React to Harry Potter as Tartaglia | ENG, 2X, 1/2 |
AU — In his fourth year, Harry was "honored" to participate in the Triwizard Tournament. Everyone started mocking him. Malfoy and his cronies, the “Potter Stinks” badges, and even his so-called friends. Hermione quickly realized she was in the wrong and took her best friend's side, but Ron… Ron was no better than Malfoy. Harry wanted to run away from everyone, somewhere far where no one could find him. But the first task was looming. Who knew what awaited him… and who would support him? Hermione? She didn’t seem too comfortable around him at the moment. Wait. Of course—Hagrid. His first and only guide into the wizarding world. The kind half-giant...
When Harry came to him with his worries, Hagrid offered to show him what the first task involved, but asked him to be quiet. Hagrid had a date. Everything was fine until…
Dragons? Dragons!
The creatures were terrifying, especially when they started howling and breathing fire. Harry couldn’t take it and ran.
The same boy who had faced Voldemort in his first and second years... What was he thinking, running into the depths of the Forbidden Forest?
The creatures of the forest picked up his scent. He ran with all his might, his strength fading. Not watching where he was going, he eventually fell into darkness. He kept falling for what felt like forever. Everything was dark. Time seemed to stop. Yes, he had escaped—from everyone, but—
He was falling into the Abyss.
Through Lily's maternal line. Lily’s mother had a brother who had left far away to Snezhnaya due to their parents (Petunia's side of the family, so to speak). He later found out that his sister had two daughters, one of whom was a witch. Eventually, news reached him that Lily also had a child. But since he was no longer in Britain, Harry was placed with the Dursleys instead of his mother’s family. And when “Harry” entered Hogwarts, a letter came from Lily’s mother’s brother’s family. But he kept it a secret from Dumbledore and everyone else. He told only Hermione about them. They began corresponding from then on.
And when Tartaglia managed to escape the Abyss, he found himself in a snowy, freezing place—the same region he had learned about through the letters. Asking the locals—who eyed him suspiciously because of the blood on him—he learned, under pressure, that the red-haired family lived nearby. He found their house and, though hesitant at first, eventually knocked on their door.
And they didn’t react how he expected.
He thought he would see fear and disgust in their eyes, like with the other townspeople.
But in the eyes of every single redhead were only tears and a burning desire to help him.
(Tartaglia didn’t join the Fatui because his parents wanted to tame his nature, but simply because Pulcinella saw his potential.)
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