A Certain Scientific Harry Potter

The relationship between Prince Charles and the Princess had taken a sharp turn for the worse over the past year, even reaching the point of frequent separations. Young William saw this situation unfolding before his eyes, yet not knowing how to intervene, he could only turn to Harry for guidance.

However, aside from telling him that "every family has its own skeletons in the closet," all Harry could do was take him out for runs, ball games, and various forms of entertainment, trying to distract him.

As an outsider, this was not a matter he could judge, especially since he himself was facing his own share of family troubles.

For over a year, the Grangers had treated him as their own. They hadn't touched a penny of the funding provided by the royal family, even adding to it themselves, saving it as a career fund for Harry's future... Harry saw all of this.

He truly considered the Granger household his own home now, but it was precisely because of this that he felt increasingly conflicted.

Harry knew in his heart that the Grangers had always hoped he would truly integrate into their family.

That was why he was struggling with whether he should change how he addressed them... and whether he should change his name.

After all, if he really changed his name, it would be all too easy for people to associate him with being a "three-surname slave."

Lost in these thoughts, Harry pushed open the front door.

However, when he entered the living room, he found all three members of the Granger family there, and they were all looking at him with a strange expression!

"You guys... did something happen?" Harry asked, stunned.

"Harry, someone sent you a letter," Mr. Granger said, pointing to the envelope on the long table. "It was delivered by an owl..."

"An owl?"

Harry picked up the letter, and when he saw the wax seal bearing the crest of a shield surrounded by various animals, his expression inevitably darkened.

("Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Albus Dumbledore...")

As expected!

He didn't even need to finish reading the letter to know that nothing good was written inside!

After keeping quiet for over a year, Old Dumbledore was back to his old tricks again!

"This letter..."

"So, you're the Harry Potter everyone in the wizarding world knows about?"

Harry had intended to say that the Grangers didn't need to worry about this bizarre letter, but Hermione's shriek cut him off completely.

"Oh my god, I can't believe it! You've actually been through something so thrilling?!"

Hermione jumped over excitedly to grab Harry's shoulders, pushing back his hair to stare closely at his forehead: "That scar, it was left after fighting that... that You-Know-Who, right? This is just incredible!"

"And Hogwarts... there really is a school that teaches magic?! And I can actually go there to study too? This is just amazing!!"

"What did you say?" Harry stared at Hermione in disbelief. "You just said... you're going to study there too?!"

"That's right~" Hermione held up another envelope that had already been opened. "Don't think you're the only one who can learn magic, little brother Harry~"

The usually proud genius girl teased him playfully, but Harry had no heart to pay attention!

Right now, he felt as if fate had played a massive joke on him!

Hermione Jean Granger, a witch from a Muggle family, the top student...

At this moment, the Hermione before him finally began to overlap perfectly with a certain image in his memory!

What kind of nonsense was this?

The Grangers who adopted him, the Grangers' daughter Hermione, was actually the female lead of the original work?!

Heh, he had worked so hard to avoid landmines on the registry, even getting into a scrap with Dawlish, and it turned out he had avoided absolutely nothing!!

Come on, while Hermione was definitely not an ugly girl, he didn't remember her having such prominent front teeth in the movie, nor such ridiculously fluffy hair!

And most importantly... wasn't she supposed to be called Miaoli?!

Before he transmigrated, Harry had never read the original novels, and his knowledge of Harry Potter was limited to a Chinese-dubbed version of the Sorcerer's Stone movie...

He vaguely remembered that in that movie, the heroine's name was Miaoli!

The movie didn't even have English subtitles at the time, so who knows why the localization team translated "Hermione" as Miaoli?

They could have at least used the phonetic translation "Hermione"?!

As for Hermione's surname, while Granger wasn't common in England, it wasn't exactly rare either; Harry hadn't even considered that possibility!

Besides... he had been entirely focused on the fact that the Grangers were dentists at the time~

Damn it...

Harry decided that from now on, he would definitely support the original versions of whatever he consumed, especially works that required translation!

Otherwise, who knows when he might be driven to blood-vomiting rage by those unreliable names again~

Chapter 18: I Don't Want to Go to Hogwarts at All

"Hey, you aren't being that petty, are you? Is it really that hard for you to accept that I can get into Hogwarts too?"

Seeing Harry's sour expression, Hermione, thinking he was just throwing a tantrum, couldn't help but put her hands on her hips, pouting.

"It's not that I can't accept it, it's that you absolutely cannot go!" Harry firmly vetoed the idea, secretly clenching his fists and gripping the Space Ring that Scamander had given him.

Because of Dumbledore's lingering presence and his attempt to drag the Granger family into this, Harry was so angry that he felt his Obscurus was about to burst out!

In his view, Hermione absolutely, positively must not go to Hogwarts!

If Harry were alone, he would at least dare to strike back against Dumbledore or anyone else trying to use him, just as he had dared to defy the Dursley Family.

But once Hermione was dragged into this, Harry would have an extra shackle that could go wrong at any moment.

If someone really used Hermione to blackmail Harry, forcing him to do things he didn't want to do, tell me, would he go or not?!

What's more... the wizarding world simply wasn't safe at all!!

"Heh, why don't you tell me, on what grounds can't I go to Hogwarts to learn?!"

Unfortunately, Hermione, who had completely misunderstood the situation, would not understand Harry's good intentions at this moment.

"Do you think that only a The Boy Who Lived like you is worthy of learning magic, and that children like us from Muggle families deserve to be isolated from that world, right?!"

In the living room, Hermione kept screaming and questioning, while Harry's face grew increasingly dark.

"Hermione, don't use that Muggle term to refer to Mr. and Mrs. Granger! Besides, I have never thought of myself as any The Boy Who Lived, and I certainly don't think the wizarding world is any better than this place!"

"That's because you've already been exposed to it!" A sneer of mockery flashed across Hermione's face. "So, you're just afraid, right? You're afraid that even though you were exposed to magic before a Muggle-born child like me, you'll end up being outperformed by me after we enroll!!"

"Forget it, I don't want to argue with you right now... Hermione, if you insist on learning magic, I can introduce you to a very good teacher, but you absolutely cannot go to Hogwarts!"

To be honest, Harry found Hermione's impulsive way of thinking somewhat childish, but she was so stubborn that Harry, feeling helpless, had no choice but to take a step back.

He felt that perhaps he could seek help from Scamander, who was suspected to be a transmigrator; Harry had not cut off contact with him for over a year.

In Harry's view, Scamander was definitely more trustworthy than Dumbledore, and the man would likely be very happy to become a "cheat-code grandfather" for Hermione, the original heroine.

"I~don't~want~to!" Even so, Hermione's attitude remained incredibly firm, and she even became angrier.

"Harry Potter, someone like you who has known about the existence of magic from the very beginning will never understand how I feel! I clearly have the qualifications to enter Hogwarts directly, yet I have to learn from some unknown person you mentioned—how is that any different from cheating on an exam?!"

In Hermione's eyes, Harry, who had been putting on an act, had finally let his mask slip!

"So, you really do think that people like me aren't worthy of learning magic in the light, right! You kept hiding it from me, and now that you can't hide it anymore, you've started to unreasonably stop me!!"

She had always been a proud girl, even to the point of being overbearing, but hidden beneath her arrogant exterior was a heart full of inferiority.

Harry was the world-famous The Boy Who Lived in the wizarding world, while her own family knew nothing about magic—they were what the wizards called 'Muggle'!

That's right... he must look down on her background, which was why he was obstructing her so much!!

"Hermione, I don't have the spare time to care whether you want to learn magic or not; it's that you have absolutely no idea how dangerous the wizarding world is!"

Little did she know, as Hermione's misunderstanding of Harry deepened, Harry's temper finally exploded!

"You say I'm the The Boy Who Lived, but do you know... I was only one year and three months old when I was left with this Lightning Scar!"

"You say I kept things from you, but do you know... my parents are all dead, killed by that person whose name no wizard even dares to mention!!"

"I don't want you to go to Hogwarts, and I don't want you to have anything to do with the wizarding world, because... that You-Know-Who, Voldemort, he is still alive, and he will return one day!!!"

After this intense outburst, the entire living room fell into a dead silence; even the sound of breathing seemed to have stalled.

Looking at Harry, who was trembling all over and whose face was even slightly twisted, the Granger Family was stunned.

Mr. and Mrs. Granger had not expected that what they thought was a simple argument between children would end up involving such a secret concerning a blood feud against his parents!

And Hermione was even more shocked that her adopted brother, Harry Potter—the "The Boy Who Lived who repelled You-Know-Who" according to the Hogwarts messenger—could have such a tragic past!

She felt terrible inside, filled with both guilt and heartache for Harry.

She felt she was beginning to understand why Harry, despite having such a brilliant mind, was so keen on being a "salted fish" who didn't want to flip over.

Perhaps... he had been trying his best all along to act like an ordinary person.

However, Harry had no time to care about Hermione's change in attitude, because he had to focus all his energy on reciting the spell that could stabilize his emotions!

Clear Mirror Still Water!

The books Scamander left him mentioned that while an Obscurus was powerful, it was an extremely dangerous force; it was like a ticking time bomb that could hurt himself or others at any moment!

Therefore, before completely taming this power, Harry had to learn to strictly control his emotions!

Admittedly, Harry knew that his problems could only be solved by the wizarding world, but he did not want to enter Hogwarts.

Because he did not want to have any contact with Dumbledore.

Whether it was the previous incident with the Dursley Family or the clues he had picked up from Scamander, all of it made Harry realize a fact: Dumbledore might be a person with an extremely strong desire for control!

Harry had always chosen to keep his distance from such people, because he was never willing to let others dictate his choices!

"Oh, you poor child, what you've been through is truly tragic."

Just as Harry's magic was surging restlessly, Mrs. Granger suddenly stepped forward and, ignoring the danger, gently pulled him into her arms.

"Harry, it's all in the past; all those sad, despairing things are all in the past..."

"Mmm..."

Her voice was so kind, like a clear spring, gently washing over the wounds in Harry's heart and providing a harbor for his overwhelmingly agitated emotions.

At that moment, through Harry's tear-blurred vision, Mrs. Granger seemed to transform into the image of his mother from his previous life.

Mrs. Granger had not given him life, nor had she sacrificed herself to fight off Voldemort's killing curse, but with a different kind of tenderness, she had given him something that belonged to a family...

Chapter 19: Going to School is Actually to Drop Out

"Hermione, you really shouldn't have argued with Harry like that."

Just as Mrs. Granger was carefully comforting Harry, Mr. Granger simultaneously called Hermione to one side.

"I hope you can understand that everyone is entitled to their own secrets, and the memories Harry previously kept hidden were clearly not happy ones for him. Furthermore, his stopping you from attending that school was actually for your own good. Harry simply voiced the concerns that your mother and I were already feeling."

The ways in which fatherly and motherly love manifest can sometimes be quite different, at least that was certainly the case for Mr. Granger.

Therefore, he would not go about comforting a sorrowful Harry like his wife did; instead, he began to earnestly educate his daughter.

Clearly, he felt that having the two children learn something useful from this incident was far more important than just soothing their moods.

Moreover, after hearing Harry explain the full sequence of events, he was now actually weighing things up, feeling that Hermione and Harry attending Hogwarts might not necessarily be a good choice after all.

"I understand, Dad." Hermione nodded gloomily, yet her expression remained as firm as ever. "But even if I know all this, and even if Harry refuses to go to Hogwarts, I must go!"

"I know this might involve certain risks, but I trust in the safety of that school! The headmaster there, Albus Dumbledore, is known as the great wizard whom Voldemort alone fears!"

"Besides... I don't want to give up such an opportunity to come into contact with the magical world, and I especially don't want to have to peek into that world through other means when my talent has clearly already been recognized!"

"So, please support me, Dad, Mom! If I don't make this choice, I will surely regret it for the rest of my life!!"

"This..."

The Grangers exchanged a glance, simultaneously seeing a hint of helplessness in each other's eyes.

They knew their daughter well and understood that Hermione had already completely made up her mind; no matter what they said now, she would not change her stance.

Furthermore, they were actually calculating things in their hearts, as the messenger who had delivered the acceptance letter had truly described Hermione's situation as quite serious.

Strange things had been happening around their daughter from a very young age, and the Grangers now understood that it was because she possessed the aptitude to become a witch.