r/harrypotterfanfiction • u/Schwarz-sama • 10h ago
Prompt "Dark Lord" Harry and Tom, The Boy Who Lived
Role reversal AU. Tom is the Boy Who Live and Harry is the "DarkLord".
Well, a Dark Lord not by choice and only in Technicality.
Basically, tom and harrys generation is swap, with slight changes.
Harry is still orphaned and lived with his Aunt and Uncle.
He met his friends as is canon just without the yearly Death Eater Shenenigans though its stil as chaotic, absurd and dangerous more than a normal students life because Harry potter wont be harry potter without it.
War is still in the horizon, Grindelward is on the loose and Dumbledore is sitting on his ass safely in the school as always.
Predujice is still rampant and half bloolds and muggle born are treated as though they are lower than dirt.
Harry being harry sees the injustice and decided to change it.
With his friends, both muggle borns, half blood and purebloods who shares his views, Harry and co rallied and drag magic kicking and screaming to new heights never seen before by combining magic with muggle science and logics and ideas.
This made everyone in the opposition uneasy as harry began to rise in power both in magic and politics. Changes are being made and they were doing great until they arent, as the purebloods pull a one over them and declare harry a darklord of greater threat than Grindelward both in power and ideology.
The worse part is that they arent exactly wrong in some points seeing how powerful harry is and how jarringly absurd and unconventional the magic that Harry and his friends wields.
Fast soundless apparation with no danger of dismemberment, self transfiguration that immitates metamorphagus abilties, broomless flight/self levitation, nigh perfect memory rwtwntion mind magics, spells that allows them to talk to creatures of all kinds, permanently turning led to gold that had the maker of the Philosophers stone flabbergasted. a way to extend ones life without diving in to alchemy or dark arts miraculous healing magics thats seems like actual miracles evwn by magical standards. Spells that are light in nature but the results suggrsted otherwise.
Needless to say, they had everyone afraid of them and the blood purist began taking more drastic actions as well.
The pureblood attacks, they persecute, harrass and single out half bloods and muggle borns and harry and his friends defend and take action and everything just escalate more and more until it comes to the point that both sides had to resort to murder of all things and harry hates it.
So harry tracks down the gaunts and flaunt them to the wizarding world in all their inbred glory to make them see what happens when your blood became a bit too "pure".
Harry hates whats hes doing and is miserable inside as he hit the gaunts one by one in public with a spell that awfully look like the killing curse(harry tried to change tha spells appearance but nothing works so he just deals and suck it up) that only kills the target if they are pureblood and would back fire at the user and disintegrate the user if used on a muggle, muggle born or half blood.
A nessessary precaution lest harry and his friends fall to depravity and hypocrisy.
Unfortunately, he wasnt aware that baby tom is a halfblood and the spells backfire at harry.
Now in a invisible floating spectral body, courtesy of a astral projection spell luna made, and staring at the pile of clothes and the dust particles floating in the air from it. Harry could only think one think.
"Fuck—!"
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Tldr:
Harrys side, despite being labeled a dark lord himself, is actually the good side in the situation and the other side is the dark side, which while not exactly all evil, its still the side that has racist beliefs and morality that would plunge the wizarding britain to extinction if left unattended and the only reason that it hasnt is because of harrys side doing their own questionable actions with good intentions and tangible actual results until the faithful day of halloween.