Harry Potter: An Alternate Ending by J S S Priyadarshi

Came across this 'Harry Potter Alternate Ending' that I had penned down for a literary competition in July 2013. It did win a prize then, hope it wins your attention now! :P

Harry Potter: The Alternate Cut!

The boy who had lived, and died, had lived again. The world had witnessed the fall of He-who-must-not be-named. An era of fear had come to an end. There was no more of Lord Voltemort that the world anticipated to further endure.

Little known fact was an incident of the time when Ron had walked out on Harry and Hermione during their nomadic days of shelter during You-know-who’s return to power. A sobbing Hermione on Harry’s shoulders had asked why Ron had left them after all and a consoling Harry was caressing his trusted friend.

With the chemistry they so apparently shared, the desperation and frustration over failing social life, the physical proximity and the dimly lit surroundings, had made one thing lead to another, ending up in the best of buddies experiencing a one-night-stand, promising never ever to speak of it again.

Yet as no birth control techniques were advertised in the non-muggle world and since graduating from Hogwarts was a certificate of adulthood and licence to early marriage, the unsuspecting Hermione had happily wed-locked herself to Ron soon after the fall of You-know-who. The Weasley that was born to them was hardly a Weasley after all! He was the apparent bloodline of the Potters, or was he?

They say horcruxes have a way of ensuring survival; and that night though it had been Harry, by namesake, it was the fragment of a foreign soul lodged in his body, in action.

The era had not ended, it had just begun.