'But seriously, why couldn't they have just died? Like they lived enough. They had a nice circle of friends, a couple friendly acquaintances, and they never dated anyone or had a first kiss that counts, but they never needed all that. The only regrets they had was that they didn't live a little more and that they didn't finish the Harry Potter series- oh. That's probably why they've been reincarnated. But still! It could've literally been anyone else! A background character, a transfer student from Dumbstrang that only shows up in the 4th book and falls in love with a Hogwarts or Beauxbatons student only to leave at the end of the year and promise to keep in touch through letters and then eventually one of them ends up cheating. At this point they'd even take Draco Malfoy! At least he was also in Slytherin. But no, they had to be the Boy-Who-Lived. The Boy-Who-Almost-Dies-Every-Year. The Boy-Who-Was-Obviously-Bisexual-But-J.K-Rowling-Was-Scared-Of-The-Rainbow. This is so unfair. The only bad thing they did in life was steal, excessively. ' Or, girl dies and reincarnates as Harry Potter, she decides to live life to the fullest. Chaos ensues. croos-posted on ao3