Harry Potter But AU

by Usui Takumii

not mine, author is ... DAFR ... check readwn. Waiting for the translator to update.

22. 201 to 212 fifth year's Christmas (pt 2)

HERMIONE'S POV

It's been almost a week since the moment she finally understood what an a.s.s she's been to Harry, and she really couldn't think of a way to ask for forgiveness.

Saying sorry isn't gonna cut it, nor singing like Neville did.

If it was Marcus or Ron that she has hurt, she would have offered to do their homework for them, but Harry always got grades better than her.

It was why, just after the first DA meeting, which had less than half of the original members, She asked Luna Lovegood to stay behind.

"Do you need us to stay with you?" One of the Weasley twins asked Luna.

"No thank you George," Luna answered. "Hermione's wrackspurts have lessened considerably, she wouldn't attack me."

Her words seem enough for the twins as they left the unused classroom we transformed into the DA room.

"So Luna, did you like the lesson?" Hermione asked as a way to start the conversation.

"It was nice," Luna said with the same dreamy way she usually talk whenever Hermione heard her. "pretty basic, but I hope it will improve as we go."

"Yes, we will work on a few basic hexes before starting working on a shield and then have mock duels." She explained the planning for the class.

"What about charms, or transfigurations, will Marcus teach those too?" Luna asked

"What?" Hermione was confused "This is a defense class Luna."

"Yes, I'm aware." She said in a way that told Hermione she's still waiting for an answer.

"We will learn curses and shielding, maybe a patronus." She tried to explain better.

"Oh, I see." She sounded disappointed. "Just thought, never mind, thank you for answering my concern. Have a nice day." She turned about to walk away.

"Luna! Wait!" Hermione stopped her. "I actually asked you to stay for a different reason." Seeing Luna looking at her, she gathered her courage. "Just recently I noticed I've acted toward Slytherin just as purebloods act toward muggleborns, and worse, for four years I've acted like this toward a boy whose been nothing but nice to me, Harry." Hermione swallowed as she saw Luna's eyes lose the lost look in them, turning sharp, before continuing. "I need to apologize to him, and as you are his friend, I wanted your advice on how..."

Luna only looked at her, as if deep in thought. "Well, you can always offer him something he can't refuse, maybe a piece of lost magic if you know any." Luna said after a few moments.

"Very funny." Hermione said, only to see Luna's face being extremely serious. "Wait, that was a real suggestion?" At Luna's nod she lost it. "Really? Using my apology as a way to gain something of value? What a sly-grim way of looking at the world!" Hermione managed to stop herself from saying Slytherin.

"Well, if you aren't willing to give him anything of value as an apology, maybe use the oldest method?" Luna's words horrified Hermione. "I'm not going to sleep with him as an apology!" She exclaimed.

"What?" Luna looked confused for the first time ever. "I just meant go and apologize to him."

"Oh." Hermione could feel her cheeks getting red. "Are you sure it will work?"

"Honestly?" Luna said, shrugging. "I'm not sure Harry will care for your apology either way." She turned once more to leave. "But if not giving him something of value, than a sincere apology is all I can give you as advice." With that, she left, leaving me in thoughts.

HARRY'S POV

For the last week, with the exception of classes, Harry has dedicated half of his time to building a new SWOR, and the time which he couldn't (can't be in the same place as a past self when time traveling) he used it to try and understand what could have gone wrong in the ritual to turn Grayback to a patronus-like creature.

To do that, he started studying the patronus charm from books, something he already did once, but never paid it too much attention, as by the time he reached the magical side of the world he could already do it.

This time, instead of focusing about how it worked, he studied what is a patronus.

Expecto Patronum, is an emotion based spell whose meaning is 'I expect a guardian', while happiness can be used to produce one, it can also be conjured based on sense of duty, love or pure determination.

The most interesting about the spell, is that while it's misconception that the animal take the shape of your inner-self, that's not the truth.

Human beings are way too complicated to be thought of as specific animals.

Instead, the guardian takes the form of a secret of yours, taking your need to protect that secret and using it as a basis to the guardian.

Even after the secret is revealed, as long as you don't have a new secret that you need to keep that feels more important to you than the previous one, the guardian won't change shape.

The reason some people who are in love have the shape of their patronus match their partners in some way, is because they, at some point, wanted it to be kept a secret for some reason.

Another interesting thing about the patronus is one that I already knew in some way.

The patronus spell has no limits for how much energy it can take, meaning that is you want, you can pour your entire magic into it.

That's what Harry believed happened to Grayback.

The ritual, with the help of his and Grayback's magic, has caused Grayback's entire body, and the energy in it, to be converted into magical energy and infused into a patronus like spell.

As the ritual involved transfiguration into animal, total change of DNA and transforming into an inner animal, with the wrong arithmetic values, it might have caused the change to happen into patronus instead of animagus-form.

Of course, to be sure of it, Harry still need to discover the actual properties of each number and of every equation from the start.

As Harry was busy building the SWOR and figuring out the patronus issue, he hasn't gone to eat in the grand hall at all, instead, he had Doby bringing the food to him.

But today is different, as Luna forced him to go, saying something is about to happen.

Harry wasn't expecting that the thing that would happen would be Granger coming to the Slytherin table mid-meal, nor for her to come toward Luna and him.

"Hey Harry." She said his actual name in a small voice, making his eyebrow rise. "I, I came here to..." she took a deep breath. "To apologize to you about the way I treated you for the last four years. I'm really sorry, I acted with as much prejudice to you as Malfoy acts toward every muggleborn."

He should have felt something, happiness, sadness, anger, need to gloat, something, but he didn't.

It's been four years since they stopped being friends and two since Neville apologized.

By this point of time? Harry didn't feel anything toward her, just like one of his pens that broke years ago, he didn't think of her at all.

"Sure, you are absolved." He said in a bland voice, making her take a step back.

"Really?" She didn't seem to notice my tone. "So do you want to study together sometime or-"

"Wait." Harry stopped her. "I forgave you, but that doesn't mean we are friends, And no, I don't want to restart our friendship, I gave my friends and you have yours, and that's fine by me." She seem about to cry making Harry roll his eyes and about to say something but before he could, she ran back to the Gryffindor table, where her friends with the exception of Neville gave me a stink eye.

"You truly don't want to be friends with her again?" Luna asked from the side, curious.

"Why would I? I have you, Nagini, Doby and the twins. How many friends do you think I can handle?" He asked back with a wry grin.

"Well, considering you disappeared for a week, I would have to say zero." She gave him the look that said 'Explain.'

"Well, I might have accidentally created a living patronus." Harry said, as after studying the Grayback patronus, not to mention obliviating it, which was one of the only spells that seem capable of affecting it, and making a spiritual cage with a rune scheme in the outside world to make sure it can't leave, He could say that the wolf had no memories of his time as a human and only had the ability to howl at people for the moment.

Everyone who knew her would have been able to instantly see her eyes become full of wonder.

"Show me!"

"Sure," He said, as by now he already considered taking her to his second secret room. "We just need to go to the chamber of secrets." Her eyes were so open Harry feared they would pop outside.

Harry was reincarnated into this life just after the Halloween night of 1981 with high IQ, perfect memory and knowledge of this world from the books and fanfictions.

The Potters abandoned him and left him at the Dursley as a result of Lily losing her emotions toward him as a result of that night.

At the age of five Harry escaped the Dursley family and was brought to an orphanage until he was adopted by a couple.

He spent the years learning little by little how to control his magic in his free time.

By the age of eleven Harry was at the start of his university life when he was invited to hogwarts only for his parents to be killed, and he knows it was the potters (when in fact it was Dumbledore.)

He started the first year by befriending Hermione and Neville, only to be sorted to Slytherin by the sorting hat (which sorts by his future seeing abilities with the exception of people under prophecies, as he can't see their future, making him sort Harry into Slytherin by the little he talked with Harry.)

Snape, as he isn't devastated by Lily's death, moved on from her as she isn't seem as perfect as she would have as dead.

Daphne Greengrass is searching for a cure for her sister.

By Halloween, Hermione and Neville join Marcus (Harry's twin brother) and Ron in trying to stop the Troll, only for Harry to lift it with its pants and drop it a few floors high, killing it.

After Christmas he is no longer friends with them.

As he use the room of requirement all the time, the twins eventually catch him and they become friends.

Most of the year is spent studying both magical and muggle subjects, and learning blacksmithing from goblins as a way to make the Potters the end of the year he steals the philosopher's stone.

Harry's second year starts by befriending Luna Lovegood and having a deal with Daphne to help her save her sister.

He learns that magic power has a few stages, and that it is both physically and magically, and that he is close to the end of the second stage.

He also learns a lot of magic, kills the basilisk with a chicken, and learn that there is a legacy from Slytherin and Gryffindor's Granddaughter next to the chamber of secrets about divination which can only be learned by the third stage of magic.

Tom riddle from the diary at the last moment of his life jump into Harry's mine only to be trapped by Harry's Occlumency. Harry's has Dobby work for him and start feeding on the basilisk meat as it accelerates his body's growth in strength.

By the time third year comes Harry gains a time turner as part of his deal with the Greengrass to heal Astoria.

He starts a business with Luna and the twins of yugiho game- like in the anime, and use the game to collect magical energy only to use it to create AI.

He keep studying and researching Astoria disease, while also beginning to work on true artifacts with the goblins.

The goblins tell him that the best creator of artifacts was someone who was nicknamed death and he also created the only level 5 artifact- the library of Alexandria.

He copies the entire Hogwarts library into his computer.

He finds the truth about the Halloween night from Wormtail, and modify Lupin's memory to become loyal to him and have Lupin take him to the school in China.

Also, he finds Luna has the ability to see auras, and Luna is in love with him.

In the school in China Harry finds that that there are two paths to become stronger, the god path and the immortal path.

He also finds that everything in the world has spiritual realm and the collective form of all of them, including the dead, is known as the spiritual world.

Harry also copies the entire library before returning to Britain to play with his friends in their new band - Tommy and his Eaters in the quidditch World Cup.

Harry participates in his fourth year in the tournament as it lets him to skip classes as he wish, befriends Krum and Fleur, the second one by the end of the year has a crash on him, and studied, a lot, he passed the tests easily, as he already knew what they are and used healthy rational thinking to succeed.

His group of four both continued to make music and brought a new line of brooms to play cards on.

In addition, he has Lupin, who had Sirius join him, sneak into houses and have a robot he invented duplicate all their books while they travel the country and place machines that can suck magical energy while also letting the cards work anywhere.

Harry also extracted the two horcruxes from him and captured Voldemort only to put a golem with AI in its place before letting Marcus win while also 'resurrecting' Voldemort, using that chance to get Moody's eyes to study it.

Also, he went to the ball with Luna and Snape now works with him.

In the summer Harry creates Wonder Alley, which has many shops in it, and find a cure to blood malediction and use it on Nagini only to create a familiar bond with her by mistake.

Harry change Umbridge memories and make her prepare the students to use the new phone wands he made.

He tried to make Grayback into a wolf instead of a werewolf, only for him to become a Patronus, as the artifact he created isolates the spiritual world from outside, making the rules being different from before.

GEORGE'S POV

DADA classes were a nightmare for everyone since the beginning of the year.

Sitting for hours and learning basic books without doing magic? What were they? Muggles?

It's not like they didn't have bad teachers before, almost nobody could understand Quirell and Lockhart was the dumbest person who ever studied in Hogwarts, considering he never managed to cast even a first year's spell right, but at least they were interesting.

Umbridge? Boring as hell.

Of course, the DA secret club was only a tiny bit better, they could at least cast Hexes at people and practice, which was nice, but the level of the spells was so low and unimaginative!

They would have used the time to work in the ROR on pranks, but Harry seem to live there while also in class working on something, which he could do with their time turner.

They were well aware that Harry has a time turner, you can't not notice it when you have a version of the marauder's map, but they never pushed knowing he use that to have time for all his projects, the ones with them and the ones without while also have time to relax.

Yet, since the last Hogsmeade weekend, even his free time was dedicated to working on his project.

Which was why, when they noticed that Luna starts to disappear together with Harry, both Fred and him confronted them.

"What is it that you are working on, Harry?" Fred asked as they looked to the inside of the box Harry build where Luna set on a comfy chair humming in thought as Harry stood with a board and chalk, writing Archimestical equations that from all the products they made George could tell were a bit off.

"Finally decided to ask?" Harry smiled.

"Well, when we saw Luna was pulled into it, we had to know what's the big deal." George answered.

"Oh, nothing much." Luna answered to them still looking at the board. "Just disproving half the magical theories in the world." Before I could even demand explanation Harry spoke. "Not Half... but yeah. How about you come in?"

As we walked in George wined as he felt himself become heavier, and looking toward at Fred, he could see he want the only one.

Yet, a few moments later, his body became lighter than it was on the outside.

"What was that?" George asked.

"That was your magic being freed from outside influence." Harry said

"You could have warned us." Fred grumbled.

"I told him not too," Luna said. "He forgot to mention it to me, so I felt it would be fair for everyone to experience it like that, not to mention funny." She giggled at our faces and George couldn't help but have a smile grow on his face.

"Anyway..." Harry said and begin explaining about the spiritual world, the room and everything he has learned in it.

"Anyway, after I recreate the room I started working on basic arithmency, with Luna joining me soon after, but even after those two weeks, we only managed to determine that there isn't any number that is stronger than the other which means that a lot of the equations that are based on strong numbers aren't real and only work properly because of the spiritual world supplementing it."

Looking at his twin with both of them nodding to each other. Fred was the one who said "How can we help?"

"Really? It's not all fun and games." Harry said.

"Oh, that means that there will be fun and games." George said with a smirk.

"That was my idea actually." Luna smiled, it was what we were working on right now to complete." She pointed at the board. "It's time to take Duel monsters game to the next level."

"What next level?" The twins asked at the same time.

"It's time for the players to truly become part of the game."

TWO WEEKS LATER

(a day before Halloween.)

FRED'S POV

"Hello everyone!" His voice was loud enough for everyone to hear thanks to the spell he had on his throat. "Teachers, students, and a.d.u. who sneaked in. Today is a special day, as this is the first tournament of the last year the official tournaments will occur in school, with me and my brother finishing our studies by the end of the year... well, if we finish." The audience laughed. "Of course," George continued after Fred when the laughter subsided. "With this year being the third since the creation of the game, we decide to let this tournament be the beginning of the third, and for now, last way to play the game." The cheers were deafening.

"With the first way as regular card dueling, in which you summon creatures, warriors and wizards, cast charms and activate traps. Something I'm sure you all enjoyed to play." Fred spoke again. "And the second way as speed dueling on the specialized turbo brooms that make the game into one of skill of flight in addition to mind and magic, I'm sure you are thinking - what more can those handsome, funny, husband material," Fred winked at Angelica "Genius gods on earth think of?" Once more laughter filled the air. "Well, the new level is beyond all that!" George said. "It is time to truly get involved with the world of duel monsters with the new arena of ours." They both threw three cubes onto the ground, who assembled together and created a large size SWOR room with a few upgrades in it.

The last two weeks have been exhausting for the twins and Luna as they joined Harry in his time travels, but with them helping him with both suggestions about improvements, asking Dad to send the finished product of the TV, and actual help with illusion magic as they are masters with it. (Both Pranking and creating cards in the beginning needed it.) they managed to finish the new dueling arena.

"This arena was enchanted, just like the turbo brooms, to be able to make the monsters feel even realer, by making them capable of touching you." Fred's words caused the audience to be filled with shock. "You heard that right! Getting into the arena make you able to interact with your cards, but that's not all, while in there, you will need to use the field that's been given to you, and the monsters you summon, to find, while dueling, the fast magic cards that the arena has in them, which are cards that once found can be used at anytime, including your opponent's turn, right from your hands." The roars of excitement were deafening.

George waited for his turn to speak once everyone were quite. "But be warned! The speed magic cards can also malfunction and create an unknown affect." He smirked at that. "Now, as this is the first tournament with this new way, and as the students sighed up to either the regular of turbo dueling, this time, only the winners of each tournament will get to play in the interconnected finals. Well, let's begin!"

HARRY'S POV

Harry had a lot of fun the last few weeks with his friends helping him in developing the SWOR into an experiment room.

By the time he finished the second SWOR, Harry knew how to make one, even large one, in two days, so that wasn't the main problem.

The main problem was the additions.

First of all, they needed to connect the rooms to the Philosopher stone and the AIs, as they are what makes the game work and take magic from them.

Connecting them to the SWOR turned out not as hard as he thought, as magic itself had no problem working in the SWOR, magical effects.

Which is why, instead, Harry build a new AI into the room, making it a part of the room before animating it instead of making it into a golem as golems don't work in the room, then, with the SWOR capable of understanding the cards, and, with it being conscious, capable of also giving magic intent, a simple magical conversion device was created, which the AI can use to create solid illusions.

As light can be solidified, illusions can be as well, and while science isn't capable of doing so for the time being, magic is.

Fred and George added multiple settings to the fields in which people can begin their games in and how to make illusions more realistic, while Luna helped with the creation of solid illusions, as with her knowledge of creatures, it became possible to imitate magical animals capable of doing the same.

The fast spell cards were her's idea as well.

Those cards are filled with basic and later on, complicated magical equations that the AI is supposed to make actually work instead of just make an illusion of it.

They did make sure non of the cards can be used for dangerous affects as they are all charm based equations, and even then, lower level ones.

Other than that, they also put enchanted video cameras hidden in the room and had them connected to the TV outside by taking the TVs Arthur sent the twins, and recasted them with blacksmithing that the room's AI done as that makes the item be in harmony with the main spiritual realm of the room and not stop working.

All in all, they created a great arena and room to learn the true mysteries of the world, though it will be improved by the time this school year is done as Harry decided to divide his time once more between figuring out the math behind magic, and learn how to make his own ROR.

Not that any of that mattered right now, as he walked into Azkaban with his golem- Voldemort and Grayback, about to free the Death Eaters

BELLATRIX'S POV

Many people don't know what it's like to be near a Dementor.

Everyone know about the depression- Dementors suck happiness.

What they don't know is how the despair that they bring with them affect the people who are exposed to those monsters.

In her more sane moments, when the Dementors are far enough, Bellatrix can appropriate the ingenuity of putting those monsters as cell guards, as the need to stay away from them, little by little grows into an obsession, and once someone finishes their sentence, they would do anything to stay away from jail.

Yes, Bellatrix would do anything to get away from this place, even betray the dark lord.

In all honesty, her loyalty to the dark lord as her lord wasn't as blind as the rumors suggested.

The reasons she joined the Dark lord were many.

Her husband was in it when they got married, she thought the Dark lord would win and her parents taught her to believe in the Pureblood movement and she wanted to fulfill it.

Oh sure, she loves violence, killing and other things that by the eyes of society seem twisted, but there was no need to join the Death Eaters to do that, just kidnap some muggle and do it just as her ancestors have done before her.

The only reason she seem so loyal is that she was sure it's a test.

There was no way the Dark lord has died, She was sure of it, after all, he made a horcrux.

Yes, she was sure the Dark lord did it as a loyalty test, to see who would betray him at the first sight of losing.

This thought of her's disappeared after the first week in Azkaban, replaced by despair that came from within as well as outside as she understood no one was coming for her.

So maybe it was wrong to say she would even betray the Dark lord, as her loyalty was never his, but she would do anything to get out, anything.

Of course, those thoughts grew smaller and smaller in number once he Dark Mark flared to life, as those were replaced by thoughts of the Dark Lord freeing her, and the true, unquestioned loyalty She would have toward him when he does.

It took Beatrix a moment to notice her thoughts has become more complicated than they were in years, at least since the minister has come to inspect the prison a long time ago, which could only mean that someone has arrived at the prison with a patronus.

Becoming alert, Bellatrix slowly moved her body toward the one thing she tried to be as far away as possible from four years, the bars.

She could see a few other inmates have done the same thing before her, most of them newer to the place, but her brother-in-low was also among them.

Looking toward her left side, she could see the silver glow grow as a wolf like patronus came closer to her cell, and a swarm of what looked like bees followed it.

She could see that each cell that the swarm passed has got a bee get inside and the person inside was either knocked out or dead a moment later.

Bellatrix should have started to plan, should have used the time before the patronus reached her cell to think of a way to survive.

But she was so tired, and if those things are the way she is going to die, then at least she wouldn't have to suffer one more day of this hell.

As a bee sting her and she could feel herself start to lose consciousness, she couldn't help but whisper "Thank you."

HARRY'S POV

Getting into Azkaban was extremely easy for a couple of reasons.

The first is the lack of security.

Azkaban, with the exception of the inmates, is human free.

The food is brought to the cells by use of house elves who switch the air with food just like the Hogwarts elves do, the security is done by Dementors, and the little cleaning that's been done here is by the low level prisoners in here, who clean fire a reduced sentence.

Sure, Dementors are the perfect creatures to make almost every thought of escaping look doomed from the start, but with two escapes in less than 10 years, one of which is known to use the Dementors inability to see and their use of life force as a measurements in its place to escape, so shouldn't anyone think of strengthening this glaring weakness of the prison by stationing a few people there?

The answer to anyone who would date ask this question to anyone in the ministry who works in relation to Azkaban would be "Sure, you are hired."

No one wants to work in this cursed place, which is why, even though there is a job opening as the head of the department of Azkeban for the last two hundred years, there is no one in it.

The second reason this whole trip was easy, is because Harry had the minister, who was still under the imperious, sign an order for the release of every inmate, so technically, if you don't consider the use of imperious, everything he does here is legal.

The third reason was the simplest of all, and the main one why Harry decided to join Voldemort on the travels, Grayback, or as he decided to finally name the werewolf-turned-patronus, Silverback.

Silverback, after many testing, was decidedly, a patronus with the ability to sustain itself indefinitely, as it contain not only the magic of Grayback, but also the energy of his flesh and blood turned into energy.

The amount of energy silverback actually contains is enough for it to fight Dementors for a year constantly before fading away.

With that much energy, Harry wanted to experiment on that.

Dementors, as pure spiritual beings, are immune to most magical spells, as only a few are purely spiritual, and even those that are, even less have a negative effects on Dementors.

The patronus, on the other hand, is capable of hurting them, but it also consumes a lot of energy.

And energy is something silverback doesn't miss.

What Harry wanted to know, is whether or not his mistake created the first Dementor-killing patronus.

And the answer to that was a big yes.

It took for them knocking out 13 inmates before a dementor came to stop them, and 27 for one of the dementors who looked from the side in fear of Silverback was unable to stop itself to come and fight with the patronus.

It was vicious, the way the Patronus ripped the dementor apart, it's silver light shined sharply on its claws as like a knife it slashed on the Dementor cloak revealing what lays underneath.

Nothing.

It was like pure darkness, but at the same time like the shadow little kids get scared from at night, which, when they lit the room find it's only a tree.

Yet, once the light of silverback reached the inside of the cloak, the big darkness of nothing seem to change into a green smoke shaped as a person, and inside the smoke whispers could be heard.

If Harry wasn't wrong, the green smoke appears in another place, the arch of death in the department of mysteries.

If Harry didn't have stuff he needed to finish, he would have probably tried to study the smoke on the spot, maybe have silverback attack another dementor as this dementor disappeared, leaving behind a cloak Harry immediately had put in a containment box.

After the incident, the dementors made sure to stay away from us, as me and silverback continued going through the prison, me and Voldemort still as invisible as the second we walked in and silverback with the robotic bees behind him, going into each cage and using their strings to release draught of living death into their bodies before turning into portkeys and transferring the unconscious prisoners to the Malfoy manor.

The reason Harry even 'rescued' the prisoners, is because of his plans for the future.

Even with all the advances the Wizarding world is going through with the help of the twins, Luna and him, Harry knew it would be stopped the moment it becomes too much.

The purebloods have the governing ministry in their pocket, Dumbledore and the Potters have the muggleborns and poor in their's and those in between didn't care either way.

Harry on the other hand, only have one advantage on all of them right now, Voldemort.

As Harry controls the 'dark lord', he has the ability to lead the pureblood movement for now, but not only is the fear that holds the purebloods not enough to last, as the Voldemort Harry use is a golem who can't use as much energy as the real Voldemort could, making the people eventually suspicious, Harry would also need an army of his own in the end, one that is loyal and is willing to do anything for him.

And who is better to brainwash than the criminals who spent years drowning in despair?

No one.

Lupin might be loyal after his entire memory has been replaced by one of worship, but even fanatic worshippers can always lose their faith.

But the soldiers that will come out of those people?

They will be the best soldiers to use as to create the new world Harry dreams of.

A world of opportunity with him as the emperor.

HARRY'S POV

The decision to gain control over the world wasn't something that just appeared out of nowhere, nor is it one of carelessness.

It started with the Dursleys, when he saw the ugliness of the world for the first time, as while he had a past life, he couldn't remember it at all.

If the Dursleys made him truly understand the cruelty of man kind, than his parents' death made him see the unfairness of the world.

After that he saw the preferential treatment people give Marcus and the way everyone treat Slytherin, saw how humans don't care for anyone other than themselves and how the difference in treatment in everything was depended on people's blood status, and their family reputation.

Honestly, for a certain point he has no problems with the whole pureblood movement nor the muggleborn resistance.

People should be proud of their ancestors accomplishments and equal opportunities to all is important.

He even understand the need for a war to happen, this is the way of the world, people fight and kill each other to advance.

What Harry didn't like is the way the two sides managed to make most of the deaths unnecessary.

After reading the history of the first British wizarding war and remembering anything he could about the second from the books Harry could see that most of the deaths weren't of fighters, but of civilians, and even more- of muggles.

Whether it's by torture, muggle hunting or casualties of a fight, while Wizards had death in the first war of about 420 people, the ordinary prime had deaths in the 10s of thousands.

Again, Harry had no problem with death, but senseless killing? That's just stupid and all it really took is one muggle who is aware of magic and is both smart enough and fearful enough of magic to expose magic to the world, and while Wizards can win, the destruction it will unleash on the world is too much.

Controlling the world is the easiest way to prevent this destruction, as by the calculations of GUY, if he can't control the magical people, by 2014 the Wizards vs muggle war will begin.

There is also this one bonus to controlling the world.

Destroying Dumbledore and the Potters.

Harry used to consider his end game revenge as killing them, instead, he will strip them off their honor and have them watch as they are forgotten while they rot away, maybe in Azkaban.

Of course, ruling the world is way to much work for one person and extremely boring, which is why Harry needed loyal soldiers by his side.

The purebloods have been taught since young age how to manage property, manners, and other things the wealthy need, making them, with a training of his own to prepare them as a bonus, the perfect administers to actually rule once the world is under his control.

He would create a fake identity to each of them in the muggle world, than, with enough mind magic and the charisma they have, will insert them to positions of power in the muggle government.

All of that is going to happen once the war is over, as to minimize the resistance of the other sides who will weaken each other.

As for his plans for the world?

The world will continue with having countries, wars and difficulties, with his standing behind it as the hidden emperor to make sure no human destroys it while continuing study magic and science, using that to help the world improve and for both scientists and Wizards to study the knowledge He release as well to get their results added to his knowledge.

As Harry looked at Azkaban after leaving it, he couldn't help but smile, as he knew that the war officially starts now.

TWO WEEKS LATER

With duels in the new dueling arena became the new hype, more and more arithmency rules have been either confirmed or modified, and Harry didn't have much to do during that time so instead He spent his time on different things.

With his blacksmithing reaching the third level by his creation of SWOR, for every creation of that level and beyond he needs to study the laws of the world and mimic them.

SWOR was created after studying the knowledge Wizards had on the spiritual world, Occlumency, and getting experience in that by getting inside Nagini's spiritual realm.

The room is a spiritual world of its own, though without any rules, which is why making the AI use it as his own spiritual realm is easy.

As Harry studied many things, his ability to create many different artifacts could be considered top level as long as it isn't something truly special.

As he studied biology and magical martial arts (though only in theory) He managed to create a device that stimulate workout without you actually doing things.

As he studied chemistry and transfiguration, he created a device that can do transfigurations and conjuring on its own as long as you put enough materials in it.

By combining biology, chemistry and Herbiology, he created a room that can stimulate all kinds of plant life forms to grow faster and at any season.

Every day of the week after Azkaban's breakout, when not in class or with his friends, he created a device, till, he was stump by one device that he couldn't create with his knowledge- the stimulant learning headset.

This device was the one he was planing to use on his soldiers, and his inability to create it stumped his plans, so he could only have Voldemort keep all of them in their magically induced coma while also feed them nutrition potion to bring them to full health as he started studying the mind.

Studying the mind required him working on Legimancy as his inability to understand the mind is caused by his inexperience with it.

As it felt like a good idea, he started using it on Marcus as a way to cause him headaches as Harry practiced, while sneaking in to the Gryffindor dormancy and putting a sleep curse on him that let Harry control his dreams, using them to make his twin in nothing but blood think he has connection to Voldemort.

While he started studying the mind in detail, his friends and him prepared a new song for their band.

It was dinner when the illusions appeared as planed.

It was always fun to see how people react in excitement to seeing Voldemort appearing before them.

Without saying anything beforehand, Tom immediately started singing.

"After winning Triwizard, he sat at home, alone

They said he is crazy, and you-know-who is gone

I will show them! Marcus said

Everybody will be sad

When they see, the dark lord, is back!"

The image of Tom was disordered and transformed into Marcus as the other three took different forms as well.

Bellatrix changed to Hermione Granger, Severus changed to Seamus Finnigan, and Lucius changed to Cornelius Fudge.

(Marcus)

Learning defense in secret, 'cause Fudge a moron

Once the war starts, its game on

You're a spineless, pale, pathetic lot

And you haven't got a clue

Voldemort, in a second, will kill you!

I'm never gonna believe this shit (Fudge)

You are mental (Finnigan)

Boy, are they fools or just dumb? (Granger)

This guy's got 'em all to die (Marcus)

Hope they won't see right through me(Fudge)

You one day will need to defend

Be prepared (everyone)

We must be quick as a running rat (Marcus)

Be prepared (everyone)

And know your spells like aurors (Marcus)

Be prepared (everyone)

With all the strength of Wizard kind (Marcus)

We will beat the dark side (Marcus)

(Marcus)

Time is racing toward us till the war arrives

Join forces together and you might survive

From 11 to 18 years old

You are taught how to spell

So you should, be able, to prevail!

Be prepared (everyone)

We must be quick as a running rat (Marcus)

Be prepared (everyone)

And know your spells like aurors (Marcus)

Be prepared (everyone)

With all the strength of Wizard kind (Marcus)

We will beat the dark side (Marcus)

Be prepared (everyone)

We must be quick as a running rat (Marcus)

Be prepared (everyone)

And know your spells like aurors (Marcus)

Be prepared (everyone)

With all the strength of Wizard kind (Marcus)

We will beat the dark side (Marcus)"

Harry couldn't help but laugh as he looked at the Golden four trying to understand who told of their little group by looking at the faces of each member of their army, not realizing they just reveal by their look who is with them.

It is truly great being the one with the foreknowledge.

HARRY'S POV

"You called?" Harry asked waving the two sides mirror at the Professor.

It was 1 AM and the Professor used their business mirror to call him.

"Thank you for coming." Snape said. "I have a proposal for an additional business partner."

Harry raised his brow at that. "Really? Who?"

"Me." A voice was heard from the storage room and Lucius Malfoy came out.

"Seriously?" Harry asked. "Did you plan this dramatic entrance? Because I already knew you were there, I just thought the Professor and you might be in a physical relationship."

Of course Harry knew Lucius was there, his AI told it to him before he even came in.

"Well, you know Severus, always one for the dramatics." Lucius answered with a laugh.

"I wasn't the one to suggest it!" The potion Professor scowled at the blond man.

"Oh Sev, I was only joking." Lucius was rolling his eyes.

"You know, neither of you denied my accusation of a relationship between the two of you." Harry smiled mischievously.

"That's because I won't even entertain you with answering to this poor attempted of a joke." Now Snape was scrawling at him.

"Anyway..." Lucius tried to make the conversation return to the topic. "I know I have ill reputation, considering the whole 'Used to be a Death Eater' thing, even though I was under the imperious, but I'm known for my success in the business world, and I have the connections and money you need to make Wonder Alley the most successful shop ever."

Harry looked at him for a second and then at the Professor, before bursting in laughter out loud. "You... Connections... money..." their faces were frozen as they were stunned at his loss of calmness. "Sorry about that." he said after calming down. "It's just that what you said was the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Harry then turned to his business partner. "Why the hell did you bring him here?"

Snape looked confused at his business partner. "Because he does have the connections and money... plus, there is the other side of our business in which he can help." Harry knew the reason why the professor said the second part vaguely, their oath prevented him from telling anyone about their partnership in regards to the war.

Harry narrowed his eyes.

"You seem confused about the difference between connections and good connections... Lucius, do you think the 'common folks' opinion of you is positive?

The question made Lucius take a step back. "Why would I care about them?"

Harry rolled his eyes. "Because they are Wonder Alley's target clientele, and your reputation as a Death Eater, and let's cut the crap, you were one and everyone knows it, will make people buy less from us, even if they have to go to more expensive places."

"What about Severus than? He has worse reputation than me." Lucius said.

"The Professor's reputation will be an easy fix, just explain how Dumbledore told him to act mean to the students with the exception of Slytherin as a way to make sure when Voldy returns he can still be a spy, of course, we will do that after he 'escapes' with almost deadly, but not permanent, wounds. A few speeches about how sorry he is, and maybe a year teaching all those who want to walk in potion-related jobs for free as long as they work in Wonder Alley afterwards, with the potions that are sold cheaply that we will sell right after, and the entire population will consider him a Saint." The two a.d.u. had their jaw open as they looked at him with shock.

"What about money?" Lucius tried "You would need it to develop your shop."

"Please, with the way Wonder Alley is operating in profit right now, even before we fully introduced all the ways we have to improve Dueling Monster Cards and the potions shop, money is the last thing we need."

Lucius seemed to punic for a second before calming down. "What do you need me for? You wouldn't have told me all that is you didn't need me at all."

"Before we do any of that, let's make an oath."

A quick, unbreakable oath to keep each other's secrets, later, and Harry explained what he needed Lucius for.

"You see, your reputation, as we already established, is horrible for most of the society of the Wizarding part of Britain, with the exception of the purebloods who support the movement and the shadier parts of our world, which means, that if we want some things to sell to those parts, we can use that reputation you have." Harry then pulled out a CAD He brought with him. "Like this for example."

"Isn't that the new wand the department of mystery developed?" Lucius asked. "The one that they are having the students use from this year forward?"

Professor Snape understood immediately the truth behind that. "You invented those?!"

"As if the department of mystery could invent those things." Harry snorted before smirking. "Yes, I invented those things, and I want to replace wands with those entirely."

"Why?" Severus asked

"Because the muggle world at this point has developed a camera capable of acting as a pensive, and people waving a stick and inexplicable things happen will be noticed eventually, leading to the reveal of our world." Harry said grimly "those things look like advanced muggle technology, making people either ignore the people who hold those things or think of this as a muggle equipment instead of magic."

"And why should we care about muggles finding us?" Lucius asked.

"Because even if we win in a war against them, which we could, if we were United and there weren't any magical people who would support the muggles, there is a very large chance we will destroy the world in the process." Lucius grimaced, showing he understood where I was coming from.

"So you want me to make this as a new fashion for the rock while making it attractive to the shady people?"

"Oh, I want more than that, If our Professor over here should end as a Saint for the ordinary people, you will become the leader of the Dark side of our world, both of you will take over the two sides, Snape from the headmaster and you from your leader."

Harry could see the greed shine in Lucius eyes.

"When do we start?"

Harry just gained another ally.

HARRY'S POV

With Lucius now as a 'partner' who will handle the illegal stuff, Harry had him focus on collecting illegal plants and animals as a way to both get both ingredients and improve connections with the underworld.

Harry's plan for the world was built on having the two men controlling the two sides of the magical society, with Severus by making him the defeater of Voldemort, little by little making him the roll model of society and replacing Dumbledore, and Lucius by making him the one person anyone in the illegal parts of the magical world work for, by using multiple kinds of methods, but to do so, Lucius will have to make connections of his own first.

Of course, the most important parts of the changes of society will be in Wonder Alley, with the potions factory lowering the prices of healing potions and its availability to everyone raised, jobs for the muggleborns elevating their ability to grow and improve while also making purebloods actually put effort, and CADS replacing wands, making people less inclined to reveal the magical world, it will make the time till the reveal of magic to the normal world become longer, and will Harry making more and more changes by that time, hopefully when it is revealed the world will be under his control as a way to avoid destruction.

Either way, the next step of his plan depended on the stimulant learning headset (SLH), something that took him almost a month to complete as he improved quickly enough in legacy as he went through student's heads to do so.

He also managed to improve the spell that let him create dreams for Marcus by connecting it with the AI, making it a permanent connection that the AI is capable of manipulating as Harry commends it, making Marcus have random headaches, dreams, and bursts of emotions.

The SLH works by combining Legimancy, Occlumency, the oblivious, the Pansive, neuroscience and psychology, using both the magical and normal studies as a way to change memories, add knowledge and make them loyal to Harry, it's similar to what Harry has done to Lupin, only much more surgical, making their personality have minimal changes.

After creating the SLH, Harry had given it to Voldemort and had him put it on every single prisoner, with each prisoner needing three days with it on their heads, making the end of the entire procedure only happen in March.

The other thing that was finished was the werewolf ritual 2.0, which, with the help of the AI instilled in the SWOR He plans on using as the ritual room, was combined with the animagus ritual to make the new magical wolf animagus the capability of changing into humans as long as they know enough about the body of humans, which has Harry create another SLH which focus on knowledge of the human body while also changing loyalty to make the wolves a new gang under his command, one that will focus on the underworld and will listen to the orders of Malfoy while his highborn soldiers focus on the normal world's high society, and the potions Professor will focus on the herd of the magical people.

Of course, with the SLH being in place and having many more werewolves in captivity than prisoners, it was estimated that the new wolf gang will be completed by the end of the school year.

Sure, Harry could have created more SLHs, but with them being a third level products he had to make them himself, and he had a much more important things to do, like finish his Metamorphmagus ritual that was close to finish or study the ROR and replicate it, which was why he only made two SLHs, and had once every three days a new solder and a new gang member join his ever growing forces, with the gang members working under Lucius with the excuse that they need work and the soldiers getting orders to infiltrate a certain facility or family in Britain And change the needed memories of the people in the right places while adding the needed papers to any data base with the skills they acquired from the SLH before waiting for orders.

Harry had Bellatrix Lastrange become in charge of the entire process and of the soldiers as he knew people would be expecting to see her near Voldemort and in missions.

All in all, everything in that regard was proceeding toward the direction Harry needed it to, and by the time Christmas was coming, Harry was finally prepared to do his first ritual in himself and finally reach a new point in magic.

The plasma level.

Standing inside the runic circle in the middle of the SWOR, Harry looked around to make sure everything is in place.

Becoming a perfect metamorphmagus was finally with in reach and he had no plan at messing it up.

Differently from the rituals Harry did till now, this ritual is not about balancing something in a person, but adding something new to him, and as such It needs additional ingredients to be preformed.

To the north there was a conjured box with bogart in it in a runic circle of its own which will be sacrificed for its transformation ability.

To the west there was the body of a western dragon.

To the south there was a Chameleon Ghoul who was also there for its shape shifting ability, only its ability to actively choose what object should it transform to instead of the instinctive ability of the bogart is what made it a balance to the other creature.

Finally, to the east there was the body of a Chinese dragon.

When doing a ritual, the most important thing has to be balancing the ingredients while making sure the potency of the ingredients have a minimal decrease.

Using the Bogart would make Harry's body unstable and he used the shapeshifting ghoul to combat that while the bogart's no need for god would combat the hunger for human flash the ghoul has.

The dragons will compensate for the lack of strength and speed both the bogart and the ghoul possess, and each of them will also symbolize the combinations of paths Harry is going through as he will study everything around him.

Even the room in which he was inside was part of the ritual, the combination of blacksmithing of the goblins and runes of humans, magical creating and AI, every part of the ritual was calculated as not only was this a ritual He is about to perform on himself, this is a ritual that will determine his potential.

Looking at everything and making sure it's perfect, Harry yelled outside. "Bella!"

Bellatrix, who was waiting outside, walked in. "Is it ready?" He nodded and walked outside while she went and took his place.

"Thank you sir." She said as he was about to close the door.

"No, thank you." He closed the door.

Harry checked everyone of the prisoners and the only one who had the necessary magical powers to transform to the third level was Bellatrix, though she didn't have the necessary body, meaning she will forever be stuck at the beginning of the plasma level of magic, she was the perfect subject for the experiment, as Harry would never do something irreversible for his body without testing it first.

It took half an hour till a young Bellatrix came out of the room, her hair changing shape and color as she wished before settling on her black hair.

Looking at him, Bellatrix bowed.

"It went perfectly sir." Tears starting to fall from her eyes. "Not only did you get me out of Azkaban but you gave me a new chance with this, not to mention gave me the ability that was lost to my family for centuries! Thank you!"

"We need to run some tests before everything." Harry said, trying to ignore the fact that an incredibly attractive woman who looked in her early twenties is bowing to him while calling him sir and was programmed to do anything he asks for even as his hormones raged.

"Of course sir, what do you need of me?" She asked.

"Only for you to stand still." He said as he started to cast both healers' standard diagnostic spells and his own. The results were quickly remembered and he was planning on later reviewing them after uploading them to the computers for the AIs to review.

"What do you remember from the ritual?" He asked Bella.

"Well, after you went out I had all of my magic poured into the circle and it lighten up as energy returned to me only like hot metal being poured into me." She shuddered at that. "I screamed in pain even as I continued to pour the new energy in me back to the ritual circle, and I could hear the living creatures with me screaming as well.

The circle continued till eventually the ghoul and bogart died and with them My consciousness disappeared." She paused for a second to sort out her words.

"The next part was the dream you told me that would happen, where I stood in the middle of of the four creatures the ritual was made of, each whispering the benefits of taking his side, but I did as you told me and started natural as they fought, with me only occasionally helping the bogart as it killed and devoured the rest, and when it did, I killed it before eating it. When I finished eating, I woke up in SWOR, and I gained the ability to shape shift."

Harry nodded before saying "Change into a few animals." She complied and with the knowledge she had about animals from her time with the SLH changed into a dog, cat and a bear.

"Tell Voldemort to purchase more of those creatures in the next three days." Harry said barely able to contain his excitement (he had his golem have his rich servants [with the exception of Lucius] buy the creatures for him) when she nodded in understanding He summoned Dobby and popping back to Hogwarts.

By the time Christmas will pass he would be a shapeshifter.

HARRY'S POV

Saying goodbye to Luna who left to be with her father for Christmas and the twins who left as to work in Wonder Alley, Harry and Nagini were left by themselves for the holiday.

In the time since their bonding, the two of them learned to feel comfortable around each other.

Nagini had an easier time, since the bond seem to affect her so that she want to be as much as possible around Harry, changing to her snake form and making herself small before joining him wherever he went, had to adjust to being unable to be inside SWOR as a human and unable to communicate with Harry as both the ritual that gave her a human body and Parseltongue were based on arithmetically incorrect rituals, while Harry, who had harder time instead, learned to enjoy her company and witty jokes while in classes and outside of it, livening the Mandan parts of life in times when Luna wasn't there.

With them being together most of the time, she was the one friend that knew everything about his plans, and she approved.

"People are cruel, to nature, to animals, and more than all, to other people." She said when she explained why she doesn't care. "I've seen what mundane people can do to magical people out of ignorance and what magical people can do to mundane out of anger, I've seen wars and technology and magic that destroy entire landscapes with a single sentence. I just got my life back, and when you finish with this school I can finally be in this form forever, why should I care about other people?" Harry had gained a partner who knows most of his secrets that day, and she kept helping him by suggesting ideas and poking holes in his plan, forcing him to improve it.

For example, She was the one to think about having Lucius and Severus as the two leaders of the magical world.

It was why, when he finally was ready to do the ritual on himself, after checking the vitals of Bellatrix, making sure the scans were fine and doing a check on her mind by deep diving into it, with the only side affects being that her transformation talent is slightly related to her emotions, he asked Nagini to be outside of the room and wait for him, as he was very nervous.

Standing in the middle of a runic circle he has drown multiple times before, and with the needed creatures around him, Harry poured the entirety of his magic into the circle, putting even more when the ritual begun to send the magical energy of the creatures around him into Harry's body.

The circle of sending magic continued as pain started to fill his body, growing stronger and stronger as Harry started to see visions.

The third stage was called many different things throughout history beside fire stage.

The body forging stage, the stage of choice, the foundation establishment stage...

Every single one of the people who reached this stage and wrote about that talked about visions and dreams they had when entering the stage.

To have a complete breakthrough you need to have two visions/dreams.

Bellatrix, who spent time in Azkaban, only had one dream on account of her body not reaching the necessary requirement before she did the ritual, making her magic having to save her while undergoing the transformation and it beings stuck between the second and third stage, instead of changing from liquid into 'fire', it changed into boiling water.

Not that it doesn't have its own benefits.

She will have the biggest amount of energy sometime in the second stage can have, faster speed in casting, and while having a worse control over her magic than someone in the second stage of magic as it's the stage that focus on control, will have her magic more responsive to her emotion, like someone in the first stage, making her capable of saving her life with accidental magic, and able to learn basic wandless magic easier, though she will never have the control necessary for entirely doing wandless magic.

Harry's first vision was a lot like how Bellatrix described hers.

It was the four animals fighting for him to choose their side in a fight.

With Bella, he told her to have the bogart win before eating it because the ghoul can't win and the two dragons have too much magic for her body to handle, but his situation was different.

Instead of choosing a side, Harry killed all of them, taking the bodies and put it one on top of the other and transfigure them into his body together.

He used the Chinese dragon as the basis for his blood vessels and meridians, the western dragon for his bones and muscles, the bogart into the organs and blood, and the ghoul into the skin and heir.

When the new body that looked exactly like His appeared, he touched it and suddenly returned to the SWOR.

He could instantly feel the change of his body.

He was stronger, his magic was flowing outside of his blood, and when looking at his hands, with a single thought they transformed into bigger, smaller or different color.

He has done it, his body finally reached the third level, and with a new vision appearing in front of his eyes, it is time for his magic to do the same.

HARRY'S POV

Harry's sight changed once more, he seem to appear on a crossroad of multiple roads and each road seem to have an end at the end of it with some object there, some of it had people walking in it.

On one road there was a cauldron and Professor Snape walking in its direction, on another there was a shapeless blob, with the headmaster on it.

There was a road with a wand in it, a road with an hammer and a road with a computer.

No matter how much he turned, wherever he looked there were more roads.

He knew that the second he stepped on a certain road, his path of magic with the others will stop there.

He would still be able to cast magic of a different magic, but will never be able to improve it and create new things.

Most roads were clean of dust, as if to show that many people walked on them, while the rest were filthy, as to show that they haven't been walked on for a long time.

Some roads seemed new, while others looked as old as time.

His previous theory that the way people divide the subjects is what make them create the path seemed wrong, as if it was like that, his roads should have been different, though he still had more paths than he should with the path of computer.

Sitting in the middle of the crossroad for what felt like an hour, Harry still couldn't think of a path to choose.

Did he really have to give up on most parts of magic?

Looking at the paths of curses and charms that were side by side, Harry finally screamed in frustration about the thing that bothered him since first year.

"How can they be considered two subjects? Curses are just charms that are meant to hurt people!"

As he finished ranting the world around him shook as the two paths merged to create a bigger path.

'That's it!' Harry thought. 'I need to truly understand how all the paths are the same to unite them!'

"Rituals are just to forge the body into an artifact." "Transfiguration is just making an amount of particles move away from a core or join a core!" "AI creation is just math." "Spells are just advanced math!"

One by one, Harry united the roads until there were only two.

The first road was filthy, it was full of dust, and in it he could see footsteps of many people. At the end of it, there seem to be a few dozen books, and even from the distance Harry somehow could tell the names of the authors of the books - Aristotle, Descartes, Plato...

Harry knew this path is the path he read about, the path of the philosophers.

It will be a path of knowledge and hardship, one of science, body and mind.

It was a path filled with research and loneliness.

It was the path he walked on for most of his life.

The second road seem to be much less dirt on it, and seem to be filled with colors that are indescribable.

In the end of that road stood paintings and statues.

Zeus, Odin, Lao-Tzu, Buddha...

It was the path of spiritual realm, of belief and concepts instead of knowledge.

It was the path of Gods and immortals.

It was a path Harry knew was filled with faith and people.

Both of those paths could lead him to the peak of the world, make him either join the gods and immortals of old, become a god/immortal and be invincible, or become a philosopher, brake the wall that the spiritual world placed on science and truly combine in with magic, changing the world forever.

Harry thought about his options as he looked upward, toward the sky that was filled with stars and couldn't help but recall his childhood.

Not his parents or the orphanage, but the years under the stairs.

Years filled with darkness, where the stories his past life left behind were his only company.

The stories that had different worlds in them.

Worlds of magic and science, worlds of chakra and demons, worlds of songs and laughter.

The paths in front of him were restricting, even if he would manage to unite them into one path it would still be so.

But he didn't want that restriction.

Magic is about freedom.

Being free to laugh, dance and sing.

Being free to rage, to harm, to kill.

Being free to learn everything and do anything.

It was the reason he chose to become a metamorphmagus, to not be limited in body.

Now it's time for his mind to be unlimited.

Magic is the energy of possibilities, and he won't give it up.

The paths seem to collapse one on top of the other, books trapping the gods in them as stories and immortals making books into artifacts.

A new path was created, where a statue of Confucius reading a book was at the end of it, as showing the path that combines the two of the previous paths.

"I already said I don't want it!" Harry roared. "I already learned I'm not perfect! That no one is! I don't care if I have to stay on the second stage forever, or if I will become like Bella, stuck between the second and the third!"

The vision broke and I found myself back in SWOR, and his magic seem to gain speed as it moved inside its body and he finally understood why the third stage is called the fire stage, why he has been so right to call it the plasma stage.

His body was filled with energy, making the tiredness he possessed to vanish as if non existent.

He seem to unconsciously release a bit of his magic into the air, making him able to sense his own electromagnetic field and gravity.

His mind seem to launch in every subject he ever studied and develop ideas with a new speed.

It was like his entire being was supercharged with either lightening or fire, making him able to comprehend, do and affect everything he wanted.

Of course, a few seconds later the feeling subsided as his magic depleted entirely, but now he had direction to move forward and a way to test his energy.

Bella and Nagini that waited outside heard a relieved laugh coming from inside of SWOR.

It was a laugh of a person who tasted freedom.

NAGINI'S POV

It was about an hour since Harry stepped into the SWOR before he came out and Nagini could instantly tell the difference.

His face became with perfect proportions, his cheeks angular and the imperfections that used to be there disappeared.

His body became less buff, with the muscles becoming less pronounced yet somehow seem to have not lost any of his strength.

Yet the thing that captured the eyes the most were his eyes.

Muggles say the eyes are the windows for the soul, but the magical people know different.

Eyes are the doors to the mind, not soul, and his eyes got a new color to them.

Before, Harry's eyes were green, they were pretty, but nothing special really, but now? Now they looked like emeralds, sparkling and drawing you in as you look at them.

Nagini knew what the change in eye color signify, she has seen it numerous times.

She has seen it in Dumbledore sparkling blue eyes that seemed to calm you down whenever you look into them, in Grindelwald's eyes of blue and black eyes that seemed capable of understanding what you want and temp you to agree with what he said, in Voldemort's red eyes that brought fear into your heart whenever you looked at them.

Those eye were the symbol of succeeding in becoming a fire stage magical person, and were said to reflect the ambition a person has.

Harry's eyes, as she looked right into them, seem capable of seeing right through her, making her feel a bit n.a.k.e.d, which, as she spent most of her life in snake form, didn't bother her at all, though Bellatrix, who stood next to her, gained an embarrassed look as her cheeks became red.

"Congratulations." Nagini said to her friend, a word that was still hard to think about as something real, considering her previous 'friends' forgot about her after the war was done.

"Thank you." He smiled and walked to her and she could feel his body being more relaxed while also having a bit of a difficulty moving. "How about we go back and play something?" He said as he hugged her with Joy. "I could use some time to relax." Nagini's heart started beating a little faster at the unfamiliar hugging, as while Harry didn't have a problem with hugging, he has never initiated it.

"You seem to be happy." She noted out loud. "How could I not be?" He grinned. "I have finally finished the project I had worked on for four years." he changed into a bear, changed to look like Luna and turned back to his form. "And, I also passed the liquid stage of magic and can finally move to new spells and magical subjects." He lifted her up and did a little spin, making her laugh.

"Calm down." She smiled at him. "We should return."

"Dobby!" Harry called and the house elf appeared as he turned to give orders to Bellatrix.

"Bella, I need the Death Eaters to gather the blood of as many magical creatures as possible and put them in bottles, and do the same for as many magical plants as possible." The servant nodded. "It will be done."

With that, we both held Dobby's hands s as he popped us away.

Fred'S POV

Winter vacation was something George and he didn't get.

The time that in past years was used for having fun before Christmas was now probably the busiest time of the year in Wonder Alley, which forced them to help their employees as they were swamped.

When they weren't helping, they went through the paperwork that Harry's computers couldn't do alone, closed the deal with Gary Corelson for him to open a bar in Wonder Alley and installed MTVs (magical television) in it that will show either the Duels played in the arena right now, or the quidditch games that are soon to be played.

All in all, they were busy as hell till Christmas night.

Of course, when Christmas finally arrived it changed for the worse.

They considered returning to the castle through Harry's vanishing cabinet, spending time with their friends and having fun, but their father asked them to join the family for Christmas, which was done in the Potter mansion, he said their mother would like to apologize, and that he wants to have his family reconcile.

They stupidly agreed.

The awkwardness that filled the room Christmas night as they showed up was incredible.

Their mother, who was in the middle of a conversation with Lily Potter froze, the room, that was filled with the laughter of Ron, their brother, and his friends quietened, and only Ginny gave the two of them a small smile.

"Boys! You are here!" Their father's voice, who appeared from the kitchen, broke the silence as he rushed to hug them.

"Why are you so excited?" George asked over their dad's shoulder as they hugged him back. "We just saw you yesterday."

"Oh, I miss you everyday." He said back before releasing them.

Their mother finally unfroze and walked toward them.

"Hey mom." Fred said with caution. "How are you?"

The caution must have been heard in his voice, as our mother ran toward the two of them, shoving dad to the side and hugged them in one of her famous bear hugs.

"I am so glad you came!" She said and by the wetness on his shirt Fred could tell she is crying.

"We are glad to be here as well." Fred's twin said and Fred nodded as she let go.

"I knew you would get over this phase!" She said and both George and him froze. "You should focus on your N.E. and your dad will work on getting his job back!"

"What?" George asked, both of them turning to their father. "You told us she accepted everything!"

"No, I said she will." Their father answered. "She just need a bit more time, and with you here, it will be easier for her to get used to it."

"Why would we want to go work anywhere else?" Fred asked their mother. "Our Alley is the best! In fact, why would dad want to go back to the ministry, the profits from the MTV he helped creating are about to start showing up!"

"Why would he want to go back?" Their mother exclaimed. "Because it's a respectable, safe job! Because your 'Alley' would never be able to survive for more than two years! And than what would we do?"

"That's enough!" Their father shouted. "We are guests in this house, and we will act appropriately!" He took a deep breath. "Now, we will have a nice Christmas together, as family, and we will have this discussion later, alone."

It was then that Fred noticed Ginny, Ron and his friends were all looking at them with a bit of disappointment at how it ended inconclusively, and the Potter parents with awkwardness.

Yes, this Christmas is turning to be the worst, hopefully, the gifts tomorrow would be enough to turn it around.

JAMES' POV

It was 2 AM, the night of Christmas, and James was drinking his third glass of Firewhiskey He had since the other people at the house went to bed.

Since he was all alone, he finally let the glamour He casted on himself to fall apart.

The changes in him weren't as pronounced as most people would expect from someone who use glamour.

he wasn't fat, ugly or has a nasty scar, his hairline did retreat a bit, but that happened when you grow older.

No, the glamour didn't hide any of those things, it hid his eyes, made them look alive and happy even in truth they were dead, angry and full of guilt.

The world seem to fall apart to him.

Voldemort returned, his money disappeared, and one of his sons estranged.

And worse than all, he could do nothing about any of that.

Sure, he was part of the order, doing as the headmaster say as they fought in this secret war, but except for wasting his time guarding the prophecy about Marcus he hadn't actually did anything.

At this point he couldn't even say anything about Harry, as in the bits of free time he had he has investigated him, and what he found made his heart ache.

He started with the simplest of things, asking the teachers at school about the boy, and with the exception of Filius, who spat on him in anger for abandoning Harry, and Snape, who just sneered at him, the rest all said the same thing - "Good grades, but average student, most of the time could barely be felt in class."

For a second, it felt like an angle he could use, bond with his son by helping him improve.

In the end, as he wasn't sure, he asked for Moony's opinion, who, when James managed to reach him, told James about how he tried to do the same two years ago, only to fail.

After that, he tried to look into his son's past and current living conditions.

It took him over three months to find everything.

Find how he is hailed as a genius in the muggles world, how he seems to be living by himself since the age of 11, how he came to the orphanage.

Finding the Dursley family and ripping Petunia's memories from her before doing the same to Vernon made James puke, twice.

Memories of Putting a baby in a cupboard, feeding him twice a day and letting changing his diaper once, making him clean by the time he is three, Harry would have never survived without his magic!

He made sure they would never have a peaceful night again by enchanting the picture of their family on the wall in their bedroom with the nightmare curse.

That night he started the ritual of drinking before bed, using the liquid's burn as a way to make his sorrows disappear as he understood what he has done to his eldest.

Having such an excellent mind, yet average student? Having almost no presence in a magical class? Leaving him in the care of those monsters has damaged his magic!

'No,' he promised himself. 'I will stay away from Harry, watch him from afar, as I help as much as I can.'

His promise to himself was harder to accomplish than thought, as apparently, he has almost no money.

The numbers he got from the goblins made no sense, he couldn't see where the hundreds of thousands of Galleons disappeared.

Which is why, he took the remaining gold he had in the bank to his house, making sure to leave enough for the payment to school the boys needed and the 100 Galleons he vowed to Harry.

But it was too late, and James was forced to sell the percentages the Potter family had in many stores to versus families to regain parts of his money.

He started cutting expenses, no more fancy gifts for no reason to his wife and Marcus, no more going to the bar after work with friends.

It worked, the expenses of his family reached a balance with his paycheck, making him capable of staying sane.

Till Lily, his wife, decided to invite the entire Weasley clan and Marcus' friends for Christmas, making a dent in the already small savings they have.

Finishing the fourth and last glass of Firewhiskey for the night, James thought about the Weasley twins and their new and successful business he discussed about with Arthur.

Maybe not everything is lost, maybe he should make a small investment in their business, maybe he can get out of the hole he seem to be stuck at.

Going to bed, James couldn't help but wonder if this is a Christmas miracle.

GEORGE'S POV

If Christmas Eve was thought to be awkward, than Christmas morning was on a whole other level.

Being woke up for presents by their younger siblings was a tradition that Ron decided to forgo, as they have had fought with him more and more since Wonder Alley was founded, no, since the card dueling game was launched, with him constantly asking them for stuff as if they have so much money.

News flash, they don't.

Sure, business are flourishing, with the game becoming more and more popular even in France, and the Alley becoming somewhere worthwhile, but most of the money was invested back into Wander Alley and it's employees, creating new products and experimentations, their own, Harry's and even Luna's.

The rest of the money was split into four parts, with them gaining 50% of it.

Of course, when they tried to explain all that to their little brother at the start of the school year all he got from that was NO, and from that point forward they were in a constant argument.

So no, Ron didn't wake them up for the presents.

Ginny, on the other hand, did.

Hearing someone knock loudly while yelling "Presents!" was indeed the perfect way to wake up in Christmas.

The two of them quickly casted morning hygiene spells at each other, ending with Fred having his beard grown into the shape of a Christmas tree and him having his breath smell like mistletoe (they started a game of messing with each other's morning hygiene spells since their 17 birthday, with each day only having one thing different about them), before leaving the guest room and going downstairs.

Under the tree were hills of wrapped gifts, and Marcus, Hermione, Neville and the entire Weasley family with the exception of their mother was sitting there, Bill and Charlie, who arrived the night before at an even later time than the twins, were among them, laughing and hugging one another as they unwrapped one after the other with the exception of Marcus who was looking at the two largest piles of presents and seem to notice their arrival as he turned and looked at them with anger.

"Good morning." Fred said "Don't mind us, we will just add the presents we brought into each of the piles." Opening the handbag George had on his shoulder, he quickly summoned the presents one by one as Fred distributed them into their respective piles.

"Now than, which pile is ours?" George asked after he finished taking out all the presents.

The fingers of everyone were pointing at the two biggest piles.

"Awesome!" Fred said running toward the gifts, and as he touched them he was suddenly s.u.c.k.e.d into them, making them mix.

"Fred!" George exclaimed and took out his wand but before he did anything Fred's head Came out of the presents and he spitted a small gift from his mouth.

"Hahahahahaha" the laughter came from their dad. "It worked! All I needed was a little help from your partner but I pranked you!"

"No way!" George exclaimed as he understood what happened. "He managed to creat it?" Last year they joked about how awesome would it be to be able to swim in gold after doing a marathon of Ducktales and Harry said he would try to create a charm to mimic its affect.

"It's a dream come true My twin!" Fred said from inside the present pool. "Join me!" George didn't need any other incentives as he jumped into the pile of gifts.

"Yes, when he showed me how to cast the charm and asked I would do it on your presents I convinced him not to tell you about it as a prank." Their dad said with pride.

With a little difficulty, the twins managed to get out of the presents and hugged their father. "Thank you for the prank." Fred said. "It's the best gift we could have asked for." And it was. Knowing that their father did a prank on them made George's heart grow wormer, it was as if the bits of self-doubt, the ones they felt each time their parents admonished them for their pranks, disappeared just by knowing their father pranked them too, and George could tell it was the same for Fred.

"You have a partner?" Neville asked from the side after they released their father from the hug.

"Of course we do." George said in a nonchalant way as to deflect. "How else would we have the capital to make free cards and disks for everyone in school and open an alley?"

"Really?" James asked, "Why have we never heard of them?"

"Because they are silent partners," Fred said "they invest, we create." That wasn't entirely a lie, in the joke shop part of the Alley, both Harry and Luna were silent partners, just like how in the Safari part that Luna works on, they are.

"Who are they?" Marcus asked with his eyes narrowing "Hiding in the dark, that's not exactly a behavior of a lion."

They both rolled their eyes. "That's because they aren't lions, they are humans." Fred said

Marcus scrawled "You know what I mean!"

"Do we?" George asked with a hint of a smile.

"Was your partner s Gryffindor?" Marcus seem to demand to know.

"Does It matter?" George shot back, the tension in the air grew.

"Of course it does!" Ron jumped into the conversation. "With you-know-who back you can't 100% trust the Eagles and Puffs, they could be spies for him!"

"Ron that's enough!" Their eldest brother, Bill intervened. "You are not to judge the twins if their partner is from any of the other houses! Each and every house is great and full of history!"

"Besides," Fred said with a glare, "what do any of you care who we partner with? Neville, Hermione and Marcus are unrelated to us and shouldn't expect any answers," Hermione and Marcus bristled in anger and Neville just smiled sheepishly. "and Ron, we didn't have a fight-free conversation since the beginning of the year!"

George then added. "Only dad, Bill and Charlie, all of those who works for us, has the right to know who our partner is, and out of everyone else in the room, maybe we will tell Ginny, who is the only one who doesn't seem to be as idiotic as the rest of you all!" Ginny laughed at that. "Oh, please do! Lording it over the four of them will be so much fun!" George exchanged a look with Fred, and both of them immediately gained a grin. "Sure! We will tell you later." Fred said and George continued him. "Now we need to open some gifts."