Created: Monday, 28 November, 2016
I am a big fan of changing one event: one event that shapes how the author created the universe. This time, I was reading the Thor and Harry Potter FanFictions with Harry Potter being Loki's child. Then, I thought, what if Loki was Harry's child?
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Hallow has a variable plethora of meanings.
Verb: Honor as holy; make holy; consecrate; greatly revere, honor.
Noun: A saint or holy person.
As a child, he had often confused the term hallow with hollow. Two vastly different meanings, as one who is hollow is without real significance or value. He believed that hollow suited him better, at the time.
Time, however, is fluid. Despite the wishes of muggles and the time turners of wizards, there are set paths. Some argue that each path diverts and creates a different universe. For every choice you make, it actually will happen by another you in another world at the same time. And for every choice that is made, another choice appears, and another split occurs.
See? It is all fluid.
He had long since flowed with time, moving through universes and choices. He was, despite everything, something that was far more powerful than time. Ageless. Truly and utterly ageless.
He spoke in a tongue long forgotten in all the worlds, only understood by the few who he gifted it to or who were exposed to his presence to embrace the essence of what he was.
Perhaps, it is time to explain what exactly that is.
Long ago, in the year 1980, he was born to a smiling Lily Potter and a crying James Potter, who had the unfortunate privilege of having his hand broken while his wife was in labor. His sightless eyes had met that of his parents and for a brief moment in time, he was unconditionally loved.
He was named Harry.
But, under that name, he did not have a fortunate 'destiny.' A professor at the time, Headmaster Dumbledore, had decided to follow a prophecy at the same that a genocidal wizard decided the same. Those two decisions together made him into a sacrificial lamb.
He learns later in several different universes, that the particular destiny he was born into could have never have occurred.
But, he digresses.
At the hunt for the pieces of the blackened soul of one called Voldemort, he encountered the objects that later would bring him the to where he was now, or then depending on the current flow of time.
The first object was a wand, unbeatable.
The second was a ring, to bring back the afterimage of those you love.
The third was a cloak of invisibility, to hide from the final adventure – death.
Together, they made the Deathly Hallows; gifted by death to three brothers long ago for one who gathered them all would become the Master of Death. So long ago was the tale told that by the time he had encountered them, they were thought to be a children's tale.
It took him no longer than a year to discover what he was. The humanity that tethered him to Earth released him.
Honestly? He did not really discover what he was – is – it was more of a slap to the face waking up in time.
He found that in every universe and reality that the Deathly Hallows existed, he had become their master.
It was not what the tale told.
There is no real 'death' or 'master'. There was Hallow.
He is named Hallow.
He is 'holy person' by definition, but the definition came from his name. It was added much later and was given the meaning. He held the power of life in his fingertips and the judgment of time in his palm. While he took life, he gave it. For every death, something grew. For every life, something died.
He was not Death's Master. He was balance and judgment. He was impartial and disconnected. He was invested and fair.
After many millennia, however, an urge had struck him as he watched the birth of yet another child, and this one he recognized. It was a child of a Harry where the Deathly Hallows did not exist.
And, for the first time in many millennia, he felt humanity. He felt longing.
Beauty was not something that concerned him. It was the soul. So, when he looked forward, he found himself with a child. As he made the decision, it occurred as it was meant to. It lead him to King Laufey of the Frost Giants.
Who was created was Loki.
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Just an idle storyline. I really enjoyed this thought though, so I decided to create something towards it. This is the only chapter I plan to have in Harry/Hallow's POV. The rest of it is centered around Loki. I plan to have Loki and Thor actually want to be brothers though, but you will just have to wait and see.