A/N: If you are unfamiliar with the song "Harry Potter in 99 Seconds" by youtuber Jon Cozart (Paint), I suggest you watch it. This collection will make a lot more sense. [pause] Okay, each chapter is named for a lyric from the song, which tells the entire HP saga in 99 seconds. The lyrics are in order and I'm using every one. Enjoy!


THERE ONCE WAS A BOY NAMED HARRY

Harry. Harry Potter.

It came in whispers from the streets, from the mouths of strangely clad folks celebrating in pubs.

Harry. Harry.

It was shouted from a neighbor's window, before someone hurriedly pulled the curtains shut.

Harry Potter. Harry Potter.

The name - for it had to be the given name of a boy, or man - was everywhere that day. It followed him wherever he went: in the shops, in the park, on street corners. Teary-eyed old ladies said the name reverently, like a statement of fact, then finished their shopping. Kids his age talked in hushed whispers about the 'Potter boy' where anyone could listen. The city itself spoke the name, and it was a shared heartbeat for days.

But he didn't know what it meant.

His name was Harry, but it wasn't Harry Potter.

He was just a boy, not the fantastic being whose name was practically written in the stars, not anyone who would be noticed.

Only a few towns away, in a perfectly ordinary house in Little Whinging, Surrey, there lived the baby Harry Potter whose name and very existence were revered, who was growing up to save the world.

But this little Harry wasn't that boy.