no place like home [written by dirgewithoutmusic; read by Opalsong]

[opalsong]

Title: no place like home
Author: dirgewithoutmusic
Readers: Opalsong
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: gen
Rating: Teen
Length: 1:29:16
Size: 82.0MB
Music: Secrets Of The Castle by John Williams
Cover: Opalsong
Summary:

When Petunia Dursley refused to take Harry in she forfeited his birthright protection, so Dumbledore took the baby to the safest place he knew: Hogwarts.

The applicable staff (mostly just… not Snape) took Harry in on a rotating schedule as he grew from baby to toddler to child. They traded extra credit for babysitting among the older students, and Harry grew up knowing a few dozen different laps that were safe and warm to nap in.

This was a Harry who grew up among books, among old transient walls and learned professors. They gave Binns night duty sometimes, and let him talk young Harry to sleep. This was a Harry whose world changed, on principle, daily. The stairs moved. The walls became doors. You had to keep your eyes open–you had to pay attention. So he did.

He grew up in a school. Knowledge was power, but knowledge was also joy. This was his sanctuary. There was magic in his world from birth.

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cross posted at amplificathon, my journal, and AO3

Comments

[sisi_rambles]

Hi!

Your archive entry is here :)

[opalsong]

Thanks so much!