One Side of a Coin

By Skye-Chan12

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An Introduction to the Crossover

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Extended Summery: What if, after the Dobby incident before Harry's second year, Uncle Vernon had a slightly different reaction? As a result, in Harry's panic, he accidentally sends himself to the time of Camelot. Now under the guardianship of a teenage Merlin, Harry struggles to survive in this strange time before the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. A time in our history when muggles knew about magic and persecute its all those who wielded it. BBC Merlin crossover pre-slash.

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What is BBC Merlin? Do I have to watch Merlin to understand the crossover?

BBC Merlin in a nutshell: The story is a take on the Smallville idea of a legendary character in his youth. BBC Merlin starts the show during the reign of King Uther, Arthur's father in a time when magic was banned under penalty of death. Here, Merlin has to keep his magical abilities secret, all the while, working as manservant and protector to Prince Arthur.

Though you might have a more complete experience if you first understand the BBC concept of the Arthur and Merlin story, I will be attempting to write with a fullness to capture the essence of the show's world without making you have to watch the show in order to understand what is going on.

This story will be through the eyes of Harry, his perspective on things. He will be having his own adventures and they will only, on occasion, intercede with Merlin's adventures. I don't plan on reiterating what happened in such and such episode to Merlin.

Being a fan of the show, I would of course advise everyone to at least watch the first episode to see if you like it. If you live in the US, Hulu. com has just put up the first season of Merlin to watch for free on their website. For those of you outside of the states, I just did a general search on youtube and saw at least two people have fully uploaded the first episode on there, so you should be able to find it there with little effort.

Merlin also has a Wikia site if you want to read up up on the Merlin world, rather then watch it. It can be found at: merlin. wikia. com/wiki/Merlin_Wiki

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What are the slash pairings?

This is going to be a pre-slash story. Harry is only going to be twelve and I don't like to write pedo, so, Harry will be paired in a child romance, that will evolve as he get older, with Mordred, who is also 12. Merlin, who is around 16-20, will be paired with Prince Arthur, who is 20. Though, the Merlin/Arthur pairing will be discrete and not the main part of the story. Besides a possible walking-in-on-snogging incident, there will probably be only a few references to it.

So, Merlin/Arthur and Harry/Mordred

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Why don't you have this in the crossover section?

I am hoping that by keeping this in the Harry Potter section, I will be able to reach a larger audience. As I write more, I might move it over to the Merlin/Harry Potter page, but for now this is where it will stay.