This was madly inspired by Faery Heroes, I aim to be as amazing as that series was... It seriously is a massive inspiration to me. I love it more than literally any other story ever... bar maybe Pulling my Weight, A Sakura Story.
This is a very, very different Harry Potter story. Darker, more selfish and self centered... I am tired of the selfless Hero... I want someone that craves freedom and Happiness denied to them.
"Are you sure, Harry?"
Harry Potter, aged one hundred and five, turned to his beloved Luna and smiled. "I have lived a long life, in service for all those that are not me. As have you, my love. It is time we make things right, one final act of service for the world as we serve ourselves for once."
She smiled back. her hair still that wirery silver he loved so dearly. "Of course, you are right. Don't let it get to your head though." She leaned up and kissed him, softly and sweetly. "Our Horcruxes are ready, it is time."
Nodding, the two of them grabbed hands and moved slowly down the stairs of their secret bunker, feeling the wards shifting as they hurried closer and closer to the center of the runic circle they had set up. It was complex in ways that not even Hermione, had she still been alive, could have understood. It was entirely made by Harry and Luna, using Parslemagic and Luna's mother's countless notes. It used the Elderwand and necromantic magics Harry's ancestors had perfected, taught to him through the reclaimed Ressurection Stone. It was the most complicated piece of magic ever crafted... and it was their escape, escape from a world of misery and hate they unknowingly brought onto themselves decades prior. Nearly a century prior in fact...
" Are you ready, my love?"
Luna nodded, and stripped off her clothes, and she was still beautiful to him. All she had on was a single trinket, a locket that had their pictures in it. He did the same, with a matching trinket, and they stepped into the runes, which burned red. The new light showcased a dozen of tied up muggles and wizards, screaming through their clothed mouths. "You lot started this war... and for it you will be sustenance to our spell. Thank you for your service." She said, cruelly and coldly.
Harry was tickled. "Let us depart my love... it is time."
Raising hands skyward, they allowed the magic of the Elder wand to kick in. They poured magic, using new techniques and old magic, and watched as each offering was drained of life and soul.
Then they offered their Horcruxes, lifting them skyward before their life forces and magic and soul were burned up and the magic took hold... Through time and space, the Horcruxes flew away, to distant times and places, where they would land on top of two sleeping forms...
The world would be reborn anew through this sacrifice.
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"OW!" Harry said as something heavy landed on his chest, knocking him from sleep. Opening his eyes, he saw the source of his pain... a thin locket, silver and blue, it made him cry just looking at it. " Why am I crying?" He asked, confused as his hands moved thickly to open it... and it was then that he realized that he had lost control over his body. A force, stronger than Mad eyes Imperius curse by miles and miles, wrapped around his brain. He couldn't call for help, or fight his actions, it was all entirely removed from him at that point.
"Just relax." He heard, a voice say from within the locket. "I am here to help, just embrace it." And then everything went Dark for Harry... and then found himself in a massive library.., complete with a massive roaring fireplace and two leather seats, one filled by...
"ME?"
The other person looked like Harry. They were taller and thicker, powerfully built with muscle despite the grey hair and worn face, but they were still him. They had his eyes, his scar, his shaggy hair, his same wry expression. "Yes, Harry, I am you. A version of you from the far distant future. I am a hundred and five and honestly... we have a lot to talk about. Sit..." And Harry obeyed, not that he had a choice as the potent magic was in effect still. "Sorry about that, my magic is quite potent. I have a life time of practice, a will even stronger than yours, experience and a drive that you lack. It is easy work to take over you... but that will end soon, once we merge."
Harry gaped. "Merge?"
"My Soul fragment, all that I am, will become you. Basically, my experience, power, wisdom and pain will be yours. Together, as a new being, we will make changes to this timeline. My future was a dark one, Harry and you are responsible for it. Let me explain... you defeated Voldemort, the specifics are not important as you will gain my memories soon enough... but that was not the hardest part of life. When you got older, after Tommy Boy was dead, you became the Head of the Aurors and settled down with Ginny. When you turned fifty, Muggles found out about Magic through Collin Creevey's Brother Dennis out of revenge. War nearly blossomed and then it ended, we joined as one society. Our lives... were better.
Muggles had advanced so much...and so much of their evolution became ours. We started therapy when our lives were made public and we started getting panic attacks that we hid from the public and our family. That changed everything... especially after Ron committed suicide at Fifty-three. He was scarred more than most from the wars... Hermione, his wife, was devastated and only encouraged us to go to therapy, which again changed it all.
We learned a lot, about ourselves, how we settled for Ginny and how we were passively suicidal and gave everything for an ungrateful world. We needed to start over, so e did. We left Ginny and our job and traveled the world after our kids were out of school. We fell in love again, with Luna Lovegood of all people, who was being mistreated by her husband for her differences... she lived with us for years, and we fell madly in love. She helped me learn magic again, and how to see magic in the mundane. I helped ground her without tearing her from the skies... she was and is fantastic. She came back with us actually.
That time traveling taught us a lot. That we deserved better, that we were tired of sacrificing for a world that abused us over and over again. That the guilty were never punished, the innocent never helped... that we were victims and that we messed up. We grew a lot, mastered countless forms of magic including parsle magic and generally. became better, stronger and happier than ever. We started to work out, eat healthy and more... life was just better.
When we turned seventy, a new war started. This one was the worst war in history, muggle technology mixed with magic to create weapons of such power that it devastated the world. It was the apocalypse and it was the end. Luna and I vowed to fix it... but we could not. The radiation was too much, the world was over... and so... we vowed to go back, to prevent the world from being ruined.
We found inspiration in Voldemort, who broke his soul into fragments to maintain immortality. We found that by sacrificing a fraction of our souls, we could remerge them with our young selves. Which is what we did... and so we are here now. With you... there is more, that you will learn in time, or rather when we merge fully, which should be shortly..."
Terrified, Harry begged. " Why are you doing this, why tell me if You are just going to take over my body?"
"To ease the point. It won't change a thing, but it is kinder than making you just wonder what is happening. It also creates common ground, making our bonding easier. Now... relax, in minutes we will be one... and all of your worries will be over."i
"Why now?"
"Oh, well that is easy. Today is the day you were abandoned by everyone for the Triwizard Tournament, It is the perfect time to excuse a boost in skill and change in self... don't worry though, all will be good. In time."
Harry opened his mouth but all went white...
And then a very, very different Harry Potter opened his eyes. His eyes were colder, meaner, darker... but also fill with a hope his younger self never had. "That is better... oh the joys of young body." Standing, he waved his hands over his bed, it was made in moments and all of his belongings swirled into place, sealed away in his trunk. A wave of his hand placed a seal on his trunk, ensuring it's protection. "Now, just to buy an enchanted trunk... I wonder how Luna's doing..." Smirking, he all but skipped away... not before stopping at Ron's bed. "You never were punished for this... I think I will play dirty pool just this once." Waving his hands over Ron, the boy glew a soft green. "That's for abandoning me twice... you were a good friend in the end, but you need to learn to be better in this time... enjoy."
And then he hurried away, to find his love and start rectifying the future for the better... for the world... but mostly and finally, for himself... and Luna... two souls who never had a fair shack at life and had many pounds of flesh to start carving from the world.
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"Hmmph... that's better." Luna smirked, wrapping spells around her room. " Try and take my stuff you nasty bints. You never were punished in the future for abuse, but now you will be." Satisfied with her cruel but fun actions, she skipped away, moving towards where she sensed Harry's presence. "Hello handsome." She said as soon as she found him, which was by the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.
He laughed at her. "Hello, my love."
"So... tearing down the Basilsik for money is our first step so we can make our plans grow. So many things to buy in secret... so many expenses. Then the fun can begin! "
"And then turning Rita onto the world for abusing me... " Harry's smirk was utterly devious.
Luna ate it up. "Wonderful... the chaos that will birth is just flawless... let's get to work."
Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.
This was a lot of fun. My version of a time travel story.
Love, your Ninja Overlord,
Mika.
