A one year old toddler sat in a basket in a cupboard under the stairs. He'd been left there what must have been hours ago, and the door was locked. He'd explored the cupboard thoroughly during that time, stumbling about on weak legs and falling constantly, but in that hour he had managed to ascertain, to the best of his ability, that nothing had changed since he was a teenager with the exception of the future addition of a bed and mattress as well as what few belongings he had collected over the years.
After finishing the complete and exhaustive analysis of his former bedroom, he'd crawled back into the basket and tried desperately to think of anything other than the message.
Harry James Potter, born July 31st just over a year prior and sent back to his former body mere hours ago, failed.
Finally he gave up. He tried desperately to remember how all of Dudley's games had started, and finally thought as loudly as he could: MENU.
MENU
-Advantages and Disadvantages
-Skills
-Status
-Goals
-Pause Game
-End Game
He decided to start from the bottom.
END GAME
Warning! If you select this option then your world will be promptly terminated. Should you feel that your goal is too difficult then you may choose this option, but it is highly advised you do not.
Okay… so it looked like he'd be playing along for a while, at least.
PAUSE GAME
In this state the entire world except for your thought processes stop until such a time as you un-pause the game. You may only explore the menu while the game is paused. Any current sensations with the exception of vision will also be paused.
That seemed helpful. That he'd stop feeling hungry the second he selected the option was helpful too. He kept the game paused and returned to the menu.
GOALS
Elective Goals
Current Goals
Harry decided to start from the bottom again.
CURRENT GOALS
-Save Wizarding Britain!—To complete this goal the country of magical Britain must be completely reformed to allow for more equal opportunity and fall more in line with the standards of the majority of the rest of the world, at minimum. (1,000,000,000 XP)
-Save Wizarding Europe!—While no magical European country has fallen back as much as Magical Britain, many are well behind their non-magical counterparts as well as the rest of the world in terms of progress. To complete this goal there must be a visible effort by at least three Wizarding countries to move towards more equal opportunity. (100,000 XP per country)
-Save the World!—If you accomplish your goal and your 26 peers accomplish theirs then the experiment will be considered a success and Earth will be allowed to continue. (MAX XP)
No pressure, huh?
ELECTIVE GOALS
-Food!—Food is necessary to life and it has been too long since you were last fed. Get and eat food. (10 XP)
-Bathroom!—You feel an increased pressure in your bladder. Time to relieve it. (10 XP)
Both of those seemed like fairly good goals, for all that he wasn't looking forward to the second one. He added them to his current goals list.
STATUS
Level: 1 (Note: the average person takes about a year to level up until approximately level 25. Each time you level up you will be allowed to add 5 skill levels.)
Health: 143/150
Ingestion: 28/100
Excretion: 34/100
Energy: 92/100
About what he expected. He was sure that health was about to take a steep fall though. Skill levels, on the other hand…
SKILLS
MENTAL
-Perception: MAX (Recognition and interpretation of sensori stimuli)
-Attention: MAX (Ability to concentrate and manage competing demands)
-Memory: MAX (Ability to remember past events)
-Spoken English: 84 (The ability to use English to communicate and understand orally)
-Spoken Latin: 15 (The ability to use Latin to communicate and understand orally)
-Spoken French: 2 (The ability to use French to communicate and understand orally)
-Spoken Spanish: 5 (The ability to use Spanish to communicate and understand orally)
-Spoken Snake: 27 (The ability to use the language of snakes to communicate and understand orally)
-Other Languages: 0 (The ability to use any other language)
-Written English: 76 (The ability to use English to communicate and understand in writing)
-Written Latin: 3 (The ability to use Latin to communicate and understand in writing)
-Written French: 1 (The ability to use French to communicate and understand in writing)
-Written Spanish: 2 (The ability to use Spanish to communicate and understand in writing)
-Music: 2 (The ability to use an instrument to play music)
-Finance: 28 (The ability to manage money)
-Agriculture: 56 (The ability to work with plants)
-Visual Arts: 15 (The ability to create visual artwork)
-Literary Arts: 34 (The ability to tell a story)
-Biology: 25 (The ability to understand Biology)
-Chemistry: 24 (The ability to understand Chemistry)
-Physics: 20 (The ability to understand Physics)
-Algebra: 20 (The ability to understand Algebra)
-Geometry: 14 (The ability to understand Geometry)
-Trigonometry: 2 (The ability to understand Trigonometry)
-Calculus: 4 (The ability to understand Calculus)
-Engineering: 28 (The ability to apply knowledge to invent, build, maintain, and improve)
-Technology: 14 (The ability to understand and use technological equipment)
-Medicine: 20 (The ability to care for the health of oneself or others)
-Law: 26 (The ability to understand the law)
-Psychology: 14 (The ability to understand the workings of the human brain)
-Culinary: 40 (The ability to cook)
PHYSICAL
-Respiratory Endurance: 7 (The ability to gather, process, and deliver oxygen)
-Stamina: 7 (The ability to process, deliver, store, and utilize energy)
-Strength: 10 (The ability of a muscular unit to apply force)
-Flexibility: 11 (The ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint)
-Power: 6 (The ability of a muscular unit to apply maximum force in minimum time)
-Speed: 8 (The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement)
-Coordination: 5 (The ability to combine several movement patterns into a single movement)
-Agility: 8 (The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another)
-Balance: 4 (The ability to control the placement of the body center to its support base)
-Accuracy: 5 (The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity)
-Vitality: 4 (Resistance to physical attacks)
-Flying: 94 (The ability to use a specifically spelled broom to fly through the air)
MAGICAL
-Wand Magic: 18 (The ability to use a wand to perform magic)
-Runic Magic: 0 (The ability to use writing to perform magic)
-Staff Magic: 0 (The ability to use a staff to perform magic)
-Oral Magic: 10 (The ability to use speech to perform magic)
-Intent Magic: 6 (The ability to use intent to perform magic)
-Alchemy: 0 (The ability to permanently transform matter)
-Arithmancy: 5 (The ability to use magical math)
-Charms: 65 (The ability to force a target to perform in a way contrary to its nature)
-Divination: 0 (The ability to use one's magic to tell the future through a variety of means)
-Legilimency: 0 (The ability to use magic to read another's mind)
-Occlumency: 8 (The ability to use magic to protect one's mind from Legilimency)
-Potions: 26 (The ability to combine various ingredients to create a potion with a magical effect)
-Transfiguration: 65 (The ability to change the physical form of a target)
-Enchanting: 0 (The ability to permanently add charms and runes to a target)
-Magic: 85 (The ability to force magic to act in a certain way)
-Magical Vitality: 87 (Resistance to magical attacks)
SOCIAL
-Teaching: 48 (The ability to teach others)
-Negotiation: 14 (The ability to negotiate to a more pleasant outcome)
-Seduction: 10 (The ability to gain another's attention in an amorous way)
-Intimidation: 0 (The ability to intimidate to get a more pleasant outcome)
Jesus… fucking… Christ. That was a long list. And from the looks of things, only his mental skills fully transferred. Both his magical and social skills seemed to have taken a hit, and his physical ones may as well have been nonexistent. Great. Just fucking wonderful.
Fine, okay. He'd deal. Next.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
-Boy Who Lived: Harry will be viewed as a celebrity by the magical community.
-Unwanted Nephew: Harry will be maltreated by the Dursley family due to his magical nature, the lack of recompense, and the sudden nature of his arrival.
-Odd Eyes: The unnaturally intelligent eyes of Harry Potter will cause sentient, half-sentient, and non-sentient creatures to act differently.
-Myopia: Harry sees less clearly at a distance than the average human.
-Controlled Transport: Unless in control, Harry will be unable to comfortably use magical transportation.
-Curse Scar: Harry has a curse scar which was formed from protective runes hit by an overpowered 'dark' cutting curse.
-Parseltongue: Harry can naturally communicate somewhat with snakes.
That was… unexpected. He was hit by a cutting curse? And where was the horcrux? And where were the blood wards? Maybe they didn't count? But then why?
…There was no way he could find that out now. He guessed he'd have to wait.
He supposed the only thing left to do now was actually…
PLAY.