Author's Note:

This is a project I've been thinking of doing for a long time. I assure you, this is going to be very interesting with lots of Character Development. Just to assure you, this disregards the epilogue, but otherwise it follows canon upto the ending. Pairings tend to be canon, though not strictly.

I'll probably be updating every few days. (Once or twice per week)

Reviews are appreciated.

Chapter 1: Limbo

He was back there, in that weird world where physics and magic didn't exist. It had no rules, no objects. Just souls flying around. He couldn't explain how he knew they were souls, or how they looked like, or if they could even be looked at. He just knew they were souls, vagabond souls looking for purpose in a meaningless world.

He was one of them as well, though he didn't know how, or why. He was happy though. He could see his parents again, like he always did, whenever he came to this world. He looked for them, in the mass of random souls.

There they were, his parents, and Sirius, and Remus and Tonks. They waved at him (he knew it was waving, though he couldn't exactly explain how he could visualize anything here). Harry floated over to them.

"There's my dike. You look so old now." Harry smiled. His mom looked so young – almost the same age as him, infact. He looked at all of them. Sirius and Remus were the odd ones out, older than the rest.

He suddenly felt that pang of loss that he always felt, back in the real world. How he missed all of them. He never knew his parents, as they were taken away from him when he was a baby, but he missed them all the same.

He looked around, and could feel red eyes staring at him. Red menacing eyes. He stared back, with a grin, loving every minute of it.

"You know you look ugly every minute I see you." It didn't respond though, just like he knew it wouldn't.

He looked back at his family. They were fading though.

"Mom. Dad. What's happening?"

"I dunno son. It's been like this the past few days. Everything seems to be leaving this place. Everyone's freaking here. The founders of Hogwarts disappeared some time back. It's like, every old soul here is somehow being sucked into nothingness."

"We should do something about this. Hermione will probably know."

"No." It was Remus this time. "No-one can know about Limbo. It's dangerous."

His mom was crying at his dad's shoulders. This was insane.

"Listen, Harry." Sirius now. "Take care of yourself. Forget about us. Strange things are happening here. Never come again."

Harry looked at the others. They weren't looking at him though. Even Tonks, who was generally chatty.

"You've got to give me more than that. This is the only way I get to visit you. Besides, I don't even know how or why I come here anyways, and this is like only the 8th time. It's random."

"Harry dear." His mom looked at him now, teary. "Harry. Please. Don't come back. Don't."

They were fading a lot more now. Mom and Dad. The others were still there.

"Harry." Mom and Dad. "We love you. Don't forget that."

And Harry was jerked awake by the sound of his secretary knocking on his door.