Chapter 1: Getting Started

Waking up after sleeping well from a long day's work usually left him feeling satisfied and fresh mentally.

Opening his eyes now, he felt like shit. Had his eyesight gotten worse? It was never as dark in his room either regardless of the time of day. Did anyone mention his expensive bed and mattress felt like cardboard?

And he felt ravenous. Like he could compete in an eating contest right about now.

He tried looking for his phone before his hands hit what he assumed were walls. Shit was he in some tiny cell? What the fuck did he do for the FBI or something to do him like this.

He tried searching more till he felt what he assumed was a wooden door that was apparently locked. As if a wooden door was going to stop him of all people.

He tried shifting his body and kicking the door. The first attempt told him a myriad of bad things.

The first thing his mind focused on despite everything else was the fact, he did not feel the particular organ that had accompanied him since birth. Panic took him and he touched his privates quickly. What awaited him, he would describe as what he felt as catatonic.

His manhood was gone! Dear god, what kind of cruel monster would do this to him?!

He believed himself to be well... not particularly a good man, definitely not bad. More in between. He never hurt anyone first or on purpose. He never committed any crimes sans illegally downloading everything he could but that was hardly worth castrating him.

As he began to hyperventilate, he realized his whole body felt different.

So he took to examining himself.

It was not his body.

Everything was wrong.

He was a grown man of 25, well built from years at the gym and a healthy lifestyle and good genes. In his opinion he was amongst the top bracket of men physically at least those who were not in modeling.

And yet now he was in what he assumed to be in the body of a 6-7 year old girl.

A Chris Hansen meme seemed quite appropriate here in his mind.

'Funny I always assumed I'd die of cancer considering my dad's side of the family' he thought to himself.

'H-hello?'

He may not have moved aside from his body jerking in place for an instant but on the inside he nearly screamed.

There was a voice right beside him.

He turned around expecting an eldritch abomination.

What awaited him was simply darkness.

'Please let it be nothing' he prayed.

'umm e-excuse me' and there was the voice of a little girl.

And the internal panic returned.

"What the fuck is going on?" damn even his voice was that of a little girl. Oddly similar to the one he was hearing right now.

'I can't move, please help me' he heard again. Clearly and completely.

"Who are you? What are you?" he asked out loud and looking around.

'My body is moving on its own, but I can't control it! I'm inside the cupboard!' the voice shouted now.

That slowed him. A thought occurred to him. Was the voice inside his head?

"What do you see right now?" he asked out loud again.

'Nothing! It's completely dark'

'oh right he thought' he thought to himself, mentally face palming.

"Is your hand pinching your own nose right now?"

'Y-yes! How did you know?'

"Kid I think I might be possessing you right now" he replied bluntly.

'W-wait what?!' now the voice shrieked. Having a little girl shriek right in your ear was definitely not pleasant.

"Calm down, calm down"

'how can I be calm?! I can't move my body and now a ghost is talking to me!'

"Hey look I'm not a ghost, at least I don't think I am"

'Then what are you doing moving my body? I can feel my mouth saying your words'

"I don't know. I went to sleep and now I woke up here, possessing your body"

He did not receive a reply but he could feel panic and sadness at the back of his head.

"Calm down kid, look I'm trying to make sense of everything here myself. Look let's start off like normal people. We'll introduce ourselves and then we'll move from there"

It was silent for a while before he heard a quiet 'ok'

"So what's your name?"

'Helia'

"Hmm weird name but I like it. Where are you from?"

'England'

"Oh British ay? I thought I heard a British accent. So, if this is your body then do you know where we are?"

It was quiet again before she replied 'We're in the cupboard'

He felt his brow raise itself on mental instinct "Were you hiding?"

'no this is my room'

Now this was weird. Sure houses in England or most of Europe in general may not exactly have anything on those in the USA but still this didn't feel right.

"Small house then?"

Again the girl was quiet before answering 'No, Uncle and Aunt said this place was what a freak like me deserved'

He will admit on the inside he was a man who did not shy away from violence, if anything he rather preferred it. Somethings could only truly be solved with some bloody violence. Child abuse was one of them.

"Why do they call you a freak?" he knew orphans could have it rough even from blood relatives. But something told him there was something deeper going on here.

'It's because of the weird things that happen around me sometimes. The first time was when Aunt Petunia tried to cut my hair and gave me a buzz cut, I cried a lot but the next day when I woke up my hair was back to how it was before. And then there was this one-time Dudley and his friends tried to bully me and I ran away and before I knew it I was on the school roof'

Wake up in another body. Stuck in a cupboard. Have the voice of a kid in his head. Names and actions of fictional characters mentioned.

Either he had gone into a coma in his sleep, had gone insane inside his own mind or he was teleported in some fashion to the world of harry potter.

Of all the worlds to be sent to, why HP? It wasn't even in his top 25 favorite works. At least it wasn't attack on titan but still.

He would have preferred to have gone to something like highschool dxd or dragon ball maybe even Naruto or the Nasuverse.

The HP world wasn't exactly bad per say, it's just the people in it were really retarded when seen under a critical lense.

He didn't know if his real body was stuck in some hospital or asylum somewhere and it didn't look like he could do anything about it either. This situation was far too real to be a dream. He was completely lucid, and he felt everything around him.

Had it been anyone else they would have freaked out but this situation was something of a dream come true for a part time otaku like him. Anime, comics, manga and fanfiction had desensitized his mind to the scenario so he could think better.

First things first, completely confirm his location and whether he could do magic.

"That's no reason to do the things they've done. Can you tell me what the full names of your aunt and uncle are?"

'It Petunia and Vernon Dursley'

Yep that confirmed it. He was in the HP world. Except it was another version. Considering the gender bent mc he was possessing right now.

'Let's hope it's not too far away from canon' he said internally and nearly jumped when he heard a reply. 'What's not too far away? And a canon?' asked Helia confused.

Well now it looks like he can communicate with her by simply voicing his thoughts aloud internally. That sort of sucked considering he liked monologuing internally, ah well.

'Just a stray thought. Looks like we can talk inside my/our head too' he said and Helia confirmed.

Now to confirm magic. But what to try out first.

He needed light and to confirm some of his theories about the HP verse.

Holding his hand out, he willed a ball of light to form and…

Nothing.

Well this sucks.

Now to try again. This time he did that which many otaku had done in secret. Trying to access his internal energy/chakra/ki/magic depending on the verse they were fans of.

It took but a moment before he felt something.

Knowing meditation helped focus on what he felt internally. It felt like there was a ball of flame or heat inside his body that was centered around his stomach. Focusing on it, he realized there were two of them. The flames would spread throughout the body kinda like a heart pumped blood but the center was in the core of the body.

He increased his focus, trying to get a feel of the magic/flame. It was good fortune that both were distinctly different. One was noticeably larger than the other and felt hotter in the sense it could actually harm him while the other was simply warm.

He assumed the larger, more dangerous one was his.

So by focusing on the flame, imagining the result he wanted and willing the reaction into the world, he chanted lumos.

And lo and behold there was light. At the exact location and strength, he wanted it to be.

He felt their face stretch into a wide grin. Oh, this world had no idea what was coming to them. Voldy-who? They better start taking classes on how to be good little slaves because the Overlord of the whole world had just been born.

Sure, he may now be stuck inside the body of a little girl but in time he'll have his own body and then the start of his reign will begin.

Honestly now that he was here, he thought over all the fanfictions he had read. What was the point of making actual friends with a bunch of pre-teens with issues, follow the stupid plot, ally with Dumbledore or court Voldy.

If there was anything I could say with complete confidence, it was that Wizarding Europe in the HP verse were utter tools and cowards. Acting high and mighty against losers and those weaker than them while fearing and submitting to those stronger than them. Subjugating them will be tedious but easy.

Why should I play magic cop, a civil servant or waste my time patching up magic booboos or god forbid be a glorified researcher (unspeakable). When I can lounge around bossing everyone around once I'm in charge?

And it wasn't like he was Voldy 2.0. He did have a fully functioning brain. Thus he will impose some beneficial reforms, drag the wizarding world from the middle ages and see if he can try using the kaleidoscope magic from the nasuverse.

But everything has to move one step at a time and right now he had to sate the curiosity of one Helia Potter by delivering an iconic line.

'W-what is that?' she asked.

"This my dear Helia is magic"

'Magic! But magic isn't real?!' the poor girl really had it rough from the Dursleys.

'Oh but it is. You're looking right at it'

She hesitated before asking 'But how?'

He grinned again "Because you're a witch Helia"

'A witch?!'

'And I'm of course a wizard, though unfortunately I don't have my pointy hat and robes with me'

'what, how and why?' looks like he will have to explain a few things to the girl, while coming up with a back story for himself.

He introduced himself as an American muggleborn who was denied learning magic by his parents when his letter came but he still managed to pick up a few things from his neighbor.

He didn't know how or why he was possessing Helia but he assured her that they will find a solution once they get to Hogwarts after she turns 11 and gets her own letter. He had to assure her that he wasn't about to let scum like the Dursleys stop her from learning magic like he was denied. Incidentally she was 10 right now. So a year before the events of canon begun.

Plenty of time for him to experiment.

But first they had to eat something, learn more magic and more importantly give the Dursleys a long overdue lesson.

Using the new source of light he managed to find Helia's and now his glasses and focused on the lock outside the door. He focused his magic, imagined the result he wanted and willed reality to do his bidding.

Clink. And with that his will was done.

It seemed his theory that all the fancy wands, wand waving, magic words were just placebo effects for unimaginative middle age stuck wizards to bend reality to their will.

Doing magic and imagining things especially supernatural phenomenon were as natural as breathing for otaku.

And with that thought bolstering his arrogance high, he strutted through the house.

It felt a little weird, having to walk as a girl but he'll have to manage for the time being.

He made his way to the fridge and looked over what was available. Unfortunately there wasn't anything he could simply microwave. Remembering that Harry could actually cook, he asked his counterpart if she could do the same and she could as well.

Unfortunately the problem was he was moving the body, even if he got her to instruct him, he doubted he could do much with it. He simply lacked the motor skills for it, especially with the new body.

Perhaps it was a whim or an idea a higher power had struck him with but decided to try giving control to Helia. She already could see, hear, smell and feel everything he did so perhaps she could control her own body too. Besides forcing another sapient being to simply be a voice inside someone was far too cruel a fate.

So they tried it, both willed the exchange of control and it worked. It felt like he was moving out of a phone both and someone else immediately went in.

"I can move again" Helia said using her physical voice rather than being a thought inside their now shared body.

'So I know this is embarrassing but since I can't cook do you mind cooking something filling? Because we both know the body is starving' he asked in their shared mind space.

'Sure but what if the Dursleys find us? They'll punish me for sure' Helia replied afraid and worried. The poor girl instinctively voiced her thought in order to not create any noise.

'You leave them to me kiddo. I promise you those dirty muggles aren't ever going to harm a single hair on your head from now on' he assured.

He didn't know if it was because of his confidence or the fact she thought him to be a proper wizard or that she really wanted to believe a reality where she wouldn't have to be hurt but she nodded with a new sense of confidence and went to work.

She cooked a feast for them, the poor girl was raised on scraps and to add salt to injury was forced to learn to cook feasts and feed to land whales while drowning out her own pangs of hunger.

This was a level of cruelty that will never stand with him. He may be an aspiring Overlord but he wasn't a tyrant at least not to children. No child will suffer under his rule at least until they're adults and decide to rebel against him for stupid reasons then the stick comes out…

Point was children were never to be harmed in any way. To do one to a blood relative was even worse. The Dursleys deserved everything he would do to them.

Once the food was cooked, he watched as Helia went about devouring everything she could. It was nice he could at least taste the flavor of the food even though he couldn't exactly have the normal sensation of eating food. And more importantly he knew their body was getting the calories it needed. Next objective would be to see a doctor and get some medical help in order to negate any stunts in Helia's growth. It would have to do until he figures out how to repair bodies and make immortal ones with magic.

The sounds of heavy footsteps alerted him first of the land whales and giraffes arrival. He didn't know if it was the sounds Helia may have made cooking the food or the scent of food naturally awoke them from hibernation but here they were the 3 jackasses in their pajama'd glory.

It was Petunia who spoke first "What the hell do you think you're doing girl?! How did you get out of your cupboard?" which was followed by Vernon and Dudley's glares.

Helia froze from instinctive and ingrained fear from years of abuse, luckily her mind still worked and he took over again.

The Dursleys had taken some satisfaction in Helia's surprised face before her face morphed into one of a mocking grin and eyes that conveyed arrogance. They would know what arrogance was their sin of choice after gluttony and envy and sloth and many others…

"Ah my dear Aunty Shitunia and Uncle Diabetes. I'm so glad you woke up, I'm curious was it the sounds I made or the smell of food that did it?" the Dursleys were flabbergasted at the sheer gall of the tiny girl before them. Petunia wondered if the girl had finally cracked.

After the surprise faded for a moment Vernon however saw red "GIRL! How dare you speak to your betters that way?! Has your freakish mind finally left you?"

Helia simply sat in front of them completely nonchalant and snorted "Better? You? Come now uncle Diabetes, I know the high blood pressure can make one delirious but that's pushing it a bit" her reply only fueled their anger.

Vernon simply let anger take him and moved to hit the little girl but stopped in his tracks as the girl glared at them. He literally could not move.

Helia now frowned, her expression one as if looking at a particularly dumb dog "Hmm, I think your discipline has been long overdue"

Petunia not noticing Vernon's immobile state huffed "Girl, have you truly no idea who is in charge here?"

Helia grinned now "No my dear Aunt Shitunia, it's you who underestimates my power" A line inspired by his favorite magic space samurais show.

Helia raised her right hand and all three of the Dursleys were raised into the air, slowly being choked. Her eyes hardened and the house began to shake as if an earthquake was happening.

"From now on there are going to be some changes around here. I expect you lot to comply is that clear my 3 little piglets?" there was no place for arguments in her tone. Not like the Dursleys could have argued since they were being choked.

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Helia Lily Potter could not believe how her life has evolved in the past year. It was a day unlike any other, go to school. Come back to do chores, get told harsh words by the 3 pigs and go to bed in her tiny cupboard at night. She would get fed based on the mood of the 2 adults in the house. Which wasn't good that night like most.

She went to sleep while ignoring the pangs of hunger, a constant companion of her life with the Dursleys. Then she wakes up to a voice, a man's voice. He sounded young, perhaps in his early twenties. His voice was calm and confident. There was a certain baritone to his voice that made him seem trustworthy. His name was Xander. He said it was his wizard name, that he had forsaken his muggle name some time ago.

When she gained consciousness that night her eyes were open, and her limbs were moving without her meaning them to. It was the weirded moment of her life until then. She watched as the Xander surveyed their surroundings, tried to kick the door and spoke with her voice until he voiced his thoughts. That was when she first heard him properly, only she could really hear his actual voice because if he spoke externally then it was her voice that made the words.

She still couldn't figure out what anything had to do with canons, he was an enigmatic man but he was also kind and powerful despite him claiming to not have any formal wizard schooling. And that was the real kicker, she was a magical being. A witch who now was sharing her body with a wizard.

Said wizard changed her life in a single night just like magic. First he disciplined the Dursleys, put a quite the fear onto them. He never did more than hold then in the air the first time but somehow the Dursleys were more scared later on a week later than they were when he first used magic on them.

Then he got to fixing her life, he ordered Petunia to take her to a doctor for a medical examination, turns out she needed a lot of care in order to grow properly. The doctor wanted to interrogate Petunia about why she was in that state, It was bound to spell trouble yet Xander waved their hand in their air and said 'he didn't want to look further into it' and doctor complied! He definitely used magic then but when she asked he simply said with a laugh that it was a mind trick.

Later he took the master bedroom from themselves and got the Dursleys to buy her new everything. They were pretty much their slaves at this point. She felt bad for them at the beginning but Xander had a way with words. He somehow convinced her that it was only right. When the Dursleys had power over her they treated her like a slave, so now that she was a powerful it was only natural they obey her.

She never treated them like they did her, they lived mostly the same except her desires and wants were the houses' first priority now. It was quite nice though she would only confess it to herself because she knew Xander would grin and say 'welcome to the darkside my dear padawan' if she admitted it to him.

He thought her about magic, about the wizarding world. As much as he could anyways, he was denied that world by relatives after all, something that could have happened to her she was sure if he hadn't appeared when he did. He promised her that she would live a tale that even Merlin would be jealous off and that Merlin was real!

She so dearly wanted to go to the magic side of London and look up everything there was, especially about her parents. It was quite the shock when Xander forced the truth out of Petunia. Her parents were both magic, they were James and Lily Potter. They weren't just some drunks who died in car crash.

Her mother's name also made sense of when Xander taunted Petunia the first time saying he always preferred lilies to pentunias and the look that appeared on her face then. The fact Petunia envied her mother for her magic made all sense now. That was quite the unintentional? Blow right there.

Did she mention the entire new wardrobe she got? As in comparison before she used to get Dudley's old clothes or from the thrift store, now she got all the branded one and comfortable and fitting ones. Though Xander refused that they wear any dress, skirts or anything girly for that matter. Now her usual attire were skinny slacks, a white dress shirt, a purple tie and beige coat with a hood and finally a new pair of stylish rectangular glasses. She thought it was somewhat weird but Xander assured her it looked 'cool' and 'she was the magic version of Makise Kurisu'. She didn't know who that was but Xander would gush about what a cool intellectual beauty she was.

He also taught her how to perform magic, the principals of magic. It was quite tough really. He made it look like it was natural but even with a year worth of practice she only had a few 'moves' she could use.

But it was alright she supposed, after all the time of Hogwarts was drawing close and they could both learn from a place that has been teaching for a thousand years!

And soon that time came when Dudley brought her, her letter. It was time to go to diagon alley!

END of Chapter 1

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