Disclaimer: If I owned them, no one would have ever heard of Harry Potter.
Rating: PG-13. For Now.
Summary: Children rebel and always persist that times change from generation to generation. But are things really all that different? James/Lucius and Harry/Draco.
A/N: Okay, this is a side project, and I'll just add to it from time to time unless people tell me they actually want to read it. Had to do a gen fic, tho. They're so much fun to write. Oh, and review. You can flame, I'll make fun of it in A Note From the Cast of Harry Potter. Gotta love the artistic license.
Generation after generation protests that things are never the same as when their parents were children. They claim that times change, perspectives are different, and no matter how much the elders try, they will never understand.
How very wrong they are.
Yes, things do change from year to year. A child born to a mother of thirty years will probably never listen to her music, dress in her style, or view the images imprinted in her memory.
But they will experience the same emotions, feel the same pressures, and go through the same stages of life. The pattern repeats itself, yes. The difference is the choices made.
Genetic coding accounts for many of our actions, nucleotides pairing up along sugars and phosphates to decide our skin color, eye color, height, and brain growth. But along with that mixed code that combines inside our mothers and informs the fetus what to do comes an independence that makes each individual unique. So really, we are three people in one.
That is why one simple choice made all the difference between father and son.
Not much is known to us about the magical people's view of homosexuality. Rumors say it is widely accepted, others widely frowned on. Maybe, just as it is with us Muggles, it is known to exist, but not as socially supported as heterosexuality. We may never know.
Maybe, if it is similar the Muggle viewpoint, that is why one generation made a different choice from its predecessor.
Many are familiar with Lucius Malfoy, father of the famed Draco Malfoy, a man with great influence in the Ministry of Magic due to his background and fortune. What many are not familiar with is his childhood.
His son, Draco, is more like his father than he realizes. In time, he will come to see, but for now, he is blind.
Then there is James Potter, another key player in this soon-to-be-told story, now, unfortunately, dead at the hands of Lord Voldemort, and father of the famous Harry Potter.
Ah, Harry Potter. The Savior of the Wizarding World. The Boy Who Lived. Defeater of the Dark Lord. So many titles for one so young. He has been told his entire life that he is just like his father, with his mother's eyes. Maybe the emerald irises had something to do with the path that he chose. Unfortunately, he will never see the beautiful woman those eyes belonged to, or the man he is almost an exact reproduction of.
But maybe, just maybe, the children will find a bit of their fathers in themselves.
But, of course, that it a tale I cannot tell you.
Why? you may ask.
Because this is a tale you need to see to believe. So continue on, dear reader, as the past becomes our present and future.