HP: Harry The Gamer

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It was difficult though. The words blurred and danced around on the page, and he could never really get them to focus in front of his eyes.

Eventually, rather tired, he gave up on the reading for a while and started looking at pictures that were printed in the books.

But just then, he came upon a picture of an ancient Mesopotamian parchment filled with squiggly lines written on it.

It seemed old, really old, and just as Harry was about to look away the words started to change and suddenly Harry could understand them.

He frowned, wondering if this was something related to Gamer's Mind.

It hadn't mentioned being able to do anything with languages in its description though, so it seemed unlikely that it was the reason behind his sudden understanding of what the tablet seemed to call the Parseltongue, the language of snakes.

It spoke of how it was once the language of gods and how it eventually came to be scorned by all of wizardkind.

'Wait a minute. Wizardkind?!' Harry thought disbelievingly. Was that what his Chemistry teacher was? A Wizard?

Was he a wizard too? It would certainly be a crazy theory, but no crazier than all that had happened to him throughout the last few days.

Even the Shield of Lily description mentioned it. Maybe he had a connection with those myths he kept hearing about, and maybe it had something to do with magic!

Ping!

For thinking things through and arriving at a logical conclusion you gained +1 Wis!

Harry blinked and quickly wiped it away.

That was confirmation. He was either a wizard or related to one.

Harry quickly spent the next hour fully immersed in the book, trying to learn anything he could.

He was thirsty for all knowledge that could be found in it, although it didn't make it any less funny to see what people thought the parseltongue parchments meant.

Like the time they mistook the word 'castle' for some oddly flexible yoga position.

Soon, he got confirmation that his time was well spent, through a couple of notifications.

Ping!

By reading books about another language you have gained 1 Int!

Ping!

By reading a manuscript and understanding it completely you have gained two skills!

Language: Parseltongue, Lv-MAX

You have a perfect understanding of parseltongue.

Language: Modern English, Lv-2 (34%)

You have poor English reading skills, you can talk it, but can't walk it. Reading level-1

-60% misunderstanding what you read.

Harry scratched his head, this was a problem. While some sort of strange magic gave him a perfect understanding of this…Parseltongue, his English wasn't in that great of a shape.

He could talk English just fine, but he had always had an issue with reading it. Books always got so blurry when he tried to read.

Pictures were okay, but the text being all but a grey blob wasn't exactly conducive to a reading session.

Whatever the reason behind it was, he needed to get better at English first before reading any book.

Harry quickly went over to the Basic English sections and took out easy books and began reading.

Grinding. That was what he was doing.

Focusing on leveling up a skill with all his effort and intent led to a quick increase in level growth, and as the blobs of grey slowly became more and more focused and eventually morphed into letters he could understand.

After finishing his fourth English book of the day, Harry opened up his skill list and selected English.

Language: Modern English, Lv-2 (80%)

You have poor English reading skills, you can talk it, but can't walk it. Reading grade level-1

-60% misunderstanding what you read.

It was 34% before but it had grown to 80%. That meant it was working. Harry then quickly started to grind.

He was being given a way to eliminate one of his greatest weaknesses on a day free of Dursleys and chores. He couldn't be happier to take the chance with all his might.

By mid-noon, Harry had progressed to reading Conan Doyle stories, which were notoriously long but seemed to have a knack for increasing his English Levels due to their smart writing.

Language: Modern English, Lv-5 (40%)

You have poor English reading skills, you can talk it, but can't walk it. Your reading is now better, grade level-4

-45% misunderstanding what you read.

Harry smiled and closed the last book he was reading. Other than the Dursleys, his messed up reading was one of the main reasons he was always merely average in the class, and he was more than happy to be rid of it.

As far as he could see, his understanding improved by a rate of 5%, meaning at level 14 or so he would finally be rid of his problem forever.

Soon after, Harry ended his grinding for the day and left, as the library was closing for lunchtime.

After spending some time ambling through the street, Harry saw a small garden snake slithering across the street as it angrily hissed at the pedestrians that kept almost trampling it. Except to Harry, it seemed as if the snake wasn't merely hissing.

It was speaking English. Some extremely vulgar English, but English nonetheless.

Harry's eyes widened when a small green window popped up in his corner of vision telling him that his Parseltongue skill was active.

He quickly weaved through the crowd over to the snake and picked it up gently.

The snake didn't seem to be too pleased with that development.

"Put me down you grubby son of a maggot lodged scum bucket! I will rip off your slimy little two-legged nose and shove it up your lily white butt you little miff backed moron.

I have contacts in high places! The Prime Minister's garden snakes are my friends.

I could have you thrown in a ditch with a flick of my tail. I will make you rue the day you picked me up you dim-witted little twit-"

"Language" Harry interrupted the snake as he took it to a nearby alleyway.

"You speak! " The snake said, seemed a little shocked.

"I do," Harry said bemusedly as he set the snake down away from the trampling traffic of people on the other side of the street.

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