shrink and the pain grew like a burning on his palm. The wand vanished in a flash and one last stab of pain shot though his hand before it disappeared. Gasping for breath he looked down at his palm and stared in shock there on his palm was the symbol for the deathly hallows burnt into his skin. He touched it with the fingers of his other hand and could feel the magic seemingly waiting to be released. He looked at his hand with suspicion before a thought came to him.
He got to his feet and raised his hand "Expelliarmus" he called out. The red light of the spell jumped from the scar on his hand. He nodded before raising his other hand and repeating the spell, nothing happened so he nodded again. It seemed some how that the elder wand had bonded with his palm meaning he could never lose his wand again, he smiled slightly when he thought of this.
-End Flashback-
Two of the men stayed outside while the third came in and removed his sunglasses. He had short dark brown hair that was receding slightly at the front and blue almost grey eyes. He moved and sat down in front of Harry.
"Mr Potter?" he queried.
Harry nodded "That's me" The man nodded. "My name is Agent Phil Coulson I work for the government, I'm hear to find out what you know about Tony Stark." Harry raised an eyebrow. "About as much as any other person I guess, it's not like he's all over the TV or anything" Sarcasm coming easily.
Phil looked at him clearly not amused "Why did you open this business?"
Harry shrugged "Because I need something to do with my time" confusion evident in his voice.
"Miss Potts, what's your relationship with her?" was Coulson's next questions.
Harry looked at him "She's a friend, look why are you asking me all these questions?" Coulson raised his eyebrow"Tony Stark is an international weapons builder for the U.S."
Harry sighed "And you think I might be a spy because I'm getting close to his P.A?" he asked.
Coulson nodded with still not reaction"After meeting you I do not believe you are a spy or a terrorists however we will be keeping an eye on you" he stood up to leave. "Good day Mr Potter" with a nod he left and got in to the SUV with the other two men. Harry just shook his head in confusion. At least they had no way of monitoring his basement.
Far across the galaxy at the entrance way to the realm of Asgard, Heimdall the watch of worlds saw all that was happening on Midgard with particular interest the young Warlock in particular he would watch and when the time was right he would tell Odin of his observations.
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