I've had envisioned the first scene of the story and invented the reasoning and foundation for it. Then I was hardpressed (as usual) to find the holes and inconsistencies in the original which could have allowed for this all to happen even in canon. Hence you would see snippets from canon here and there – either extended or amended by me for the purposes of this particular story.
For your convenience my version of the events is marked in some way (like bits of text put in italics to distinguish from the original, canonical flow of the story). As some snippets are rather long I've decided against doing them italicized since it's not too comfortable to read long parts of text formatted this way. Instead I've opted to reverse the traditional way of quoting, placing special formatting only on that which is of my own invention.
Other formatting is done in my usual style:
"Parseltongue"
'mental conversation/thoughts'
'quotations' (i.e. something in quotation marks, but inside a bigger phrase already put in "double quotation marks": direct speech, titles and names etc.)
emphasis inside phrase in Parsel or mind-talk
emphasis elsewhere outside phrases in italics
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Fanfiction"...The first time Harry sees them is during the Welcoming Feast of his eighth year at Hogwarts. They look like father and son, but Harry knows better. He sees a discreet red glint in the eyes of the elder, who's seating at the staff table, and noti...
