Harrison "Strider" Firgen
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
Author's note: Harrison Firgen's previous life as Harry Potter was pretty much canon until Remus and Tonks survive the Final Battle. Harrison does not have the invisibility cloak.
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Chapter 3: History
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It was after a week of rest and just playing with Teddy and Luna before Harrison gathered up the energy and nerve to study this dimension's newspapers (the Quibbler and the Prophet) and history books. Harrison... well he had stepped into a new world, but it was just so surreal to know that people you had seen die in terror were now alive. The most major change was obviously the fact that this wizarding world was not at war... yet. The magic current that flowed through the ley lines weren't rioting as they had been before in the third wizarding war. This world and time were tranquil to the point where Harrison's instincts kept firing up in suspicion and paranoia, wondering if he had been caught in an elaborate illusion. This uncertainty drove Harrison to study in Ravenclaw portions, finding every scrap of information possible on this dimension's first Riddle/ Dumbledore -caused war.
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There must have been some small unnoticed event that changed this dimension's time line from the other dimension. Because, while Harrison looked through past newspapers, deciphered a young seer's words and pieced together data from ministry archives and people, Harrison figured that the tiny factor had been just before the Prewett twins had been ambushed. Like one Death Eater getting sick and being replaced by another. Or someone figuring out the dark marks sooner. Like before, Molly Weasley's older brothers had taken out several of Riddle's best fighters before they fled when the Order arrived. Unlike before, Fabian Prewett had survived. Gideon had died first. In shock, Fabian would have died but then seeing a Death Eater target his brother's cooling corpse, rage enabled Fabian to get off one last shot. In the process he had avoided a killing curse that had killed him in the last dimension, but instead lost his dueling arm to a dark curse. As the Order arrived and the Death Eater's fled, Fabian stumbled, crawling in agony on one arm to his twin's side. At some point, someone began ripping the masks off of the Death Eaters. Privately, Harrison suspected it to be one of the Marauders smelling one of their own as well as the fact that Dumbledore hadn't been part of this clean up. To the Order's horror, a dead Peter Pettigrew was found branded with the Dark Lord's mark.
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Horrified, the Potter's had moved from Godric's Hollow and placed a new fidelous with Sirus Black as the secret keeper. Events snowballed further from there. When a certain Halloween came later, the Longbottoms were dead and Neville became the new Boy-Who-Lived. As time went on, Neville's godmother, Lily Potter and her family visited the Longbottom Heir quite often. Harrison's counterpart, Harry Potter was Neville's best friend until their combined eighth birthday celebration. Death Eater's stormed the party. All the Potters were killed in the chaos. (However, according to a certain seer, Harrison's counterpart was still alive). Backup must have arrived just too late. One of the most unlikely, but powerful and vengeful duo of Severus Snape and Fabian Prewett prevented most of the Death Eaters from escaping. Most Death Eaters resisted and were slaughtered in a blood bath. Severus Snape was branded traitor by Voldemort's remaining followers. So Harrison pondered on the fact that Severus would not be a spy during the second wizarding war this go around. That would certainly change things.
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Searching out records on his former professor, Harrison discovered that Severus was the potions professor in this world too. Even if this world's Dumbledore was nicer, it seemed the Headmaster still had a manipulative streak. Harrison made a note in his mind to check Privet Drive just in case his counterpart 'lived' there. He doubted that Severus would have let that happen, no matter what persuasion Dumbledore used. Of course that was assuming that a, Severus had grown up with the Evans and b, that Petunia was as mean as she was in world one and c, that Petunia married Vernon and d, that the Dursleys lived on Privet Drive. Harrison wondered idly if their paths would ever cross. Harrison no longer looked like the poster 'Potter' child as he was magically adopted by several people in order to stabilized his magic. Sometime at the beginning of the third Voldemort/Riddle war (turns out Hufflepuff's Cup wasn't one of Voldemort's horcruxes- it was Bellatrix's) Harrison was hit by an unfinished curse that had slowly begun to unravel his magic. They didn't had much time to figure things out once he and his allies realized what was happening before his magic lashed out. Harrison's magic absorbed the remnants of Slytherin's Basilisk and phoenix ash (and tears) among a few other things before they could stabilize the upcoming explosion. Harrison probably survived the absorption with his characteristic luck and the hastily set up magical adoption runes.
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Magical adoptions were typically used when the child wanted to look like their birth parents even when magically adopted by other people. Also magical adoptions involved runes and a spell, verses blood adoption which was done by potion. Blood adoption physically changed the child's feature and 'replaced' the original parent's genes. The original parent's gene were still there, but magically suppressed. Only non-human magic, most commonly goblin magic, would reveal all 'sets' of parents. Magical adoptions could be numerous but were strongest when it added up to certain magical numbers such as three or seven. (This was one of the original reasons why a child born into the magical world had godparents). On the other hant, blood adoptions could only be done once in that child's lifetime.
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Harrison, not having the time or potions master to brew the blood adoption potion, was magically adopted. When they were setting up the ritual in the Chamber of Secrets, (it was Harrison's base of operations during the third Wizarding War), Harrison already had three 'parents' before his magic started to unravel. There was James Potter, Lily Evans, and the unsanctioned Tom Riddle. So for this second magical adoption ritual, Harrison had chosen Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, William Weasley, and Eva Brimberry to help stabilize his magic by bringing his number of 'parents' to seven. He would have chosen Sirus Black or Severus Snape instead of the last two, but they had died in the second wizarding war. By the time Harrison was going through the adoption during the third Wizarding War, all the other Weasley's (with the exception of Bill) had already been killed.
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In fact, the third Wizarding War had started with the massacre at the Burrow. It had been around Christmas time, a year and a half after the 'Final Battle' of the Second Wizarding War. Harrison had repeated and finished seventh year before becoming officially engaged with Ginny. Harrison had spent the day before Christmas watching over Teddy while Remus and Tonks went through the full moon together. Tonks had become a part time auror while working on her amaligous form. She turned out to be an ocelot. Harry on the other hand was blocked from accessing his animal form because of his prolonged and various experiences with being tortured. Bill arrived the next morning to pick up a present he had hidden at the Lupin's household for his very pregnant wife. But when the five of them tried to go to the Burrow, the floo simply shot them backwards. Looking at each other, they hurriedly apperated to the Burrow. To their horror, they found the remains of a exploded Burrow.
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The third Wizarding War lasted for a little over two years. The last of Voldemort's horcrux's was the real Hufflepuff's cup (Bellatrix's was a replica) and the corrupted healing cup was a key part in Voldemort's ability to make Inferi. The horcrux was destroyed before Voldemort could regain his own body. Unlike before, when Voldemort's death meant the war was over, this time a new player gathered up the remaining Death Eaters and continued attacking people.
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If war hadn't been enough, the magic within the Earth began rioting as something started to feed off of Earth's magical lines. Within several generations, Magic would have faded away into the tales of myth and legend. Even if the ley lines were given a new birth or additional source of energy, the Wizarding World from World one didn't have the population to survive for long.
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The third Wizarding War ended in the Chamber of Secrets. Remus and Tonks Lupin were some of the last of Harrison's allies to die. His enemies and their dead servants were trapped within. Unless someone managed to hiss something correctly twice (Harrison, once he had regained parseltongue and rebuilt the Chamber of Secret's entrances, changed the password to something a little bit more complex) or conjure a willing serpent to open the Salazar's Chambers, they would slowly die of starvation, drowning or by their 'allies'. Anyone 'innocent' of the war or one of Harrison's allies could be saved by house-elf magic. Not that there was much of the Wizarding world left intact outside of the Chamber of Secrets. So, in a way Harrison and Teddy were lucky to arrive in this new dimension. Not that either of them felt lucky. Harrison had lost everyone and Teddy had lost both of his parents.
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Harrison groaned as he finished stretching once he had figured out what he could of this second dimension's history. After a lot of prodding from the Lovegoods, Harrison gave in and began to write his life history... in parseltongue. At least it was keeping busy stopped him from going into a major depression. It was bad enough having Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome nightmares. And on top of Harrison's nightmares were Teddy's nightly terrors.
Having been magically adopted by numerous people (and named heir by several more) in his first dimension, Harrison had been gifted with rather large inheritances; including from the family lines of Black, Potter, Peverell, Ravenclaw, Slytherin and Gryffindor. Due to the closure of Gringotts, Harrison had taken to carrying his vast fortunes, libraries, and artifacts with him inside a pocket watch that didn't tell time. It was certainly more interesting than your everyday type of trunk, considering the pocket watch's undetected insides could hold already shrunken objects that had expansion charms. Your normal wizarding trunks couldn't carry another magically expanded trunk within it. So, to put it simply, Harrison could buy British Isles several times over.
Not that Harrison cared about financial issues. Harrison preferred to translate and edit parseltongue books into English and tinker with artifacts in his spare time. The Lovegoods insisted that Harrison live in the Rookery with them while he adjusted and recovered from the random meeting with people who no longer knew him. (Such as the odd Weasley since the Lovegoods didn't live to far from the Burrow). Thus occupied, Harrison occasionally brushed up on his school skills while he waited for the next chance to retake his OWLs, NEWTs and then maybe work on a couple masteries. Harrison often felt that there was little point to the tests when he had so much more life experience than the average adult. But the tests were needed to verify his existance.
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Time passed and life went on. Pandora, having abstained from her magical experiments for the time being, worked on tending to the yard and writing news paper articles to go into her husband's paper. Soon enough her waistline began expanding. In her first trimester, Pandora threw down rather than throwing up. (Meaning anyone who startled her often ended up with broken bones or hands that had been transfigured into rubber ducks). Then, rather than deterring her husband or daughter with her odd cravings, her family asked to have some instead. Needless to say, despite being a Lovegood's 'cousin', Harrison gagged at the thought of certain food pairings that should have been illegal. A riftler's regurgitated banana mixed with bacon grease (not the bacon, the grease!)... Harrison shuddered. He needed to think about something else before he lost what remained of his appetite.