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    There is a picture in one of the books of a worn young man, heavily scarred with gentle eyes. Remus Lupin, he is identified as. The man who was watching Charles, and presumably Harry. The man who died defending them. Harry traces his fingertips over the man’s face and wonders.

    And then he stops, and reels all those thoughts into a tangled knot and tucks it away.

    They didn’t want him; that’s fine. He doesn’t want them either.

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    Alternatively; Harry James Evans is Sorted Slytherin, desperate to stay hidden from the family that gave him up so many years ago. Severus Snape owes debts to a child presumed dead and the child's tormented godfather; and now he has a cunning, paranoid snake to charm all without tipping anyone else off to the boy's true identity.

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    10 Sep 2025

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    In which Jon Snow is the best swordsman Winterfell has produced in a century

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    07 Jan 2025

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    Anakin didn’t understand Jedi stories and Obi-Wan didn’t know any tales told on Tatooine. They met somewhere in the middle.

    Or: Miscommunication averted.

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    09 Aug 2024

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    There are very few things that Mace Windu hates. Hate is a Sith emotion, so he tries not to feel it. Annoyance, irritation, disappointment, bone crushing exhaustion at the stupidity of the Senate, sure, they’re common in Mace’s arsenal of limited sentiments. But hate, no, that’s reserved for almost nobody.

    Mace Windu hates Anakin Skywalker.

     

    Or: Mace hates Anakin, until a series of events causes him to shift perspective.

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    28 Jul 2024

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    Harry isn’t the Boy-Who-Lived, but his parents still died, and Albus Dumbledore, concerned that Death Eaters might seek the boy’s death, cast a powerful charm on him to make wizards ignore him before Harry was left with the Dursleys. Except, with the Elder Wand in play, the charm was far too powerful, and made others essentially forget Harry existed when not directly interacting with him. Sorted into Ravenclaw at Hogwarts, Harry lives a contented life with no one either loving or hating him…until the charm breaks on his seventeenth birthday, and he’s suddenly plunged directly into the middle of a living world at war.

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    18 Jul 2024