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1. The Only People for Me (Are the Mad Ones) by a_fine_and_private_place

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   01 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Sirius Black/Remus Lupin
   • James Potter/Lily Evans Potter
   • Harry Potter/Orion Black (OC)
   • Harry Potter
   • Orion Black
   • Neville Longbottom
   • Hermione Granger
   • Ron Weasley
   • Ginny Weasley
   • James Potter
   • Sirius Black
   • Remus Lupin
   • Lily Evans Potter
   • Severus Snape
   • Augusta Longbottom
   • Albus Dumbledore
   • Andromeda Black Tonks
   • Draco Malfoy
   • Fred Weasley
   • George Weasley
   • Pansy Parkinson
   • Hogwarts Students
   • Hogwarts Staff
   • Theodore Nott
   • Daphne Greengrass
   • Astoria Greengrass
   • Luna Lovegood
   • Susan Bones
   • Female Harry Potter
   • Alternate Universe
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Boy-Who-Lived Neville Longbottom
   • James Potter and Lily Evans Potter Raise Harry Potter
   • Alternate Universe - Gender Changes
   • Harry Potter is Not the Boy-Who-Lived
   • Sirius Black and Remus Lupin Have a Son
   • James Potter & Lily Evans Potter Live

   Summary

   It begins and ends, much like in another life, for love of a woman.

   Voldemort never faced a choice between two prophesied boys, because one of them was born a girl. A girl, he believed, wasn’t much of a threat to a wizard like him.*

   *this decision aged poorly, in entirely new ways.

   Or: Ivy Potter grew up surrounded by love, with a predilection for chaos instead of heroism, while Neville Longbottom had a raw scar stretched across his forehead gifting him a serpent's tongue. And just like that, a new fate, an old fate, is sealed.

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