Previously in part one:Lord Hadrian Peverell-Potter-Black, Master of Death, Boy-who-conquered, and all that, has lived a complicated and different life already for someone who's supposed to be in his thirties. The young man doesn't look a day older than twenty-eight, and has found a way to navigate his life the best he can. It has ups and downs, but maybe this apocalypse is a real downside. Not an upside; as Death calls it.

In the first part of the series, we see how Harry copes with being the Master of Death, a lord of many houses, a life that wasn't how he thought it would or could be, and we see how it made him how he is today. He navigates through the last of his studies all the while rebuilding his friendship with Ginny, while losing Hermione in the aftermath of the war. When Ginny starts acting strange in her letters, he writes it off as a prank from someone else until Christmas and Yule are around the corner, Ginny seems to be influenced, and Harry receives a signed marriage contract from Dumbledore and Mrs Weasley.

What he doesn't expect, is that he's 'killed' by Dedalus Diggle, who was hiding under an invisibility cloak in his own living room, invited by Molly. Harry isn't 'alive' for a few days, as Lucius Malfoy unleashes his political prowess, hires Blaise Zabini as his barrister, and gets Diggle directly arrested. They hide Harry, who – when he wakes up – barely seems to register what has happened.

Later on, Harry decides to hire Zabini for the case against Molly and Ginny as well, and that earns him the start of a tentative friendship. Severus helps him get the last of his N.E.W.T.s, and also takes him on as his apprentice for Defense. Harry gladly accepts.


No path is ever set in stone, and no stone gets left unturned. All we know is that he's a walking, talking conundrum, and that he has stopped giving a few … ducks. Yes, ducks are usually the answer. If you ask Luna.

Harry sets out to America, to find a new wand, and along the way he gets a second mastery in wand-making from the eccentric master Gerard Vallder. He has a mansion there that he starts rebuilding, and it doesn't take long before his best friends join him there. George opens a store close to Vallder Wands, Ron decides that after seven years of service in the force; he can quit, and Draco is in and out whenever he can. Eventually even Luna and Neville make the crossing, and live there until they are ready to pick up the Longbottom estate.

Harry makes all sorts of friends along the way like the charismatic brothers John and Mack, and the Goblin builder master Vilnuok with his nephew as an apprentice. Severus has moved to America as well, for a new life, and he has found himself a life partner along the way. Life seems good, until everything changes; again.

When the Death began walking, as Luna foretold, Harry packed up his friends, close acquaintances, and people he respected for good; and opened Peverell mansion to them permanently. Along the way he garners a friendship with Merle and Daryl Dixon, who in turn take Carol and her daughter Sophia with them. In order to save her and Daryl from Walkers and the camping group's stupidity, he uses magic and needs to tell the brothers and Carol the truth before they freak out or tell the others. Somehow they accept it easier than he expected. Maybe that's because the Dixon's are Squibs, even if they didn't particularly know it.

Ron sees something in the Deputy-sheriff Shane Walsh that accompanies the group they encounter at the CDC, and later at the farm, and saves the man from death by poison. Shane swears he'll do better with this second chance at life, and accepts a job as deputy sheriff – so to speak - or Ezra's right hand at Luna park. He seems to fit right in, and people are happy to have him.

Marriet is pregnant, which prompts Severus to indeed make true to his promise to marry her, and Draco struggles in silence with his life, fatherhood, and choice of partner. Ron is in an overprotective modus, and tries to take care of his (chosen) family members as much as he can, but he's only one person, and one person can only take so much.

Harry and Daryl start as partners in the field who are so attuned to each other, that Merle suspects that there might be more. There may be something more blooming, but both men aren't looking - yet. Luna seems to know something, just like Death. The entity always does.


A/N: this part is part two in the series and is a direct follow-up, so I advise reading the first part before starting this. The part with one-shots can only be read on AO3 because of the smuttyness :).