Archive of Our Own

"...The first time Harry sees them is during the Welcoming Feast of his eighth year at Hogwarts. They look like father and son, but Harry knows better. He sees a discreet red glint in the eyes of the elder, who’s seating at the staff table, and notices how the younger winces, when playing with his red-and-gold tie...

...He could have prevented all this charade by the simple agreement to do as everyone expected him to: by sacrificing himself and the monster within him together with the monster standing in front of him with a wand raised and the Killing Curse flying his way...."

---

Mind the tags/warnings: there will be threesome (technically standard pairing, but still, physically there are two of Toms here!), there will also be selfcest ("doubleMort") and supposed vertical incest (if Harry is seen as kind of "mother" for horcrux from his scar turned human, then their relationship would be vertical incest psychologically! thanks for one commentator for pointing this out!)(

I’ve had envisioned the first scene of the story and invented the reasoning and foundation for it. Then I was hardpressed (as usual) to find the holes and inconsistencies in the original which could have allowed for this all to happen even in canon.

And later I understood that this story could very well turn into horcrux-circus crack instead of serious speculation on where the flow could have gone if Harry made different choices.

Also my own mood towards the story changed rather drastically and turned from the aforementioned serious and almost depressed to the crackish one during the months the beginning of it rested on my hard drive without my attention. Not to mention certain comments here and there I received after posting the very start of the story, leading on re-thinking of all the plot paths and goals for the text.