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    For Teddy Lupin, Harry Potter would become a Dark Lord. For Teddy Lupin, Harry Potter would take down the Ministry or die trying. He should have known that Hermione and Ron wouldn't let him do it alone.

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    13 Aug 2023

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    Harry didn't know if Teddy Lupin was a werewolf, and he didn't give a damn. Remus Lupin had his flaws but he was a good man, and Harry would do anything in his now considerable power to keep the last piece of his family safe.

     

    Voldemort. Grindelwald.

    If it would keep Teddy Lupin safe, then Harry would gladly add Potter to the list.

     

    “A Dark Lord cannot simply change his mind and decide to retire peacefully. You will always be a target. There has been no Dark Lord in living memory that died of old age.”

    Harry frowned. “There was... Arsenic? That Russian one a couple of centuries ago.”

    “The Dark Lord Arsenij rotted away in a prison in Russia for twenty-six years before he died,” Hermione hissed. “That was not old age!”

    “Technically Grindelwald almost died of old age,” Harry pointed out. “He was, like, a hundred and fifteen.”

    “And spent fifty-three of them in Nurmengard before he was killed by Voldemort, defenceless in his cell.”

    “Right, that part sucked for him,” Harry agreed. “Some of them lived pretty long, though.”

    “Until someone killed them!”

     

    Hermione sighed. “You'll make a horrible Dark Lord, Harry.”

    He grinned. “I know.”

     

    “You think I'm going to let you bugger off to Azkaban alone? Hermione'll find a way to break us out.”

    Hermione sighed.

     

    “You don't have to do this, Neville,” She said quietly.

    Neville gave them a long-suffering look. “Yes, I do. It's a Harry Potter-plan. Merlin knows he's the only one insane enough to get that idea in the first place. You'll need all the help you can get.”

     

    Teddy made a happy sound and turned huge, inquisitive eyes back to Harry who winced.

    “Your grandmother will kill me if your first word is 'Voldemort'. Please say 'grandma' instead. Grandma. Grandma.”

     

    "All right, Potter. What are your goals?”

    “A safe society for my godson.” It sounded so simple when he put it like that. A little obsessive, too, and maybe that was the Black blood in him talking. Even half-mad from Azkaban, Sirius had been relentlessly single-minded about his few causes – the death of Wormtail and the safety of Harry himself, for what little he had actually been able to do as a wanted man.

     

    They had attacked his godson, had targeted a one year old child – and that Teddy was now around the same age that Harry himself had been orphaned at did not help in the least – and Harry was not particularly inclined to play nice.

     

    Ron shifted just enough to dodge it, looking entirely too cheerful about it. “Sorriest excuse for a Dark Lord I've ever seen. He's got a nose and everything, he doesn't own a black robe that isn't from Hogwarts, and his hair looks like Norbert nested in it. ”

    “Ron!”

    This time it was Ron's turn to sigh. “Merlin, Hermione. It's still Harry. Yes, he's an impulsive, reckless prat with the temper of a disgruntled nundu and about half the charm, but that's not Dark magic. That's Harry. He's just a little more obvious about it these days.”

     

    "Grindelwald was known for his wild nature. Voldemort had his obsessiveness and utter belief in his invincibility.”

    “And Harry will be known for his recklessness and poor impulse control.” Hermione sighed.

     

    “The Dark Lord Potter.” Dorea Potter finally spoke. “The first in your family. Black and Potter both.”

    “I suppose,” Harry answered softly, “that it's one thing people can't say I got from my parents.”

     

    Harry wondered briefly if that was how the Death Eaters had begun. With meetings hidden as merely catching up with old schoolmates, and the people around them very deliberately Not Seeing anything.

     

    “How Hufflepuff,” Hannah murmured. “We always figured Hermione was the wrongly sorted Ravenclaw.”

    “No, she broke too many rules to be a Ravenclaw,” Ron said cheerfully. “She'd have ruled them with an elder wand within a week. Better be Gryffindor.”

    “Ron!”

     

    "You lost any right to whinge about moral considerations when you claimed your title, Lord Potter. You are a murderer, a wanted criminal, and an enemy of the wizarding world. Nothing will change that."

     

    “The Prophet calls you the Fiendfyre Lord."

    The Fiendfyre Lord. The wizarding world liked their titles. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, Harry supposed.

     

    “You don't expect to survive.”

    Harry hesitated. “I expect it to be a possibility.”

    Andromeda was silent. Then, slowly, she nodded. “Try to remain alive. I would like my grandson to keep his godfather.”

     

    The face that stared back from the mirror reminded him uncomfortably of Bellatrix Lestrange at her most deranged. 

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    A strange man adopts Tom Riddle and it is not his father, as Tom desperately wants to believe.

    Stranded in the past, Voldemort once again comes to the conclusion he's the only one he truly needs.

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    02 Mar 2021

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    https://archiveofourown.org/works/32288893

    https://archiveofourown.org/works/30537870

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    When Harry fails to keep his anger at bay and Voldemort possesses his mind, the events that follow lead him down a long road to realizing the world isn't as black and white as it seems.

    Chaos, hilarity, and tragedy ensue with a Dark Lord being honest all the time, a rival becoming something else, and a world demanding to be saved. Featuring frightened Death Eaters, deep conversations with a monster, Pureblood traditions being ridiculous, and the fight to do the right thing with no true options.

    Harry's life just gets more and more bizarre with each passing moment.

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    Or, the one where Harry's life gets split in half, and he has to figure out how to bring it back together.

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    31 Dec 2020

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    ep. 13 15 18 20 21 23 24 27

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    “Shh. . .” Anakin says, gathering the younglings around him, reminding Obi-wan of all those whispered arguments where he had insisted to Anakin that yes, he was good with children, he’d be just fine teaching Ahsoka. He can almost feel the terror rising off Anakin from the hologram; Anakin doesn’t know what’s happening either. But he isn’t letting the younglings feel it. “You need to listen to me very carefully, okay? This--” his voice breaks, “--this is going to be scary. But you have to be calm, and strong. Just like Master Yoda taught you.”
     
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    Or, the ROTS au where Obi-wan finds a very different type of pain while looking through the Temple's recordings of Order 66.

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    26 Oct 2022

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    In the summer of 1945, Caractacus Burke hires a new assistant to help with the shop.

    His son doesn't know what to make of Tom Riddle, the young charismatic man that doesn't seem to mind working hard for just a handful of coins.

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    23 Feb 2022

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    https://archiveofourown.org/works/30537870

    https://archiveofourown.org/works/24476011