MetaFic

…for me, anyway, is the upshot to "Eighth Day". in other words, what happened to Umbridge, Snape, Black and Lupin, not to mention all the others? But I can imagine that being rather more complicated than you're actually asking for right here-and-now, so I'll just keep on hoping…

If you want something slightly more original, how about a variation on something I've been toying with along with my (far more experienced and frankly out-of-my-league) writing buddy:

James Potter's sacrifice takes the edge off the Killing Curse aimed at Lily, so that instead of dying she is cast into a magical coma. Some few years later she recovers, but everybody thinks she is insane, what with her blathering about Peter Pettigrew being the betrayer, rather than Sirius Black as any fule kno! She manages to abscond from St Mungo's and tracks down her son…at Number Four Privet Drive. Confrontation ensues…

In the version we've been discussing, Harry has already been rescued from Durzkaban and is living happily with his "extended family" who are actually instrumental in rescuing Lily from her own durance vile. But I thought you might have some fun with applying this bunny to canon ;-)

In that framework, he is removed from the Dursleys the night of 12th April 1982. For various reasons, we were going to delay Lily's partial recovery by some years to allow the family to settle down. Also there's a couple of significant events in 1983 and 1984 which we wanted to have passed by the time Lily arrives. We were however going to make sure it was before 1997 which is when another significant event happens which would make the off-shoot storyline that much more amusing, and create the leverage for it to go even further AAU (this AU tends to sprout its own AUs like strawberry runners ;-): up to that point the deviation from the original AU doesn't have to be huge. If you like I can point you in the direction of the story in question, and then maybe you'd understand the lunacy of the potential off-shoot :-D

Having said all of that, what I actually meant for the prompt was to apply the possibility of Lily's survival to canon, and have her perform the rescue. Whether you think she would be capable of pulling that off unaided, I don't know. In our story there is ready-made help (in the form of Remus, Sirius and their spouses): in canon not so much. Heck, might she even try calling upon Snape to help her, for old times' sake? What effect might it have if it takes her months or years to recover sufficiently to take action? How does it balance out giving her longer against leaving Harry in Durzkaban?

I don't know, but I'd love to find out what you make of it ;-)

In HBP, Harry received some cauldron cakes laced with a love potion, and Ron was the one to eat them. What if someone else ate them? What if Hermione or Ginny ate them? I can just picture an overenthusiastic girl practically tackling Romilda Vane and snogging her quite thoroughly before she recovers from the shock of what is happening and pushes her away. I can also picture the mortification when the love potion wears off. Not to mention, everyone would know what Romilda had tried to do and how it backfired.

Or in Sovran's MoO, If Harry ate them, but at the time, Ginny was the one near Romilda, and due to the nature of their bond, she was affected as well.

Either one would be potentially hilarious.

TBH this isn't really my style, but thanks for the suggestion.

What is TBH? And while I'm at it, I've seen IIRC repeatedly in various forums. What does that mean?