Hi all,
Recommending a work that truly takes a creative turn from the
start.
An honestly fantastic professor Flitwick with both Harry and
Neville ending up in his house.
For those who feel Dumbledore's letting the rivalry get out of
hand should have consequences, well..read at least to chapter 5.
And there is hands down the best batman line ever!
Oh and Neville gets a fantastic moment in the first potions
class. Fine unique quality storytelling speaking personally.
Smart, Not Brave
by BlueMaple
Summary:
In another universe of possibilities where the butterflies
are busy, young Harry's destiny changes on the twitch of an
unwitting stranger's roving eye...
"I told you, didn't I? That he left you on the doorstep?"
she says bitterly. "On Hallowe'en night, with a note? A note,
telling me that your parents... That my baby sister... Had been
murdered? The man lives in some kind of self-narrated fairy tale,
boy, and he's decided that you're his hero. Well, let me tell you
something. Your mother and father were heroes. Your world... It
was full, by all reports, of heroes, during that war that they
kept going on about, and there are precious few of them...
Precious few of them... Who were left alive at the end of it. And
he was clear, very clear, wasn't he, when he left you here with
instructions that you be kept safe, at the possible - no,
definite - expense of my own family...
That it wasn't over?"
Eleven-year-old Harry says nothing. Petunia Dursley turns
her head and looks at him.
"Don't be brave, boy," she tells him fiercely. "Your parents were
brave. They died. Be smart. Be smart instead, and live. On
your own terms. No one else's. Ever."
Enjoy,
Kare
