2 2. After-Birth

Waking up, I found myself in a hard plastic see-through box, designed by the so called health professionals for baby's. Even with blankets underneath me, it's very uncomfortable.

Soon I found myself being wheeled into my mother's hospital room, and the nurse handed me to my mother.

After settling into my mother's embrace, she started to move about and the next thing I knew I was breastfeeding, when the milk entered my mouth and went down my throat into my digestive system, after a while I had a feeling of fullness and energy. Wondering how my body converted the food into energy so fast I wondered if it had to do with the myths of a baby's body being pure and untainted from the world after birth and then slowly through the years of being tainted by the mundane, that was something I would investigate when I was older.

During my breastfeeding I heard my parents talking about what to name me, they went through many name choices, and just around the time I finished breastfeeding they finally settled on one.

Harry James Potter.

After hearing this name I was shocked and my baby body responded to this shock by crying "Wwwaaaaaaa!"

Seeing their young child crying the adults looked down at me and my father said "I don't think he likes that name Lily."

"Nonsense, James" my mother said.

At this point I was freaking out, I was pretty certain of my conjecture when I heard my name, but know I knew with 100% certainty that I was in the Harry Potter World.

Watching my parents, I knew I was in for a tough year, and an even tougher life.

Realizing that my parents would die, I rationalized it wouldn't be good to get too attached, although as a reincarnated person I wasn't too attached in the first place, just grateful for them bringing me into this world and giving me a new body.

I wondered if I might be able to change their and my own fate, but I realized I could not, for many reasons, one being, I'm a baby, another being I'm too weak. Another reason being that it would change the timeline way too much and my advantage of future knowledge would be drastically weakened, the most important thing though being if I made a mistake, not only would I screw up I might make things worse, plus I could end up dead with my parents and Voldermort would be left to alive to destroy the ministry of magic and rebuild his own dark kingdom which he would rule, possibly forever.

So I decided the best course of action was to do nothing, and just train and prepare myself in secret.

After the gravity of my situation and future problems settled down in the depths of my mind, I suddenly realized I was in a world of magic, and I was a Wizard! My dream of Magic was no longer a dream, it was reality, and as much as that terrified me, it excited me even more!

Collecting my thoughts I prepared a mental list of the things I could do in this short year before Voldermort came for me.

First, learn the mental arts as best I can, I'm already able to sort through my memory, now I need to learn to edit it, and make a shield, hide my thoughts create my mindscape, and many other mental techniques. Also I made a sidenote to take all my bad memories, such as breastfeeding, and lock them deep underground, in a magic locked safe, so I shall never have to relive them.

Second, try to use actual magic, even the simplest spell, and I knew which one to start with, Lumos.

Third, eavesdrop on all the adults that I can for more information about this world.

Fourth learn the name of my house-elves because they will really help me in the years before, during and after Hogwarts.

Fifth, anything else that may come to mind that may help me.

After getting my mental list done I looked up at my parents, and thought I might at least try to make them happy during the last year of their lives.

So I giggled and smiled and grabbed hold of my father's index finger as tight as I could, while still giggling. I was rewarded with the look of joy upon my father's face when he finally realized he was a father and I was his son.

Shortly after I fell asleep.

Waking up I realized we were on the ride home to my parents house, and I was nestled in my mother's arms, once again I decided to reward one of my parents with joy and wonder by pulling on her red strands of hair and pulling not too hard, yet not to soft, but just with enough force to get her attention, and we began to play a game of tug-o-war with my mother's hair as the rope, my body soon grew tired of this activity and I once again drifted off to sleep.

Waking up in my crib, alone, I waited until my baby brain was as awake and alert as I could get, and after I remembered my desperate attempt at not dying, and realizing that my will to exist had become so ingrained I was still doing it while sleeping, and when my attention where on other things.

This was a happy side effect of my willpower growing stronger, I was able to partition my mind into two, and do two things at once simultaneously.

Yet I had a living breathing body now, so I slowly bit by bit relaxed my willpower and when I finally released the last part, I was still here. Then something amazing happened, my thoughts became clearer, faster, and my vision became sharper and more focused, as well as my other senses. This happened because when I released my willpower completely, it grew once again by another 100% the original amount, why? After my willpower completely relaxed the big part grew bigger and then merged with the small part that I had partitioned to allow me to think while maintaining my existence, and organize my thoughts and memories, as well as when I tried to do magic.

Once this happened I finally made a simplistic measurement of my willpower. Before I died I would say I had 0.5 points of willpower, but as I lay dying I was able to, thanks to my life and death situation, overcome my limit and increase my willpower to double that amount to a whole point. Which enabled me to sustain my existence on pure willpower. During my time in the Darkness and the Light and my birth all together it grew by 200%. Meaning it grew by a whole 2 points.

So all together my Willpower was at 3 points.

Now I never actually played Dungeons & Dragons in my past life, but I did read and Google parts of it and found the world and universe and just the entire concept very interesting. Conjuring an image of a blank piece of paper in my mind I wrote this.

Name: Harry Potter

Race: Human(Wizard)

Strength. 0.1

Dexerity. 0.2

Intelligence. 1.5

Magic. 0.5

Willpower. 3.0

Luck 1.0

I Then mentally saved that in my memories as my status sheet, not as good or accurate as a system or the gamer ability, but it will have to do for now. My strength was barely anything as a baby, I was more agile and dexterous as a baby, because due to my soft bones I was much more flexible than an adult, but still a baby. My intelligence was basically that of an adult in a baby's body, my magic was that of a human wizard and I was The Freakin' Harry Potter!

My Willpower Speaks for itself, for with just my will alone I cheated death and what I can only assume was the process of reincarnation, with my memories intact.

As for luck, I was pretty lucky during that whole thing so a gave myself a free point in luck.

With that done I added another training task to my mental list, visualization.