Skin deep
Updated! again, I've corrected the mistakes in this one as well added a bit of a back story to the Weasleys and why their betrayed him. I hope you enjoy it.
Note, dark Harry x Merope Gaunt
This is an experimental story, and won't be a product that requires my full attention, it will be a project I will do in my spare time unlike the others so sorry if you like it and want me to continue but it will be side story compared to the others.
The Wizarding world was in utter turmoil.
Voldemort, the recently dead Dark Lord had exposed the Magical community to the Muggles, prompting the 2nd wizarding war into a full blown apocalypse that is right now destroying the world, the mad man had publicly attacked Muggles within the large city's exposing all magical kind to the world and Prompting a world wide witch hunt that eclipse the salem witch trials with the Armies from the various countrys fighting all of magical kind that was deemed to dangerous to exist (namely wizards) and the organisation of so call witch hunters which were normal folk taking up arms in the service of their lord.
Now after defeating the Dark Lord, you would expect people to congratulate or praise Harry for being the Choosen one, but no, being the stupid frightened fools that they were, they feared and hated him, marking him as pariah no thanks to Dumbledore who made him out to be the next Dark lord.
But that did not mean he wasn't prepared for the old fool to make this kind of move.
Earlier in life, he overheard Dumbledores plans to use him as Martyr when he faces Dark Lord and kill him should he survive as well as use the money he's been stealing from him to fund all of his plans along with aiding his most trusted followers the Weasleys, he learned of how that Man Practically gave the Location of where he and his parents were hiding along with keeping Sirius imprisoned so that he would sent to the dursleys to become more submissive, he learned that his so called friends were in on it with Dumbledore, keeping tabs on him for that old man.
On that day the Harry potter that everyone thought they knew was dead, and he the new and improved Hardian James Potter, heir to the potters, Gryffindors and Slytherins was born.
Sneaking away from Dumbledores spies and the Dursleys he trained his body and Magic to point of breaking, developing new skills and abilities that others wouldn't dream of doing in a thousand years, he became what he was always meant to be, a true wizard capable of eclipsing Dumbedores power.
As he trained and prepared, he snuck past Dumbledores spy from across the street and into gringrotts and Alerted them of Dumbledores Machinations, needless to say, they were pissed to learn that he hasn't just stolen from them once but twice, so doing the only thing they can do, they shut his account down, fined him and his supporters heavily, repaid all of Harry's Stolen money and entitled him to his numerous accounts that he had no knowledge of.
It was shocking for him to learn that he had a number of accounts besides the trust fund from his parents set up for him, and that he was eligible to take his many birth rights to which he did.
Lord of the noble house of Slytherin by conquest
Lord of the noble house of Gryffindor by blood
Lord of the noble house of Persvel by blood
Lord of the noble house of potter by blood.
Lord of the noble house of Black by Inheritance.
He was Lord of over 5 noble house's, 2 of them being the founders which means he owns 2/4's of the Hogwarts along with a whole lot of land they owned.
And with his birth right reclaimed, he now had a place to stay much to the ire of Dumbledore and his loyalist who tried to persuade him as his friend unaware that he knew their intent, years went by and Harry distanced himself from his so called friends and a chose a different sort to hang out with, resulting in the first love of his life.
Daphne Greengrass, his secret girlfriend, they're love for each other transcended anything anyone had ever seen, much to the Jealous ire of Ginny Weasley who tried pretty much everything in the book to break them up and make Harry Her's but failed miserably each time, and only bailed out by Dumbledore when it wasn't too serious.
In his Third year, Sirus Black escape and found Harry in his Dog form which Harry was more then welcomed with open arms in his family home of Godric hollow, the two then exposed Peter Pettigrew as the one who truly betrayed his parents and murdered several magicals, but like the many stupid bigots that run the Ministry, the leader of morons himself Minister Fudge had Peter kissed before the trial and order for sirus black to be imprisoned again.
He would have succeed to had it not been for harry Challenging the Ministers competency publicly which force him to reveal himself a the new Lord Potter. Having no choice but agree to a fair trial with the number of witness watching, the minister called for a session of wizengamot where they wanted to quickly put Sirius back in Azkaban or the dementors kiss no thanks yet again to Dumbledore who made Sirius out to be a murderer, but yet again Harry came to the rescue, calling upon the ancient laws and exposing that Sirius was never given trial, this action shamed the members allowing Harry to call for Veritaserum which yet again Dumbledore tried to block but was ignored.
It was then reveal to the press and the families that Sirius was indeed innocent and that Dumbledore knew about the secret keeper along which lost him a lot of face with many light and neutral families except for the diehard loyalists.
Sirius was cleared of all charges and recompensed for his falsely imprisonment.
Life with his godfather was swell, the man was like the father he never had, funny, outgoing, always trying to learn more about him and his life which once nearly resulted in the man swearing bloody murder about his treatment with the Dursleys.
Life for Harry couldn't get any more better, until the Triwizard Tourniment, which resulted in him competing as a fourth contender, but he managed to clear his name with many people except the jealous and ignorant ones when he publicly made a magical oath that he did not enter his name or know anyone who did.
He tried to find a way to leave the challenge but the Ministry individual in charge of the tournament wouldn't have it and wouldn't allow him to see the rule book even though he was entitled to as an unwilling competitor.
The life threating tasks were almost a breeze to him as he had trained his mind, body and magic to help him survive against any threats coming his way.
Then it all went south pretty quickly when the final challenge arrive, with him and credic grabbing the portkey at the same time, then credic getting killed by some death eater wannabe holding the frail form of Voldemort who used harry's blood in a ritual to regain his body, but what came out was not anything remotely resembling him but some skinny inhuman pale ass monster.
The reformed Voldemort, called upon his active death eaters and berated them about their so called loyalty to him as they failed to even try finding him, resulting in their masks being removed and their names being called out revealing them to Harry.
After the Melodramatic dark lord had finished his rant he turned to harry, begin the first of their many duals to come, trying being the word here, to prove his power to his followers, but was outsmarted by him when he closed the distance between him and the cup but not before taking credics body and a close by death eater, apperating in the middle of starting line.
When people saw the dead body and the death eater, they made the collusion and called for his death, which the idiot of the minister did, despite the protests of the head auroa Bones who wanted the revealed Nott senior to be interrogated for information on the other's but Fudge was paid well to keep him shut up.
5th year for Harry was his most devastating year of all, dementors attacked him in his home, however being trained in the Protronis charm by Sirus and his buddy Remus, he fended them off, just in time for the Auroa's to arrive and take them away, along with a summoning's for using magic outside of school.
The Wizengamot season was just plain stupid, they kept pushing up the timetable without informing him and wanted his wand snapped without so much hearing his word or the word of the Auroa's plus the evidence to back it up but he used their own laws against them and made an annoyance along the way called Umbridge who in the first second wanted his wand snapped.
In Hogwarts the woman made everyone's life save for the slytherins a living nightmare, she made a number of changes and rules with the Ministers permission despite what little word and power he had in school affairs, Harry did all he could to prevent himself from snapping the woman's neck when she insulted and taunted him into giving her an excuse to give him detention but he gave none annoying the woman further.
When she went too far he publicly used the Law against her to put her back into her place as a teacher not an official, she even went to far as to use blood Quills, an illegal item on muggleborn students, even pure and half bloods. He finally put an end to it by personally calling in favour from Amelia who arrived at Hogwarts to conduct the investigation personally and found them to be true resulting in the woman losing both her jobs and sent straight to Azkaban.
During the finals of the year, Harry received visons that proved to be true, resulting in him saving lord Weasleys life when he called about an attack in the department of mysteries which soon lead him and a few of his true friends on a battle for their lives in the chamber containing the veil of death where Sirus and a few of his comrades not loyal to Dumbledore saved them but resulted in the death of Sirus at the hands of his twisted sister.
Voldemort then arrived when he perused Bellatrix, the two of them battled it out long enough for the Ministery to arrive along with the Minister himself, Voldemort fled but the damage was already done as the incompetent minster was thrown out of office, Harry and his true friends gave Amelia the names and faces of the death eaters which resulted in an all out man hunt for the at large terrorists.
Harry had lost a father figure and friend that day, which Dumbledore tried to exploit resulting in him being sent to the hospital.
6th year, before the start of school, Harry trained hard, diving into ancient tomes of all of the families he now owns, expanding his magic and knowledge, during one of his training sessions he accidently destroyed his wand because his magical core grew too large for his wand to handle and it resulted in him going back to ovilander again who noticed the change within him and saw that no wand ever created by his hands could handle his magic, so looking into the ancient safes he kept in back, he came back with a half-finished Staff that ancient mages of old would use.
When he grasped it, the staff bonded with him like his old wand did, the old wand maker was like a giddy little boy at Christmas, the reason, because he can use his skill to complete a staff, with a few days left with the old maker he returned to get his staff back and was impressed by what he saw.
A long ebony staff, with jaded snakes circling around it, their three heads meeting at the top with a large crystal ball between them, their tails merging into long blade, when he grasped it he felt as if the whole universe flowed into him, about to pay for it but was refused by Ovilander who gave it to him free of charge on the grounds that and he quote *making this old man's dream a reality*, later after using his break before school, he would travel the world, experience and learning from every culture and magical tomes he could get his hands on before returning home enlightened and with his head filled with idea's.
After returning home, he found a previous tome from Salizars vault about Basilisk making, following the instructions, he procured three chicken eggs and three toads, sticking the toads onto their eggs with a spell, he waited until the eggs hatch and gave birth to three basilisks who ate the toads.
Using parseltonguehe communicated with them and bonded with them as his familiars where they melded into his skins hiding as his tattoos that went across his back to his arms, as a result of the bonding he no longer need glasses to see, his eye's changed into emeralds became snake like with the pupils slitted.
Soon after some time learning about wand making and staff making, Harry created his own wand from his very staff which he modified to hold his powers and create a chamber which would house the wand where it would channel any spell that went through it, doubling the power and affects when it was within it.
Soon School started for Harry, he hung out with his friends the same as usual, he proposed to his secret girlfriend and got married after the year in a wedding with their most trusted friends.
7th year the 2nd wizarding war broke out.
Voldemort and his deatheaters attack Muggleborn shops and homes around the world with a numbers of followers that he gathered over the years, soon their attacks went public to the muggle world, inciting the witch hunts and the apocalyptic war that is happening to this day.
Harry during this time was not getting that much involved in the war and was expecting to become a father when news of Daphnees pregnancy came to him, however fate liked to screw with him as Dumbledore soon learned about this news and purposely gave it to Voldemort so the dark lord could do the dirty deed.
The man attacked the Greengrass home and killed his wife, adding insult to injury he cut his child out of the dead women and hung them both on the houses gates.
That was the biggest mistake that bigot ever made, with nothing left to live for or lose, Harry took the war to Voldemort, eliminating all of his followers one by one, torturing them for information as well as hunting down and destroying each of his horcruxes.
A year of waring against him and he had finally isolated the mad man and battled against him using magic and spells far more powerful then he could imagen, if any had been there to witness such a fight, they would have described harry as a god from the magic and power he emanated and casted.
The battle ended with Harry severing Voldemorts Head clean off his shoulders and taking the resurrection stone from his ring that he had no idea of, he then apperated into the Ministry and thrown the darklords head at their feet, the display was as clear as day, the darklord fell to the chosen one, Dumbledore being there at day as the con man that he is, gathering support from the frightened populous wasted no time in proclaiming Harry as the next dark lord.
Those loyal or stupid enough wasted no time in raising their wands but it was too late, harry had already apperated home.
In the following years of the muggle wars and Dumbledores followers trying to gain access to his home, Harry rested, the years of fighting one battle after another was exhausting, the death of his friends and family hung heavily over his shoulders.
Harry used what spar time from training to research a way to end this chaos that the world was engulf in before finding the answer in an ancient tome known as Liber Temporis also known as the Book of Time.
He concluded that if he prevented the rise of the dark lord then the world would not become the hellhole it is now, but before he could prepare the necessary ingredients and seals he need to deal with the pests outside his house.
-3 days later-
A group of wizards, have been casting spell after spell on the wards for a year but found no success, until they watch in amazement as the wards suddenly dropped before them causing confidence and arrogance to surge within them as they believe they were the cause of it, they march up to the home with Dumbledore at the front leading them.
Entering they saw Harry sitting at the top of the stairs with a bottle of dragon whisky in one hand with a long staff sitting beside him on the other, all of Dumbledores army entered with their wands raised, filling every part of the hallway to prevent him from escaping.
Harry not bothered by the intruders, sweeped his eyes over the so called army, recoginsing a numbers of faces.
Hermione/ Ron/ Percy/ Ginny/ Molly/ seamus and Surprisingly Cho.
The army parted to allow Dumbledore to stand before harry at the bottom of the stairs, the old fool gave him the sappy I'm disappointed in you speech and you've to far, at the end of it Harry asked.
"why did you betray my Parents?" the old fool tried to play it off before he clarified "I overheard all of your plans, the betrayal and death of my parents by entrusting Peter as the secret keeper and giving Voldemort that bit of information along with plans to make me a martyr and steal my account by making fall in love with Ginny" Dumbledore grew silent and look at him without emotion while his followers grew nervous that they their plans were reveal.
"why don't you be honest for today and answer my question before you kill me?" he asked, playing at his pride.
"very well, yes I betrayed your parents. yes I made peter the secret keep and gave that information to snape who would give to Voldemort so that he can try to kill you or if that didn't work, nevial because what people don't know is that Prophicies can only come true if we make them to be".
"I planned this all from the start when Voldemort fell to that charm place upon you by your mother, I made it so that Sirius would stay in Azkaban so that you would be sent to your magic hating relatives that would you destroy your confidence. And when the time was right, introduce you to the wizarding world and plant the seeds of trust for me and your friends that you see before you" he said gesturing his former friends "I began stealing money from your vault years before you attended as I was your self-proclaimed guardian along with imperioing a few goblins here and there. Then when Ginny attended Hogwarts we would slip love potions into your food so that you would fall madly in love with her and when the time was right give us a child to open your vaults".
"I can understand him" he said pointing to Ron, The red haired boy was always a jealous prick who was a fame seeking glory hog with disgusting table manners, the pig only befriended him for the fame of being the boy who lived best friend and when he learned about the truth of their friendship he also learned that Ron was after his money.
He then turned to the other Wealseys in the room "them" Molly, Percy and Ginny, the matriarch of the family was just like her youngest son, only after the money in his vaults along with the power and social prestige she would get by having a grandchild of the boy who lived.
Next was Percy unlike his brother and mother he wasn't after money for personal gain but to aid in getting his family out of the poverty life he grew up in.
Final out of the Weasley trio was Ginny, Harry's fan/ stalker, The female Weasely needed no introduction on how bat shit crazy she was about him and having his child. while she to was in Dumbledores scheme which would raise her family from the sinking mud hole it was in, she only did it to be the mother of his offspring as well being his girlfriend. Harry could remember every trick she pulled to get him, from Love potion to spreading rumours about Daphne and even attempting to Rape him one time when she drugged his food, thankfully his Girlfriend rescued him from that mess but Ginny was left in the hospital for a few weeks. The only reason why she wasn't kicked out or how the school didn't know was because Dumbledore kept a tight lid on the whole ordeal and bribed Harry with full access to the forbidden section which he didn't need but humoured the old fool, not to mention not all of the Weasley clan needed to be dragged down for Ginny's act.
The twins and Mr Weasley were always good to him so he let it slide except for Restraining order against the young daughter who's medical bills were secretly paid for by him because Arthur was unable to given that his job only allowed him to barely surrport his family.
Harrys eye's then landed on the one person he never thought would betray him "but how did you get her?" he asked gesturing to Hermoine who was standing beside Ron.
Dumbledore stood proud as he looked ready to present his greatest accomplishment "Quite easily, the Promise of countless times and books your family possess was more than enough to turn her" he stated proudly of this feat. Out of all of the Friends who Betrayed him, he had Thought that the smart bookworm girl that he saved in his first year would've been his only ally or true friend amongst schemers and traitors. The muggleborn girl who grew up in a loving understanding muggle family
"I guess you didn't warn her about the many life debts she owes me then?" Hermione was shocked by this new revelation as she turns to Dumbledore for the answer but found none. A life debt was a serious thing amongst magicals, right next to oaths and vows as the witch or wizard who owes a debt to another is eternally bound to that person and is obligated to honour that debt anyway they can until they save that persons life or that person is dead. However they cannot attack or harm their saviour in anyway since he or she can choose to cut them off their magic entirely should they do any form of harm to them.
And in all these years, Harry has held onto that leash and has never once used it throughout all these years since he found out, out of pity or a tiny bit of compassion for her, Hermione would never know.
However the truth was that if Harry had called upon his ability to cut her off, then Dumbledore would find out and that would further complicate things for him because the old schemer would be on him more then usual.
"no, it was better that way".
"you also gave Voldemort the information on my wife and unborn son"
"yes" he said, grinning triumphantly "I couldn't allow you to go unwatched, happy and unmotivated in the destiny you were made for. You needed to be reminded of who you were and what you were meant to do." He paced back and forth in front of his army of loyalist's, chuckling like it was the greatest joke ever "and you did, beyond my calculations! It was all too easy to paint you as the next dark lord with your actions and use of deadly and dark spells. Originally I had planned to make you a martyr but your defiance changed that".
"But." He soon stopped once more before Harry "you continued to be a loose unpredictable element that proved it couldn't be controlled so here we are".
"yes here we are. Now before we turn this place into a battle ground answer me this" he looked at them with no emotion despite the truth about his life being thrown at him "what is your opinion on the people who listen to you crap?".
"Why their nothing more than sheep, brainless sheep who need a hero to save them. A hero to guide them and I was that, even before Grindalwald".
A smile soon crossed his lips "thanks that's all I need to hear" he said moving to the side of the step revealing a seal that was on the step behind him.
"what that?" Dumbledore asked looking at the seal that he didn't understand.
"A microphone" Harry said.
"A Microphone? To what?"
"To everyone around the world" it soon dawned onto Dumbledore what just happened.
"What!?, How long has that been on!?" his voiced boomed all across the world, from the magical ministries filled with people looking at the ceiling to the muggle world with a number of the Neighbours glaring hatefully at the Dursleys.
"Way before you busted in here" Harry said casually with a smirk slowing growing on his face.
"you!" Dumbledore Growled out in anger at his reputation being ruined. He swung his wand and channelled magic into his wand to cast a spell before it all suddenly stopped, everything stopped, his magic and body "i-I can't move" he gasped seeing everyone in the same situation as him from the corner of his eyes before they settled on Harry.
"You didn't think I had plan now did you?" Harry asked as a snake like grin spread across his face "I dropped the wards outside to allow you to come in and fall into my trap that you activated" he explained as the glamour spell over the floor ended, revealing a large circle with words inscribed into their rings and in them.
"Fascinating fact, the Potter's are notorious for their wards, Glyphs and enchantments." he cocked his head to the side, with a bit of hair falling over his face "it was only simple to draw this trapping seal over the floor which only activated when you channelled your magic" his outstretched his hand and sent a wandless expeliamus spell at Dumbledore, shooting his wand out of his hand into Harry's.
Harry looking at the old wooden wand, felt a tremendous amount of ancient magic within the object, that responded this him as he held it "amazing" he breathed out, recognising the item "the elder wand" he turned back to the frightened Dumbledore "thank you bring this here, now I don't need to rip it from your corpse".
"magicae constituent lustrantes" he said activating the second part of the trapping seal which illuminated and did it's work, the people inside screamed as they felt their insides tearing and burning from the inside before it stopped, letting them drop to their knees, leaving them with an empty feeling within them, like something was missing.
Ron being the first to get up, swiped his wand at him, sending a spell his way only for nothing to come out of it.
"Surprised?" Harry mocked his former best friends attempt at conjuring a spell "the second part of this trapping seal takes way your magic, permanently, now for the final part, say hi to your friends, family and the ministry when you *Get the fuck out of my house*" they disappeared with a pop as he said the code word to the seals final part which sent them straight to the floors of the Ministry.
"much better" he sighed in relief, disabling the microphone and activating the barrier ward again "now what to do with you?" he questioned himself looking at the elder wand before the feeling of movement across his arms and his body alerted him to presences of his familiars who loomed over his head and shoulders, giving anyone seeing this the impression of a hydra.
The Basilisk on his right shoulder had pitch black scales with horns stretching to the back of her head, it's red eye's gleamed with death, this Basilisk was called Typhon, named after the youngest of Gaia's children and looked almost like a dragon with her horns along with the ability to breath fire.
The Basilisk on his left had forest green scales with spikes protruding down it's spine and surrounding it's tail, her sapphire eyes gleamed with a hypnotic charm, this Basilisk was called Ladon and she like to coil around him and use her tongue to lick him on the cheek as a sign of affection, she had the ability to spit her own poison at long distances.
The Basilisk leaning over his head had dark blue scales with spikes around her body pointing inwardly, her green emerald eye's held power and authority, this was Lernaean who saw herself as the alpha or head of the three snakes hence why she loves to stretch her neck over his like a seconded head, she could blast water out of her mouth with such force that it could cut through steel and concreate.
S"We ssssshould keep it"S Typhon hissed out, moving closer to wand as she sense it's great power.
S"I agree, you ssssshould bring the other hollowssssss together and become death master"S Ladon hissed out, kissing his cheek and laying her head on his shoulder.
S"It issss your destiny, to become Deathssss Master"S Lernaean hissed, laying her head on his S"you would become a god amongst these sssssheep as that fool had called them"S she whispered in his ear.
"Hmmm" He mused, liking the sound of that "your right" he agree "I am a Persivel and it all belonged to my Ancestors" getting up from the stairs while grabbing his staff he asked "who wants chicken?".
"ME!/ME!/ME!" they all hissed out, excited on getting their favourite food.
"Dobby!, Kretcher!" he commanded, before seeing the two elves pop in front of him.
"Dobby is here master Harry" the happy elf said, wearing better clothes then he did when he was with the malfoys.
"As is Kretcher, Master" the almost grumpy elf stated, bowing before him as he respected his new master.
"Prepare chicken for tonight and start packing bags, we're going on a trip soon" he ordered getting them excited.
"Ooohhh! Where is it to now master Harry?" Dobby asked, bouncing up and down on his feet.
"Greece?! America?! Japan!?" Ketcher asked out, having enjoyed going around the world.
Harry grinned at their enthusiasm "not where? But when" he said causing them to stop and smile at their master with pride.
"It's time then master?".
"Yes, but I need to prepare a few things" he said before walking past them "take your time cooking, I probably be at this for a while".
Entering his private study which was a large room as big the grandhall of Hogwarts, bookshelves decorated the walls filled various tomes and artifacts, at the end of the room, laid a large desk that spread across the room with various books, bickers and potions laying upon it.
Walking to a closed closet, he opened it reveal a assortment of items, namely two that he was looking for.
The Invisiablity cloak past down through his family, and the resurrection stone he won from Voldemort, taking them in his hands he felt the magic within them stir in his presence and latch on to his magic, the three hollows then sensed each other's presence and linked their magic together, creating what Harry could describe as a beacon, sending burst of magic everywhere as they bonded with his soul.
Something responded back to these waves of magic as presence entered the room it's self, silence and emptiness entered the room, the lights flickered as the sound of wings flapping reached his ears, growing louder as the shadows around the room grew and merged together, forming a shadowy figure that grew in size until it stop.
The figure was tall and covered in a dark cloak, the exposed parts in it's cloak showed only bones, the dark hood covered the skeleton skull thats empty eye sockets bore straight into his soul.
The reaper seemed to study him before he is form shifted and grew smaller, taking on the appearance of an old man in a dark business suit, holding a steel tipped cane, he had a silver ring on his finger.
"Um hello?" Harry asked uncertainly as his familiars where unnerved the presence of the being before them, which was never a good sign if an apex predator was afraid of another being.
"So you are the Master of death now?" the old man asked with some annoyance in his tone of voice.
"I take it your death?" he asked looking at him
"My, my how very observant" the old man replied with heavy sarcasm "I think we may actually have an intelligent one here".
"Girls, your thoughts?" Harry asked his familiars.
S"Hissss presence is unnerving, we can't not sssssee him but we know he'ssss there"S Typhon warned, leering at the man.
S"It's like he'sssss a ssssshadow, there and yet not at the sssssame time"S Ladon stated, barring her fangs a bit just in case she need them.
S"Be careful we don't know who or what he issssss exactly, but I sssssense a bond between the two of you"S Lernaean advised, prepared to defend her master as she hovers a bit over him.
"You should listen to your friends" the man now revealed as death said, shocking them that he understood his familiars who only can only be understood by a Parsol mouth.
"So what should I call you besides death?" Harry asked, feeling that he can't just keep calling him by his title.
"Call me whatever you want besides anything stupid, I can only tolerate so much before someone ends up dead" the man sighed, staring at him with an impassive look "and you being my master does not give you any immunities from my wraith" the threat was a clear as day.
"Noted, now before we progress on with our lives there are a few question that I need answered"
"Ask?"
"First, as the Master of death am I immune to certain situations that would kill anyone?"
"Yes… as my master you are bound to me which give you the privileges of being unkillable but not completely immortal" he sighed before continueing "to clarify, bullets, stabbings, decapitations and killing curse will not kill you but it certainly hurt a lot, if your body is destroyed, your spirit will wonder the earth until your body reforms and you do age with time if you want."
"And how long will that take?"
"Depends" death shrugged
"On what?"
"On how generious I'm feeling"
"Ok then onto the second question do I have ability to properly bring someone back from the dead?"
"No" death stated firmly which sent a wave of fear through him "once someone is dead they are meant to stay dead, no exceptions, you can bring anyone from wherever they gone to talk but never try to bring them back from the dead, I consider it an insult in my face when people try to cheat me".
"Ok… final question what are you exactly beside death?"
"If I was to properly explain it to you, your brain would liquefy and leak a out of your orifices"
"Thank you for answering them, what happens now?"
"Now I do believe you have a ritual to complete".
"You know?" he asked surprised that he knew of his secret project.
"I've been keeping an eye on you when you survived the killing curse, when you first grasped my cloak which bonded you to me, though there were times when you evaded my sight when using it and I have to admit out my many masters you are one of the few who I find interesting" death answered.
"Other masters? You have more then one?" Harry asked, surprised to know that there's more then one who's death's master
"Other versions of yourself who unite the three hollows and become my master" he cleared it up.
"Oh".
"now lets continue on with our lives as you humans say" death then disappears with the sound of flapping wings growing fainter until he couldn't hear them any more along with his basilisk's easing themselves at no longer sensing his presence.
"Well, that was something" Harry said breaking the tension in the room "who's hungry?".
-a few days later-
Everything was prepared for their travel through time, clothes, Money, artifacts and from all of his vaults and houses, and other necessary items including the two elves, Harry and company stood within large Glyphs with seals and writing within them.
"Alright everyone, be warned this will a one way trip with a large kick stomach when we land, so you have anything that needs to be done please do it now" he said hearing nothing before commencing "alright here it goes" lifting his staff up he channel his magic into it and into the Glyphs feeling the power wash over the area.
"O magna vis temporum iniuria ius ne me remittas desaevit chaos mundi MCMXXV in Angliam mitteret Hangleton Pauca" his voice boomed unnaturally with power before the entire room was engulf in a bright light that dispersed to reveal everyone and everything within the seal gone.
-1924 Hangleton-
Deep within the forest of Hangleton of the nation of England, a bright light appeared before dispersing to reveal a group of individuals hacking up their lunch on the lush ground.
Harry had taken to leaning on an old oak tree for support as he violently heave.
The Basilisks having dropped to the floor after feeling the full affects of the spell and were violently spasming on the floor and hissing very aggressive like.
The two elves had fallen to their hands and knees, panting and getting sick all over the floor.
After finally regaining control of their bodies they slowly picked their selves up and wiped away the traces of drool and bile from their mouths "I did warn everyone about the affects" Harry said checking on each of his companions.
S"Letssss not do that again"S Ladon hissed out as she and her sisters once again climb and coiled around harry.
"Agreed!" everyone who understood her said simultaneously, Harry checking that they still had everything, took his wand out of the staff and casted a locating spell for their target and found that it was far away.
"Alright everyone, this way" he guided them after putting away his staff and belongs before marching in the directions of where the spell pointed, exiting the forest they found the small town, upon closer inspection they notice people walking around in old fashioned clothes causing Harry to look down on himself and realising how much he would stick out with his wardrobe.
Casting a spell on his person he changed his regular clothes into an old fashioned Victorian business suit complete with top hat and cane, turning to this elves he said "I Harriden James potter, slytherin, Gryffindor, Perciveal and Black, lord of the SLytherin, Gryffindor and perciveal claim My house Elves Dobby and Kreacher full access to my estates" the Magic of the noble houses recognised them, and bonded with them.
"Dobby, Kreacher go and prepare Castle Slytherin for us" he commanded causing the two elves to salute him before popping out of existence.
Turning back to the town, he made his way the town, drawing in the eyes of the people, who look at him in wonder, using his enchanced hearing he found that they were guess that based on his clothes he was a noblemen here on business with the riddles, he silently chuckled to himself as the feel of accomplishment emanated from within him because of his successful disguise.
Harry made his way to a small worn down shack with a snake skin nailed to the door, Harry felt disguise at this vulgar and disrespectful display of a family of parseltongue killing of their creature, getting over it and putting on his best poker face he knocked on the door and awaited for someone to answer.
The door opened to reveal a young woman in raggedy clothes with a dirty apron, her hair was dirty and matted even as it was tied in the back, her green eye's stared in opposite directions, her face dirty and bruised, based on her age and appearance he guessed her to be a young adult living in an abusive lifestyle.
"C-C-Can I help you" the young lady stuttered in a soft voice.
"yes is this the Gaunt Residence?" Harry Asked, to which the woman replied by nodding her head 'based on her description and that this is indeed the Gaunt residence. And I'd say I found Merope Gaunt, Voldemorts mother' he thought looking at her before a gentlemen smile cross his lips "my name is lord Harriden Slytherin and I have a proposal for you Lord" he said.
She seemed surprised by his second name and title before quickly gesturing him in "please come in" she said as she lead him to a small table while she went to her father, a few seconds went by before an older man walked in with a cane and familiar ring, followed by a troll of a man and the same woman from before.
"My name is Marvalo Gaunt, I am pleased to have you in our house Lord Slytherin" the newely identified voldemorts grandfather introduced with self with respect and barely concealed excitement.
"A Pleasure to make you acquaintance Lord Gaunt" Harry said outstretching the hand with the slytherin ring on which the old man noticed as he shook his hand before retracting "you see my Lord, I'm interested in getting Married, continuing the legacy and I heard that fellow kin of Slytherin where around so here I am" Marvalo got excited as Harry explain the part of Marry and Slytherin and put two and two together with him and his daughter.
"you wish to marry my daughter?" Marvalo asked looking between his ugly squib of a daughter and the handsome powerhouse of a lord.
"Yes and I'm well aware of the traditions of betrothals, so here's my offer in exchange for your Daughter" he reached into his suit and pulled out letter that Marvalo took and opened before reading the contents "upon the completion of our marriage you will get 20,000 gellions and a seat at Wizengamot" Marvalo jaw practically hit the table with the offer he wouldn't dream of receiving on the account of his families current situation.
"I-I-I couldn't agree more!" the man stuttered with excitement and joy "I would be more then honoured at having my daughter marry you".
"Wonderful, now just sign here" he directed which the man did "and drop of bit of yours and my future wife's blood on it" he did quickly while she was hesitant to do so but was forced to by her father grabbing her hand and printing it down where the blood soaked into the contract, signifying the binding.
"Perfect, now I hope I'm not asking to much from you, but I would like to get know her better by having her stay with me for a while" the Man practically bounced to his feet at this.
"Not at all, I would be more then glad to for you to have her over" he said sending a hidden glance her way, causing her flinch a bit in fear of protesting.
"Glad to hear it, my elves will be over tomorrow to help bring her and her stuff back to my castle" Harry said getting up and putting his hat back on "thank you for your pleasant company" he thank before turning to the woman and speaking in parseltongue S"and Thank you for your hospitality my lady"S Merope blushed at his gentle smile towards her before he left the shack.
-inside-
Still inside the shack, Marvolo lost his pleasant smile as he turned towards his daughter and grabbed her by the arm very roughly and whispered in a threatening tone of voice "Do not screw this up, we have the opportunity of a life time here to restore our families name and honour" he then turned to his other child "do not shame the family" he stated firmly before leaving with the son.
Merope, still in the room was still coming to terms with what just happened, a handsome man out of nowhere, lord of ancient house that her family is descended from, appeared out of nowhere and proposed to her father about marrying her, HER!, an ugly squib that isn't useful for anything besides being a servant to actual wizards that her father and brother would point out to her often.
Yet he still wanted to marry despite her appearance, yet he still wanted to marry her despite her statues as a Squib.
This handsome man who showed more kindness then anyone in her life asked for her hand in marriage, it was like a dream come true in her old fairytale books her mother used to read to her when she was alive, how a handsome prince or knight always marries the princess or damsel and lord Harridan was that Prince.
-with Harry-
Harry was grining from ear to ear in Triumphant as the first step of his plans succeeding, he apperated to the lands outside the large stone castle where his elves were setting things up for him, arriving at the large barred gates, he channelled his magic into his ring which recongised him as it's lord causing the gates to open for him.
Entering the deserted castle, he was presented with a lavish front hall, decorated ina black, white and green walls, drapes, carpet, and floor tiles, the emblem of house Slytherin hung proudly on top of the stairs.
He had only ever once visited the castle to research the tomes hidden there.
Walking in the doors closing behind him harry saw Dobby and Kreacher pop in front of him "Master Harry your back!" Dobby proclaimed in joy "we furnished the old castle properly, replacing the old decour and repairing the damaged parts of the castle".
Harry smiled down on them "well done, I couldn't have done this all without your help" they stood with pride at his praise "now lets call it a day and have something to eat".
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