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Harry was just about to escape Malfoy Manor when he was struck by an unknown curse, sending him falling headfirst into a world where there is no war, no Voldemort and his parents are alive. Stuck there, he finds himself able to experience a life he could have never imagined.
Although this world is everything he ever could have dreamed for, he finds that it’s harder to shake off the clutches of war than he would have thought, especially when he’s surrounded by ghosts.
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Christmas Eve of 1997 finds Harry Potter and Hermione Granger in Godric's Hollow, searching desperately for the sword of Gryffindor.
Christmas Eve of 1980 finds the Potter household throwing a small party, inviting their closest friends over for dinner, gifts, and a chance to meet their young son.
When a magical accident causes these two nights to collide, Harry Potter is left torn between two worlds-- one where the entire magic world is relying on him to return and finish his fight, and another where he finally has the chance to meet his parents. He's simultaneously desperate to return and praying he can stay-- but for the first time in his life, it's not something he has to figure out alone.
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There is a world where a prophecy goes unheard. A world where a boy is never orphaned, where he grows up safe and loved, rather than in a cupboard under the stairs.
But in that world, Harry Potter died in 1991—killed in what became known as the Hogwarts Express Massacre, along with every child who was supposed to attend Hogwarts that year. The war did not end, but it shifted, forcing both sides to set aside their differences against two common enemies: Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore.
Seven years later, during a memorial for the children lost that day, the dead return. But not as ghosts. They are flesh and blood. They are seven years older and ripped from a world that's only just beginning to recover from its own war.
And the families who mourned them must now face the mirrors of the children they lost—and the strangers they’ve become.
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