Magic Incarnate

While a lot of people cheered Marcus for winning the Tournament there was a majority of the Hogwarts spectators who were annoyed at the outcome. Thankfully it was not due to a Slytherin winning but that Harry had not. "How could you mess that up? some students shouted at him as they rushed the field gathering around him rather than the winner of the tournament.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked.

"Come on you so easily dominated the previous tasks we thought you were a sure winner of this thing," someone called out.

"Yeah, I placed a big bet on you to win," someone else called

"Me too," several others called. Fred and George Weasley kept quiet for they had been in charge of the Hogwarts betting pool but had followed Lee Jordan in making a bet in Marcus' favor.

"Ah, I see the confusion," Harry said. "You did not hear that I had not planned on winning the tournament."

"WHAT?!?" the Hogwarts students cried out in shock.

"As you said I easily dominated the other task but I only really entered myself into the Tournament to test my skills and have some fun. Which I think I did," Harry said.

"You got to be kidding," the students cried out.

"Oh no, I am not. That is just how I live my life. I am more interested in a challenge and learning something new than any fame or money," Harry admitted.

"You should have told everyone this," many of the students who had bet on him to win shouted in anger.

"Why? Those that I trusted knew and that was good enough for me," Harry said with a small shrug.

"So if you did not even try to go after the cup what were you doing?" Fred Weasley asked.

"Mostly just exploring the outskirts of the maze to see what challenges that they decided to stock in it. They were not bad but I can see that you all wanted me to put on some big show," Harry suddenly snaps his fingers as an idea comes to him. "I know I will show a highlight reel."

"A what?" some Pureblood students asked.

"Miss Granger maybe you can explain," Harry said seeing the bushy-haired young woman in the crowd.

"A highlight reel is a collection of clips from an event to show off either well-like happenings or in the case of sports best plays," Hermione said shocked to be put on the spot with so many Purebloods looking at her at once.

"Miss Granger is correct. I think I have some moments from my walk through the maze that you all might like to see, possibly," Harry said as he used some Time Magic to make another viewing orb and using the side of the hedge maze as a screen began to show off the clips he had chosen.

There were some gasps as the scenes began to play not from Harry's perspective but from an outside view so that he was in the frame. The first clip Harry had chosen was him Cleansing the trio of Dementors which caused not only the students but staff, the judges from the Ministry, and those visiting from the other schools to gasp in shock that such a thing was even possible. Even Bagman was trying to get close to Harry to find out how he was doing it, the anger he had at losing his bet to the Goblins vanishing as he thought of the potential to Cleanse Dementors and how the public would love it.

Harry ignored everyone trying to ask how he dealt with the Dementors as he let the highlight reel continue showing him meeting some normal magic suits of armor and the crazed Skrewts. "Oh this is the best part," Harry said as his battle against Voldemort within the armor. Everyone stopped trying to get Harry's attention as they watched the "battle. Though most saw it for what it was a one-sided slaughter of the armor. "Oh, yeah," Harry said stopping the show to turn to look at the crowd at the scene where the scorpion tail was heading towards him. "As I fought this thing I recognized the magical signature of the being inhabiting the armor as the man who attacked my family when I was a baby. Oh let's see if I do this I think I can get some sound," Harry said pouring some magic into the spell so there was no sound coming out of it. As he let the scene play out showing him utterly dominant over the remains of Voldemort the most feared Magical in Brittian most of the crowd stood gobsmacked. What was stranger was that Harry was doing it without casting a single spell of his own. Sure he had somehow caught the killing curse sent his way but Harry never cast a spell instead he used strange items he pulled out of his robes. Dumbles who cast countless powerful spells when he had possessed the Elder Wand was shocked at Harry's power.

Meanwhile, Quirrell seeing his Master being defeated so soundly knew that no matter how strong the Potter brat was he would have to try to avenge his Master. Thinking this might be his only chance with the boy distracted by his little movie, Quirrell pulled out his wand to cast a killing curse at the brat's back. Quirrell had a strange talent that had impressed his master when he first joined the Death Eaters, in that he could non-verbally cast the three Unforgivable Curses. So without a word, and his distance in the crowd Quirrel silently cast Avada Kadevra. Yet nothing happened no spell or even whisp left his wand he shot a look of fear at the brat thinking he had somehow stopped the spell without doing anything.

In truth, neither Harry nor Lady Magic was doing anything. The reason Quirrell could not cast the spell was due to during the "battle" between Voldemort and Harry, the Dark Lord increased the drain on the leeches of his people stealing almost all their magic.

"That could not have been Lord Voldemort," Dumbles said forcing his way to the front of the crowd around Harry. Harry was only able to hear him due to what he planned to do now that the Tournament was over.

"Oh, I assure you it is," Harry said. "Here I can show you." Harry then rewound the clip a little to show mere milliseconds after Voldemort's torso and head had been destroyed by his Spirit Bomb. "See that wisp, that is part of Voldemort's magic," Harry said highlighting it and changing its color for he knew normal people had a hard time seeing other's magic.

"I guess," Dumbles admitted through his gritted teeth.

"Well, let's follow it backward in time to see the person it belonged to," Harry said using his Time Magic to do just that showing the armor entering the maze and where he had come from. As it showed the armor coming from Quirrell's rooms those around the Defense Professor seized him in case Harry's claims were true. The scenes showed the armor sending magic during the other task to get the Giant Squid and Harry's Dragon to attack him. Harry began to increase the speed showing where the armor had been before that year which revealed him meeting some of his supporters such as the recently discovered Death Eater Narcissa No'name, Lords Crabbe, Goyal, and several others. Seeing the armor meet with known and suspected Death Eaters gave some credence to Harry's claim of the being who had inhabited the armor.

Once more the scenes began to speed up as it traveled backward in time showing Quirrell placing the spirit into the armor after finding it in a dark forest almost five years ago. Harry did not show many scenes of the spirit's time in the forest rather he just increased it to the moment when Voldemort lost his body as he attacked the Potters. While most of the world had heard about the attack to see it happen and what had caused the Dark Lord to fail made the watchers' mouths fall open in a collective shock. Harry could have stopped the scene right there, having proven that the armor he had faced belonged to Voldemort but thinking of how Narcissa had used the lack of knowledge of who the man's supporters were to take control of Lucius Malfoy and his son, Harry continued the scene. The last scene Harry showed the crowd was the last full meeting that he could find of Voldemort talking with his supporters before going to attack the Potters.

Harry paused the scene during the meeting so that everyone could get a good look at who was all in attendance making people gasp in shock at some of the identities being shown. "I knew my boy was a Death Eater," Barty Crouch Sr. snarled glad he had placed the brat under the Imperious Cruse after his wife convinced him to rescue the boy from Azkaban.

"Look is that Minister FUdge?" someone shouted.

"Yeah and that is ah what's her name the toad woman Umbric or something," another shouted.

"Stan Shunpike, why would You-Know-Who allow him to join?"

"Mum?" Seamus Finnigan cried out in shock seeing his mother kneeling before that monster.

"Who is that in the back under the shadows?" someone cried pointing to the edge of the scene where a man stood apart from the others. Harry obliged the questioner as he enhanced the edge showing Snape under a cowl in the corner. While it was not tiring to retain the picture Harry did not want to just keep it up to allow everyone to see all the identities of the Death Eaters at their peak, so he used some magic to duplicate the time orb he had been using and passed it on to Sirius knowing his Godfather would make sure the right people got to see it.

"What are you doing?" Fred asked as Harry let the show come to an end.

"Well, the tournament is over so I think it is time for me to head out again," Harry said.

"You can't go," Draco called out, "Not after dropping this firework into our laps."

"I can and will. As I said I like to learn and experience a challenge which can not come about if I stay in the same place too long," Harry said.

"But, but," some of the crowd began to say.

"Though I guess there is something I should do before I leave again," Harry said turning to look at Dumbles. "Albus Dumbledore I have a bone to pick with you."

"Now whatever problems you have my boy I am sure it is all in your head," Albus said gulping a little as the crowd parted leaving an open space between Harry and the old food.

"All in my head?" Harry asked with a slight laugh. "Now that is a good idea." Harry reaches for his head and removes a stream of his memories to allow others to see it. There were some further gasps as Harry showed the man leaving Harry with the Dursleys as he ordered them to mistreat Harry as much as they wanted so long as they did not kill the boy. It was strange to see the overpowered boy they saw before them being abused by the group of Muggles until he was hit in the head with a pan from his Aunt. Harry shows him leaving the Dursleys but not him entering the Multiverse for the people of this world were not ready to see or know of such things yet.

Harry picked up the scene when he arrived back on this world and meet Lupin. While the meeting was short-lived the next meeting the pair had Remus showed off a document that he had been given to the Goblins when he was placed as Harry's Magical Guardian. Harry blacked out portions of the document which revealed some of the magical abilities that he had that no one else on this world held, but the crowd was more focused on the second document which showed Albus having stolen funds from Harry when he was a kid to line his own vaults. Many of his staff, like Minerva, glared at him for what he had done as Minister Crouch summoned some Aurors for the man trying to commit Line Theft which had only been stopped by Remus Lupin. As Barty reaches for Dumbles' hands, however, Harry reads in the man's magic that he had been using one of this World's forbidden spells. Placing a hand on Barty's arm as if to stop him from taking Dumbles yet Harry snapped his fingers getting a list of the spells that the man had used in the last month.

"Mr. Potter?' Crouch asked.

"Remus is there any spells on this list that are evil?" Harry said passing it to the man he trusted most in this world.
"Merlin's beard," Remus said looking at the list of spells. "How can this list say you have been casting an Imperious Curse on your son once a week when he died in Azkaban nearly eleven years ago?"

"Well, I..." Barty said not sure what to do. He made the wrong choice as he turned to run only to be stopped by one of the Aurors he had summoned. Soon Barty, Dumbles, and Quirrell were removed from the Castle by the group of Aurors and Sirius who had joined them to turn in the memory of the Death Eater meeting to Amelai Bones who he knew would track everyone down and handle it.

"Well, I guess that is all I had to do," Harry said reaching forward and taking Remu's hand. "Farewell Remus I leave everything to you." Saying this Harry vanished making the crowd freak out since there had not been the telltale sound of him Apparating away or a Portkey involved.

Harry found himself back on the Crossroads a special location in which he traveled between the worlds of the multiverse. Humming to himself he was surprised to see a new pathway that he had not noticed before as he started to casually walk down it wondering what new adventures awaited him. Yet as he passed one of the portals leading to a new world Harry stopped in place a look of wonder on his face. Rather than being a completely different world, the one he saw looked like his home world and he saw himself. In this world it seemed that Harry had become a creature and became mated with Fred Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Viktor Krum, Snape (who Harry saw was not as bad a person as the one from the world he just left), and Blaise Zabini. Looking into another portal Harry saw that this path did not lead to other universes but alternate timelines of the same world as in the new portal Harry saw a younger version of himself being adopted by two members of the Hogwarts staff right before his Second Year. "Well this seems like an interesting path," Harry said to himself as he began to hum the World's Song and continued down the path. As he passed one portal which showed Harry meeting with members of the Weasley clan and some people who appear to be of the Greengrass family he noticed Ginny Weasley pull out her wand looking as if she was going to attack either Harry or one of her twin older brothers. Not knowing what was going on but not liking it Harry tapped the portal which caused a light fixture to fall inside the scene he was watching and block the spell the girl had cast. Seeing his alternate form was safe, Harry paid the portal no further attention as he resumed his walk down this new pathway.