BeautyOfASecret



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    One summer day, he sees Voldemort on his neighbor's roof. And it all came crashing down.

    Armed with a stabbed diary that oddly brings him comfort and a ring that feels important, Harry is ill-equipped for the summer ahead.

     

    On his neighbour’s roof, staring directly at him, was Voldemort.

    It would be comical if it wasn’t for the struggling muggle teen in his grasp.

    Mockingly, Voldemort held up a scrap of parchment. ‘Surrender yourself, or the muggle perishes.’

    Harry ducked away from the glass and got his writing supplies out. He held the parchment to the wall as he wrote, with a quill this time.

    ‘I don’t negotiate with terrorists. I’m going back to bed.’

    He wiggled it into the corner and left the sight of the window. There was a strangled scream he tried to block out. In bed, he piled his blanket over his ears. Bottom of the line, he needed sleep.

    And who was he to intervene? Every damned time he did, the person ended up dead or injured. Cedric, Sirius, and countless other friends had suffered under his supervision.

    Harry was done playing saviour.

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    11 Aug 2023

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    Harry was sure he wouldn't survive the war. But he did. And everyone was moving on, even Malfoy. Except Harry's not okay, and when George, who is also very much not okay, offers a way to make it all better, Harry accepts.
    And now Harry has a chance to see how his life would have been if his parents hadn't died in 1981.

    (A lot of family dynamics, depression and grief, feelings of guilt, too much drinking, light and fluffy moments too, working on trauma and growing up, friendships)

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    18 Feb 2023

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    Three years before Lord Voldemort’s attack on Godrick’s Hollow, Unspeakable Lily Evans-Potter came across an ancient prophecy that promised never-ending peace to the Wizarding World if the Lord of Magic and the Master of Death ruled together. 17 years later Harry has to deal with the consequences.

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    10 Feb 2023

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    What if the prophecy kept at the Hall of Prophecies was manipulated to suit the needs of an old manipulator?

    What if the recent Dark Lord forgot his original goals in his quest to attain immortality and cheat Death?

    What if the Boy-Who-Lived accepted his death even before he knew he was the Boy-Who-Lived?

    And what if the Fates intervened to start a new game of 'chess'?

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    “Dumbledore seriously needs to check his morals! He wants a child to kill a grown-up wizard! Not to mention one of the most powerful dark wizards in Britain!”

    “The prophecy does say you’d be his equal," Atropos pointed out.

    “Only raw magical power won’t be able to do anything," Harry pointed out. “I can’t just fire off spells at him and hope for the best. Besides, he must have had at least three decades worth of experience over me.”

    “Five decades actually," Lord Death supplied.

    Harry slumped slightly. “You guys and Dumbledore both are insane!”, he proclaimed.

    “We didn’t say you will have to kill him really," Atropos pointed out.

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    28 Jan 2023

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    Harry Potter is sent a strange birthday present when he turns fourteen -- a diary that used to belong to someone named Tom Marvolo Riddle. Thus begins his change from light to dark....
    (The entire plot of Chamber of Secrets didn't happen.)

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    29 May 2022