A.N. Wrote another chapter. I suppose I can use this opportunity to reply to reviews quickly. To the person who wanted a 3 way relationship, I was considering it if I reached as far as StrikerS as I have some ideas for that far, but I'll probably lose interest before that. For character development and interaction, I do try but please don't have that much faith in my skills, and for not liking the power limit, that should get fixed before too long.

I posted this even if I think it's not as good as it should be, because frankly if I reread it to check/change things I'd probably scrap it and never post anything.

"…r-san, wake up Potter-san".

He raised his head, looking up with bleary eyes. He mostly ignored the teacher, before answering the trivial question was asked of him.

As the teacher went back to her lesson his thoughts idly turned to how it had come to this. Even after 5 years he still hadn't aged from the 9 year old body he was stuck in. He'd managed to wiggle the spell restricting his magic, just enough to prevent people asking awkward questions, like why he didn't age or move through the school years, but was no closer to actually breaking the curses he was inflicted with. 'damn, should have studied runes, may have been able to actually analyse the spells' The book had managed to identify the spell, but it's purpose wasn't to figure out how spells work and counter them, that depended on the skills of the mage, and his analysis required actual spells to be performed, meaning he couldn't do anything.

His head fell back to the desk in front of him. 'damn it, I've switched schools a couple of times, yet the lessons stay mostly the same. Another year of this and I may just kill myself' he thought wearily.

Shortly after arriving, and convincing the young couple in the park that he was actually okay, he had the book try and locate a magical settlement, only to come up blank. Previously it had managed to locate magical hubs from within a country, to come up with nothing made it look like a bad situation. After no one came to investigate the magical disturbance his arrival had likely made, he could only conclude that there was no formal magical society in Japan. Which was odd since he had enjoyed magical Japan when he travelled the world after getting rid of Voldemort and his death eaters.

After a discussion with the book, he had concluded that the portal had deposited him through dimensions into an alternate Earth. Or somewhere else in the universe that had developed the same countries and culture somehow, but he felt that was a longshot.

The bell rang, and he left the school, ignoring the classmates who tried to talk with him. Making his way back to his apartment, he mentally thanked whatever may be listening that he was able to use rudimentary hypnosis, allowing him to stay in a small apartment and avoid trivialities like payment. He would have felt a little bad, mind control was for inadequate losers after all, but he didn't really have much choice. After getting back to his room he collapsed onto his bed. He was tired, both mentally and physically from his efforts to break the spell on his magic. He had spent the whole night performing a mental contortionist act to try and wiggle free some more magic, but it was a futile effort. He wouldn't give up though. If he was the type to give up in adversity then he would have been broken into a meek piece of shit by his family 'oh how I enjoyed my sweet vengeance on them'. He hadn't killed or tortured them. If nothing else, he agreed with Dumbledore that killing was to be avoided. He still felt regret about the lives he had taken, accidentally or otherwise, but at the time he felt it was the best option, so he wouldn't dwell too much on it.

As if his lack of progress on liberating his magical power wasn't bad enough, about a week ago he had sensed a large magical disturbance. He had immediately rushed to the location, finding some destruction on the street, yet had not managed to find any details on the cause. On one hand it was a relief that there did seem to be some form of magic practitioners on the world, on the other it upped the frustration he felt in his inability to find any, leading to several sleepless nights in a row, thus leading to his performance in school. Unfortunately ditching school would result in having to use what little magic he was able to use to prevent annoying questions, and he really wanted to keep that available in case he needed it when he finally managed to track down a mage, and using it for more pressing concerns, namely keeping his residence and obtaining his food supply.

Tiredly pushing himself up, he managed to shed his clothes, barely taking a moment to curse his childlike, female body as he usually would, opting instead to merely collapse onto the bed. He thought for a moment that he should take a bath, or at least shower, before deciding he'd deal with it in the morning.

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He sat in a park, eating some bread he had taken from a convenience store. Fortunately or otherwise, his time with his… family, had led to the development of certain skills that he found convenient in his current situation, for one, the ability to shoplift successfully without resorting to magic. Not that there hadn't been any accidents where his magic hadn't come in handy, but thankfully he could mostly get by without it.

Up until this point he had randomly walked around the city, looking for traces of magic. Unfortunately he hadn't found any.

He sighed in frustration. '5 years, and the only magic he had detected had been around a week ago.' He had opted to stay in Japan, since he wasn't sure if he could cover up the fuss that trying to deport someone who doesn't exist would bring, and he doubted he could get himself on a flight abroad. Part of him felt that there must be magic somewhere in the world, but he could mostly only detect large concentrations on a national scale, and his current form was not suited to travelling the globe.

He turned his thoughts to a different matter, namely the book's, or rather the administration program of the book's, urging to be given an official designation. While part of him agreed it needed a name, or at least designation, he didn't really want to because of the trouble it had caused him.

His eyes shot up in alarm as a large magical reaction suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

'Master!'

"I feel it." He said excitedly, getting to his feet and dashing off in the direction he felt it, not stopping as he saw a large tree shoot over the buildings in front of him.

As he arrived at the base of the tree he immediately started to climb it, 'another useful skill from his relatives' he thought, considering the irony of such a skill used for freakish purposes.

Closing his eyes to open his senses, he climbed to where he felt the epicentre of the magical disturbance. Opening his eyes and continuing to climb, he found himself in front of a pair of children encased in something that appeared to be a cocoon of light. Looking closer the cause appeared to be a magical jewel floating between them. Placing his hand against the light, he considered his options. He couldn't see a way to break through the barrier, and the little he knew of gem-lore suggested it might break the jewel. Then again he had never seen a jewel like that before, so he really had no idea what it was capable of. He could wait for a magician to come and deal with it, but there was no proof one would, and if police arrived he would doubtless be removed from the scene.

"Any ideas book?" he asked idly, not really expecting an answer.

'… No Master. Whilst a basic analysis of the barrier can be performed, with your current magical power using that information to kill the barrier is not a via- Master! A high energy reading detected in the vicinity!' the book somehow managed to convey urgency.

He wasn't idle in this time, head already swung around to the direction of the new feeling. Squinting his eyes he just about saw a pink glow, before the feeling grew stronger.

A feeling of danger appeared and his eyes widened, "Oh crap." He closed his eyes and focused on the magical power he was able to wield as everything went pink.

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His eyes opened, revealing him suddenly appearing about three feet from the ground. A moment later he was sprawled on the ground, before pushing himself to his feet… before collapsing back down to his knees, clutching his chest as sweat soaked his face and hair.

"Reciept No. X"

He looked up in irritation at the girl holding the staff that had just spoken.

" 'pant' are you, 'pant' insane?" he asked, while rapidly taking breaths.

"huh?" the girl asked.

Taking a few deep breaths he got his breathing under control. "That tree you just blasted," he gestured behind him, "I was sitting in it. I'm lucky my escape didn't put me in the floor, instead of above it." He managed to roll over so he was leaning against a wall.

"Ah, I'm sorry" the girl said, bowing her head, before looking back at him. "Wait, are you Potter-chan?" she suddenly asked.

At that he raised his head to look at her again, "Yeah, I'm Harry Potter, why?" he asked cautionsly.

She pointed to herself and smiled "I'm Takamichi Nanoha, we're classmates Potter-chan."

"Mode release" the girls staff said, before both it and her clothes vanished, leaving her in an orange top and skirt, becoming a jewel in her hand. Harry eyed them with interest.

"Thank you, Raising Heart." Nanoha said. "Ah, I'm sorry, Potter-chan, that was Raising Heart, and this" she pointed to the ferret on her shoulder "is Yuuno-kun."

"It's nice to meet you, Potter-san" the ferret, no, Yuuno said.

Harry inclined his head, "the pleasure is mine. But I'm surprised. I didn't expect to find out that there was a mage so close to me, after I spent so long looking for one."

"I also didn't think that Potter-chan was a magical girl." Nanoha said happily. Harry somehow managed to hide his grimace at being called a girl. Despite being used to it by now, it still pissed him off greatly.

"So Nano- sorry, Takamichi, what are you doing here?" he gestured at where the trees had been.

"Um, please call me Nanoha, Potter-chan."

"Oh, right. Nanoha then, also please call me Harry."

"All right, Harry-chan." Harry barely managed to avoid wincing at just how adorable her smile was. "I'm happy, I thought Harry-chan didn't like me, or any of our classmates, I thought it was too sad."

He vaguely recalled that she was someone who had reached out to him more frequently than others, but he had more important matters to deal with.

"Sorry Nanoha, but you were going to explain this?" he gestured around again.

"Ah, right. I'm helping Yuuno-kun look for the jewel seeds." Her face turned sad. "But this time I failed and caused trouble to everyone." She trailed off.

The ferret straightened at this "No, Nanoha is doing a very good job, this is because I"

"No" she shook her head, "I knew that boy had it. I should have done something."

This time it was Harry who interrupted her, "Look, I don't really get what these Jewel seeds are, but it's not like you could have just taken it from him, and you couldn't really explain why you needed them, right?"

She looked down after hearing him talk, but he could tell she wasn't fully convinced.

"Anyway, would you mind explaining what these Jewel seeds are please?"

"Please allow me" the ferret stood up to explain. "While I was excavating on a planet, I found 21 jewel seeds. They are a Lost Logia. We don't know exactly what they do, but they are at least possibly dangerous. However when I was sending them to be studied the there was an accident, and they landed on this planet. I tracked them to this country, but while I was searching for them I was injured, Nanoha helped me out, and now she's helping me look for them."

Harry paused to consider this. "Was it about a week ago she started?" he asked.

"Yes" Yuuno nodded.

Harry nodded in response. That cleared up the question of whether there was another mage running around for now. "Wait, you came from space?"

Yuuno nodded again, "Yes, didn't you? I wouldn't have expected any mages to be here if they didn't at least encounter someone from a different planet."

Harry leaned his head back with a wry grin "my case is a little… complicated. Anyway, can you return to your human form please?" he asked.

Nanoha tilted her head "human form?"

Harry's eyes widened as he turned back to Yuuno "crap, I didn't know you were an actual talking ferret." He said.

"No, I should have recovered enough to return to it" he said. "I'm surprised you know about it though." He turned to Nanoha "It's been a while since you've seen this form hasn't it." He then turned back, before smiling at Nanoha, who seemed to be in shock.

"Yuuno-kun is a person?" she mumbled.

"Of course, I was in this form when we met wasn't I?" he asked.

She shook her head rapidly, eyes wide.

He carefully thought back to their first meeting, before his eyes went wide. "Eeeehhh! I'm sorry, I didn't mention it because I thought you knew, and then when I regained the ability to turn back, it was more convenient just to stay in that form."

"No, please don't worry about it" Nanoha was quick to reassure him.

"So Yuuno, how good are you at analysing magic?" Harry asked.

Yuuno blinked, "Alright I guess. It's not really my specialty, why?"

Harry paused to consider for a moment. "A while back I came into possession of a powerful artefact. Lots of people wanted it, and got the drop on me. Putting a few spells on me as a threat to get the artefact. I escaped and ended up here, pretty much unable to do magic, a simple spell left me in this state" he gestured at where he was sat against the wall, still sweating. "After finally finding a mage, I was hoping that they would be able to at least help me remove them."

Yuuno frowned. "I can try at least." He held out his hands, causing magic circles to appear around the both of them. He closed his eyes in concentration.

"I see. I can tell you what they do, but I'm not confident that I can break them, at least in my current state." Yuuno said apologetically.

Harry shook his head "I've been here five years. I know what they do. Do you know anyone that could help?" he asked.

"No. At least not on Earth."

"… can you give me a visual representation of them? I can probably devise a counter that someone can use for me."

"Probably." He said. Do you have somewhere to note it down, or do you just want to see it.

Harry considered for a moment. "It's probably better to note it down. Come back to where I'm staying, it's not much, but I can offer some hospitality. You up for it, Yuuno, Nanoha?"

They looked at each other for a moment before agreeing.

A.N. Well that's a wrap. Tell me what you think. Any suggestions I think are good enough, I may just change the chapter and incorporate them. Maybe. I was considering Harry as an animagus. Note it wouldn't be awesome like a Dragon or pheonix. A falcon. Or a rabbit. Something like that. Yuuno is revealed as a human, and if I wrote them, he would be excluded from bath scenes. Although since they're 9 I doubt anyone would really care.

Thoughts about the 5 year timeskip? I did it for various reasons. Making Harry weary, a little desperate. Also something that wouldn't come up for a looong time, but I doubt I'll get there.