Beginnings

"Court Case of Harry James Potter, this session is in order." The judge said banging his gavel while everyone sat in their seats. "Will the Prosecutor please come forward?"

Harry slowly stood up which was hard and painful even when Hermione's helped and Emma gave him the crutches. Harry slowly made his way forward and sat himself in the chair next to the judge which was higher than his podium and Harry's lawyer stepped forward.

"Mr Potter, please describe how your life was during your stay at your aunts house." The man said with sympathy to the boy.

"I would rather condemn a person to hell." Harry replied making everyone gasp at the implications. "I was starved for not doing chores properly, I was beaten for doing good in school and I was beaten for being late getting home after getting beaten by my cousin and his gang." Harry said and everyone jumped in their seats when Vernon jumped out of his seat roaring in anger and launched himself across the room to punch Harry in the gut.

Harry flew three feet away landing on the floor making him scream out in pain and curl into a ball while he cried. Five security guards were needed to force Dursleys back into his chair and they cuffed his legs together to the chair and his hands together to the table.

"Harry, are you okay?" Emma asked as she helped him to his feet and he yelped in pain a few times.

"I'll be fine." Harry said as he stood with him resting heavily on his crutches with his hands lightly holding them so not to aggravate his broken bones. "I just want to see them get what's coming to them."

"I have reached my decision." The judge said standing up and everyone looked at him while Emma and Dan still helped Harry into his seat. "Vernon Dursley, you are sentenced to life in prison and a fine of fifty thousand pounds. Petunia Dursley, your are sentenced to life in prison with a fine of forty thousand pounds. Dudley Dursley is sentenced to five years in Juvenile centre and will become a ward of the state once released."

The jury applauded the man's decision while Hermione was hugging Harry and both were crying happily into each others shoulders. The two were lead to the car and drove home to where Harry instantly fell asleep once he lay on his bed and Hermione snuggled up to him under the blanket after her parents left the room.

"Harry, Hermione." Emma yelled as she made breakfast and an owl stood on the counter in front of her with two letters on it's leg. "You've got Owl."

"Our letters." The two yelled happily sliding down the stairs railing before running into the kitchen and getting the letters from the owl and ran into the living room while the sound of tearing paper was heard. Emma scooped the breakfast onto plates for the two and took it for them.

Entering the living room she sat the two reading their letters with giddy grins on their faces. "Here, eat your breakfast first and I'm sure someone will come to take us to Diagon Alley." She told them and they ate their breakfast while talking rapidly about the school and Harry summoned his Manybook choosing Hogwarts: A History and they pointed out different paragraphs to each other.

They ran back upstairs with their lists and got into clothes for the day. Harry decided to wear a dark brown skin tight shirt, slightly baggy jeans with running shoes and his fox ears and tails were out while he let his hair hang loose and free.

Hermione wore a skin tight red shirt which showed off her breasts and she blushed slightly when Harry's eyes lingered on them even though she knew he was really a girl, she wore dark black jeans and running shoes letting her curly hair that reached her waist like Harry's hang loose.

Harry was strapping his six katana swords on his back with the tips touching each other at the small of his back while there were three of the handles by each shoulder and he also put his Kunai and Shuriken holster on his right leg which was charmed to have an infinite amount of said weapons.

Hermione was similar except she only had two swords on her back but she had the holster as well. They two walked down the stairs with Harry putting a baseball cap on his head to obscure his identity from the person who would come.

"Harry, Hermione." Dan said as they two reached the living room to find the two parents sitting there with a wizard Harry recognized as Professor Flitwick.

"It is a pleasure to see you again Fillius." Harry said tilting his hat up so his face could be seen and the half goblin bowed to Harry to which he returned.

"As it is to see you my friend." Flitwick said to Harry who smiled at him while everyone else looked confused. "Harry was one of my friends before he was sent to his aunts."

He pulled out a length of rope and gestured for everyone to grab it and when they did they all felt a tug behind their naval and landed on hard ground in an alley that led to Diagon Alley. Flitwick led them towards the bank while pointing things out to them and explained things to them about the Wizarding World.

"Let me handle this Fillius, there will be many honor Duels for me to regain my standing in the Wizarding World." Harry said putting an arm in front of the man to stop him and they stayed there while Harry walked forward towards the nearest teller. "I wish to regain my standing in the Wizarding World and take the Title of Lord for the houses on this parchment which has been approved by the Goblins of Italy."

"Many of these are Houses now controlled by Goblins, you realize that you would have an honor duel them to regain the house do you not?" The goblin asked after he read it and saw the authenticity.

"Bring it." Harry said reaching back and pulling two Katana's from their scabbards before he motioned for the Grangers and Fillius to follow him as the goblin led him to the arena while another went to get the goblins concerning the houses.

"Harry, what's an honor duel?" Hermione asked as they stood on one side of the large arena with the stands filling quickly with goblins not working and fifteen goblins stood on the other side of the arena in armor and holding axes.

"A honor duel is a duel between two people Hermione, it is used to settle disputes between Goblin family or… to reclaim a house that belongs to a person." Harry told her as he stepped forward and they were led away by a goblin so they didn't hear his last statement. "Only one person walks away alive."

"Welcome Goblin Nation." Ragnok called out to the goblins sitting in the stands who cheered. "Today we have Harry James Potter fighting to reclaim his fifteen houses in an Honor Battle with each of the current holders, it will be one on one without any breaks or pauses, all weapons are allowed but no magic is allowed to be performed."

"The first battle is between Harry and Bartok." Both stepped forwards until they were teen feet away from Ragnok each. "BEGIN!"

Bartok immediately charged at Harry screaming and swung his axe bent on decapitating the eleven year old but his axe got stuck when it struck his neck. The goblin pulled with all his might to pull the axe out but Harry punched him in the gut sending him into the arena wall.

Harry shrugged his shirt off after he cut it open with one of his claws which revealed his whole upper body covered in thick, dark green and shiny scales. "You really shouldn't have done that." Harry said pulling the axe out of his neck and before anyone could blink he was across the arena with the axe imbedded in the wall cutting the goblins head off.

"Barchoke." Ragnok called out but the goblin caught on of Harry's Katana's in his head a second later and it was pulled out by Harry while the other goblins were looking very scared. "Mitach."

Harry back flipped over the axe thrown at him before his Royal Silver Phoenix Wings came out his back shocking the ground into awe before he grabbed the goblin with his tails and ripped both arms and his legs.

Harry's blank and emotionless face was the only thing keeping the Grangers from thinking he was enjoying this. The next twelve battles followed the same lines of Harry quickly killing the other goblins.

The Grangers and Fillius made their way to Ragnok's office who was talking in Gobbledygook with Harry as they walked through the large office doors and everyone sat in chairs except for Hermione who opted to sit on Harry's lap much to the shock of her parents.

"Harry, you have reclaimed all of your houses and here are the rings." Ragnok said giving Harry a dark black box which held fifteen rings inside of it. Harry put them on one by one till they fused on the same finger to form a single simple Platinum Steel band with indentions around it which were House Crests but they were all filled in with gold.

"Thank you Ragnok, I would like this recharmed to take money from my vaults and the two smallest vaults completely invested in high risk high gain." Harry told Ragnok who redid the charm on the wallet and the party left Gringott's in favor of getting their school things.

Harry and Hermione together bought over three hundred books from Flourish and Blotts which they put in Harry's multilevel trunk. They each got whole new wardrobes of muggle and magical clothing made from Acromantula Silk and Acromantula Silk. The two had practically gone on an all out shopping massacre and were only stopped by Hermione's parents when they said that they had bought enough and needed to get home.

Harry lay on his bed intently examining his wand as Hermione did the same next to him. They had both gone through every wand in the store without any reaction so Olivander had to craft them custom wands which he said were very powerful because of the materials used.

Harry's was more powerful than the Elder Wand, whatever that was, it had ash and Yggdrasil wood with ten cores that Olivander said complemented and balanced each other. Five were from what people considered light creatures, a Griffon Chest Feather, A Pure One Silver Royal Phoenix(Which Harry provided) Storm Dragon Scales, Phoenix Tears and Unicorn Heartstring. The other five were considered from Dark Animals, Thestral Heartstring, Chimera Fang, Antarctic Ridgeback Heartstring, Basilisk Heartstring and Veela hair.

When he tested it in the shop the wand actually shot so many sparks it lit the roof on fire scaring everyone except Harry and Hermione who looked in awe. Her wand had three woods, Holly, Oak and Qliphoth while she had seven cores as opposed to Harry's ten. She had Basilisk Venom, A Shadow Phoenix Feather, Unicorn Tail Hair, Lamia Scales (Harry had provided after she asked him with puppy dog eyes.) Chimera Blood, Phoenix Tears and Hippogriff scales.

She pointed her wand at the flames while all the parents were still in shock but were gob smacked when a jet of water came out and doused the flames instantly.

They tried a few simple spells which were very overpowered and Hermione was happy but Harry very thoughtful as his wand was vibrating slightly as it rapidly absorbed ambient magic so he carefully adjusted his magic output as he tried a few more spells and Hermione did the same until it was only slightly overpowered.

Harry and Hermione sat in their own compartment snuggled in the corner happily as the station filled with late families who hurriedly pushed their children onto the train. The train left shortly after and Harry jumped up an amazed look on his face before he pulled a thick stack of cards from his trunk prompting a confused look from Hermione and a raised eyebrow.

"Hermione, I actually had this idea and did it before I was sent to that place." Harry said showing her the top card which actually had a picture of her which made her blush slightly. "These are power up sort of card, the give a person a kind of power up described on the back of the card by using Ambient Magic."

"And the picture?" She asked blushing further when the card smiled back at her with a wink.

"It's to make it look nicer, so I took one of my memories and put it on the front." Harry said flipping the card to show her. "This card is a Friendship card meaning that if somebody else holds a Friendship card it heals any wounds that a person has or regenerates their magic."

"What other cards do you have?" Hermione asked happily and the two went into deep discussion for three hours as the train sped to Hogwarts before the two of them chose three cards each.

They both chose the same of Bonding (Twice the affect of Friendship and more powerful but could only work with people who had a brother and sister bond), Protect (Makes an invisible shield of Ambient magic around the holder protecting them from minor spells), Mindscape which helped their Occlumency which was in the early stages.

The two snuggled back into their previous position and felt the Bonding and Mindscape working together and their minds became quickly protected as well as organized.

After another hour of everyone leaving them to themselves but after another half hour a deep angry growl resonated from Harry's chest making Hermione shoot up in her seat as Harry slowly got up and stood in front of the door growling at it.

Harry slowly turned into his True Animagus Form of a Pure One Silver Royal Phoenix which stood a foot taller than Hermione's waist with each wing the same length as his body and he barely fit between the gap in the seats.

"Hey, heard my brother was in here." Eric said as the compartment door opened revealing himselfand Neville Longbottom while Hermione just stared defiantly at him while Eric was oblivious to Harry in his Animagus form. "Well Mudblood, where is he?"

Harry's eyes widened in anger before he thrilled in pure hatred and he flapped his wings before attacking his former brother and his friends making them scream in pain and run away at least seven hole injuries bleeding greatly.

Harry thrilled again loud enough for everyone on the train to hear it before he turned to normal and collapsed into his seat next to Hermione.

"Harry, are you alright?" Hermione asked him softly and he nodded to her slowly. "You sure?"

"Yea, I was angry that he'd actually come but when he called you that." Harry said shaking his head and leaned back in his seat. "Let's not talk about this anymore, I just want to spend time with you before I have to face my parents."

"Of course Harry." She said smiling before giving him a small peck on the cheek and the two snuggled together closely for some warmth as they traveled towards the cold, Lamia don't take to cold very well.