Harry Potter: Returns Back From Game of Thrones (ASOIAF) - 17

Chapter 17: Harry's Grades Are Not Ideal

Harry crossed over to a new world named [Asian Parents], with some differences from his last crossing but a similar process—first given an identity, brief adaptation at the arrival point, then assigned missions.

The ultimate goal of the [A Song of Ice and Fire] world—Harry initially drifted along, participating in events to earn attribute points, feeling everything was full of killing and violence, quite chaotic.

Using the chaos of war to climb the Iron Throne, only then understanding in hindsight.

The ultimate goal was probably very old-fashioned: ending war and saving the world of the living from the Great Other's hands.

[Become the savior of the living]—this was his revelation.

The ultimate goal of the [Harry Potter] World, inexplicably named after himself, had some omens and revelations, likely related to killing Voldemort and successfully completing studies at Hogwarts.

Since he hadn't reached Hogwarts yet, Harry also felt it might be defeating Dumbledore and dominating Hogwarts.

He believed he was likely this world's child of destiny—the protagonist of this story—which was why the system annotations had such naming, just like crossing to ancient Britain and having it annotated as [Arthurian Legend] would clearly indicate Arthur as the protagonist.

Arthur's story was well-known in both the Muggle and wizarding worlds.

Britain's most famous wizard, also recognized as the strongest prophet, was Merlin, who had many famous prophecies. According to wizards, he could use prophecy's power to guide hearts, using hearts' power to cultivate kings who could defeat invaders.

Magic was idealistic—it distorted reality. As long as you believed, it could be true.

In British wizarding society, he was equivalent to a god. Most wizards' catchphrase "Merlin's pants" = Harry's "Seven hells" = Muggles' "OMG."

Merlin's prophecies then—the red dragon that could defeat the Saxon white dragon, the son of the great dragon, the man who drew the sword to become king—all pointed to Arthur.

By extension, just as Arthur's story had various carriers, perhaps in other worlds there were Harry Potter novels or movies.

Could it be that even without the system, through his talent alone, he could become a legendary figure?

Worthy of himself, hehe...

Actually, A Song of Ice and Fire had similar prophecies about legendary protagonists. Ancient Asshai books prophesied, "After the long summer, when stars bleed, Azor Ahai shall be reborn amid smoke and salt and wake dragons from stone."

"After the long summer" referred to the ten-year-long summer's end.

"When stars bleed" referred to the red comet in the sky. After the crimson magic star passed, Harry's Magic increased from 1 to 2 points, all spellcasters in the world grew stronger, and dragons returned then, symbolizing the mystical side's revival.

"Azor Ahai shall be reborn amid smoke and salt and wake dragons from stone"—the world thought Harry was Azor Ahai reborn because he had Lightbringer and could ride dragons through brute force. Harry thought it might point to Stormborn Daenerys.

But having personally participated in various events, Harry felt Daenerys carried heavy weight in destiny, yet was too peripheral as protagonist—she was separated from the Iron Throne by an entire sea.

Maybe it was a group portrait legendary story? After all, that world wasn't called "Daenerys Legend" or "Dragon Mother Legend."

Or prophecies always had discrepancies, allowing ambiguous interpretation.

Even the obviously failed Arthurian prophecy, since Arthur only retreated to Avalon without dying, couldn't be considered completely failed. If he someday emerged to defeat white dragons and sweep London, Merlin's prophecy would still succeed.

So would this [Harry Potter] world have prophecies about him? Would someone use prophecies to cultivate saviors?

In childhood cartoons, wizards always used super large crystal balls for divination, rode flying broomsticks, and wore pointed hats, with cats beside them... these stereotypes were all real.

Hogwarts required Astronomy in the first year, with optional Divination and Arithmancy from the third year onward. Perhaps most wizards knew some divination, just not proficiently.

At least none of his subordinates had such talent.

Could wizards who studied well prophesy his crossing?

Returning to this new world, the ultimate goal was clearest among several worlds, traceable.

Whenever his adoptive uncle and aunt in this world jokingly mentioned this topic, he had special feelings.

Through guided conversations and elimination comparisons of different topic feelings, Harry concluded: without cheating, not taking arts or sports routes, not repeating grades or retaking exams... purely through academic strength in the university entrance examination six years later, getting into the most prestigious universities, preferably winning the fiercely competitive regional championship.

This was [Asian Parents] main storyline.

Hah, he'd saved the world—what was a mere exam?

Not bragging, but his grades in British elementary school ranked middle.

After the other world, math and such improved rather than declined, arguably Westeros's math expert. Combining knowledge from both worlds, his math perhaps reached the terrifying level approaching British ordinary school's second year of junior high—otherwise, why call it world-shaking wisdom?

Now with post-crossing adult thinking, and as a Briton naturally good at English, one less subject, then learning these underage knowledge.

Hmph, getting into the famous universities he'd never heard of—wasn't that simple? Easy as having hands?

Probably only the regional champion had some difficulty.

Time for school.

As a transfer student to a local middle-tier junior high, directly entering the first year, parents simultaneously hired tutors to catch up on the local language.

Very good, the final shortcoming was addressed. From experience, elementary knowledge was easy to catch up on. Advantage was his!

First step: three years later's high school entrance exam, getting into key high school.

Literature.

"Don't understand, this language is too hard! I just learned the basic characters. Why still don't I understand? Damn!"

Please explain the meaning of each "meaning" in the following text:

Harry gave the leader gifts; their conversation was quite meaningful.

Leader: "What do you mean by this?"

Harry: "Nothing much, just a gesture."

Leader: "You're not being considerate enough."

Harry: "Small gesture, small gesture."

Leader: "You're really interesting."

Harry: "Actually no other meaning."

Leader: "Then I'm embarrassed."

Harry: "I'm the one who should be embarrassed."

"Damn, what do you mean? I think you're deliberately making things difficult for me, Harry!"

Mathematics.

"Seven hells, is this student sick! And why is the progress so fast here? First year of junior high just finished elementary; my approaching-second-year power stops here!"

English.

"???"

"Listening is okay, but what's reading comprehension? Hell, how would I know what he wants to say? What are these grammar rules? Why add modification here, attributive there, and here..."

"How did I not know English had these things? Am I not British?"

"It's over..."

"Taking the proper path definitely won't get me into the top universities."

Harry gave up.

Despite full effort, he couldn't win.

Studying like this for six years would at most reach junior college level.

Actually, being so far behind, he might not survive the high school entrance exam—forget key high schools, probably straight to vocational school.

Two and a half years into school.

Harry's grades were not ideal, but he still got into the top university because before age fourteen he won multiple world championships and was specially recruited by the university.

But the system didn't recognize it, not granting ultimate mission rewards—probably Golden attribute points or Intelligence attributes.

Harry didn't care. Studying? Study my ass.

Compared to impossible missions of becoming the king of academics, Harry decided to save the world and improve attributes.

Harry seemed to have a very long, very long dream, encountering all kinds of people and experiencing many events.

Coming to his senses, all past experiences distant, his body returned to an eleven-year-old state, verifying his previous crossing theories—each crossing would grow from that age, returning to the original state when going back.

A scarlet steam engine stood beside a platform packed with passengers.

The train's sign read: Hogwarts Express, 11 o'clock.

Harry looked back—just a barrier wall marked "Platform 9¾."

Those experiences with ancient scripts felt dreamlike.

Only fluent mastery of the mystical language and system achievements like [Chosen One, All-Around Sports King, Permanent GOAT, Star of Olympus] reminded him it wasn't a dream.