Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Highest Fantasy

[Lord Raine]

Buried beneath Hogwarts is something that belonged wholly to the ancient world. A thing of true power. Each who heard of it, each who knew of it, believed it to be a different thing. Muggle legend claimed it was a key of catastrophe. Wizarding myth says that it is a thing that can make anyone's dreams come true. Morganna, who sought it, believed it would grant unlimited power over magic, time, life, death, and the cosmos. Merlin, who guarded it, believed it was the secrets of the cosmos, a heavenly treasure put on earth by God to help ward off a darkness that had not yet been born. Salazar Slytherin, who found it, believed it to be a weapon that could be used as a last resort should wizardkind face extinction, and entombed it deep within his sanctuary. Tom Riddle, who looked but never found, believes it is the secret to true immortality. And Albus Dumbledore, who is versed in the old tales, has doubts about it's nature as fiction, for the hand that wrought the box is the same deathly one that wrought the wand, the stone, and the cloak.

But only one is destined to find the truth. Only one will be handed the key. Only one will unseal the gateway between this barren world where magic clings like vestiges, and the world that once was, where magic flows like rivers and imagination is no stranger to reality.

Destiny marked him with the brand of lightning, a symbol of Odin, patron of magic, wisdom, knowledge, and warriors. And as the lightningbranded, Harry Potter must take a stand, for within a world lost to time and ages, he will find many powers, some great and some small, some wild and some just, and all perilous. He will find that beings of power know his name, and become embroiled in a destiny that intertwines with the very roots of the tree that contains the universe.

From the depths of darkness, evil comes hunting, seeking the one who can end the shadows, and Harry must make a terrible choice. He must choose between the chaos of unsealing the ancient world forever, or the destruction of keeping it contained.

Harry Potter will unleash legend upon the world, an age of myths forgotten and discarded by modern minds. Can he become the champion that can turn aside the darkness that Lord Voldemort has become? Or will the bolt of lightning be a symbol of ruin and death?

The only way to find out, is to open Pandora's Box.

 

[Chaos341]

Seems strange to me to put a school on top of Harry Potter's Pandora's Box. That is unless Hogwarts was not always a school and had a different purpose for a time. Or maybe it has always been there, Death's old home.

 

[Karnath]

Seems strange to me to put a school on top of Harry Potter's Pandora's Box. That is unless Hogwarts was not always a school and had a different purpose for a time. Or maybe it has always been there, Death's old home.

Unless it is small enough to be moved there.

 

[Lord Raine]

Seems strange to me to put a school on top of Harry Potter's Pandora's Box. That is unless Hogwarts was not always a school and had a different purpose for a time. Or maybe it has always been there, Death's old home.

The box wasn't always there. It's been lost, then found, then stolen, then lost again. It's changed hands and traveled around the globe. Some sought it for power, but never got it. Others, like Merlin, chose to protect it and hide it. Salazar was the last person to find it, and believing it to be a dangerous weapon that could be used if wizardkind was ever threatened with extinction, he hid it inside his chamber.

But the antimagical revolution he feared never came, and both it and the chamber were lost until Tom Riddle came to Hogwarts. Riddle found the chamber and the monster, but while he spent all his years at Hogwarts looking, he could never find the box. Indeed, part of the reason he sought professorship there was so that he could continue his search. The same clues that led him to the chamber told of a powerful magical weapon inside. Something that Tom believed could make him immortal. But like all of ill will who came before him, the box eluded his grasp. It stayed right where it was in the Chamber of Secrets.

Until, that is, a certain second year came in, searching for his best friend's sister.

 

[Chaos341]

Second year? You are starting this early on.

 

[Lord Raine]

Second year? You are starting this early on.

When else is Harry going to accidentially stumble across an artifact hidden underneath Hogwarts by Slytherin?

 

[Jeopardizer]

In Fifth, he experiments with the come-and-go room, trying to determine it's limit. He ask for a way to Slytherin Chambers, wich the room provides. Thing is the stairway bring Harry in another big room (in the mouth of Salazar, where the basilisk stayed), where, in the middle of the skin/skelettons/whatever, lay a box atop a pedestal.


Or it could be during the 3rd year, after receiving the Marauder's map. Maybe he explores the castle with it's help, trying to see if they didn't forget something (like the chamber, maybe the stuff under Fluffy), or he could try to further complet the map.

It really depends on when you want Harry to find the box.

 

[Python453]

Is this the same Pandora's Box from Greek mythology? If it is, it puts a whole new spin on Prometheus giving the people "fire".

 

[Lord Raine]

In Fifth, he experiments with the come-and-go room, trying to determine it's limit. He ask for a way to Slytherin Chambers, wich the room provides. Thing is the stairway bring Harry in another big room (in the mouth of Salazar, where the basilisk stayed), where, in the middle of the skin/skelettons/whatever, lay a box atop a pedestal.


Or it could be during the 3rd year, after receiving the Marauder's map. Maybe he explores the castle with it's help, trying to see if they didn't forget something (like the chamber, maybe the stuff under Fluffy), or he could try to further complet the map.

It really depends on when you want Harry to find the box.

I will admit that as soon as I said that, I thought of about a dozen different ways for him to find it. Him being older would probably help the idea, as it's kind of hard to imagine him being a heroic hero at the age of thirteen. I'm pretty sure it's a rule somewhere than you can't convincingly save the universe from eldritch darkness without having, at the very least, dropped balls.

I think the two major points that sprung to my mind are second year, when he's actually in the chamber, and fifth year, when he's experimenting with the Room of Requirement.

Finding it with the map doesn't really make sense, because the Chamber wasn't on the map, and it's doubtful the Marauders would have found some other secret of Salazars in the school. They were all in Griffindor, and even if they weren't, none of them could speak Parseltongue, which seems to be the universal key Salazar used to lock up and hide things.

I do have an idea that I've been kicking around for awhile, where there are hidden sections of the castle that can only be reached by flooing to them from within the castle using a castle fire. These sorts of 'private rooms' and 'forgotten wings' could be completely lost, and nobody knows anything about them, or that they even exist, until someone (like, say, Harry) stumbles onto them. Since the only time Harry really ever considers using a floo inside the castle is fifth year with Umbridge, that would also probably require Harry be in fifth year.

I'm open to suggestions, though.

Is this the same Pandora's Box from Greek mythology?

Each who heard of it, each who knew of it, believed it to be a different thing. Muggle legend claimed it was a key of catastrophe.

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Yes.

If it is, it puts a whole new spin on Prometheus giving the people "fire".

Prometheus's Fire is, in fact, magic, yes. It puts the story in a rather interesting light, doesn't it? Prometheus didn't steal matches from the gods to give to mortals. He stole part of the power that makes the gods gods in the first place. He stole magic.

Odin is not dissimilar. He gave up his eye to gain the knowledge he would need to prevent magic from draining away from our world entirely (which would spell our doom).