-Teufel1987 Yeah, the friend-zoned and the relationship thing were just jokes made by James and Sirius, and Harry doesn't really care. He's not going to be in a relationship till he turns 13 at the least.

And as for your height comments, I had meant to write 20 cms, not ten cms (I fixed it). But the average height for 13 year olds is about 156 cm, and for fourteen year olds is 162 cm's, while for eleven year olds, it's 136 cms, so yeah, the numbers do work out in the end.

-Guest, who wrote

"Twelfth cousins? You do realize that it is estimated that the most unrelated you can be to someone is around 6th cousin. And talking genetically 2nd cousin is far enough a way there is no real change in birth defects (you can get into the math and there are slight increases as you more related but up to second they are so tiny compared to environmental factors for all practical purposes they don't exist, it hardly even matters for first cousins in fact though there is actually a small, though noticeable when looking at statics, increase in birth defects between first cousins compared to two random people)."

I really don't think that's true. Sixth cousins share one set of common great-grandparents seven generations up, and I'm pretty sure that any two random people will not have a common ancestor that close, especially if they have different ethnicities. I think what you're thinking of is six degrees of separation, not sixth cousins. And as for the birth defects thing, yeah, I agree it doesn't matter. Lily's comment was mainly intended for humor. But twelfth cousins is plausible, considering the inbreeding within the Black family and the magical population of the UK, in my fic it's 600,000 people.

-Guest who wrote

"Infantile snake nonsense. Use at least snakes(Adder,Grass and Smooth) which exist in england. You can't just place snakes there which live in different temperature conditions."

I did say he escaped from a zoo, and scarlet king snakes live in climates similar to those in England. Regardless, George and Reggie are probably not going to come again.

-Guest who wrote

"Please make the pairing Harry/Fleur/Tonks/Daphne/Astoria/Hermione/Luna/Susan/Hannah, or something similar,"

and to sujayroy30

The pairing has already been set to Harry/Fleur, and I have worked everything out on when they meet and all that stuff. No, I will not be adding another girl or more; Harry will only have one girlfriend at a time. And this fic will not be very favorable to Hermione either, though it will be quite favorable to Ron. While I don't have a problem with Harry having more than one girlfriend or future wife, I have already set the pairing. Additionally, if I were Harry, I wouldn't want more than one girlfriend; his time will be spent on his own projects, with minimal time spent with his girlfriend. Finally, I don't believe in love in first sight, and while I have no problem reading soul bond fics, I just can't write them. So Harry and Fleur will not magically fall in love by some veela connection or anything like that.

-DarkkEagle

Sorry, but Snape won't be the Potions professor at Hogwarts; Lily will be, as I think I've mentioned in a previous author's note. I'm trying to make Hogwarts the school for the best, and with teachers like Snape, it's just not possible. However, I've decided to alter the plotline that I was going for due to many reviews and messages asking about Snape. So, Snape will be playing a role in the fic, though he won't show up till Harry's fourth year.

-Mystolon

Right, so to your reviews about the wizarding world, Muggle borns are at a disadvantage upon entering the wizarding world because they basically have to start fresh. Meaning basically all money inherited from parents is about half-value in the wizarding world. I wouldn't really call it inflation, however, because wizards don't really interact with Muggles, and don't sell their goods to Muggles. Wizards can create goods much more efficiently through use of house elves, essentially slave labor, and magic, and therefore pay less for their goods. I can go into everything I learnt from macroeconomics, the CPI and the GDP, and all that stuff, but I won't, because that involves me actually remembering what they are. But basically, the galleon is worth 100 pounds and the average income of the members of members of the wizarding world is 40 galleons, hence 80 galleons per household. However, wizarding families can still be poor because with a higher standard of living (double the non-magical standard of living) they are relatively poor. Also, the Weasleys have lost all of their family fortune, and Arthur deliberately takes a low paying job, which will pay 20 galleons in my fic (per month), and Molly doesn't work, giving the household an income of 20 galleons per month, or 2000 pounds per month. For a family of seven, whose kids have to go to boarding school, that's pretty rough.

To your review on Voldemort and his followers, I never said that all of his followers were in English. There are about 620,000 wizards in UK, going at a rate of 1% of the magical world.

Now, here's what I have planned for the future chapters. I haven't written chapter 7 and on yet, though, so those may change. I've decided to stop being one chapter ahead, as I usually end up majorly changing the chapters anyways.

Chapter 6: Month before Hogwarts

Chapter 7: Train Ride, Sorting, and First Week

Chapter 8: To Halloween

Chapter 9: To Christmas

Chapter 10: Second Term

Chapter 11: Second Term Part 2

Chapter 12: End of First Year

Chapter 13: First Year Summer Part 1

Chapter 14: First Year Summer Part 2

FINAL NOTE: The last chapter was a bit dry and dialogue heavy, and I didn't really get into what Harry was feeling during his time with James and Lily or with his friends. I'm going to try to fix that with this chapter and give a final word on Harry's feelings toward his family before moving on. This has the side effect of making this chapter a bit of a fluff chapter, in which not much gets done.

And sorry for inflating the word count with all these Author's Notes and responses to reviews, but I felt that I needed to address some of the concerns that readers were making. In case you want to know, without all of these AN's, the chapter is about 4k words long.

Chapter 6: Reflection

"Curious, very curious," the old man said. As Harry reflected on Charles's choice of wand, he reflected on his own experiences the month before Hogwarts.

The last month before Hogwarts passed by very quickly for Harry. He convinced Lily and James to allow him to say goodbye to all of his friends from school, which meant that the Potter family got to visit the Muggle world again. Harry visited all of his friends, telling them that he was going to a boarding school up north and that he had been adopted, so he would not be staying there. Despite Harry's cold and aloof nature, after he wrapped the Dursleys under his thumb, Harry was able to make many friends at school. It started when he stopped Dudley's gang from bullying a couple of first graders into giving him their lunch money; everyone at school hated Dudley's gang, they were just too afraid to do anything about it. After that, he became one of the most popular kids at school, and he was friendly with everyone. Harry's friends were all sad to see him go, but happy that the Dursleys moved out.

Apparently, it was common knowledge in the neighborhood that the Dursleys were sentenced for doing something (nobody knew) and that they would be in jail for life. Even Dudley would be in jail for life. Harry was pleased at that outcome, his revenge finally complete. Number four Privet Drive, however, was quickly becoming a haunted house, and people in the street would dare others to run up to it and touch the house for bets. People swore that they saw shadows appearing in the house during the daylight, and at night the lights would flicker on and off. Harry didn't know if this was true or not, but regarded these rumors as a small community's imagination at play.

Alex ended up hanging out with the three boys more, since she actually had respect for Harry's intelligence and knowledge for the Muggle world. Harry usually spent his time learning about the vast wizarding world, as his introduction barely covered the rich history and the myriad of customs, skills, and creatures native to the wizarding world. When he wasn't learning about the wizarding world, he was usually at the Black's house. Charles's description of Tony as his friend didn't even begin to describe their relationship; they were closer than most brothers, and did everything together.

The four made frequent excursions to the Muggle world, with Charles and Tony being wary of many of the products after the Red Bull prank that left them up the entire night. They were at a distinct disadvantage, as there was a market for guides for Muggleborn wizards to the wizarding world, but there was no guide for wizards to the Muggle world. Harry eventually told them what Red Bull was, and explained the Muggle world to them, but that was after he convinced Tony to go up to a bartender and ask for a Jack Daniel's. The resulting fallout almost got Tony arrested when he demanded his drink, and Harry had to use his powers to save Tony. Of course, Tony never got the drink, though he really wanted one after hearing what it was.

Harry once took them to a Muggle theme park, in which Tony and Charles were heavily bored. It seemed that even the fastest of rides could not compare to riding a high speed broom. They loved the games, though, and Charles spent fifty pounds trying to win a giant stuffed bear. He spent so much time and effort at it that the clerk just gave it to him, making Charles immensely proud. Alex didn't like the park much, calling the rides death traps and the games rip-offs. When Harry convinced her to go on the drop tower, however, she was screaming in fright, and even twenty minutes after the ride was pale and frightened. Tony took this once in a lifetime opportunity to scare and prank his sister, before she finally snapped out of it, and threatened to tell Sirius that the three boys had gone to a Muggle amusement park. Harry could see the devious logic behind the idea; if she told Sirius that those three had gone to an amusement park, she immediately would be assumed to have not gone; after all, if she did go, why would she tell?

The four kids played poker fairly frequently, about twice a week. During their third time playing, when Tony was frustrated at losing so much, Harry had noticed an assault on his mental shields. He quickly returned the attack, and traced it back to Tony. Harry wondered whether it was instinctual and accidental magic, or mind magic, that Harry had researched to be known as Legimency. And if it truly was Legimency, then why would Tony be so obvious? Perhaps it was a mixture of both; Harry remembered feeling angry when he was first able to use magic, but later was able to control it. What if Tony's emotions were subconsciously doing the same, using Legimency to attempt to win at the game in which he felt frustrated at. Regardless, Tony's technique did not work, and Tony seemed to have a mild headache for two weeks after the incident, though he seemed oblivious to what he did. Eventually, Charles and Tony got better at the game, and all four were skilled enough to have about equal odds of winning. It got kind of boring after that, so they learnt new card games from Harry, who taught them how to play hearts, deuces, and spoons; all non-gambling card games but interesting ones all the same. Of course, Harry could have just cheated at poker and looked into the other players' minds, but he did not want to, as it would ruin the game.

The family made a couple of trips to Diagon Alley with disguises on, and Harry got his own amulet that let him change his disguise. However, he figured out that he did not need it after experimenting with his metamorphagus powers, and realizing that he could change his hair color in addition to his eye color. No matter how hard he tried, however, he could not change anything else on his body. He probably had received the metamorphagus trait from Lily somewhere along the line, as the last known metamorphagus who was related to James was his great great great grandfather's fifth cousin, and the chance that the trait had skipped ten generations would be very low. On the other hand, the Black family (Tony's family) was rich with metamorphagi. Six of the twelve metamorphagi in the magical UK were at least sixth cousins of Tony, and there were many partial metamorphagi in the family. It was rumored that the original metamorphagi was a Black, and therefore all of the metamorphagi in the world were Blacks. Considering the fact that the Black family went back to the 800's, and the first recorded Metamorphagus was recorded in 722, Harry found this quite hard to believe. Still, it could be possible that the first recorded Metamorphagus's grandson founded the Black family. Regardless, all Harry really cared about was the fact that he was a partial metamorphagus.

Harry's adoption into the Potter family, however, was not quiet at all. It seemed that ever since Charles had defeated Voldemort, the Potter house had gone up in standing by a large margin. Founded in 1724, the Potter family was one of the newer families that had gotten a seat in the Wizengamot. Votes in the Wizengamot were acquired through money. By giving 50,000 galleons to the Ministry of Magic, a family could get one vote permanently, for all time regardless of whether the head of the family died. Additionally, votes were considered property, and could be given to others through wills or sold for money. The Potter family had 40 votes in the Wizengamot, as it was a relatively new family, but James was saving up for another vote. However, the Black family had acquired 843 votes, and had the funds to easily buy 100 more. Many of the old families had died out, making their votes null and void, but the current amount of votes in the Wizengamot was 12440, with the Malfoy family having the most at 892. Taxes were relatively low in the wizarding world as the government got most of its money from Wizengamot votes. There were usually 40 new votes being bought per year, which gave a large sum of 2,000,000 galleons to the British wizarding government. It was tradition for families to only buy a maximum of one vote per year, a tradition that most people followed for fear of looking bad. While that was not nearly as much per capita in taxes as the British Muggle government got, wizards paid for their own schools, and needed little national defense. The British magical government did not have an army, and employed 2000 wizards at an average price of 45 galleons per month, giving them more than 1,000,000 galleons per year for funding for the Department of Mysteries and Equipment for aurors and Ministry workers.

Back to Harry's adoption back into the Potter family, the Potters were hounded by the press after James Potter released the information. After all, no one knew that the Boy-Who-Lived had a twin. People were speculating why they disowned Harry in the first place, and what was wrong with him. All James had released was that Harry was disowned due to a previous mistake and sent to live with Muggles, but was re-adopted back into the Potter family.

And this brought Harry back around to the forefront of his circle of thought, that no matter what he reflected on he always cycled back to: what he thought about James and Lily. He had decided to see how it would play out at the Potter household before making a decision on what the do with James and Lily, and what to do with his life in general. After a month in the wizarding world, he decided that his goal in the wizarding world would be to take it over and reform it. Harry did not want to concern himself with the Muggle world, as it would be much harder to take the Muggle world over. To Harry, it seemed that it would be fairly easy to take over the British wizarding areas, and use that force to take over other countries. And Harry was not vengeful nor was he crazy; he just felt that by taking over the wizarding world, he could change it, making it much better. To tell the truth, Harry internally had an extremely high ego, which would come to anyone after gaining immense power over regular civillians when just seven years old. However he hid it well from the rest of the world, and he came across as very humble.

But Harry did have a few valid arguments. The Muggle governmental system and the way that Muggles did things in general were much better than the way wizards did things. In a position of power, Harry could slowly shift the attitude of the common people to be more supportive of Muggle ideas and Muggle inventions, and could bring the Muggle world into the magical world. And by the time that Harry stepped out of power, he could leave a beautiful magical world in his wake, full of equality for all, including Muggle-borns, vampires, werewolfs, house-elves, goblins, centaurs, and other intelligent magical creatures. The thing about a magical world was that with that much power, a utopia was achievable.

Harry still wasn't sure about how he felt toward James and Lily after judging them by staying for a month with them. He wanted to hate them; he really did. Although they had a reasonable excuse for leaving him with the Dursleys, they had no excuse for not checking up on him. He understood that it would be painful to see him having a good life and not being a part of it, but he withstood so much pain living at the Dursleys; could they not go through a fraction of that pain just to check up on him. And what was their guarantee that he would have a good life at the Dursleys? How did they know that Vernon and Petunia hated magic and didn't hate Lily. There were so many random variables that they couldn't have possibly have known how his life was going to turn out. And he tried so hard to hate them for that.

The other fault he had with James and Lily's return into his life was that it was untimely. Harry had all of his problems sorted out with the Dursleys for four years before James and Lily came. He was fine; no, he was more than fine, he was doing great. He was popular, had a good life, got to experiment with magic, and now it was all taken away from him. And for what? Just so that he could be returned with his parents and be a part of a nice happy family. Harry felt that he was too old for family, mentally, not physically. He had already experienced too much, had too many bad memories from his family to feel any pleasure from being around a happy family. Of course he took pleasure from conversing and playing games with adults and children, but not as a family. He needed a family when he was four years old, getting beaten by the fat whales known as the Dursleys, not when he was eleven and had taken care of all of his problems. And to think that they had the gall to just swoop right in and demand that he be taken. Even if it was consensual, they just took an eleven year old boy outside of where he grew up his whole life. They just sprung it on him, didn't even give him time to make a decision; no, they didn't even give him a choice. If Harry didn't have plans for the future, he never would have gone with them, and they probably would have demanded he come. They didn't even take into account that he would be leaving his friends and his entire childhood behind. Even if it wasn't a good childhood, it was still a part of him, and they dared to just take it away. If Harry really had not made peace with his abused past, his memories of his childhood would be strongly repressed, and he would have many psychological problems later in life. Even after his closure with his abused past, he needed at least a month for closure in his hometown. Fortunately, he was able to wind-teleport home every Thursday, when Charles played in a junior Quidditch league with Tony and James and Lily were working, so that he could hang out with his old friends and go back to the abandoned field. But Harry hated them for that.

And yet they had done nothing wrong. It was not like they were evil people, after all. All they had done was listened to a man who the entire magical world bowed down to: Albus Dumbledore. And Dumbledore had done no wrong either; he had merely taken a magical reading that was supposed to be the best. And when they found out about their mistakes, they made the changes needed to remedy the problem. No, he couldn't possibly hate them for that. After all, they were trying to send him to a better life.

Emotionally, Harry was going through another battle in his decision to hate them. He kept reminding himself of the pain and suffering that he had to go through at the abusive home of the Dursleys. And that could all be traced back to his parents. He had to suppress himself physically, emotionally, and mentally for six years of his life, and that was the result of the Potters abandoning him. And the Potters abandoned him. They just threw him away as if he were a bad egg, without a second of thought, just to come back into his life again because he had magic. What would happen if it turned out that all his magic was gone the next day? Would they just throw him away again?

But some part of Harry just connected with the Potters. Harry felt right when he was with the Potters, some part of him always wanted to stay with the Potters. He found comfort in his family, in the fact that they didn't shun him or rebuff him, or force him to do all of the chores in the house. James's laugh was still ringing through his head, as was Lily's smooth voice, and these sounds brought up memories of the wonderful times he had with his parents in the past month he was with them. Harry tried so hard to put on the scared little abused boy act to his parents without revealing his true nature, but every day he spent with his parents, his own personality grew closer and closer to the one he put on for the Potters, one of a boy who had just found a family and loved interacting with them. And the times he spent with his parents were amazing times. And the cold truth was that he tried to hate his parents but some part of him ended up loving them. It wasn't all of it, and it wasn't even half of it. It was the tiniest part of him that was genuinely affected by the things that they did for him every day. And each and every day, Harry's perspective on his parents changed.

But he could not reflect on that. He had to hate his parents, they abandoned him. They threw him out, they had no empathy for him when they did so. He had to crush any empathy that he felt for them in his decision. But even when thinking logically or emotionally, there were always counter arguments. Logically, they abandoned him for a good reason, but they should have checked up on him. Emotionally, he felt pain and suffering from the Dursleys that could be traced back to them, but he always felt good when he interacted with them. And so even after a month, Harry still hadn't made a decision on how he felt about his parents.

And if he truly was putting an act on for them, then what did it mean about his friends? Was he just putting an act on for them too? He truly enjoyed the time that he spent with his friends, but was all of that time for waste? Was he going to break all connections to his friends after standing against James and Lily?

Harry's ill will did not extend to Sirius and Amelia, or Tony, Alex, and Charles. He had gotten to know Amelia more over the course of that month, and found her to be an extremely interesting person. She was the junior head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement in the Ministry of Magic, which basically meant that she was next in line to be the head, and was the head of the Auror department of the Ministry. Sirius used to be an Auror, but retired and controlled the Black financial assets and Wizengamot seat. And Tony, Charles, and Alex quickly became his best friends. He spent the most time with Alex; despite her snarky exterior, she was a great person to be around. She was funny, nice, and extremely intelligent. He usually talked to her while Charles and Tony were playing Quidditch, which was most of the time. Alex's cousin, Susan, joined in a couple of times. Susan was pretty interesting too. She was almost as intelligent as Alex, but much more shy and soft-spoken. Tony joked that Harry was a girl, which was why he always hung out with them, but he stopped when Alex threatened to break his organ so that he could join them. Harry found a very good friend in Alex. She had opened up to him and become friendly over the course of the month, compared to her original judging nature.

"Next," the old man called. Harry's reflections were interrupted as the wandmaker named Ollivander called him out for wand fitting. Slightly blushing for zoning out, Harry walked up to Ollivander and let him measure Harry for his wand size.

The family of four had come to Diagon Alley to shop for wands two days before school started. Some would call it procrastination, but Harry was just glad that they could get their wands. He was dying to find out how they worked.

"I have a question," he said. "How do you know which wand is the right wand?"

"Well, somewhere in this room, there is a wand that matches your magical core, and that wand will be the right wand for you," Ollivander half-heartedly explained while making his measurements.

"Okay, so I have to go through about 50% of the wands in this store, and that's if my wand even exists in this store?" Harry questioned.

"No, no, it usually takes 20 tries to find the right wand." Ollivander explained.

"Ah, so multiple wands will work for me. But how do you know the wand that you choose will match my magical core the best," Harry asked. "And what happens if you're wrong?"

Taking off his spectacles and peering into Harry's eyes rather dramatically, Ollivander said "Well, I eliminate the wands based on size, then I gauge the reactions based on different elements. There are 7 different elements typically used in wands. I usually start with the father's wand, then with the mother's wand, then go into the elements by order. The elements are dragon heartstrings, unicorn hairs, pixie dust, phoenix feathers, threstral feathers, snake venom, and griffin feathers. If none of those match, I go to the 29 special elements, and once I find a special element that matches, I find a wand in that special element that matches. Rarely are my special element wands bought. Charles just bought a phoenix feather wand. After I find the right element, I try to match it with the right wood. Once I find the right wood, this narrows it down to four or five wands usually, so I just have the customer try them in order."

"Hurry up, Harry, we don't have all day." Charles said, biting his lip in anticipation of getting a familiar.

"Hold on." Harry said. "Wait, what if the right element isn't in your store?"

"It is highly unlikely that you don't match to any elements. But remember, there's no one right wand. A relationship between wand and wizard is like a relationship between a couple. Your wand's not predetermined for you, and there's no one best wand. But when the right wand chooses you, and you choose the wand, you won't produce better results with any other wand. If you had gone back in time, let's say, and picked a different wand first, and that wand chose you and you it, there's no telling what would have happened. But there's no one right wand out there for you, just like there's no one right girl out there for you. Don't be afraid to be with a girl that you truly love and truly want to be with because you're searching for your one right girl." Ollivander said.

"Did he just give you relationship advice?" Charles asked.

"Shut up, Charles," Harry responded. "Anyways, I guess I need to get fitted for my wand."

After trying hundreds of wands, literally, after the first seven elements did not work, Ollivander finally found a wand for him. It contained a tail hair from a shadow fox, apparently perfect for the Dark Arts and Defense Against the Dark Arts, and good at Charms and Transfiguration. The wand costed 7 galleons, plus an additional 5 sickles for a self-draw holster and 2 galleons for anti-breaking charms. The self-draw holster allowed the user to store the wand in his sleeve and draw the wand with his own magic, something that Harry found quite convenient. Harry learned that Ollivanders was deemed the best wandsmith in the nation, but people did not go to him because his wands were so expensive. Other smiths in Knockturn Alley, Hogsmeade, and Godric's Hollow had substandard wands, but were much cheaper, at one to two galleons a wand.

Harry quickly woke up Charles, who had just fallen asleep after it took Harry so long to go through the wands, and the two brothers made their way back to Eyelops Owl Emporium, where their parents were waiting to buy them pets. Lily and James questioned them as to why it took so long, and then ushered them into the shop. Inside, Harry found a vast world full of animals that he could not wait to explore. It seemed that Eyelops was not just an owl store; it was a store for all kinds of pets. Harry recognized kneazles, magical cats, playing with each other in a large pen. However, Harry needed to pick an owl and seeing as he had already wasted so much time with his wand, Harry resolved to get done quickly. He chose a brown spotted eagle owl that was capable of flying at a magically boosted 100 kilometers per hour, and bought the appropriate owl care items. Charles chose a large white snowy owl that was extremely beautiful, but only capable of flying at 45 kilometers per hour. Harry valued functionality over beauty, but that was just his decision.

Happy that the family's shopping was finally done, James dragged the family of four back to the floo. They went home content with their purchases.

AN: Now, I know that I'm going to get some crap about Harry being too nice to his family, so just hear me out here. This is a human child, not a robot. I know that I may have written him to be one dimensional in previous chapters, but he is not some kind of overly powerful wizard who always knows what to do and always sticks to his decisions. He makes mistakes, he learns, like all my characters. Harry's decision on what to do with his parents after he is in a position of power is his inner conflict. It's not the main conflict of the story, but he's not going to hate his parents throughout the story.