Summer before third year Harry has a life changing experience, and a close encounter with a dementor ends with him absorbing the horcrux within him. Features Harry with a backbone.

So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything AGAIN.

Not all of James died that night. Not all of Harry lived. The Triwizard Tournament as it should have been and a hero discovering who he really wants to be.

Sequel A Second Chance at Life. Harry is training in bloodmagic/necromancy, he is becoming a basilisk with a thunderbird's soul, there's a plague in europe, demons are about to invade Earth, and Voldemort needs to die. Fae, vampires, new magics and school

The Hero Trilogy, Part Three. Harry Potter has assumed the mantle of the Darkslayer and enemies older than the universe declare war against the Boy Who Lived... Worlds will collide, time will unravel, and Harry's soul will burn in the fires of Oblivion...

The Hero Trilogy, Part Two. Whether he survives or not, Harry Potter has changed the very nature of magic forever. Alone and bereft, the Boy Who Lived will learn that his enemies are not gone, but have evolved, and that power does not grow, but consumes..

The Hero Trilogy, Part One. After the tragedy of his fifth-year, Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts and to a war that will shake the Wizarding and Muggle worlds to their very core. Peace rests on the edge of a sword, and on the courage of Harry alone.