This is a summary of the never published reboot of Pointy Eared Professor. I'm sorry for taking so long- but I hope you'll like it and it'll give you some closure. Sadly I couldn't quite finish it, but I want to publish this in case FFN actually does get abandoned.

0. Prologue

The story opens with a short prologue consisting of someone opening a book, who is dedicated to a mysterious person named "Lavio". The author heavily implies that this Lavio is probably either a child, or amnesiac, and goes to warn the reader that the story they're about to read is a real story (or maybe it's just a random, albeit rather dark tale, who knows), and that it was born out of their desire to brag about their newly found independence and sense of free will more than anything else.

1.

The chapter describes in great detail the birth of Shadow Link from the Shadow Mirror. Surrounded by bokoblins and a non-better-specified demon, he tears his way out of the placenta-like black goop, and the demon notes that "it" looks dumb, but will probably be able to follow orders. They leave, forbidding the bokoblins from helping Shadow up, saying that he will have to be able to fend for itself if he wants to survive.

2.

The chapter opens with an extract from a Ministry edict from the early 80s, that outlaws the teaching of the parallel universes theory to young wizards and witches, as it is deemed too whimiscal, unimportant and probably a bit dangerous as well.

Cut to Harry, who is thinking about the current situation at Hogwarts, and how even the universally loathed Snape this year seems to be their ally against Umbridge, plus some thoughts about the Order and Voldemort's rebirth, which has been giving him more and more nightmares as of late.

For some reason, however, Voldemort himself in his dreams seems to be awfully worried, if somewhat intrigued, about something, which he repeatedly refers to as "the mirror". He doesn't seem to know what it is, but he also seems sure that this "mirror" is important and potentially really dangerous. He mentions these dreams to Hermione and Ron, and they agree that something is afoot, but even after doing some research they can't seem to find anything about it or why Voldemort would be worried about it.

From this point on I just have a very vague outline.

- In the following weeks, Harry sees some movement at the edges of the forest, but doesn't manage to find anything even after investigating, except for another student, a ravenclaw, who also saw something. This new student, "Lavio", seems to be quite introverted, but eventually Harry manages to become friends with him.

Lavio feels a bit like a kindred spirit to Harry, as he also lost his parents when he was really young and was raised by an uncle who really doesn't like him, and also because they're both angsty teenagers that would be writing mcr fanfics if they had access to the internet, but for some reason the dude really doesn't want to meet up with Ron and Hermione. Harry is a bit suspicious at first but chalks it up to Lavio being asocial.

- After some more shenanigans, in the following months weird things start happening in and around the school, and even the teachers seem worried and puzzled over it. Harry is sure this has to do with what was worrying Voldemort, and for once he's actually right. Shocker, I know.

- Eventually, he finds out that Lavio is actually a demon- Shadow Link. Despite this blow at the trust they built between them, Shadow manages to get Harry to give him the benefit of doubt, saying that he's just a glorified guard and he's got no intention of hurting anyone in Hogwarts.

- The weird events end up culminating in the Twilight forces attacking the school: the Twilight itself starts washing over it, and people start turning into spirits as shadow beasts storm the castle. Shadow runs to the golden trio, and despite Ron and Hermione's protests (though Ron may not be involved, I never quite worked that out) he drags them to the Forbidden Forest and to the Shadow Mirror, explaining that if they stay at Hogwarts they will end up turning either into a spirit or a monster.

- The Shadow Mirror doubles as a portal between Earth and Hyrule, and the four end up in the Tower of Winds. Shadow has never been to Hyrule before, but he explains that he was "built" there and therefore has an innate knowledge of some things. This is shown to be the truth as they find a room filled with pods containing thousands of slumbering bodies that closely resemble Shadow, the only difference being that they have white hair as opposed to Shadow's purple hair, proving they're "unripe", in Shadow's own words.

- They leave, and find themselves in southern Hyrule. Shadow wants to stay far away from Earth and major Hyrulean cities to avoid getting captured for being an obvious magical construct of foul origins, but after a discussion he concedes to help the three find a way to go home and save Earth.

- Meanwhile, Link is called by Zelda (by now the Queen of Hyrule) to the castle, to discuss a weird magical unstability in the Hyrulean territories. She expresses her discomfort with asking him to help her try and figure out what is going on, but he reveals that for the past years he's been feeling cooped up and restless in Ordon, and that he's unsatisfied with life there now that he's had the chance to explore the kingdom and make friends outside of the village. Link agrees to investigate on the matter, and the conversation changes to how they both miss Midna, and how they wish they could've kept in contact, both with her and each other.

Link is a bit surprised by how nicely he seems to get along with Zelda, though he doesn't say it out loud, and they agree to spend more time together once this crisis is resolved. As Zelda goes to the castle's library to investigate, Link leaves to do his part.

- after a while, Shadow and the golden trio find themselves in Kakariko, which after the events of Twilight Princess has finally started to flourish once again. Shadow stays out of the village, but encourages the trio to seek help from the chief, Renado. Renado welcomes them, and being by now familiar with the existence of the Twilight Realm (and noticing their odd clothing) he easily accepts them as being from another world.

He allows Shadow in the village as well (though he hosts him in his house to avoid the village people being afraid of him) and starts researching on the matter, finding eventually a book that details the existence of what we call Earth, describing it as a world almost devoid of magic bar a few leylines and the world humans first came from. He offers to research for a way to send them back, and locks himself in his library.

- A few night later, Link arrives to Kakariko. Finding Shadow strolling around the seemingly deserted town, he immediately goes on attack mode, but Harry intervenes and a person behind Link actually seems to recognize him, calling out to him by surname.

- A flashback shows a terrified Draco following the group to the Mirror, and jumping into it not too long after as a Twilight Beast who used to be Goyle starts pursuing him. In the Tower of Winds he accidentally awakens one of the unripe clones, who is shown to be friendly but not exactly the brightest crayon in the box, and who leads him out of the Tower while saying a lot of things he's probably not supposed to, including the identity of the main contributor to the clones' genetic code, who is supposedly a local hero. He also mentions Shadow, saying that he must have gotten assigned to some real important job, before cheerfully waving Draco goodbye.

For a few days, Draco struggles to survive in the wilderness and gets lost several times, before he finally arrives to a small settlement. Since that's his only lead he asks around for this famed "Link", and the locals say that he actually passed by there just a few hours earlier. Slightly desperate by now, Draco tries to run after him, but gets attacked by a gang of bulblins before Link saves him, having been warned by a messenger hawk that there was a dumbass child looking for him that was probably going to die if he didn't turn the fuck back right in that instant.

Hearing about Draco's story, Link realizes that everything is probably connected to what Zelda asked him to research, and offers himself to try and help Draco get back home.

- Back to the present, the misunderstanding is cleared (some sparks fly between the Golden Trio and Malfoy before they collectively agree that it's really not the right time for this), and Shadow looks at Link in unease and slight fascination, realizing that he's technically in front of one of his biological parents.

- Link improvises an interrogation, and Shadow reveals that he was created by a wizard to be a guard for the Shadow Mirror, who had then been executed for not following the orders to just make him a mindless puppet. When asked by a troubled-looking Link about why demons would need the Mirror, and why they would go to another world, he honestly replies that he doesn't know, and that his rank in the army was relatively low, barely anything higher than bokoblins. He also reveals that his direct superior's name is Ghirahim, which seems to trouble Link even more, though he doesn't know why when asked.

- Link sends Zelda a hawk describing the situation, and she asks them to come to Hyrule Castle.

- Everyone comes to the conclusion that the best place to start looking for answers is the Tower of Winds, and that being the last direct heir to the royal bloodline, and therefore the only one to be allowed to enter the castle's secret library thanks to magical wards, Zelda should go there again and look for any information on Ghirahim. She also asks Link to be careful, and to talk to Shadow, just the two of them. Shadow comes back from the conversation slightly frazzled, but okay, and refuses to explain as "it's between the two of them". (truthfully, I do NOT remember what this is about.)

- They go back to the Tower of Winds, that all of a sudden seems to be full of monsters on the lookout after Shadow's betrayal. After some stealth action (thanks to several spells on Shadow and Hermione's part, plus Harry's invisibility cape) they make their way to the dungeons, which actually host Vaati. The man (in his minish form) looks like he hasn't eaten in a while and even as they wake him up all he can manage is a few moments of incoherency before fainting again. They manage to smuggle him out of the Tower pretty easily thanks to his small size, and despite both Shadow and Link's reclutance (the latter not quite knowing why he doesn't trust him but guessing it has to do with a former incarnation of his) decide to bring him to Kakariko.

- As they move away from the Tower, Vaati seems to be growing weaker and weaker: to Shadow's utter panic, he actually seems to be on his deathbed by the time they reach the village, and Link hurries to the lake, hoping that the sacred water will help him out. Thankfully, the water seems to have the desired effect, and Vaati not only wakes up (though still being very weak) but actually transforms into his more humanoid form. They bring some water with them to keep Vaati alive, and move him to Renado's house.

- Vaati confirms that yes, he's the famed wind sorcerer, and that the reason Link feels so uneasy around him is that he got into a scrap with two of his former incarnations. He also reveals that he was tricked into creating the clones: after the way he was brought back by Ganon the first time, he'd resolved to never serve him again, and while Ghirahim had guaranteed under magical oath that the clones weren't for Ganon, he'd neglected to mention that they were to bring back Demise, arguably a worse threat.

Upon finding that out, Vaati had immediately sabotaged his own experiment, cue the birth of the imperfect constructs. The forces of Demise had tried to execute him, but found that they couldn't as he seemed to just come back each and every time, so they'd locked him up.

(watch me go off the rails here. Seriously, this part is deranged and nigh incomprehensible because I have long since lost my notes and I'm going off what I vaguely remember I had programmed.)

This is how the gang finds out about the fact that hyruleans had chosen to seal Demise on Earth, hoping that the lack of atmospheric magic would keep him from reawakening. Obviously, Harry and Hermione are outraged, while Draco remarks that the idea wasn't too outlandish, but too many factors had been involved to ensure the seal actually holding.

Days later Ghirahim, informed of Shadow's betrayal, appears in Hyrule as the gang is researching a way to destroy Demise once and for all. It takes the entire group to take him down, but as Zelda forces him back to his sword form Link can't help but stare in shock as he recognizes the Gilded Sword from one of his past lives.

As it turns out, after SS Ghirahim had been depowered and turned into what would later be known as the Kokiri sword. While in that form he was basically lobotomized, after OoT Link had upgraded him via the gold dust he'd finally regained a fraction of his original power, though his true form had changed significantly as a consequence.

While Link, Zelda, Shadow and Hermione are still extremely wary of him, Harry starts asking him why he follows someone who clearly doesn't even care for him nor has his best interest at heart. Surprisingly, Draco agrees thoughtfully.

Ghirahim refuses to answer for a while, BUT some power of friendship bs later they convince him to switch sides??? I dunno man this part is very vague but it has at least part to do with him feeling like he owes OoT Link for taking good care of him.

Their first attempt at Demise's incomplete form (as meanwhile they found a way to go back to Earth without getting twilighted and realized that he was on his way to being reborn) is a failure and nobody can figure out why, but they guess that their best bet is talking to the goddesses themselves. However their realms (even as a mere fragment of their true self) are unaccessible to Link, Zelda and all the other native hyruleans due to the magical resonance, so Harry is sent to Din's world, Draco to Nayru's and Hermione to Farore's.

Nayru tells Draco that the only way to kill Demise is, OBVIOUSLY, the Master Sword in tanfdm with the Light Force, because Ghirahim is still at least partly Demise's sword and therefore cannot hurt him, and any other weapon in existence kinda sucks in comparison and seriously, they made such a nice self fulfilling prophecy cycle and mortals have even the gall of not knowing about it? Bruh.

Meanwhile, Hermione finds out that the Sword has been depowered due to its overuse; every time it has been used to kill an Incarnation of Demise's Very Bad Mood it used a bit of its power to have the other Stay Dead for as long as possible, AND Harry gets told by Din that the way to get the power back is to basically go on a trek in the world of the dead and take the fragments back, by force if needed.

Surprisingly enough, this is the easiest part, as literally no one in the afterlife is keen on Demise's return, not even the likes of Onox and Bellum, so Link gets to meet his past selves and get a lot of presents from people who kinda wanted him dead up until that moment.

Realizing he's the last one remaining, Vaati sacrifices his life to give the Master Sword the last of its power back (cue manly tears) and the HP wizards and witches are tasked with creating a barrier that will at least slow the waves of pure evil down and help the civvies as Link and Zelda beat the everloving shit out of Demise.

Meanwhile, sniffing out some potential for Shenanigans(tm) Voldemort appears on the battlefield and decides to murder Harry. However he accidentally Avada Kedavras Shadow, who doesn't die JUST because the Mirror of Shadows is still in one piece (wait, is this what Zelda told him? That he's essentially immortal?), but still goes to comaland because younger me was all about that angst. I'm assuming the *checks spelling* horcrux gets dealt with because Harry has a healing fairy with him or something like that. I don't know. Maybe one of the goddesses gave him some pyramid scheme detox tea to drink.

Point is, Voldemort and Demise both get defeated, and the gang figures out that Shadow could wake up again if they purified his body of all magic, basically turning him into a muggle with weird ears, but this will also erase his memories since the Mirror acts as cloud storage for construct brains.

They do, he wakes up and the Ministry of Magic creates him a fake identity as the adopted child of a couple of squibs, which isn't lowkey dystopian at all.

So yeah, surprise! Lavio from the introduction is actually (to no one's surprise since that was literally his persona's alias) amnesiac Shadow, and the whole reason I chose this name is because it's Ravio's name in the italian version of ALBW, in the worst book end you've seen in ages. Also Ghirahim moves on from his abusive boss' death and becomes a successful fashion designer in Hyrule because I said so.

The End??? There actually was more involved- Midna was supposed to show up, more stuff on Link and Zelda's developing relationship, even more stuff but I genuinely don't remember how it all fit, so welp.

Either way, I'm sorry for taking so long to write what is basically a very shitty summary (which I'm publishing without any proofreading and leaving in my baffled commentary because wow, was this story weird), but sometimes it just be like that. I hope you're all doing alright, and if this the last time we hear from each other, I want you to know it has been a pleasure.

See you, space cowboys.