chapter one
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t my favorite nerd”
A lone soul stood before a god, the god was big, bigger than any mortal being. It reminded the soul of the Egyptian gods, animal head, human body, only that the soul couldn’t make out what animal it was. It was shifting, at one moment a fox, the next a bird of some kind and even after that some type of fish. It never stayed long enough to make out, changing every second. It wore a greek toga, only it wasn’t white but brilliant, shining gold, with electric blue trim. The god's voice was booming, loud and full of power. The soul felt weak and insignificant compared to the grand existence of this being so much more than it.
“What- who- where”, the soul stammered out, not able to form a coherent sentence. It was too overwhelmed by the being in front of it.
“No need to be so nervous”, the god spoke, every syllable ringing through the soul’s bones, which it technically didn’t have any more and yet, it could still feel it, “I have watched your life with interest and I must say, it was boring. You never went on any grand adventures, you mostly stayed in your room, reading books. Never even had a girlfriend. It was 19 years of pure boredom, watching you. I almost feel sorry for you, having such a dull life and yet suffering by the way of your own mind. You never did anything and yet the universe found it fitting to bestow onto you depression and anxiety… All that childhood trauma and nothing to show for it, not even a suicide to call your own, just a boring death of undiagnosed cancer… Well that all changes today!
I am giving you an offer you can’t refuse… I mean it, you can’t refuse- I am sick of watching you spend your days in mediocrity. I will have you reincarnate into one of your favorite series, the Harry Potter series”
“I- what? I’m… getting reincarnated? As who?”, the soul asked, overwhelmed by the whole situation. It just accepted that this was happening. No need to fight it, the god said that it couldn’t refuse after all.
“Great question… You will be reborn as Ronald Bilius Weasley and- as I am so generous, I will grant you three wishes within reason of course, no wishing for omnipotence”, The god laughed, “Hahahaha, now, what are your wishes?”
“Well- give me a minute here, this is a big decision”, the soul pondered what it should ask for. After a good, long while, it came to a decision as to what it’s wishes were going to be,”For my first wish I want a wand, one more powerful than a regular wand, one that is a perfect match for me”
“That’s an easy one to grant, it can be done. The wand will be more powerful than a normal wand but less powerful than the elder wand. Yew with a vampire heartstring core, 13 inches”, The god said, it’s head changing from a cow to a pig.
“Great, for my second wish I want- well I want an inventory, like in the video games, one with unlimited space”, the soul spoke, feeling more and more confident about his choices.
“It can be done, though it isn’t infinite, but it definitely has a lot of space, I’m sure you won’t reach capacity”
“And for my last wish, I want the magical potential of someone like Dumbledore or Riddle, someone very powerful”, The soul explained, “I want to be just as great as either of them at the age I will be”
“Now this is more like it, I wondered why you didn’t chose something like that to begin with. A powerful wand, what a waste of a wish but it is your choice, I guess. Now, our time here has come to an end, I will see you when you die again, don’t make that all too soon though, I hope your next life will be more eventful than your last one”
With that, the god disappeared in a flash of golden light and the soul was left to slowly drift into it’s new body…
“Can I sit here? Everywhere else is already full”, Ronald asked and, as he was saying it, his body was filled with a new soul. It took a good second for him to reorganize his mind. He sat down as soon as Harry had said he was allowed to. Ron sat down immediately in front of Harry, looking at him with interest, “So, any idea what house you’ll be in?”
“No”, Harry said, looking down, “I don’t even really know what the houses are all about. I know there’s one called slytherin and one called hufflepuff but other than that, I really don’t know”
“Well, there are four houses”, he explained to the orphaned boy, “Gryffindor for the brave, Slytherin for the ambitious, Hufflepuff for the hard working and Ravenclaw for the smart. We get sorted into the houses, don’t really know how but we get sorted and that determines who we have classes with. Each house has a common room where only those of their house are permitted in. I think the slytherin common room is in the dungeons, as is the hufflepuff one. I think both the ravenclaw and gryffindor common rooms are in towers. There are rumors about each of the houses, that the hufflepuffs are weak, the gryffindor’s are reckless, the slytherins are evil and the ravenclaw are snobs but I don’t think that’s true, just rumors, nothing more, nothing less”
Soon, the sweets witch came walking in and offered us candy. Just like in the books, Harry bought a bit of everything with the money in his pocket. As Harry was busy paying the witch, Ron exchanged his faulty hand-me-down wand for his special wand from his inventory.
As soon as they were left alone again, they began eating the sweets. Whilst they were doing that, Ron pulled out one of his textbooks and began reading in it. He was making pleasant conversation with Harry, as they were eating. Mostly, they talked about the houses and which ones they wanted to be in. Harry’s favorite was Gryffindor, whilst Ron credited himself more of a Ravenclaw.
Soon, Hermione Granger came barging into the compartment, looking for Neville’s lost toad Trevor. Of course, Trevor wasn’t in their compartment, so she went away, looking for the lost toad somewhere else.