Quote:Standard Peggy Sue setup, with a twist. Harry wakes up in an alt-u where his parents survived the war.. and Neville Longbottom is the Boy-Who-Lived. And Draco is a hot girl who actually likes Harry....and Hermione is a rough-and-tumble proto-lesbian tomboy field hockey player along with being the smartest witch of her generation. And Neville is a combination of canon!Neville and canon!Draco -- Neville's early ability + Draco's attitudes. And while Harry is going to be Super!Harry due to having seven extra years of long and hard training to fight Voldemort, most of his social knowledge is useless, because this is a divergent timeline in many ways, not the least of which is the student population.
Just so folks know, this is Joe Hundredaire's reworking of SilverAegis's abandoned http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2390801/1/H ... e_New_Life]Harry Potter and the New Life, which I remembered reading as soon as I started this one. As it is a Joe Hundredaire work, there are of course obligatory lesbians -- how's a Lily/Narcissa pairing for you, with Lily cheating on a cold and distant James? And as noted above, Hermione is already planning on gunning for other girls as soon as her hormones kick in. If you don't mind -- or get off on -- Joe H's fascination with making straight female characters into lesbians, this is a pretty good rewrite so far. Seconding the recommendation, at least as of now -- if it goes south I'll rescind my vote.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.