another lame start..i thought this will be new story but alas, same as the first concept.. is it be so hard to make this more cooler and dont make hydrus spill his secret to all or better to anyone. Be more secretive or in short term make it mature story..

Nice start on this sequel.

I do wonder how the British Wizarding World will react if it's a muggleborn witch that defeats Voldemort, preferably in front of lots of witnesses?

just have an evil Dumbles pulling Riddle's strings.

First off - I'm so glad you skimmed over the outline of the last story. The most irritating thing about stories where someone goes to the past is when the character goes over the original story in detail. So that's a big plus.
Second - I love the way you dealt with the whole scene. I think you've made James and Lily's reactions very believable.
If you decided to just leave the story as it is you could always flesh it out with a second chapter showing Harry's reaction to meeting them after he left their house.
I do think it would be too easy to repeat much of the last story.

However I do think there are many different things you could have Harry do while he takes care of Voldemort. He could perhaps teach at Hogwarts. In A Brand New Start, Hydrus is still quite young and very wary of Dumbledore, so this and his desire to protect Harry keep him away from Dumbledore. However, now Hydrus is much older and Harry will still be in James and Lily's care, so he doesn't have to be as cautious.

On the relationship front, you could have Hydrus simply become close friends with someone who he tells at least part of his secrets to, and either leave it at that or slowly develop it into a romance.

All in all I love your writing and I hope you find a plotline to continue this story with.
Until next time.

I think you should continue. I have faith that you can create a new story that won't mirror HPBNS.

Last time the tale was Hydrus' tale so why not change the focus of the story up after the ground work is laid and allow a butterfly effect change the tale.

ahhh so excited! Love this chapter! ANd i dont think youll be recreating the same timeline. You have lily and James alive this time so that already is plenty that you can do with. I mean if anything I guess you can tone back what Harry does with the technology but really I think youll write another amazing story.

Don't see how it could be close enough to your last story with the Potters alive. For one, they and Harry will be living at a different house. Two, Sirius and Remus will not be living with him. Three, while he may start up some businesses as in the last life, he can have others run them sooner and enjoy his time traveling and visiting the family he never got to know.

Great start. I look forward to seeing what's in store for this one.

This is a great start too the story. Something that you can do is have him connect with Lunas mom and they can work together this time around. Maybe forgive the goblins and try to make them happy by trying to change laws and stuff. Maybe try to get a junior Hogwarts started or get new classes started. Try to get the government cleaned up more. A possibility at the end is if you don't wanna do another branch off is he finds a way to give up the immortality or finds a way to destroy the hallows so he can go off on his own great adventure and see his original family and friends again

I think it's quite easy to make the timeline different this time around. Since James and Lily are going to be alive then there is no need for Hydrus, Sirius and Remus to raise Harry and hide him from Dumbledore.

You could also have Harry join as an auror. I got this idea from another time travel fic I read where befriends his dad, becomes an auror who becomes Moody's apprentice and then uses his new status to persuade the then head of the DMLE Barty Crouch Sr into creating new policies that would help them capture death eaters a lot quicker like searching suspicious families for dark artifacts and using that situation to find horcruxes like the diary.

I also think that Hydrus could still convince Sirius to join the Wizengamot along with James so that they can ensure that Harry has a safe and happy life since Hydrus is probably the richest wizard in the world with all the money he has acquired and no one is going to out-bribe him. They could also use their political power to prevent Umbridge from passing that Werewolf legislation so that Remus doesn't have to hide so much and also prevent Fudge from even thinking about running for minister.

Furthermore, since Lily is a muggleborn and also the smartest witch of her generation I think that she could work with Hydrus to make using electronics in magical areas so much more easier and give her something to do while she's not looking after Harry.

Maybe in this timeline Hydrus can finally get Arthur to work for him in his business assuming that he starts it again in this timeline so that Arthur doesn't have to keep wandering who is always putting money into his family vault.

sweet

Well if it gets hard to write you could always use the hopping timelines is equivalent to hopping universes excuse and make it crossover. If you do that though, I'd recommend subtlety which rules out most of the sci-fiction that takes place on earth. If it doesn't impact past-history it's a go.

Other than that he can incorporate changes into this timeline based on what he learned about the other one. Competition is good but Mrs Lovegood may need some subtle pushes in the right direction to assuage her ego on the magitech front. Along with tons of other items.

I'm willing to go along for the ride, just give it the attention it'll need to stand on its own.

Nice start looking forward for the next chapter.
It would be epic if you, when you finish this fic the sequel would be in when his parents were in school. You can make it so that lily finds ( creates ) a spell that changes his age.

There is an easy way to make sure you don't repeat the timeline from a brand new start. Just let the dimension travel be more extreme this time. If such a many parallel worlds theory would be right it would logically also contain those that are very differen up to the point where different laws of physiks would apply.

So he might fall into a world where is future knowledge and knowledge about peoples stands is just off by a slight enough margin that it doesn't help him so much. And where magic works in a way that he has to reinvent all the helpfull stuff (and likley won't be able to with different core workings of this energy/power).

You also could make the changes of him arriving just be drasticall enough. I.e. he accidentially exposed magic to the muggles and now the whole game is extremly different from what he is used to.