The First Jedi
By: Tellemicus Sundance
Harry self-trains as a Jedi
2008-2011
Inspired by the movies and series, using sourcebooks for additional info, Harry begins training to use his strange powers like the Force so he could become a Jedi. When Hogwarts tries to recruit him, he declines since he wasn't interested. But when they persisted over the next few weeks and months, some even resorting to threats, he decided that the only way he'd get any peace and quiet to train was for him to leave. Packing up a few essentials, he leaves the Dursleys and unknowingly shattered the protection wards.
He travels down to London, using his Mindtrick and other subtle powers to aid in his journey. By the time he reaches the city center, he is very well versed in how to be discreet. He's gotten so good in so short a time that he's easily able to hide or Mindtrick any of the Ministry wizards who have a tendency of following him. In London proper, he finds an old, abandoned church that's being used by several squatter families and takes up refuge there. He once again takes up his training regime with a gusto, using his powers to earn himself some money by helping people. Though he's a nice kid, his unnatural powers that some of them have seen him use cause a lot of the squatters to flee or try to get the authorities involved (without much success).
At Hogwarts, Hermione is badly injured during the troll attack and she withdraws deeply into her books, much to Ron's great relief of losing the arrogant know-it-all in class. Voldemort is unable to figure out the curse on the Mirror of Erised and is forced to flee the school when Dumbledore returns (killing Quirrel in the process). Sirius escapes Azkaban to look for Harry. Wormtail panics and flees the Weasleys to find a new family to leech off of.
*The English Ministry claims to be able to track accidental magic used by Muggleborns. This is false. They can only detect strong accidental magic, usually after they've erected wards around the child's home and placed the Trace upon them (which only reinforces the wards by detecting the usage of a wand). Harry's use of the Force (Padeomency = Wizarding name for the Art of Ambient Magical Usage) goes undetected, but it can draw attention from the Ministry if he uses a large amount of power.
2012
Following his first winter, Harry starts noticing that he's got some unusual followers. The first was a large black dog that gave off the aura of a wizard, though it contained none of the aggression or suppressed arrogance the previous ones had. He was able to determine that the 'dog' was friendly and decided to allow it into his home. He could sense the dog's dumbfounded awe at seeing his Force powers and training, which he took to showing off to it. Eventually, Harry decided to name the dog since it was pretty clear that the wizard wasn't going to reveal himself. He chose the name 'Padfoot' on a whim.
The second follower was a shaggily-dressed man who also had the aura of a wizard. But this one kept a more respectful distance, simply watching him go about his day-to-day training and life. The man even got a job at a nearby store as an excuse to be close by. After several weeks, Harry just flat out approached the man and asked his name and history. Though surprised to meet one of his parents' childhood friends, Harry refused to accompany the man into the 'Wizarding World' because his beliefs and training clashed too violently with theirs. Remus easily understood, and decided that he'd mentor the boy as a moral compass and try to add in some 'flavor' to his personalized training. Remus sent only one owl to Dumbledore explaining that Harry was exploring his own brand of magic and that he'd be watching over and protecting the boy from the Death Eaters.
Padfoot and Remus's reunion was…rocky at first. Thankfully, Harry kept the two apart long enough for both sides of the story to be explained. Upon learning of Peter's betrayal, Remus heads off to do some discreet searching for any long-lived rats that may have settled into a Wizarding family's home. Sadly, his search ended in failure…for now.
And Harry's third follower was easily the most unusual: a spunky 19-year-old witch who constantly seemed to dye her hair. At first, she shadowed him like Remus had. But in short order, she started approaching him with an offer of friendship after 'bumping into him' during one of his early-morning runs. Harry could sense that while she was genuine in her offer of friendship, it wasn't the only reason (or the most important). He was very weary of her at first because of that duplicity he could sense. Eventually, after having several long talks with Remus, she started to truly try becoming his friend and being more forward with him. Of the three of them, she was the most surprised, impressed, and vocal of seeing his training. Though she vaguely recognized what he was doing, she couldn't quite remember where she'd seen his style of magic before and it frustrated her to no end (he never outright called his magic 'The Force').
Lucius unleashed the diary Horcrux upon the school in an effort to discredit and hurt the Weasley family. Ginny is killed when the diary consumes her life force. The basilisk runs amok through Hogwarts, killing over twenty students (mostly Hufflepuffs) before it's finally killed by a coordinated attack by the professors. Young Voldemort sneaks out of Hogwarts during the fight and goes in search of his older self. Finding his ghostly future self, Young Voldemort seals him into a Horcrux and takes the full name of Lord Voldemort for himself once again. Voldemort goes on an odyssey across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, exploring, researching, and learning many of the ancient Dark Arts as Voldemort-Sr. had done before him.
2013
Harry senses a powerful Force aura emanating from a strange blue gem he finds in an alley cloaked in the dark side. As he tries to get the gem, it is stolen by Fenrir Greyback, who wants to sell it to the Purebloods. Harry chases after him in a frantic desire to claim the gem. After a harrowing fight in which Fenrir morphs into his werewolf form, Harry kills the dark side creature and takes the gem. Upon touching the gem, he is suddenly swamped by potent but incoherent images of tools and instructions. Following his instincts, he begins collecting everything he needs.
The English Ministry installs Umbridge as the new Headmistress of Hogwarts after kicking Dumbledore out, citing negligence of duty and protection of the students from the Chamber of Secrets (regardless of the fact he had been banished from Hogwarts at the time). As the new Headmistress, Umbridge plays up her deep connections to the Ministry to calm the frightened masses while claiming to be aiming to raise the bar of the plummeting standards of the school. But all she does is make school life utterly unbearable for the students (even the precious Purebloods), leading to many of the students dropping out of it to pursue apprenticeships and self-study (Umbridge claims that they were merely the weak being culled from the herd).
Barty Crouch Jr. kills his father, frees the Death Eaters caught in Azkaban, and tries to restart his master's war to cleanse the Wizarding World of the Mudbloods. However, Lucius was able to influence the Dark Council onto a different, more subtle approach. They begin taking over the Ministry while talking Fudge into enacting a New World Order (heritage + education). The freed Death Eaters also begin hunting down and executing or converting their old enemies, making the deaths seem like accidents.
2014
Finally collecting the final piece for his strange project, he begins following the instructions that have been floating inside his mind for months. Once he's finished, he discovers that he's unknowingly created his very own blue-bladed lightsaber. He immediately sets to learning and mastering the use of the weapon.
Following Umbridge's egotistical recommendation, Fudge manages to talk the ICW into restarting the old Triwizard Tournament and getting it to take place at Hogwarts. However, much to their great confusion, Hogwarts makes an absolutely pathetic showing, coming in dead last at each Task. By the end of the year, Umbridge is forced to drop the ban on practical magic exercises and allow the students to practice their spells (too little too late for the past two years' worth of 5th and 7th Years).
2015
Remus purchases the St. Kilda Archipelago (particularly Hirta) of Scotland and hires a team of dwarves to build a castle (based on Conwy) using Sirius' gold. It is their birthday present to Harry, giving him a place to live and train as he desires. They also throw up numerous protection wards and barriers around the castle. At Harry and Sirius' urging, Remus invites several werewolf families he knows are good people to come and live in the castle as well. During the Full Moon, they can roam the entire island without fear (especially since Harry can subdue them if need be). Harry builds a garden and greenhouse, growing his own vegetables and using the plant life to help him meditate on the Force.
Wanting to be able to protect and fend for themselves, the other Werewolf families start approaching Castle Tython (what Harry named it) and asking permission to settle the lands around it. A werewolf community gets started around the castle, using both magic and technology. Meeting with a former SAS soldier, Harry encourages the man to start training all of the werewolves in the art of war, to give them a new confidence and change them from being mangy beasts to proud warriors and soldiers. The werewolves (especially the men) are more than eager to start training once the rumor has had time to start circulating. The werewolves divide themselves up into several classes: the farmers, the soldiers, and the smiths, each equally important in their own ways.
Dumbledore rebuilds the Phoenix Order, believing that Voldemort has returned. Rather than try to fight the resurgent Death Eaters, he sets up a watch on the Hall of Prophecy and tries to find Harry. Dumbledore gets close a few times, even asking/ordering Remus to bring the boy in for his own protection, but Remus refuses each time.
The Dark Council uses this to their advantage by taking control of the Ministry even more than before. They also organize their own Harry Hunts to kill the boy before Dumbledore can get to train him against them. The Dark Council is both amused, alarmed, and interested to learn that the Werewolves were apparently disappearing from the Magical World to places unknown. They decide to put a bounty out on the werewolves, information on where they're going and why.
2016
After sharing his beloved Star Wars comics and stories with the Werewolves, Harry unintentionally caused them to decide to emulate the Mandalorians and become super-soldier mercenaries and warriors. Their highest allegiance would always be their families and Castle Tython, but they all held Harry in the very high respect for giving them a foundation to build and grow upon. Harry meanwhile begins getting more and more interested in the going-ons of the Wizarding World since he's seen less and less of Tonks since the Dark Council came to power. He puts his lightsaber and combat training into overdrive, sensing the impending darkness that was about to sweep over the lands.
As the New Order finally starts taking effect, Umbridge realizes that she can no longer directly threaten the students. Instead, she creates the Inquisitor Squad as a means of sabotaging the Muggleborns, officially they were 'representatives of the Ministry' to maintain the standards and discipline of the school. Though technically the same as the Prefects, they are much more selective and vicious in applying their 'punishments'.
Frustrated with his continuous failures to get Harry, Dumbledore decides to deal with the Horcruxes himself. But his arrogance causes him to get cursed by one and then killed by another. He took the secrets of the Horcruxes to the grave because of his arrogance, paranoia, and controlling mindset. Only the new Potions Professor Horace Slughorn suspected their existence but was too cowardly to speak up.
2017-2025
After studying abroad, Voldemort finally returns to England to check up on his old self's followers and see how they're handling themselves. What he finds that his minions have done an exceptional job of reforming the Wizarding World in his absence, but he still summons them and asserts himself as their master. He began claiming that he'd been reborn into his younger and more powerful self, but at the cost of losing many of his memories. He demonstrates some of the newfound powers that he'd stolen from a secret magic cult in Asia by unleashing a torrent of lightning upon Severus Snape and then killing him via a crushing telekinetic Choke. Voldemort decides to arm his Death Eaters with a powerful new weapon he'd come across, and began instructing them in the basics of swordsmanship to help them adapt to the lightsaber.