The path not taken
"Thank You" said a feminine voice. It was lily potter who had quickly taken Vert to the side. "Thank you for caring for my child" she said gratefully . True she was attempting to get around the fact that she had a daughter rather than a son. This however was a secondary consideration to her when compared to the fact that her child was alive.
"You are very welcome and it should be obvious from what we have seen that my alternate, as well as myself cares for her dearly." said vert with a bright smile. What she said was true as every version of herself that she had met, mostly because of neptunes shinanigans, had all had a soft spot for the sisters and wanted her own.
Lily just looked at the woman. "Alternates?" she asked slightly confused. It was true that she had kept up with her muggle knowledge but some things she just did not have the time to catch up on thus it was that she focused more on her general knowledge rather than anything in depth.
" Similarly to how this situation has occurred, our nations have encountered other world similar to our own. Each having very similar versions of ourselves" vert briefly explained. She had already seen that most of the things that the four of them take for granted was either too complex or just not heard of by these people. Lily however seemed to be able to keep up
Chloe could not help but groan. She knew little to nothing about the potters, true she knew that they were important. That they had been a influential family as well as being her previous family. The issue however was that she had thoroughly moved on with little desire to look back by the time she had gained the ability to find out about them through her godfather. The few times she had the inclination had been smothered by her responsibilities to her people.
"Is what the book showing true?" came the voice of the boy in front of her. Looking at him, his messy black hair, green eyes staring at her with an intensity that was rare. She knew this was her past life, other than that she knew nothing about the boy as they had both had very different lives. There was a girl next to him. She was petite with brown eyes. However unlike her brother she had bright red hair. As she looked at the two, she noticed a few people who were either listening in or hovering close by.
"So far" she said her feminine voice clashing drastically against his. They were both vastly different from each other. Her long blonde hair so much like her sisters to his short black hair. His red and black clothes to her greens. The only thing that the two had in similar was their eyes. That emerald colour shining clear as the morning sun.
It was clear that neither knew how to interact with the other. The tense atmosphere permiating the area around them. Just as one of the onlookers was about to intervene Their attention was drawn towards a flash of bright light.
The book had moved from its stand and arrived at the next reader. The reader who just so happened to be one severus snape. A person who looked like he wanted to do anything but. With a sharp look from the old headmaster he sighed a resigned sigh and opened at the mark.
Chapter 7: Shopping.
Three days later the old man returned to meet the goddess of Leanbox, and he hoped that the meeting would go better than last time.
The meeting was in the same room as last time, with the same participants, although the mood in the room was more hostile than the start of the first meeting, but far less so than when he left the last time.
He couldn't look any of the three in the eye though... he had found on the internet some drawn pictures, and comics, of them in rather... intimate positions...
This caused the women from Gameindusti to sigh. It was an inevitable part of their position. They were figures of great power and recognition. Humans being humans they would always have fantasies and the desire to create. When the two combined it ended up with such things being created. While it was true that they could ban such things, it would cause more issues than it would solve. History had shown that. So it was that they decided to contain the damage by allowing such things to happen but in a regulated way. Not a perfect solution but better than them creating a black market for the content.
The magicals where wondering why someone like dumbledore would be so awkward. At least until those who had figured it out told them. The goddesses knew that had happened as the blushes adorning their cheeks gave the fact that they knew what was meant.
Shaking his head he banished those memories to a deep and dark corner of his mind, hoping he didn't stash them where they would mix with something else to be truly horrifying.
Breakfast was delivered to the four, and they started talking over the meal.
"We have spoken about your offer," Vert started off. "and while we think that your idea has merit, if for no other reason than to bring in new ideas, there are a few major problems."
"Such as?" Dumbledore asked.
"First, there needs to be enough share energy for her to survive, and if necessary, fight, as we stated before. Next she has obligations, both as a CPU candidate, and her sports team, you would need to allow her to return for both the responsibilities, and practice. Also I wouldn't dream of sending her without her partner," Vert explained.
"We can give you a device to indicate when you have enough shares, and will work on a way to get her there, and communicate with us, but until we succeed you would be responsible for both," Chika added.
"What I want to know, is how will we know whether you will try and force me back with them," Chloe hissed venomously.
The last one to speak made him flinch, and he took a deep breath, and answered the comments. "I am headmaster of the school, I can easily add a game room... and it might be useful for discipline, assuming these... consoles work at Hogwarts. Yes, that would work, make them want to behave unless want the privilege of using them taken away. Transportation I can arrange through Fawkes, and the partner is no problem, there are provisions for bodyguards for VIPs, and the sister of a goddess could easily qualify. As for the Dursleys... there's no point since you no longer seem to share any blood with them. I would ask that you consider bringing Dudley here, he has been in an orphanage since his parents and aunt were arrested."
"Why should we? I remember him being quite the bully to Harry," Chloe commented snidely.
Dumbledore frowned, he had thought that the time, and separation would've blunted the emotions toward the family, at least the cousin. His thoughts were interrupted by Vert.
"I can't agree to letting him live near my sister, but... if he's willing to face the work, and the danger, I could call in a favor to apprentice him to a guild member. But I would expect him to work hard, and be respectful of his fellow guild mates."
"What is this... Guild you keep mentioning?" Dumbledore asked cautiously.
Chika took up the explanation, "The Guild, is a place where people place requests, from culling the monster population, a never ending task, to gathering various materials and drops. It's a dangerous, but rewarding line of work, and very respected too. There isn't any other options for someone his age, since I'm assuming he isn't older than Chloe's physical age."
The description seemed to intrigue the members of the ministry as it sounded similar to the hit-wizard line of work. Of course there was differences but it allowed them to grasp the concept. The professors did not seem happy with the idea of a child being placed in such a situation, well most except for flitwick who seemed to delight at the idea of such a institution existing. It just seemed to agree with his goblin blood.
Lily was conflicted. On one hand the boy was partly responsible for what happened to her child on the other however he was a child following the example of his parents as any child would. So the idea of a way to work for his redemption seemed to be a good one.
Dumbledore frowned, he really couldn't accept putting a child in danger like that. On the other hand, he had checked up on Dudley before coming here, and the boy was being severely bullied. The headmaster shook his head and responded, "I can't accept putting a child in danger like that, but I will think more on it."
The next five hours, were taken up with ironing out the details, as well as arranging for some of Dumbledore's gold coins to be converted to credits, based off the value of the gold, and to arrange for a large amount of counsels, games, TVs, and a nice magitech generator to be delivered to the basilicom. They also taught him how to hook one up, something a five year old child from Gameindustry could do.
Well except for the generator, which was just a case of placing it somewhere and turning it on, and plugging in some extension cords and powerbars.
The muggle borns were understanding of this as it sounded similar to the tech that they used at home. It was however an amusing thought to them at the idea of dumbledore having to be taught something so simple in their eyes.
Lunch had come ad gone by the time he was finished. He also decided to leave a red stone in a bank deposit box for safe keeping.
When his phoenix was fully grown, he left the world of Gameindustry richer in knowledge, and much poorer in pocket.
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Two years later, as well as another six levels,(EN2) Chloe was waiting at the Basilicom entryway with Cyberconnect2, for they had just received a message that the share energy at Hogwarts, and to a lesser extent Great Briton, had reached the required level. Leanbox, with the help of Planitune had upgraded their LeanPhone (EN) to allow the ability to talk between worlds, theoretically at least. It works between the Hyperdimension and Megadimension at least.
Chloe had grown even more confident in the past two years, she was still shy at times, but no longer needed to hide behind others at all times. Although she still liked the pretend anonymity of her cloak. Pretend, because everybody knows she wore it.
This caused a small chuckle from vert as she pulled her little sister into a hug whilst every one looked in their direction embarrassing the girl even more than the comment from the book did
"Sister!" she whined knowing full well that her ever loving sister did not care. Her sister loved to spoil and comfort her. Chika however always kept them both in line, Vert so that she did not overly spoil chloe as well as not letting her gaming attitude get out of control. For Chloe it was similar to Noire, she had a habit of overworking in her crusade to improve her peoples lives.
It was something that exasperated the poor oracle. But their small family loved each other and was their for each other. Each in their own ways.
Vert wanted to come, but there was a meeting between the CPUs scheduled for today, about the increasingly unusual spawning. The casualties were fortuitously still light, but they didn't want to count on it continuing. Plus the share energy, while it had gotten to the point that it was sufficient for Chloe, was insufficient to support them both.
Next year Vert planned on using a sharcite crystal to go if the shares themselves aren't high enough.
Back to the duo whom were starting to get impatient at the author being sidetracked, and wanted to meet their guide, they noticed a ball of fire disgorging a greasy haired man and a bird.
The odd statement had confused every one except a certain pinkette who snickered at what was said. However when they heard about who would be taking her to the school shopping they were both worried and confused. Why him?
Snape himself had to use his occlumency to hold back the groan, He knew exactly why, His muggle back ground meant that he would be more familiar with such a place than the others. There were also the advantages of his spy work allowing him to get a proper read of the people there. This would not have been the official reason, hell it was probably not even mentioned but with Albus being who he was his alternate had probably already guessed the reason.
"Are you two the one's I'm escorting? The so called goddess, and her partner," the greasy hared man said. His mouth then snapped shut, as he realized that the entire street was looking at him with a great deal of hostility.
"I assume your the professor Dumbledore sent? Here's a word of advice, do not insult a goddess or candidate in their own nation, especially in public, it tends to piss people off. I am Chloe, Goddess candidate for Leanbox, and you are?"
The man gulped as he noticed the number of people starting to pull weapons, or cast spells, only to halt when the cloaked girl in front of him raised her hand in a stop gesture.
There were not so quiet chuckles coming from the Goddesses. The image however shocked those in the room. It showed people holding guns, bows and a rather large variety of bladed weapons. This however did nothing compared to the magic that was clear in sight. Light magic, dark magic. There was various different elemental spells clearly seen and those were only the ones that could be seen and identified. This however was not all as there were clearly some who were preparing to cast unknown spells. The sight was un nerving to say the least.
They respected her too much to not listen to her, as she was devoted to her nation and worked hard for them, while at the same time had hobbies that made her seem approachable. She then continued, "If you can't remain civil, leave, and tell the headmaster to send someone else."
The man stopped and considered how the girl was able to stop the angry mob with a single gesture, and decided to play nice, besides there was something about those eyes that caught his attention.
Not to mention the power that was starting to leak from her and her partner, power that made the last dark lord look like a child throwing a temper tantrum.
"My apologies, there are no goddesses where I come from, so my doubts took over. I am Professor Snape, Potions Professor at Hogwarts. I will be taking you shopping for your school supplies. Do you have everything you need? Such as items from the list I know Dumbledore gave you to trade for galleons?"
Snape merely grunted as that was an explanation that he could uinderstand on him being at least civil to someone. He had a finely honed survival instinct and pissing off someone like that was not good for the long term health.
Others within the room had their jaws on the floor. The man who hates every one and every thing was treating this girl with respect. It was un heard of.
Harry was shocked, even with his families political power along with what he had with his titles he had never gained even an incling of respect yet here was his counterpart gaining it immediately. The only person other than dumbledore that he had seen the man treat with some form of respect was his mother. In his opinion however the less he knew about that relationship the better.
After getting the assent he ordered the two to hold onto him while the flying self roasting chicken flamed them to Diagon Alley, more specifically, Gringotts.
"Professor Dumbledore recommended we also check whether you have any accounts, seems pointless to me," Snape said, mumbling the last part, which was caught by the two females in the party.
It took them nearly an hour to find a goblin free enough to perform the tests, and to convert the saleable items, mainly some elemental gems, into galleons.
The results would have shocked only the male in the group, if he had been allowed to see them, but as he was forced to stay outside the room, although part of the results surprised Chloe.
Name: Chloe
Date of Birth: July 31st 1981
Age: Full magical maturity due to unaging status of body. 6 (13 due to full reincarnation)
Level: 40
Status: Reincarnation, complete.
Previous Incarnation: Harry Potter
Date of Death: July 31st 1989
The goblin was confused at the level, as that particular 'stat' had never appeared in this test before.
Due to the reincarnation being complete, with all memories intact, Chloe is eligible to inherent the Potter Vaults and family name.
Every one looked at james for an explanation. Whilst most did not understand the inheritance rules, they did know that such a rule would be controvertial in the least.
" That is an emergance clause within the charter. In the case that the family is in danger of being killed off, to ensure the survival of the family all possible steps are taken. This includes brining back lost members of the family." said james, he knew that this part was empowered by the family magics woven into both the family tapestries and charter. He did not however expect this to count.
"Indeed" said flitwick as he started another part of the explanation. "It has not been the first time that such a thing has occurred. The first was a wizard who had bound his memories to his magic allowing him to awaken in later generations." said the goblin professor knowing that such things had been streniously denied by the ministries of the world.
Chloe looked at the goblin and asked, "Do I need a key or something to access those vaults? I would also like to make a new vault for myself under the ID Leanbox, and fill it with the proceeds of these items.
Chloe then dropped the large bag of saleable stuff on the goblin's desk.
The goblin looked through the bag and nodded, the amount of money from these unique, on Earth at least, gemstones and minerals would be substantial.
"That is no problem, we can recall all the copies of the vault keys, they should have been retrieved after the potters died anyway, we will also perform a full audit to make sure no funds were unlawfully removed," the goblin they were speaking to said. "It will take time to appraise what you brought, in the meantime We will send you to the Potter trust vault. GRIPHOOK GET YOUR LAZY ASS IN HERE!"
A younger goblin came in, and asked in a surly voice, "You called sir?"
"Take this child, and her companions, to the Potter trust vault, and open it for them, we are going to need to retrieve all the keys, and a full audit," commanded the older goblin.
The trip to the vault was mildly interesting to Chloe and Cyberconnect2, but not extraordinary, unlike the rocket powered rollercosters in the Planatune theme park.
Neptune smirked at this, Glad to know that her pride and joy still ruled supreme. Plutia also smirked in her own sleepy way. It had been a great undertaking creating that park thus they had only allowed for the best to be built there. They had even updated the old rides for the grand reopening. Letting nepgear have her fun with the place as the girl was a mechanical genious and had helped greatly
Yes, Plutia and Neptune made a rocket powered roller coaster, one that went between both dimensions and even past the stratosphere twenty minutes of pure adrenaline.
The only thing better for Chloe was her private jet... the fastest, most maneuverable, and most advanced military model in all four nations.
Vert refused to go on the roller coaster, or fly with Chloe, she's that insane while flying.
This caused chloe to smirk as she remembered the first time she had vert within the plane with her. Boy did her sister regret it much to chloes amusment.
James was a happy man as his daughter? Was just as enthralled with flying as he was.
Shaking her head, Chloe gathered a few hundred of the gold coins, and departed back to the surface.
A quick discussion between the three had them split up, Chloe to get her wand, since she refuses to wear the uniform, and Dumbledore surprisingly agreeable to it, since Chloe could be called upon at any time to duty, and her clothing is as much an identifying mark as her face and abilities, hence why most goddesses tend to have closets full of the same, or similar clothes.
They also get damaged in combat quite often.
Snape went to get the Potion stuff with money provided by Chloe and asking to get a cauldron made of a material that doesn't have lead, even if it cost more, Cyberconnect2 went for the trunk, with instructions to make sure it has enough room, and some of the miscellaneous stuff, such as parchment, telescope, and other supplies.
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Inside the wand shop, Chloe was sheepishly standing over the concussed form of the wandmaker, thankful that she had held back, otherwise she might have splattered the man's head all across the wall.
The magicals seemed to have several reactions to this. From a resigned sigh at the man being hit from surprising her to shock form her knocking him out whilst holding back. Those from her home though were just deadpanning at the girl causing her to retreat within her cloak and bury her face into her sisters shoulder to try and hide from the embarrasment that she was being put through.
She kneeled down and pulled out a couple of Nepbulls, and forced the man to drink them.
"Sorry about that," she said as she helped the now healed man up.
"It's fine young lady, I should really drop that habit, now let us see what we can do for you... actually what happened to your old wand? Your old enough to have had one before," he asked.
"Never had one, I'm starting slightly late."
"Very well, Let's start with this, Oak and Dragon Heartstring," He said handing said wand to the girl whom gave it a wave...
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BANG the wand exploded with such force wooden shrapnel flew all around the room, only missing the old man because he was standing behind Chloe.
The old man frowned. This little girl had overloaded the wand, and it was one of the sturdier ones.
"I'm afraid that I might not be able to help you, you overloaded that wand so easily," the old man said.
"Could you try and craft one out of these materials?' Chloe asked, handing him a long blonde hair, and a wooden bone.
"Hmmmm..." the old man said as he looked at the materials. The hair looked human, but the power coming off of it definitely was not. The wood also had some latent power, enough that a wand crafted from the two would be able to survive much more power going through it. "Yes, this would probably work, may I ask who, or what that hair came from?"
"My sister, and I expect that either the entire hair be used, or the remaining be returned."
The old man nodded, and said, "Come back a few hours before you catch the train to Hogwarts, I will have it ready by then."
Chloe nodded, and left.
The old man looked at the hair, then pulled another hair down, this one long and purple, and comparing the feel of energy between the two started laughing maniacally.
The muggleborn that was about to enter the shop slowly backed out upon hearing him cackle.
The people within the room could not help but laugh at what was happening with olivander. They all knew how excentric the man was and could clearly see him in such a state in their mind. Each having had their own meetings with the man. Albus was the only one who was looking at the screen with a deadpan. He had known garrick for a long time and knew how excited the man can get when it comes to a challenge in wand making.
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Chloe was the first to reach the bookstore, which was the meeting place, and start browsing.
She collected all the books on the list, and put them in a basket that had a space expansion charm, and a lightening charm on it, then started looking for supplementary books.
She avoided the biting books, wondering whom was stupid enough to make them, it was much worse than the stupid "Invisible Book of Invisibility", which was invisible until it was opened.
She picked up a copy anyway when she accidentally found it.
She picked up the books for the rest of the years, and the electives, except for the biting books. She scowled at the Harry Potter books, but didn't raise a fuss as she was no longer that boy.
She was hoping that she would be better at potions than she was at cooking, if not, she will insist she be banned.
Like she was from cooking anything more than scooping out ice cream from a carton. This was after her peanut butter and jelly sandwich tried to eat her, or was it the salad that started spewing toxic fumes after she added the lettuce, or it could've been the tea kettle that started spewing fire when she was going to try to make hot water for instant ramen... and that was before she started the stove.
The scoop she used for ice cream was quarantined and only she was allowed to use it... just in case.
Her scarlet blush returned with full force at the mention of her , skills, at cooking. Thankfully she was being held by her sister but for some reason her stomach twisted at seeing her old mother smiling at her. She did not know why all she knew was that she felt something from the small interaction. Maybe she should try to get to know her old family?
She was not sure but if there was a time to try and learn about them it would be during this. It was quite a daunting idea for her as she had never been interested in learning about them, she had her own family and life and she had never looked back.
Anyway, she had finished with her shopping just as Cyberconnect2 came in with a three compartment bottomless trunk, which was promptly loaded in with the books, and Chloe didn't realize she got the invisible book for free... because the teller couldn't see it.
The professor arrived soon afterwords, and after loading the second compartment with the potion ingredients, and finding out that neither of them were currently interested in pets, left the store with them, and called the phoenix to take them back to Gameindusry.
'I'm getting sick of this,' the bird thought.
After the bird and man left, Chloe went inside to put away her trunk, and look over some of the books, and spend time with her sister. She had only a month left until she had to leave after all... so she was eager to spend as much time with her as possible.
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