King's Cross Station
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Harry Potter is seventeen when he dies and somehow finds himself in a train station. He listens to Dumbledore explain all the things he wishes he knew before, sits in King's Cross, and wonders if he really has to go back. Harry's very, very tired, and he wishes it wasn't so simple: die and move on or go back to a world that you don't know how to survive. Killing Voldemort is swell and all, but he's not much looking forward to everything after that. To grieving, growing, loving, living.
Considering the ticket in his hands, Harry decides that he's tired of going along with decisions other people make for him. This is his party, his train station, his choice. Why not make it a happier one? One that makes everything so far worth living through. He rubs at the ticket and watches it change with satisfaction. Hogwarts to Godric's Hollow, October 31st, 1981. King's Cross Station, one-way ticket.
And because he's Harry Potter, he does the unthinkable. He gives the ticket to his godfather.
In which Sirius Black wakes up in 1981, nothing makes sense, and magic can make the impossible possible.
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- Part 1 of King's Cross Station
- Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Godfather that Came Back
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Everyone knows how the story goes: Harry is a horcrux, sacrifices himself to Voldemort, and meets Dumbledore at King's Cross after. There's a ton of explaining, some closure, and Harry goes back to defeat the bad guy. He wins, gets the girl, has kids he names after the people who died for him. It's a good story, but...this is not that story.
Harry Potter truly, tragically dies on May 2, 1998. He meets Albus Dumbledore in limbo, has a difficult conversation, and boards a train. Being dead isn't anything like people imagine, though he was never a fairly imaginative boy in the first place. He doesn't stay dead - he has to go back, of course - but he's not quite Harry Potter anymore when he makes his way off the train again. For one thing, he's a Weasley. For another, his best mates are his parents now.
It's all a terribly embarrassing affair, if you must know, and he mostly wishes people would stop with the crying. Or laughing. Harry's not sure which one's worse. At least he can ignore them to spend time with his plentiful cousins or Teddy when the adults get to be too much.
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- Part 2 of King's Cross Station
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Tonks finds him just before the battle begins true. It's the first time he's seen her in nearly a year.
"I might not make it past tonight," she tells him, "but you will. You're a survivor, Harry Potter. So survive this, even if I don't, and take care of my son. Just...just do for him what you would have wanted someone to do for you."
So he survives. He dies, yes, but he comes back soon enough. He made a promise to her, to Remus, to all the people he loves. Perhaps he's still too great a fool, too greedy a boy, and too stubborn a wizard, for he sacrifices himself to protect his loved ones and does not quite stop to think that sacrifice, at its core, implies that something must be lost. Harry dies, but he does not wake in the Forbidden Forest to Narcissa Malfoy's hand on his chest.
He wakes up on the floor of the Great Hall next to Remus Lupin instead.
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- Part 3 of King's Cross Station