Title: The Prince Out of Darkness
Author: Imirie
Genre: Alternate Universe, Romance, Adventure
All details concerning Alternate Universe are as follows:
Lily Evans was born a pure-blood witch and, very early in life, met Severus Prince who lived quite close to her. They became very good friends upon entering Hogwarts, even though Severus went into Slytherin and Lily into Gryffindor. For years, Severus and James Potter, a Muggle-born, fought for Lily's affections while Sirius Black and Remus Lupin looked on, amused (both boys on fairly good terms with Severus because of their friendship with Lily). The summer between their sixth and seventh year, Severus foolishly left Lily to find her own companionship while he allowed his single mother to drag him to Germany for vacation. But when he returned for the seventh year, he'd grown and evened out, cut his hair, and looked more well kempt than he ever had before. That was all the push Lily needed. She chose Severus.
Severus is a decent man, for a Slytherin, anyway. He's stern and disciplines much, but he's smart and very cunning and a clever eye for Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. He was hired as the Potions professor shortly after his son, Harry, is born. Because of his closeness to Dumbledore and participation in the Order of the Phoenix, he's forced to do some dealings with James Potter, which suits neither of their liking.
We join their story in the midst of Harry Carson Prince's fifth year at Hogwarts, where much more is happening than he or anyone else quite realize. A new dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, is quickly rising to fearsome power by invading the Ministry of Magic and hoping to take over and change the laws to suit pure-bloods and cleanse the wizarding world of Muggle-borns. To Harry's shock, and that of his friends, their time at Hogwarts will prove to be more enlightening and challenging than they could have ever predicted. By Christmas, every man, woman, and child in the wizarding world will know his name and must decide whether to fear or trust him, or believe him in general. Fifteen year old Harry must prove to himself, as well as everyone else, why he is the answer to their suffering.
But Harry, in the midst of all this, is confronted with challenges himself. He was placed in Gryffindor, like his mother, while his father is head of Slytherin. And though his father does not participate in the dark arts (choosing rather to arm children in defending themselves against it), Harry finds himself the center of ridicule that entices him to fiddle with the dark arts and ultimately make the choice inside himself to fight against it, or let himself become seduced by the powers and wonders Lord Voldemort offers. And, to everyone's astonishment, Harry is very uniquely different from every other witch or wizard alive today or in all of history. Was he chosen? Or is this his destiny?
Continue on to chapter one! And please review, it will make me more inclined to update. If you have any specific questions about facts in this alternate universe, ask and I will try to answer them, but read a few chapters first to see if they're answered. Most of it will come over time of course. (I know this is probably way too much information, but...first fic, you know). Thanks so much!
Imirie