This is my idea of what if Harry Potter was raised by a warlock and a titan, and how different things would be.
I do not own Harry Potter (franchise, books or movies)
I also do not own Destiny
Story Start
"So what are we even looking for?" I ask Aella
Aella was a female titan wearing armour modelled after Lord Saladin's, her weapons were Jolder's Hammer that she had earned in the Iron Banner, the Duke hand cannon and a large two-handed Warhammer that she designed herself after the axes used by the First Iron Lords themselves that she named Voice of the Fallen.
"You're the warlock, shouldn't you know?" she asked with mirth
"Maybe...but this is the guy who calls pits lakes."
"It was not a pit!" shouted out Asher Mir
"Of course it wasn't...it was just an empty lake. Just tell us what we are supposed to be looking for." I said with a touch of annoyance
"You're looking for the source of a unique energy signature, I hypothesis that it has transmissive and transformative properties, when I get my hands on it I'll be able to use my discoveries to shove in Osiris smug face!"
"Yeah how about you put a pin in that...I'm getting some strange readings from this archway." as we walk towards a stone archway I summon my ghost analyse it
"This doesn't make sense, I'm detecting that it is both there and not there at the same time...wait I'm detecting something." before Casper could continue there was a flash of light and the guardians vanished
"Well, what are the readings? ...hello? Listen I don't have time to waste waiting for you do what I say! Just forward the readings to me, I know you are there I have your biometric readi...oh Ikora is not going to like this."
With Callum and Aella
"What the hell just happened! Where the hell are we?" said Aella as we look at our surroundings, which seems to me a small town or village
"The archway or whatever it was transported us, the most important details to note are that this seems pre-collapse and that we are not in the Infinite Forrest anymore...also judging from how everyone is dressed it seems to be Halloween." as we pass multiple children and adults in costume and barely got noticed except of our amazing 'costumes'.
Just then an explosion erupted from a small two storey house, a house that I could have sworn was not they a moment before.
Immediately we run towards the house and past the open door where we saw a heavily bleeding man on the floor.
"Shit." running over to him I try to stabilize him using a healing rift "The rift's not working, the wounds have an energy signature that I don't recognise, it is proving resistant to healing. If I can modify the rift I will be able to heal him but from the looks of him he won't last that long."
"You can't heal him? I thought rifts can heal any wounds?"
"No, all I can do is give him some time...and while rifts can heal anything some wounds are resistant to it such as those made by hive and require the warlock to be familiar with their signature so that the rift can be modified to ensure optimum healing."
And this point the bleeding man regains consciousness
"What..where am I?" he asks weakly
"You're in your house...I'm sorry but you're not going to make it." I said sadly
"Lily, Harry..up the stairs."
"Shit, Aella."
"On it!" running up the stairs she comes back shortly holding a small bundle which she hands to the dying man.
"Where's Lily?"
"I'm sorry but she didn't make it."
"Oh, Harry I'm sorry we can't be here for you." Turning to us he continues "Please take Harry and get him out of here...raize him and keep him safe."
"Don't you have any family or friends?" I ask
"Family is all dead, only one left is Lily's sister and she isn't fit to raise anyone. As for friends, the only way cough cough he could have found us is if we were betrayed. I-I just can't take the risk that someone else will betray us. Now there is a box under the kitchen sink." Physically struggling he continues "It has everything you need and everything Harry needs to know, now please his followers could be here at any moment and whatever you do don't...trust..Pe..."
"Shit he's gone. Get the box, I'll have a quick look around to see if we need anything else."
"You aren't saying that we are going to raise this kid are you?" asked Aella
"We have no idea how long we are going to be stuck here so we might as well raise him, at least for now."
Harry Potter age 10 and 2 months
"Mum, Dad! Hermione and her parents are here."
"Emma, Dan how are you?" asked Callum
"Delighted, now you said some urgent information for us?" asked Emma
"Yeah and where is your wife?" asked Dan
"She is just finishing up in the gym, she won't be that much that longer I'll get some tea." I answered
"I don't think I will ever get used to how much your wife works out."
At that point, Aella walks in wearing a sports bra and drinking from a water bottle
"You guys here already?" she asks as she takes a seat
"Emma, Dan we have known each other a long time right? You trust us right?" I ask
"Yes of course...I mean you have been kind to us ever since you moved into the neighbourhood all those years ago. Your son is one of Hermoine's best friends and you yourself have helped support her learning in ways a parent cannot. On top of that when that horrible boy Dudley started picking on her, you and your wife went to his house and got him to stop picking on her...I still can't believe Harry can be related to such awful people like those Dursleys."
"Well to be honest it was mostly Aella that threatened them enough to make Dudley stop."
"hah" laughed Emma and Dan
"But what did you want to talk to us about?" asked Dan as he helped himself to some coffee
"Tell me what are you going to do for Hemoine's school next year?"
At this Dan and Emma give each other a concerned and confused look
"Not that you need to know but we are still looking around."
"So you are looking at schools other than Hogwarts?"
The silence was deafening
"Wait are you a wizard?" ask Hermoine in shock
"No, I'm a warlock, Aella is a Titan but Harry is a wizard."
"What's the difference?" asked Dan
"A lot, we have been hiding a lot from you guys but I think it's time you knew some things. First I am the owner and CO of Guardian Industries."
"Wait, THE Guardian Industries? You must be rich!... But why would you live in such a modest house...not that there is anything wrong with it of course." added Dan quickly as he noticed his wife's glare.
"It's ok, put simply both Aelala and I know how having too much can spoil a kid, Dudley is a perfect example of this. So instead we lived a humble life so that he could have a normal childhood.
Another thing is in the British wizarding world is incredibly biased against anything that isn't a pureblood...someone who has magical parents and grandparents. Those that don't are seen as lesser, those with mundane parents even less but not nearly as much as those with other sentient heritage. So even with her intelligence, it will be a fight to get the job she deserves."
"WHAT! But the professor didn't say anything about that!" said Emma in shock
"What do you mean sentient heritage?" asked Dan
"Those that are are not affected negatively by the biases often do not notice them, besides it is her job to encourage students to go to her school. There are other options though, other schools exist in Britain, though to get a better school you would have to go as far as America or Australia and humans aren't the only intelligent species here and some of them can procreate with humans."
"That far?" asked Emma
"Yes, though we are sending Harry to Hogwarts, at least for now...its where his biological parents went to school and we feel that it's important for him to at least try it. If it doesn't work out we will simply homeschool him."
"That's an option?" asked Dan
"Yes but you have to prove that you have the means to do it. The British Ministry of Magic is quite firm that all wizards and witches learn how to control magic and for good reason, if you don't learn to control it...it will control you. I also will like to let you know that Hermoine will not have to worry about a job in the future, there will be an opening for her in my company."
"Listen my daughter doesn't need.." Dan started to say angrily
"DAN!" shouted Emma
"You misunderstand, this isn't let me help out a friends daughter by letting her sweep the floors offer...this is a CO's your daughter will be an incredible future asset to my company so let me pay for a scholarship to make that happen quicker kind of offer."
"Really?" asked Hermoine
"Definitely, Hermoine you are one of the more intelligent people I know and as a plus, you don't have the same issues the other people I know have."
At her confused look, Aella adds "We know a few very intelligent people, a couple of them are nearly as arrogant as they are intelligent and that makes them hard to deal with."
"Yes, Hermione I have no doubt that in the future you can get a job that will allow you to write your own paychecks. I just want you to know that I was interested first and I was always going to make this offer magic or no magic it's just happening about seven years earlier than it would have normally."
"This is a lot to deal with." said Emma with shock
"First we find magic is real, then we find out our neighbours are also magic millionaires, the magic world is racist and my daughter may already have a high paying job lined up." said Dan
"Yeah, we wanted to get the more believable and important stuff out of the way first."
"That was the believable stuff?" asked Dan "What is the less believable stuff?"
"Alternative post-apocalyptic future...think terminator. We got stuck here years ago when we were investigating some strange readings...though that was years ago we have been able to come and go since Harry was six."
"Listen you two have been good friends for years but we can't just take you at your word...you yourself said that you have been keeping things from us." Said Emma
"That's for a good reason, they send a teacher in to inform the parents of a mundane born about the existence of magic. What do you think they would do if they found out they already knew about magic? One of the spells that exist today wipes the memory of the human mind, they can use it to erase the knowledge of magic from your minds. Also if you choose not to get a magic education they will wipe your memory of magic and bind your daughters magic...it will feel like she is missing apart of herself."
"And you would let this happen?" asks Dan in shock
"Only for about a month, then we would remove the memory block, unbind Hermoine's magic and have this conversation all over again." spoke up Aella
"Thanks but still my wife is right...the last person to break our world view turned our table into a pig...are you going to do something similar? asked Dan
"Better..how about I show you, just take my hand." I offered
"Hold on let us get changed first." said Aelala causing Dan and Emma to almost slump with releaf...seems that they still aren't exactly comfortable with my wife in a sports bra. But soon they gasped in astonishment as thick heavy armour appeared around Aella and medium armour appears around me
"What's with all the armour?" asked Hermoine
"She's a titan, titans do heavy armour." I said bluntly
"If you want to find out why a wall is their you talk to a warlock, you want to get over a wall you get a hunter...you want to knock that wall down you call a titan." continued Aella
"Anyway take my hand and I'll show you."
Hesitantly the family takes my hand, and instantly everyone was transported to the tower at the last city.
"Wow this is incredible!" exclaimed Hermione
"Is that you guardian?" a voice calls out as man in heavy armour and horned helmet with one horn broken off
"Shaxx it's good to see you."
"Same Guardian, have you come to show these rookies how a real warrior fights?"
"No, I'm here to show Dan, Emma and Hermione here around the tower." I said
"So this is the Hermoine Harry keeps talking about." a voice calls out and a figure jumps down and is revealed to be a robot..holding a chicken?
"Uncle Cayde!" cheered Harry
"How's my favourite nephew...now show me your draw!" making glowing transparent hand cannon appear next to his legs he takes up a cowboy standoff pose which Harry copies
"3...2...1"
At one Cayde drew his fake gun while Harry drew an imaginary gun and pulled the trigger
"Oh no...you got me." falling to his knees he clutches his chest in an over-exaggerated fashion "Cut down in my prime...I can see the light!"
"Must you always play around Cayde?" said a female voice exasperatedly
"If he didn't it wouldn't be Cayde." said a male voice
"Ikora, Zavala its good to see you."
"Its good to see you too, so what brought you here? We don't need any help for vanguard missions for the moment." asked Zavala
"I'm just showing Hermione and her family around...to prove that we came from a different earth."
"Very well, let me know if we can help."
"It will be fine, I'm just going to show them the markets and some sights.
I had this story in my mind for a while now and decided to start writing it when it won the poll, hope everyone liked it