Harry Potter and the Guiding Seer

Chapter 4: Time is Immaterial

Upon their appearance in the apartment Lily quickly pulled Harry into a warm and loving hug, "Oh, Harry I'm so glad that this worked, I never wanted to leave you, you have to believe me, and this was the only way that we could have any sort of relationship above me breast feeding you and you giggling all the time." Lily was so happy to be back among the living that she was rambling and saying whatever came into her head.

"Shhh it's alright mum you're here now that's all that matters." Harry responded with his own hug, one that was well over due. As the two of them stood there holding each other afraid that the other might disappear if they let go, the moment was somewhat ruined with the growling of Harry' stomach quickly followed by his mothers. Pulling away a little so that he could look her in the eyes he asked, "I don't suppose there is any food in this place is there, seeing as how this is only my second day here, and I didn't actually look around last time?"

Pulling out of the hug to go to the kitchen Lily led the way whilst still holding his hand, "Of course love, the cabinets and fridge have auto-refill and stasis charms so that the food that you eat is always fresh, oh, you know what I would love right now? A pepperoni pizza and coke, so if you're up to it we can have that if you like?" Lily said with a questioning look over her shoulder at Harry.

"Sure mum sounds good I've never had pizza before."

Hearing her son's reply Lily froze, and with a fair amount of trepidation she asked, "Harry love, where did you live after I died?"

"I was placed with your sister Petunia and her husband Vernon." He answered with contempt and malice when saying their names.

"Dumbleshit!" Was Lily's animalistic answer, as she began to pace back and forth, but to Harry' eyes it looked more like prowling or stalking to him. After stalking and muttering to herself for a while Harry was able to make out the last of what she said, "Can't do anything to him at the moment, but his day is coming, and it will be fierce!"

After getting over her anger, for now, at Dumbleshit, Lily went about the kitchen to get their lunch, once it was ready, it didn't even take a minute as the pizza was hot as soon as it came out of the box and the glasses were charmed so that all you had to do was hold it and say what you wanted to drink in this case 'Coke with ice'.

Sitting at the kitchen table eating his very first pizza and drinking the gods drink, that was Coke, Harry had many questions running through his head and he decided he may as well and start asking them, "Mum, why did you have this apartment if you were forced to marry James straight after graduating?"

"Well Love, even before I graduated I was recruited into the Unspeakable', and it was regulation that every member have a secure work environment, we actually didn't work in one building altogether, we actually worked by ourselves so that you never know anyone else that is also an Unspeakable, we were given training manuals and access to their library, which far exceeds the one at Hogwarts, after going through and learning everything in the manuals there was a test that allows the head Unspeakable to know what area you would be best suited to, at which point you would receive missions relevant to your area, mine was Spell Creation/ Theory."

Well that was more of an answer than Harry was looking for, but he was glad that he was learning more about his mother, "If what I understand so far about being an Unspeakable how was it that you didn't know that you were forced to marry James?"

"It wasn't until after you were conceived that I even realised that something was wrong with me being with James, but after that I was able to do some research and discovered the reason why I didn't recognise that I was under a love potion is because technically I wasn't. It wasn't a potion Per Se it was actually Alchemy, Alchemy is a higher branch of potions and is so obscure that barely a handful of people in the world know enough about it to have created a love potion using Alchemy, and the only one I had any form of contact with is Dumbleshit."

Well that explained that to Harry' satisfaction, now he was wondering how he and his mother were going to get their revenge against Dumbleshit, but first another question, "Mum why did you revive into a 16 year old instead of someone say in their early twenties or something?"

Smiling in happiness and with a slight gleam in her eyes Lily said, "What don't you like my young nubile body?" Her voice was not it's normal tone it had picked up a sultry undertone to it that Harry thought he liked. She continued in her normal tone "Actually it was a theory I had and no way of testing it. You see upon reaching their 17th birthday a witch or wizard will go through what is known as 'Magical Maturity', what that is is beside them being recognised as an adult to the magical government but also by magic itself. You see when going through it your magic changes somewhat, I don't know how or what changes, maybe in time I will, but it changes nevertheless and after it's finished you are more powerful then you were before. So I had a theory that if I could somehow take my already adult magic core and put it into a body that hasn't yet gone through 'Magical Maturity (MM)' then maybe when the body is 17 I would go through it again and become more powerful once again. I don't think that I will get as big a boost as I did last time but even a little increase is better than none, the more powerful I am the better I will be able to help keep you safe, and so I'm hoping that the MM will add to each other over the course of how ever long we choose to keep reviving ourselves."

Thinking through her explanation Harry just nodded his understanding, but one question did pop into his head whilst hearing it, "Speaking of power, is there a standard measurement that such things are measured against like ranks or levels or something like that?"

"Actually there is, it's based on the Magical Density (MD) of the individual and the rankings goes like this

Non-Magical (Muggle) 1-10 MD

Squib (Non-Magical Wizard or Witch) 11-20 MD

Wizard/ Witch (Standard Magical Person SMP) 21-40 MD

Sorcerer/ Sorceress – Apprentice 41-50 MD

Journeyman 51-60 MD

Master 61-70 MD

Mage - Mage 71-100 MD

Arch-Mage 101+ MD

now 95% of the students at Hogwarts will fall under the rank of SMP, 4.5% would be ranked as Apprentice class, the other 0.5% would only come around once every 20-50 years. Before I died I had a MD of 56 which put me into the Journeyman class, Dumbleshit was barely classed as a Master with 62MD, and I know for a fact that James only had a MD of 38. When you were born you already had a MD of 53 and that would have only increased as you got older, I can cast a charm on you to get your current rating if you want?" Nodding his approval Lily did just that, after getting her readings from the charm Lily was with out a shadow of a doubt shocked at the results and so cast it again just to make sure she did it right and was reading it correctly, which it turns out that she was, "Well love it looks like you've improved quite a bit since the last time I did this for you, you now have a MD of 87 putting you into the rank of Mage, and I would say that, depending on how hard you worked, you will definitely reach the rank of Arch-Mage by the time you reach 14." Lily said with clear pride and love in her voice and on her face.

Wow he was already more powerful than Dumbleshit, in raw magical power anyway, he was still way behind the old shit in knowledge and experience. The thought of Dumbleshit gave Harry a start at a thought that came to him, "Mum, what am I going to do about Dumbleshit at Hogwarts, and for that matter what are you going to do while I'm there?" He asked almost panicking thinking about the man that basically destroyed his life.

"Well first of all I'm going to train you until you have to go to school, and when you're gone I'm going to... I'm going to... … … huh I have no idea of what to do with myself, I can't exactly go to school with you, there would be too many people there that would recognise me, huh" Lily just sat there thinking for a moment of what it is that she could do, she really didn't like the thought of going back to Hogwarts anyway so that was out the window the same with rejoining the Unspeakable'.

While his mother was thinking about her future Harry had an idea that might work, "Mum, I have a couple of ideas, things that I would like to do myself but I will be stuck at Hogwarts plus I don't have the skills yet to do some of the things I've thought of," seeing his mother now focused on him and with an encouraging smile to continue he did, "I would like to somehow continue with my non-magical education and get at least my high school diploma, and there has to be an easier way than to sit through all those classes for all those years, I was hoping that there was a spell or device that you could use to, I don't know like download or copy the necessary information or knowledge from lots of different people and then compile them all together so that you can modify it first so that you don't get overlapping information, and then once that was done we could just implant said knowledge into our heads, and then after that we could always move onto college and university stuff in the fields that interests us. So is there anything like that out there?"

"Huh, now why didn't I think about that, I never finished high school either, that's a great idea love we could even make it so that you absorb the next year level of information once you have integrated and understood the previous years worth of knowledge, this would be such a useful device for your future children."

"Oh that's great mum, so where can we get one?" Harry asked excitedly.

"Sorry love but such a thing doesn't exist," seeing the smile turn into a frown on Harry' face Lily continued, "At least it doesn't exist yet, I might be able to come up with something given enough time, and time we have with our Revival Ritual (RR), it would probably need the memory storage of a pensieve, knowledge search capabilities and extraction of Legilimency, organisation of a library index book or a computer and a few other things that I will probably have to create myself, oh this is going to be so much fun, what else did you come up with?"

"Well seeing as how I just got you back I don't really want to spend 10 months of the year away from you, so is there a doorway or portal that you could make so that you could step through it from here and end up in my apartment in my trunk at Hogwarts?" Harry asked hopefully.

"Um, I'm not too sure about that but I will definitely think about it, so anything else?"

"Not at the moment but if I come up with something I'll let you know. Before you said something about you training me is there even enough time for you to train me before I go off to Hogwarts?"

"Ah, time is not really important in this apartment, here let me show you why," Lily got up from the kitchen table and motioned for Harry to follow her into the lounge room where she took something out from behind the couch and holding it up so that Harry could get a look at it, it looked like a normal crystal ball with strange writing on it to Harry's untrained eyes, "This Harry is something I developed outside of my work with the Unspeakable', you see after you were born time was more of a precious commodity and so I came up with this. I call it simply enough a 'Time Sphere' and what it does is that it contorts time around a specific area, this apartment in fact, and for every hour that passes on the outside world a day passes in here, so with 24 days per 24 hours and 28 days until the 1st and a break every 6 months, to do things in the outside world, and we should have at least 20 months for me to train you. The brilliant thing about this little device is that I incorporated a living stasis field into it so that although we may experience time we will not actually age doing it."

"Wow mum that's great but before you turn it on I think we should do some shopping and other things first like maybe getting you a custom wand, and updating your wardrobe."

Lily was quite excited about updating her wardrobe but she had one question for Harry, "Harry love, why would I need a custom wand and wont it cost a lot?"

"Well I'm not to sure of all of the benefits of a custom wand but I do know for a fact that they can not be traced by the ministry because they are not registered like the ones from Olivander', they also come in different forms then the standard wand, you see mine is actually a ring that has integrated with my house rings and so if I did magic through it it would appear to be wandless magic, so do you want to get one my treat?" Harry said with a bit of a cheeky smile.

Lily was ecstatic about having something like a ring that was in actual fact a wand, and was practically bouncing with excitement, and with a large smile on her face Lily took hold of Harry' arm and practically demanded that they go immediately, which Harry complied with with a small chuckle at his mothers actions.

It was 5 hours later that an exhausted Harry and a happy and glowing Lily returned from their shopping in Mage Circuit. Lily had been fairly surprised about Mage Circuit having never been there before it was everything that she had hoped Diagon would have been when she was a fresh first year, it incorporated some of the things that were better in the non-Magical world and improved upon them with magic, which is what most first-generation witches and wizards expect when coming into the magical world.

Their first stop had been at Jeeps where Lily picked up a wand/ring of her own, the only thing that Harry knew about it was that it's outer shell was made from mithril just like his, but other then that he had no idea about the wood and core/s.

Their second stop was to get Lily a trunk and bag like Harry but personalised to her, so that he didn't have to carry everything that she was going to buy that day.

After that they went to 'Knowledge is Power' book store where Lily had zoned out for a bit before going crazy and buying anything that she thought would be helpful to her two new projects that Harry had given her, so she ended up buying 23 books on Arithmancy, 17 books on Runes, 4 books on magical transportation, 8 books on home improvement (for things like adding rooms to a wall, and space expansion), 11 books on mind arts, and 17 books on charming and enchanting objects and that was only to start with and that did not include the books she got from the non-Magical section where she got things on the brain and memory, plus over 100 sci-fi and fantasy books for new and/or different ideas that they could try and make real.

The rest of the time spent in Mage Circuit was Lily getting outfitted in both magical and non-Magical clothing, the only thing Harry took note of during that time was that his mother seemed to like leather skirts, and now he was a fan also.

As soon as they arrived back at the apartment Lily activated the Time Sphere, and looked at two clocks that were on the wall, one seemed to be running normally and the other appeared to have stopped but was actually running 24 times slower than normal showing the time and date of the outside world. Once the Time Sphere was set up Lily took her things to her room to get everything sorted, once that was done it was time for the two of them to eat.

Once dinner was over Lily led Harry into the lounge room where she would begin her instruction to Harry, when both were settled into comfortable seats Lily began, "Ok Harry, we are going to start with something that will help you immensely with the wand based subjects like charms and transfiguration, what we're going to do is get you in touch with your magic so that you are always aware of your magic instead of just using it when needed, like most wizards and witched do. Now what you have to understand with this is that with most magic is that all theory boils down to three things; visualisation, want, and will, first you visualise what you want to do, second want to do it, and finally will it to happen. Now another component that is fairly important, especially in the beginning, is the belief that something is possible which is why any decent teacher will show you first before asking you to do it yourself. So that is what I'm going to do, I'm going to show you how to get in touch with your magic by doing it myself first, seeing as how this body hasn't actually connected to my magic yet. The first thing that I'm going to do is relax and be comfortable and closing my eyes and taking deep cleansing breaths, then I'm going to visualise my magic is a big ball of energy and because it's my magic it wont be able to hurt me and now I see myself standing in front of it. Standing in front of it the energy ball seems to have veins running off from it and going out to all of the major areas of my body, like limbs and organs and the such, so that takes care of the visualisation part and now we move onto the want and I want my magic to be everywhere, and now keeping my want in mind I will myself forward and into the energy ball until I'm at it's core and then I will the energy to enter every cell of my body," at this point Harry could see that his mother was starting to glow with a brilliant white light, "and then once I'm sure that my magic has suffused into every part of my being I allow my conciousness to return to the outside world and I am now one with my magic, simple eh?"

When lily opened her eyes to look at Harry he was able to see that her eyes were now slightly glowing with her inner power, and if he didn't think that he was seeing things then she had become even more beautiful than before, shaking himself out of his observations Harry took his mothers instructions to heart and did as she told him, as soon as he saw his magic the only thing that he could compare it to was a white dwarf star, but accepting his mothers words as truth Harry knew that it would not hurt him and so literally threw himself into it and started to absorb the energy into his metaphysical body.

Coming back to the waking world Harry opened his eyes to see that his hands and in fact the rest of his body was still giving off a slight glow of power, which Lily didn't know if it would ever truly go away, what Harry didn't know but his mother pointed out was that his eyes now had a glowing white ring around the iris.

"Congratulations Harry, for a second there I thought that you were going to explode with power, but you pulled through just like I knew you would. Ok, so now that you have a true connection with your magic now we have to work on something that will help you with all of your studies, I'm going to teach you Occlumency. Occlumency has a few things that you will find are of great benefit, the first and foremost is that it will protect your mind from outside influences and attacks such as memory and compulsion charms and the offensive mind art known as Legilimency, which is sort of like mind reading but more limited, I will teach you Legilimency at a later time, the other benefit is that it will give you perfect retention and memory recall and if done right it should also improve your thinking efficiency."

"That sounds great mum, so how do I start this?" Harry asked in excitement.

"Well Occlumency is subject to the individual, at least how you go about protecting your memories is anyway, but the first step to becoming a master Occlumense is sorting and storing your memories, some people use a library or even just a book, but this method is usually frowned upon due to the fact that most people know how a library works, and then some people have even created buildings and such like a castle to store their memories, it really all depends on the individual and their own preferences. Then comes the part about defending your mind and memories from outsiders, and this is truly something that is subject to the individual, for example someone who uses a castle could have things like dragons and knights guarding it for them. But that comes after you have sorted out your memories so that is where we will start, the first thing you have to do is visualise a place where you can see, view and sort your memories in your subconscious, then you can do things the hard way and sort them out individually or you can do it the smart way and just want and will them to be sorted into the format that you want, also before you start I would like to add that you might want to put in something like an auto-sorter and something that will automatically add new subjects as they come along, like your magic studies and whatnot, so that you don't have to sort them after every day, after you have done that it will be up to you to work out your own defences."

Harry closed his eyes and pictured himself standing in front of all of his memories, and with a massive amount of want and will he found himself there, thinking about how he was going to sort his memories when he recalled his earlier thought about his energy ball, and with a smirk Harry willed into existence an archway (Stargate, yes I know 3 years early) that his memories would pass through and automatically be sent to the correct destination, with the benign ones heading to individual planets, that now occupied his internal galaxy, and the more important ones being sent into the middle of one of countless stars, knowing that the only one that would be able to view those would be himself and all others would feel as though they were burning to death. Seeing as how he was using space he may as well add in some space ships and laser turrets around the planets to give intruders the impression that he was hiding something there, and this was given even more credence when he made it so that as soon as someone walked through a gate or got to close to a planet they were instantly attacked on all fronts. Seeing as how he now had his mind-scape set up it was now time to work out what categories and sub-categories he was going to use, figuring that the first thing was to sort them into year and then into categories from there that is what he did, first year then things like school, Dursley's, unimportant (bathroom, sleep etc.), skills (cooking, cleaning etc.), magic, fantasies (His mother naked etc.) and then he added the things that his mother suggested the auto-sorter and the auto-subject adder. Once those things were done Harry started sending his memories through the archway, to him even sending them through in packs and at a quick pace it still seemed to take a long time to get them all through, but once they were his mind-scape seemed to have a new clarity to it that it didn't have before, Harry assumed this was because his mind was no longer cluttered and was now running at optimal efficiency.

Opening his eyes to the waking world once more Harry gave a smile of accomplishment to his mother who had moved from her previous position on the couch to the recliner where she was now reading a book, at this Harry gave her a confused look, "You've been in your mind-scape for just over 2 hours now Harry, I wont check your Occlumency yet I want them to find purchase in your mind before I do that, so I will check them in a couple of days so that you can see if you have any weaknesses that need to be fixed. Now I don't know about you but after the day I've had, I did come back from the dead remember, but I am tired so I think that I'm going to bed, which brings up the subject of sleeping arrangements what would you like to do Harry?"

Looking at his mother with nothing but love and yearning he said, "Well I don't know about you but I have been dreaming about sleeping in my mothers arms for as long as I can remember so if you are ok with it I would love to sleep with you tonight." He finished with a questioning look to Lily and a little apprehension, although there was no need for it for she had a bright loving smile on her face.

"Harry I would love to hold you while we slept, come on lets get ready for bed." With that Lily led Harry into the bedroom and then the en-suit to brush their teeth, Lily was finished before Harry and so went back into the bedroom, once Harry was done he walked into the bedroom and saw that his mother was currently stripping off her clothes, when she was naked he thought that she would then put on some pj's but instead she just got straight into the bed. Once in the bed Lily looked at Harry who seemed to have frozen in shock, giggling a little she scooted back a little and then raised the sheet, showing him her breasts once more, to invite him in she said, "Come on Harry strip off and get in here." To shocked to protest Harry complied with her wishes and stripped naked and then got into the bed where he pressed his back to his mothers front, where she wrapped her arms around his torso and then planted a kiss on his shoulder, "I love you Harry, I will always love you."

"I love you too mum, now and forever." Harry replied with a choked voice from the silent tears that were now running down his face.

With those final words said for the first time between two people who should have been hearing it for the past 10 years they gently fell into a deep and rejuvenating sleep. What neither two realised was that their declarations of love caused an echo through their magic causing a bond that went far deeper than mother and son, they were now soul bound.

AN: And that is chapter 4, next chapter will be 'Time for training' and I'm thinking of putting in some Dursley bashing in it.

Someone asked how Lily was forced to marry James, and I meant forced as in against her own free will due to love potion/alchemy.

I've decided that I'm going to limit Harry to 4 wives, but he will probably have a few mistresses added in at some point, maybe, and yes I've already decided who they will be, one will be Lily, shocker, Hermione (Emma Watson is so HOT), one will have black hair (not Kayla) and the other will be blonde (not Luna, at least in this story).

About Kayla, Sirius is not her father, neither is Snape, I was thinking about making James her unfaithful father but decided against it, I also rejected the Harry back from the future to spawn a child to help him in his past thing. Actually I was thinking of making her father a creature like a vampire or a wood elf or something similar, thoughts?