Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER.

CHAPTER 2

In alternate world

Potter Manor

A Young man in his mid-twenties with an impressive build, dark messy hair and bright green eyes is seen staring at a bowl with strange runic carvings alongside it. The man has a powerful aura around him giving the impression that the man is not to be crossed. He stares pensively at the bowl in front of him which is full of silvery substance swirling around in it. The Young man named Harry James Potter takes a deep breath and plunges headfirst into the basin and the scene shifts rapidly. Harry Potter is standing in a different room watching a memory play out. He watches the memory stoically as he is no more than a ghost to the people in the memory so he cannot interact with them. He watches his memories and after reliving some of the happy moments in his life, he comes out of the memory viewing basin called a pensieve. Harry takes on a pose for meditation and starts to organize the memories he has watched. He relives them to show his life as seen from another person's perspective. Due to having a well-organized mind, he quickly moves to the earliest coherent memory in his life which shows a major event happening in his life.

Harry Potter was a peculiar young infant as he was very observant and intelligent. He also had a gift by which he could do many things that are not just humanly possible. He was a part of a hidden society of magical users in Great Britain, the son of an elite member of that society and a first generation magic user; according to the blatant prejudice of that society. The son of a pureblood elite and the downtrodden muggle-born; a half-blood basically, he was quite a powerful and influential figure.

Before the birth of Harry Potter, a prophecy was foretold which said that a boy born in the fall of July would be marked as an equal by the Dark Lord and fate would provide him a hand as he would be able to defeat the Dark Lord. The prophecy was spoken by Sybill Trelawney in a Divination Interview to Albus Dumbledore but the first two lines of the prophecy were heard by Severus Snape; a Death Eater at that time. He immediately went to his master; Lord Voldemort who began to search for the prophesized boys. Albus Dumbledore told the Potters and the Longbottoms to go into hiding as the prophecy applied to one of the boys; either Harry or Neville. But everything came to a head on the night of Halloween of 1981 when Lord Voldemort attacked the Potters after their fidelius charm protection fell when their secret was betrayed by Peter Pettigrew.

At the same time, the Longbottoms were also attacked by the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr and Neville's parents were tortured with the cruciatus spell to insanity. Voldemort meanwhile killed James Potter in a duel and Lily Potter who plead to him for mercy and protection and sparing Harry's Life. But when Voldemort tried to kill Harry Potter with the killing curse, the curse rebounded and destroyed his own body after the powerful blood protection and sacrifice that Lily Potter had invoked in her son. A bit of Voldemort's soul also was trapped in Harry's body called a horcrux giving Harry a lightning bolt scar as a souvenir from that night. Harry was delivered to the Dursleys; his only remaining blood relatives by Albus Dumbledore and his companions and Harry was proclaimed as the " Boy-Who-Lived".

For ten years, Harry suffered abuse at the Dursleys who hated anything out of the ordinary and tried to contain his magic. He was however, a very intelligent and gifted boy and when he saw that the Dursleys would punish him for doing better than their own fat,lazy son called Dudley, he hid his intelligence. But, he was a part of many strange incidences which he could not rationally explain.

Once, he was trying to get away from Dudley and his gang and after his wish and a squeezing sensation in his gut, he vanished into thin air and reappeared instantaneously on the school's roof. Then, there was the time when his hair grew back overnight and he also healed a bruise overnight. These strange incidents were not forgotten and Harry knew he was special so he studied everything he could to explain all this.

Overtime, he understood that these abilities were indeed special and could be performed by him only. The day his resolve to enhance his powers became absolute was when he Vernon Dursley; father of Dudley and his uncle tried to hit him. The terror of seeing Vernon advancing just lashed out in form of an invisible energy which threw Vernon bodily across the room. The Dursleys became afraid of him and generally started to ignore him for the most part. As for Harry, he started in earnest to recreate those sensations of extreme emotions which were a trigger for his powers. He started to meditate and after tiring time was able to reach inside his own magical core. He had by now confirmed that his abilities were magical and after reaching out to his own core, he relished the pleasant and tingling feeling it produced. Visualizing and focusing on that feeling, he tried to focus on his own desk in the room and was able to levitate it as well as smash it and repair it. He had a project for the next three years which was being able to do magic without requiring extreme focus or any incantations.

What Harry did not realize was that what he had achieved was remarkable. He had reached out to his own core which even grown up wizards could not achieve and some wizards of old were only able to do. This set the pattern for the next three years in which Harry prepared both his mind and magic.

At the age of eleven, after painstaking three years Harry was now quite confident about his magical abilities. He had also prepared physically by exercising and had a lean, swimmer's body with muscles and was quite handsome and attractive for his age. He also received his Hogwarts letter and did shopping in Diagon Alley along with Professor McGonagall who escorted him on the trip. He learned about his Gringotts vault, his reason for being famous in the magical world and his family's history. He also received his wand which was a twin of Voldemort's wand and also knew why he was called the "Boy-Who-Lived". He also met a pureblood girl who was a blonde with blue,icy eyes and with a mask of indifference who he found attractive and intriguing as well as an arrogant blond pureblood ponce with blood prejudice ingrained in him. Also, he found his familiar which was a snowy owl who he named Hedwig. All in all, it was quite an interesting shopping trip.

Harry, being studious learned all he could about the school ,subjects as well as the magical world's customs ,traditions ,events ,history etc. He boarded the train for the school and made his first friend; Ron Weasley. At Hogwarts, he was sorted into Gryffindor and he studied diligently to get top position. He was only beaten by Hermione Granger; a studious Gryffindor who was also bossy. He also attempted to converse with the pretty girl he had met in Diagon Alley. Her name was Daphne Greengrass and she was sorted into slytherin; the house of cunning. They had a sort of cordial friendship between each other due to being from rival houses. Harry also befriended Hermione after a troll got into the castle on Halloween and he saved her in the bathroom by using the combat magic he knew to kill the troll. Harry continued to study advance magic and after receiving an invisibility cloak for Christmas, he also started to sneak into the restricted section after he removed the tracking charm placed on the cloak. He made copies of books by a special spell and also studied all sorts of books to advance his magical abilities. He had to undergo some obstacles to get to the philosopher's stone in order to stop Quirell from stealing it. He was able to kill Quirell who was possessed by Voldemort and managed to save the philosopher's stone and quietly return it to the Flamels who told him that after completing school, he would be taken as an apprentice by them. Harry was happy and agreed readily and Gryffindor won the house cup at the end of the year.

In his second year, Harry had to fight a basilisk in the chamber of the secrets which had petrified Hermione, and dragged Ginny Weasley into the chamber. Harry killed the basilisk with the Gryffindor sword with the help of Fawkes; Dumbledore's phoenix. Harry also had to deal with the diary horcrux of Voldemort which preserved a life-like memory of Tom Riddle Jr; Voldemort's original name. He was pierced by a basilisk fang and the venom would have killed him except that Fawkes cried tears into his wound which sealed it and he survived. Harry found Slytherin's library and started to study the dark arts after doing a purification ritual which ensured that the wizard would not become insane. He also freed Dobby; the house-elf and bonded with him and brewed a potion in the summer by which the trace from his wand was erased and continued to study and practice magic.

In third year, Harry learned that Sirius Black; a mass-murderer and Death Eater was after him. Also, Harry encountered the dementors; who were the guards of Azkaban and used a powerful patronus to repel a hundred of them thus saving Sirius and clearing his name by capturing Peter Pettigrew who was a rat animagus and disguised as scabbers; Ron's pet rat. Harry now got his dream fulfilled as Sirius got Harry's guardianship and Harry moved with him into Grimmauld Place; the Black Family House despite Dumbledore's protests. They remodeled the house and Harry continued to practice magic over the summer, watched the Quidditch World Cup and strengthened his friendship with Daphne who he invited to Grimmauld Place along with Hermione. He introduced both of them and they got along great.

The fourth year found Harry entered in the dangerous Tri-wizard Tournament even though he had not entered it. There was a ridicule and slander campaign but Harry faced it confidently because Sirius,Hermione,Daphne believed in him and they helped him prepare for the tasks even though he had a falling out with Ron. He emerged victorious in the first task against a dragon which he subdued. Then the Yule Ball was announced and Harry asked Daphne who he liked immensely. They had a great time at the ball and Harry started dating her. In the second task, Daphne was Harry's hostage in the lake. He completed the task in a record but after bringing her to the platform went down again to retrieve Gabrielle Delacour; the sister of Fleur Delacour who was the Beauxbaton's champion. During the time period between the second task and the third task, he strengthened his friendship with Viktor Krum; the Durmstrang's champion and Fleur Delacour. Before the third task, Harry kissed Daphne and promised that he would return to her. In the third task, Harry used his vast knowledge and power to win the task but was portkeyed to a graveyard after grabbing the trophy. He founded a homunculus form of Voldemort carried by Lucius Malfoy. They were quickly defeated and Lucius Malfoy's life force was used in a ritual to banish Voldemort in a ritual.

After returning with a portkey, Harry told the assembled crowd an abridged version of his encounter with Voldemort so as not to cause panic as most people were content with their lives and he did not want people to have widespread paranoia. The next three years were not much important as life went on and Harry and Daphne's relationship continued to prosper. It was also clear in Harry's heart and mind that Daphne was his true soulmate who was compatible in every way with him. He continued to study advanced magic with Daphne and his other friends and was always in top position in the schoolwork. When he turned seventeen and assumed his lordships of the Houses of Potter, Peverell, Gryffindor and Slytherin, he had a bloodline and lineage test done in which he found out his wealth as well as being head of other minor families. Harry merged the Houses such that he was a lord of the Ancient and Most Noble Houses of Potter and Peverell. The horcrux present in Harry was detected by the goblin rituals as well as the lordship rings. A team of curse breakers purged the abomination out of Harry storing it in a container so that it could be used to track the other Horcrux pieces.

During his last year at Hogwarts, Harry studied hard, spent time with Daphne and his friends as well as practiced his magic to stretch it to the limit. He also went with goblin curse breaker teams when they located the horcrux and helped them destroy the vile soul pieces. At this time, he found the resurrection stone in the gaunt ring which he kept safe. Previously, in the year due to temptation Dumbledore had been cursed by the gaunt ring horcrux and in his delusional state of mind, he hatched a plan with Snape of entering Death Eaters in Hogwarts and Snape killing him to obtain mastery of the Elder Wand because he believed that Voldemort was going to return again. This plan was foiled as Harry had a cadre of friends and classmates called "Defence Association" which had been started by Harry in his fifth year at the Azkaban Breakout to give the students a chance to defend themselves. The 'DA' successfully engaged the Death Eaters in combat and most of them were either incapacitated or killed. Harry had himself killed the Lestranges, Dolohov, Nott, Macnair,Rookwood who were all fearsome Death Eaters. Snape killed Dumbledore but he was disarmed at that very instant by Harry who caught the Elder Wand and felt a rush of power pass through him.

Harry killed Snape with his new found power of the Deathly Hallows and the losses on the side of light were only some aurors who had died. Wizarding Britain declared the day as a holiday and Harry was called the "Man-Who-Conquered". He graduated from Hogwarts with honor and took his seats on the Wizengamot where he used his fame and power to make Wizarding Britain a better community. He also proposed to Daphne and married her. His studies of magic continued as Harry tried new avenues that people had not explored.

Harry introduced many reforms to modernize the Wizarding world as well as finishing the prejudices and the blood superiority by integrating the magical people with the mundane. He gave rights to all citizens of the magical world regardless of their ethnicity, class, race, gender etc. His reforms were successful after campaigns and he also made alliances with the other magical races and communities. Although, he was beloved by many, he had his fair share of enemies who were mostly purebloods and they joined hands with the surviving Death Eaters and started another conflict.

This conflict was not such a great problem as it had not picked up much steam due to the fact that Harry was very popular and also very powerful so their enemies hesitated in attacking him. However, some of the fanatic ones along with the Death Eaters managed to ambush Harry and his wife; Daphne. They outnumbered the Potters by thirty to two. Despite the odds, the Potters were a formidable team and met the onslaught fiercely. They fought on and killed and incapacitated sixteen of the Death Eaters. But, at this moment with a lucky shot, Harry was struck with the Cruciatus curse and in this moment two of the Death Eaters took advantage of the momentary lapse in concentration and fired off the killing curses. Daphne seeing impending death for her husband approaching, shielded Harry by jumping in front of the curses and was struck down.

Time seemed to stop for Harry but he rolled away from the curses that were sent his way and unleashed his own barrage of spells. Watching his wife die in front of him had unleashed the fury within him and the air crackled with the high concentration of magic. Harry started a volley of spells which hammered the shields of the Death Eaters who watched him nervously now as the skies were darkening at the time of day. Harry gripped the Elder wand and unleashed the power of the Master of Death. He sent a pure magic blast which vaporized three of the Death Eaters, another three were hit by a cutting curse which sliced their bodies in half. The rest of the Death Eaters fired off spells at Harry but with his powerful aura the weaker spells fizzled out in the air. Harry used a flame whip to decapitate two as well as with conjured ice spikes he impaled another three Death Eaters. Another two were blasted away and one was choked by the high concentration of magic in the air which suffocated him. The last two had their limbs removed by flame whip and were swiftly dispatched by bludgeoners to their heads. Harry surveyed the area which was full of dead bodies of Death Eaters and moved to the fallen form of his wife. He pulled her into his arms and apparated to his manor and the floodgates opened and he wept unashamedly, yelling at the heavens.

After some time, he used his powers to talk to an echo of his wife who smiled at him and told him to move on with his life and not to attempt anyway to bring her back to life as it would not be fair to her as her time on Earth had passed. The echoes of his family told him that they were proud of him and that he should not get hung up over their deaths. Daphne asked him to promise her that he would live his life to the fullest. He did so and they faded away. For a week, Harry was catatonic but he eventually woke up. He was offered condolences but to be distracted from the pain and the void in his life, he buried himself in work. He asked the Wizengamot for a license to eliminate the rest of the Death Eaters menace. Using his license, Harry called the 'Judge' judged the Death Eaters and other dark wizards fates. After completing his task, Harry travelled around the world and continued to study magic. He got to know that he was the first Battle Mage born in a thousand years and had vast power at his disposal which he used to maintain peace and security throughout the Wizarding World.

At the present moment, Harry came out of the pensieve after viewing all these memories. He was now a powerful and beloved man by the people but lonely after the death of his wife. Even his friends could not bring him to laugh or smile brightly. He looked as if the life had faded as his eyes which used to burn with an intensity now looked dull and barren. He had completed his job which was bringing every single dark wizard to justice. Having grown fed up now, he composed a letter to his friends and bequeath some of his assets to them and the rest of his estate was liquidated with the majority of his money being used to build charity foundation in the name of his parents.

He looked one last time at the pictures in his manor; the image of him and Daphne at the great lake in Hogwarts and after drawing a deep breath apparated to his destination. He wore a white t-shirt, dark pants and a red longcoat. The lordship rings were on his hand and contained the resurrection stone also alongwith the invisibility cloak which was in a pocket dimension keyed to him and could be summoned at any time. Also it contained a trunk which contained gold, precious stones, potion ingredients, books, essentials. The elder wand was disillusioned and strapped to his arm in a holster. At his waist were two gun holsters on either sides containing desert eagles having accuracy, replenishing, cleaning, loading runes on them. The gun magazines were charmed so that they would replenish bullets and also chamber rounds immediately. Also the bullets were a fusion of silver nitrate and UV rounds so that they could also have the power to take down vampires and werewolves. After so many encounters with the rogue members of these species, Harry needed the precaution.

Harry's idea was simple which was that he would travel to a different dimension where the events leading up to August 1st 1981 would be the same and he would make a new life there. He thought that he could defeat Voldemort early, save countless lives and make the wizarding world a good place to live by revolutionalizing it. To accomplish this, he had made preparations of even having fake magical and muggle ids created by the goblins which could pass any examination. Now as it was the winter solstice, he apparated to the Stonehenge which was a highly magical place with high concentration of magic in the air as residue and it was deserted so no problem of a magical backlash.

Harry had booked the place after contacting the druids and arriving there started the ritual for travelling to another dimension. He marked and inscriped various runes at the place and prepared to charge them. With a powerful chant of ancient languages, he charged the runes with his magic and by standing in the center of the ritual. The air grew thick with a suffocating feeling of magic which started to concentrate at the place. He started to open a portal for transport but a sudden feeling of invasion overwhelmed his senses. He sensed a foreign body attempting to take control and with his magic recognized the feeling as another portal to some place.

The tug of war continued between the powerful magic foreign portal and eventually Harry gave in. At the very moment that he gave up, a blinding light started to gather in the place. The light enveloped him with it overpowering his senses such that he had to crouch on the ground. The runes were lit and symbols were spinning inside his head. He was being disoriented and he felt the light burning his body both internally and externally. Then he felt a tug in his gut like the feeling of apparition only being a hundred times more exponential. He gripped the sword of Gryffindor strapped to his back tightly and got into a battle stance. At that moment, he was swept into a vortex and teleported off the face of the earth into another dimension with the light travelling with him leaving the platform of the Stonehenge smoking.

Wherever he was going, Harry had only one thought in his mind:

'Looks like there is another adventure for me' .