Prologue: Reflections of the Past

A/N: Good day, my minions. This little story, I'm sure, is familiar to some. With the permission of the original author knightblazer85 (who has stopped being an author and became a challenge issuer), I am breathing new life into the fic series Harry Potter and the New Path. With some new additions and re-writes, I present to you Harry Potter and The Path of Destiny.

Unlike the other knightblazer85-authored (and continued by me) fic Bound by Brotherhood, Forged in Fire, this fic will strictly be a Harry Potter/Dragonball Z fanfic. Never fear though… With me back in the saddle, you, the fans, should be getting better chapters in the upcoming weeks.

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Chi-Chi Son sighed wearily as she gazed at the photo album in her lap, the page was opened at a photo of four adults, and two infant boys.

The adults, were two men, and two women, the men, ranging from six feet one, to six feet four, one with black hair like a birds nest, and almond eyes behind a pair of glasses, the second unruly spiked hair and black eyes, wearing an orange fighting gi.

The women, the first, standing with her arms around the man in glasses' waist had hair of a fiery red and emerald green eyes; the second woman, stood with her arms around the waist of the man in the gi, had black hair tied in a bun over her head, and black eyes, she wore a Chinese style dress.

The two boys sat together on a blanket in front of their parents, the first boy, with messy black hair and emerald green eyes, was in the process of hitting the second boy with black eyes and spiky hair over the head with a stuffed black dog.

The picture was moving and the second boy appeared to be laughing along with the parents behind them.

Chi-Chi sighed as she picked up the newspaper next to her, on the front page was a photo of her old friend Sirius Black. It had been so long since she had thought about him, nearly three years, and twelve years before that, and now he was gone. Right at the moment she was contemplating sending Gohan out to find the remaining six dragonballs to drag the fool back from otherworld so she could kill him herself.

But she was also thinking of her Godson, Harry Potter, for five years after James and Lily's murder she had fought tooth and nail to get custody of him but that manipulative bastard Dumbledore always got in the way. She had almost managed to get custody of him in 1985 while Dumbledore was out of the country, but the bastard had come back just at the beginning of the hearing and butted in.

"What's wrong mom?" a voice asked behind her

Chi-Chi looked over her shoulder to see her eldest, Gohan standing with her second son Goten under his arm and fighting to get loose.

"Nothing sweetheart" she replied "Put your brother down and have a seat"

"How come those pictures are moving?" Goten asked as Gohan dropped him onto the back of the couch

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about" Chi-Chi said as Gohan sat down

"What's this about mom?" Gohan asked

"Do you boys believe in magic?" Chi-Chi asked

"Uhh, Babba and the Dragonballs ring a bell?" Gohan asked

"Right" Chi-Chi said "Well you know that when your father and I were kids, about ten years old, I more or less told Goku we were getting married right?"

"Yeah" Gohan nodded "You got married at the 23rd WMAT. Not exactly what I'd call a romantic engagement"

"It was for us" Chi-Chi said "But after your father moved on in his search for the dragonballs when we were children, things started happening around me. When I was angry or scared things happened, I would, suddenly make things appear out of thin air, one time I even turned your grandfathers beard pink, another he sprouted real ox horns, one time I suddenly vanished from in front of my sparring partner when he was on the spin of a reverse roundhouse, only to reappear on the roof of the dojo, my father was worried so she contacted Babba. I found out when Babba examined me, that I was a witch"

"You mean like Miss Babba?" Goten asked

"Nowhere near her level of power no" Chi-Chi said "But it was at the point where I needed to be trained, so Babba arranged for me to go to a magic school in Scotland. She said she was an old friend of the headmaster"

"You went all the way to Brittan just to learn magic?" Gohan asked

"Aside from the fact that English was the only other language I was completely fluent in at the time" Chi-Chi said "Hogwarts is the oldest, and most prestigious school in the field. It was founded 1,000 years ago by the most powerful witches and wizards of the period, Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Helga Hufflepuff, and for 1,000 years it has taught children from across the United Kingdom all legal aspects of magic"

"Legal aspects?" Gohan frowned

"Witches and Wizards have their own civilization and way of life, completely separate from that of the rest of the world, hidden for centuries, out of fear and arrogance"

"Arrogance?" Goten asked

"As far as the Wizarding world is concerned there are five types of people" Chi-Chi said "A Muggle, who can't use magic at all, a Squib, who has the magic, but can't access it, a Muggle born, is essentially a Muggle who can use magic, a Half-Blood, who would be the child of a wizard and a Muggle, and finally there are the purebloods, or what they believe are purebloods"

"What's that mean?" Goten asked

"It means that the supposed Purebloods, aren't as pure as they think" Gohan guessed

"Exactly" Chi-Chi said "Among some of the darker families you'll probably find the occasional humanoid magical creature, vampires, werewolves, veela, maybe a few others"

"You mean vampires and werewolves exist?" Goten asked

"Dragons, unicorns, mermaids, griffins you name it" Chi-Chi said with a smile "I even had an owl and a cat once"

"An owl?" Gohan asked

"It's how we sent mail" Chi-Chi replied "Every first year entering magic school has to choose an animal, an owl, a cat, or a toad. I hated toads so I got an owl in first year, and dad bought me a cat when I made it onto the Quidditch team"

"What's Quidditch?" Goten asked

"Get back to that later" Gohan said "What did you mean Legal aspects of magic?"

"In the Wizarding world there are what is considered, two types of magic, light magic, and dark" Chi-Chi said "Dark magic is considered illegal and forbidden"

"What type of spells are considered light?" Gohan asked

"Levitation spell, spells to turn people and things into other things, low level dueling spells" Chi-Chi shrugged

"That's a load of crap" Gohan said "The dark magic is used to torture people and stuff like that right?"

"Yes" Chi-Chi nodded

"What about me?" Gohan asked "I'm a living weapon, one of the most powerful saiyans in the universe. I could reduce this planet to a pile of rubble in a matter of seconds"

"Exactly" Chi-Chi nodded "Piccolo and your father trained you to take life in order to defend life, someone once told me, that power in itself is neither good, nor evil, the will of the user determines its use"

"Piccolo said that to me one time" Gohan said "I was about six when I asked him if what we were doing was right, the way we were training, learning to fight, to kill, but I realized during that whole thing with Garlic Junior that it had to be done"

"What was it like?" Goten asked "Magic school"

"It had its ups and downs" Chi-Chi said "Especially considering the fact that we were in the middle of a war"

"A war?" Gohan asked

"Yes" Chi-Chi nodded "There was this Dark wizard, said to be the most evil in centuries, he was so feared that people were petrified to even speak his name"

"What was his name mom?" Gohan asked

"Voldemort" Chi-Chi answered

"The Angel of Death in Latin" Gohan whispered

"Yes" Chi-Chi replied "But it is in fact a pseudonym of his true name, Tom Marvolo Riddle, a Half-Blood"

"What's the difference?" Gohan asked "I'm only half saiyan and I can match Vegeta blow for blow in the sparring matches we do every week"

"Yes" Chi-Chi agreed "But Voldemort despises the fact that he is even connected to muggle's in any way, from what I know he grew up rather badly in an orphanage after his father abandoned his mother and she died giving birth to him. Add to the fact that he was a Half-Blood in the Slytherin house during the rise of the last Dark Lord Grindewald during World War Two and you have a recipe for disaster"

"So this Voldermort guy was like Frieza?" Goten asked

"Nowhere near as powerful as him no" Chi-Chi said "But he is just as ruthless"

"Is?" Gohan asked "You mean he's still alive?"

"Unfortunately" Chi-Chi nodded "But before you go into that, let me finish. While I was a Hogwarts there were five other students in Gryffindor with me, Lily Evans, a muggle born like me, three purebloods called James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew, and a Werewolf called Remus Lupin. We were all sorted together, in the same year, I was on the Quidditch team with James, Sirius and Remus. And for seven years I roomed with Lily. We were best friends for a long time, I was always showing her the pictures I had of your father as he grew up, he was so hansom, and I knew almost from day one that James and Lily would get together, Marauder's or no"

"Marauder's?" Gohan asked

"A group of pranksters who made the lives of Argus Flitch, and the Slytherin's a living nightmare" Chi-Chi said "For almost seven years every time something blew up in a classroom or when something unusual happened in a class, the James, Sirius, Remus and Peter were most likely behind it"

"Sounds like Trunks and that little demon beside you" Gohan said as his brother stuck his tongue out and blew a raspberry at him

"Oh no" Chi-Chi said "James Potter was far worse than your brother. What he did may have been nasty, but it was far harder to get rid of than a paint bomb"

"Then I should thank Dende he can't use magic" Gohan muttered

"He might be able to" Chi-Chi said with a smile "You can"

"What?" Gohan asked

"Yes" Chi-Chi nodded "How do you think you became so strong so quickly? It is because of your human genetics, just not in the way you thought, whenever you're scared or angry, your magic has pushed your power level to levels no human could hope to match"

"How come I never got invited to a magic school then?" Gohan asked

"Because your saiyan strength levels have pushed your magic to the side, and suppressed it" Chi-Chi said "And because of that your magic has gone almost six years without use, constantly building over and over on itself, pushing your magical stores to the bursting point. If you could learn to harness it, there would be nobody on this earth that could match you"

"Why didn't you ever say anything?" Gohan asked

"Because I didn't want you to end up under that old bastard Dumbledore's thumb" Chi-Chi growled

"Who?" Gohan asked as he gave Goten a look that said 'Go outside NOW'

"Albus Dumbledore" Chi-Chi sighed "He's the headmaster at Hogwarts, has been since after World War Two"

"What do you have against him?" Gohan asked

"Aside from the fact that a, he was partly responsible for the deaths of James and Lily Potter in 1981, b, tried to drag your father and I into his precious Order of the Phoenix after we were married. I almost pulled his head off before I dragged Goku out of the castle"

"But wouldn't dad have…" Gohan began

"Oh he could have been able to defeat Voldemort easily enough" Chi-Chi interrupted "But it wasn't your father's war, and I was pregnant with you, your father wouldn't have allowed himself to leave me alone, and it would have got him hurt or killed"

Chi-Chi sighed as she opened the photo album at the photo she had been looking at before "You weren't born in Asia you know, you were born in Wales, roughly a week premature to James and Lily's son Harry, if you had been a little more patient you would have been born on July 31st"

"I was a week premature?" Gohan asked

"Yes" Chi-Chi nodded "I had to use a disillusionment charm on your tail so the doctors didn't ask questions"

"He doesn't seem to like you much if he's hitting you over the head with a stuffed dog" Goten said

"Oh you loved playing with Harry" Chi-Chi said "That dog was Harry's favourite toy, his Pa'foo"

"When did you last see Harry?" Goten asked

"I last saw Harry on his first birthday" Chi-Chi replied with a sad smile "three months before James and Lily were murdered"

"Why did Voldemort kill them?" Gohan asked

"As far as I was told" Chi-Chi said "A short time before your first birthday a prophecy was made. I don't know the contents, only that it involved Harry and Voldemort and the reason Voldemort tried to kill him"

"Tried?" Gohan asked "What stopped him? Wizard or not Harry would still only be human"

"Nobody knows" Chi-Chi said "All that's known is that Harry survived when Voldemort cast the killing curse Aveda Kedevara against him. The spell rebounded against Voldemort and destroyed his body, but not his spirit. Riddle spent thirteen of the last fifteen years as a shade"

"Is he back?" Goten asked

"Yes" Chi-Chi sighed "He returned in the summer 1994. Harry was there when it happened"

"That can't have been good" Gohan said

"No" Chi-Chi replied "Add to that the fact that the British Minister of Magic is a power hungry fool who spent the last year denying that Voldemort was back and running a smear campaign against Harry and Dumbledore and you have a bad combination"

"I hate politics" Gohan muttered "…almost as much as I hate that afroed idiot Hercule"

"Yeah" Chi-Chi muttered "And a few weeks ago things went from bad to worse for Harry"

"What happened?" Goten asked

"His Godfather, Sirius Black, was killed in a fight with Voldemort's forces, the Deatheaters, in London" Chi-Chi sighed sadly

"Oh man" Gohan said as he fell back against his seat.

"Does that mean he's coming here to live?" Goten asked innocently when he re-entered the house

"What?" Chi-Chi asked

"Brat raises a valid point" Gohan said "You are his Godmother"

"If I could have gotten custody of Harry he could have been here fifteen years ago" Chi-Chi growled

"What do you mean?" Gohan asked "Legally you have as much right to custody as Black"

"Sirius wasn't stopping me" Chi-Chi said "He couldn't since he was in prison up until the time you were thirteen. He was accused of betraying James and Lily to Voldemort, killing thirteen Muggles, along with the rat bastard who did betray them, and being a Deatheater. He was sentenced to life in the wizard prison of Azkaban"

"Then why didn't Harry go to you?" Gohan asked "By law as his Godmother with his parents dead and the Godfather in prison,you become the legal guardian and care giver"

"Because I was here when James and Lily died" Chi-Chi said "And by the time I found out and got to England, Harry had already been sent to Lily's sister Petunia, I tried to get custody then but Dumbledore stopped it, I tried every year for five years to get custody of Harry but every time Dumbledore stepped in my way"

"And when I was six everything started going to hell here so you couldn't do anything" Gohan said

"Yes" Chi-Chi sighed "But I'm planning on sending him a letter today, I want to see my Godson again"

"It's OK with me mom" Gohan said with a smile "If Voldemort is as determined to get him as you say then I think he would appreciate the back up"

"You're suggesting training him?" Chi-Chi asked

"Voldemort may be in England now" Gohan said "But how long will it be before he comes east and west. If I can help stop him now all the better"

"Don't get ahead of yourself" Chi-Chi warned "I need to get back into his life first before we do anything"

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"Are you ready Chi-Chi?" an ancient voice croaked

Chi-Chi and Gohan jumped slightly, and looked up to see Babba floating before them, Chi-Chi growled as she said "How many times have I told you not to apparate into my home?"

"More than enough but I still do it" Babba croaked "Now do you have the letter or not?"

"Yes" Chi-Chi growled as she thrust the letter she took from her dress into the witches hand and said "Make sure the Order of the Flash Fried Turkey don't detect you"

"They won't" Babba said as she vanished with a flash.

"What now?" Gohan asked when Babba was gone.

"We wait" Chi-Chi replied with a sigh

Goten looked up as his mother and said as innocently as before "I'm hungry"

"Alright sweetie" Chi-Chi laughed as she stood up "Let's get you some lunch" then she led her sons into the kitchen.

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A short time later Harry Potter awoke to the sound of a faint pop and a white envelope landing on his forehead.

With a frown Harry sat up and turned on his lamp before putting on his glasses. The envelope in his lap was plain enough, not sealed with wax, just addressed to him in an unfamiliar script.

"If it was a portkey you'd probably be dead by now" a part of his mind said as he opened the envelope and began to read

Dear Harry…

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A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed this revival of a discontinued fic series. Later on, I'll be bringing in 3 Saiyan OCs that were first introduced in the old Legends of Earth fic Rise of Apocalypse. And, due to the presence of one of them, there will be some Videl-bashing when that time comes.

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