[Harry Potter] The Scapegoat

Snape, deceased in 1998, was posthumously honored by The Chosen One as “the bravest man.”

Frina: He's dead, and they still call him the bravest “man”? He doesn't even qualify as the bravest “ghost.” We have to bring him back to life somehow.

Original female lead Frina x Severus Snape

A shopkeeper at a Diagon Alley magic curiosities shop x a Hogwarts Potions professor

Everyone from the original story meets the same fate, except Snape survives

Synopsis: After the Battle of Hogwarts, Frina spent many years in a daze. By chance, she went down into the basement of a shop called “Odds and Ends” in Diagon Alley and discovered the shop's unspeakable secret...

“Odds and Ends”: We sell everything. Our main stock includes wizarding stationery, magical artifacts, and potion ingredients.

“Once upon a time, there lived a wizard of great power. He possessed boundless wisdom, but what truly lit up his life was his beloved, whose smile was warmer than the sun.”

“However, an accident took the life of the person he loved most. Overwhelmed by grief, the wizard was crushed in an instant. Day after day, he longed for his late wife, the woman he loved.”

“At last, a mad idea took root in his heart: he would demand the most powerful spell from Death and bring his beloved back to life.”

“He prayed to the elusive Death of legend. His desperate, bloodcurdling pleas finally drew the deity's attention.”

“But even Death could not undo the deaths of this world. Death brought him to its realm, intending to let him say one last goodbye to his beloved's soul through a vision in the River of Love, in the hope of easing his grief.”

“But while Death was distracted, the cunning wizard stole the shimmering Sands of Time, which flowed through the River of Love like fragments of starlight.”

“Because he stole the Sands of Time, the River of Love no longer flowed smoothly. From then on, love between men and women was no longer plain sailing. Their paths to love were beset with suspicion, hardship, and thorns, and true love could only be found after greater trials.”

“The cunning wizard greedily held on to the power to control time until the day he died.”

“In the end, his kind-hearted descendants placed the remaining Sands of Time into a delicate vessel and fashioned it into a Time-Turner, sharing the power to control time with others.”

“That is where the Time-Turner came from.”

Excerpt from the appendix, “Wizarding Myths About the Time-Turner,” in Time-Turners: Use and Precautions, published by the London Ministry of Magic

Harry Potter fanfiction (partly based more on the films than the original books, a stitched-together version. I can't keep the timeline straight, so the benefit of stitching things together is that I can write whatever I want, haha...)

Warning: I may revise the story from time to time!

Happy ending, complete. Currently writing the bonus chapters... They're starting to feel like the main story. I expect to finish in three more chapters (I really will write them, really, really, once I get that burst of inspiration...)

Maybe I'll just put the bonus chapters into the main story in the end? I'll see how I revise it.

I hate Rita, but maybe I'm Rita, too.

Please forgive any little errors... TT

Theme: Behind every “stay alive” people say is the meaning “I love you.”