HP timetravel/Groundhog fic, alternates Luna and Harry centered by chapter
First chapter, Luna gets up, goes to breakfast, notices people are much kinder than usual but takes it in stride, then goes to History of Magic and... it's beoing taught by Professor Selene Lovegood (AKA her mum) rather than Binns. Cue emotional scene, class dismissed to deal with the disturbance, later when Luna is coherent again (rather late at night) Selene explains how Harry appeared just in the nick to save her, and hands over a copy of the McGuffin he used to do it created in the time since. Luna rushes to find Harry but barely has time to shove it into his hands and and begs him to save her mum before midnight when it activates.
Second chapter is Harry, saving Luna's mum and explaining how it came about to her, then glimpses of how they cover up his time travel (the Ministry has quite enough power with an army of heliopaths let alone access to a time traveller after all) she takes him as an apprentice spellcrafter/enchanter rather than the more modern Hogwarts education, and they make the new version of McGuiffin to send him back in the first place. Closed time loop and done, right?
No. Third chapter, Luna wakes up, remembers the wonderful dream she had of her mum being alive, and wanders down to breakfast deep in her personal worold. She doesn't really notice that people are being kinder than usual, until one of them points out that she's going the wrong way to get to History of Magic, it's tomorrow that thye have Trasfiguiration first thing. She rushes to the classroom to find that yes, it IS her mum teaching, cue emotional scene, class dismissed early to deal with the disruption, etc... but Luna calms down earlier this time, having already been through it once, and asks Mum to take her to meet Traveling Harry to thank him. They do so, and one of them gets the idea to give Luna the notes from building the McGuffin to give to Young Harry when they send him off in hopes of developing a better version of the McGuffin, though they only get back just in time to give it to Young Harry and send him off.
Fourth chapter, still Luna, Selene holds up a more refined McGuffin for her to see as she walks into History of Magic and waves her to her seat. After classes, she has Luna find Young Harry so he can get a proper briefing rather than a desperate last-minute rush. On a last minute impulse, though, Luna grabs onto Young Harry and the McGuffin and goes too, wanting to be able to know her Mum growing up. They land a few years early and quite far away, and spend a chapter or three getting back to Britain without attracting the wrong sort of notice, and get the bright idea to try to save the Potters... in which they succeed, but the results are horrible since that means Voldemort doesn't get defeated, kills the Longbottoms, and takes over Wizarding Britain within a few more months. They try to work on a new McGuffin with both Lily and Selene, but don't finish before Voldemort starts working on taking over the Muggle government openly, and the last thing they notice is a light so bright it's shining through the boards of the muggle safehouse they're working in, and then...
Luna wakes up, in her Hogwarts dorm. Skipping breakfast entirely (and for that matter dressing beyond grabbing a robe to throw over her jammies) she runs for the History Professor's quarters, finding them dank and spiderwebby in the sort of ambieance preferred by ghosts. There is no McGuffin. She collapses and cries until she falls asleep from exhaustion, well after dark has fallen again.
Luna wakes up, in her Hogwarts dorm. She throws a robe over her jammies, and rushes to the History Professor's quarters - same as loast time. But, she's spent years studying the design of the McGuffin with Lily and Travelling Harry and her mum - she knows how it works. Ignoring her classes, she hunts up the materials it needs, but can only make a really simple version (she recognises it as the original) due to time constraints. She rushes to find Harry, shoves it into his hands, and warns him that even after bringing notes back and making one that can take him to save his owbn parents, if Voldemort isn't stopped it's worse than the Dursleys. Harry is shocked, but there's no time for questions before it activates...
Luna wakes up, etc. History apartment is in good shape, her mum is there in a magical floating wheelchair, being paralysed below the waist due to Harry being stunned with shock when he arrived and just a hair slower. She does have both new McGuffin and notes on hand, though.
A few loops happen offscreen, until they have a McGuffin able to send Harry & Luna back to the sixties or seventies, when most of the Death Eaters were in school and Tom was just starting to agitate them. Loops of various length as they try various plots to stop him from becoming a problem, then to fix the social issues that make it so easy for other members of the BLood Purist crowd to take the place of upcoming Dark Lord/Lady in his absence.
My original idea included alternating History of Magic or Wizarding Culture lessons that covered what the timeline looked like at the current state of changes with chapters in the past, but it's kind've grown away from that direction.
Still, it's at least a vaguely new twist on the old chestnuts, right?
Maybe kinda?
- dNN
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
First chapter, Luna gets up, goes to breakfast, notices people are much kinder than usual but takes it in stride, then goes to History of Magic and... it's beoing taught by Professor Selene Lovegood (AKA her mum) rather than Binns. Cue emotional scene, class dismissed to deal with the disturbance, later when Luna is coherent again (rather late at night) Selene explains how Harry appeared just in the nick to save her, and hands over a copy of the McGuffin he used to do it created in the time since. Luna rushes to find Harry but barely has time to shove it into his hands and and begs him to save her mum before midnight when it activates.
Second chapter is Harry, saving Luna's mum and explaining how it came about to her, then glimpses of how they cover up his time travel (the Ministry has quite enough power with an army of heliopaths let alone access to a time traveller after all) she takes him as an apprentice spellcrafter/enchanter rather than the more modern Hogwarts education, and they make the new version of McGuiffin to send him back in the first place. Closed time loop and done, right?
No. Third chapter, Luna wakes up, remembers the wonderful dream she had of her mum being alive, and wanders down to breakfast deep in her personal worold. She doesn't really notice that people are being kinder than usual, until one of them points out that she's going the wrong way to get to History of Magic, it's tomorrow that thye have Trasfiguiration first thing. She rushes to the classroom to find that yes, it IS her mum teaching, cue emotional scene, class dismissed early to deal with the disruption, etc... but Luna calms down earlier this time, having already been through it once, and asks Mum to take her to meet Traveling Harry to thank him. They do so, and one of them gets the idea to give Luna the notes from building the McGuffin to give to Young Harry when they send him off in hopes of developing a better version of the McGuffin, though they only get back just in time to give it to Young Harry and send him off.
Fourth chapter, still Luna, Selene holds up a more refined McGuffin for her to see as she walks into History of Magic and waves her to her seat. After classes, she has Luna find Young Harry so he can get a proper briefing rather than a desperate last-minute rush. On a last minute impulse, though, Luna grabs onto Young Harry and the McGuffin and goes too, wanting to be able to know her Mum growing up. They land a few years early and quite far away, and spend a chapter or three getting back to Britain without attracting the wrong sort of notice, and get the bright idea to try to save the Potters... in which they succeed, but the results are horrible since that means Voldemort doesn't get defeated, kills the Longbottoms, and takes over Wizarding Britain within a few more months. They try to work on a new McGuffin with both Lily and Selene, but don't finish before Voldemort starts working on taking over the Muggle government openly, and the last thing they notice is a light so bright it's shining through the boards of the muggle safehouse they're working in, and then...
Luna wakes up, in her Hogwarts dorm. Skipping breakfast entirely (and for that matter dressing beyond grabbing a robe to throw over her jammies) she runs for the History Professor's quarters, finding them dank and spiderwebby in the sort of ambieance preferred by ghosts. There is no McGuffin. She collapses and cries until she falls asleep from exhaustion, well after dark has fallen again.
Luna wakes up, in her Hogwarts dorm. She throws a robe over her jammies, and rushes to the History Professor's quarters - same as loast time. But, she's spent years studying the design of the McGuffin with Lily and Travelling Harry and her mum - she knows how it works. Ignoring her classes, she hunts up the materials it needs, but can only make a really simple version (she recognises it as the original) due to time constraints. She rushes to find Harry, shoves it into his hands, and warns him that even after bringing notes back and making one that can take him to save his owbn parents, if Voldemort isn't stopped it's worse than the Dursleys. Harry is shocked, but there's no time for questions before it activates...
Luna wakes up, etc. History apartment is in good shape, her mum is there in a magical floating wheelchair, being paralysed below the waist due to Harry being stunned with shock when he arrived and just a hair slower. She does have both new McGuffin and notes on hand, though.
A few loops happen offscreen, until they have a McGuffin able to send Harry & Luna back to the sixties or seventies, when most of the Death Eaters were in school and Tom was just starting to agitate them. Loops of various length as they try various plots to stop him from becoming a problem, then to fix the social issues that make it so easy for other members of the BLood Purist crowd to take the place of upcoming Dark Lord/Lady in his absence.
My original idea included alternating History of Magic or Wizarding Culture lessons that covered what the timeline looked like at the current state of changes with chapters in the past, but it's kind've grown away from that direction.
Still, it's at least a vaguely new twist on the old chestnuts, right?
Maybe kinda?
- dNN
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows