What is more terrifying? A wizard who can kick down your door or a wizard who can look at you and know your every thought? Harry's journey into the mind arts begins with a bout of accidental magic and he practices it and hungers for the feelings it brings. [Major Canon Divergences beginning Third Year.]

Life, like the sands of the desert, are so quickly changing that it is hard to keep grounded. When his life changed without warning, he didn't fight or give in, he took the change and made himself stronger than ever. A chanced meeting changed everything for both of them, a letter surrounded by his desire to learn and a will that never saw light; will change the very sands of fate.

On the night Voldemort fell, Lily Potter invoked the names of the gods of time eternal and space infinite, hoping to send her child to a different time and place, where he would be safe. She offered everything she had to see it done, and when she died she got the attention of one such god. He took pity on her and her child, and broke the divine compact to save him. Eventual H/Hr.

After fourth year. Harry 's magic acts strangely and not before long Harry finds himself stuck in his animagus form. Sirius and his friends as the Order find out Harry is missing, but Harry is closer than they think.