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Petunia wasn't the smart one. Or the pretty one. Or the magical one. But she was cunning, resourceful, and she knew what she wanted from life... and she got it.
So when her nephew turns up on her doorstep one cold November morning, she sees it as the opportunity that it is.
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This was an odd little earworm of a plot bunny that wouldn't leave me alone. I'm much more inclined to shorter works, so it's a bit of a patchwork story.
Note on the tags. Petunia is... Petunia. She is not really 'Nice' or 'Good' but she's not 'Mean' or 'Evil' either. She's a selfish, self-centered woman with a brittle sense of self-esteem and a drive to be recognized as successful in her own right. I tagged it 'Good' because that was the closest I could get to 'not the horrible person from the book, but not really even close to a Molly'.
Also: I will not be tagging every single person who appears in the fic, only those with reoccurring roles. This is not a bashing fic and I've done as best as possible to give rational(ish) 'good intentions' explanations for the canon shenanigans.
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- Part 1 of Harold the Normal
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09 Jul 2026
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One split-second decision alters the course of wizarding history.
On Halloween night, Lily Potter chooses not to run. She stands beside James, and together they defy Voldemort for the fourth time. Harry lives. James and Lily survive. Voldemort falls. But does he?
The history does not simply correct itself. It bends, fractures, and grows into something new.
This is the story of the world born from that choice: old loyalties tested, new alliances forged, strange magic awakening, forgotten bloodlines stirring, and enemies gathering from places no one thought to watch. The war everyone believes has ended is only the beginning of a much wider struggle.
The Potters, the Longbottoms, Sirius, Remus, and those bound to them by love, debt, duty, ambition, or fear must learn what roles they are meant to play in a changing world. Some will rise. Some will break. Some will choose sides only when neutrality is no longer safe.
This is not the story of one chosen child fighting alone.
It is a story of families, factions, politics, magic, inheritance, preparation, and defiance — of a wizarding world changed by one decision, and of the people who must live with what that decision made possible.
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06 Jul 2026
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After the war, Harry Potter won. Then he lost everything.
Years of fighting for a world that threw him away the moment he became inconvenient. Years of watching good people die while the Ministry shook hands with the very enemy trying to destroy them. Years of grief that hollowed him out until nothing remained but rage and a single, desperate question:
What if I had done it differently?
A forbidden ritual. A second chance. A body that is no longer his own and a mind that remembers horrors no fifteen-year-old should ever know.
He knows what's coming. He knows who is responsible. And he knows that the Boy Who Lived cannot save anyone.
So Harry Potter will not try.
He will do something far more dangerous.
The future hangs on a single question:
What happens when the Chosen One stops choosing to be good?
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20 Jun 2026
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Harry Potter died saving everyone. But the world kept turning, and something even worse came. Death drops him off in snowy 1938 London to stop the world from burning once more.
Just one problem. He's got paws instead of thumbs.
In the garden of Wool's Orphanage, Tom Riddle's first friend is a tiny snake. Billy Stubbs kills her with a trowel. Tom takes his revenge - brilliant and vicious, but he's so desperately outnumbered that when his bullies corner him, Harry can't help but intervene. A debt Tom repays by designing a collar that can bind a Grim.
Sometimes the road to redemption is paved with ash.
— a.k.a. a dark time-travel romance following Tom's journey from boy to man, Harry's struggle between justice and mercy, and whether caring can redeem someone - or if it only makes them worse.
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29 Apr 2026
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And the lamb was cast into the den, yet no fang drew blood.
When darkness found him, it did not devour him. It watched. Waited. Reached out with claws not to tear, but to raise.
And so the Boy-Who-Lived was taken in by those the world had learned to fear.- Language:
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21 Apr 2026