marzipan77

I've always loved the HP novels. I've always hated Deathly Hallows. I re-read it last January and found it too much about Dumbledore, a wizard who was already dead and gone. Too much time was wasted with the Golden Trio hiding in forests, looking for things they had absolutely no real chance of finding. And, of course, training a young boy to willingly go to his own death for "the greater good" was a mess.

So, fic.

I had no intention of posting it until I'd finished. Then March and Covid and lockdown. So I started posting it - for my own mental health and to maybe help out those who needed some fandom. It's finished, now, as is 2020.

Harry Potter and the Persistence of Vision
by me
Rated T
GEN (some canon relationships in the background)
AU rewrite of HP and the DH wherein there are no hallows whatsoever and Albus is a dead, manipulative bastard.
Tags/Warnings: Canon Rewrite, Powerful!Harry, Smart!Ron, Adults being adults, battle injuries and deaths.
Summary: Albus Dumbledore's magic faded from the world ten days after his funeral. Wards, bindings, traps, controls, glamours - the scope of the wizard's interference in the Wizarding World was greater than anyone realized. Obliviated memories returned. Powerful magic was released from its chains. Geasa were broken. Thankfully, some wizards were ready. Ready to step in. To step up. To offer help and hope to the teenager who had been weighed down with too many expectations and too little information.

His core and mind released from Dumbledore's bindings, Harry Potter would not flee, he wouldn't take off on a hopeless task handed out by a dead wizard. Severus Snape was released from Dumbledore's complete control. And Remus Lupin opened his eyes, embraced his power and oaths, and turned eagerly to protect and train his cub.

Link to AO3: HP and the Persistence of Vision