Disclaimer: I don’t own Harry Potter, Stargate SG-1, or Stargate Atlantis.

Balance

By Stargatesg1fan1

Chapter 1- Survival

Nine year old Harry Potter had finally had enough. Ever since he could remember he was belittled and called a freak by his relatives. Every year that he could remember his birthday present was a beating, with each getting progressively worse as the years wore on. Harry was not a stupid child. Every time he would tell someone in authority or try to run away the next day he would be back at Number 4 Privet Drive without memory of the running away, and none of the people he told could remember either.

You may wonder how he knew he ran away if he didn’t have a memory of it. He had taken to writing a journal where he wrote down everything of importance that happened to him. The journal would tell him that he ran away but he never got far. This made Harry have an extreme distrust of authority figures or most of humanity in general.

Harry learned to adapt to the situation that he was stuck at privet drive until he figured out the situation. It was after these beatings that he really started to get suspicious. Some of the injuries were pretty severe ones. Because his birthday fell during the summer holidays his uncle Vernon apparently felt that it was ok to go all out. The suspicious event that occurred after each beating was that his body healed itself overnight while lying in his cupboard of a bedroom.

The healing seemed to work best for now when he slept for a night. This ability was complemented by the ability to regrow his hair overnight. That event occurred when Harry’s Aunt Petunia cut all of his hair really short and Harry was so stressed that he wished it would grow back when he went to sleep, the next morning it was back.

The last nail in the coffin so to speak was when Harry was being chased by his cousin Dudley and his gang by his school. Harry wished really hard that he was somewhere where Dudley wouldn’t find him. The next thing he knew he was overcome with a squeezing sensation and he appeared on his school roof.

Harry documented all of these occurrences in his journal. These events and others lead him to one conclusion. Harry had powers or abilities that the people around him didn’t have. Another conclusion Harry drew from these events was that his Aunt and Uncle knew something about the abilities. They would call him freak and mention his unnaturalness whenever they beat him or punished him.

Harry wanted to know what they knew about his powers. To accomplish this goal he would need to make them tell him what they knew. The Dursleys only seemed to know one language and that was violence and intimidation. Harry would need an ability that would allow him to scare the Dursleys.

Teleporting would allow Harry to do that if he could develop it to the point where he could take another person with him. He could teleport his uncle up very high, let him fall to the ground, and then teleport himself back to safety. The problem with using that ability is that it would be a one time thing. He could get the height wrong and kill his uncle instead of injuring him.

The healing ability really had no ability to intimidate his relatives because it was all internal. If the ability to lengthen his hair was related to being able to change the shape of other body parts and features then it had one application that Harry could think of to harm his relatives. Harry could make himself look like his uncle and go commit crimes while under the guise of Vernon Dursley. While this was satisfying it would not accomplish Harry goals as easily as another ability. Plus whatever was bringing Harry back to the Dursleys when he ran away and making everybody forget would probably just make everybody forget again.

Harry was a pretty avid science fiction reader. In a lot of the science fiction he read some of the characters had the ability of telekinesis. Harry particularly liked the Jean Grey character in X-Men that he was able to read at the local library. Her powers were telepathy and telekinesis.

Harry recognized a correlation between all of the events where his powers manifested themselves. They all occurred when Harry was in a strongly emotional state. This meant that Harry would need to learn to control his emotions. To this end Harry checked out several books from the local library on meditation.

Harry would wait until the Dursleys were asleep and then practice the meditation techniques in his cupboard. The first few weeks that Harry tried to meditate he met with little success. It wasn’t until the third week that Harry started to make any progress. Harry found a sense of peace and calm wash over himself. He appeared to be in a place surrounded by darkness with small silver clouds floating around him.

Harry willed himself to float over to one of the clouds and carefully touched it. He found himself immersed in a memory of when he was six and got his birthday beating. Harry pulled back from the memory and looked around. There was a massive sea of memory clouds floating around him. Harry decided that the next step in his emotional control was to sort out his emotions which were tied to the memory clouds.

Over the course of the next six months Harry sorted the memory clouds into filing cabinets that he willed into existence. Harry found that he had few positive memories. The only times he could recall being happy was when he was in the library or reading. A good deal of those nights Harry cried himself to sleep because of the emotions. Over time it got easier to deal with the emotions.

Harry also found another positive aspect of this memory sorting was the ability to instantly recall anything he ever learned in school. Harry had always been very careful to never score better than his cousin in school because the one time he did he was beaten for it very badly. With his new ability he had to keep himself from answering every question correctly. Harry decided that if he succeeded to get leverage over his relatives his grades were going to change quickly.

It also increased Harry’s ability to speed read to a whole new level. He would just have to scan a page for a second and would have the entire page committed to memory. It wouldn’t allow him to absorb the information into his conscious mind at will until he sorted the information into his file cabinets every night, but this was easily done.

Harry found all of his memories that were of before he came to the Dursleys and the instances where he tried to run away or tell authorities about his Dursley abuse appeared to be blocked. This confirmed his suspicions. He couldn’t seem to unblock them so he set them aside for later.

Harry found in this place that he decided to call his mind’s center a large glowing ball of energy. When Harry eventually learned how to immerse himself in the energy he was overcome with a feeling of power he had never experienced before. It was a very awesome feeling.

Harry was unable to access all of the energy. There appeared to be an energy net or shield cutting off access to his powers. There also seemed to be a sickly green energy blob in the shape of his scar that was siphoning off some of his energy. Harry could sense that this energy scar was foreign to his body and quite malicious. Harry was able to sever the connection that the scar had with his energy core but it was still in his mind. This alarmed Harry quite a bit.

The shield that was around his energy core gave Harry an idea. Harry was able to transfer the shield off his energy core to the energy scar in his center. When Harry did this his energy core expanded to 3 times it’s original diameter. Now when Harry immersed himself in the energy it was amazing.

Harry was starting to concentrate on seeing if he had telekinetic abilities. Like the meditation he wasn’t too successful at first, but he didn’t give up. When Harry first started off he started with a piece of paper. It didn’t move at first but then he concentrated on willing the energy to travel down his arm from his core and out to surround the piece of paper. He was eventually able to will it to lift off the ground.

It became easier when he was able to will some of the energy into his eyes to try to see the energy travel down his arm and surround the paper. At first the “pathways” that allowed the energy to travel down his arm were rather thin but over time they began to expand. When Harry moved the shield off his core and onto the scar the energy pathways went through a very rapid expansion. It was actually quite painful at first, Harry passed out in his cupboard.

Eventually Harry got to the point where he was able to lift larger and larger objects. At this point Harry was able to use the energy to lift his uncle’s car. Harry had to check that out at night when everybody else was asleep. He had to teleport outside the house because his cupboard was kept locked at night.

Over this time Harry had been working on his teleportation, healing, and shape shifting his features abilities. Like the others it was slow going. The teleportation he discovered required extreme concentration at first but gradually required less and less as he practiced. It was very loud at first when Harry disappeared or appeared.

Harry had been studying physics to figure out some of the theory behind his abilities. He figured it might help to develop these abilities or others he might have. The telekinesis must be manipulation of the force of gravity. It appeared that there were low levels of the energy in his core everywhere and that he could use his energy to will objects to move through the background energy as he wanted.

The loud pops he heard echoing back at him when he teleported into enclosed spaces at first was caused by the rapid displacement of air when his molecules displaced the air molecules. He was very glad that the air molecules weren’t rigid enough that they resisted displacement too much. Harry discovered that by willing himself to teleport slower the noise disappeared, at least to the capability of a human to hear.

His ability to shift his features had improved greatly over the months too. He found that by suffusing the area of the body that he wanted to shift with the energy it was pretty easy to will the body part to change. He could now make himself look like just about anybody he wanted. It was painful to change body sizes but Harry had learned to deal with pain before he started to experiment with his abilities because he had to deal with it on a daily basis during beatings.

When he started to experiment with the center he discovered the ability to lessen the pain by willing a control console for his body into existence. At first he had to be in the center to reduce the pain but after much practice he could reduce pain to non existent levels while in his conscious mind.

Harry figured with his telekinetic abilities at the level that they were it was time to confront his relatives. He waited until they were in their bedrooms one night about 7 months after he started to explore his abilities and walked into his Aunt and Uncles room without knocking. The reaction was expected.

“What the hell are you doing in here boy,” Uncle Vernon bellowed. “I’ve come for some answers that were a long time in coming uncle,” Harry replied. Harry’s uncle advanced on him as if to punch him, but Harry used his telekinesis to fling the man against the wall and hold him there.

“Now none of that uncle Vernon,” Harry sneered at the fat man. “You will never lay a hand on me again or I will end your pathetic life.” To put an emphasis on his words Harry closed his fingers a little bit causing his uncle’s throat to constrict using telekinesis. Harry observed his Aunt’s reactions and was not surprised to note that she was afraid and pale but didn’t appear to be too horribly surprised.

“I can tell by your reaction Aunt Petunia that you appear to know something about my abilities.” “I’ve suspected that for a while since you seem to enjoy calling me a freak.” “You will explain right now everything you know or I will start removing body parts from your husband.”

With a nod of her head she began to speak, “My sister and your father were a witch and a wizard.” Harry was pretty good at reading deception in people and she didn’t appear to be lying. “Go on,” Harry prompted. For the next hour Petunia proceeded to tell Harry about what she knew of the wizarding world.

Harry learned that his parents were murdered by a dark wizard named Voldemort. He learned that the headmaster of a school left Harry on the Dursley’s doorstep the night his parents were killed. He learned that the wizard apparently erected blood wards around number 4. That explained what the shield around number 4 that he could see if he pushed power into his eyes was. It was actually quite weak, Harry thought.

Petunia appeared to be very jealous of her sister. She appeared to have allowed that jealousy to grow into hatred which she passed onto Harry. That night Harry learned how petty humans could be. She may have hated her sister but because of the jealousy she listened to what she said about the wizarding world.

Apparently the war his parents were involved in was over a faction of purebloods not wanting to relinquish power, so they went on a campaign to exterminate non purebloods or people who didn’t share their ideals. So basically this war was a bunch of terrorists who used guerilla warfare tactics to terrorize a small inbred community. Harry was not amused at the situation he now found himself in.

He found out that in about a year and a half he would probably be getting a letter to go to the school the headmaster who left him here ran. Harry used his centering technique to suppress the rage he felt towards this headmaster. Petunia informed him that from the letter she learned that apparently Harry had vanquished the dark lord. Harry knew immediately that this would mean he had a great deal of enemies.

Harry made Petunia give him the letter which he kept for future purposes. When Harry heard enough for now he released Vernon from the wall and spoke the new house rules. “Here is how things are going to go around here from now on.” “You will not speak any demeaning words to me at any time in the future.” “This includes demeaning words about my parents.” “I will do no more chores ever.” “I will be moving into Dudley’s second bedroom and will start to get decent sized meals.”

“You stay out of my way I’ll stay out of yours.” “Just so you know I’ve taken the opportunity to record every single beating or abuse you have ever handed out to me.” “I have pictures of everything.” “If I fail to keep contact with certain people on a daily basis those pictures and documents go directly to the newspapers and police.” “So if your thinking about retaliating, don’t.” “I don’t think you want the neighbors to realize what you have been up to.”

If there was one sure fire way to keep his relatives in line then it was to threaten to expose them to the neighbors. “If you violate any of my rules you receive broken bones.” “If the offences repeat you die.” “Nobody can prove a damn thing if I don’t touch you, and if you try to tell them I did magic they’ll have you committed before you know what’s going on.”

“Tomorrow Aunt Petunia you will drive me to this leaky cauldron so that I can go to Diagon Alley.” “I can find my own way back, I just can’t get there the first time.” With that finished Harry made his way out of their room and into Dudley’s second bedroom. Dudley’s second bedroom was scattered with broken toys everywhere. Any junk that looked like it wouldn’t be useful to repair Harry used his telekinesis to atomize. It was a pretty useful technique to be able to pull the molecules of an object apart. He opened the window and pushed the dust out.

Anything that he could later repair was pushed into the closet. Harry then made his way over to the small bed and lay down to think. He didn’t believe the energy he could harness was magical at all. More than likely it was some high energy that the physicists hadn’t been able to detect yet. Harry had managed to teleport into the local high school at night and started reading all of the books he had access to there. He was pretty good at any science up to a high school graduate level. He would need to see about finding college level materials.

There were no universities within easy walking distance of Surrey. Now that his relatives were sufficiently cowed he could unleash his full intellectual might at school. He figured that it would be pretty simple to jump grades to a high school senior at the beginning of next year and then graduate at the end of next year, right when he started at Hogwarts. It sounded like the isolation of the wizards from the mundane world was extreme.

In Harry’s opinion this was the height of folly. From his readings in history and philosophy Harry had learned isolation breeds misunderstanding. Misunderstanding leads to fear and fear leads people to do unspeakable things. If it was getting to the point where the wizards would come out into the mundane world during the last war and torture and kill and get away with it using memory modification then something needed to be done.

First Harry needed more information about the wizarding world. He would need to be skilled. This Dumbledore appeared to have plans for Harry that Harry didn’t think he would like. Harry suspected that he would be well known given the size of this community and what he did to this past dark lord. This Dumbledore probably sought to use Harry and manipulate him. He apparently hadn’t counted on the affects the beatings had on Harry’s personality.

Harry would need to use his shifting abilities to disguise himself tomorrow when he ventured into Diagon Alley. It wouldn’t do to give his hand away to Dumbledore too early in the game. Harry would set up at least 2 alternate identities and plenty of escape plans should something go wrong. He would have at least one of these identities continue his college education. There was probably some magical way to allow Harry to duplicate the degree certificates with the names of his other identities on them and to create records too.

Harry knew you could do mail correspondence college courses nowadays. Harry suspected from what his Aunt said about his father being an old line pureblood that he would have accounts at this Gringotts bank. He would check tomorrow and use this money to finance his plans. With these thoughts Harry centered himself and fell asleep.