Harry, Luna, and Hermione walked to the 7th floor and Harry knocked on the wall. Instantly the room of requirement appeared with a flash of Harry's power.

Harry smirked "Always hated the idea of just walking back and forth, so stupid."

Luna opened the door as if nothing unusual occurred and walked in, Hermione and Harry followed.

Upon sitting down, a creature shifted in the room and landed in Luna's lap, purring its snorting sound. Hermione blinked, then shrugged. The Room of Requirement could make anything, but it required the item to have existed either in past or future. So who was she to question a crumpled horned snorkack.

Hermione glanced to Harry who raised his hand before she could voice her first question.

Harry sighed "I know what you're going to say, Hermione. We'll update the others after they arrive before going into any real details of our plans for this universe, but the short of it is, if we made any significant changes to how things are done in this universe, it'd cause a time paradox since the corruption is embedded in the universe's time stream. And as we all are derived from this reality, the paradox would push us to another universe to save itself from unwinding, and us with it."

Hermione blinked "You speak as if you did this before."

Harry smiled sadly "I tried to eliminate the pure-blood runic ethos. In every way I could think of. Every time I got shunted to another universe where this was the 'normal' and was time-locked out of my normal universe, this universe, until I reverted the changes."

Luna looked at Harry sadly "And of course, the shunt would have happened immediately before the changes took effect, thereby making it moot of you doing the change to begin with."

Harry nodded his head sadly "Very much so. As soon as the change went into effect, it would have impacted all the pure-bloods, which my father was one. Even if he, himself, was not directly impacted by the pure-blood curse, Dorea Black was, and was bound by those of her family through force. Rewriting it would remove Dorea from existence in her form, meaning James would likely not have been born, or born differently or had different ethos, which would have removed him being married to Lily Evens, which would mean I didn't exist, which would have removed my ability to make changes at all. Paradox."

Hermione snorts "Sounds like a bad Doctor Who episode."

Harry grins "You know there's a universe that's reality?"

Hermione blinks.

Luna bounces "We must go there. I want my own T.A.R.D.I.S!"

Harry holds his nose to a Luna migraine "Yes yes, we'll go there after this universe is dust."

Luna nods her head and looks to Hermione. She also appears to be bouncing with shining eyes.

Harry gives Hermione a level stare and she turns her nose up "I like Doctor Who, so sue me."

Luna speaks up for clarification "So in effect, we are, in effect, time-locked in such a way that any changes we do have to be current but only so much so that it won't impact the timeline, and since the pure-blood crap, and pretty much all the soul bound drains are time locked before you were borne, it in effect was a causality that created you, so can't be directly impacted."

Harry grins evilly "That's the key word. Directly impacted. We can warp it, block it on individual basis, and basically cause all matters of Chaos. While we can't… remove it… we can alter it. We can eventually burn the world down, which we will, but we can't stop or otherwise impact how it works on the pure-bloods. Likewise, while I could snuff Vernon and the Dursleys from existence, I couldn't do it before I became empowered. All that timey-wimey bullshit."

Hermione "And here we thought you were all powerful. Couldn't you just add unlimited perks and abilities to us?"

Harry shrugged "Why? We're already above Elder Gods in abilities and stats, and we have console access. While yours is limited with admin, you can still as you saw do more or less anything you can imagine. All a perk does is define what we can already do."

Luna snirks "Hermione, Harry is saying that he's absolutely all powerful."

Harry snorts "I am, but I'm limited to what directly impacts myself. I'm rather the answer to the question 'can God lift a stone he creates that can't be lifted.' In this case that which created me can't be changed by me."

Harry glances up to the Fourth Wall "Isn't that right, Ariana Dumbledore?"

[Fourth wall] Busted.

Hermione smacked her head "Of course, the stats on Dumbledore. It literally threw in our face that Ariana was the Fourth wall and was the entire reason you got powered up."

Harry smiled sadly "And that is the ultimate reason we can't modify the pure-blood runic curse. Ariana's magic and life empowered the original spell, and her soul is what empowered me. Removing it would remove me and cause the ultimate paradox."

[Ariana] Harry is correct. This universe is a cesspit and needs to be wiped from existence. But we should get our jollies from doing so and we're somewhat handicapped with the time-lock. If this wasn't our own universe, we would have free hand to do anything we wanted.

Luna glanced up "We're about to have guests. We should continue in detail once the other members of our party arrive."

The door opened and in walked Susan, Daphne, and Tracey. They glanced around and Daphne, being the one to most quickly put together the puzzle of what is going on was the first to speak.

Daphne glared to Harry, Hermione, and Luna "Care to explain the geas that forced us to enter this room at this time? And why I feel like it's so important my soul demands attention?"

Luna glared back "Because it does. Shut up and listen, it won't be explained more than once."

Harry raised a hand "Luna, I know that you're tired of the bullshit, but they'll be our family, we can grant allowances."

Luna grumped "Until that shit is removed from their systems, they're not family."

Harry blinked "Good point. But first, we're missing someone…"

] id_teleport Astoria Greengrass location: here

OK

Astoria Greengrass appeared with a pop, still wearing her night clothing and blinked around, then glanced to Daphne "Where am… am I at Hogwarts? What is going on?"

Daphne held her hand to hear heart and shouted to Harry "A little warning!"

Harry shrugged "Oops?" Harry didn't look like he cared. As Harry didn't care, the look fit.

Astoria put her hands on her hips, her skin still a sickly pale from the now passive blood curse "Why am I here? I felt a need to be here and suddenly I am. So what is going on?"

Harry held up a hand "One second, please."

] id_perk_remove Daphne Greengrass, Susan Bones, Tracey Davis, Astoria Greengrass type:*curse

OK, OK, N/A, OK

] id_party_add Daphne Greengrass, Astoria Greengrass, Tracey Davis, Susan Bones

OK, OK, OK, OK

] id_set Daphne Greengrass, Astoria Greengrass, Tracey Davis, Susan Bones flags: developer

OK, OK, OK, OK

Harry closed the console "Done!"

Astoria, Daphne, Tracey, and Susan had their eyes roll up in their heads as the developer download happened.

Enter the cursing. Lots.. and lots… of cursing.

Astoria was the first to notice, stopped cursing and raised a sculptured eyebrow "Harry, Luna, and Hermione's team of 'I'm going to fuck the world with a big goblin dildo'?"

Harry and Hermione sighed in tandem and pointed to Luna, who just smiled with full teeth.

When Luna spoke up, Harry and Hermione spoke up as one "The name stuck."

Tracey snirked "Stuck like a giant goblin dildo?"

Harry and Hermione grabbed their nose in a Luna headache. Luna just grinned all the more brighter and cooed to Tracey "You and I are going to be the best-est buddies."

Susan spoke up and leaned away "You're not going to do anything… sexual.. are you?"

Luna snorted "As if. Ariana, the Fourth Wall, wouldn't allow it. It'd just fade to black."

Astoria grinned "Really?" And she pounces on Harry and gives cute little kisses all over his face, stops and turns to Luna "It didn't fade to black?"

Luna just smiles indulgently "You have to intend illicit behavior to do so."

Astoria shudders "ieewww!"

Tracey stands up and says in a manic voice "I'll have some of that!" and pounces on Harry.

The room fades to black.

The room fades back in, everyone is still sitting where they were, and Tracey is back where she sat prior to pouncing on Harry.

Tracey grumps "Well, that's all kinds of fucked up. I don't even get to remember what I was doing to cause the fade to black."

Harry shrugged "Blame Ariana"

[Ariana] Sex is icky.

Tracey looks like she's about to cry "No sex? Ever?"

[Ariana] uh-uh

Tracey looks up with pleading eyes "Even if it's another universe?"

[Ariana] hummm… maybe. But it'll have to be tasteful.

Tracey licks her lips "Oh, there'll be plenty of tasting involved."

Daphne calmly flicks Tracey's ear with her finger "Bad Tracey. Bad. No cookie."

Astoria just giggles, used to this behavior of the two best friends for several years.

Hermione clears her throat "OK, going past sex, or the lack thereof, we should get back to this universe. And how we're going to blindly fuck the universe and everyone in it. I assume with the administrative download that you Susan, Daphne, Astoria, and Tracey got caught up so far on what our wondrous Fourth Wall Ariana has filled us in and Harry's research so far?"

All four nodded in compliance.

Harry took over "OK, so with that in mind, we're somewhat limited by the time-lock on what we can impact, but we can and will burn those evil fuck-tards into the ground, and do so in the most painful way possible. While we won't be able to do sweeping changes to fix things, since this universe is absolutely fucked, we can effectively shorten the lifespan of this universe and remove it from the equation."

Luna grins "Only if the equation is the square root of -1"

Hermione shudders in pleasure "I love when you get all smart like that, Luna."

Luna preens as the others catch on. Astoria voicing it "So you're going to wipe this universe from reality?"

Luna cackles "Imaginary number bay-bee."

[Ariana] I saw what was going to happen with this universe, especially if those who currently have power got to the point they could crack open the portals of reality and jump universes. While there are other beings in the multiple universes who have done this, they usually are restrained by other greater powers. For whatever reason, this universe has been, for lack of another word… neglected. And the greater power allowed me to come back and make changes. I picked Harry because at the time of my return, he was the only being who was young enough and flexible enough to handle the power and responsibility. Granted, he's going to be morbid and dark, but that's all that's left of this cesspit so good riddance to bad rubbish.

Daphne spoke up "OK, but why us four? Why not anyone else? There's others out there that have to be kind enough and right minded enough to help. Like that little firsty who you traumatized at the sorting?"

Luna was the one to answer "It's because out of everyone in this cesspit of a universe, due to all the soul binding, everywhere, the mortals and muggles, the creatures and mages, every single life and soul in existence, you four, and us, are the only ones remaining that are not tied to the cesspit of soul corruption that good ol' Albus established."

Susan snorts "My parents would have been included, but they're dead. Thanks to that cunt aunt of mine, Amelia."

Tracey sighs "My parents were killed by the Malfoy's, so they're out."

Astoria glances to Daphne and she nods her head to speak up "My parents would have counted, but they interrupted the soul binding that the Malfoys attempted on us and took the curses from me and Daphne onto themselves. They damned their souls to destruction for our survival."

Hermione shakes her head "I'm sorry."

Luna taps her chin in thought "While we can't save their souls because of the time-lock, we can save, for lack of the better term, their essences. We just capture all their personalities, knowledge, and existence and make an artificial construct."

Hermione blinks "You mean like a full on A.I.?"

Luna nods "Exactly. We can have all our parents that way. We can summon their souls, even if they're bound to this existence, copy their knowledge, personality and essence, and have them come with us."

Harry smiles sadly "All but Sirius."

Daphne "You mean Sirius Black? Wait, with admin access I know he's not a murderer but why… oh. Oh fuck!"

Daphne had a truly scary face, the anger and disgust apparent "The Blacks are fucking monsters!"

Harry smiled sadly "Sirius is nothing but a homunculus. A creation of the Black family, to empower them a spy for the light. The Potters were aware, of course, how could they not with the magical power of the family. And they broke Sirius's binding. Sirius is as free a being as he'll ever be. But he'll never have a soul."

Hermione looked up "You at your power can create souls. So why don't you?"

Harry smiled sadly "I looked into it. The soul-binding curse is for the entire family of the Blacks. Giving Sirius a soul would grant him true life, at the cost of being soul-bound to this universe. He would be in a worse position than he is now, as an artificial construct."

Luna spoke up "So just move his existence to an A.I. He's already effectively one, no?"

Harry grins to Luna "I love how you can think outside the box. That's a great idea and I'll do so. Along with Lily and James. We'll have all our families with us when we leave this shithole."

Tracey spoke up "Couldn't you just bring Lily and James back alive? And Pandora Lovegood? And the Bones family?"

Susan figured the answer out immediately "No. They were cursed upon death, and their cursed death enabled us to live. Bringing them back would re-trigger the curse as it's tied to their life, and ultimately us."

Astoria waves a hand "Wait wait wait. That makes no bloody sense. They died in the past, if we brought them alive now, in the present, it wouldn't have any impact on the past?"

Luna smiles sadly "It's a timey-wimey. If Pandora Lovegood came back now, the curse would be active again, and in so doing spread to those directly bound to her. Which would be me. And once I was cursed, I wouldn't have free will and it would directly impact the administrative mode I have, causing once again a paradox. The administrative Elder God mode would obviously win, but the universe would shunt me into another universe to save against paradox, like it did Harry. And like it would do to any of us. Albus made absolutely sure to fuck us since he, himself, can bring people back to life being a deity and wanted that avenue covered."

Astoria almost in tears stamped her foot "But we're Elder Gods, we have fucking console. Harry has the fucking cheat console!"

Luna nods her head and sighs "Cheat mode in a time-locked universe that has pre-defined limits. You can't change literal physical limits. It's like a game running on an Intel chip-set. The game can't change that chip-set to AMD."

Hermione cleared her throat and coughed "Emulation mode."

Luna rolls her eyes and flicks Hermione's nose "And how stable is that? How much functionality gets castrated from it? How much slower is it? Do you want to be in a universe that blue screens? I sure the fuck do not."

Harry nodded his head and the sudden quiet contemplation and glanced around the room "So ladies, let's power you up."

] id_set Daphne Greengrass, Astoria Greengrass, Susan Bones, Tracey Davis stats: dex,str,con,int,wis,cha 499; level 99999

OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK

OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK

OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK

OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK

Harry closed the console.

Susan, testing her new powers snapped her fingers, the fireplace blazed to life. Astoria put in the marshmallows that appeared in her hands, Daphne and Tracey started preparing the s'mores.

Harry leaned back "This is what we're going to do."

And Harry gave his plan.

The laughter that ensued would continue for several hours during the telling.

Author notes:

And there you have it. Harry, while being an ultimate being, does have limits, and those limits are tied to his existence. The physical limits are not that Harry does not have the power to make the changes, it's that if he does make those changes the universe, being time-locked, will kick him into another universe that would have existed with those changes.

Truely sucks to be Harry.

But fear not, these limits only apply to Harry's home universe, which we all know is going to be blotto'd from existence in short order, then the gloves come off to the other universes.