Nedzu's boy Wizard
Nedzu, sans his suit and shoes, is tossed into a storeroom/cell.
There’s another person in there. A child in ragged, worn clothes with battered, taped together glasses on his nose.
Nedzu can’t tell his age off hand.
He doesn’t uncurl from his defensive ball until the lights go out for the night.
Then his young, quiet voice tentatively askes, “Are… are you al- alright Mr Mouse?”
The boy is treating him as intelligent right off the bat. How unusual!
Despite the defensive ball he’d been in, the boy had noticed his rough landing and injury.
Observant and likely intelligent… but why is he here?
“I am well enough, young man,” Nedzu risks an answer. “I’ve had worse”.
“O-Oh,” the boy says. “Are you a F-reak too then?”
“Freak?” Nedzu prods.
“Y-yeah. I haven’t… I don’t got a Q-quirk but weird things keep happening anyway. My aunt and uncle hated that… they hated me too. I think mum and dad must also have had it ‘cause my aunt hates my mum too. Won’t talk about her ‘cept to call her freakish. I know… I know they didn’t want me. Never wanted me and someone made ‘em take me.
Are… are you Rat Kin? ‘M asking ‘cause the Rat King I met was smart, like REAL smart even if they couldn’t speak human. I do stuff for ‘em sometimes and they keep a watch ‘n’ sneak me food if I get locked up for more than a day or two.
That guy is going to be pissed that I just up and vanished. Good human minions are hard to find. Good human minions that don’t try and kill ‘em even more so…”
“Be careful of your words, Young Sir.”
“Oh-oh. Right. U-um.” The boy’s posture shifted and he cleared his throat and made a high pitched squeaking noise. His hands came up by his head to simulate ears and his rear shifted as though he had a tail.
It was rough and clumsy but it was a clear question. ‘Do you speak Kin, Mouse/other?”
Nedzu’s own ears perked up. My, my, hidden talents indeed!
Nedzu only had a little rodent in his mix but he could parse the rough approximation of the language. The hands simulating ears took a bit to translate but he could still pick up the meaning. It was a bit like trying to pick out Japanese from someone with only book learning and speaking with a foreign accent. You could understand it if they spoke slow enough and there was no background noise but there was some translating and compensating involved.
It doesn’t help that Nedzu himself is a little rusty. The smaller kin are less inclined to speak with him. He has too much predator in his mix but still…
Carefully and slowly, to accommodate for the boy’s weak human eyesight, posing a question of his own.
The boy’s eyes widen and he nods before freezing and shifting to attentive/ receptive posture.
Oh, when he leaves he’s DEFINATELY taking this boy with him.
All the signs are pointing to a Magical… An ignorant one dumped with Quirkist, incredibly biased relatives. WHAT an opportunity. Even if the boy were as dumb as a box of rocks it would be an opportunity but this boy is clearly intelligent.
He can’t wait to find out how much. They just have to survive a day or so.
This place is obviously a temporary base…
Once Nedzu finds who was responsible for his… removal, heads will roll. He’s been looking for an excuse to do a little societal modification and this looks perfect.
He simply needs to get himself and his new boy out first.
He can coax the boy through deliberately activating his Magic if need be though that’s risky. Hmmm. He hasn’t had a challenge like this in a while. How EXCITING!
He had not expected a little kin to stick a twitching nose out of a small hole in a corner less than a day later. They haven’t been fed or watered or anything really...
It spots Nedzu and freezes but then it spots the boy as well.
Both of the room's occupants assume a welcome/ mean no harm pose.
It creeps in cautiously. From the Rat King then.
The boy creakily portrays ‘betrayal, cast out, abandoned, trapped. Need help.’ Then, the boy turns to Nedzu with a head tilt that gives him authority.
Oh ho, the boy vouches for him and gives him the lead is it? Excellent.
Between himself and the little kin, they manage to cobble together a plan.
It succeeded of course and he pulled back to a safe house though not one of his.
He had a few in every first world country and bolt holes in several others.
His boy tired easily even though he willingly carried him and several of the smaller kin.
He’ll need to eat soon. He’s far too thin. Those relatives of his are on the list!
The lesser kin were not comfortable with him here but until they can find a place to set them down so they could return to their ‘king’ they would just have to tag along.
He had taken the time to raid the safe before he called the police.
He, his boy and the lesser kin piled into the taxi when it arrived though the cabbie looked at them sideways. Fortunately, London cabbies were a very jaded bunch and money spoke.
That gave him a rough area as to where they were. They wouldn’t be going anywhere near his known safehouses of course.
Nedzu can’t trust his connections.
The end up in a place that’s little more than a bolt hole but wholly unknown to any but him.
It’s a tight fit for his boy but the lad doesn’t complain. He’s used to tight fits.
There are dried goods, water, a nest and power, along with a burner phone.
He is good to go while his boy rests.
He has research to do.
They are in England. His boy is not only Magical but a celebrity.
The relatives split as they discovered Lily was an ADOPTIVE sister so there was no blood connection and the supposed protections a certain foolish old Wizard put on his boy never took.
He was never checked up on because the old man is dead.
The madman died and took all of his marked followers with him and the relatives, the Dursleys, were his only remaining family.
Dumbledore always did have a blind spot when it came to family…
That also meant there was no one to stop him from claiming his boy and bringing him home… once he’d finished modifying Japanese society so that it was less rubbish.
He thinks he might try his hand at being a principal. He’ll need a stable job and income so that his boy has a stable base and, once he’s done, Japanese society will be far more accepting.
The HPSC needs to go.
Now, where to stash his boy in the meantime… Oh ho, a godfather and one who wasn’t even tried. That looked promising.
And his boy was an actual Lord. How USEFUL.
With a happy chitter, Nedzu set to work.
A word with the Queen had them set up properly.
His boy, the young Harry Potter is one of her Magical Lords… and one who has been ill done by.
He will be a ward of hers as well and so have the best tutors available.
He can leave his boy under her wardship and care until he’s ready for him.
The Queen, meantime, takes a far closer look at what her Magicals are doing… and is NOT impressed. Not in the least. A direct hand needs to be taken and so it is.
The entirety of Wizarding England owe the Potters Life Debt and if her young charge should choose to call on it…
That will be a last resort though.
In the meantime, young Harry is given the care and training he SHOULD have received.
With that settled Nedzu flexes his claws, cracks metaphorical muscles and gets to work.
The Hero system is RIFE with corruption and the HPSC is training up their own child soldiers. How sordid. Heroes aren’t really respected, not yet and the Villains have things mostly their own way.
Oh, not THEM again. Those damn Meta’s are WORSE than roaches… (actually roaches are good eating in a pinch. He might leave a few to snack on down the line maybe… nah. They breed like nobodies business. Even if he exterminates this lot, there will be more popping up. There always are.)
They have their sticky fingers trailing through everything as well.
He can’t have that.
It takes him nearly four years to rip the system apart and put it back together as something a little less objectionable.
He had to compromise on a few places but the laws in place now mean that the Quirkless have rights to defend themselves, Vigilantes can take steps to move to the right side of the law, criminals and Villains aren’t tarred by the same brush and Hero schools aren’t just peddling out the flashy and the popular.
The Quirkless and the Disabled are no longer legally second class citizens and shops /other services can’t refuse them service simply because of that.
The system is set up so that the top one hundred are ranks rather than being occupied by a single person, each with separate criteria.
Personal popularity is less than a quarter of it so Rescue, Healing and Support Heroes have their chance. They have slightly different criteria as well.
Under the top one hundred, from one hundred and one down to five hundred is another level.
Underground Heroes contributions will be acknowledged, but no names or details given.
The higher one’s level, the more authority they are given, but the more responsibility they have as well and the more they have to do to maintain that level. They are also held accountable for collateral damage, being overly brutal in their take downs and so on.
Mandatory holiday and rest days as well as a set level of income are also now part of the system. Each baby Hero to graduate is also required to do their first year or two under a mentorship from contacts garnered at school, in the interest of keeping more of them alive. Mental health and a support network are are must for survival.
Work licenses for Public Quirk use are easier and less expensive to buy though competency with the Quirk needs to be proven (much like a gun license) along with an explanation for how said Quirk will be used in the business.
There are public Quirk Gyms where anyone can go to hone their Quirk though public Quirk use is still considered bad manners.
It will be difficult, but societies focus will be shifted from strong/ flashy Quirks to how to make the best use of your own talents/ skills, Quirk included.
Advertising and the media are heavily made use of.
There is still a bias towards Quirked individuals but the Quirkless and those with non offensive Quirks are seen as useful as they have far less restrictions on them.
It will take time, but they’ll get there.
Meantime, there is a new Commission but they are mostly independent of the senate. They’re intended to be a watchdog operation with their own checks and balances.
Nedzu himself happily takes over as principal of U.A., one of the premier Hero schools.
It will be number one by the time he’s done with it.
He video called his boy and spends what time he can with him in the between managing all of this, often consulting with her Majesty to help hammer the cack handed mess the English WW is into something less offensive to all.
Testing shows there are very few actual Muggle Born.
Most are unclaimed Wizard by blows or reactivating Squib lines… though several are the result of a muggle and a Magical Being/ Creature mating and having young.
Only a few, less than a handful a year really, are truly Magic touched/ Magic blessed.
Harry’s mother Lily was one of them.
It took longer than he estimated to tweak Japanese society and his boy is now almost eleven and willing to give the newly made over Hogwarts a try by the time he’s done.
His boy still wants to spend the rest of the time with his mentor and hero, getting to know him better in person.
While he was a ward of the crown and did his best to uphold the dignity of his sponsor he didn’t actually like it there that much. He didn’t like having to be on his best manners all the time.
Nedzu was a little annoyed that his boy’s godfather proved unsalvageable and mentally unstable. He’s in the long term care ward at St Mungos (both that and Azkaban have had a thorough strip and make over. The Dementors are confined to the island and no new residents will be brought in.
Rehabilitation, where possible, is the name of the game. The more people off the streets and working productively the better.) leaving his boy still in Her Magesty’s care.
Harry tries Hogwarts for a couple of years, but doesn't enjoy it.
He actually learned more with the private tutors.
He tries to put what he was taught about interpersonal relationships into use, to look at this as an opportunity, but he STILL isn’t having fun.
With his mentor’s permission, he will remain only until O.W.L. level and then seek independent study. This is more about connecting with his English Peers.
He is fifteen and happily, willingly shakes the dust of England from his feet to come to Papa Nez school. He wants to know how the Japanese do things and has already determined that he’s going to be a Hero in the style of Papa.
A teacher/ information gatherer sort. He wants to be the bridge between Quirked society and the Magicals. Their liaison or intermediary so the two sides actually TALK to each other…
He wants to find the Magicals that have slipped through the cracks and give them a leg up.
His mentor approves!
By twenty, he’s a fully licenced Hero in both countries, ducks back to England from time to time to keep up to date with his duties there, and has his teaching license.
Papa has even added a class for him specifically to gather his lost lambs… even from outside of U.A. He’s always coming home with a foundling or two.
He goes where his Magic leads him.
A.f.O. hates both of them with a passion and they both have a bounty on their heads.
Nedzu for disrupting his pleasantly corrupt society and Harry for being Magical, powerful and intelligent and so lacking a Quirk for him to rip out.
The users of O.f.A. are tracked as well.
Those seeking to murder the current holder of the Quirk, Nana Shimura and her family are intercepted but she still panics and has them leave for their own safety before she foolishly tracked down the arch villain and died by his hand, leaving Yagi Toshinori as her successor.
The quartet of Midnight, Eraserhead, Loud Cloud and Present Mic were students of his though he was a T.A. at the time.
Eraserhead was a student of he and his Papa both. Shouta is from a Squib Black line but there are still Magics Squibs can do.
Use of a Wand isn’t the be all and end all anymore than having a flashy Quirk is.
He managed to use that to keep his friend alive for long enough that the healers could piece him back together. Loud Cloud’s limelight Hero career is done though. Even with the help of Magic (not as effective on the Quirked or non Magicals) he still has permanent damage.
He retrains as a Support/ Rescue Hero as he’s able to send his clouds out even if he can’t go himself anymore.
He uses his own clouds as a support/ transport device.
Eraser was always headed underground while the other two settle into more Twilight roles. Interesting as there has never been Heroes who kept a toe on both sides of that line before but Harry and Nedzu both would expect and accept nothing less from their protoges.
Harry is very proud and uses this as a base to start reaching out to school kids too.
With his Papa’s permission and, in fact, enabling he picks up little packs of proteges.
Izuku, Shinso and a couple of others are among them.
Bakugo is a little shit still, but he has aunty Mirko, whose family fostered Mitsuki for most of her childhood, who is happy to straighten her little shit of a nephew out. Heroes do NOT attack civilians, ever. If the brat wants to be a Hero, bullying of any sort is RIGHT out, even if she thinks most of the weaklings need to get of their arses and stand the fuck up!
Hawks, a number five level hero, is one of her best mates and so also around a lot.
Mirko is a number seventeen because she has team work issues.
You can’t get into the top ten without the ability to work with others for longer than a single mission or team up.
Mirko doesn’t mind. Top twenty level is still good and she’s proud of what she’s accomplished.
Back Burn or Todoroki Touya, also a part time model, with psychically triggered blue flame, is a contemporary of theirs though he’s more of a rescue hero specializing in fire fighting.
His father here, with more care put into his training and mental health, is not an ass of the highest order. He can’t afford to be if he wants to be a top level Hero. Students are encouraged to think and fight smarter, not harder. That carries over to their personal lives.
He accepts the match with Rei Himura but he allows her to dictate how many children they have. They end up with four. Touya, Natsu and Fuyumi (twins) and then little Shouko.
He’s a level six Hero as he still has some cooperation issues. He is still seeking to rise but it calms his pride a little that not even his rival, All Might, has made it to a Number One position.
There are no number one Heroes right now. All Might is the closest but his self care is lacking.
Things are going decently when Harry notices a trend among some or the school kids.
A push to hark back to before Papa meddled and promote the kids with flashy Quirks as the most important. That, of course, pikes his interest…
Harry is annoyed, the damn Meta’s are on the move again and the bastards have infiltrated several school systems, spreading their poison on a grassroots level.
One of which is the school system of his greenette protege.
He sets Papa to hunting while he takes care of the littles.
Papa didn’t remake damn society for those idiots to wreck it again.
Gotten quite bold they have. Fools.
Papa was looking bored lately so Harry is happy to give him this.
His tag is Piper as he’s able to communicate with any rodent based animal or hybrid and has kept in diligent practice, happy to trade favors and rid them of biting bugs and diseases.
Rats and other rodents are nearly everywhere after all.
The local Magicals weren’t best pleased that a Mage level young Wizard was being raised by ‘the damn rat’, even more so when they realized it was Harry Potter… and he had residue of being a failed Horcrux on him.
They couldn’t just poach him either as he’s still under the sponsorship of the Queen.
Nedzu was quite happy to allow them to send along a tutor or two though. After all, he’d always planned for his boy to be a link, an intermediary between their two peoples.
A plan Harry had agreed to and with.
He’d known he’d have to do a year or two at Hogwarts to have access to his inheritance and to at least put names to faces among his contemporaries but Harry had no issue with that.
He had all the time in the world while he was waiting on his white furred Papa.
He’d even volunteered to go at eleven in order to get it out of the way earlier though he came to regret that. Even remodeled with the curriculum tweaked, he still felt very restricted there.
Harry, working with Her Majesty's people, set up an organization to house Magical and Squib orphans as there were still Magics squibs could learn. Magicals did NOT belong in muggle orphanages, foster or group homes, especially as they didn’t start getting control properly until eleven ish in the British Isles.
The Queen and Nedzu agreed wholeheartedly as that had been part of the problem that led to Voldemort’s rise, and it gave Harry something to work on in those years where he was waiting for his small Papa to come back outside of his lessons.
I think whoever did something happened to them or the Dursleys found something out or maybe they thought the money they got from selling me would get them far enough away for it not to matter?”
What happened to the Dursleys?