[Harry Potter: Draco X Harry] Will Wishing on a Shooting Star Work?

At twenty-five, Draco has nothing. His parents, family, and friends all disappeared in the war when he was seventeen.

The great savior, Mr. Harry Potter, discovered Voldemort's secret in his fifth year. He led by example, using his own death to weaken Voldemort, leaving him frail and even more deranged.

The Gryffindors all praised the savior's greatness, but Draco didn't believe it. The savior couldn't have died so easily. They had been at each other's throats for five years, and every year Harry had clawed his way back from the brink of death. There was no way he could have slipped away so easily this time.

There was no time to dwell on it. Voldemort had returned, and Draco's whole family was caught up in the fight.

His mad aunt, his dead mother, his father in prison. In a single night, Draco had lost everything.

Draco closed his eyes and gripped his wand, but he couldn't bring himself to raise it against the white-haired old man in the Astronomy Tower.

His closest professor, Severus Snape, took care of the mess for his student one last time, using his own corpse and Dumbledore's to pave Draco's way forward.

As he lay dying, Draco saw everything this silent professor had borne over the years. He had made mistakes, too, but who could call themselves a saint?

Draco forced down his weakness. The last person who could protect him was gone. From now on, he could only rely on himself.

He stood and silently followed the professor's old path.

The war finally ended with Voldemort's death. Neville Longbottom, the new savior, was decisive. He destroyed the last Horcrux, leaving Voldemort powerless to fight back.

With Hermione and Ron giving emphatic testimony on his behalf, Draco left the wizarding world with his parents' portraits.

He had no idea where else to go. Then he suddenly remembered the old home of the former savior, Potter. He thought he would go there and see what the world Harry had lived in was like.

He lived in the Muggle world for eight years. Then, on his twenty-fifth birthday, he stood alone in front of Number Four, Privet Drive, and sobbed uncontrollably.

Merlin, how was he supposed to accept that he had been alone all along?

If he had a chance to do it all over again, he would trade everything he had for it.

A shooting star streaked across the sky, as if Merlin had heard his plea. When Draco opened his eyes again, he was lying in the enormous bed at Malfoy Manor. Sunlight streamed through the window, as if Draco had only had a nightmare.

A fic where both Draco and Harry are reborn.

Draco is twenty-five. Voldemort has been defeated, but the wizarding world has suffered devastating losses, and Harry died (or disappeared) in his fifth year.

Harry is in his fifth year, after Sirius's death.

They both return to their third year and gradually change the future.

(A curious sort of older Draco and younger Harry.)

Pairings: Draco/Harry, Sirius/Remus, Ron/Hermione, and others.

Draco's personality differs from the original. In private, he tends to be the more levelheaded one, giving Harry advice and the like, but Harry is his emotional anchor.

Theme: Return to the past and change the future