Sirius not only agreed to fund and 'chaperone' the extended trip, he even offered to use his newly made connections to secure a round-trip vacation to one of the areas that didn't allow the Knight Bus to go.

Asia.

Naturally when Harry thought to open up the trip to some of his Otaku friends (mostly because Amelia had a wand aimed at some of his more...sensitive...anatomy if he didn't invite her) he had a brilliant idea.

Make it an educational trip in the name of opening up more exchange students from outside Europe. Even if it meant bringing in some of the teachers.

At least this time he wouldn't have to deal with his 'mother' being unhappy about him being alone for weeks on time in between school months.

In the end, Sirius only had to open the way for a large group of students interested in Asian magic and schooling, because there was no way his sudden new fortunes would be able to pay for it.

And unlike Hogwarts, Avalon wasn't above asking for donations to pay for a large 'school trip' that just happened to double as a way for one of the students to reconnect with their godparent.

Harry presented his attempt at a necklace to suppress the animal instincts of the phoenix, and Black Wing looked it over.

"Why a necklace? And don't I didn't notice you added extra runes to this."

"It's spelled so that it becomes something of a collar when I shift into phoenix form. No point in dropping the thing just because it happened to slip off my neck as a bird. I've also charmed it so that it can withstand up to dragon fire, since I haven't got anything else to base it off of. Mostly because only a pure blood would be stupid enough to try jumping into an active volcano, and they obviously wouldn't know about the other dangers that come with it."

Dangers like toxic fumes, radiation, and the crushing weight of lava.

Black Wing snorted in agreement at that assessment of pure bloods.

"I'll give you credit for at least coming up with a decent start, but dragonfire isn't nearly as hot as the fire that comes off a phoenix when it bursts into flames. And the breed you've landed is even hotter, because it lives in active volcanoes and breeds during hurricane season."

Harry had an odd look on his face.

"Why would it only breed during hurricane season?"

Black Wing had an amused expression on his face.

"From what I understand lightning quickens the...ahem...male phoenix while the female uses the currents to stay aloft longer while they mate. If they hit a particularly good one at the right angle, then there's a chance they might have three eggs, or possibly four."

"Fascinating. So what's next?"

"First we see what you did wrong on these rune sequences. If you want to fly with wings, you're going to do it one step at a time...and don't try asking Sirius for help either."

"I've heard how long it took him to achieve his dog form. I have no intention of half-assing this," said Harry flatly. Two years to fully turn into a dog was ridiculous. Taking it one step at a time and understanding how things worked sounded much better.

That way if something went wrong, he would have a chance to fix it and get it right.

"Good. Because if there's one thing that annoys me while teaching it's to deal with someone with the same motivation as Ronald Weasley when it comes to homework. At least you seem to enjoy improving yourself and going the extra mile."

"Who's Ron Weasley?"

"Ask the twins about their youngest brother," came Black Wing's off-hand reply.

Harry did, and the second he heard even a fragment of how unpleasant the boy was he made a point to avoid him if at all possible.

Horrible table manners (he was just barely civilized enough to use a fork, knife and spoon properly), very little hygiene (he rarely brushed his teeth or bathed), was an absolute bastard to the Slytherin or Dark aligned families because he automatically 'assumed they would become Death Eaters', and he bullied the weaker students in order to get them to do his homework. How he made it to third year was a bit of a mystery, because he hated work and had the lowest grades next to two Slytherins named Crabbe and Goyle, and even they were considered higher on the student totem pole than Ron. They at least bathed regularly, if only because Draco reminded them to.

Harry had a plan, and it was guaranteed to at the very least kill the boredom he currently felt.

He approached "Professor" Black Wing with a proposal, since Zelretch hadn't been of much use at all, even with the amusement his trolling brought to those who weren't his victims.

"Yes?"

"How would you like to play around with a ship that travels through time and space and is powered by an eleventh-dimensional being tied to the mainframe of the ship itself?" asked Harry seriously.

"Go on."

"I have access to a planet where someone invited past the ward scheme can procure a ship called a TARDIS, or Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. With it you could literally travel to any when or where in time and space, provided it doesn't cross your own time stream. There are certain events that are considered Time-Locked, and others where time can be changed like if a twentieth century human were killed in the thirteenth," said Harry.

Black Wing was clearly interested, if only because this wasn't something he often came across.

"Each ship automatically comes with a 'bigger on the inside' room scheme, a translator for all but the oldest of languages such as the Universal Language or Gallifrey's native tongue, and can even change the outside shape of the hull. There's also a standard notice-me-not charm on the hull and a siege mode which turns it into a box."

"Interesting. What's in it for you if you happen to give me one of these...ships."

"I need help with giving it some extra places to travel, and possibly the languages."

"Inter-dimensional travel, I take it?" said Black Wing, openly amused.

"Exactly. Humans have breached the dimensions before, but it cooked the planet. Using magic however wouldn't have that drawback, because any holes made would automatically seal themselves since you would be using natural pathways instead of forcing a new one to open."

"The Yggdrasil theory, correct?"

Harry nodded.

The Multi-verse theory, or Yggdrasil theory if you were magical, stated that for every planet there was an alternate where things were either slightly different or very different indeed. Things like a Harry who was pure Light, or one that was the most evil bastard imaginable.

Harry mostly wanted to visit the original "Doctor" and give him a bloody nose for dumping him on his ex-companion. Well, that and drive him nuts trying to find the 'Time Lord' that managed to avoid the destruction of Gallifrey...though it wasn't exactly what he thought happened.

One of the few memories Harry could recall without having the watch on him was the truth of what happened to Gallifrey, the home world of the Time Lords.

Everyone thought the Doctor had used the Moment to destroy the Time Lords and Daleks.

In reality the Moment played a fast one on the Doctor, and tricked him into sending it into an alternate pocket dimension where time was frozen.

The thing was, 'she' had to break one of the rules of time, which was never cross your own timeline to pull it off. As a result (and to avoid a nasty paradox) the 3 Doctors who had been involved had their memory forcibly suppressed.

However, since he wasn't the Doctor and came into being before the incident happened, his memory of the event wasn't blocked. Though the only reason he remembered it at all was because the War Doctor had his recollection of the events scrambled by the regeneration process.

Since he wasn't part of the events personally, there was no need to block the memory.

Besides, since there wasn't any Doctor in this universe...his original half had looked extensively before concluding he died alongside his people or never dealt with humans long enough to be noticed in recent history.

Considering he had looked thoroughly for anyone calling themselves "Doctor" that happened to coincide with mysterious happenings, deaths, or other anomalies...and found squat. Not even the familiar blue box popped up.

Which was rather disappointing, because he could have dumped Rose on him and be done with it.

He was just glad that he was able to find Gallifrey in this universe, even if the Time Lords had apparently been wiped out by a plague and not the Daleks. At least they left behind their technology and knowledge. And the plague itself had been wiped out eons ago, without any carriers.

"Sounds interesting enough. What's the time frame we're looking at?"

"Until I graduate, by then the teachers have agreed to return the watch since I kept having trouble sleeping. There's another project I thought you might be interested in doing..."

"And what's that?"

"Putting an eleventh-dimensional being into a body, preferably a cyborg or android. Biological have trouble coping with that level," said Harry, remembering an episode with the 'Eleventh' Doctor where the TARDIS was put into a "humanoid" body. It was titled "The Doctor's Wife".

"Hmm...well if nothing else at least you have some intriguing ideas of how to cure my current level of boredom...which was more that I could ever say of my Hogwarts years."

Honestly after fourth year he was glad to leave that drafty old castle.

"On an unrelated note, what was your plan for your second avatar? I overheard the teachers saying that since you got the 'mental upgrade' they were thinking of letting you create another a year early."

They limited the avatars to two per person as a safety precaution, because most wizards couldn't handle more than that. And the second was usually kept in digital form while the first had a holographic self.

Harry was unusual in that he could support three, and that was because his 'first' avatar was technically a spirit bound to him...one that he planned on fixing so that the spirit had an actual body by tampering with a 'time-locked event'. As long as it didn't destroy the universe or meddle with magic best not thought about, the teachers could care less.

Coincidentally those that graduated from Avalon had a slightly different set of morals than those of Hogwarts, who hated to push the boundaries of science. For example they didn't consider 'necromancy' a dark magic unless you both failed it spectacularly (thus creating a zombie apocalypse) and were caught by the idiot pure bloods who ran the Ministry.

It was the little things that made lesser (read: sane) men cry that made life worth living.

Case in point, Harry fully planned to test the sanity level of the Doctor by acting like Luna Lovegood on a sugar high.

That had been an entertaining evening, but no where near as funny as when she got her hands on those 'special brownies' the eighth years had given out to the students before the teachers confiscated them...and ended up eating.

On a completely unrelated note, the students learned pretty quick that hallucinogenic plants/drugs/items and Seer's blood combined with recent Fae heritage plus magic meant that some of the creatures most people didn't have a hope in hell of seeing suddenly became visible...or were dreamed up by said witch.

Personally Harry was inclined to believe either theory, all he knew was that he got the fun of watching his sister Hermione's head explode trying to 'disprove' them. Magic only knew Black Wing had a good laugh watching Hermione trying to convince herself that the creatures didn't exist.

Definitely more fun than Hogwarts, according to Black Wing, the twins, and Luna.

"Originally I was going to go phoenix, but since that's my animagi form I'm going to choose Celebi."

Black Wing blinked.

"Why Celebi?"

"Because in fifth year they teach you to synch up with your avatar like they would with unison devices in Nanoha, and there's no way I'm synching up with a pessimist like Archer."

Black Wing snorted. Pessimist was putting it mildly.

"Why not another Servant?"

"Because we both know Archer would try to 'subtly' shift me to Saber, and I'm not stupid enough to summon her. I could try to recreate Rin, if only for the giggles I'd get from seeing the pained look on his face, but that would get boring eventually too. And there's no way I could come close to recreating you, which is also out. You're just too damn weird."

Black Wing smirked.

"I noticed you said nothing about Rider, Gilgamesh, Illya, Sakura, Lancer, Caster or Berserker."

"Three of them are Greek, which I am not going to touch with a ten-foot-pole, one of them is a battle maniac, one's got a bizarre split personality, one has a brother fetish, and the last one might be funny for about five minutes, but would get old quickly. Not to mention the fact I don't have a death wish, which is what would happen if I accidentally summoned Gilgamesh and the same summoning issue was somehow recreated with him."

"True."

Gilgamesh would overreact...and badly...if he found out some wizard had summoned him along with a Faker. And without any command seals, Harry would be a sitting duck.

"You could always use a game character."

"Hmm... Tenebrae from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New Age, Okami from Okami, or Chibitarasu, from the DS version... Hell, I managed to convince Hermione to make her second avatar Gatomon, because of what she turns into later."

Hermione, strangely enough, had a thing for angels. Harry didn't bother to ask, but he assumed it had something to do with the fact Dan was from a Catholic family and one of the first books Hermione read was a bible.

Hence why she loved the idea of having a cat that could turn into a female angel that could kick ass. She already loved his first suggestion, since Rein was able to sort through legalize in a matter of seconds rather than hours.

She still wasn't an Otaku though.