Stephen Strange, once Sorcerer Supreme, watches as The Watcher sent his prisoner into another universe. He thought he would watch over them forever, but that is clearly what The Watcher wants him to do.
“What now?”
“Now you have work for few years, Stephen. Of course, you still need to watch over multiverse, but that doesn't happen that often,” smiles The Watcher at him.
Everything around them changes as they get transported into different universe. It’s almost morning, still dark, but not that much. They see house with something in front of the door.
The Watcher points at it: “You will raise that boy.”
Stephen nods, before realizing what his companion said.
“WHAT?”
♥
Stephen was wondering if he got more grey hair in few days than he got by consuming countless dimensional beings. He was watching the toddler that was sitting in the middle of broken… something. The sorcerer isn’t sure what it is and how Harry got his hands on it.
This broken dimension with purple crystal walls is mess. Small kid got into everything he has here: food, books, clothes, artefacts, trapped souls. Stephen was so done, even with all books he read on childcare and his medical background, he was out of his wits.
He asked The Watcher for help, but baldie said he can’t watch over Harry. Ha-ha, he will pay for this one.
♥
Harry finally turned 3 years old, and Stephen is happy he can finally send him to the kindergarten. Those few hours of silence are blessing from Vishanti.
The boy was smiling at him every time he dropped him off. Teachers were telling him his son is cute and smart. The sorcerer didn’t correct them. Harry Strange was his official name to hide him from wizards.
Stephen phone rang and he frowned, because only people who has his number are from kindergarten.
“Hello?”
“Mr. Strange?! Harry got kidnapped! We-“
Stephen threw phone on the couch and already created portal to boy’s location. When he few in he wanted to hit his head on something hard.
Kidnappers were clearly normal humans, now screaming plushies of monsters that Harry saw while staying with him. Some kids may be afraid of monsters under bed, but Harry saw too much of his appearance and tentacles to even flinch at bizarre things.
“Dad!”
Stephen sighs and picks up Harry.
“We need to change kindergarten, I am not going to explain things to your teachers,” tells sorcerer to the boy. Young wizard just laughs, plushies still screaming.
♥
Doctor Strange still fondly remembers days that Harry couldn’t read. He could put himself in danger back then, but only in physical way. Now that young wizard can read and somehow found how to do astral projection… Stephen wonders if throwing his books to the dark dimension is worth it.
There is bright side to this, of course. Harry loves learning, and he already read half of his school library. His memory is great, and the sorcerer ignores that it may be result of some magic Harry shouldn’t know at his age. So school is easy for him, that’s great.
That’s also bad, because the young wizard gets bored and some kids hate him for being too smart.
Loud sigh makes Stephen to look at his son.
“What is problem now?” he asks.
“Why is that always your first question?”
“Because statistically speaking, number of crazy and problematic things around you-“
“Okay, so there is this boy at school, Dudley Dursley. He bullies many others and me. It’s getting worse,” his son magnificently ignores his statistic.
“…”
“What?!”
“So, you know that I… adopted… you, right?” starts older man slowly.
“Yeah, you kidnapped me from my aunt’s doorstep. What does this have to do with my problem?”
“… Dudley is your cousin,” informs him sorcerer.
Harry’s eyes get big, and he turns gross shade of pale green.
“OH, DAD gross! Can’t we switch dimensions, so he isn’t my cousin?!”
“No.”
♥
Stephen regrets that he let Harry and T’challa work together. It stared as innocent thing.
Harry had to do a project for his science day at school. He was bored, already reading library in London and some stolen books Stephen.
“Did you think I wouldn’t notice?”
“Yes, you are busy with multiverse…”
“I created the spell when you were just 2 years old, to warn me if you take some of my books or artifacts.”
“Since I was two?!” yelled Harry.
Stephen just stares at him: “You got your hands on EVERYTHING.”
But Harry was right, he was busy and not really into kid science for school project. So, he called T’challa on his free day to help his son. His biggest mistake in that was to leave them alone.
That brings Stephen to his current situation.
“… and their fur is so beautiful, looking natural even if it-“
“As I understand,” interrupted sorcerer talking man, “you want to commercialize the blue furred hamster that my son created for his science day, is that correct?”
“Yes! They are in high demand and since someone sent photos to Science Today, they asked if young Harry would reveal how he breeds them and …”
This whole conversation was Stephen throwing looks at his son. When they finally left the school after all promises about future of blue hamsters, he turned to Harry.
“I am not leaving you with T’challa alone ever again. Now, please, explain how you two created natural blue-eyed blue furred hamsters,” calmly demands sorcerer.
“About that…”
♥
“Daaaaad, my letter from Hogwarts came!”
The 11-year-old boy runs in small crystal dimension. Man sitting in meditating position open one eye and looks at the letter in his son’s hand.
“Perfect, now you will be someone else problem for 10 months,” says man as he closes his eye.
There are few seconds of silence.
“Are you sure you want to let me loose in wizarding world?”
“No, but you are also that universe’s problem since you were born there.”
“Don’t you love me anymore?”
“I love you, Harry, but as most patient person in the multiverse, I think other should appreciate the gift of patience as well.”
“Heh, sure dad,” small giggle make Stephen smile.
♥
Harry opens a portal to broken universe on his 1st night at Hogwarts.
“Dad, can you tell me about the tree headed dogs? Oh, and I got into Slytherin,” informs him his son.
“How come you are not Ravenclaw?”
Boy frowns: “The hat said that my ambition to read their library is ‘too much’.”
“Hm, still better than Gryffindor. Books about animals from underground are on 3rd self,” answer Stephen unfazed.
♥
Just two weeks later his son is back, now asking for new broom to study spells on it and how to preform exorcism.
“Exorcism? Why would you need that?”
“My DADA professor is possessed-“
Stephen throws book about exorcism at Harry and he disappears again.
♥
“Daaaaaaaaaaaaad!”
It's Halloween night. Older man was hoping for calm night.
“Yes?”
“Can infinity stone or part of it, be stuck in the wand? Today I saw the headmaster to do magic and it felt totally different. Also, professor Snape tries and fails to get into my head and he’s mad about it. And-“
“Your professor what?” Stephen stops his rant with the raised eyebrow.
“He wants to see my memories.”
“Why, though?”
“I never told them who raised me,” smirks Harry with huge grin.
“Oh…”
♥
Today Harry got home from school and just saw watching tv and eating popcorn for hours. When Stephen finally asked him why, he got angry answer.
“I need something normal.”
“What normal?”
“Music, TV, space, average IQ…”
“You can’t always have everything.”
“Even Kamar-Taj had WIFI!”
“Then build one at Hogwarts!”
His son gasps.
♥
“Shouldn’t you be at school, Harry?” asks older man when he once again finds his son home (broken dimension) and not at his school.
“Professor Snape told me to get out of his sight until I learn some manners,” said calmly his son from comfortable chair near table full of his favorite snacks.
“You want to freak them out…”
“Yesssss…”
Stephen sighs.
♥
It’s almost end of Harry’s school year when young wizard pops up back home to give him the letter.
“I should give you this booby-trapped letter, so they can throw you to their jail for kidnapping me,” says his giggling son.
“They just… simply gave it to you.”
“Yea, I told them you would take it.”
“It won’t work on me.”
“Pleeeeeeease.”
♥
Doctor Stephen Strange was looking at the headmaster and professors as they were throwing spells at his barrier. Booby-trapped letter brought in in front of Hogwarts, stupid in his opinion, and alerted all teacher at the castle.
It’s been 3 minutes already, and Harry, with many other students is standing behind professors. Not too close, it’s dangerous, but close enough for them to hear Harry.
“It must be few minutes already, but it seems that none of our professors understand how his barrier is created, so they cannot break it. I know that barrier, so I can tell no matter what spell they’ll use, it will be useless and dumb,” explains Harry to the crowd.
Almost all teachers stop and looks at him.
“If you’re just going to comment on this, Mr. Potter, maybe you can break that barrier,” says mad Snape.
Harry just looks at him weirdly: “I just said I’m not dumb, sir.”
♥
Harry has quiet summer break. There are no letters from his friends, he told them not to even try it because:
- Can they send letters to another dimension? No.
- He’s busy to travel multiverse to wait for their letters. It’s just 2 months.
- No, he won’t leave his ‘kidnapper’, thank you. Harry saw his family. He let himself to be kidnapped.
Captain Carter loves his stories about magical school and Stephen sent him to Natasha for short summer school.
♥
Harry walks to Stephen with a little confused face, reading letter from Hogwarts with information for his next year.
“Dad, there is something strange about book list. I read all the books, but not ones for DADA. There is whole collection of them…”
Stephen looks at it and he agrees that it is weird, names of those books as well. But Harry is curious, so he runs off to read books. For few hours is the sorcerer alone until his son runs to him.
“Dad! I need brain bleach!”
“There is no such a thing.”
“WHY DO YOU HATE ME?!”
♥
This year his son came back on second day of school, all ranting about his new DADA professor. Older man did pity his son, but still.
“Can I throw him to alligator Loki?”
“No, he would get ill.”
“Then Dormammu?”
“There is chance that the dark dimension would turn pink.”
“… then Thanos?”
“… he may decide that people are simply just too dangerous to let live.”
“Damn!”
♥
It took Harry just 3 weeks to come back happier but somewhat scared from his school.
“What happened?” asked Stephen, unsure if he really wanted to know the answer.
“Well, I couldn’t throw that man to anyone, so I decided to destroy him,” start Harry, moving with hands to express his grand plan. “I re-read all his books and gathered all proofs that he is lying about his achievements. Then I made presentation of places and events that couldn’t happen at same time in the great hall. Everything from his own books,” finished his son happily.
Sorcerer nods: “Then why you look scared?”
Harry frowns.
“People still didn’t believe me?”
“People or magical humans?”
“… well, witches…”
“Hm… you can stay for a week. Spider-man in one dimension wanted to visit Disneyland and had free ticket.”
“Hell yes!”
♥
“Dad! Something turned the cat into stone!”
“So? You read the library at Hogwarts. You should know what it is.”
“You read it as well!”
“Well? Do you have to guess what it is?”
“Probably…”
Stephen Strange sighs and stands from his meditation position.
“What do you need?”
“Book of Broken Chains…”
“No.”
“Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.”
“Give me three reasons why.”
“Because there is Trap chain spell, -”
“How do you know about it?”
“- protection spell, -“
“Harry…”
“-maybe some good spells near the end?”
Innocent look his son is giving him doesn’t work at all. He knows his soon good enough.
“You didn’t finish reading it and now you are using danger in your school to get hands on this book.”
“… is it a yes?”
“…”
“…”
“Warnings are always at the end.”
“Thank you, dad!”
♥
Portal to the broken dimension is way bigger than Harry usually use. Reason for that is massive, blindfolded snake.
“Basilisk?” ask Stephen as he flies around it.
“What should I do with it?”
“Why did you even bring it here?”
“… because you eat strange things?”
“NOT ANYMORE!” embarrassed sorcerer yells in shock. His face turns red, even though it’s hard to see in this dimension.
“Oh… still…”
“Harry, this can be sold.”
“Ooooh… help me?”
Older man sighs.
♥
Everything at the bank stopped when Stephen and Harry entered through the portal, levitating corpse of basilisk. Goblins were staring as corpse was lied on their perfect floor.
“Soooo… can we sell it?”
“…yes.”
“Perfect,” sorcerer smile at the goblin that was able to answer, “let’s do it.”
“Could you… move it to different room?”
“Sure.”
The corpse disappears in the portal.
♥
“Daaaaaad!”
“Yes?”
Harry runs to his side, leaning on him with big eyes: “I need a book about erasing memories, possession and can I leave this dimension?”
“What happened this time?”
“I exorcised that ghost again.”
“Same one? That’s strange, did you make some mistake last time?”
“No…”
“That is even stranger, I need more books on it.”
“Yeah… but by that I saved my stalker.”
Now Stephen’s eyes are big as well.
“Oh boy.”
“Yeah…”
“I will throw you out in Stark Expo this summer, okay?”
“… and memory erasing books?”
“… you should offer her therapy…”
“…”
“… so she could heal her mind and maybe realize what kind of person you are.”
“…”
“… if she will stalk you when you are 15, we will do something about it.”
“… thanks, dad.”
♥
Harry barges into the broken dimension, mad once again.
“Dad, they didn’t accept your signature!”
“You already went to Hogsmeade, why does it matter?” asks Stephen, reading book of unknown origin.
“It matters, I want to go with my friends!”
“You were complaining about them, because they didn’t believe your summer vacation stories.”
“Yes, they are so close-minded…”
“… so, you won’t go with your friends?”
“Of course, I’ll go!”
“…”
“I just wanted to complain that they still call you kidnapper…”
“Hmmm… okay Harry.”
♥
“Dad?” his son’s head appeared from the portal.
“Will I die, dad?”
“What? No!”
“Okay,” says his son and is gone.
“What?”
♥
There was big black dog in his dimension. Stephen was frowning at it and saw there was message on the ground.
Dad, take care of it, I found him on way to Hogsmeade.
When he looks at the dog again, it whimpers and tries to go as far away, as those broken crystal walls allows him.
“Well then, Mr. Black… shall we talk?” asks nicely Stephen, letting his horns out.
Dog whimpers again.
♥
“Harry…”
“Yes, Sirius?”
Harry and Sirius were sitting at the edge of the broken dimension, watching trough portal how Stephen Strange fights together with other Guardians of the Galaxy. Their enemy is some strange alien with telekinesis powers and shiny stones.
“I thank you and your dad for clearing my name…”
“Yeah, no problem.”
“… but please, never leave me with Stephen alone.”
His godson looks at him: “Huh? Why?”
“He is scarier than dementors.”
Harry still just stares.
“… he told me what this is.” Sirius wave his hand, generally pointing at the broken dimension.
“Yeah, I know what it is,” answer the young wizard.
“… are you not scared of him?”
Harry rolls his eyes: “No, he is my dad.”
The young boy turns to fight again.
“Daaaaaaaaaad, can we go in pancakes after this?”
“Did you finish- “ spell cut of few flying rocks “ -summer homework?”
“Tch.”
“I heard that,” yells sorcerer back.
“HOW?!”
♥
“Dad, can I offer burning cup for eternal suffering?”
“What now?”
“Soooo… someone put my name into Goblet of Fire…”
“That old relict used in dangerous tournaments?”
“… and it chooses me as FOURTH person.”
“Nooo…”
“Yes, and no one believes that I didn’t do it.”
“NO WAY YOU WILL DO THAT STUPID-“
♥
Stephen Strange open a portal to the Great Hell, where now all people argue after Harry walked out of there. The young wizard with a smirk follows him. The sorcerer didn’t wait a second and mandalas started to appear around the goblet.
“What do you think you are doing to our historical artefact?”
“Magic, of course, what else. I am going to break the contract it made with Harry.”
Crouch frowned like Stephen personally offended him: “That cannot be done, sir! Move away from that precious artifact!”
“Just because you are too weak or you lack the knowledge,” answers sorcerer and there is orange light that few from the goblet to Mad-Eye Moody. Old ex-auror yelled in pain. Everyone watched as golden chains materialized and captured man, as he was puking out some strange black liquid. His body started to spasm and his body changed.
Stephen Strange was livid as he saw Barty Crouch JR. gasp.
“You! How dare you to put my sons name into that thing!”
“He has to-“
“No, he does not!”
“He will-“
“-not lose any magic. I made sure of that!”
Dumbledore carefully walks to the mad sorcerer.
“Mr.-“
“Doctor Stephen Strange.”
“Erm… Yes, Harry-“
“Will leave this useless school!”
The headmaster is unsure how to react: “But-“
“No!” Stephen turns to him and the rest of the Great Hall, his cloak making him float, “None of you should try to throw my son into some wild competition for you all to bully him and have fun on his suffering!”
“He will lose his magic if-“
“I am Sorcerer Supreme that crossed universes to raise him. Do you think that some wooden cup has more power than me?! No one in this whole world has more power and knowledge than me!”
Everyone is quiet and stare at the man that makes them shower even thought he didn’t do anything to them. No one dares to speak. Stephen waves his hand and little silver thread that appeared between Harry and goblet broke.
“Harry, you are out of this.”
“Wohooooo, I am free.”
♥
Harry Potter is sitting with his dad and big gap between other in the audience. No one dared to get closer to Sorcerer Supreme. They watch as dragons protect their eggs in the arena.
“You are better dragon, dad.”
“You bet.”
♥
Stephen feels like he really needs to pre-check Harry’s destinations. Sirius invited him to 12 Grimmauld Place where he needed to destroy cursed painting, exorcist locked and meet the werewolf.
In the end the werewolf was okay, Remus Lupin is just unlucky person with lycanthropy, but exorcism… He needs to look into that, Harry said it was same soul AGAIN.
♥
“… and everyone were staring at us. I thought that they would wait until the Ball to complain, but nooooo. ‘Harry, how could you invite Blaise Zabini to the ball? Harry, he is bad guy, Slytherin, death eater.’ I can’t believe they were acting like that!”
Stephen sighed as he was listening to Harry complaining about his friends. Teenagers and their dates.
“Dad!”
“Yes, yes, you want to yell and complain about them. Please, continue.”
“Yeah, so…”
♥
Harry looked at his dad and then again at the calm lake. It’s second task and since champions jumped into the lake it’s been… boring.
“This is boring, Harry, and it’s cold out here.”
“Want to watch youtube cats?”
“So your wifi works here?”
“Finally,” agrees Harry taking out his tablet, “I had to make sure it works in every corner of the castle.”
“Good, then let’s watch.”
♥
When Stephen comes to the 3rd task, he already has popcorn and cola with him. His son, knowing him very well, has his tablet prepared. Task is boring and they were able to watch half of the movie when dead body of Cedric Diggory pops up with the cup.
Faster than Harry could notice, his dad is already near the body and use magic on him. No one was able to yell from the shock when the sorcerer opened a portal to some dark graveyard. Surprisingly, it was full of living people, with white masks – Death Eaters with their noseless master Voldemort.
Stephen Strange clearly interrupted some meeting, but with the wave of the hand, he caught all of them into crystal prison ball.
Silence. No one dared to move as they just saw Dark Lord caught as easily as flobberworm.
“So what should I do with them?” asks the man.
♥
Stephen was preforming some basic magical recalling of all “soul shards” while people, students and professors with some ministry workers, were gawking at him. Harry, sadly the only other capable person here, told him that Dark Lord makes those things he then needs to exorcise. As sorcerer of his position, Stephen decided to get rid of them all at once.
Headmaster Dumbledore was really against it for some strange reason, but he is now fighting with his own beard for his life. Some teachers tried to help, but… kids were just laughing.
With his spell done, few more dark clouds come flying to him and when they touched shining mandalas, they burned in dark flames. In crystal prison Voldemort screams and burst into same dark flames, dying.
There is silence in the crowd. Just Dumbledore gasping for air can be heard.
“… oh, sorry about that one. I thought he would stay for his trial.”
♥
Nice weather, nice city, nice company. Harry and Blaise walk around this calm universe to enjoy their date. Sirius, Remus and Stephen follow them from afar to not disturb them.
“Harry… I don’t know where to take you to the date.”
“To the library,” yells Stephen from behind them.
“Dad!”
♥
With stern face, Harry walks into the dimension. Stephen watches him as he takes the book about healing magic. Then he turns to leave again.
“Need help?”
“Not yet.”
“Ok.”
♥
Next time sorcerer see his son with same face, he asks for some dangerous magic.
“What for, don’t you know enough?”
“The teacher bullies us.”
“Snape never bothered you this much, Harry.”
“No, he is better now that Voldy is gone. New DADA teacher is the problem.”
“Hmmm… okay.”
♥
Stephen is pretending to sleep when Harry smuggles small tentacle monster out of the dimension. It seems that nastier magic wasn’t enough.
♥
“Dad!”
“Yes?” ask calmly Stephen Strange.
“I need to hide a body.”
“Oh, I knew this day would come. I failed as father,” not so calm sorcerer says.
“… don’t be so dramatic.”
“Okay, where is that body? We can throw it into the dark dimension.”
Harry opens a portal and the screaming bag fell through.
“…”
“…”
“… you told body…”
“…”
The bag is still screaming. None of them is acknowledging it.
“I have so many questions, Harry.”
“…”
“Give me three reasons.”
“She made 11 years old write with their own blood for hours-“
“Good enough.”
♥
Minister Fudge yells in the Great Hall. No one can find their DADA professor. It seems that no matter what magic they use, they can’t find her, nor her body.
“Unspeakables should be able to find her,” says Blaise.
“Nah, they just don’t look far enough,” answers Harry while all students who heard him on Slytherin table turns to him.
Blaise smirks: “What if I tell on you?”
“I didn’t kill her. I can say that even under veritaserum.”
There are more stares.
“I have an alibi.”
“Harry, you are perfectly prepared for someone who didn’t kill her.”
♥
The portal appears in the Great Hall. No one bats an eye, not even clean shaved Dumbledore (no beard, no fight for life). Stephen Strange enters and looks around for his son.
Harry’s 6th year started a week ago, and he didn’t see his son at home yet. He cannot see him at Slytherin table, but Blaise is already running to him.
“Harry is under Amortentia!”
Stephen frowns: “Professors should-“
The young wizard interrupts him: “Snape is only one who tried to do something, but others are against it. They say he is overthinking it, and Harry really loves Weasley girl.”
“I knew we forgot about something!”
Harry enters the Hall with the redhaired girl, leading to Gryffindor table. His eyes are only on her. Stephen frowns as walks to the pair, while everyone present prepare for drama.
His son notices him and looks happy.
“Dad! Let me introduce-“
But he didn’t finish as older man casted spell that hit him into the stomach. In few seconds Harry turns pale and start puking red shiny pearly liquid. Redhead shrieks, but rest just watch. Professors look like they want to interrupt, but are too scared of Stephen to do that, only one person didn’t learn his lesson.
“How dare you to-“ starts Dumbledore.
“Dare what?! To help my son? YOU ALL SIT HERE, USELESS AS USUALLY WHEN THERE IS STUDENT UNDER INFLUENCE OF MINDCHANGING POTION! ONLY ONE OF YOU TRIED TO DO SOMETHING! ONE DAMN TEACHER! ARE YOU ALL GOOD FOR NOTHING IF IT IS NOT ABOUT YOUR SUBJECT?”
Teachers just gawk but can’t really say anything against it. Harry stands up and runs to his dad, hugging him.
“Are you okay, Harry?”
“I feel like throwing up again. She kissed me.”
“Anything more than that?” ask the sorcerer and throw death gaze on the girl.
“Thanks Vishanti, no!
“What do you mean ‘Thanks whatever no’? I am-“
Behind Ginny’s back open the portal, so big to hide the whole wall in the Great Hall. Students and teachers can see the desolated world with walking corpses – zombie dimension.
“You should thank your gods that nothing more happened, or I would throw you there to let you rot like rest of that dimension. This will be your destination if you bother my son once again,” coldly says Stephen.
Half of hall froze, feeling great danger from the man. Portal to the zombie dimension slowly close, but redhead stand still to not agitate the sorcerer.
“Dad, can we do spell, so she cannot see me ever again?”
“Sure, I will add myself to it too.”
With few hand gestures and shining mandala, Ginny Weasley see how two people disappear from her sight.
“Wha… I can’t see them! WHY!”
While crazy girl yells and asks students what is happening, Harry walks to his boyfriend with a smile.
♥
Stephen is watching from the last row how is his son graduating this stupid school. Harry smiles with his boyfriend and friends, prepared to finally do something else.
The tall sorcerer heard from his son that Severus Snape is leaving Hogwarts as well. It seems he wants to study potions and magic in the different dimension. Sirius will be his guide as he learned how to open portals.
Remus Lupin is building London Sanctuary, with that will Stephen help. Per his son request they are recreating mystic arts bases in this dimension as well. But before Harry gets into work, he will go with Blaise to the world tour.
Stephen knows that he just wants to read more books, he finished Hogwarts library few weeks ago, just to laugh at Sorting Hat.
♥
“Daaaaaaad.”
Deeps sigh is heard in the broken dimension.
“Yes?”
Harry Potter with an old wand, ring on his finger and invisible cloak enters his home. Sorcerer Supreme of his home dimension. Stephen is proud of him.
“Blaise messed up magic again.”
“Nothing new.”
“You just became grandfather thanks to that…”
“… WHAT?!”
♥
Stephen Strange, Destroyer of his Universe, Guardian of the Multiverse, Father of Sorcerer Supreme Potter… is holding the small baby girl, with green eyes and brown hair. His son next to him starts to giggle.
“What?”
“Well, I may not be your problem anymore… but I just brought a bigger problem instead.”
Stephen Strange – grandfather – sighs.
“I love you dad.”
“I love you too, son.”