[Initial talents selected: Reform to Evil, Genius Scholar, Illusion Master.] [Note: Harry does not exist in the simulated world, as the system cannot simulate the actions of the child of prophecy.] [Simulation beginning. Duration: twenty years]
Caesar immediately felt that familiar sensation again.
His consciousness was wrenched from his body in an instant, plunging into another world, both real and unreal.
[You were born into a pure-blood wizarding family. Both your parents were Aurors in the Ministry of Magic, belonging to the discreet Wilkes Family, one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight.]
[When you were five, a confidential mission that should never have been theirs to carry out left your mother forever lost in the aftermath of a brief clash between Dumbledore and Voldemort in the Albanian Forest.]
That skirmish was recorded in no official files. Your father returned with only your mother's Yew Wand, snapped in two, its core charred black.
[After the battle, more than half of your father Shelby Wilkes's hair turned gray overnight. He refused a promotion and transfer to the Ministry of Magic's Department of Magical Law Enforcement, then used his savings to buy an old house with a large garden on the outskirts of Exeter in the Muggle world.]
[Your new home happened to be next door to the family of Xenophilius Lovegood, editor of The Quibbler. The decision to move had been hasty and quiet. Your father only said, "It's peaceful here," but you knew it suited you perfectly.]
[The local primary school was a mix of Muggle children and a few wizarding offspring who had yet to show any magical ability. In the spring of your ninth year, you first saw seven-year-old Luna Lovegood beneath an oak tree by the playground.]
[She sat alone, a notebook covered in drawings of strange creatures