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"Don’t Fear the Reaper" challenge, by fanfiction.net user Reptilia28
"STORYLINE:
- Harry is killed at 17 during the fight with Voldemort. He's sent to his Death's office (explained later) and finds out that this isn't the first time that this has happened.
- Harry's Death (who can have a human name) is mad at his arrival. Apparently, people dying before their time is a black mark on the various Deaths' records, and Harry is getting perilously close to getting this particular one fired.
- When Harry asks what was supposed to have happened, Death goes off on a rant saying how he was supposed to have killed Voldemort, found his soulmate ("Some Granger girl…") and lived to be a centennial age. But since Harry keeps getting into life-threatening situations for one reason or another, he keeps dying before that happens. Harry is surprised about the soul mate part.
- Death gives Harry a paper to sign that allows him to retain his memories (the previous times, he wasn't given this option for some reason). Harry is deposited to a previous time of the writer's choosing.
- Eventually, Harry gets it right. He kills Voldemort, gets the girl, and lives to a ripe old age of whatever. And Death doesn't get fired.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Harry must have died at least three times before this one
- The memory keeping contract must be included
- Death must refer to Hermione as "some Granger girl" when Harry's soul mate turns up in his rant
- Obviously, must be H/Hr
- Have fun
OPTIONAL:
Dumbledore's manipulations can be a factor in Harry's premature demises.
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This is the closest I can find to the original challenge, It’s long gone as far as I know. I am not going to stick rigidly to it but I am using it a guidelines more than perhaps rules.
So my adopted version of the challenge is more like this:
- Harry has died on many previous occasions.
- DEATH* is fed up with this, the Auditors of Reality* are complaining about the redo’s’
- DEATH* doesn’t do rants. He is DEATH*. He is final.
- Harry is returned, with memories and skills, and so is Hermione.
- Harry and Hermione spend some time learning and training in DEATH’s* domain, prior to returning. This occurs ‘off-camera’ and may get described in flashbacks.
*My version of DEATH comes from Terry Pratchet’s Discworld and he delegates looking after Harry and Hermione to his Granddaughter Susan Sto-Helit. Apologies if I don’t get the character of Susan bang on, my Discworld books went to charity shops a long time ago, and I am working from memory. This allows me to take some huge liberties in Potter canon, and hopefully write something fun.
I haven’t classified this as a crossover, as I think I am too far off the mark with the Discworld Stuff.