Imagine, just for a moment, that when they take the portkey, instead of an Avada Kedavra, it’s a Stupefy that hits him. Or that the AK misses him by an inch, hits a grave instead, knocks him out for a second.
Imagine that everybody forgets about the Hufflepuff boy out cold on the floor, because they are so intent on resurrecting Voldemort. Peter forgets as he ties Harry to that statue. Voldemort forgets as he is dumped into a cauldron full of flesh and bone and blood. And every death eater that comes sooner or later, well, no one tells them about the boy either – there are more pressing concerns.
However, Harry doesn’t forget. Because Harry has been in that sort of situation since he was eleven. He’s used to looking out for others, by now. Hermione and the Troll, Ron on the chess game, Ginny in the Chamber, Sirius and Hagrid and even Buckbeak- Harry always looks out for everyone, and never forgets about anyone, even if they are not really his friends.
So while he stares in horror, while he’s powerless and sees his greatest foe come back to life, a tiny part of his mind is screaming at him to check on Cedric, to get them out of here. Both. Alive.
Now let’s say that the ceremony, and the Death Eater meeting after the resurrection takes time. Lots of it. Let’s say that Voldemort, being the drama queen he obviously is, takes his time, and enjoys every single second of attention he gets from his followers and that Potter brat.
Let’s say he takes enough time for Cedric to come back to consciousness.
He awakes, lying in the grass and dirt, surrounded by bits of stone, his head aching and confused. The cup is laying about, not too far from him, and he could take it to go back but- he’s a Hufflepuff. He’s loyal. He doesn’t forget either, and that’s why, even if he’s confused about why or how he’s here, he doesn’t take the cup and goes searching for Harry.
Now, the tournament is a vicious thing, isn’t it ? Who’s to say to poor confused Cedric that this is not one more, secret, task ?
So Cedric goes looking, wand in hand, ready to fight, because he’s a Hogwart champion – and really, a Graveyard ? That’s creepy. And because he’s on his guard, and he’s moving around silently, no one notices him creeping behind one of the graves. No one notices the Hufflepuff boy, his horrified expression, and his frantic gaze as he slowly understands that no, that wasn’t a task, and that wasn’t a dream either.
Maybe not even Harry, or maybe he does, but that’s not the important thing.
The important thing is that being in Hufflepuff doesn’t make you stupid at all. The important thing is that Cedric is a champion, and smart, and a quick thinker and a hard worker.
The important thing is that Cedric thinks fast, and casts an ‘Accio’ on the cup as he runs towards Harry while he duels Voldemort.
He breaks through the crowd of amazed and struck Death Eaters, catches Harry’s arm with one hand, and with Seeker reflexes, catches the cup with the other.
Cedric lives, and both Harry and him go back to Hogwarts, terrified, bloody, and flinching away from the sudden noise coming from the public. They both live, and thus no one notices that something is amiss immediately, no one sees their wild glances around – as if someone was still out to kill them. The public cheers, and sings the victory of both Hogwart’s champions, and they are suddenly hugged by their families – the Diggorys and Weasleys.
No one notices, and that’s why when the noise dies down, and someone casts a sonorus on them to ask them how they feel about that victory, everyone hears them say, in a still disbelieving and trembling voice.
“He’s back.”
Obviously, everyone is confused, but they start talking, a bit over each other really, but they are in shock – and they say he’s back, Voldemort’s back, and he took my blood, and we were in a graveyard, and I was knocked out, missed most of the ritual, but it was him, yeah, and there were Death Eaters, in a circle, torturing Harry, horrible, had to get away, he’s back, he’s back.
And that’s when the people notice their faces, the blood, Harry twitching fingers – cruciatus – and their wands still clenched in their fingers, as if ready to attack anyone on sight.
This time, though, Harry doesn’t get ushered away by fake-Moody – because Cedric still has a hand gripping his arm, and wont let go for the world. He tells Dumbledore, and their families, though, when the Headmaster asks them to talk “More calmly and clearly, please, young men” at the Infirmary. Barty Crouch Jr is still apprehended, and the real Moody discovered, and it puts their incredible tale in a new, horrific and real, light.
Imagine if Cedric Diggory lived.
Two witnesses of His return. One is Harry Potter, Hero and Saviour of the Wizarding world. The second is beloved Hufflepuff Prefect Cedric Diggory, Hogwarts Champion. Even if people didn’t believe the first, they would believe the second, and vice versa.
Obviously, the ministry doesn’t take it well, but Amos Diggory and the Weasleys, and Dumbledore make a move together. Susan Bones helps her fellow Hufflepuff by contacting her aunt. Together, they get memory evidence – and they even agree on submitting to truth serum.
Because if Harry alone couldn’t do it – or had no idea he could – Cedric is there, and his father works at the Ministry, and he’s a seventh year. He knows more, and he has people ready to help him – and if he asks them, to help Harry Potter.
Sure, the ministry would try to get all this under the rug, but they couldn’t. Because Weasleys, and Diggorys, and Dumbledore, and Bones, and even Longbottom and soon every name that has a contact in Hogwarts – except some of the Death Eaters – are pushing for the truth to get out, and with a bit of blackmail, Rita helps – and this time, the Daily Prophet can’t repress all of them.
Imagine if Cedric Diggory lived, and how the war would have turned.
Harry Potter, the son
of two members of one of the greatest bands of the late seventies ‘The
Marauders’, is enrolled at Hogwarts Academy of Music and The Arts at the age of
sixteen.
On the train ride to
the campus, he meets Ron Weasley, the latest in a long line of talented
musicians from a large but poor family; who wants to emerge out of his brothers’
shadows. The two young men strike up an immediate friendship, and begin jamming
on their acoustic guitars, coming up with the song ‘Turn This Fat Rat Yellow’
(about a dream Ron had about his pet rat).
The noise attracts the
attention of three young men, all from privileged backgrounds- Draco Malfoy,
Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. However, the upper-class intruders are not
interested in joining them in song, and instead begin to poke fun at the two
boys’ banged-up guitars. They only leave when Harry and Ron threaten to smash
the guitars over their heads, The-Who-Style.
The scuffling brings
their carriage to the attention of one Hermione Granger, a child prodigy from a
non-musical family. She talks about how much she loves The Marauders, and Harry
strikes up a tentative friendship with her. However, Ron is irritated by her
tendency to be a know-it-all, as well as her questioning his musical ability.
As luck would have it, on
arriving at the academy, the three of them are sorted in the ‘Gryffindor’
house, which encourages musical tenacity and bravery. The three young men from
the train, however, are sorted into the ‘Slytherin’ house, which encourages shrewd
musicianship and cunning musical knowledge.
Whispers follow Harry
from his first day at the academy, as The Marauders are still well-respected and
placed in high-regard across all the houses. However, his more pressing concern
is for his friend Ron, who is constantly taunted about his lack of wealth by
the other students. Ron is also getting sick of being upstaged constantly by
Hermione, who is praised by the teachers and is being called ‘the greatest
musician of the age’.
However, during the
Halloween performance, Hermione goes missing shortly before her big solo. Ron
and Harry discover her crying in the toilets, having been subjected to bullying
from other students. While Harry wields his guitar like a weapon at the
bullies, Ron gets Hermione out of the bathroom and into a quiet room. To calm
her down, he begins ad-libbing her a song called ‘She’s a nightmare’. Hermione
stops crying, and begins to feel better. A slight blush appears on her cheeks,
and Ron tries not to stare at her too much, because it is suddenly really embarrassing singing to her.
Ron and Harry nudge
Hermione gently onto the stage for her solo, and she delivers a blistering performance
that brings the house down. Afterwards, the three of them become firm friends.
Later on that year, the
three of them plan to go to the Edinburgh Festival, and showcase their talents.
However, The Marauders’ guitar player is urgently taken ill at the festival,
and Harry has to step to help his parents. After watching Ron and Hermione on
stage together during his lunch break, Harry realises how great the two of them
sound, and how much fun they have playing with each-other. Harry pens the song ‘They’ve
had the time of their lives’ to remind himself of this, although Ron and
Hermione didn’t know he was watching them.
After a brief summer
break, the three of them return to Hogwarts Academy for their second year.
Hermione finds herself increasingly under pressure as the top student in the
year, and finds it difficult to keep on top of her studies. After being pursued
romantically by the visiting classical pianist Viktor Krum, Hermione finds
herself at loggerheads with Ron. After a long protracted argument, Ron pens the
song ‘You are a girl’ to attempt to patch things up.
However, Hermione is
not impressed, and, after Ron accidentally lets slip that he’d never thought of
her dating anyone (possibly due to his own confused feelings towards her), she
writes the diss track ‘Emotional range of a teaspoon’. When Hermione first
performs the track (eyes streaming with angry tears), Ron storms out of the
room, looking very hurt. Harry finds himself
splitting his time between his two friends.
Harry’s main solace
from the drama of his two friends is jamming in his off time with Ron’s younger
sister Ginny, who shares his non-conformist attitudes to music genre. They
briefly form a jazz fusion band with the free-spirited Luna Lovegood and the
quiet-but-dedicated Neville Longbottom.
Meanwhile, Ron is
selected to perform as the top-of-the-bill in a duo with Hermione. During their
rehearsals, both of them begin to regret their previous disagreements, and
remember how much fun they had playing at the Edinburgh Festival.
On the night of the
concert, Ron’s self-doubts resurface, and Hermione finds him sobbing in the
toilets. Hermione calms his down by ad-libbing a sweet song she, which Ron
joins in with when she runs out of lyrics. Feeling better, Ron returns to the
concert with Hermione just in time. As the closing number, they perform the
song they were singing earlier, which they name ‘Now or never’. At the very
climax of the song, Hermione throws her arms around Ron’s neck and kisses him
full on the mouth. The concert hall erupts in applause, and Ron sweeps Hermione
off her feet as he kisses her back.
The three friends
graduate with flying colours at the end of the year (Harry’s collective
jazz-fusion piece earning him acclaim from the entire school). The three of
them go on to form a song-writing and musical partnership that becomes one of
the most successful and highly-praised in the world, surpassing both The
Marauders, as well as the Weasley family (and both families are absolutely thrilled
about it).
In the annuls of music
history, the three friends are forever remembered as ‘The Golden Trio’.
We start with Ron at age 100 in 2080, dying with Hermione and his grandchildren at his side.
Then Ron wakes up. But instead of being reunited with family and friends in the afterlife, Ron finds himself in a tiny crib with some random
family hanging over him.
The parents start cooing at him and calling him “Albus.” Ron
internally freaks out because of what he sees as a cosmic mistake. He’s
thinking about how worse off the world will be now that the amazing
genius Dumbledore has somehow been replaced by the moderately
intelligent Ron Weasley.
He’s not trying to look extra intelligent, but he can’t help the fact
that he’s a 100-year-old fully qualified wizard pretending to be 5.
He’s seen as a genius and a prodigy.
For a long time, Ron is sure this is a
horrendous mistake. Then one day, he realizes that he didn’t replace Dumbledore. He is Dumbledore.
This isn’t an alternate universe, this is the world before he was
born. And he has about a century to wait until his best mate and his
younger self are born. So he slowly becomes Dumbledore and the myth
builds up.
It’s half due to the fact that Ron really is 100+ and has
accumulated quite a bit of wisdom/knowledge. And it’s half due to the
fact that he’s from the future. He discovers the 12th use of dragon’s
blood because he remembers memorizing all 12 in school.
He knows bits and pieces of Dumbledore’s life story, though he’s now
cursing himself for never bothering to read an official or unofficial
autobiography.
Somehow he finds himself falling into the same story. Sometimes
it’s because he didn’t do anything to try to change the story, and
sometimes it’s because he tried.
For example, he decides that by befriending Grindelwald, he can slow
him down and minimize the damage he’ll do to the wizarding world. So
they become friends and they debate, with him generally taking the more
pro-muggleborn stance but not doing so often enough to alienate his new
friend. But it ends with the same fight it did in canon. The experience
with Grindelwald (or another experience in Ron’s immediate post-Hogwarts
years) makes Ron realize as though he’s not there to change anything.
He’s not there to kill an 11-year-old Voldemort. He’s there to make sure
this plays out the way it should.
So he does and he tries to keep to only that. He tells 11-year-old
Voldemort about Hogwarts, and keeps an “annoyingly close watch” on
Voldemort throughout his time at school. He does not trust Voldemort in
the slightest, because he knows what he will become.
When Voldemort’s power increases in the 1970s, he starts the Order.
Maybe he tries to make little changes, like attempting to keep his uncles from joining the Order. He does his best, but he can’t give a strong enough reason to spot them from joining or the others from allowing them in. He tries to keep them on the sidelines doing low-risk missions, but they’re still killed. And the murder happens in exactly the same way he remembers
hearing about in his childhood. Same place, same death eaters, same
night. Ron’s frustrated and angry at why he’s been put in this situation, and he lays in bed wondering if his uncles would still have died if he hadn’t tried to sideline them.
Of course, he watches Harry’s parents arrive at Hogwarts alongside his old professor, Remus, Sirius. By this point, he’s seen every adult he’s ever known pass through Hogwarts, from his own parents to Cornelius Fudge.
He delays recruiting people like Lily and James, but the more people die, the more he realizes that he has to build up the Order as best he can.
But when the prophecy rolls around, he can’t face the idea of sending
Harry’s parents to their deaths. It seems such a horrible thing to do
to his best mate, even for the greater good. So he says “fuck it” and
tries desperately to persuade Lily/James to use him as secret keeper. He
doesn’t care if things change, he just thinks Harry deserves parents. But the Potters tell him they’ve firmly decided on Sirius. Ron has no
choice but to accept it and to hope that they actually did change their
minds. But the Potters still switch without telling him, and Peter still
betrays them.
And once again, Ron sees life just playing out around him. He hates
himself for placing Harry with the Dursleys and for leaving Sirius in
Azkaban. He has never felt more miserable. But he’s learned enough now
to know that he can’t help Sirius, and he knows enough about the blood
protections to know that Harry needs to be with the Dursleys. And if
Sirius is free, that’s not going to happen.
By 1990, Ron has been doing this for a long time. He’s ready for
Harry, but he’s also been knocking around for 190 years. He’s too old to
give a flying fuck what people think. He’s Dumbledore, and he knows he
can get away with announcing he’s going to say a few words and then
saying “nitwit! blubber! oddment! tweak!” And he thnks it’s hilarious to
conduct the twins from on high while they sing the last few lines of
the school song or to be mildly amused by students’ behavior.
When Harry finally does arrive, Ron is struck by how young he seems,
while simultaneously being blown away by the kind of person that Harry
continually proves himself to be. And of course, he knows everything
about Harry. This is Ron’s best mate. Ron knows his weaknesses and his
strengths, and he knows exactly what Harry needs to hear. Not to mention
what Harry can handle. Ron can put Harry in situation with Quirrell and
step in just when he needs to. He already knows how this is going to
end.
As the years carry on, Ron flirts with the idea of telling Harry his
massive secret. But he decides against it, because he doesn’t know if it
will change anything and he can’t risk Voldemort finding out. Sometimes
he wonders if Harry is supposed to find out, if there are details that
Harry never shared about his relationship with Dumbledore. But he can’t
bring himself to do it to Harry, to add to his burden by telling him
that he’s a time-traveling best friend from the future. Nor does he want
to adversely effect Harry’s relationship with the teenage Ron. He’s terrified that it will set Harry off course and ruin everything, or that the revelation will undo whatever twist of fate allowed him to intervene in the first place.
The summer before Harry’s sixth year, Ron realizes that he has to
destroy the ring. He searches it out and finds it at the Gaunt’s house.
However, when he sees it, he’s incredibly drawn to it. It’s been nearly a
century since he’s seen his friends and family, and he can’t resist it.
And then the curse takes effect, and he realizes that he’s been an
utter idiot and now he knows how Dumbledore ended up with a blackened
hand in their sixth year.
As Harry returns for his sixth year, Ron uses his pieced-together
knowledge of Voldemort’s life as it was given to him via Harry after
Voldemort’s death combined with his firsthand participation in early
Voldemort’s life to give Harry a rough outline of Voldemort’s life. And
he tells Harry about the horcruxes. He tells him about the diary, the
snake, the cup, the locket, the ring. The only one he doesn’t mention is
the diadem. Because he knows that Harry will find it when he needs to
find it.
He looks at Harry and sees a completely different boy than the one he saw come into the Great Hall six years ago. He takes Harry to retrieve a locket he knows is fake, because how else can he put Harry on RAB’s trail? And he knows what’s happening at the castle that night. He knows that tonight is the night he’s going to die.
He leaves Harry the stone,
his future/past wife Hermione a book that he knows she’ll put to good
use, and he gives Ron Weasley the deluminator.
He spent decades cursing his inability to change anything, but he eventually realizes that he was changing everything. He realizes that there were a thousand universes where there had been no great and powerful wizard like Dumbledore to hold off Voldemort and keep Harry alive. Fate had seen fit to intervene, to change the story.
He wonders if there’s some grand plan, or if just Voldemort really pissed off the forces of the universe somehow.
As he plans his death with Snape, part of him wonders if
this time it will be for real or whether he’ll find himself reincarnated
again. Will he finally be reunited with his wife, parents, and friends
from his first life as Ron Weasley? Or will he wake up as Merlin next?
And then he’s standing at the top of the Astronomy Tower. Snape is there, carrying out his orders as promised. The Avada Kedavra hits him square in the chest.
Меня давно не отпускает мысль, что Альбус Дамблдор оставил Рону делюминатор не просто так. Возможно, артефакт имеет и другие свойства: это может быть и Омут Памяти, и Хроноворот, и Портал между мирами. Очередная безумная AU у меня в голове 😀
snape apologists are like “be still my beating heart his death was so tragic”
and you know what? it was. so let’s create a ‘snape doesn’t die’ au in which he doesn’t get to be the martyr.
severus snape being an asshole even after voldemort dies
severus snape freaking out when he’s told harry named his second child after him “what on EARTH is that potter brat thinking?!” (because he’ll always be a brat, even when he’s eighty)
severus snape having an aneurysm the 1st of september 2015 (he very obviously got demoted from his position as headmaster, but mcgonagall was kind enough to give him back his previous teaching post) because there’s a kid named JAMES SIRIUS POTTER and he looks JUST LIKE HIS GRANDFATHER
severus snape regretting the way he treated harry because now he realizes the poor kid wasn’t like his father at all. BUT JAMES SIRIUS IS AND HE GIVES HIM HELL. “where can we find a bezoar, mr. potter?” “i don’t know, up your arse?” “potter, detENTION!” “now i get why dad says that sometimes your classes were worse than your boss’ cruciatus curse. you know who i’m talking about, don’t you?”
severus snape being done with everything after arthur tells him “is your scar giving you trouble, as well? i can relate, i was bitten by that snake too” because he wants to say it’s not the same thing, but it is, so he just glares at him.
severus snape losing his shit when he finds out that harry’s kids (who are still very much named JAMES SIRIUS, LILY luna and albus SEVERUS) are a very close lot who like to play pranks on each other (PRANKS!! A kid called severus!!!), share interests despite their differences and love each other very much.
severus snape, alive and non-romanticised
@pastartphosopher I think I love you, this is superb
😉
Argh, yes, all canon universes can go home now, this is the best.
I want 500K of a 7 years story of the 3 Potter kids (along with the Weasley-Granger ones, too!) of the 7 years of misery of Potions Master and certified Arsehole Severys Snaaaape.
But…… there has to be one inclusion in this story….
Teddy Lupin doing a month’s detention… .for hexing the Potion’s Master, in front of everyone, their last year, when Teddy finds out who outed his Father to the Wizarding world about his furry little problem.
And takes his punishment gladly (especially after Andromeda owls Severus, who is considerably younger than her) and lets her grandson know that while she’s not happy what he did, she’s proud of him for why he did it.
#PuffPrideRideorDie
@diva-gonzo please can someone fecking write this immediately????????? You are literally a genius 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Snape: Your grandson threw a hex at me that gave me a tail, wolf ears, and fur for over a month.
Andromeda: *looks at Teddy who looks unremorseful* What a tragedy… *turns back to Snape* like your birth.
Okay. I’m gonna have to do something with this.
I’d also like everyone to spare a little thought for Professor Longbottom in this universe.
“Okay, well, does anyone who isn’t a completely rubbish teacher have any ideas?”
“Huh. Oh, quick show of hands! Who here never let death eaters run amok in the corridors? Oh, look whose hand is up. Let’s all shut up and listen to Neville, shall we?”
Like, I really want everyone to imagine the staff room with Snape and Neville.
You thought the Slytherin/Gryffindor rivalry was bad before. Snape was never McGonagall’s boggart.
Harry (if he had been raised by Gilderoy Lockhart): Ugh, look at this Common Room. It’s so … common. I am the “chosen one.” I deserve an uncommon room.
Sooo uh… My friend and I just… ran with it and… here it is:
Lutias the Kokonut: (i pity the timeline in which this would happen) ViviTheFolle: (I pity the people inhabiting this timeline) ViviTheFolle: (I can see Snape drowning himself in the lake from here) Lutias the Kokonut: (totally)
ViviTheFolle: Dumbledore: We cannot allow Harry Potter to be sent to the Dursleys. Let’s send him to Gilderoy Lockhart instead. Snape: …………………. I quit. Lutias the Kokonut: (already I see the original timeline’s McGonagall going all “Hopefully he’ll turn to be as sweet as Lily…………………………….. oh good fucking crap he’s James.”)
ViviTheFolle: (the teacher’s reactions LORD) ViviTheFolle: McGonagall: ………… I should have adopted him while I had the chance
Flitwick: Mr Potter I think I am more knowledgeable at Charms than you are please get back to your seat
Sprout: Oh god I can’t show them any dangerous plant or else this fool will kill them all
Lutias the Kokonut: (…………. wait) Lutias the Kokonut: (Harry might end up making Draco his “friend/personal slave” as soon as Draco offers him) Lutias the Kokonut: (this Harry would be actually terrifying)
ViviTheFolle: Ron: (deeply regrets sitting next to Harry during the train ride)
Hermione: Man his adoptive dad might be dead sexy but this kid is SO ANNOYING
Neville: (slinkers in a corner)
Ginny: This is Harry Potter? Seriously?
Draco: WHY THE FUCK DID I ASK FOR A HANDSHAKE WHY WHYWHY Lutias the Kokonut: why is Draco’s reaction the best out of all ViviTheFolle: Draco’s the biggest drama queen Lutias the Kokonut:Headcanon: after seeing The Boy Who Lived’s example, Draco redeems himself and, although being too cowardly to be a Gryffindor, turns down all his family’s ambitions to go on a path to discover his true self and gradually ends up more or less accidentally becoming friends with everyone else ViviTheFolle: oh my god ViviTheFolle: now this is a Draco redemption I like Lutias the Kokonut:and thanks to his family’s connections to Voldemort, although he is still way too cowardly to act by himself and terrified of the idea that his father might find out he changed his mindset, he accepts to suck up his fear and act as a mole/informant, eventually allowing Ron and his team to beat up the Death Eaters ViviTheFolle: “DUDE WEASLEY YOU’VE GOT TO HELP ME”
“…?? Why would I help you, the first interaction we’ve ever had was literally you insulting me for being poor”
“I’M SORRY OKAY I JUST ACCIDENTALLY BECAME POTTER’S SLAVE AND NOW I HAVE SO MANY REGRETS”
“lmao karma”
“save meeeeeeeeeee”
ViviTheFolle: “… weasley we’ve got to talk”
“… And why should we? Like, you’re kind of a jerk, you root for Voldemort, you -”
“I’ve been trying to figure out who the Heir of Slytherin is”
“???”
“First off: IT’S NOT A SLYTHERIN”
“How tf do you know”
“I have connections (read: Dobby)”
ViviTheFolle: “Okay Weasley first off calm the fuck down”
“… I am calm, and how tf did you get in my dorm??”
“We gotta talk Weasley”
“Well we’re talking, did you find out who’s the Heir of Slytherin?”
“I did Weasley but you gotta calm down like, right now”
“I am calm but I’m not gonna be if you don’t tell me!”
“You sure? You’re not gonna punch me if I tell you who’s the Heir?”
“Come on, spit it out, Hermione got petrified so I NEED to know who it is, please, you have to tell -”
“It’syoursister”
“- meeeeeeeeeEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH I’M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU YOU ASSHOLE IS THAT YOUR IDEA OF A FUCKING JOKE” Lutias the Kokonut: I WANT THAT IN A FANFIC OH MY GOD Lutias the Kokonut: AT LEAST MAKE SCREENSHOTS OF THIS CONVERSATION AND PUT IT ON YOUR TUMBLR I DON’T FUCKIN KNOW Lutias the Kokonut: THIS IS JUST GOLD ViviTheFolle: OKAY
If you want to blame someone for this disaster then blame @lutiaskokopelli… and me too I guess
Howgarts, 6th year, (pre Lav timeline is preferabe but you’ll be the new owner of the bunny so do what you will!) Thestudent body is hit by a massive memory charm. No one knows who they are. Their ‘feelings’ are all intact so no weird Harry suddenly has the hots for Katie Bell etc. These pre-existing feelings are all the students have to go on as they try get through daily classes, figure out who they really are, all while the teachers promise them they’ll sort everything as soon as possible. Ron and Hermione obviously decide that they’re 100% dating because of these FEEEEELINGS so that totally happens. Lots of them musing about who they are while doing adorable couply things. ((Bonus points if we get a Quidditch game where Ron is brilliant because he’s not nervous because there’s all these badges that say Weasley is Our King. “Oh I’m the Keeper and everyone thinks I’m amazing? I MUST be!” ))
Charm is removed and we get to read the fall out of Ron and Hermione realizing just how much they love each other and the awkward brilliance that is them having to face each other after making out hard core for at least a week. (Background Hinny acceptable because Harry isn’t worried about what Ron will think of him and Ginny.)
@callieskye I would be honoured to adopt such a wonderful plot bunny.
@callieskye Awesome; thank you so much! It might take a while, but I’ll tag you when I post it. It’ll probably be T-rated, since I don’t really write M stuff, but I hope you like it nonetheless. I’ll keep you posted. 🙂
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