AN: Hello all, I want to get back into the habit of answering some review questions. I especially want to answer a guest who pissed me off with his remarks.
Guest (Since you don't even care enough to make an account when you flame ill just call you The Immature One)
I decided to rewrite The Tale of Leora because I disliked the direction that I was going. I do not post a story after one chapter. I write five to ten chapters before I even consider posting it. The fact that most Warcraft only based fanfictions suck is that WoW is a massive story, and including a relevant character for every expansion is incredibly hard. Not even Blizzard has a "main" character for every arc. By the 5th chapter of Tale of Leora the story had turned into a mary sue where she had become incredibly powered and it turned into a run of the mill redeemed story that I disliked. Harry Potter is an incredible sandbox of a story which is why it is so popular in fanfiction.
The fact that you flame when you have not even attempted to write your own story shows how shallow you are.
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Sorry about that, I will use pounds in the future.
Kairan1979
Maybe. We will see :)
Anyway, fact checkers, a hopeful and a flamer. Off to a great start with the story haha….anyway here is the second chapter.
Prologue Part 2
The next morning was very confusing. After waking up in his hotel room he went downstairs to the bar and much to his amazement was quickly brought the largest breakfast he had ever eaten.
the giant Hagrid returned with a severe looking woman named McGonagall, who had introduced herself to be the Transfiguration Professor at Hogwarts. She later explained what transfiguration was, but at the time he just accepted it.
Apparently, Hagrid had jumped the shark, he was only supposed to pick him up if he had not responded in a week, not one night.
But since the act was already performed it was decided that he would stay at the Leaky Cauldron for the last month until school started, much to his pleasure.
But a whole month away from the Dursleys in a world of magic, it was like a fairy tale come true.
The bacon didn't hurt to convince him either.
And so after the delicious breakfast Hagrid said his goodbyes and left him with the Professor to purchase his school supplies.
"So this list says I have to purchase a wand, a beginners potion kit, a cauldron, some textbooks, and other stuff, I do not have the money to purchase any of this." Harry remarked as he and the Professor walked down the busy Diagon Alley.
He had been amazed that a place in London was hidden from society. It was like entering a portal to the renaissance.
"Do not worry Mr. Potter, your family was quite wealthy. We will stop at Gringotts bank before making any purchases." McGonagall stated, directing him towards a towering white building.
Harry frowned at the mention of his family. He had been shocked when Hagrid and the Professor explained to him the truth about his history. His family were not the drunkards that were driving but rather war heroes who had died to save him from a dark wizard.
And then there was his fame…
He was very uncomfortable about that. He had never sought to stand out in any way, years under the Dursleys were to thank for that mindset. For the past three years he had been content to watch the cosmos, ignoring the people of his own planet.
But his fame would interrupt that lifestyle, as evident when he was nearly mobbed after Hagrid had loudly called him Harry when he left them this morning.
He would have contemplated the drastic changes in his life further but the Professor's voice cut through his thoughts, "Come now Harry, let us withdraw some money."
The Goblins were...surprisingly accurate to how Harry envisioned them. Green, short, with big pointy ears. He was surprised at this intelligent, as in fiction they were often described as nothing but savages and brutes, but clearly that was not the case here.
Harry idly wondered if the first depictions of goblins stemmed from actual sightings rather than a flight of imagination.
Withdrawing money was an…interesting affair, after being handed a small golden key they were whisked to caverns that seemed to stretch for miles under the city until they reached the vault containing his money.
His vault was rather shocking, stacks of gold, silver, and bronze coins stacked in mounds that stretched up to the ceiling.
After a brief explanation of the monetary system, a gold from what he could tell was worth quite a lot.
After leaving the bank it was a blur of shopping. They worked slowly down the list, purchasing robes, potion ingredients, a cauldron, an expanded trunk, and a writing kit. He was having a lot of fun, purchasing items he could have never afforded before, even if many of them were just school supplies and not that interesting.
It was halfway through the trip that he spotted something that made his eyes widen.
An astronomy shop?
"Can we go in there?" He asked excitedly, pointing to the shop.
McGonagall raised an eyebrow "The school provides telescopes mister Potter, why would you want one?"
"I love to stargaze." Harry said, now largely ignoring the professor and making his way into the shop.
The shop was amazing, the ceiling looked to be the night sky, showing the milky way in all of its glory. But his attention was purely focused on the telescopes.
Making his way to the wall where many of them were mounted he frowned.
'All of these are…decades out of date.' Harry thought in confusion, looking at the antique looking telescope.
"Ah, you have good taste son. That is one of our latest models, can see the planets very clear that one can. You can even zoom in all the way on Pluto!" The man said.
'Mine can do that too.' Harry thought with a frown. He had assumed that magical telescopes would be a bit…better.
"It can't see past our galaxy?" Harry asked, disappointed.
The man looked blankly at him "Galaxy? Is that some muggle reference?"
Harry stared at the man "You run an astronomy store and you do not know what a galaxy is?"
The shopkeeper looked annoyed "If you are not going to purchase anything then get out! Don't bother me with muggle nonsense." He sneered, turning away in a huff and walking back to the counter.
Unfortunately, that encounter painted a rather bleak picture in his mind as he started to see a pattern. 'These people don't style themselves after medieval Europe, they are still in the renaissance era!' Harry thought in horror.
"Professor?" He asked hesitantly as they stopped for lunch before they purchased the last items on his list, namely his wand and textbooks.
"Yes Mr. Potter?" McGonagall answered, taking a bite of her shepherd's pie.
"Do you know who Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are?"
"Hmm, yes Einstein is a rather famous in the muggle world. I am not sure who this Hawking is, why?" She answered, confirming some of his suspicions.
"…Is there no science courses in Hogwarts?" He asked, ignoring her question.
She raised an eyebrow questioningly "No there is not Mr. Potter. There is Arithmancy and Astronomy."
Harry frowned "Then…is that why no one I talked to had only a basic knowledge of Astrology?"
McGonagall gave him a disapproving frown "Mr. Potter, it is not well to be arrogant, adults are very knowledgeable…"
"Did you know that our galaxy is only one in trillions of other galaxies in a constantly expanding universe that we have no idea the true scope of?" Harry interrupted, surprising his Professor.
"What flight of fancy is that Mister Potter? McGonagall asked, perplexed.
"Its basic science that non- magical people have discovered for a long time, I am just confused why the people here are so ignorant of it."
Needless to say, McGonagall did not take that well. Calling a professor five times his age ignorant may have been a bad idea but he could not help it. Astrology and science had been his only sources of entertainment for years now, living in a society that had only the very basic knowledge of it was very grating.
Getting his wand was…an interesting experience. Finding his chosen wand, holly and phoenix feather, felt as if he suddenly had gained a limb he had not known before, or perhaps another sense.
The shopkeeper definitely fit the stereotype that he imaged of a wand maker. Creepy and seemingly omniscient of all things wand lore.
Their last stop was the bookstore, which he was very excited to explore. In fantasy the real power behind magic came from spell books and forbidden texts that taught the magi spells and rituals.
The store was fascinating, books the size of postage stamps to books the size of pavement blocks. Subjects ranged from mundane fantasy novels to obscure magics that he had never even heard of from his fantasy stories.
He could easily see himself losing days in this place. But he did not want to do it with the Professor here, she had been very strict on him with what she called "frivolous purchases."
He was not stupid, he saw the amount of money in that vault. From what he had seen of prices a galleon was worth around a hundred dollars in the mundane world. In his vault the majority of the coins were galleons, a rough estimate put his net worth in the millions, perhaps even in the hundreds of millions, some "frivolous spending" would not even put a dent in it.
It hurt him to do it but he simply gathered his school supplies, helpfully presented on a special display for first years.
He would be back later.
"Well Mister Potter it has been a pleasure showing you around the Alley. I look forward to teaching you at Hogwarts." McGonagall said after they returned to the Leaky Cauldron.
"You as well Professor. I look forward to learning under you." Harry replied, shaking her hand.
"And Mister Potter…" McGonagall said after a small pause.
"I am sorry you had to be raised by the Dursleys. I wish there could have been another way." She said, her tone tinged with sadness.
Harry frowned "its…fine Professor. I could have had much worse childhoods than the one I had."
She nodded curtly, looking relieved that he did not feel worse about it before leaving the building.
Waiting a few moments after she left he turned and walked back into the alley.
He had some books to purchase.
'Magic and Astrology…I'll take that…Planetary Positions and how they affect Magic…I'll take that…' Harry thought, browsing through the bookstore.
He had been interested exploring the Astrology section. Despite the people's basic understanding of the universe as a whole, they had a very good understanding of their own universe. The old telescopes he had seen in the Astrology shop had been invented in the 1650s, meaning that the magical community had been seeing the planets well before mundane astronomers could see the surface.
So magical astronomers knew every detail of the nine planets and star systems. They just knew nothing about anything else.
"Magical Telescopes, how to enchant glass to see farther…" Harry whispered, looking at the title. Cracking the book open he started reading. Most of the theory went over his head as they mentioned several spells and procedures that he knew nothing about. But the general gist that he could understand was that all the enchantment went into the lenses, allowing them to almost zoom in like a camera much farther than any magnifying glass had any right to.
'I wonder what would happen if one enchanted a modern telescope?' Harry thought, closing the book and replacing it. It would do him no good to have it now.
'I wonder if the astrology store could enchant the glass in my telescope?' Harry thought, looking through a few more books before heading to the check out.
The entire total for the five books he bought was twenty silver pieces, he knew they were called Sickles but his inner fantasy lover couldn't help but call them silver.
So in total he spent around a hundred and twenty dollars for the texts.
A few hours later he was still immersed in the books, reading on the many discoveries about Astrology and how it relates to magic.
It was nearing midnight by the time he reached a chapter that really caught his eye in a astronomy history book titled "Greatest Astrologists"
The most famous example was the Roman wizard Neptune, who discovered the 8 other planets. After discovering the different planets, each one increased the power of his magic until he was revered as a god.
This was the reason that astronomy had been so relevant in the middle ages, the discovery of the planets led to the astrologist gaining a large power boost, so a gold rush occurred as wizards desperately sought more planets, only to discover that there were only nine in the milky way. It was theorized that by discovering the planet the wizard opened their magic to the ambient energy that revolved around the foreign planet.
'But, why is this not more relevant?' Harry thought confused, knowing that there were trillions of planets in the universe, if a wizard could gain power by discovering a new planet then why were there not thousands of gods like wizards in the world?
Then the answer struck him like lightning 'But…they don't know that trillions of planets are out there, they have no idea because they are so disconnected from modern science.'
'But what about people who were born from muggles? Wouldn't they know about the other planets?' Harry thought, finding a flaw in his hypothesis.
Then a memory came to him, every magical child went to a magic school at twelve years old, that's only seventh grade.
Kids weren't taught about space and the planets outside our solar system until their teens.
Slowly he looked up outside of his window, the vast abyss of space stretching out for thousands of miles.
'There are trillions of planets.'
Slowly standing up he picked up his telescope, slowing unscrewing it so he could open it and reveal the ten focusing lenses that allowed the telescope such clear images of the galaxy.
Picking one up he remembered the book in Diagon Alley.
'I can't tell anyone about this.' Harry realized. He may be only twelve but a combination of his childhood, his intelligence, and his constant studying of Astronomy matured him a great deal. He realized what would happen if he told everyone the method to obtain this power.
The world would be destroyed from infighting.
'But for me…' Harry thought, slowly removing the lenses from the telescope.
'I can gain this power…'
Through the lenses he saw the moon magnified by the lenses, bathing him in soft light as he gazed up at the stars.
AN: And that is the end of the prologue and the revelation on how Harry Potter will use the power of the cosmos. Now an explanation. In WoW the astrologist gained the power of other planets by discovering them and connecting to their ley lines. Neptune, my oc historic figure who was the first to discover the planets did this unknowingly after long research of the planets he discovered.
Now one planet is not going to turn Harry into some godlike mage, it will take quite a few. Neptune was revered as a god but back in those times magic was not as developed so anyone who could cast magic with a small amount of power was considered god-like. As an example Neptune would be a level 30 mage while regular wizards are level 10. Dumbledore would be level 40 and Voldemort 45.
The elemental orientation of the planet determines what power is increased. For example, the planet Neptune would increase arcane energy since it is a gas giant while mars would increase earth magic.