RON,WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE
harry couldn't tell where he was, he was buried under 2 people after the flash
"Ron get up you're crushing him" Hermione said, harry only faintly being able to hear it
harry felt a weight off his body a minute after, with faint shuffling and some quiet bickering being heard, he made a move to get up and suddenly a hand nearly slapped his face, he bent his head back
"sorry, regaining some feeling in my hands" ron could be heard saying
Harry noticed that his body felt slow and sluggish like he was just getting up from a nap, he lifted his hand and grabbed the one ron had nearly slapped him with and pulled himself up with great effort, midway through though, some strength returned to harry and he pulled himself a little harder than he should have
he was so close to rons face, he could probably just-
'no harry, not right now, have your bi panic later' harry thought snapping himself out of his 3-second trance
harry then looked around and saw a very unfamiliar sight
they were standing at the back of a large downwards sloping room, with spaces in between, where they could see other people starting to stir as well, and at the far end of the room was a big screen, similar to that of a tv but much more flat, wide and big.
(if you haven't got it yet, then this is a theater)
many people were on the floor like them, although it seems as though some people, mainly elderly people and those with weaker bodies were already in some seats
at this point harry was lost in thought that he didn't notice the person coming behind him, so when they placed their hand on his shoulder, he panicked and sent a stupefy in that direction, the person, who was the spirit of Hogwarts, could not be harmed by such attacks, so the spell passed right trough them and thankfully hit nothing, but drawing a bit of attention
harry rushed forward to check if the spell hit anyone, and when it was apparent that the spell had missed, he let out a small sigh of relief and went back to the spirit
"Sorry about that, what did you need?" Harry said in an apologetic tone
"Nothing much, just wanted to inform you of my presence and that the spirit of the scrolls is about to make a big announcement, so do keep your ears open" the spirit said nonchalantly
before Harry could respond a voice could be heard all throughout the room
"hello hello, is this working?, ah nice, alright everyone here kindly turn your attention to the 6 doors in this room you are in, those all lead to corridors that lead to a room where i am at, please make your way there, for a very important announcement," said the voice in a pleasant tone, plunging the room in shock and confusion
Ron and Hermione came to him a few seconds later, but before they could ask anything harry relayed what the spirit told him before
"we should probably get going, wouldn't want to keep them waiting for too long," Harry said, with Ron and Hermione agreeing
so while everyone was panicking them along with a few other random people found the doors and went through the corridors and found a very big room
almost 3 times the great hall
it was suspiciously empty aside from the empty stage in the middle
slowly but surely, the room filled up, although there were more noticeable groups which the trio noticed
the school students were seen grouped together, though they were further divided up by house
many workplaces stuck together as well, and there was also-
"ah shut it ya devil worshiper" could be heard before the sound of a body falling to the ground could be heard, a moment of silence to turn towards where the shout had come from, before absolute chaos
the source of the shout was a man wearing a white robe with the sigil of a blooming flower on the clasp (the thing that connects the 2 ends of a robe) and the person dropped on the floor was a man wearing a black robe with a withering flower on the clasp
a follower of the church of life had struck a follower of the cult of death
absolute pandemonium broke out with people cheering for a fight, with others attacking other people, people helping other people, and the highest officials of each religion trying to calm the masses along with their followers who were either attacked or being attacked, thankfully due to the size of the room those who did not want to be caught up in the chaos could flee a certain distance away and be safe, the trio was one of these people, not out of necessity but out of sheer annoyance at the amount of noise there was
once at a safe distance the trio noticed that the other 2 religions were here as well, those being the blue-robed school of fate with a flower on a string and the faith of magic, the people with purple robes with a flower seemingly glowing as a sigil for them
"Sorry to keep you all-, waittttt, WHAT IN THE ABSOLUTE GRACE OF THE GREAT 4 IS GOING ON HERE!?, ITS ONLY BEEN 10 MINUTES" could be heard from the previously empty stage
now there was a woman at least in her mid-30s wearing an extravagant blue dress her pale complexion matched with her shining blue eyes and yellow hair, having an eerily close appearance to luna
the fighting that was happening at one side of the room seemed to die down at the announcement of the new person, all eyes turned to her
noticing all the eyes now turned towards her, the woman stopped panicking and started speaking, with a tone of slight shock
"Would everyone please come closer, I have a very important announcement to make and you all need 5to hear it"
at her wishes the people all surrounded the stage, whispers running rampant, with harry and the trio stuck at the front
while harry did appreciate the lack of attention towards him he did find it suspicious, he turned to Hermione and due to their familiarity and Hermione being used to that gaze sighed and said " emergency notice-me-not stored spell, I was going to use it when the viewing got too much and someone needed to use the bathroom or something discretely, although I already used it on you, because you would definitely be overrun by people"
before Harry could respond the woman on the stage began to speak
"before anything, I must introduce myself, I am Maya, the spirit of the scrolls of fate, put to work by the god of fate themselves Mayano, this may come as a shock to you all however that is currently the least of your worries, what you all should worry about is whether or not the viewing of the life of heir potter should go on, and I do not mean in the moral sense, I mean in how this will change the world," the spirit said in a clear voice with a sense of foreboding that entered the room due to those words
"normally you all would just have watched it from the comfort of your own reality, however as is protocol for me i did a breif skim of the targets life, and by the grace of the 4 greats this one childs life was just, filled with stuff, very important stuff" the spirit said taking a small breath
"so i bring it up with the person above me and then this escalated to the point where mayano themself had to step in and check the footage and after at least 3 hours, which is a record by the way, and even they came out looking absolutely shocked, and being the god of fates they should know everything, so here i am now, with the only criteria for me to show you all the future that will change everything" she said in an increasingly louder shocked tone, pausing for a second to recollect herself before cheerfully saying
"is a simple vote, at the back you will now find a voting box and now in your hands you should find a peice of paper with a tickbox of either saying yes or no, yes means viewing and no means nnot viewing, and with that i will leave you be, once the final vote is put in, i will return and announce the results, anyways happy voting" said the spirit vanishing into thin air
everyone checked their hands and saw that they did indeed have a slip of paper, they also saw a bit farther away, the box Maya mentioned, amelia bones who was in the room then spoke up
"Alright everyone we are going to do this systematically, please form a line and wait for a few moments, all Aurors are to put in their votes right now and help with keeping the order in here" she commanded
thus the room fell into quiet chatter, with not much happening, the main topic of discussion being of what could possibly make heir potters life so interesting
said person was currently on the opposite side of the room away from everybody, because the spirit had already given him a lot to digest and he didn't need to worry about the idle chattering of his fellow wizen
'from what the spirit said, I lead a very eventful life, granted I already have, but still it's a shame i won't get a year of normalcy" harry sighed after his quiet muttering
"so that was an eventful speech huh" came the familiar voice of Remus lupin
"well not eventful enough judging by the crowd's reaction" harry countered
"that's mostly shock and disbelief, it'll fade away eventually, some faster than others," Remus said with confidence
"knut for why you think that?" harry proposed
"no need," Remus said before starting "it's mainly their sense of self-importance, wizards do have a bad habit of letting power get to their heads, especially if they are in a position of power, so to have someone else's life shoved in their faces breaks the illusion of importance they built up and leaves them only with reality, especially a life like yours, of course, normal folk will have the shock wear off really quickly, its mainly the business people and the self-imposed high people, like the minister, the priest, etc, etc."
harry merely nodded at the analysis before asking "how are tensions in the room by the way"
remus sighed and just said "its a boiling pot just waiting to overflow, the fact that without regard for social class, personal merit, or even specie separation they dumped everyone here at the same place made this place really unbearable, we've got the goblins making themselves unknown, the aristocrats trying to impose their power here, the non-human species aside from goblins forming their own groups, every group being separated by religion, the only people seemingly unaffected are the school students and those of the ministry, although I do suspect something is going on within the latter"
harry merely nodded along before asking, "how is Sirius?, and where is he"
"he's currently hiding away, after all there are some people gifted with abilities to see past what might fool others, he also had transformed for a moment to write down his vote, since apparently he also counts, which I deposited along with mine," Remus said
harry merely nodded before saying "looks like the voting is almost done, I should probably sneak my vote into the box"
Remus nodded and left to go towards a group
harry then closed his eyes and focused his magic to flow through him, he then let his intent merge with his magic, once it was done, he left his place and headed to the box
he cut the line completely, however, no one seemed to notice him, he just dropped his vote in the box and calmly walked away
an hour passed, the box disappearing 30 minutes into that hour due to all the votes being collected, now everyone was just waiting for the results to be announced
now that the votes were done the room became heated, to say the least, people of different religions, backgrounds, and other such things like Remus said were all thrown in a room indiscriminately, no to mention all the personal circumstances and family drama
currently, there was an all-out fight between the 6th and 7th year Gryffindor and Slytherin students, with people either cheering them on or trying to stop them, which the latter failed miserably at
"Alright everyone i have finish-, OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME" came the sudden and familiar voice of maya
she quickly waved her hand and all those involved with the fighting were immobilized, and levitated to random places in the room, and healed them
"alright this better be the last time i ever have to do something like this, or i swear," Maya said with a very fierce glare, unnerving nearly everyone
Maya cleared her throat and said "anyways the votes have been tallied andddddddddd....., we are watching the life of harry potter, by popular demand of mostly everyone here, sorry to everyone here who wanted to not watch it, blame your fellow humans" Maya said returning to her cheerful tone
some people cheered, some groaned, and some people finally realized they hadn't seen the person they were going to watch in the room yet, so rumors began again
Maya wasn't having any more stalling though and just said "we will start immediately, please move back to the room you first appeared in, once in there please seat yourselves
and with that she disappeared, leaving everyone with no choice but to move back to the room
harry was one of the first people out, following Hermione and Ron who were in front of him, although they didn't notice him, harry just focused on his magic for a second and merged it with the intent to stop the last spell
a few moments later Ron and Hermione finally turned around and noticed him and just sent a questioning look, to which harry merely nodded to
they then reached the room, or rather the remodeled version of it, it had a bit more choice in the furniture than just chairs
the trio found a spot that was similar to what they were sitting on back at the great hall in Hogwarts
very soon the room flooded with people looking for somewhere to sit, with those who were sitting with them in the great hall joining them(Neville,luna, ginny,Draco,Zabini,pansy and Theodore, and crabble and goyle)
the weasly family aside from Percy and Ron sat nearby to the group's table and Remus and Sirius along with James and Lily sat on the other end closest to the group
they were seated at the back with a good view of the screen, and they were joined by some other major hoses, like house Malfoy, house Longbottom and some less noteworthy ones
the screen suddenly lit up displaying the message:
the viewing will begin in 5 minutes
at that, everyone quieted down
5 minutes passed slowly for the occupants
and once the screen flashed away from the message
the fate of the world had changed