An Untold Secret (Harry Potter au)

Voldemort didn't come that night.

No knock at the door.
No flash of green.
No scream swallowed by silence.

And just like that, fate fractured.

Harry Potter would not grow up alone.
He would not carry the world on scarred shoulders.
He would grow with light in his eyes, not war in his bones.

There would be more love.
More lives spared.
New alliances forged in fire and defiance.

But magic, ancient and watching, does not like to be cheated.
And what's delayed... is never destroyed.