Authors Note:

Salutations,

I have nothing to really say that won't be repeated in the review corner, so lets move on.

Sonnet

Review corner:

Green Grizzly: So Harry was born in 1986? Why the change? Could have done without the scheduling which took up most of the page. 75% of this was barely noted and overlooked due to nothing of sustenance actually happening. "Harry makes a schedule and writes notes." That right there is it! Nothing else.

Okay, you want to make him powerful and portray that adequately, a great goal and one most authors of superpowered/godlike Harry fics ignore, so props. But you've got to give more than a single scene that doesn't have anything actually happening. Minor time skips may be the way to go (couple of weeks, maybe a month tops).

Reply:My reasons for the change in timeline is technology. I would have rather that the muggle world be more primitive, if you will, when Harry starts Hogwarts. Since the invention of the internet, discoveries are really starting to happen quickly.

I realized that the plot was too slow going, but here's why. In my original outline I wanted Harry to discover another 20 or so spells before going to Hogwarts. (Imperio, Confounds, Legimens, Episky, Basic Occulumency, 5 Inanimate to inanimate spells, the color changing charms, appiration, incendio, etc.)

Know, I chose the exercises done in the last three chapters for a reason. In OotP, Snape tells Harry to meditate and try to clear his mind before going to sleep. Harry is now doing that anyway for the sake of improving his focus.

In Harry Potter and the Boy Who Livedby the Santi, he raised an interesting idea. Being an occulumens means you have an understanding of your mind, so it would result in you becoming a legimens.

I borrowed his idea, which would result in Harry having legimency. Any how, I had a plan, which I have know changed in order to speed up the timeline.

riffin121294

Interesting... This harry is not only studious and smart but also have curiosity and good understanding of new knowledge, i particularly like how he implements scientific method to solve his problem, sceptical, cynical, to what other says unless they can prove it is a good base of scientific mind like what harry shows in this chapter.

Reply: finally, someone understands. That was exactly what I was aiming for.

The detail:You should pay greater attention to the dates that you're using. Harry made notes on his journal stating the date as being April of 1994, when he should be in hogwarts unless you trowed the timeliness towards. And in his notes that he found on the net is mentioned a study conducted in 2012.

Your story have promise and I know how hard is to make a chapter for any story, but you have to be more careful about these details.

Reply:Ok, ok. Give me a break here. I am trying to make Harry as scientific and rational as possible here, so I'm using like a thousand websites (thats an exaggeration). I can't really go through each and every one of them, checking for dates, in order to make sure that every detail is perfect.

Disclaimer:I do not own Harry Potter.

The Rise of the Minister

Chapter 4:

April 26, 1994

Physically, Harry had made no real changes, which was not really a surprise, given that it was only a week since he had begun his schedule. Much to his displeasure, he was finding that sticking to his schedule was more difficult than he had originally anticipated.

It was mostly the physical exercising part of it that was giving him the most trouble. See, while resolve is great and all, it can only do so much. A lot of it was also based on your bodies ability to actually do what you want it to.

As a eight year old, Harry could not do push ups for fifteen minutes straight. Actually, his arms gave out on him after three push ups the first time.

Not to mention that even with the proper warm ups, you still wind up being sore when you wake up.

In addition, meditation was becoming increasingly difficult due to lack of resolve. Honestly, what wight year old can honestly sit still for twenty minutes and not think about anything?

The only thing that kept him from calling it quits was that his thread investigation seemed to be benefiting from the amount of meditation and exercise he was doing. That said, Harry was not trying to do anything ridiculous like taking control of peoples minds. That would come later. As it stood, Harry firmly believed that you needed to learn how to crawl before you could run.

As always his reasoning behind it came from science. When Galileo first discovered that the earth was not the center of the universe, they did not immediately start the theory of rhetoric motion did they? Both were related to astronomy, but the theory of rhetoric motion is significantly more advanced than the realization that the earth was not the center of the universe.

He also did not feel like trying to go from changing somethings color to trying to turn his bed into a pen. On a theoretical level, both changed the physical properties of something, but that was where the similarities ended.

It was like going from the Coriolis effect (astronomy) to Darwins theory of evolution (biology). They both fell under the category of science, but that was where the similarities ended.

That was before Harry considered the dangers. He was going into uncharted territory here. As far as he knew, he was the only one with this power. That was great. He loved his power, but what risks were attached?

He did not want to do something like changing his hair color, only to realize that his threads reacted negatively to hair. This was unlikely, but valid.

Thus Harry took baby steps.

May 3, 1994

Harry was pleased to say that he had mastered the color changing spell, as he had taken calling the things he could do with his threads. As to why he called it spells... well why not.

He had nothing else to call it, after all. As far as he knew, no one else had the same powers as he did. Everyone else he met had grey colored threads that didn't do anything. He was the only with with dark red ones. His power did not fit under a scientific category, so he couldn't name it that way.

Should there ever come a time where he had to call his threads something else, so be it.

As of know, Harry could change a multitude of objects (a pen, his bed, his clothes, his books, and his own hair), and could change the color to black, red, orange, pink, violet, blue, green, white, silver, bronze, and gold.

Harry found that the only thing that really affected the difficulty of his spell was the size of what he was changing, as opposed to the color he was changing it to, disproving his original hypothesis.

This of course lost Harry's attention quickly, and he decided to move onto other, more useful, projects.

Changing an objects color was a nice parlor trick, and may have a few uses, such as repainting the shed, but it was largely useless in day to day life.

Harry allowed a smile to cross his face. He could change somethings color, but could he change its weight?

May 10, 1994

As it turned out, the weight spell was stunningly simple, with the only real difference being in the intent part of the spell. It took him a day to be able to decrease the weight of his back pack and another to increase its weight.

This lead to yet another problem. Hypothetically speaking, what would happen if Harry took his light as a feather book bag to school. If someone lifted it and discovered that it was as light as a feather, that would look a bit strange, no?

By that same token, if the increased the bags weight to the point where it was as heavy as a mountain, it would seem a bit strange that Harry could lift it at all.

This meant that before Harry could take advantage of the practical benefits of his ability he would have to increase the speed of his spell casting and control over the spells themselves.

May 24, 1994

It took two weeks before Harry had mastered the spells to a satisfactory level, and it was the first spell that he would use that would make his life a lot simpler. It had gotten to the point that he cast the weight charm to make things lighter before carrying them, and using the weight charm to increase its weight once he was done carrying it.

Unlike what one might suspect, this use of magic did not make him lazier and physically weaker, due to his daily exercises. Much to Harry's delight, yesterday was the first time he had managed to actually complete the full hour of exercise.

Now that he had finally manged to simplify his life Harry started making a new list of things that he could try to learn jotting them down as he thought of them.

Spell to tie his show laces.

Spell to clean his clothes.

Spell to attract items towards him.

Regardless to say, Harry started to list out ways to simplify his life, meaning using his threads to accomplish the most menial tasks.

May 31, 1994

Harry had managed to learn two new spells in the week that he had. The first was one to tie his shoelaces, so all he now had to do was shove his foot into his shoes, and cast a spell and presto.

The second one was one to clean. He had originally aimed to make one that cleaned his clothes, but through some miracle, his spell cleaned mostly anything. Harry was pleased to say that he would now no longer ever have to ever clean the dishes or do the laundry again.

This of course lead to another problem, as most advancements do. How would he explain to aunt Petunia how he completed cleaning chores so quickly? The only solution that Harry could think of was an overkill. Modifying someones memory to get out of doing chores that took ten minutes without magic was not exactly reasonable.

That said, the challenge of modifying memories seemed to make the challenge worth it. Of course, if he was going to modify someones memory, he should learn about the mind first.

This translated to library as far as Harry was concerned.

June 31, 1994

It had taken a month, and a couple dozen brain dead or insane animals, but he had done it! He had created his most advanced spell yet, which he now called the confusion spell. It was rather difficult to explain due to how diverse its uses were. It can be used for its original purpose, distorting a persons perception of time. In this case, if Petunia assigns chores for Harry at 10:30, and Harry finishes at 10:31 as opposed to 10:40, Petunia will not find anything strange about it, because she can't make the connection between the chores, the time it was assigned, the time it was supposed to take, and the time it did take.

Similarly, if Petunia see's Harry use magic, she won't make the connection between magic and Harry.

The spell tricked the brain into connecting events that were unrelated, and not seeing an obvious connections between two events.

This also meant that Harry was now had a larger margin of error. The margin of error was the amount o mistakes he could afford to make. Before he created this spell, getting caught using magic meant he would be carted off to a lab to be dissected. Now, as long as he did not get caught on film and got caught by a low number of observers, he could modify their mind to disregard his action as unimportant and normal.

It was also around this time that Harry found, what he had now dubbed, his mindscape through meditation. Apparently, his mind was a mess, something that Harry took offence to.

Not to mention that it was completely black with memories strewn about. Harry decided to modify it a bit, taking the decor from a game called Amnesia The Dark Descent.