Chapter 2
Finding my self in the body of a toddler was horrible, but after a bit of thought I could see some good points. Point number one I got a new lease on life, point number 2 I got magic, point 3 magic.
Concentrating on my breathing I tried to enter my mindscape and after a few minutes I entered an almost blank world, I saw a giant ball of energy that was chained up, I began panicking that my magic was bound but as I looked at the chains closer I could see that they were being slowly eroded by my magical core.
I was ecstatic with the perks I chose as they were already proving to be beneficial. Now I think I have to do some thing about those chains. I grabbed the chains and began to pull on them and I could see the effect that that action had on them. The erosion began to increase in speed and after a long while the chain that I was pulling on snapped and I could feel my magic buckle against the other chains and strain them even farther.
I pulled out of my mindscape to look around to see if there was any affect on my surroundings. And after several minutes of nothing happening, I dove back in. It took me six more times of yanking on the chains, but I got rid of them finally, and I think that it took me less then a few hours of strain. I was tired from all the mental and magical work, so I drifted off for a nap.
I woke up when I heard footsteps coming towards me from the other side of the door. I looked at the door and waited for petunia to open the door. I took about 15 minutes for her to open the door by that time I was tired of waiting but at least I would get to see the woman that would be my aunt. Petunia looked like an older Ariella Paradise. I don't know how she could become the same woman from the Harry Potter movies they look nothing alike.
She looked at me her mouth opened, and it looked like she might scream, and I panicked and lashed out with my mind to calm her so that she wouldn't scream. Petunia froze for a moment shook her head picked me up and took me inside. I sighed inside my mind, now I slowly grabbed a tendril of my magic and directed it towards her slowly trying to mimic what I did by accident. As she stared at me and tried to figure out what to do with me, I decided that the letter had to go as I had no idea if it was spelled with something malicious, so I had her grab it and throw it in to the fireplace. After that I released my grip on my magic and she was free to do what she wanted.
She took me out of the basket and placed me on the living room couch so that she could keep an eye on me as she worked in the kitchen.
From my place I could see that it was 630 am and I decided that I needed to sleep a bit more as I was still tired from using my magic to break the chains and from manipulating Petunia.
It felt like I just closed my eyes but when I heard a loud voice asking Petunia who I was and what I was doing in the house I woke up just as she was about to tell him about me.
"Vernon, honey I found him on the porch and I just couldn't leave him there. And you know about my complications with Dudders, the doctors said that I would never be able to have another child. And I thought that as he was abandoned, he could become a part of the family." She smiled at me and Vernon.
I looked at Vernon and even though he was a big man, he had a bit of extra weight he did not look like a walrus. And I couldn't see any anger in his eyes. He looked at Petunia with love and I could see that he cared a lot for her. As he paused and thought about it.
"Petunia love, I don't think that we should make this decision rashly. Lets have breakfast, I will go to work and in the evening we will decide what to do with the child. Ok love?" he asked.
"That would be sensible dear." Petunia said as she was setting up the table.
And with that I drifted off to sleep once again. You know the great thing about being a toddler. I can seep as much as I want. And no one will complain.
I was a woken when Petunia lifted me up and sat me at the table beside Dudley. And wow looking at Dudley he was a small marsh mellow, that has to be unhealthy. But I can't do much about that at the moment, so looking around I noticed that I was seated at the table and a plate of food was in front of me. Dudley was the same however Petunia looked like she was about to start feeding him. As I observed the horror that was about to happen, I decided that I was going to enjoy seeing Dudley resisting being fed, it was at that moment that I realised that that was my fate too. I looked around to see if I could escape, however that would only leave me injured or even worse. Minutes passed by and I saw Petunia struggle feeding Dudley and as I didn't want to suffer the humiliation I stretched my hand towards the plate and spoon and good thing they weren't placed to far from me, as I was able to grab and gently pull them towards me. I was carefully looking at Petunia and after I saw that she noticed what I was doing I slowly and carefully began feeding my self baby food. She was surprised with my actions and I know that toddlers don't have the required motor skills or mental capacity to feed them selves, so sue me I was cheating a bit by using my magic to reinforce the muscles in my week arms so that I could feed my self. And boy was it tiring on the body, after five minutes of eating my muscles were exhausted, on the plus side I was fed, other wise I was running on just about empty. That whole time Petunia looked at me like I was a hither to undiscovered critter, the moment that I put down the spoon she scooped me up and placed me in the same crib as Dudley and a while later Dudley joined me in the crib. However at that time I was already fast a sleep.
I was rudely awoken by a foot in my face, and that foot belonged to my cousin, the bastard. Looking at him I saw that he was asleep, so I will spare him my retaliation. I rolled away from him so that he wouldn't poke at me, and I decided to look at the scar on my forehead, taking a calming breath I entered my mindscape and when I was in there grabbed a coil of my power and went in search of the horcrux. A while later I saw it, it was a sickly little thing full of malevolence and evil and it was crawling to wards my core. I think it was trying to reach it so that I could try and syphon power from me so that it could try and take me over. But at this moment it was very weak. Concentrating on my power over life and souls I forced the coil of magic that I was carrying with me into a net and threw it over the soul shard of Tom.
The moment that the net covered the shard I knew that I did the right thing. I could feel its wants, it would have tried to take me over if it had reached my core, but now it was trapped and at my mercy. Looking over the shard I was able to tell that it was full of Toms memories but first I would have to remove the taint that it had accumulated. Grabbing two more coils of power I made one into a syringe and needle so that I could draw out the taint. The second coil I formed into an inferno that would burn away the taint and with that I began the purification.
I don't know how long it took me to cleanse it but after what felt like a very long time I was done. Now the shard was pristine, it still had its memories which now I could add to my self and not have to worry about being taken over, as what ever sentience it once had was now completely gone.
But the integration would have to wait as I am very tires once again. As I pulled out of my mindscape, I was treated to Dudley cuddling up to me in his sleep. I just sighed and drifted off to the land of dreams.
In the evening when Vernon came back from work, I was in the living room trying to get away from Dudley as he continuously tried to catch me. We were playing tag. It was more of like catch me if you can. I used my talent in the mind arts to communicate with Dudley, I wasn't trying to control him, just communication.
When Vernon came in and saw us playing, he was surprised and delighted that his son had a friend to play with. As he came up to his wife she greeted him with a smile and a kiss, and as they sat down on the living room couch to discuss if there were going to keep me. When Dudley saw his dad he got up on to his legs and walked to wards him. Both of the adults froze in as this was the first time that they saw their son walk on his own with out having to be bribed with sweets. I on the other hand was looking at every one with a happy expression as my mental communication with Dudley had succeeded and he was walking to wards his parents.
"So Petunia love do you want to keep the boy?" asked Vernon.
"Yes, I would like to keep him, as you can see, he is a good influence on Dudders and he isn't a bother at home." Replied Petunia.
"What about you? Have you thought about the child." Queried Petunia.
"Yes and seeing how he interacts with Dudley I think we should adopt him as our own. We might have to tighten our spending a bit, but I believe that he would be a blessing on our family." And after he said that, he picked me up and sat me down on to his knee while Petunia was holding Dudley.
"What do you want to name him dear?" asked Vernon.
"I think I will name him Harry, love." Replied Petunia
It took nearly a year for the adoption to process, mean while I was slowly working my mental magic on my relatives, by suggesting to Vernon that he exercise more. That proved to be a great idea, as my new father became slimmer and healthier, with his bodies improvement his temperament got better and he got a promotion which lessened the monetary strain that I added.
On Petunia I worked on lessening her resentment towards her sister and magical world in general. This lessened her need for everything to be 'normal'.
And Dudley became my closest friend as we were nearly inseparable.
Petunia worked on educating both of us in the basics of talking and learning how to read and write. For me 'learning' was easy, but for Dudley it was a challenge, however I helped him improve because of my Apprentice perk, Dudley was able to keep up with me.
As all of this was happening, I was slowly but steadily absorbing the memories from Toms soul fragment.
The memories gave me an intermediate knowledge of spells, runes, arithmancy and rituals that Tom had learned through out his life. I still don't know if I should absorb the magic or maybe I might even share it with Dudley.
I don't want to rush but on the other hand I don't want Dudley to be left behind when I would eventually leave for Hogwarts. And I can always absorb the other soul shards as I know where they are and how to bypass the protections.
Now let's talk the protections that are supposed to be around this house. The protections are shit, they are just very strong intent words, and that's it. I have studied the ground around the house thoroughly when ever I would drag Dudley to play and there are no ward stones that would or could bolster wards. So, ether Toms memories were not up to snuff or Dumbassdorrk just doesn't care about me.
Otherwise the year was great I am a part of a family that loves me, but I am only 2 years old and I have done much for a toddler, I just wish that time would speed up as I want to be a bit more independent.
3 Years later
The Dursleys have changed a lot, and I mean you wouldn't recognise them from how they were when I first met them. The primary difference is that Vernon is fit as a fiddle, He now runs Grunnings and we are moving to a better area. So no more Private Drive. We moved to a more affluent area on # 13 Warwicks Bench. Yay no more cookie cutter homes. now onto Petunia she has become a great person, she now has actual productive hobbies, such as paining, embroidery and gardening. She did find out that her sister died and that I am her actual nephew and that made her want to improve her lot in life and not just be a 'normal' person. And Dudley is still my best friend, I actually grafted the magic from the soul shard on to him and that had a profound effect on his body. It turned out he was a Squib and now he was a wizard just like me. And with an actual Magical living with the Dursleys that did not include me, Vernon's eyes were opened and he was now much more open towards magic and that openness is what had an impact on how he interacted with his colleagues and led him to running Grunnings.
Now that we have moved to a new area, unpacked and have been living in the area for nearly half a year. Petunia and Vernon have sat both Dudley and I and started explaining to us that we are special as we could do magic.
"Dudley and Harry, I think it is time that we tell you too a secret that you have to keep. Both of you are special, as you can use magic." Petunia informed both of us.
Dudley looked at me and smirked. "Darn it, Harry I lost the bet and here I was hoping that our parents were going to wait another year before telling us that we have magic." I looked at him sighed, "You, know now I can't do the shocked face of disbelief that I had planned, you just had to ruin the moment." I looked at my parents and with an innocent expression as if they just didn't hear as we didn't ruin their explanation about our gifts. "Thanks for telling us that we have magic, we figured a while back that we had gifts, Dudley was the first to show me that he could call toys to wards him and after that I was able to copy him. And after a bit of experimentation and a lot of reading we both decided that we have magic."
Our parents looked deflated, but after a while of looking like fish both of them shook the stupor and looked at us and Petunia began once again, "Well now did you know that both of you now belong to a special society of wizards and witches and in about six years on your 11th birthdays both of you will receive an invitation to go to a special school called Hogwarts where you will learn how to use your magic."
"Um, what about our regular education? How will that work out?" I asked because I knew that ether Dudley and I would have to cram during our summer break or we could try and finish as much schooling as possible before our 11 year.
I looked at Dudley and asked him. "Do you think we could finish our precollege education in 6 years or at the very least try to?" Dudley looked at me and nodded his head. "I think that we can always try." He replied.
"So mom and dad would it be possible for us to get into an accelerated learning program." The moment we saw that our parents nodded accent we hugged them and informed them that we were going to the library to study and we couldn't wait to learn more about magic, even though it was 6 years away.
Six years later
"You know Harry, I think that people are staring at us." Dudley asked me.
"Dudley, I think you might be right, they are starring at us, it's not like we are graduating Secondary Education at the age of eleven with honors." I replied to him, with a giant grin on my face. As we stood in front of a whole school of students as we received our school diplomas and had our pictures taken.
When we got home, we were bone tired but extremely happy with what we accomplished in these 6 years. We graduated from school, but we didn't stop there we had studied college and university books just so that we could finish with the highest honors and now we had full ride scholarships towards any university we wanted. I was extremely happy with my perks as they made education a breeze for both me and Dudley. We also learned several languages including; Latin, Greek, Egyptian, Old Norse, Old Gaelic, and French. With each new language that we learned we could see a small but noticeable increase in our memory and recollection. And now as we were sitting at home and resting, we awaited the letters of invitation to Hogwarts. For some reason Dudley didn't receive his letter on his birthday but as my mother Petunia informed both of us that we were Wizards and we should receive a letters soon otherwise we would go to the magical shopping district and get in touch with the relevant authorities.
On July 31 on my Birthday a beautiful night black owl delivered 2 letters addressed to both me and Dudley.
HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Mr. Harry Potter/ Mr. Dudley Dursley
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.
Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY
UNIFORM
First-year students will require:
1. Three sets of plain work robes (black)
2. One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear
3. One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)
4. One winter cloak (black, with silver fastenings)
Please note that all pupil's clothes should carry name tags.
COURSE BOOKS
All students should have a copy of each of the following:
The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling
A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore
Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble
OTHER EQUIPMENT
1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
1 set glass or crystal phials
1 telescope
1 set brass scales
Students may also bring, if they desire, an owl OR a cat OR a toad.
PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS
ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICK
Yours sincerely,
Lucinda Thomsonicle-Pocus
Chief Attendant of Witchcraft Provisions
We were ecstatic. And immediately wrote out our acceptance letters and asked to have some one come and explain the magical world as we knew nothing other then we were accepted into a magical school.
Giving the letters to the owl and a decent amount of bacon and water the owl hooted and flew away.
The next day on Thursday of august 1st, we heard a doorbell just after we finished cleaning up after breakfast.
As I ran to wards the door I stopped and after looking through checking and seeing some one who definitely looked like Minerva McGonagall, I opened the door and said. "Hello, and who might you be?"
"Professor Minerva McGonagall, and you are Mr. Potter I presume." She asked in a no-nonsense tone.
"Yes mam, are you also here to talk to Dudley?" I asked as I let her in and began leading her to wards the living room. As she took a seat on the couch which I directed her to. "Yes, Mr. Potter and where is Dudley?" she inquired.
"He will be here soon, if you would wait just a moment I will go and call my parents so that you might inform us all about the magical world." I said and I went to get my parents.
Two minutes later Petunia and Vernon followed me down into the living room where Professor McGonagall introduced herself once again. After that she began explaining what was expected of new students, and that we weren't supposed to do any magic outside of school before graduating from Hogwarts or after passing O.W.L.S as then we would be expected to know and understand the laws of the Wizarding world.
She then asked if we would like to visit Diagon alley where we would be able to purchase all that would be required for school.
Petunia informed Professor McGonagall that she would be coming with us as an additional set of eyes, with the professors acceptance we left our house and told to wait while the professor would get us there one by one as she did not want to risk apparating more then one other person as that would be unnecessary risk. First went Petunia then Dudley and finally I was left.
When we appeared inside the apparition spot inside the Leaky Cauldron I felt slightly woozy as the feeling of being squeezed through a straw was unpleasant. After the woozy feeling went away, I saw Petunia and Dudley sitting at window seat as they watched the wizards. I could see slight disgust on both of their faces as they sat in the dingy pub. When they spotted us they stood up and followed us to wards the back of the pub where we all exited in to the back yard where the professor explained that one of us would have to press the correct bricks on the wall across the door to enter the alley. After she showed us which bricks to press the wall opened up into an archway and we got to see the magical alley for the first time. It was colorful chaotic and it made our magic sing. I will admit my jaw might have dropped just like Dudley's and moms did. After waiting for a moment for the awe to fade a bit the professor asked us to follow. She immediately made for the biggest building there, the Gringotts Bank it looked magnificent, pure white marble inlaid in gold, and several severe looking goblin guards standing in front of the entrance. As we entered the bank I bowed my head slightly towards the guards and followed McGonagall towards one of the counters with a goblin teller.
"I am here with new students, who will be exchanging muggle money and after that I hope some one will escort Harry Potter to his vaults here is his key." The professor informed the goblin.
The goblin pointed to wards a wall with several gobbling that said currency exchange, after that he pressed a rune which called a vault runner goblin and handed him the key. "Take Harry Potter to trust vault 687 so that he can pick up some money." He looked at me and pointed at the goblin "follow him." And turning to wards the Professor he said. "Please wait with the other two." And then he called the next customer.
I followed the goblin through the door and into the trolley where I enjoyed the ride towards my vault. Upon reaching the vault we got out of the trolley and the goblin took out my key from his pocket and opened the vault door. He then gestured me to go and grab my money. When I entered the vault I noticed piles and piles of money, for some reason I had to walk around the vault and upon going to the other side of the wall I noticed a storage trunk with a letter written on it. Upon picking it up it opened and I read.
' Dear Jumper due to complications with your choices of being a drop-in, the time of insertion, and your drawbacks, you were thrown a year and three months forwards in to the future of the persons histories beginning, and thus you had to wait nearly a decade to receive your chosen items. As you have had to live without what would have been the length of a normal jump, you will be given a free item from the catalogue of this jump. You will find the item its description and all your other purchased items in the walking storage trunk. To activate, code and lock the trunk to you just put a bit of blood on the lid, oh and don't forget to name it.
Sincerely '
I did just that, pulling out a swiss army knife I opened it up and pricking my finger I let a drop fall onto the lid. The moment the prop of blood touched the trunk eight legs unfolded from around its bottom and it just gave the impression of looking at me and waiting for something. Oh right a name. I began tapping my chin as I was trying to decide its name and after awhile I had the perfect name for it. "Your name shall be 'Morning-wood'." I snickered. "Now please shrink to the size of a, 4 inch width by 8 inch length by 2 inch height and attach to my left forearm. And after that please collect all the money in this vault. And then please also become invisible." And as I stood there all the gold, silver and bronze coins lifted up and flew into the miniaturised trunk. When I walked out of the vault the goblin looked at me like he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
I approached him and asked politely, "Dear goblin, do you know if the vault refills it self or was that all that I owned?"
He looked at me gathered him self and replied that yes it would refill it self every year on my birthday, and no I would get access to my parents vaults when I would become an adult at the age of 17.
I thanked him and asked if it would be possible to get my key from him. And after he gave me the key I put it into morning-wood.
After that I had another enjoyable ride back to the Banks lobby where I was met by Professor McGonagall, mother and Dudley.
As we walked out of the bank I tried to mentally contact 'Morning-wood' and I received a pleased reaction from it, it couldn't talk but it would listen and try to obey my orders also I could give me a whole inventory of all that it had inside.
When I asked it to give me the inventory, I received a knowing of what was inside.
110000 Galleons (in total as Morning-wood added them all together for easy accounting. Marauder's Map
Pocket Guide
Etching Pen
The Black Cauldron (self-replenishing alchemical ingredients)
3 story home (self-replenishing food and water)
I was shocked at the amount of money I now had, and very pleased that I received the black cauldron.
Mentally shaking my self, I gathered my wits around me as there was shopping to do.
The first thing that we went to get was the wands.
Dudley got his wand first as I knew that I picked my wand already. Dudley's wand was a 14-inch Alder with unicorn hair, and quite bendable.
My wand was a 13 inch of Yew, Elder and Heartwood with Horned Serpent horn, Phoenix feather and it was impossibly bendable. The moment I touched the wand it wound around my hand and pierced my hand and integrated some of my blood to its cores. My magic reacted to my wand by blasting out in a 4-meter sphere that lifted me up and healed any and all damage to my body. When everything was over, I stood at 5'9" with shoulder long black hair with streaks of fire red mixed in, the annoying lightning bolt scar was gone, and it felt like I had more muscles underneath all my clothes.
All in all, it was a wand choosing to remember.
I heard a wow from everyone who was present. When everyone had gathered them selves we paid for our wands and left to get clothes, potions ingredients, books which we got all the way to wards year seven, including all of the electives except muggle studies. I also added Occlumency and Legilimency books so that we could study when we wanted and what we wanted; Professor McGonagall looked like she was going to protest but seeing that my mother didn't she gave up muttering about Ravenclaws.
After all that all we had left was animals.
Dudley got a dark blue baby Kneazle with beautiful silver eyes. But I still got Hedwig as a companion and for letter delivery. All in all todays shopping trip had cost us 327 Galleons of which I covered 300 as I didn't want to burden my families expenses on magical schooling.
When we got home and Professor McGonagall was leaving I walked up to her and asked. "Professor McGonagall, could you please tell me how much does Hogwarts tuition cost per year?"
She looked at me, "It costs 7000 Galleons, but your parents have already paid for all seven years in advance" she replied.
"You mean my biological parents?" I questioned her.
"Yes."
"Well then I would like to pay for Dudley's education," I pulled out a money pouch with 49000 Galleons and handed it to her. "That should cover his education for all seven years except for school supplies."
Once again Professor McGonagall was stunned after she got her self under control. Mr. Potter where did you get this money? She asked.
"Oh I withdrew it from my trust vault. See you in September Professor. Good bye." I turned around and left her stunned once again. Several minutes later I heard a crack of apparition as she left.