The younger Harry and his friends remembered what that unscrupulous old wizard had sealed away. Harry himself was fine, but the others began looking at him a little strangely.
"Harry, you actually came into contact with more than one deity? And you never told us?" the younger Hermione asked, looking at him with displeasure.
"You can't blame me for that! Deities are too dangerous. I really didn't want you getting caught up in danger too!" The younger Harry spread his hands.
"Huh? The other me actually came into contact with deity power?" The older Harry looked at Daphne in surprise.
"Yes. I don't know how he managed it, and it was more than one, too." Daphne nodded with a grin. Then she told the younger Hermione, "He had your best interests at heart. Even now, we avoid anything involving deities whenever we can."
"No wonder!" The older Harry nodded in agreement. "I was wondering how he could be this powerful when he's only in his fifth year. I don't think even I could necessarily beat him now."
The younger Harry was a little annoyed to hear that.
Even if the other boy might be him, he was still annoyed!
Without a way to suppress deity power, like those Australian wizards' yellow talisman papers or the strange magic Daphne had used back then, Harry felt that even very powerful adult wizards would be at a disadvantage against him.
Not to mention that he had also received Ravenclaw's legacy and gained many powerful forms of ancient magic and ancient sorcery.
If his counterpart in this world had never come into contact with deities, the younger Harry felt there was absolutely no way the other boy could beat him. Even if he seemed to be two years above him at school. Still...
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