captainkirkk:

Concept: adult!Harry is de-aged to his 17yo self, physically and mentally. His place of employment can’t do anything for him, not this young version that doesn’t recognise a peaceful wizarding world, and so he’s sent to stay with the two people he does recognise, no matter how old they are: Ron and Hermione.

And so this teenage Harry who has spent months on the run as Undesireable No. 1, who’s used to a bloody, war torn wizarding world where all hopes and responsibility lay solely on him, spends a few weeks with his adult best friends where he doesn’t have to be anything. Just Harry.

He spends the whole time adjusting – he’s malnourished and shaky and burning up with questions, especially when they try and keep things from him – but it’s… it’s weirdly therapeutic. In typical Weasley fashion, Ron cooks up a ridiculous amount of food and encourages him to eat all of it. He has a Dad Voice, now. It sounds remarkably like Molly. He’s gotten even taller and broader over the years, and teases Harry about his much shorter height and sudden baby face. Hermione is obsessively busy with work but she still finds time to go over the spell that’s de-aged him, and help Ron fuss over him, and sit with him on the front porch at night, when he can’t sleep because of nightmares. She’s aged so gracefully. They love each other so much, and they’re so happy, and it almost hurts to see it, because Harry has been haunted by the idea that none of them will live past 17 when the evidence that they DO is right in front of him