A/N: sorry this came out later than I wanted but here it is.


Chapter 4: Diagon Alley

With a pop Minerva and Harry appeared on a busy pavement with cars driving past, people walking with only a glance spared at the pair before continuing on. Gardevoir withdrew her arm and her glowing eyes subsided, Minerva held up the red and white ball, clicked the button and Gardevoir retreated in a red light back into the ball. Minerva put the ball back on her belt and turned to Harry.

'Those Harry are called pokeballs, you will learn more about them at Hogwarts as well as the powers Gardevoir used and powers she and other Pokémon have'. Harry gave a nod at the explanation before turning slowly looking at the street, cars and people, listening to all the overwhelming noise and smells. He tucked himself into Minerva's side still clutching her hand. She looked down at Harry in his thin, dirty clothes holding his only possessions in a satchel on his shoulder. 'Harry, we are going to go get your supplies for Hogwarts and there will be a lot of other families doing the same thing around this time, so stay close to me to not get lost, okay?' A nod was returned.

She and Harry started walking towards an old looking building with a wooden sign above the door with "The Leaky Cauldron" on the sign. Minerva pushed open the creaky door and entered with Harry trailing behind observing all the people inside but looking down if people turned their attention to him. Minerva came up to the bar table and spoke to the man with a large insect like crab with a large rock on its back and its eyes popping out at the bottom of the rock.

The man noticed Minerva and Harry and walked over with the crab rock creature scuttling behind him. 'Hello Minerva, brining another student to get their supplies are you?'

'Hello to you too Tom, yes I'm bringing another student for their Hogwarts supplies' while they conversed Harry peered at the bug creature who chittered and scuttled to Harry its eyes on him. Harry took a step back at the creature coming closer. Both Minerva and Tom noticed the interaction and their conversation stopped, both watching. 'Don't be afraid of Crustle little one, he just likes making new friends, you can pet him if you want, he won't bite.'

Harry looked at Minerva who smiled back at him and nodded answering his unspoken question. Harry took a nervous step forward and laid his hand on the rock shell of Crustle and rubbed his hand side to side. Crustle sighed at Harry's scratching and Tom chuckled at his Pokémons reaction.

Tom looked at Harry with a smile 'and who are you young man, are you excited to get your starter Pokémon, I can remember when I got Crustle, he was only a dwebble then but he's been with me since we first met, here's a bit of advice for you, your Pokémon will be a second family apart from the one you make at Hogwarts and Pokémon will love you just as much as your humans as long as you treat them like you family.' Tom now walked beside Crustle and reached over it scratching both sides of its rock shell making it collapse with pleasure as its trainer scratched all the right spots.

'Well sir I'm finding out about Pokémon for the first time so I-I don't know much only what the Professor has told me and my name is Harry Potter.' the whole pub stopped, all conversations and everyone turned towards Harry making him hide behind Minerva startled at all the attention. Suddenly it burst alive again as questions burst across the room.

'Harry Potter?', 'The Boy-Who-Lived?', 'Where is he, is he here?', 'The Potters boy?'

'Everyone get back!' Shouted Minerva pulling a poke ball from her belt and releasing a large red and black bipedal cat with flames for a belt that roared arms wide cutting all questions short so the only noise was the fire crackling on the Pokémons belt. 'All of you get back in your seats, you are scaring the boy, where is your decency.'

Most of the people looked down ashamed at their reaction while a few others looked at bit angry at Minerva and her Pokémon for spoiling their rush to get to Harry. Only a few men stayed stood and respectfully came up to Minerva before turning to Harry. 'It is a pleasure to meet you Mr Potter' two of the men said shaking his hand confusing Harry very much. The third man came up wearing a purple and black coat and a purple beanie that stuck to his head tightly.

'H-Harry P-P-Potter, it is a p-p-pleasure t-to meet you, I do v-very m-much h-hope y-you enjoy y-your time at H-Hogw-warts' the stuttering man said.

'Hello Quiriness, getting some last minute supplies are you?' Minerva greeted him before turning to Harry 'Professor Quirrell will be your Pokémon battle professor at Hogwarts, you will learn about how to battle Pokémon and take advantage of the opponent to win.'

Harry looked between the two teachers wondering what he was supposed to do. Minerva saw his look and turned back to Tom and Quirrell before saying 'I better get Harry to Diagon Alley, nice to see you again gentlemen.'

Minerva lead Harry through a door to a bricked area with the only the things being some empty tankards. Minerva turned to one of the brick walls before piling out a red device and placing it on a certain brick about shoulder height, she turned to Harry smiling as the bricks behind her twisted out of place and separated to the side. Harry's jaw dropped at a whole alleyway lined with shops appeared behind brick wall that should not have moved like that. Minerva just smiled at Harry's reaction.

'Welcome to Diagon Alley' She lead Harry through the opening passing students, adults and creatures of all size and colours. There were shops selling all sorts of things pokeballs, trainer gear, potions, berries and books about all sorts of things. Harry's head was swiveling so much he thought it could come off, he was trying to look at everything, amazed at what there was. Harry followed Minerva past the shops and crowds until they reached an enormous building built out of white stone and had golden doors at the front.

Before entering the professor turned to Harry. 'Harry, inside you will meet a group of people that some call goblins, they may not be nice but they are some the best at working with technology and their bank stores a majority of our regions wealth, show respect but don't be surprised if they do not return it.'

Minerva pushed open the doors, the well oiled hinges making no noise, her footsteps echoed though the interior of the room and Harry's small and quick ones followed hers. She walked up to one of the high marble counters and pressed a bell. A ring rang out and a voice answered 'yes, what is your business with Gringotts.'

Minerva cleared her throat 'I am here for Harry Potter to receive his Pokédex.' A face appeared over the counter, it was wrinkled and had a pointy nose and ears. The goblin looked at Harry checking him over as if he knew what Harry Potter would look like. 'Does he have his bank card?' The goblin asked.

Minerva pulled out a slim plastic card coloured white and gold and handed it over to the goblin. After inspecting it he handed it back. 'Everything seems to be in order, follow me.' He hopped down from his seat and came back holding a device similar to the professors one she used on the brick wall butsleeker and modernized (Mcgonagalls is the Kanto Pokédex design and Harry's is the Kalos design).

He handed it over to her who passed it to Harry. 'Your Pokédex is important to every trainer, it is your ID and battle log all in one, the camera helps you with identify your Pokémon, your opponents and wild Pokémon, it will give you some facts about the Pokémon summarized but you can search in your spare time to learn more and help train your Pokémon. Do not lose it, it costs quite a large sum to replace.' The goblin explained to Harry the functions and purpose of the device as Harry examined the off device in his hands.

Harry and the professor left Gringotts and headed back up the crowded path. Harry put the Pokédex in his satchel and made sure it stayed there when he found his letter that the professor brought him and pulled it out before opening it for the first time.

Hogwarts School of Trainers and Pokémon

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Champion, Chief Trainer)

Dear Harry Potter

We at Hogwarts are pleased to welcome you to Hogwarts Trainer School of Trainer and Pokémon

Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins no later than 1 September. We await your reply by no later than 31 July.

Yours Sincerely

Minerva Mcgonagall

Deputy Headmistress

Books and Equipment

Uniform

First year trainers will require:

1. 3 sets of trainer clothing.

2. One hat/beanie or other for day wear.

3. One pair of protective gloves (leather).

4. One winter coat (that can zip or button up).

Course Books

All students should have a copy of the following

A Standard Pokédex of Pokémon by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Pokémon by Bathilda Bagshot

Pokémon Battling Theory by Adalbert Waffling

A guide to Pokémon Bioligy by Emeric Switch

A Hundred Berries and Herbs by Phiyllida Spore

Pokémon Revives and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Pokémon and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

A Battlefield: A Guide to Pokémon Battles by Quentin Trimble

Other Equipment

One starter Pokémon from Ollivanders

One communication device

One travel suitcase

One sturdy backpack

One belt for your Pokémon

One compass, torch and tent set

One pokeball storage case

First Year Students are recommended to not have more than Two Pokémon.

Parents are reminded that first year students are not allowed to bring their own roller skates or bikes

Harry looked up from the extremely long letter to Minerva. ' I'll take you to Madame Malkins first for your clothing for Hogwarts, then to Ollivanders for your starter, while that happens I'll get the rest if your equipment. It does take some time to find your starter and time will be well spent if I get what else is on the list, after that well will go back to the Leaky Cauldron for some more time to bond with your starter while we wait for Madame Malkins to be done fitting your clothes. Once we get all that we will take Gardevoir to your new family.'

Harry and Minerva headed towards a clothing store that showed coats, shirts and dresses in all kinds of patterns and colours. They went in and one of the employees had Harry stand up to get his size for trousers, jumpers and a coat. Harry choose a cool looking hat with a pokeball symbol on the front with eighteen colours ringing the outside with small designs inside of the coloured squares. While that was happening a young boy about the same age of Harry stood up next to him while another employee took measurements, he had blonde hair and his face looked a bit like a ferret to Harry but he wasn't going to say it to his face.

'Going to Hogwarts are you?'

'Yes'

'Which house do you think you will be in, mother thinks I'll be in Slytherin and I think so too, it will be a stain on the family if I went no where else. The Gryffindors are all reckless battlers, Ravenclaw is for all the nerds and Hufflepuff is for the students who are too caring. Mother is getting me my Hogwarts equipment and I've already got my starter Pokémon, only the poor get theirs at the old man's store, my father is giving me one of his Pokémons children it'll beat all of the new trainer Pokémon into the ground. Probably yours too if your like any trainers my father is telling me about.'

Harry just stood there listening to the boys ranting, it reminded him Dudley, he had no idea what houses were or what they meant. The boy just hopped down when he was done and without sparing a glance walked out of the shop to meet a women carrying bags and shared the same blonde hair as the boy. 'Off you pop young man, just make sure to come back in an hour to get your clothes they will be ready for you by then.'

Once outside Harry and Minerva continued down the alley. Harry asked Minerva about a sentence in the letter 'Professor, why does it say we should have no more than two Pokémon?'

'Well Harry, for the sake of your education we recommend that you have no more than two Pokémon because of the stress for new trainers looking after Pokémon for the first time as well as the balance of training your Pokémon and school work. You will be allowed to catch Pokémon at Hogwarts, but it is recommended that you catch one per year so at the end when you graduate students will have a full team of Pokémon or six Pokémon, which is the largest amount allowed in battles, sometimes you will find a student with seven or eight Pokémon but a majority of students end up with six Pokémon, the richer students will have a Pokémon gifted from their parents and some students have traveled to other regions and during holidays they may have caught a Pokémon.'

The pair reached a wooden sign indicating their next shop. On the sign was written "Ollivanders, Pokémon breeders since 834". Harry and Minerva pushed open the door ringing a bell. Harry looked around the room while waiting in the current room there was a small pen with faded paintings of Pokémon on the walls, a counter cut the room and a gate connected the counter and enclosed pen. Through the doorway behind the counter Harry could see a red box looking thing with a screen at chest height. Further in Harry could here squeals, yips and other sound of excitement which made Harry exited at certainty of gaining a friend and companion as Tom said.

'Coming' came from the doorway before an old man who Harry thought looked older than Mrs Figg and the professor by many years. 'Ah, Minerva here with a new student are we.'

Harry shrunk at the man's attention and looked away at his gaze. 'Harry Potter here at last, come to get your starter?'

Harry's head snapped up at the man shocked at being recognized. 'Yes sir.'

'No need to call me sir, I'm just someone who enjoys the privilege of working with Pokémon no let's find you the perfect partner.'

Minerva turned to Harry and patted his head. 'I'll get the rest of your equipment Harry, you don't want to be distracted by me, Garrick young trainers all the time.'

As Minerva turned to the door Garrick called after her 'is your partner still able to battle Minerva, it was a female Purrloin if I recall, shiny as well.'

'Oh yes, she still loves to battle and she is a Liepard now Garrick.'

After Minerva left Garrick turned back to Harry 'Now young man let's find your starter'. He led Harry past the counter and through the back of the shop which had an enormous pen with multiple small Pokémon running around playing each other with toys and on boxes and slides. the walls had paintings of Pokémon in meadows, seas, cliffs or skies.

Garrick directed Harry to a similar pen but was completely empty of Pokémon. 'Now Harry, what I do in this region is similar to the Pokémon professors you will find in the other eight known regions, however while they study their chosen areas of research extensively, they also give out three specific Pokémon you can usually only find in that region, I however give out Pokémon you can find in all regions, while commonly the starter Pokémon are the ones I do give out sometimes it does not happen, your father was one in fact, his Swinub was his second partner only because his first was one he met on holiday in Kanto and they connected right away only after the cheeky Pokémon shot a water gun right at his face if I recall. I also stay in contact with the other professors about research, I study how Pokémon bond with their partners during Hogwarts and after, Mega Evolution is quite common in our region as well as battle bonding which a case has been recorded in Kalos but here in our region has a few more cases of it, Minerva in fact is one case, her starter as we talked about has a bond with her, the appearance of a Pokémon slightly changes when a trainer bonds during battle with a Pokémon, her liepard gains rings around the eyes like the glasses that Minerva wears. There is also another area researched but I do not study that. That position belongs to Newt Scamander and the area is anomalies in Pokémon species which happen in our region much more than others, sometimes it could be small colour change on a Pokémon or a large one or it could be in a Pokémons size grows to the extremes of enormous or tiny. For example Newts Bellsprout partner comes from a colony of Bellsprouts that happened to have built there habitat on top of everstones which became part of their diet which prevents them from evolving. He also has a mischievous Drillbur that is attracted to valuables like a magnet and uses its moves to get to them which has helped Newt and gotten him into trouble as well numerous times. He is an expert of Pokémon anomalies has a whole hidden zone just for accommodating them and studying them.'

Harry was overwhelmed at all the information but just nodded his head and hoped there were some books that could explain it better.

'Alright, first up is a young male Charmander which evolves into the fearsome Charizard, is very picky and is yet to find a trainer. 'The Charmander came up to Harry, looked him in the eyes and turned away back to Harry and wanting to go back to the play pen.

'Perhaps not, how about this female Pichu, likes a tough battle, not surprising really it is a child of a gym trainers Pokémon in the Kanto region, I've had to separate it from others for starting fights to practice its limited moves.'

'Nope' Harry's hair now stood up, his face also shocked at the Pichu's battle hungry behavior.

'What about this male Lilipup, great Pokémon for starting trainers.' It accepted Harry's scratching, but didn't seem right for Harry.

The process continued and more Pokémon were crossed out, Harry now had some fur on his clothes and some feathers too along with a wet floor from a Sobble that cried harder after looking at Harry.

Ollivander seemed a bit amused by the Pokémon reaction but accepted it as a challenge to find the right Pokémon for Harry. 'I've been saving this one Pokémon, perhaps it would be right.' He spoke to himself.

He went back to the pen and picked up a two legged red and orange Pokémon with a tuft of feather sticking up on its head. 'I'm sorry to say Mr Potter but I expected most of those reactions from the Pokémon, I just had to see to make sure, this Pokémon here happens to be only child of your mothers surviving Pokémon. Both of your parents Pokémon that survived the fight with You-Know-Who happened to also be their first Pokémon partners too, your fathers Kindra and your Mothers Blaziken. Your mother Blaziken happened to lay an egg which hatched into this Torchic and the Blaziken has had no more eggs since, perhaps it was meant to be.'

Harry perked up when he heard that this Pokémon was related to one of his mothers and listened closely to what his parents Pokémon were, he stared at the chick knowing it was his first connection he had with his parents through Pokémon not just with Hogwarts. The Torchic hopped over to Harry and locked eyes with him, suddenly it hopped forward and jumped into his lap and snuggled up to Harry feeling like a hot water bottle. Harry hugged the Torchic letting the heat from it spread.

Ollivander smiled at the interaction between Pokémon and trainer. 'It appears you have found your Pokémon then Harry.'

Harry just nodded at his words and kept cuddling the chick. Finally they separated after some time, Harry looked at Torchic 'Do you want to be my Pokémon?'

Torchic nodded and jumped onto Harry's knee and then onto his shoulder rubbing his face then sliding down his arm back into his lap. Harry laughed at the Pokémons antics.

While Harry and Torchic were getting to know each other, Minerva had come back and was holding bags of equipment and her Pokémon a red cat with yellow rings and a large tail was holding the rest of the bags.

'Is that the child of Lily's starter Garrick?' Minerva a bit surprised at the Pokémon playing with Harry and how she had yet to see this side of the now playful boy, she then realized why and cursed the Dursleys for their treatment of Harry.

'It is indeed, I had to make sure their were no other possible partners he could have, there are some left before I decided to try out Torchic and I'm happy I did, this is going to take days to clean and fix that Pichu of Surge's has still not accepted a partner, look at the lights, they are still flickering from its outburst and that happened an hour ago, I might have to send it back to him if I don't find it a trainer soon.'

'Harry'

'Yes?'

'We will need your Pokédex to send over Torchic to be registered as your Pokémon if you would hand it over please?' Harry handed it over and Ollivander took it to the red device and slotted it into a spot and clicked some buttons that couldn't care about, he was having fun for the first time and the Dursleys couldn't stop him.

Ollivander came back and handed the Pokédex back to Harry who stood in front of the elderly professors in the pen with Torchic now finding a place in his arms.

'Harry, I hope you don't mind this but I feel bad for your treatment at the Dursleys and I wish to repay you but not with money but with Pokémon. Garrick I wish to buy Harry a second partner as you sometimes allow.'

Ollivander nodded before stepping in the filled Pokémon pen. 'Don't be surprised Me Potter, this a common thing that happens for me, while some parents expect their children to catch Pokémon at Hogwarts for experience, some come back to me for the quality of Pokémon to reward their children who do well at Hogwarts or because they feel their children deserves an extra Pokémon and I am happy to accept, I am always getting new Pokémon either from other regions or from former students who Pokémon have eggs such as your mother but I don't know if that Blaziken meant for Torchic to be yours or not' while explaining to Harry as he brought over another Pokémon to Harry and Torchic in the dirty play pen.

'This is a female Rowlet, shiny infact, one of the few shiny Pokémon that I have had in my possession including Minerva's Liepard. This Rowlet is quite protective and doesn't mind sharing.' The Liepard proudly raised its head at being mentioned with bags of shopping resting behind it after being carried on its tail. The Rowlet had hopped over to Harry and Torchic and was chirping to Torchic while being scratched by Harry. The Rowlet flew to Harry's shoulder and starting moving it beak through its feather correcting the ones ruffled by Harry's fingers. Happy with fixing its feathers it pecked Harry's ears for ruining them, then it stayed on his left shoulder content with its spot and the green and white bird did not like it was moving anytime soon.

'It appears you have found your second Pokémon Mr Potter and much faster than your first.' Ollivander was chuckling at Harry finding his second Pokémon quickly compared to the mess of all the other Pokémon had created.

Minerva was also laughing at the sentence 'Ironic as well when Lily had a Decidueye too, a Hisuian form Decidueye which she received during her a apprenticeship with professor Flitwick who is still teaching at Hogwarts. It was her graduation gift from him for helping him in his research with Poketechnology and she trained that Rowlet up until it could beat his Gallade in a one on one battle.'

Harry and Rowlet were both listening closely at the professors word, Harry because he had another Pokémon with similarities to his parents and Rowlet because it was about his species.

'What do you mean by Hisuian form Professor?'

'Well in some regions Pokémon will have migrated to that region away from their original decades before and they had then adapted to that climate. The Hisui region was what the Sinnoh region was centuries ago and Filius told me that goblins had been to the Hisui region at the time and collected a few of the Hisui form Pokémon. The one Professor Flitwick gave your mother was one of many Rowlets caught, it was passed down through his family and he felt your mother deserved it for her help and hard work and did not regret it slightly despite the few disgruntled goblins at the decision at handing over a goblin possession to a trainer.'

Harry had to hand over his Pokédex again to register Rowlet as his. Once that was done Ollivander pulled out two pokeballs and handed them to Harry and Minerva saw what Ollivander was doing and pulled out a belt from one of the shopping bags. 'Harry this is a belt to hold the pokeballs of your team of Pokémon and those ones Garrick is holding are the ones of Torchic and Rowlet. To recall them when the are out of the pokeballs click the button on the front and once done they balls will shrink for you to put on your belt, to release them, take them off your belt and click the same button to expand them and you can click the button again to release them. You will see a red light when recalling them and a blueish white light will appear.'

Harry put on the belt and looked at the pokeballs in his hand and to his Pokémon. They looked at Harry and nodded answering his unspoken question. Harry clicked the button and as the Professor said a red light came out and took the Pokémon and somehow stored them in the pokeballs. Harry put the shrunk pokeballs on his belt clicking them in to be safely attached to the belt.

'Alright Harry now that both Torchic and Rowlet are registered as yours, let's get some food at The Leaky Cauldron while we wait for your clothes to be fitted to your size, you can ask me any questions there about Pokémon, Hogwarts or your parents. After we've picked up your clothes we can head off to a family that has been excited for your arrival.'

Now eating lunch at The Leaky Cauldron, Harry and the Professor were at a corner table away from people who were glancing at Harry occasionally only protected by the large form of the Pokémon the Professor had used to disperse the crowd earlier.

Harry finally asked the question that had been bugging him this entire time. 'Professor why is everyone looking at me or shaking my hand, I don't even know what I did?'

'It is not what you did but what your parents did, about 15 years ago an evil team made up of trainers and lead by their leader who was called Voldemort went by the name of Team Mortus and their beliefs were that new trainers did not deserve to be such because they were the first in their families to do so, one was your mother, and they wanted them to either surrender their Pokémon to them, leave the region or die, as you might guess many died because their bonds with their Pokémon were stronger than their self preservation, some foolishly listened and their Pokémon were never seen again. They attacked people who didn't have Pokémon too, which were people from PFZ or Pokémon free zone were Pokémon are rare to find their, but most of the new trainers came from the zone. New trainer students at Hogwarts mostly come from there and they are selected for Hogwarts when they show a passion for Pokémon, your mother was one, your aunt was not which lead to her jealousy of her mother and likely her treatment of you for believing she deserved to go to Hogwarts over your Mother and instead of going to a different region in an attempt to be a Pokémon trainer she instead met your uncle at the APA, which is the Anti Pokémon Area and Pokémon would never attempt to even live near as some trainers are jailed for going close and their Pokémon are killed or stored somewhere never to be found, which is why you never encountered Pokémon before or even heard of them, there entire history has removed Pokémon from it to hide them.'

'I remember some lessons at school about how Surrey was the peak of human engineering and some teachers and students didn't like me, did aunt Petunia tell them that my parents were trainer?'

'A very likely scenario, we outside of the APA call them appalling because of their behavior and disgust towards anything to do with Pokémon.'

'Back to why everyone was looking at you, when Team Mortus was attacking PFZ and new trainers Voldemort or You-Know-Who decided to go after stronger trainers of families with history and heritage. He wiped out the Mckinnons, the Prewett twins and much of the Bones family, he also started to go after your parents but your parents with their Pokémon were able to stop him multiple times. Eventually an inside man on our side leaked where they were hiding to Voldemort and he decided to try and wipe out your parents and you who had recently been born. He and his Pokémon ambushed your parents in their house but your parents team of Pokémon were two strong for him but not enough to save themselves. The only people and Pokémon to survive was you and your parents first Pokémon. Your parents were mortally wounded by Voldemort and his Pokémon, but the formidable team of your parents and Pokémon were able to stop Voldemort from ever getting close to you, after the whole region celebrated the end of the reign of terror created by Team Mortus which is why everyone is looking at you, they hope to see the strength your parents showed with their Pokémon, there are quite a few books about the heroics that they showed and people show their thanks for it.'

Harry took in the words about his parents and just nodded at how his parents died to save him and he hoped he could one day be a strong trainer and they could be proud of him.

'Professor, what about the regions, what are they?'

'Well Harry, there are nine known regions including ours which is called the Magi region, the other regions are called Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola and Galar. We are the largest region but are quite seperated by culture so we created split up into sub regions, their is France, Japan, America, Hawaii and our Britain, we all have Pokémon that come from other regions but when citizens emigrated from Galar we had more a Galar style architecture and you will find Galar Pokemon a bit more common here than in France or America. In the other sub regions they have close ties to other regions too Japan has Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh, America has Kalos and Hawaii has Alola ties. These regions are very similar in culture, architecture and Pokémon found with some exceptions. The Magi region was ahead with technological advancements but in the last hundred years, wars over policies and politics have caused us, especially Britain to stagnate and as such we have fallen behind and the old families will never admit it or try to catch up and we continue fall behind, there is also disrcimation from the old families, many who joined Voldemort, they openly show throw names at children at who come to Hogwarts from other regions as well as the new trainers from the PFZ.'

'When we met you said Pokémon have all sorts of powers, what does that mean?'

'Pokémon can be split up into categories of powers they have or types which influences their powers. There are eighteen types that Pokémon can be, all of which you will learn about at Hogwarts, but for an example your Torchic is a fire type and will evolve with enough experience or in a time of need into a Fire/Fighting type and Rowlet is a Grass/Flying types which evolves into a Grass/Ghost type. Your Pokédex as the goblin says scans them and can tell you all you need to know about Pokémon.'

Harry pulled out his Pokédex from his satchel and a pokeball and released it. Torchic appeared and saw Harry and hopped across the table to rub Harry's check. Harry laughed at Torchic and showed him the Pokédex. 'I'm going to scan you to see what you are, okay?'

Torchic nodded and took small steps back to give Harry room to point the camera of the Pokédex at Torchic.

'Torchic, The Chick Pokémon, Torchic has a place inside its belly where it keeps its flame. Give it a hug-it will be glowing with warmth. This Pokémon will be covered all over by a fluffy coat of down.

This Torchic is female and has the ability Blaze. It knows the moves Scratch, Growl and Ember, it has the egg move Counter but has not yet unlocked it.'

A monotone voice came from the Pokédex telling Harry all their was to Torchic. 'An egg move is a move learnt by either parent passed down to the child. Your mothers Blaziken was a good counter attacking Pokémon that loves to trick opponents into a false sense of security which your mother often took advantage of.'

Torchic looked proud at its entry and hopped and chirped around the table at it. Harry showed its pokeball then it poured at Harry sad at its cut chore celebration. Harry had one final question for the professor.

'Professor, what about Hogwarts, what do you teach and why go to Hogwarts?'

'Hogwarts is one of the Pokémon schools you will findthroughout the regions, especially in the Magi region with one or two in every sub region, some believes that the journey trainers go on is extremely dangerous and thought schools would be better option for learning but they are expensive and the poor chose to go on journeys instead to save money. Hogwarts is the Britain school and we are located in the north, you will arrive on the express train that you board at kings cross station. At Hogwarts the teachers each teach different subjects and specialize in Pokémon of different types to help spread the knowledge. I teach Pokémon biology to help trainer learn how to more efficiently battle and I am I fire type master, Filius Flitwick teaches trainers about technology of all types ranging from Pokeballs to Pokedexes and he is a steel/psychic type master. The other teachers teach you about traveling, catching, brewing potions to heal your Pokémon, battling, showcases and contests, and the other regions, and they each specialize in Pokémon types. The types that no one specializes in are mastered by other outside of Hogwarts that you can battle like the Gym trainers you can find in the other regions. One of the things we also do at Hogwarts is a Pokémon project, for every year group the four houses each look after a Pokémon that the Head of House provides. Students learn to look after it as well as their own to learn responsibility and for comfort when Pokémon are healing or recovering from battling. At the end the five years before the first set of government set exams the Pokémon will pick the student they like or want to be with, it could be the student that spends the most time with them or the student that fits their needs of battling or contests but we as professors ask that you do not fight over their choice and accept it. You will find out which Pokémon when you go to Hogwarts.'

The pair finished their meals and headed back to Madame Malkins for Harry's clothes after saying goodbye to Tom and his Crustle. Happy with the clothes, Minerva pulled out a pokeball and released Gardevoir.

'Alright Harry, last teleport from Gardevoir for the day, ready to meet your knew family, they do not and will not care if you are famous so don't worry and watch out for their daughter she loves tricking people with her Pokémon.'

'Yes, I think I'm ready.' Minerva was happy at how Harry had changed from the quiet boy and was now opening up at the fact that he was not with the Dudley's anymore and hoped he continued to smile and laugh.And with a pop and pink flash the pair left as how they arrived in Diagon Alley.

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Wow, longest chapter yet by a mile or a few thousand words. Sorry it wasn't out earlier as I promised, I just wanted to get this chapter right with Harry meeting his starter and soon to be named Hedwig. It also took some time for me time come up for a history of the Magi region and how it runs with other regions and I hope you can understand my explanation. I hope you like that I have Harry Torchic, because I only chose it over the other because of the Pokédex entry which I felt like Harry would like to cuddle his Pokémon. It might feel a bit one sided with Harry getting a connection to his mother Pokémon, but don't worry he will get Pokémon to have a Pokémon connection to his father.

Thank you for reading this and come back for more.