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The Wayward Man

Summary:

Harry Potter, in his "I don't need therapy" genius, obliviates himself of all Voldemort-caused traumatized memory.

Which would totally explain how he ended up in a time where his parents are alive. Yep.

Notes:

hi gamers i am back. will there be more chapters? i don't know!!! probably just one or two more and then ill forget about it. i did intend to write more of stagnation of souls but uh. haha. you guys love me right

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Chapter Text

And Harry Potter wakes up.

 

Harry Potter wakes up on his bed? He’s pretty sure he’s on his bed. 

 

He is disoriented and confused, and feels something rustling in his robes as he sits up. He takes out a packet of paper, thick enough to be mistaken for a small book, and starts to read.

 

Your name is Harry Potter. If you can remember at least that much, that’s a good sign. 

 

This is in his handwriting. 

 

You have obliviated yourself of most of your knowledge, and you should retain everything you know before Halloween of first year. Certain things will be spotty after that.

 

Harry checks his memory, and the note is indeed correct. 

 

Inside this booklet I have written and recorded every notable event that has occurred to you in your past, every relationship that you’ve had, and details you should know of everyone you know about in case I have obliviated too much. There are memories and a pensive that I have stored in your bag for you to watch, not reabsorb. You are currently on a six month long break in Scotland, and your friends are aware that you are to be alone. They are unaware that you have removed your memory. You, Ron, and Hermione have experienced a lot of traumatic experiences, and it was too much for me you. Please read, memorize, and visualize the events that we have experienced, and act as normal as you can when you return from your break. 

 

Well! Isn’t that fun!!! Harry thinks hysterically. Of course he, an amateur, as far as he was aware, obliviated himself. You know, no problems here at all. So what if he had big gaping missing memories somewhere!! Who cares!!! Hahahaha.

 

He hoped he still remembered how to do spells.

 

At this thought, he jumped out of bed, panicked, and proceeded to rapid fire cast all the harmless spells he knew. 

 

Okay. he still knows his spells. Good. Good. Great. Fantastic, even. 

 

Merlin, Hermione would never have let him do this if she knew. 

 

This was fine. He was going to be fine. He would learn every detail of his past and have a peaceful life, as was the intention. 

 

 

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Notes:

also minor canon divergence, harry doesn't break the elder wand here, hence two wands.

also this wasnt meant to be a time travel fic btw but like how harry was unexpectedly time travelled my fingers unexpectedly typed out that segment. haha

3/18/26 yeah so im undoing the time travel thing cuz that was lame im gonna make harry face consequences and stretch my creative muscle if it still exists, but ill put it here in case its confusing for anyone who was here before the change
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The thing about being Harry Potter and casting hazardous magic, he thinks as he stares at his living father pointing a wand in his face on this fine afternoon, is that it should be done under supervision. Preferably Hermione’s. Or maybe Dumbledore’s. Snape’s. 

 

“Get out of my house,” James Potter sneered. 

 

“Alright, alright, I’m going,” Harry held his hands up in show of surrender. “Didn’t realize this place wasn’t actually abandoned. You can have it back,” because what else could he say? 

 

James glared as Harry walked off the property, disapparating away. 

 

He appeared on number 4, Privet Drive, because every other place was probably inhabited by magical people who wouldn’t welcome him, and summoned the knight bus to the leaky.

 

Well, he-

 

He either had a stint with time or dimensions or both. And he hoped so much that he was wrong, that it was a crazy, unfounded theory from his mind that he made up because he obliviated himself and went insane. 

 

Of course, he proves himself wrong by seeing a Daily Prophet newsletter’s date from a bald guy's paper, but that’s besides the point. He must be hallucinating. He simply must be. All he did was obliviate himself, not sent himself back in time. Because that simply doesn’t happen. He’s not that incompetent at spells to do that. 

 

What the hell. 

 

You know, he’s feeling particularly inspired by his past self, about breaking into Gringotts. Especially now that he’s just realized that he doesn’t have any money apart from the few galleons in his mokeskin pouch . He’s sure James won’t mind. Why, he’s already at Diagon Alley, it would simply be a waste not to do so. He does have two wands, he could cast and present his wand at the same time. 

 

He shouldn’t.

 

In the end, he decides not to go through with his half baked plan, in case he actually does get caught and sent to Azkaban, with no Kingsley to vouch for him. Instead, what he ends up doing is borrowing an owl, asking to be admitted into Hogwarts as a seventh year. Because that's what sane people who are not in shock do. Probably. 

 

He should’ve had a nap before doing that, because he signed his name as Harry Potter, because he is an idiot.

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