Eric set a fire at school.
The good news was that he put it out quickly. The bad news was that it was Fiendfyre, so he became the second gifted student in a century to be expelled from Durmstrang for Dark Magic. Like the astonishing dropout before him, he was shipped off to England and ended up living in the same Bagshot household.
This is seriously criminal. If I turn myself in at Azkaban now, can I cut fifty years off my sentence?
Half a century ago, Linus cast a memory charm over half of Godric's Hollow.
After giving up on stopping the war, he moved into his own portrait and spent many years languishing like a prisoner in the Grindelwald family vault. Fortunately, he was sold to the Holbein family instead. They had a few normal people who would listen to him. As long as that little artist didn’t mess things up, he could return to the living world this summer.
...So why did that brat have to paint Dumbledore?
This includes a plot point where an original character is added to the canon as a half-identical twin, so please be aware. There are lots of original details, but I’ll do my best not to interfere with the low-magic setting.
A fan artist who’s always getting blamed but just wants to keep to their own little corner × a prophet whose warnings no one cares about
Readers with high expectations for the romance, beware: the romance will probably have very little presence because I’m not very good at writing it... There are a few personal favorites mixed in (they’re unrelated to the worldbuilding, so I don’t think it counts as a crossover?)
Basically, these two end up together in misery, each in their own way.
Theme: A little love and a whole lot of dependence make for a very stable relationship
