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The first official school week started at the Institute and Harry attended a class with each of the instructors while getting to know the various kids who returned from summer break. Harry's experience with traditional schools ended when he was nine but he didn't find Hogwarts all that different from normal teachers.

From what Harry recalled, standard teachers would introduce information from a book then get the students to employ various means of memorization through lectures, notes, assignments, quizzes, homework, and exams. They taught uniformly and if the average student reached the minimum acceptable standards of comprehension, the teacher was considered competent.

Harry felt he should have seen this coming as each of the teachers were from the first X-Men team, but each had a completely different style of teaching.

Domino, also called Ms. Thurman, was the math teacher. Her own mutant power, according to her anyways, was luck. She demonstrated this by flipping ten coins in the air and having them all land on her desk, heads up. Harry's senses told him it appeared to be a subconscious based psionic field that telekinetically made adjustments to things within her line of sight that were advantageous for her. The subconscious was a lot more powerful than the conscious so it was a very impressive and subtle power.

Rather than give the class a hundred math problems and have them solve them all, she would give a single math problem and then tell a story about something that happened to her during a mission or event which had measurements that matched the story. After going over the story and solving the problem while doing so, she'd ask the class if a specific variable was different, how would the outcome have changed both in the equation and the effect in the story? Rather than just memorizing procedures, this got everyone to use all of their brain in thinking over the procedure itself making it easier to retain.

Dr. McCoy taught biology and chemistry. In his first class, he brought out a tank with a meter long squid and said the squid would be his teaching assistant. This caused everyone to laugh until Dr. McCoy left the room and the squid started talking and telling them what they would be going over that day. Dr. McCoy's preferred method of teaching was to draw out the innate curiosity towards the wonders of science to get his students interested in them and become more invested. This didn't work on everyone of course but it was certainly far from boring.

World History class with Colossus, known in class as Mr. Rasputin, was actually one of Harry's favorites. The man's distinct Russian accent actually made the subject easier to listen to and Colossus did not teach history in any way Harry was familiar with.

Rather than reading off each section of history piece by piece and expecting the kids to memorize it, Colossus divided history into a series of choices made by specific people and specific countries and the consequences of those choices. It was an approach Harry had not seen before but made history itself more interactive as Colossus would often ask the class if a specific person made a different choice, what could have happened as a result. In addition to making history easier to remember this way, it also showed everyone the long lasting impact of choices and their consequences.

Not that it was always large things. Colossus had a great sense of humor and would often point out small and humorous facts in history and their consequences as well. Like the fact that Benjamin Franklin was not allowed to work on the final draft of the Declaration of Independence because they feared he would slip a joke in there no one would notice until it was too late. Or that time when Napoleon Bonaparte and his top brass were thoroughly defeated by an army of 3000 bunny rabbits which used military tactics against Napoleon and his men because they were farm raised bunnies instead of wild rabbits. Or the fact that Hitler's over reliance on quack doctors and their drugs made him terribly gassy. Mr. Rasputin's class would often be filled with laughter and Harry was not the only one who enjoyed it.

Ms. Munroe didn't allow others to call her Storm in the classroom and taught English class which everyone had to attend at various grade levels though she also taught several other languages as electives. What was interesting was that a large number of students had noticed that she became more expressive and overall happier looking which made her classes more fun to attend. Although she had not yet mastered the tricks written in the text Harry had given her, just what she had already accomplished allowed her more ranges of emotion without affecting the local weather patterns.

Forge didn't care if you called him Professor Silvercloud or not but anyone who goofed off in the Physical Sciences class would suddenly find themselves 'volunteered' for a practical demonstration of whatever they were teaching that day. There were times when Forge would actively look over the class, hoping for a 'volunteer' to present him or herself, meaning the students were by far, the most well behaved in that class.

Something Harry liked about Forge was that the man himself didn't like Science books. Such texts had pictures and graphs and pages of information, but retaining such information through such media was difficult for most types of learners. Instead, every other class Forge would switch back and forth between a live demonstration and a lab environment. Basically, I'll show you first, then you do it. There were still students who had problems learning like this, but they often found themselves 'volunteered' to assist in the following class where Forge would thoroughly demonstrate through the volunteer how the subject they were having issues with worked. By the end of class, it was guaranteed that the volunteer would certainly comprehend the subject. Students who had trouble on their own would either have to study harder or risk getting 'volunteered.'

Physical Education was of course taught by Logan. Sometimes the age groups would participate in sports like basketball or volleyball. Sometimes the groups would be thrown into the new and improved Danger Room where Danger herself worked with Logan to make sadistic obstacle courses and hazardous environments for the students to navigate through. Harry didn't make too many friends in that class when they found out he was the one that helped Forge upgrade the Danger Room.

Mr. Worthington taught economics in a somewhat similar way to Mr. Rasputin in that he gave histories of various companies and the decisions those companies made and the consequences of those decisions.

And of course, Professor Xavier taught a mandatory Ethics class. In addition to requiring the class to familiarize themselves with specific source material, Xavier would often introduce an ethical dilemma a mutant with a specific set of powers might face and have the class discuss the long term and short term consequences of the various choices that could be made.

Xavier and Forge were the only two teachers who you could use the Professor title with because they had both produced works which had been published. Dr. McCoy had as well and could technically be called Professor McCoy, but he preferred the Doctor title.

Three days into the classes, the teachers unanimously decided to change Harry from student to teacher aid. Most of the teachers had such aids and they could always use more. After a round of discussion, they decided Harry would rotate between them. Technically he should have been assigned to just Dr McCoy or Forge but the group discovered Harry simply knew too much.

In his first class, Ororo asked Harry to list off how many languages he knew and then proceeded to quiz him on them. Although his accent needed work because he hadn't been to the regions, his pronunciation and ability to read and write each of the languages he listed off were all acceptable. He even listed off languages she didn't speak herself. Ororo didn't even know snakes had a language and had never heard of Gallifreyan.

Similar situations occurred in the other classes and Angel and Domino agreed they had nothing to teach him when it came to their own subjects.

When asked about it, Harry told them he was interested in teaching as well and wanted to learn more about the teaching styles of the X-Men. That was the final say which led the group to agreeing to share him as an aid. Of course since Harry actually had things he could learn from Dr. McCoy and Forge, they had priority. It was decided Harry would follow a two week rotation schedule where Tuesdays and Thursdays, Harry would assist Dr. McCoy in the morning and Forge in the evening. The other days of the two week schedule would have Harry assist the other teachers on various days and assist with setting up lesson plans and grading papers. This would continue for one or two semesters and next year Harry would be the full time assistance of Dr. McCoy and Forge and work on his own degrees.

Rather than go to a college or university, both Dr. McCoy and Forge were fully accredited to give out Masters degrees if Harry studied under them and if Harry produced a Doctoral Thesis that got published afterwards, he could theoretically get his own Doctorate without stepping foot in a college.

After classes, the Library study group would still form and Jean introduced Harry to everyone who easily took over for Study Head. Though she became a bit worried when she learned of Harry's transition to Teacher's aid.

Jean asked, "Are you ok with staying with the Study Group? I mean you're already pretty busy."

Harry easily answered, "Teaching is one of the things I like and something I could easily see becoming a career for me so this sort of experience is actually pretty good."

Jean didn't look convinced and conveyed telepathically, 'Are you sure you're not just saying that to get me to like you?'

Harry showed some real surprise and smiled back before thinking aloud, 'I really do like teaching but now it seems I really can't stop. Since I've found that I really like you as well, I see no reason to stop doing something that helps you like me.'

Jean rolled her eyes and turned away to hide her light blush and thought, 'As if you needed help.' Then her eyes shot up and she turned back to see Harry's smile which made her realize she'd conveyed that instead of thought it to herself.

And she promptly moved over to another desk. Harry's smile didn't wane as he pretended to ignore it and continue answering questions in the study group. It didn't take long for the returning members to figure out Harry was a Grade A know-it-all but didn't speak with any condescension when asked a question or when walking someone through an answer. Some of the kids were a bit peeved when they asked Harry a direct question and he showed them a different way to find the answer instead of just giving it to them, but they couldn't exactly fault Harry for that.

Saturday morning of the following weekend had Logan driving a nondescript car with Harry and Xavier to the West Salem Mental Institution. Harry had gone over Wanda's file and her reported abilities. High tech machines going on the fritz or exploding in her vicinity, structures breaking down or shifting when she got emotional, and strange phenomenon occurring when she fought back. These all looked like a severe case of accidental magic of a magical child. The thing was however, the MACUSA never came for her meaning her magic didn't register, she wasn't a witch. At least not in the traditional sense.

Harry was the first, and as far as he knew, only magical to awaken an X-Gene. There was no record of Wanda dying at some point meaning she was likely a mutant with a power that resembled witchcraft rather than a witch herself. There were other possibilities of course so Harry wouldn't jump to a conclusion before meeting her.

Logan explained how on the way, they would be checked for anything and would not be allowed to bring anything inside. Harry considered this and took out two Smoky Quartz from the bag he'd brought along. In front of Xavier, he made one glow and vanish back into his inventory and cast a disillusionment charm over the other, causing it to become invisible.

Harry showed his 'empty' hand to Xavier and asked, "Should I bring this along to use as an example when I meet her?"

Xavier experimentally poked the invisible stone and after a moment of consideration answered, "Yes, I think that would be acceptable."

After parking outside, Logan got Xavier in his chair and the three headed into the facility. Once they reached the gate, Xavier said, "Don't make sudden moves and follow us inside. They won't question your age if you don't bring it up."

Harry nodded back. A fifteen year old was not an acceptable visitor for someone considered to be dangerous inside a mental institution, even if that someone was also fifteen. On paper Xavier and Harry filled out the forms correctly and were properly documented, but Harry's admittance should have been rejected.

The only reason Harry could be brought here was because Xavier was willing to use his own powers to break the rules for him. Harry figured this decision did not come lightly or else Xavier would have introduced him to Wanda much earlier.

Harry considered the reason Xavier was willing to do so at all had to do with the quests Harry had done since arriving. Harry's original recruitment quest stated he had to show Xavier his magic, something he had not intended on doing earlier. Since then he used magic to upgrade the Danger Room and had successfully taught Rogue how to use her powers which Harry stated resembled magic he was familiar with. Three quests with three results which combined gave Xavier a great deal of confidence Harry could in fact assist Ms. Maximoff with her control problems.

The Ancient One and Harry knew the quests would have a further reaching impact than just the success of the required task. This meeting was certainly one of those impacts which to Harry meant that the quest giver wanted Xavier to ask Harry to help Wanda.

Logan remained outside the security area because he didn't get along with metal detectors and Xavier was led to a small room to wait for Wanda while Harry silently followed.

After thirty minutes, the door was opened and a teenage girl who looked more than a little sleep deprived wrapped in a tight straight jacket was brought in. The moment she entered, cracks started forming in the room and the door itself seemed to be heating up as it were going to melt. The guard moved to restrain her but Harry interrupted by grabbing and holding onto her instead.

She flinched back and struggled to get away, but not out of fear for herself. Her magics started attacking Harry and she knew he would get hurt if he didn't let go. The guard knew this too and the sight of Harry hugging her sent a lot of alarms off in his head and he moved to get her away.

Xavier noticed Harry's calm demeanor and motioned to the guard, "Wait!"

Wanda's magics sent the equivalent of a dozen spells with curse-like effects into Harry which should have twisted or burned his organs, shocked his skin, or broken his bones. Wanda kept trying to get away fully aware of what was happening but Harry didn't let up. She said, "Stop, you'll get hurt!"

Harry answered back, "Haven't you noticed yet? I'm completely fine."

Harry's magic defense didn't see much use but it was still much higher than his physical defense. Wanda's magic wasn't weak, it was at the level of a sixth or seventh year student which was remarkable considering the fact that she had no training, but Harry barely received any damage from it and what little he did receive was too small to observe and healed almost right away.

Wanda froze for a moment and paid attention to Harry for the first time, noticing that nothing happened to him no matter what her powers did to him. She met his gaze and didn't see any fear, only a kind smile. Even Xavier didn't completely lack fear in her presence. Her power was simply too dangerous and would make anyone unconsciously wary. Even her father, the self proclaimed Mutant Messiah, feared her and put her in this place due to that fear.

Xavier smiled and motioned to the guard, "You can go, everything is under control."

The guard didn't argue and left without saying anything else.

Harry released Wanda but took her hand and held it tight. In her eyes Harry saw a terrified little girl crying for affection she could never have which was why Harry wanted to show her she wasn't dangerous.

Wanda didn't move to shake off Harry's hand though she was still confused by it. Xavier said, "Wanda, this is Harry. He is a mutant as well and I believe he can help you with controlling your powers."

Wanda's frown seemed almost instinctive. She couldn't believe anyone was able to help her and she retorted back, "How can he help, no one can help me."

Harry put the hand containing the invisible Smoky Quartz behind him where only the Professor could see it and had it glow with Lumos for a moment before he put it back in his inventory.

Wanda hadn't noticed the glow behind Harry's back before Harry waved his hand over the door and walls which seemed to slowly fix themselves into their prior state with his Reparo charm. The room they were in had no cameras since Wanda's power would bust any within so Harry didn't have to hide his magic here.

Harry turned back to Xavier and said, "Can I talk with her alone for a few minutes?"

Xavier nodded, he already had quite a bit of trust in Harry and Wanda was still staring bugged eyed at the door Harry fixed. When Xavier left, Harry put a silencing charm around the room and transfigured Wanda's straight-jacket into a dress. He then conjured two comfy chairs and for his finale, he conjured a corgi which appeared in his lap and gave Wanda a happy bark.

Wanda fell back into the chair from shock and after a moment asked, "Is this real?"

Harry considered it while petting the fuzzy smiling corgi in his lap and answered, "That's a complicated question. But at the moment, the answer is yes." The corgi let out another happy bark.

Harry continued, "Although not exact, I can pretty much do what you can do, except under controlled circumstances. With training, you can also do what I can do."

Wanda stared at the smiling corgi staring back at her and when Harry released it, the fuzzy doggo jumped into Wanda's surprised lap and curled up. Wanda unconsciously started petting it and couldn't help smiling.

Harry continued, "There are a few reasons you can't control your power, the main reason is that you have no training, but the training else would be difficult because you are tied down by your hatred of your father."

Wanda froze at the mention and the chair she was in started to smolder. The corgi in her lap stiffened which reminded her there was a dog with her and forced her to take a breath to prevent herself from harming the conjured dog.

Harry shook his head and said, "The file I read on you says they've just been telling you to get over your anger of him, but your powers are fueling your memories of him which are in turn fueling your powers. I'm sure you've tried, but without a miracle or a telepath to deal with the memories, staying here isn't going to help you control your powers."

Wanda wanted to get angry but she didn't want to hurt the doggy so instead she started to cry. "I know. I've always known. I want out of here. But no one is willing to take me away. I'm too dangerous."

The corgi in her lap got up and climbed over her chest to set its head at her neck while laying over her torso. Wanda continued crying and wrapped her arms around the dog who knew she wanted a hug.

Harry Paused to go over what he could do. First of all, it was obvious why the universe wanted her trained. Her magic had Chthon's signature, she was the one Chthon intended to make a vessel. Harry hadn't caught it at first, but her file actually said she and her twin were born on Mt. Wundagore, the place Chthon's spirit got sealed the last time he tried to take over earth. That meant it was likely the Elder Demon God had a direct hand in the shaping of Wanda's power. From what Chthon had mentioned about how Chaos Magic and Wizard Magic were pretty much the same, Harry understood now why Wanda's magic looked like wizard magic and why she was so powerful without training.

Although it was the safest option, the idea of harming Wanda was never considered. He would ensure she was trained and able to resist Chthon should the two ever meet. The only question was how to do so effectively?

Harry spent a long time going through each possible method and their long term implications before eliminating the other choices and arriving at the best one. After unpausing, Harry said to Wanda, "How would you like a 100 year long vacation?"

Wanda's crying stopped and she looked up at Harry in disbelief and directly asked, "Are you crazy?"

Harry answered, "There are several ways to dull your anger, but most of them require messing your head in ways that neither I nor Professor Xavier would ever consider an option. The only other method left to deal with that kind of anger is time. I have a way for you to live 100 years of peaceful time, doing whatever you want and it will only take the span of a few moments. In that time, I could train you or teach you or just take you on walks on the beach and fill your head with experiences of you living a life. Once you've lived long enough, the memories of your father will be diluted enough to fade the bite of anger you have for him."

Wanda frowned and said with heat, "I will never forgive him."

Harry replied, "I'm not asking you to, but you can't let your anger at him determine your future. He is not nearly important enough to have such a large effect on your life."

That caused a light chuckle from her which Harry thought was quite the improvement.

After taking a few more moments to pet the corgi she asked, "How would we do it?"

Harry smiled and said, "I'll come back in a week and we'll do it then. I need to get some things for prep work."

Wanda looked disappointed she would have to wait but accepted it.

Harry asked, "Is there any place you'd really want to visit or live for that time?"

Wanda thought about it and answered, "Surprise me."

Harry nodded and got up from his chair. The corgi faded into the air as it was dispelled and Wanda got up just as the chair she was under faded as well.

Harry noticed her depressed expression looked over her attire before saying, "Take off your shoe."

Wanda gave a questioning look but did so. Harry cast a series of spells on it before finishing with a satisfied smile. Harry said, "Come here Twinkie." The shoe suddenly transfigured into a corgi. Harry petted it again and said, "Back to bed Twinkie." The corgi returned into a shoe and Harry handed it back.

Harry explained, "Using those commands aloud will change your shoe to and from a corgi."

Wanda raised an eyebrow and asked with a smirk, "Twinkie?"

Harry smiled brightly and answered, "Golden on the outside and white on the bottom. That and corgis are in fact twinkie shaped."

Wanda rolled her eyes but her smile brightened and she put her shoe back on.

Harry said, "I'll need to return the jacket too."

Wanda sighed and nodded. A moment later her dress returned to the form of a straight jacket.

Harry removed the silencing spell and opened the door to invite Xavier back in who had been chatting with the guard.

Harry said, "I have a way to help Wanda get control over her powers and even help her anger, but it will take a week to prep so I'll need to return next weekend."

Xavier looked over Wanda and instantly noticed a change in her demeanor. She almost looked like she had been smiling earlier. Xavier still asked, "What way is that?"

Harry answered, "I've already discussed all the details with Wanda and it is a way I know you would approve of. However the actual means is something I can't tell you."

Xavier looked over at Wanda and asked, "And you feel it is safe?"

Wanda sighed and said, "It sounds a thousand times better than anything else I've tried. And if what he says is actually true, then I think it actually has a real chance of working."

Harry noticed Xavier wasn't exactly intruding on his mind but was checking his overall mindset to determine if he was lying. Xavier more than anyone knew the dangers of 'quick fixes.' Of course there was nothing 'quick' about this particular fix, it only seemed that way.

Xavier seemed satisfied and said, "Alright, we shall return next week. Can you behave yourself Wanda?"

Wanda unconsciously moved her foot and said, "I think I'll be fine Professor."

With that, the group departed. Harry was aware that her heavily enchanted shoe would still fry every electronic within a meter of her foot, but since her power seemed to do so anyway, no one would really notice. The enchanted corgi had a constant silencing field around it so others would not hear its barks unless they were within a foot of it. There was another spell that would activate when someone came close and would cause the corgi to automatically change back into a shoe and slip itself back onto her foot. Of course, a shoe is not a fantastic material to stick such heavy enchantments to, but the effect would at least last a few weeks and give Wanda some company. Harry wasn't sure if he could stop himself from breaking her out if she was just going to go back to being all alone again.

Rather than return to the institute, Harry said he wanted to head to New York to get the materials needed to help Wanda. Xavier and Logan knew Harry didn't need a car to get around so they let him out on the road. Harry found a spot out of sight and opened a silver portal to a back alley near the New York Sanctum Sanctorum. The alley had a few Sorcerer spells that kept others from hanging around it as it was the standard arrival destination of Sling Ring Portals for the area.

Harry used his inventory to change into his robes before knocking on the door and waiting patiently.

An African man in a fitted martial gi answered the door and Harry said, "Good Morning Master Drumm."

The master smiled and said, "Apprentice Harry, welcome back. Is this a social call?"

Only the Ancient One knew Harry had reached the Master level and their pair had no intention of spreading that fact around.

Harry shook his head which caused Master Drumm to smile back, "It never is," before gesturing for him to come in. He said, "I heard about that matter with the demons. Most impressive."

Harry answered back, "The group I'm working with is very skilled. I'm learning a lot from them as well."

Master Drumm nodded back and returned to his own affairs leaving Harry to head over to the portal to Kamar-Taj. Sure, Harry could portal directly there, but that was a bit rude and since he was here to ask a favor, formalities should be observed. Especially since the Ancient One couldn't see Harry coming so it really would be rude to come over unannounced.

After making his way in, he asked Master Wong if the Ancient One was available. He was one of the few who knew that Harry was invisible to the sight of Ancient One and confirmed she was at the temple. Harry then asked politely if he could check if she had time to speak with him about a sensitive matter.

Wong returned a few minutes later and escorted Harry over and left the room. Harry took a steaming tea set out of his inventory and poured a cup. The Ancient One took a sip before giving a light smile and stating, "You must want to ask me something if you're using this tea. It is not so easy to find after all."

Harry nodded and poured himself a cup. To those he trusted, he was an easy man to see through as he disliked deception not based around a prank. Harry sat down and directly stated, "I found Chthon's future vessel and want to borrow the Eye of Agamotto to speed up her training."

Although it looked like the Ancient One was taking her second sip of tea, she had in fact only put the cup to her lip, fully expecting Harry to say something outrageous. This meant Harry didn't get any good spit takes which his prankster soul always insisted on trying for.

The Ancient One ignored the attempt and put down her cup and asked, "How will the use of the Eye be of assistance?

"Well, I wanted to invite her mind into my own and with the Eye, use Mental Infinity."

The Ancient One's eyebrows shot up and she revealed a slight smirk. Mental Infinity was not a training tool, it was an attack spell she created using the Eye and occasionally used on Harry when they sparred. Very few beings had resistance to time magic and Mental Infinity sped up the speed of thought by a billion times. One would think this granted the target an advantage, but in fact it would practically cripple the target. The body would ot be able to process such fast intentions and would not respond to the will to move. A person hit by the spell couldn't do much more than stand still and pray it ended.

The spell itself was quite cruel to use on anyone without a highly developed mindscape as it would trap them within their own body in a frozen world where they could do nothing but wait for the effect to end. Less than three and a quarter seconds under the spell would have the user experience a hundred years of frozen time.

Harry however was so used to pausing, a hundred years of silence didn't affect him much. He'd already figured out the trick to moving his body in real time with accelerated senses and could dispel the effect when used on him. The Ancient One got his permission before using it on him of course and learned that when Harry reached level 300, he would likely start fighting monsters made of time energy so he would likely have to face such effects eventually and the sooner he started to adapt, the better.

The reason of course Harry never used such a means to train himself was that Pausing was infinitely superior and didn't require the Eye of Agamotto to use. However Harry could not take the minds of others while pausing, even if he used Multiplayer with them. This was the only means he could think of.

Harry explained the details to the Ancient One and after a moment of contemplation, she answered, "No, I will not let you borrow the Eye."

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Harry sighed but accepted it. He had some back up plans as well which was why he said he needed a week to prep, but he'd hoped he'd be able to do it the easy way.

However the Ancient One continued, "Rather, you don't need to borrow it. As you have regained the use of portals, just tell me when you plan on performing the mind training and I'll come over and use the spell myself."

"Really?"

"Of course. My main concern is that if young Wanda's mind enters your own, her body will be left undefended. The chosen vessel of Chthon should not be left empty so easily, even if only for a moment. Although unlikely, it would be prudent to ensure nothing happens so I will be present to cast the spell and ensure nothing occurs."

Harry let out a breath of relief and said, "Thank you." He had considered that as well and many of the materials he intended to fetch were for that very purpose, but there was a difference between a week of prep and having the Sorcerer Supreme watch over you. Together they went over the various details and made a plan.

Harry left Kamar-Taj by portal and spent the next two days sightseeing. The Mindscape Copy perk allowed him to perfectly replicate areas into his mind and since he was going to have a guest, he wanted to make sure she would not get bored. Harry spent a few hours as a Snowy Owl with a notice-me-not flying around New York and eventually got a copy of almost the entire city in his mind. He returned to human form and entered many of the places of interest to copy the interior as well and visited every beach in a hundred miles. Thankfully it was only August and the water was cool but not cold.

Harry used a portal to visit several nearby forests and a lot of scenic areas. He made sure to copy the sky next to the beach when the sun rose, which, although not as great as a sun set, was still pretty good.

After that Harry used a portal to return to Tibet and used his fastest flying speed as an owl to fly directly to the mountains and copy them directly into his mind as well. He flew along the hiking routes and tourist sites and spots of interest. Last but not least, Harry used a portkey his Godfather, Sirius Black had handed him and used it to go to Black Island, his Godfather's vacation island. Sirius wasn't there which didn't surprise Harry as the married man was quite busy fixing the Wizarding world. Last Harry heard the man was going to be, against his will, elected Minister of Magic.

After getting a copy of Black Island, Harry used a portal to return to the Institute. Something Harry liked about his new portals was that because he didn't have to swing his hand around to open one, he could make one even as an owl. Once things had settled down he would take the time to visit every part of the world he could think of so he could copy the nice things into his head and be able to open a portal there when needed.

The next week passed by mostly uneventfully as he followed his new routine except for one encounter. One morning when Harry woke up from his four hours of sleep, Jean telepathically conveyed to him, 'You actually died?! You said it got better!'

Harry smiled, he wondered how she would react to that one. He thought back, 'You saw the stuff after that right? It did get better.'

'Well, I mean yeah but. You died. Usually you don't come back from that.'

Harry thought back, 'Didn't you come back from death a little before that?'

Jean's shock could be heard through her thoughts, 'How did you know about that?'

'A little birdie told me. Keep reading Jean, it's all there."

Harry could swear he heard a sigh before she conveyed back, 'Alright, but I'm skipping the endless video games and TV time. I feel a bit weird reading the personal stuff about your parents so I'll be skipping that.'

'That's fine. Skipping the whole tutorial won't change my story much.'

'What? No way. This gamer stuff is actually pretty interesting. Can you really respawn if you die?'

'Yeah, but other than using it as a tasteless prank, I'd rather not demonstrate that.'

'What kind of prank would require that?'

Harry sent a visualization of himself having a serious conversation with someone he didn't like and then exploding in a shower of gore in front of them leaving the poor victim destined to require endless therapy for the rest of their days.

Jean sent back, 'Yeah, that would be pretty tasteless.'

Jean and Harry continued to chat about various subjects both strange and mundane. Jean finished reading about the tutorial and started into Hogwarts on Friday.

The following Saturday morning, Rogue went looking for Harry and after finding him leaving the kitchen, she grabbed him and gave him a giant hug.

Harry hugged her back of course and when she released he asked, "Not that I mind, but what was that about?"

Rogue smiled back and said, "Cody Robbins. The boy who I.. put into a coma. I found out he woke up!"

Harry smiled back and said, "That's great. The connection between you two has been severed so there wouldn't be any lasting effects."

Rogue nodded and looked down for a moment before gently asking, "Um, were you planning on doing anything today?"

Harry honestly answered, "Well, I was planning on spending a one hundred year long vacation with a girl I met for the first time last weekend so I could help her learn to control her own powers."

Rogue looked more than a little flabbergasted at that and Harry added in jest, "Why, did you want to join us?"

Rogue froze for just a moment and nodded, "Yes, I wanna go."

Harry did a double take and asked, "Really? It's one hundred years you know. She has some issues that can only be resolved with time so I'll be using magic to accelerate time and put one hundred years of training and experiences in her head to help her out."

Rogue looked a bit pensive and replied, "Well, I need training too. I've already asked most of the X-Men to lend me their powers but using them with each other is gonna take me a long time to master. Can I practice as well if I were to go too?"

Harry considered it and determined that she would in fact be able to use her powers in his mindscape. Time would be slowed but not halted meaning the connections she had to others would not be interrupted. That meant she could also practice the use of her powers.

Harry was not one to go back on his word so he asked for confirmation, "Are you absolutely sure? You won't be able to quit half-way through you know."

Rogue nodded with certainty, "I'm sure."

Harry let out a sigh and said, "Alright, wait in your room and I'll call for you in two hours."

Rogue smiled and hugged Harry again before heading into her room. Harry wondered if she knew what she was getting into but figured it would be alright. Although Harry wouldn't be able to kick her out if she got tired of it, he could freeze her mind until the time ran out so there was no real harm if she wanted to come along. Giving Wanda some female company wouldn't be a bad thing either since they had a number of things in common.

Harry stopped for a moment and considered inviting Jean, but decided against it. The faster she removed the seals on the Phoenix, the better, and spending one hundred years training with a locked mind would not do her any favors in the long run because she would not be able to unlock her own mind while it was in Harry's. There were a few variations he could try that might help, but after going over them one by one, Harry determined it still was not to her benefit to be included in this.

Once more, Harry was driven over to the Mental Institute with Xavier and Logan. Harry considered telling Xavier he needed a few minutes alone with Wanda for his plan to work but he could not think of a way to ask that of him without Xavier jumping to the wrong conclusion. Instead he decided to wisely remain silent and explain the details when they got there.

The group went through the same procedure as before, with one difference. One of the Doctors showed up to meet Xavier and stated that Wanda seemed to have shown great improvement in the last week. Harry loudly thought a message to Xavier that he wanted imparted to the Doctor. Xavier complied and told the Doctor they had a breakthrough last week and he should expect even greater improvements very soon. The Doctor looked both skeptical and interested. A wait and see approach.

They returned to the small room from before and ten minutes later, Wanda entered. This time the door didn't melt. When she saw Harry had actually come, she looked like she was going to cry as she couldn't believe he had actually returned to fulfill his promise. Harry hugged her again which she enjoyed this time and Harry said to Xavier, "This could either take three minutes or up to ten minutes depending on the resistance her powers puts up but I have confidence that when finished, it will become manageable. That being said, it would be better to have a bit of privacy."

Thankfully Xavier didn't take it the wrong way and agreed, leaving the pair alone and closing the door. He was probably satisfied by hearing Wanda's progress. Harry knew of course that spending a week with a loving corgi you didn't have to feed or clean up after would do wonders for any grumpy person.

Harry created an illusion of Wanda sitting cross legged and Harry sitting behind her with his hands against her back in what looked like some kind of treatment. That was to be used if anyone opened the door's viewing window and peered through. Harry then transfigured Wanda's jacket into a red long coat with a t-shirt and jeans beneath it.

To the side, Harry opened a silver portal and walked through. Wanda followed behind into what appeared to be a ritual chamber. Harry then opened another portal which showed Rogue's room. She looked shocked at the silver doorway but upon seeing Harry on the other side, didn't hesitate to jump in.

A moment later, the robe wearing, shaved head, Ancient One walked in and said, "Hello friends of Harry, I'm his teacher, and I'll be helping out with this little project."

Harry stated, "Thanks again for agreeing to assist. This is Wanda and Rogue. Rogue asked for training as well and will be coming along. That way Wanda will have some female company."

Rogue introduced herself and Wanda reciprocated. Rogue also asked if she could use Wanda's powers and Wanda, not really knowing what to say, answered yes and got a light finger touch from Rogue. She figured if Harry was going to train Wanda, then if Rogue could use her powers, she could get training as well.

Harry said, "We don't have much time, so please sit down in the center and we'll start."

The ritual room was perhaps the most magically guarded room in Kamar-Taj and used to both prevent entry and exit. Harry could only create a portal into it because he had a key. Otherwise the room was rather impregnable.

Of course it was overkill for what they had in mind as they were not actually performing a ritual, but neither had a problem with overkill when it came to placing safeguards against an Elder Demon God of Chaos.

Wanda and Rogue sat down in the middle of the room. Had they actually been performing a ritual, there would have been lines of candles and stuff but all of that was placed at the side so the room looked more like a storage room in a church than it did a place where mortals formed connections to that which was better left untouched.

Harry concentrated his Psionics and connected to both Wanda and Rogue. Rogue accepted the connection and after a moment, Wanda did as well. Rejecting wouldn't have been difficult, but both knew Harry didn't have any bad intentions.

This was a variation on the Ancient One's trick of pushing the astral form out of a body and directly into the Astral Plane. Harry could not do that, but he could drag a person's astral form into his own mind if he wasn't blocked. Once he successfully pulled both Rogue and Wanda into his library, he signaled for the Ancient One to cast the spell.

After making several hands signs, the center of the Eye she wore opened and the Time Stone within was revealed. A wave of green light shot out towards Harry and the girls as the spell was cast.

Although the Ancient One had never let Harry use the Eye of Agamotto, he knew what it really was. It was a common misconception that the Eye was a tool that used the Time Stone to manipulate time. It was not. The Time Stone doesn't need assistance to manipulate time. What the Eye actually did was hide the Stone and limit its power. When the Eye was closed, Harry could not feel the Time energy contained within even if he stood next to it. Even when opened, the Time energy that should have rushed out like an endless sea was reduced to a meager trickle.

Of course it was possible to override those limits and safeties and use the full power of the Time Stone with the Eye, but doing so wouldn't be any different from broadcasting to the whole of the Universe that there is an Infinity Stone present and invite those who sought them out to come and take them. All magic had a price after all, the use of the Eye was no different.

Wanda and Rogue found themselves in Harry's library and Harry himself materialized within and said, "Welcome to my head. Please leave all questions until after the tour."

Harry showed them to a door which opened to reveal a round room that contained many silver portals. These were imitations of Harry's portals and a set up that others wandering around his head could use to go into the different areas. Harry showed the portals for New York, London, Tibet, Hogwarts, the Tutorial Village, Black Island, and many scenic areas such as grasslands, beaches, forests, and mountains. He took them to New York which looked identical to the real thing and stopped at a coffee shop where Harry ordered tea and asked what the girls wanted. Wanda asked for hot chocolate and Rogue asked for a muffin.

Moments later the waitress came over with their orders and a check and Harry began drinking his tea and said they could start with their questions.

Wanda started, "Is this real?"

Harry smiled and said, "Depends on your definition of real."

Rogue asked, "Is it like the Matrix?"

Harry considered it and answered, "Somewhere between the Matrix and a video game. The people around us are NPCs. Please treat them as you would real humans."

Wanda asked, "Why?"

Harry replied, "Habits. We'll be here for a while and if you treat them as anything other than real people, you may find it difficult to treat actual real people as real people when we leave. Consider it practice."

Rogue looked at the check that the waitress left and asked, "How will we pay?"

Harry handed both girls a wallet which contained an ID card, Credit Card, and Library Card. Harry's Library Card could not be taken by someone who would use the information gained from his mind poorly, so he waited to see if both could claim it and was more than a little relieved that they both took it without issue. Had they been unable to take the card, his training sessions would have been far more awkward.

Harry said, "Again, the act of paying is just because we're going to be here a while and if you spent a hundred years going to a coffee shop without paying, you might forget to pay in real life."

Wanda was still looking around and having trouble accepting that something so real was literally all in their heads.

Harry got out some folders and passed them out before stating, "Now although we have one hundred years, that doesn't mean you can do nothing the whole time. Again, if you spend a hundred years doing nothing, you'll find it hard to get motivated to do something back in the real world. So we are going to keep busy. Here are your schedules."

Both opened the files and they had what looked similar to a school schedule. Neither felt this was going to be fun.

Harry's first goal was to help Wanda catch up on her studies and basically teach them both until they had nothing else they wanted to learn. Wanda wasn't thrilled but Harry basically explained that the entire point of this, in addition to making use of the valuable time, was to keep her mind occupied for so long, she basically forgets to think about how much she hates her father. Wanda accepted such a feat would truly take a long time and decided not to argue with it.

The first thing that Wanda discovered which surprised her was that her powers worked just fine in the mindscape and when she got angry, her powers reacted the same way. Although the people she hurt were not real people and the places she destroyed were not real places, they still looked and felt real. Harry also insisted that the damage done be left as is and when she mastered her power she could use those locations to practice repair magic later. Harry could have fixed it himself of course, but having damage done vanish as if it never happened without her own input was not realistic and Harry didn't want them to get used to the idea that things they broke would fix themselves later.

The reason Harry had to put so much effort into logic was to ensure that logic was correctly imprinted into Wanda's head. If a user of Chaos magic could not tell the difference between fantasy and reality, things would go downhill fast. Harry's answer to this was for them to consider the possibility that everything was fantasy but regardless, treat it as if it were reality. As long as Wanda treated everything like reality, even knowing it could be fantasy, she would not be able to unconsciously trick herself otherwise.

Of course as was the same with reality, Harry was still unaffected by anything Wanda did so he would often remain near her to remind her that she wasn't dangerous.

At some point Rogue had taken Wanda to the side and they toured New York without Harry and spent many hours performing the dreaded Girl Talk. Harry did not in fact spend every moment monitoring the girls so he would do his own thing when the pair went off on their own. Due to the fact that most malls, stores, and restaurants were either faithfully copied or at least imitated to the point they were functional, the pair would not be deprived of things to enjoy.

Harry's own project for the next hundred years was something he had been considering since his decision to use gemstones and tech. Harry decided to invent a new branch of science. None of the current branches could properly explain extra dimensional energies and to avoid using the word Magic, Harry had to properly formulate the observable reactions of these energies which could be reproduced by others. Of course, the observability of such energies would require technology which didn't exist yet. Harry would make it eventually and when he did, people would be able to measure energies from other dimensions and learn how they interact with different fields and materials.

Harry had something of an innate understanding of the energies already, but he needed something that could be taught to others and tested using machines.

Of course, the only materials capable of interacting with these energies naturally would either be rare and esoteric materials like vibranium, or the gemstones Harry's company would alter using sonic technology. As long as no one else cracked material manipulation using sonic tech, Harry's company would have the monopoly on the source of all materials needed for what would soon be the world's most advanced tech.

The reason Harry needed to write out the science though was because he needed the science behind his tech to be understood by others so it could be approved of and sold. It was fine if others knew how his stuff worked and how to make it themselves. Unless they got the key materials from Harry's companies, they could only twiddle their thumbs. Of course there would be those who tried to buy large amounts of products containing those specialty materials in order to use them to build devices of their own designs, but Harry had his own plans, or should he say, pranks for such people.

In addition to basic and advanced subjects, Harry taught both girls Occlumency. Chaos Magic was close enough to Wizard Magic for Wanda to use it and since Rogue could use both Wanda's powers or Jean's powers, she could use them to build up her own Occlumency as well.

Harry also encouraged both to acquire a hobby. Both tried cooking but both decided it didn't agree with them. Wanda decided to try painting and found she liked it while Rogue took up reading and playing video games much to Harry's amusement.

When Rogue got bored, she would fight the copies of monsters Harry faced in Battle Meditation or she would fight Death Eaters. It hadn't taken her long to find Harry's life story, the one Jean had been reading in his library and after a few weeks she finished the whole set, catching up to Harry's present.

Harry noticed that once finished, Rogue would often go find the copies of the various foes Harry had defeated such as the monsters from his Battle Meditation or the Death Eaters or that Basilisk. When she was feeling adventurous, she would try facing the Black Dragon and die a noble death against it. She once complained to Harry that she wanted to face Voldemort or the Mandarin, but Harry said that Goose technically killed the former and Harry barely survived the latter so his mindscape copy didn't have enough information to reproduce them.

When channeling the powers of others, there were some powers she could channel completely and other powers that she could only use a fraction of. She could use 100% of the Juggernaut's strength, but she could only teleport a fraction of Kurt's max distance. She could use Bobby's power without issue, but Evan's spikes were uncomfortable to use and less effective compared to when she stole his powers. Scott's power was ironically rather easy to use, but Logan's was a bit moody. In order to use Logan's healing factor, she had to heavily focus on using it which prevented her from multitasking while healing.

Harry determined the difficulty was based on the origin of the power. Scott's, Bobby's, and Marko's powers seemed to all be extradimensional. She was just connecting to the same extradimensional source using them as a reference. Kurt's teleporting was something Harry suspected was influenced by his bloodline, something Rogue did not share with Kurt. Spike and Wolverine both manifested their powers from their own biology, meaning Rogue's body had to mimic their cells which was harder than channeling energy. Harry suggested practicing with Mystique's power as getting used to the feeling of her cells changing should help use the powers of others.

Rogue found that if she shapeshifted into Logan, Kurt, or Evan, using their power was much easier. But she wanted to use her power in her own form so that became her goal for practicing.

With Harry's help, Rogue also practiced Chaos Magic. Wanda didn't particularly like her powers, so Rogue helped Harry figure out the properties of it so Harry could create a proper training routine when Wanda finally came around.

Five years after entering the mindscape, Harry called Wanda over and told her, "It's time to practice the use of your power."

Wanda frowned at that and asked, "Why now?"

Harry asked, "When was the last time you thought of your father and when was the last time your anger caused an accident?"

Wanda thought about it and realized it had actually been a full year. Occlumency hadn't been easy to learn, but she had eventually used it to do as Harry said and removed her father's ability to infuriate her. Harry was right about that, he wasn't important enough to be allowed to affect her life so much.

Wanda looked at the painting she had been working on and said, "I just want to learn how not to hurt people. The only person I want to use my powers to tear up is my father, but since there is only one of him, I don't see much of a point in training to use my power in other ways."

Harry sighed but it wasn't his decision to make. If someone wanted to live a peaceful life, that was their choice.

Rogue heard about her decision later and took her out for some more Girl Talk. When they returned, Wanda agreed to get trained and do everything she could to become stronger. Harry wasn't going to ask what they talked about but he was happy she made that choice.

Thanks to trial and error with Rogue, Harry had created what he considered the perfect training regime for Chaos Magic. Much of it he created with his subconscious as his mind contained both the Book of Vishanti and the Darkhold, the later being the premiere text on all things Chaos Magic.

Harry initially wanted to remove Chthon's signature from Wanda's magic and have her imprint it with her own. This would completely cut off Wanda's potential as the perfect vessel for Chthon, but Harry easily found out how impossible this was. It was not just a mark left on her by some remnant of Chthon, it was and actual piece of himself he personally placed in her at the moment of her birth.

Through some testing, Harry determined that Wanda's mutant power should have been a form of energy manipulation. Chthon had likely seen this as the perfect opportunity and used it to change the energy she could manipulate from normal energy to Chaos Magic.

Because of this, there was no way to change what she could manipulate from Chaos Magic to wizard magic.

However since Plan A wasn't viable, Harry decided to go with Plan B. If Chthon was going to give her a great talent and potential at manipulating Chaos energy, then why not have her perfect it to the degree she should be able to overpower Chthon himself if she faced him. Of course that didn't include facing him in his own realm, but outside of that, any version of Chthon she met would not be capable of absolute control over Chaos energy. If Wanda's control could exceed or at least match whatever avatar of Chthon she encountered in the future, she would not be overwhelmed and would have a fighting chance.

Of course, Harry would never intentionally allow her to confront Chthon, but there was no harm in planning for the worse.

Harry's lesson plans for Chaos Magic was a step by step introduction on pretty much everything that Chaos Magic could do and an explanation of how it did it. Since most aspects of Chaos magic were identical to Wizard Magic, Harry used that as a base.

According to Harry, Wizard/Chaos Magic was based on probability manipulation and reality overwriting.

For example, the basic Unlocking Charm. There was a set non zero probability that someone would forget to lock a door. The Unlocking Charm set that probability to 100% and overlapped that with reality, thus causing the door to unlock itself in order to correct itself to a state where someone had forgotten to lock it. Without a lock that was enchanted to resist such an effect, the Unlocking Charm could potentially unlock any door that was capable of being unlocked.

The key to using Chaos and Wizard magic was not manually searching for that probability when casting the spell, but allowing your feelings and instincts to guide you to that probability and use that as the target for overlapping reality with.

Once Wanda got the hang of it, she took to Chaos Magic like a fish to water. It only took a few months to catch up to where Rogue had been and after half a year, Wanda was the one teaching Rogue. The reason she was teaching was that Harry insisted on it. He plainly stated that few things allow someone to learn more about something than teaching it to someone else. By figuring out the best way to teach the less talented Rogue how to use Chaos Magic, she was getting a cleaner feel for it herself.

After they had finished with their base schooling, their schedule changed to include daily outside vistas. Hiking trips, days in the city, walks along the beach, or even just making a bonfire in the woods. The girls started to really show how much they were enjoying spending time around Harry and when someone enjoys being around you, it wasn't hard to enjoy being around them.

Twenty years after the start of their training, Wanda's skill at Chaos magic officially surpassed Harry's skill with wizard magic. Wanda was capable of using an Unlocking spell without any excess chaotic energy in the spell. This meant that Wanda could use the spell on an electronic lock without frying it and have it actually open. Even Harry couldn't do that. Harry's overall power was of course much higher but his precision lost out to Wanda's.

Fifty years into the venture, Rogue and Wanda both asked to go on a date with Harry. By now Wanda had also read the books on Harry's life and they both knew he was in love with Jean, but they also knew they had fallen in love with him as well and knew the feelings were mutual.

Harry was surprised that they stated they would be willing to share Harry with Jean and Rogue stated that she knew for a fact that as long as Jean got enough love, she would be willing to share Harry as well.

Wanda admitted that the only reason she worked hard to master her powers was because Rogue had told her than in the future, Harry would have many powerful enemies trying to control him and would need help to face them. Paying Harry back for everything he'd done for her was her motivation to become stronger.

Harry had no way to argue with that and agreed to take both on some dates. Over the years they grew closer and he fell in love with them both. Though since all three were virgins, Harry had no frame of reference in his mind for going further than making out which was fine for the girls. Harry stated he wouldn't cross that final line until he was sixteen and they had moved out of the mansion

When asked why, Harry stated that Logan would definitely know every time they did it and Harry didn't feel comfortable with that. Rogue immediately agreed as Logan was basically the surrogate father figure for many of the students and the fact that he would know every time they got busy would kill the mood dead.

Over the course of many years they learned that Harry had many flaws of his own. He had become over reliant on Pausing and because he didn't Pause this whole time, he would often spend too much time thinking over a trivial issue or would remain indecisive about something which should be a straightforward choice.

Harry had never had an outsider's perspective look at him for some long and until then had remained unaware of those issues and Harry resolved himself to get better about those issues.

At the end of the one hundred years, the trio found themselves back in the ritual room.

*Ping*

[Scholar Path has risen to Rank 45]

Rogue looked around and asked, "Is it over?"

The Ancient One answered back, "Yes indeed."

Rogue and Wanda both walked over to the Ancient One and gave a bow before saying together, "Thank you for taking care of Harry."

She nodded back with a smile and said, "You're welcome to visit the Sanctum in the future. But now, it's best you were off."

The trio nodded and headed off. The portal to Rogue's room and the Mental Institute were still open so they left and the portals closed.

Wanda took a look around the small room and waved a hand to dispel Harry's illusion of the pair that had remained. She took a deep breath and then dispelled the transfiguration on her straight jacket which coiled back around her, binding her arms in place. She was fully capable of removing the jacket at any time. She was also fully capable of teleporting using her own version of apparition and no locked door could hold her. Due to all this, she could leave any time she wanted to.

Harry however insisted she take the time to consolidate her own mind and feel out her powers before rushing to use them at the level she could towards the end of the hundred years.

Before opening the door to let Xavier back in, Wanda gave Harry a pleading puppy dog look he had grown so used to over the years and lifted her up to give her a passion filled goodbye kiss. Technically this was his first kiss not in the mental plain and Harry didn't have any complaints about it.

When Xavier entered and saw the pair, he had to do a double take on Wanda to make sure it was the same girl. Xavier had an innate passive sense of empathy and could feel many layers of emotions off the various people around him. The Wanda in front of him was a completely different person than the woman behind the door five minutes ago.

Harry smiled at his shocked expression and said, "Complete success Professor."

Wanda nodded and said with a light smile, "He's right, there won't be any more uncontrolled outbursts or accidents."

Xavier smiled at her confidence and said, "I cannot tell you how pleased I am to hear that. As long as that proves true, I can promise that you will only remain here for another month or two for observation before you will be released."

Wanda nodded and replied, "That's fine. I've got all the time in the world ahead of me so a month or two won't kill me."

The guard listening in couldn't believe what he was hearing. He was also having trouble seeing the smiling girl in front of him as the same teen who had nearly set him on fire half a dozen times over the last few months. He would be more shocked later when he received an apology from Wanda for her behavior and a genuine thank you for helping her. The remaining staff who would receive the same apology would be just as surprised.

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Over the course of the next two months Harry had two projects to complete. The first was the typing of what would later become Textbooks for his new branch of physics, Metaphysics. Technically, the current definition of Metaphysics was considered a branch of philosophy without ties to actual reality. Harry intended to change that. Sure, he could have gone with Extraphysics or Outerphysics, but this term would be used to quantify the abilities of metahumans so he'd rather use this and have others change the definition of Metaphysics than use a term that made superhumans look alien.

Harry's second project required a weekend spent at one of his companies assembling the world's first Sonic Screwdriver. There was a lot of overlap in the two projects and the coding required to make the Screwdriver was only possible after Harry had assigned the needed constants, variables, and formulas associated with the various energies that the machine would be dealing with.

Now it wasn't actually a screwdriver, nor could it fit in the palm of a hand or a pocket. In fact it was the size of a semi truck and could only use non-linear sonic oscillation harmonics to change the material physics of gemstones and only gemstones. But the properties that could be gained by gemstones that had undergone sonic treatment were non-reproducible through any other means on the planet. The first batch of treated gemstones were Emeralds Harry would take back to the Institute. Harry had shown the Goblins the step by step requirements for assembling the machines and Harry's Scholar Path shined through in that he could perfectly teach them how to properly assemble and use it in a single weekend.

The Emeralds were the key to Harry's second project, his Hard-Light hologram disguises for some of the students. The reason that only the Danger Room had a Hard-Light platform was that the unique materials required to create the Hard-Light system obtained from the Shi'ar designed spaceship were all used up in its creations. These modified Emeralds however could act as replacements for the core components of a Hard-Light generation platform which couldn't be acquired anywhere else on earth.

In addition to creating Hard-Light disguises for the kids, Harry also intended to install a Hard-Light platform in Forge's class rooms. A number of his demonstrations and labs required assistants and he never had enough helpers for that so Harry wanted to have his lab generate them for him. Harry already obtained permission from Danger herself to install a Quantum Entanglement Connection from the Danger Room to Forge's classroom so Danger could act as an assistance. Forge could also reproduce material intensive experiments through a Hard-Light demonstration rather than burn through funds to redo the same experiment over and over.

After a month and a half, Wanda Maximoff was successfully released from the Mental Institution and enrolled into Xavier's School. Wanda's release was expedited through several donations made to the Institution as 'praise for successfully healing such a profound case.' Not that Xavier was aware of that. Harry wasn't going to leave it to chance and he ensured Wanda's progress report leaked and that the Doctors got lauded mountains of praise which in turn made them want to show off her success even more which in turn lead to more donations. Her release had a nice, fat donation to tie the whole thing together and also sped up a process that should have taken six months to a quarter of that.

Because of Rogue's power, she always had her own room but when Wanda arrived, she immediately kidnapped her for a roommate which Xavier was happy with. He had noticed both Wanda and Rogue's personalities had changed drastically, but there were changes for the better and both involved Harry Potter, though Xavier was unaware of the details.

Harry used some precise magics to recreate some of the artwork Wanda had been most proud of from the hundred years. Not all of her favorites though, Wanda was explicit that some of those works were meant for their own enjoyment and not for the eyes of others.

One of the larger changes to Harry's personal schedule since then was that he would now spend eight hours a day in bed instead of four, but he only slept every other day. He would spend either eight hours or four hours each night using Battle Meditation which he had been slacking on lately due to lack of time. The reason was that both Wanda and Rogue had expressed interest in using the Multiplayer function so Harry agreed to use it when he reached level 220. However at his current rate of about a level every two days, they would likely have to wait until December. He was almost to level 200 at the moment.

[Harry Potter

Level 199 Age 15

STR 275 AGI 310

INT 450 WIS 410

LUK 20

Warrior Path Rank 27

Scholar Path Rank 45

Magic Path Rank 40

Tech Path Rank 32

Business Path Rank 22

Crafting Path Rank 23

Dragon Path Rank 6

Psionic Path Rank 20]

Harry often had to resist looking at his stats and Paths because it was too easy to distract himself from his current projects. Sure, he wanted to get his Warrior Path, Dragon Path and Psionic Path to Rank 30, but they would not grant any great assistant in a fight. Although his Dragon Path gave him enough strength to break the old Danger Room, if he wasn't holding back, he could do even more with Strength energy. And of course anything he could do with brute force, he could do even better with spells. The so-called Unstoppable Juggernaut against Harry's magic was completely defeated after all.

Both Wanda and Rogue agreed to keep their relationship with Harry a secret until Jean was on board. They wanted Harry to spend the nights cuddling with them, but in a house with a prankster teleporter, two telepaths, and a man who could smell what you had for breakfast yesterday on your breath, keeping such a thing a secret was impossible even with magic. Harry made it up to them though by setting a few adamantium plates inscribed with Timelord Math into their closet to enlarge the space inside by ten times. Since it used block transfer computation instead of an undetectable extension charm, there was no exotic energy within so it was safe for tech.

Wanda quickly started back up on her art in her free time and Rogue occasionally went to the mansion's game room and destroyed anyone who went up against her. How she suddenly became a god of games was something no one could understand.

The Halloween of the year was on a Wednesday and though many were too old to trick or treat, no one had the heart to stop them. Especially Kurt, Josh, and a few of the other kids who would not earn a second glance this night except for someone shouting they had an awesome costume. Wanda and Rogue dragged Harry out to have fun as Jean had just turned sixteen and had volunteered to babysit her niece and nephew for their first trick-or-treat with her parents. Scott had stayed at the mansion to supervise a Halloween party but Harry's girlfriends did not want Harry's first Halloween in the states to be dull so they took him out to see the sights and decorations.

Wanda's costume was a cute witch's outfit complete with a wide brim hat and toy broom. Rogue wore a vampire outfit with a cape and fake fangs. Harry's outfit was chosen by the girls, he wore a fur vest and had a blonde wig with a large prop bastard sword tied to his back making him Conan the Barbarian, the hero of some of the world's oldest stories which may have been true.

The trio were on their way to view more Halloween decorations when a fire ball flew past them and a certain teen with a near Australian accent shouted, "I must be getting rusty to miss at this range."

Although Harry wasn't a speedster, his observation and information processing speed was far superior to a normal human. When Pietro Maximoff ran down the block and right up to him, Harry's eyes followed him easily enough. It was too dark for the silver haired teen to notice that as he ran past Harry and nabbed the belt Harry wore containing all his gemstones.

Pietro stopped next to the ones Harry recognized as Lance and John. Off to the side were two he did not recognize but had heard off. A scrawny lad crouched on a wall with larger than normal eyes was the one called Toad. Next to him, a teen nearly as wide as he was tall, was Blob. Of course, Pietro, Lance, and John were called Quicksilver, Avalanche, and Pyro respectively.

"Ohh, look what I got? Emeralds, and Diamonds and Rubies, oh my, Ah hahaha!" Pietro noticed Harry and Rogue in costume, but he hadn't taken a second look at the witch currently glaring at him.

Pietro shouted, "Not so tough without your shinnies, eh pay to play?"

Harry shook his head with a smirk and said, "I doubt you're going to believe me but I'll go ahead and say it. This is the part where you should be running away."

The group paused for a moment before they each reeled back and started laughing. Pyro flicked his lighter and created a fire ball while calmly asking, "And why would we do a thing like that? I've got you right where I want you and it's payback time."

Rogue coughed loudly to get their attention as she was already getting peeved that she was not being taken as a threat.

Lance turned to her and said, "Check out our costumes little miss runaway." The light from Pyro's fireball stretched over the group and revealed each of them were in their brotherhood costumes and none had any exposed skin other than the face. They even appeared to be wearing gloves.

Pyro laughed haughtily and remarked, "You're not gonna be able to touch a single hair off our heads."

The group continued to laugh and walked closer, slowly encircling the group. Their laughter died with a single sentence.

"Hello Pietro." Wanda's voice was smooth and clear, the kind of voice Harry knew he could listen to every day for the rest of his life. It was also very distinct, and though the male Maximoff twin had not heard it in years, he instantly recognized it.

Pietro's eyes widened in shock at horror once he got a look at the face hidden under that wide brimmed witches' hat and he stuttered out, "W-Wanda?!"

Wanda smiled at his terror and waved her fingers before him. Pietro's costume suddenly expanded and then twisted around him, wrapping him from head to toe and causing him to fall over. This froze the rest of the group. She then looked at Pyro's fireball and threw a bolt of red energy at it causing the ball to explode in Pyro's hand, setting his gloves on fire and giving him actual burns and causing him to cry out in pain.

He dropped his lighter and used his ability to snuff out the flame but with a wave of Wanda's hand, Pyro's own clothes transformed the same as Quicksilver's and in a moment he was bound as well.

Avalanche rose his hands up as if he were lifting a great mass with a poor posture and the ground started trembling. Wanda threw a half dozen marbles from her pockets and with a wave of her hand, they transformed into chickens which landed in front of Lance. The terrakinetic sneered at the chickens and once more began to make the ground quake. The moment it did though, the chickens simultaneously turned their heads to face Lance and shouted together, 'BUH-GOK!'

The chickens started flapping and flew over the trembling ground directly at Lance's face. When he realized they were aiming to peck out his eyes, he released his hold on the earth and started running, but the chickens were very fast.

Blob started charging as well, but another four marbles thrown led to the immovable teen being surrounded by four wolves, each snarling at him with glistening teeth.

Seeing the direction of the wind, Toad decided to exist, stage left. He was unable to avoid Wanda's attention however and with a scarlet bolt of light, he was turned into a large toad that fell to the ground and gave a large croak before continuing to hop away.

Harry watched the show with a smile. The marbles were a gift to Wanda from himself. They had a core of Life Force infused iron within a crystal sphere and were very easy to transfigure into live animals. They even had a timed portkey to return them to her room if they ran too far off. Of course there were limits.

When it came to conjuring or transfiguring animals, the closer the probabilities of that animal actually appearing at that location were to zero, the harder the spell was to cast. So it was easier to conjure a wolf than it was a rhino unless you were in Africa. The creature with the lowest probability of appearing Harry was able to transfigure something into was a Mammoth. He couldn't conjure or transfigure something into a dinosaur. Neither could he conjure or transfigure something into a creature that has never existed on earth like many of the creatures he faced in Battle Meditation.

The screams of agony of Avalanche in the distance and the cries coming from Blob from the pain of being bitten and the fear he will really be devoured by wolves had Pietro and John panicking.

Wanda walked up to the bound pair and said with a smile that was not a smile, "Hello brother, it's been a while. I'd ask you how you feel, but being bound and unable to move while surrounded by people you're afraid of and lacking any control over your life is something I know far better than you, so I won't bother to ask."

Pietro started rambling, "Wanda, wait, please. It wasn't my fault, I didn't want to leave you there, but father didn't have a choice."

Wanda's not a smile strained as she continued, "I will have some choice words for Father next I see him. All it took for me to learn to control my powers was someone who wasn't afraid of me. Father, your self proclaimed leader, was too much of a coward for that. I don't know how any of you can justify following that hypocrite."

Wanda's hand rose menacingly over Pietro and she said, "Now, shall I start with you, or perhaps your friend?"

Pietro cried out, "No no no, wait, please, I'm sorry!"

Wanda theatrically stopped herself and like a perfect actress appeared to be giving it some thought. She said, "Well, I'm not sure if I believe you. How about this. Let Rogue here touch you for a moment. If she feels you really are sorry, then I promise to let bygones be bygones. I'll forgive you and you won't have anything to fear from me."

The sound of Blob screaming made Pietro quickly answer, "Yeah, sure, no problem."

Rogue walked up to Pietro with a smile and bent down to touch his face. However she stopped for a moment and said as if thinking aloud to herself, "Actually, I have some homework I gotta get back and finish so I need to get back to the mansion fast." She then looked back at Pietro and sweetly asked with a smile, "Pietro Maximoff, can I use your power?"

Pietro nodded and said, "Yeah, yeah, anytime!"

Rogue touched his face for a moment with her ungloved hand and walked over to John and said, "Didn't you say I wouldn't be able to touch a hair of your head?"

Wanda said, "So what should I do with you? Turn you into a pumpkin? Maybe set you on fire and disable your power? Oh, I know, I think I'll make you permanently bald."

John had been getting more and more pale with each threat and at the last he shouted like a little school girl, "Nooo! Please Noo! Anything but the hair!"

Rogue said, "You know, we'll need to put out the pumpkins when we get home, can you offer him the same deal?"

John noticed that Pietro didn't look winded when Rogue touched him and had he been thinking clearly, he would have thought more of that than simply it wasn't a bad choice.

John ended up agreeing to give Rogue his own powers as well in the end.

After touching his face and plucking a strand of hair out of pettiness, Rogue finished up and Wanda said to Pietro, "Next time you see father, tell the coward to walk the long way around me if he ever sees me and I'll consider leaving his punishment until a later date."

Harry casually walked over to where Pietro had initially been bound and picked up the belt of gemstones he'd dropped at the time and put it back on. Harry bent down to him and said, "I remember you saying last time we met I was as crazy as your sister. Wish I'd asked you more about her then because I think I'm in love."

Quicksilver, the fastest mutant around, froze at Harry's admission and a moment later, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Rogue and Wanda smiled and Harry walked back up to the group and they headed out.

Harry almost had to wipe a tear of pride from his eyes after witnessing the pair in action. Not from how they dealt with the Brotherhood, but because of their prank on Pietro and John. Harry had of course taught them his love of pranks over the course of a hundred years and they had many pranks wars between them and were far more experienced than most when it came to the art of pranks. He was so proud of them.

Of the Brotherhood's powers, Pietro and John's were the strongest which was why Rogue had telepathically gone over this plan with Wanda before they started. Blob's was alright but it was practically a weaker version of Juggernaut and Avalanche's powers were far too destructive. Of course they could have knocked them out and taken the power after asking the unconscious mutants, but Rogue stated that although the power was not affected, the effort was. She realized it took far more effort to use Mystique's and Juggernaut's power than it did any of the X-Men who consciously agreed to give her the use of their power.

As for the Brotherhood themselves, they would be fine. The transfigured wolves and chickens had illusions spells on them which made the damage inflicted on them feel and look real. Blob would look covered in blood and be in a lot of pain, but when the spell ended, neither he nor Lance would have any wounds and eventually Toad would turn back to normal along with John's and Pietro's costumes.

On the way back home, Harry had a bad feeling. Rogue and Wanda noticed it of course and they returned to the Mansion wearily, but nothing unusual occurred. A number of the kids had returned as well and were comparing their loads of candy with one another. Kurt's pillow case was the largest. He looked like a demonic Santa Claus carrying that thing on his back.

Harry spent four hours sleeping and another four using Battle meditation. However in the middle of his session, the Battle meditation broke and Harry saw an image of Jean being manhandled by men in suits and crying, calling out for help.

Harry quickly left his room and went over to Xavier's door. Before he reached it the door had opened and Xavier was on his way out with a worried frown. He noticed Harry and said, "You felt it as well then? I'm heading to Cerebro now to check on Jean."

Without another word the pair quickly descended the mansion levels and entered Cerebro. Xavier put on his helmet and searched for Jean's mind. The map of the world displayed by Cerebro would zoom in on an area then zoom out as if bounced off. It would zoom in again on a different area and then zoom out again. Xavier's frown deepened and he commented, "I cannot get a lock on her. She was going to stay at her parents house, let's see what happened."

The map zoomed in on New York and quickly to her parents house where both parents were standing at their door speaking with two others who from some of the images appeared to be police officers.

Xavier zoomed in on the minds of the twins and more images surfaced, their memories of what had happened.

Images of trick or treating and Jean's smile while in a princess costume. Then four strangers showing up and fighting against Jean. She fought back but was overwhelmed. The group ignored the twins and grabbed her and left.

Harry's own glare at the men in the images turned to ice. Jean had been kidnapped.

Xavier felt Harry's rage and said, "We'll find her Harry."

Harry said with steel in his voice, "You won't have to." He took out a diamond and made it glow in front of Xavier before making a portal and entering it. The portal led to the area Jean had been kidnapped. There were still a few police at the scene and damages caused from the fight, though most of it from the assailants. No one noticed Harry snooping around and no one noticed the red mandalas he conjured to scan the area.

It didn't take long for Harry to determine the group of kidnappers had a teleporter. The problem however was that it was a psionic teleporter. Such people could create a map of shortcuts in their head and instantly travel from one to another in what would be mapped out as a zig-zag route, though they would arrive instantaneously. However Harry had no way to track such a teleporter.

Harry Paused to consider his options. First of all, why didn't he get a Quest? A Quest would include a map pointer which would let him track her down in minutes. Even on that Orphans Quest there was a map pointer to the Orphanage which was why Harry snooped for and found the hidden transfer magic circle. Why not now?

After a few considerations, Harry realized why. He had a way to track down Jean, but that method would have permanent consequences. Without a map pointer, he would absolutely use that method. Perhaps those consequences were not a bad thing so he wasn't given a shortcut around them. If that was the case, there was no need to hesitate.

Harry made another portal into Wanda and Rogue's closet. He wasn't going to go directly into their room no matter the emergency though he did knock loudly on the closet door.

Moments later Wanda opened the door and said with a bit of an edge, "This had better be good Harry."

Harry said, "Jean has been kidnapped, I need yours and Rogue's help to find her."

From her own bed Rogue said, "Give me a minute."

The pair got ready and Harry made another portal to the Mansion's back area that was lined with trees. Harry already got out a backpack from his inventory while in the closet and filled it with materials so the cameras in the area would not see him using his inventory.

Harry pulled out five large crystal spheres from his backpack and placed them in a circle. He then got out a large jar of pure, white sand and began to pour it while walking around the circle. Though the pour looked sloppy, Harry was using telekinesis to make perfect lines between the crystal spheres. After drawing out the pentagram for a base, Harry then poured out a dozen thinner, more intricate lines and symbols.

The formation Harry was making used the same Arithmancy as the designs of Cerebro. It was a Psionic enhancer powered by magic set specifically to locate a specific mutant psionic. If Harry had any of Jean's blood, he would not need this, but he had been reluctant to ask that of anyone up to this point. He fully intended to get samples of everyone's later once this was over.

Once the sand formation was aligned, Wanda began chanting and charging the crystals with her chaos magic. Although she had not seen such a magic circle before, she had spent decades studying rituals so understood its use very quickly. Her own talent in art made her own rituals very precise and formidable and the pair had many discussions on rituals and ritual magic.

Harry sent Rogue a telepathic message of what to do and she agreed without issue.

Once the charge was complete, Harry entered Rogue's mind and together they found the echo of Jean that would often let Rogue use her powers.

Harry said to it, "Jean, your body has been kidnapped and is being hidden just like those kids at the orphanage. We're going to amplify your connection to find you through that connection."

The echo of Jean looked surprised and then worried before giving a firm, conviction filled nod. She knew what this meant but it was a better alternative than being kidnapped.

Within his own mind, Harry concentrated on the Phoenix flame and its resonance. The echo of Jean did not react, but Wanda caught the feeling though the ritual as her que and activated the ritual. She directed her charged powers into Harry and into Rogue which then entered and supercharged Jean's echo. The pentagram on the grounds lit up like the sun but Wanda held her concentration, using her power to amplify the connection to Jean.

The echo of Jean suddenly lifted into the air and a red glow surrounded it. The piercing cry of a Phoenix echoed.

Harry followed the resonance and opened his eyes, "I've got a lock!" Harry swatted the air and opened a portal. On the other side was Jean, bound to a metal table and screaming. A metal helmet was strapped to her head.

Harry jumped in and paused. He did his best to calm himself with the promise of what he was going to do. The room had two floors with an observation deck and a stairway up to it. No windows, but the number of vents on the upper wall suggested the location was under ground. The people around him were dressed in lab coats and none of them seemed particularly interested in Jean's screaming. Especially the one standing next to her with the large needle that Jean was screaming at.

Harry memorized the position of every person in the room and after unpausing, shot each with a stunner in under five seconds.

Harry looked back through the portal and saw that both Wanda and Rogue were exhausted. He couldn't see through portals while pausing so he had to enter before scouting.

After every person in the room fell down, Harry ran over to Jean and transfigured the iron bands holding her down into clay and ripped them off without hurting her. Jean met Harry's gaze the moment she realized what happened and she wrapped her arms around him and started crying.

Harry would have found the fact that he princess carried her after rescuing her while she was dressed as a princess a lot more ironic were the situation not so humorless. As he walked her over to the portal, he cast a gentle sleeping spell on her and handed her to Rogue who could easily carry her using one of her powers. Harry said, "Take her to McCoy and clean up here please. I'll clean up on this side."

Harry had absolutely no emotion as he said the last line and as the portal closed while he remained on the other side. Neither Wanda nor Rogue questioned what he was going to do.

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