Harry #1
Harry Potter the original, (or Harry O) was born with his fathers hair, his mothers eyes, and was the revered chosen one both hated and loved by the wizarding world, utterly boring, only made interesting by the things that happened to him and the trouble he found, e.g. Basilisk, evil megalomaniac, dementor attack, werewolf teacher ect. I’m making different Harry Potters that I like better.
Harry Potter #1 has thick, dark red hair cut short in something resembling a pixie style with blue eyes, looking like a mix between Lily and her own mother. The blue-eyed gene was recessive and came from Lily Evans mother. He also took a bit more after Lily’s mother in the facial structure department as well. He still needs glasses due to James Potters’ genetic influence (damn him), and has the ability for parsel-tongue as he still has voldemort’s soul piece in his head.
He has a natural affinity for necromancy due to the Peverell blood in the Potters line, and as his magic grows the whispering shadows that have always followed him will in turn, grow more defined in his perception. He will be able to make out their words before he realizes they have a human shape, and he will be able to see their faces clearly before he can figure out how to talk to them in a way they understand.
Thestrals are very fond of him and are happy to let him pet them. Unicorns flee from him before he realizes they are near due to the aura of death around him.
As a child, when he was scared or mad he'd accidentally bring small animals/insects back as mini inferi that follow him around, and more than a few times, they’d swarm his cousin and his friends when they’d attack or chase him. Dudley learned to feel a confused kind of fear towards his small cousin Harry, but from his Aunt and Uncle it just earned him beatings directly after their horror.
A reanimated creature will still rot if no preservation spells are cast on it so the animals resurrected in Harry’s childhood will eventually deteriorate back into death after a while. Harry doesn’t need to see the animal to do an accidental resurrection and being in its corpses’ vicinity is enough. With time, Harry will be able to detect the possible remains he could reanimate and bring them back on purpose instead of it always being accidental.
A resurrected creature or being is incapable of thought and therefore cannot speak, this of course means that Harry is unable to converse with undead snakes. A mini-story idea is that when he’s 7 or 8 he befriends a snake, but it gets killed. He’s so happy when it comes back to life the next day but is then disappointed when his friend wont speak to him anymore. However, like the other resurrected creatures it still follows him around and so harry feels a bit of comfort form that.
As he unknowingly trains his magical core to be stronger through these many, many unintentional resurrections, he will be ridiculously more powerful than any first year student has a right to and as his core grows, will be able to reanimate larger and larger animals. It is more difficult to bring back dead magical creatures than it is muggle ones and even then, they will no longer have any of their previously held magical abilities. Ex: A dragon will be able to fly but not breathe fire, a phoenix could fly, but it’s tears would be mundane ect.
To truly bring something back to life and not just animate their corpse to do his bidding, he will need to learn how to find and bring back their souls. The longer something is dead, the harder it will be to do a true resurrection. On a totally unrelated note, in second year Harry may or may not accidentally resurrect the basilisk right after he kills it and have a small panic when it rears back up from it’s previously dead position on the chambers floor. However, Harry’s creations will have the information that harry knows at any given time, and thus, the reanimated Basilisk apparently knows that the threat to it’s necromancer can be destroyed by biting the small black book.
Before this point, Harry’s friends had known he could reanimate things, would’ve been pretty damn hard to hide considering the previously dead potions ingredients attempting to lunge at their professor semi-regularly. Anyway, they had known that he could do some unusual stuff, but before seeing him resurrect a ginormous, extremely dangerous fifty foot snake they hadn’t truly realized just how powerful their friend was or the extent to his abilities.
Speaking of aggressive potions ingredients though, it’s not long into their first year at Hogwarts before Severus notices the moving rats tails and bisected slugs that determinedly wriggle after him. On their behalf, It has to be said that Harry and his friends had been doing a fairly good job for a bunch of children at quickly hiding the reanimated ingredients. However Snape was an adult, not to mention death eater, and so obviously noticed the unusual happenings on a few occasions. With Harry Potter not looking one whit like his father besides the round glasses, Severus was hard pressed to immediately hate the child, and so with a bit of prying, he was able to learn about Harry’s issues and decided to teach the boy occlumency of his own volition, leading to a sort of mentor-mentee bond between them.
Harry is very close to his friends, and they all care greatly about each other. Every now and then though, they’ll feel a burst of fear towards their red-headed friend and his hoard of rotting thralls that they do their best to smother and ignore, loving their friend more than they fear him.