AN: Thank you for the reviews, didn't expect any from the very short prologue, this chapter will of course be longer and will hopefully show somewhat how I have planned the story.
-Forever: There will of course be some Dursley bashing, already in this chapter actually. Weasley bashing won't be that massive, mostly Ron and Molly because they have so many annoying personality traits. About the horcruxes, I won't have them in the story because frankly I think they were a massive mistake to begin with.
Thanks for the feedback.
Chapter 1: Destiny revealed
Awareness was starting to come back to him slowly, but something was different. Opening his eyes and looking around he noticed two things that was slightly unsettling so to speak. First of all, all around him was a white light and secondly, he was floating in the middle of it. For most people this would be very unusual, but Harry was quite an expert for making the impossible happen by now, so didn't feel that scared. He still felt at peace even and he couldn't understand what the light was doing to him.
Suddenly he heard a voice coming from everywhere around him, a soft, yet demanding voice that required complete attention.
"Welcome young one, we have much to talk about before you leave this plane." It said. That's it; I've finally lost it, might as well answer I guess.
"Where am I?, What am I doing here?, Who are you?" he asked quickly before the voice could respond to any of the questions and he heard a chuckle coming from everywhere around him.
"You're starting to sound like your dear friend Hermione by now you know. Not very surprising considering what is meant to happen, but still quite amusing young one." The voice continued. "However, I will answer your questions if you don't interrupt me. You are in the plane of dreams and visions that separates the dead from the living, so to simplify it, you're in your own mind and this is a vision I've drawn you into."
Alright, that sort of makes sense…maybe. Harry thought trying to process the information. "Why am I here then?, and who are you?". He asked still fairly confused about why everything had to happen to him.
"I've had many names in my life, but to you I'm known as Merlin. I'm the former Arch Mage of Light, wielder of the Mace of Light and protector of magic in this world, and you my dear friend will be the first Arch Mage since my death over 1000 years ago." The voice explained calmly while I just floated around trying to absorb just what it was saying. Yep that settles it, I've lost my mind completely, and I didn't even finish my letter to Hermione.
"I'm see you don't believe me, but I assure you it's all quite true. You have reached your 16th birthday and therefore I can finally give you what is rightfully yours and you can take control of your life,destiny and fight against Voldemort. Also, do something about that bushy haired friend of yours; she won't wait around forever you know." Merlin continued the conversation in the same tone and while I would normally be ranting and screaming by now I still felt the strange peaceful feeling inside me and I was starting to wonder if it was all true, and then I realized what he had said.
"What do you mean do something about Hermione?" I said confused and Merlin sighed and I could almost hear him shake his head.
"You mean all that talk about life and destiny and it's the bushy haired friend part that caught your attention. The joys of being young and foolish I guess." He muttered and I couldn't help smiling for some reason.
"First things first, when you wake up you will have received all the knowledge about spells, laws and life that me and the other Arch Mages have gathered through the years, both in life and in death. You see, Arch Mages never truly die, and we just leave our mortal bodies and stay to assist the next one in line by giving advice. Therefore we will be able to speak to you in your mind when you need our help or just require someone to talk to. It's not like we have much else to do you know.
Also you will receive a large amount of power making you the most powerful wizard alive and you will use the Mace of Light from now on, when you first touch it, it will also destroy Voldemorts scar connection to you making you free of him, but don't be fooled. You can still fail if you get too overconfident and considering what Voldemort would do if he won, failure isn't an option.
Your body will develop to be able to handle all this information and power, but I doubt you will be depressed about the changes, you are quite scrawny you know." He said ignoring the frown at the last part of his speech.
"You will also get some of our personality traits, nothing big, but you will be able to stay calm better, and the knowledge will make you think more carefully about things and show more wisdom. You will also command respect when you talk, similar to what you can see me do." Merlin stopped for a second after that before continuing.
"Your mission isn't only to defeat Voldemort, but also change the magic world as it need to be changed. Dumbledore has lost his way and is now more interested in controlling your life and trying to lead evil to redemption, just look at Snape. The Ministry of Magic is corrupt and needs to be cleansed from bigots and self-serving idiots. Finally, you need to open your eyes for the one person you are meant to be with young man, to your soul mate." Merlin said in a slightly happier voice at the end.
Harry, shocked what he had just heard, mostly about the Dumbledore part since he still had some respect for the old man, but that was changing quickly the more he thought about it. "My soul mate?, I've never heard of a soul mate before, not in the magical world that is at least." He asked and wondered if the surprised would ever end this night, or was it still night?, never mind that and stay focused you dimwit. He thought and mentally slapped himself.
"A soul mate is something that only an Arch Mage receive, personally I believe it is because fate realizes that a person who has such a large mission needs some sort of reward for it. Your soul mate will make you whole, complete you in every way you need and will most importantly make you happy.
You still need to work on your relationship, but you will have the ability to speak in your minds to each other and feel the others feelings. She will also be able to draw from your power if needed and if you allow it, this will help to protect her from those who will try and go after you through her. Your soul mate is your best friend, Hermione Granger. "
Now that is a lot to take in. Harry thought weakly. How could Hermione be his soul mate?, he's never had those feeling for her, has he?, and he sure as hell hadn't been able to talk to her in his mind or tell her feelings. Not that he had ever been able to tell what a girl was thinking though.
"I'm sure you are wondering why you haven't noticed her before. It is fairly easy you see, around the time you would have started to notice girls you had already subconsciously decided that since Ron liked her, you couldn't. Therefore you chose to see her as a sister instead not noticing that she didn't care about Ron that way. That she both then and now is in love with you and only you."
Harry thought about it and realised that it was probably true that he liked Hermione. It was the only person he felt completely comfortable hugging and touching in some way. He thought about her when she wasn't around, and he felt awful if she was depressed about something. All because he yet again, and not even consciously, decided to take the noble route and leave her to Ron. Why?, I should have known that it was her choice to make and not mine. You stubborn idiot Harry.
"I see you've understood it now, and I don't think I need to tell you to write her as soon as you wake up." Merlin chuckled.
"No you are quite right there." Harry replied feeling slightly stupid and annoyed with himself. "How is it I've never been able to talk to her in my mind or sense her feelings though?" He asked curiously.
"Your soul mate bond will establish itself when you first kiss, which in my opinion should be as soon as you can do it, I doubt she would complain about it. Though, you might have to explain to her after what had happened, or before, your choice. Remember you still have to work on the relationship, you have to treat her well." Merlin implored.
"Believe me, after every stupid mistake I've made regarding her I will make sure I treat her best that I can." Harry replied strongly.
"Good, Dumbledore was right with one thing, love is the most powerful magic there is. Speaking of the old fool, you have to be careful about him. He means well, but he sees people as chess pieces and not human beings anymore. He controlled your life so far, he sent you to the Dursleys, set up silly tasks for you to complete at school and made you feel in debt to him. Don't let him confuse you again like this.
Also, beware of the Weasleys, or at least Molly, Ron and Ginny. Ron will be jealous and angry over your powers and Hermione, meanwhile Molly will try to help Dumbledore to control you since she has too much faith in the man, and she also wants you with Ginny, therefore she might try to interfere in your relationship with Hermione.
Ginny is almost obsessed with you by now, so she will probably try to do the same thing. They are decent people though, just misled so be careful to how hard you treat them." Merlin said in a more subdued voice.
Harry felt angry and depressed from what he had just heard, but he noticed the personality traits had already helped him because he still had some calm about him and he didn't start screaming or anything.
"I think our time here is coming to an end young on, or I should probably say Arch mage now. You can call the Mace of Light to you at any time when you need it and you no longer require a wand since you are fully capable of any spell wandlessly. Besides, I doubt any wand exists that can handle the amount of power you can put into a spell.
When needed the Mace will act as a wand for you, it will put a little extra power into your spells, but it's mostly there as a melee weapon and a symbol for who you are." Merlin said. "It is time for me to leave you know, but we're always there if you need us for anything. Take care young Arch Mage, be careful with your power and go by yourself some new clothes."
Suddenly Harry felt hisself falling rapidly and the light was disappearing around him and then everything went black again.
He slowly opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was his Uncle Vernon towering over him in rage with the vein pulsing in his forehead and drool dripping from his mouth.
"Now that's something you don't want to see when waking up." He muttered to himself while blinking a few times. Apparently his need for glasses had vanished as well because he could see perfectly. Also his body felt bigger, he would have to look into that when he had taken care off the walrus above him.
He didn't really feel like having an argument with a yelling Vernon at the moment considering the massive headache he had from all the information, knowledge and sheer amount of power he felt going through him. However, he very much doubted his Uncle would care how he felt, so instead he just asked in his now strong and calm voice. "What is the matter Uncle?"
"Don't you dare talk to me in that tone boy!, What have you done to yourself, you look different, and what's with the yelling, people are trying to sleep her you know. This is not acceptable, if you don't behave I will make sure you are punished, despite what your freaky friends threatened to do to me." Vernon yelled angrily. Normally I would have been afraid, but now I knew he couldn't touch me and I mostly thought about the irony of it all. Well if my yelling didn't wake people up this idiot sure did now.
I slowly stood up while Vernon continued to look like a heart attack was seconds away while muttering to himself, I was sure I heard the words boy and punish over and over again. Not really feeling in the mood to deal with him at the moment I merely waved my hand at him and said "Sleep and forget" and only a second later he fell to the floor sound asleep without a care in the world.
I'm going to like this I think, though I should probably be careful how much I use my powers while here, I'm still underage at the moment, but according to these laws that can be fixed. He thought while going through the laws about emancipation in his mind.
He was now the Magical heir of Merlin thanks to being the next Arch Mage after him, so he could use that to get emancipation since he was over 14 years old. Though he would have to hide it from Dumbledore until it was completed since the old man had a lot of power in the Wizengamot and would probably try and overturn it if he could.
First he levitated Vernon back to his room where surprisingly Petunia was still asleep, or perhaps she had just fallen asleep again. He made sure to only bump Vernon's head against the door three times which earned him a grunt from his Uncle every time he hit the door.
After going back to his room he sat on his bed and pulled out parchment and a quill to do a list and then to write Hermione that letter which he had postponed way too long. By now he was feeling really guilty about it all, especially since she was apparently his soul mate and he realized his very strong feelings for her.
After half an hour on working on his list and planned he had reached the following:
Write Hermione and then visit her and tell her everything.
Gain emancipation without anyone's knowledge by visiting Gringotts and take control of Merlin's ring and vault.
Destroy Voldemort.
Get rid of Dumbledore from the school and your life. ( may need to wait a bit with this, too much political power )
Gain a controlling number of votes in the Wizengamot to appoint a new Minister, preferably Amelia Bones. Number of votes required is 50, currently have: 1.
Not the easiest list ever done, but with his new powers, intelligence and wisdom he was fairly sure he could pull it off. He spent the next hour by writing a letter to Hermione.
Dear Hermione,
I am sorry for many things I've done these past two months. I'm sorry for leading you to the Ministry, I'm sorry that you got hurt and I'm very sorry that I cut you off from me when you just wanted to help me. This night I've had a realization of sort, I will explain it all to you when we meet the next time.
Meanwhile I want to thank you for everything you've done for me the past years and I wish I had been an equally good friend to you. You mean the world to me Hermione, and when we meet I will explain a lot of what have happened and some feelings I've never understood before.
Don't worry about me anymore, I feel fine and everything is going to be alright. No, I'm not insane, you will understand in time.
Love, Harry Potter
It was hard not to write down everything that had happened and his feelings about her, but he wanted to do it in person. After sending Hedwig of with the letter he finally lay down and went to sleep with a small smile on his face.
The next morning he woke up at 7am for some reason and decided to try something he forgot last night. He raised his right hand and called for the Mace of Light, after just a second a bright white light showed up and a fairly short mace with carvings all over appeared in his hand. It was a beautiful piece in all different colours and it had a glow to it that made everyone that saw it understand that it was special. Finally the handle was made of pure silver and it increased all his positive feelings just by being close to it.
Sending it away for the moment he dressed and went downstairs where none of the Dursleys had shown up. He cooked some bacon, eggs and toast for himself not bothering to do anything for the others anymore. His time as their personal slave was over, he was going to disappear from here as soon as his emancipation was completed and it wasn't like any of them could stop them now when he could use magic.
Around the time he finished eating he heard the Dursley's coming down as well, though he compared Vernon and Dudley walking in stairs with an earthquake. They all stared at him when they walked inside and probably wondered why he was sitting their eating without permission.
Vernon found his mouth faster than his brain as usual and barked out. "What are you doing eating before us boy!, Stop that and start making us food instead, we're hungry." He said angrily. Harry doubted at this point he could say anything without being angry.
"I don't think I will Vernon, I'm just going to go up to my room again and leave you alone." Harry replied smiling slightly in a way would make his Uncle lose his temper even quicker than normal.
Vernon's vein started showing again and Harry was severely tempted to make him go to sleep again, but he needed to make a statement and just continued looking at him instead. Vernon opened and closed his mouth several times, probably trying to think of something to say. Can't be easy for him, thinking that is. Harry thought while waiting for an answer which at last arrived.
"Now see here boy, you will do as you are told or I will punish you myself." He almost yelled with spit flying all around him destroying what was left of Harry's food in the process.
"I don't think I will, you see Vernon, I can use magic now and I'm not going to be some kind of slave for you. I'm going to mind my own business and so are you, otherwise you will suffer the consequences for your action." Harry said forcefully while summoning his Mace to make it more impressive. The Dursley's almost cowered after seeing this and Harry smiled in what he assumed was a menacing way and walked up to his room hearing whispers behind him.
Now that's been taken care off, time for Gringotts and a visit to Hermione then, perhaps new clothes first, I have to look the part as well. He thought while opening his door.
AN: First chapter is now complete, I hope you enjoyed it. They will be between 3 000-4 000 words each depending slightly on what they contain. Feedback and reviews are always welcome and the next chapter will be posted probably during the weekend.