After years of being told he was a useless squib, Harry Potter believed and became that. Now he is thirteen and is redoing for the third time his First Year. Will he become the great wizard he was supposed to be on time? Will he ever? WBL story.

In a thousand years of existence, the Sorting Hat has been on many heads. He's heard the thoughts of thousands children. He's seen it all, heard it all. But this? That spark in the boy's soul? Golden and bright and so, so warm? There's been only one man who had it. For centuries, the Sorting Hat's always sought him. And now, Hogwarts' greatest founder was back.

The true master of death is now dead and, in an empty train station, he and what used to be Voldemort meet for the final time.